Chapter 1: Unfriendly Warning

Fear.... Fear is the entity that lives in all of us. Everyone has something to fear, and everyone has something to fear from their past.... And little do they know, that one way or another... the fear of the past can make their way to the present....

It had been several months after the events of the Friendship Games. All of the Shadowbolts were well aware of what had happened that day. Their greed and desire for wanting to win the games, had almost gotten all of them killed. Twilight was consumed by the magic, and the magic turned her into a she-demon nicknamed Midnight Twilight. She wanted the magic of Equestria, but she kept on destroying parts of her own world to get it. And now that she's attending Canterlot High-school, Principal Abacus Cinch could do no damage to Twilight after she tried to get Principal Celestia to forfeit after an event that SHE helped start.

But as for the Shadow Five, life goes on. The Shadow Five have kept on doing what they normally do, but they still knew about the magic that came into the world. But as for the rest, they would never let it go. But for the five of them, danger would soon be entering their own lives...

Indigo Zap was driving her car late at night in the small town that everyone at Canterlot High School would hang out at, as a small drive. But something caught her attention. She caught sight of someone just walking in the darkness across the street. She decided to try the whole "Friendship" idea, and see if he needed help.

"Hey!" "Hey!" yelled Indigo Zap. "You need a hand?"

The figure just stood still for a second, and turned to face her with a dark and grim expression. He had on black boots, short black leggings, with a green waistcoat except without the obvious coat arms wrapped around the front, and his belt had a bio-hazard symbol with a few sparkles surrounding on it. He also was wearing a black tank top, a black finger-less glove on his right hand, and on his left hand he had a prosthetic arm. The last features this mysterious teenager seem to have was a black eye patch, with a yellow menacing eye, and synthetic pointy bat ears.

"Hey, wait a minute... Toxigo? What are you doing out here?"

The teenager didn't say a word, he just stared straight on as if he was looking into her soul. And Indigo noticed something else, she looked to see an equine like amulet around his neck, presumably a family jewel, but she didn't focus on it.

"Um... Tox? Are you okay? You're not still mad at me for what I did to you, are you?"

His expression stayed grim and threatening as he remembered everything else about the last couple of times he encountered her. "What are you doing out here Shadowbolt? Shouldn't you be blackmailing other students into releasing a power that they cannot control just to win a stupid game?"

Indigo understood what he meant, but nether less, she still wanted to try and talk to him. "Well, dude, come on, that's behind us. The Friendship Games are long over, you shouldn't be getting mad over it."

"And just why shouldn't I? Do you not realize how many lives you Shadowbolts endangered because of that blackmail stunt? Do you not have intelligence in that thick skull of yours? Do you not care for human safety? Do you want to die early?" He then pointed his walking stick at her in anger.

"You all are horrible people! You know the entire time at the game I was rooting for Canterlot High School!? They're a better high school than the sorry excuse for a school, that is CPA. And below of that, I tried to make friends with you guys, and all you cared for was winning a stupid game that you thought you should be gloating about. Guess what!? They get it! You won again! BIG DEAL! In fact, these games were never about competition, they were supposed to be about our schools getting to know each other and socialize. But no, you all had your minds and brains onto just winning to prove that you're better... like all CPA students believe...."

Indigo was now terrified of him. She understood he wasn't happy to see another classmate, especially one who did something incredibly stupid. "But, Toxigo. Come on, that's over now."

Toxigo was now enraged at this. Then out of nowhere, Indigo was forced right towards him like if gravity was forcing her right at him. She was then hovering in the air face to face at Toxigo's one functioning eye, terrified

"Wait how is this possible!? How am I floating!? Uh... You're not gonna... k-kill me, like I almost did to you before.... A-A-Are you?" Indigo asked nervously. Sweat ran down her face waiting for an answer. Tox did give an answer, along with the menacing look of death from his yellow demonic eye.

"Nothing is over Indigo. I'm an ex-Shadowbolt now. And if you thought you could get me back with bribery or blackmail? Guess what, no more. I've had it with you all. All of you are horrible, I hope you die in a fiery meltdown, and you will pay for all the abuse and torment you've done. Cause guess what, you're not getting off the hook so easy of what you did to Twilight. And you also aren't getting off the hook for everything you've done to me. Remember Sour Sweet pushed me down, and then you ran me over with that infernal car? And then you tried to shrug it off like you didn't even see me? Guess what?" He leaned in closer to whisper to her face, and she was terrified to face the one eyed teenager. "My arm, your car."

He then let Indigo back down, and then out of nowhere, making several arm movements, and with one eye glowing and his amulet beaming with light, he launched a fireball towards the car Indigo was driving, and it exploded. Parts scattered everywhere, and the entire car was in flames. Indigo looked in horror as a car she didn't own was now totaled. She was about to protest, but then she saw him walking away.

"Hey! You're gonna have to pay for this!" Indigo yelled.

Toxigo looked back at her still not happy. "Guess what? Its magic, you can't explain it. How are you going to explain to the fire department, or the cops about magic? Abacus Cinch got off scot-free for something like this. And now, I am too. Goodbye Shadowbolt. May you all suffer and burn to the ground."

But as he was walking away, a tear ran down his face in anger and sadness. So he then started running down the sidewalk path trying to hide his emotions from everyone, as well as get as far away from the area of possibly being put under arrest as quick as possible.

He ran right past another house whose light was still on because, well it was 11:30. And as he ran right past it, the door opened up peaking out the same old Pinkie Pie. She thought she'd heard something, but she just shrugged it off and closed the door again.

"There was no one out there. Although I swore I heard someone feeling down."

"Well maybe you were hearing things again Pinkie. Besides, who would be out at this time of night?" replied Rainbow Dash.

"Santa Claus? Hobos? A green guy with a prosthetic arm who came from Crystal Prep Academy now moving into Canterlot High after blowing a car that belonged to the Academy and who saw everything that happened at the Friendship Games and is bent on getting back at everyone at Crystal Prep for what they did to Twilight and for everything they did to him but knows he needs to hide a secret that he's actually from another world where he has elemental powers?" She gave a smile after that, but everyone gave questioning looks.

"Should I?" asked Twilight.

"Its Pinkie Pie, don't question it." replied Rainbow Dash.

"Oh, okay", replied Twilight.

After that weird event, everyone went back to sleep. Back with the disabled teenager he kept on walking and went into his new home. It didn't have much but that was because the movers still needed to do the unloading of his things. So he looked around at his things and remembered all the bad memories that had happened. All of them were either too painful, or too awful for him to think about, but they stayed and carried with him over to present day time. But he decided no more, he wasn't going back to that horrible school now. He was gonna start a new life at Canterlot High, and no one could stop him. Toxigo then turned into the distance watching the smoke from the explosion into the sky.

"If you ever come back, Shadow Five, I'm gonna do much more than just attack you..." Tox said while a yellow eye illuminated in the darkness of his home.

Chapter 2: New Day At Canterlot High

September 1st, 2015. 8:30 AM.

A new day at Canterlot High had begun, the sun was shining, the cars were out, and everyone was excited and thrilled as a new event was coming up. Normally they wouldn't be excited since it was a new year of school, but because of all the events that had happened over at Canterlot High over the few years, school had been very exciting.

The first thing that would be happening for this year, was that all of CHS were helping setting up a party for new students and parents, and it was in a few weeks and it still needed everything to be set up, but it was no worry for any of the students. And in this high school, the now Human Seven have been up to the task of keeping an eye out for more magic to come. Right now, the group was hanging out in the music room where they were often at, discussing their plans for setting up this new event.

"Okay so we know Pinkie's gonna help set up the decor, and Rarity's gonna get Big Mac and two others to help with some of the music entertainment, what else do we have?" Sunset asked.

"Well we've already got the fliers up for the party. I'm sure everyone's coming." replied Fluttershy.

"This party's gonna be awesome! Better than the Fall Formal! Uh... no offense." said Rainbow Dash remembering what happened at that event.

Sunset merely sighed and said "None taken. Again."

"Even if the party will be great, does anyone else wonder if we'll face some old enemies again? I'd hate to run into the Dazzlings." Applejack asked.

"I don't know. Considering what we've dealt with so far, it won't be long until another supernatural enemy from Equestria comes here to try and take over again." Rainbow replied.

But while they were talking, Sci-Twi was finishing up fixing her spectrometer. Unlike before where it was used to detect and steal magic, this time around it was only used to be tracking the magic rather than stealing it. She finally got it done, and then met the others in the music room. "Hey guys, finally got the spectrometer finished, now we can simply track magic rather than steal it."

"Well that's good to hear, glad it won't be taking the magic right out of us." replied Sunset.

"Well after all of the mess we went through in the Friendship Games, I'd made sure that would never be the case again." Twilight responded.

Their old friend Flash Sentry then entered the room to check in. "Hey guys, glad to see you're doing alright. How's the magic detector coming?"

"Its finished, so now we can track the magic without stealing it. I wouldn't want... Well, you know..."

"No I understand." Flash responded.

Flash knew it all too well about what Twilight meant. He remembered her transformation into the raging she-demon. He had never been more scared of her in his life. But after finding out that it was Crystal Prep's doing, he still cringed when learning that information. "Oh before I forget, you know a new student's coming to here at Canterlot High. He just moved into the neighborhood." said Flash.

"Oh no, I forgot I was supposed to show him around. But what with there's the welcoming party and...."

"Sunset, you go show the new guy around, I'll stay here and help." Flash replied.

"Oh can you?" asked Sunset.

"I'd be glad too." Flash answered.

"Thanks Flash. I appreciate it." Flash gave a smile back, and Sunset headed out to the front to welcome their new student.

Meanwhile outside....

"They really need to fix that statue."

Tox stood, looking at the remains of the Wondercolt statue, with an added addition to his clothes, a black arm stocking to cover up his prosthetic limb, (however the clearly robotic fingers were showing). He cringed after remembering what happened that day. But he remembered that he was starting a new life. Away from the selfish and hurtful Shadowbolts, so he could open up about anything at the school.

"At least I got you." Tox looked at the golden equine amulet around his neck, and the looked back towards the school. And then, he took a deep breath and relaxed.

"Keep it together Tox. You'll be okay. Just don't think about Crystal Prep, think about what CHS has to offer. It probably offers more than what Crystal Prep had. Especially considering the... magic. Right."

He entered into the school, and stood near the entrance. After finding no one around, he put his backpack down on the ground, leaning against the wall. And just to keep himself calm, he started up some old music from his music player, and hit play. That got him calm down about going to a new school. So as he clapped and hummed along with the beat, and he started to dance for a bit as he enjoyed the tune of the beat. He leaped, and jumped, spun around, pretty much just enjoyed the beat and even sang along.****

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8PhP3yIlRw

Little bitty pretty one...
come on and talk to me
lovey dovey lovey one
come sit down on my knee...

He then stopped dancing around after hearing someone's footsteps down the hall. Following which he stood still and waited for that someone to come on down. Then he saw a girl with orange skin and red and yellow hair walking in.

"Hi, are you the new student I'm supposed to show around?" asked Sunset.

Toxgio stood silent for a bit as he was afraid of what to say. Sunset could tell from his look from him that he was shy, but another emotion was running through his head. For he was locked onto a hypnotizing trance. Sunset Shimmer was the most beautiful girl he had ever set his one working eye on. The way the hair flows on her back like sizzling bacon, the most sweet smile on her face, and those eyes. Those, sweet, teal eyes....

"Hey, you okay?" She asked.

Toxigo snapped out of the trance, and just nodded for a bit and didn't say a word, and put his fingerless glove covered hand on his prosthetic arm in fear. But luckily Sunset wasn't judging.

"Hey, you don't have to be afraid. Everyone's shy on their first day" said Sunset. "I should probably introduce myself first. I'm Sunset Shimmer. I'll be your tour guide for the day. What's your name?"

Toxigo stayed silent again, looked away with his one eye. The sight of Sunset Shimmer was just ravishing. but finally got the courage to speak to her.

"Tox-- Toxigo. My name's.... Toxigo." he replied sheepishly. Sunset then gave a friendly smile to him to welcome him. But soon her senses finally caught up to her eyes. There was something strange about him. For one, she looked closer at the arm stocking, and could see the fingers were clearly metallic. And the ears looked like they had been made from a secret government laboratory.

"Hey uh, if you don't mind my asking, I apologize for staring at you, but I couldn't help but notice your hand? And the ears?" she asked.

"Oh, that, um. Lost my ears in an accident and they only way to be able to hear again was for these things to be installed. But I rather not talk about that. Bad, bad memories. And as for the arm, I'll explain that later."

Sunset replied after with, "Well that's okay. That's understandable. Anyways, you're gonna love it here. Canterlot High is a great school. Ready to start the tour?"

"Um, sure. Yeah. I've heard good things about this place. Lead the way."

The two of them then proceeded to walk down the hallways of Canterlot High.

Author's Notes:

**** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8PhP3yIlRw

Chapter 3: Former Shadowbolt

Sunset Shimmer had started to show Toxigo around Canterlot High, showing what it has to offer. And Toxigo was very impressed to see what they had, but he still stayed silent for most of the time.

"Science Lab's down there, computer lab is on your left, and also right here coming up is the music room."

As the two of them moved along, Toxigo was looking at all of the rooms that the school had to offer, and he was very impressed. They were all better than what Crystal Prep had to offer, and plus he stepped into the school for only a few minutes and no one was being mean to him. Not to mention Sunset Shimmer.... She was beautiful... and that face, the sweet, innocent face... how can anyone not love a face like hers.... But he stopped when something caught his dark and grim eye. He stopped in front of a display case with pictures of the competitor groups from the Friendship Games last year. He couldn't help but snarl at the sight of old memories that were constant reminders of what he hated. Sunset eventually stopped after she noticed he wasn't moving, and she walked back to see him looking at the display case

"Oh, I see you're looking at some of our old photos from the Friendship Games last year. That was... very interesting to say the least. "

Toxigo was once again silent like he normally was, and continued staring on at the Shadowbolts photos. Sunset didn't hear a response from him, and she started to get a little worried.

"Are you okay? You've been staring at the display case for a long time and I'm starting to get worried." asked Sunset.

Toxigo decided that he couldn't hide what he felt about them. Since now that he's going to Canterlot High School, he could tell them how he felt about Crystal Prep Academy and badmouth everything about them since he had a major hatred. He already knew how much Canterlot hated Crystal Prep, and maybe for once there would be some people who would take his side.

"Let me ask you something. What do you know about the Shadowbolts?"

"Well I know that they're our biggest rivals who beat us at everything. And some... other things."

"Would those other things be that they have the audacity to accuse Canterlot of cheating in a game when everyone was attacked, resulting in them going and blackmailing their top student into releasing a power she had no control of?" Tox turned to face Sunset while raising one brow looking very pissed off.

"Um..."

"Don't shrug it off, Shimmer-cakes. I know this happened, all of Crystal Prep and Canterlot knows this happened. But here's something else I must ask. How much, do you know about the Shadowbolts?"

Tox had stepped a little closer to Sunset, with one eye glowing with anger.

"Well... not a whole lot actually."

"Well let me tell you something. You questioned my entire appearance at the front doorway, well... that's because of the Shadowbolts. They did this... to me."

Sunset took in consideration of what he said, and thought came into her mind.

"Hold on, are you--"

"I'm an ex-Shadowbolt. I used to go to Crystal Prep Academy, but I dropped out because of, everything they did. The Friendship Games, the students, and even Principal Abacus Cinch. And what they did was...." Tox's fists were clenching white, and his teeth were grinding, only for him to breathe in and out, "Forget it. You don't need to hear my side."

"No, what happened?"

"Sunset, no one ever shows they have any concern for my well being so why should I bother you?"

"You aren't bothering me. Its okay." Sunset placed a hand on his shoulder, but then quickly retracted and blushed.

"Alright, I'll tell you. But, its not very, pretty....The Shadowbolts, are lethal. They're psychotics. They're homicidal maniacs. They didn't care for any of their own safety regarding the games, or any of yours, or mine, and their cruelty, landed me as a broken, disabled, freak. Ever since the Friendship Games, they've been becoming insane, wanting revenge, wanting to use that magic to attack all of you as their own form of personal revenge."

Sunset then listened in on his story, wanting to know what exactly made him leave.

"Well if you're from Crystal Prep, how come you're coming here? Usually those who go to Crystal Prep are--"

"Obnoxious, whiny, little jerks who only care about winning and nothing about what happens when you push someone too far into unleashing a supernatural power they never seen before?" Tox finished. "That's where my story comes in..."

"Well why did you go to Crystal Prep to begin with?" Sunset asked stopping partway in the hallway.

"When I came to Crystal Prep, I hoped I could one day I could make a difference in this world. Like maybe work as a military solider or a police officer. But all that school did was make me hate my life, stay away from people, go into isolation, and lose my faith in everything. And from that school, I hated EVERYTHING!"

Sunset was now getting a little worried. The tone in his voice sounded like he'd been holding in all of this anger for a long time and was about to unleash it.

"I hated Principal Cinch...I hated my classmates....I even hated myself! And what's worse is all of the horrible things, they did to me. When Twilight transformed into that raging she-demon, I had no idea we were going too far! It was from that attack and terrorization, I had realized all of us were making huge mistakes. Our own minds were becoming insane, and all out of wanting petty revenge. But... not everyone saw the light. Because I was the only one that wanted to right my wrongs, they would torture me nonstop, And worse... they... went too far."

"How far do you mean?" Sunset asked.

"This supposed 'bipolar' chick named Sour Sweet, got me into an accident that resulted in me losing my ears and I had to get these synthetic replacements" Tox said sounding like hyperventaliating, but then stopped to take a deep breath and calm down.

He then turned his head to the side showing one of them, and Sunset could see the top part move up and down, and a small antenna extend from the top.

"Needless to say, they've actually improved my hearing. And she, along with those other girls that competed in the Friendship Games blackmailed me into not telling anyone about it, because they knew that I was an orphan, and if Cinch found out that I was an orphan living underage in a house by myself, I would get kicked out of CPA."

"I don't see the logic in that, but go on" said Sunset.

"But... there's more. Indigo, is the reason, I have this." Toxigo proceeded to pull off his black arm stocking, which revealed the synthetic limb, which made Sunset gasp and placed her hands on her face.

"She ran over my arm with her car, and she pulled the same blackmail stunt...." And out of nowhere he slammed his fist right against the side of the wall, luckily no damage or dent was forged into it.

"But the last straw that had been done, was by a rocker student like you, his name's Neon Lights... During shop class, he wasn't careful with the working drill and he forced the drill bit while it was spinning right into my eye."

Tox then placed his synthetic hand over the eyepatch on the side of his face, and Sunset could see a tear come down his only existing one.

"He took away, one of the only things I value most of myself... and he didn't even care... and after several operations, it couldn't be fixed. So this eye patch was all that could be done. But it still kills me...how... none of them care what they did!" He paused at this as he had a hard time getting this out.

And... I... Ugh, part of me wishes they all burned in the gates of Tartarus, and suffered in a fiery meltdown, and part of me wishes that the she-demon of Twilight zapped me with that magic so I didn't exist anymore!" Toxigo finally had let out of the frustration, sadness, and emotion he'd been keeping in for all of these years. He then dropped to the floor, in tears from one eye, and Sunset moved over and held him in a hug.

"Oh Tox... I'm so sorry... I didn't know Crystal Prep could do things like that."

Around the corner, Fluttershy came round and saw Sunset comforting the new student.

"You okay? What's wrong?." said Fluttershy.

"Our new student's an ex-Shadowbolt. Apparently they did some horrible things to him and I guess all the pent and rage just finally came out after seeing the pictures from the Friendship Games last year." Sunset replied.

"Are you sure you're okay?" asked Fluttershy.

"No... I'm not..." Tox then faced Sunset with a bloodshot eye. "I'm sorry Sunset... I... I shouldn't have yelled at you. You didn't deserve that..." Toxigo said still in tears.

"Its okay. Just tell us how you feel." Sunset answered.

"Alright..." Toxigo explained.

Luckily with Fluttershy and Sunset around he was okay. He explained to them everything that the Shadowbolts had done to him, and they listened to everything. They understood why he was in the condition that he looked like, she understood his utter hatred for Crystal Prep, and the all of the emotional, mental, and physical pain he was in. But he didn't tell Fluttershy or Flash about how exactly he blew up Indigo's car due to not wanting to give himself away, but Fluttershy stayed around to offer him, her kindness.

"Its okay, you don't have to worry any of Crystal Prep anymore. You're here at Canterlot High, and we don't do those things. All we give is the kindness of friendship." said Fluttershy. Toxigo felt much better knowing that the school he was at wouldn't be trying to hurt him.

"Thanks, Fluttershy. But wait, we only just met, how come you're being nice to me?" he asked.

"Sometimes we just have to show a little kindness." And from that very line, a burst of yellow glowing energy shined from her body, and she floated in the air, spawning pony ears, wings, and a lustrous long ponytail. Toxigo just stayed on the stairs watching as she went through the pony up, and then once she landed back on her feet, he stared at the strange magical occurance with both amazement and confusion.

"Well, that happened. But, its magic. I'm not gonna question it. I already questioned Cinch's logic at the Friendship Games, and from everything I've seen from you girls, its just magic."

Tox then took a quick look at his watch and noticed the time.

"Well, I better get going to class. And I'll go see the rest of Canterlot High. Thanks for listening to me, and thanks for not hurting me the minute I came in the school." Toxigo said thanking Fluttershy and Sunset.

"Its not a problem at all, if you have any problem just talk to me." Sunset replied with a smile.

Sunset and Fluttershy walked off into the hallways leaving Toxigo pondering what had happened.

"She ponied up, but how? There is magic here but just how did that happen? I'll find that out later, best they not know what I am. Cause if they knew, Ooh... Well, at least they didn't pick up on this thing." Tox then stared down at his golden equine amulet again, and looked back ahead again just staring into the hallway where some of the students were hanging out in. Toxigo then left the hallway into another, also jamming out to his music that he played without a headset. Luckily the entire school was in its break session, so he could jam out. He pulled through his playlists and hit Long Tall Sally by Little Richard, and just danced around in freedom. Far from the 'prestigious' hell that lived in the form, of Crystal Prep Academy.

Chapter 4: Fire Outbreak/Element of Kindness

12:00: Lunchtime

Fluttershy and Sunset Shimmer briskly walked their way over to the lunchroom to eat, but their minds were still boggled that the students of Crystal Prep would be that sadistic. They knew they were mean but they didn't know they would be that sadistic. But maybe the guy could be exaggerating, but as for the sadistic actions, they would have to ask Twilight about it.

"I can't believe Crystal Prep would do such things to him." Fluttershy was less than horrified.

"Neither can I. But honestly, I think he's exaggerating a bit. Don't get me wrong, I can believe they hurt him, but I don't think they'd go that far to hurt him." Sunset replied. "But if they can hurt Coppermane that much, then I suppose the same can be said for him."

So they entered the lunchroom and met up Rarity, Pinkie, Rainbow, Applejack, and the human Twilight all sitting at the table.

"Hey Sunset. How was the tour for the new student?" Twilight asked.

"Well it was... interesting to say the least." Sunset hesitantly said.

"Interesting good, or interesting bad?" Twilight asked.

"Well, for starters, our new classmate is a former student of Crystal Prep."

The girls except for Twilight groaned after hearing that. While they all worked together during the reign of Midnight Sparkle, they were still nasty as ever, the attack barely even fazed them to make a bit of sympathy towards CHS. Well, almost all of them...

"Great, so I guess he came here and started being an asshole, didn't he?" Rainbow complained.

"Actually no, he came here to get away from Crystal Prep." Fluttershy replied.

"But why would anyone want to leave Crystal Prep? Isn't it in their own opinion, the best school that exists?" Rarity asked.

"Its not his opinion though. He came here, because he's suffered years of abuse and hatred from them. But here's what else he told me..."

Sunset explained everything the former Bolt had told her, and the girls were appalled at what they heard. The couldn't believe the students at Crystal Prep had the audacity to commit actions almost worthy of murder. She almost mentioned the names of some of the students that had hurt them, which gave Twilight a major surprise to hear that some of the girls she competed against, the same ones who pressured her into unleashing the magic, were the same ones who nearly killed the student.

"You're kidding..." Applejack couldn't believe what she heard.

"I'm dead serious."

"My word... I can't believe they would do such a thing." Rarity snared.

"Twilight, did they do anything like that when you were attending CPA?" Sunset asked.

"No, they didn't. The closest I got was intentional bumps to the shoulders, and people ignoring me. But...nothing like this." Twilight was shocked beyond all belief.

"But here's the other thing, when I saw him, he had this metal...thing. It looked like his entire left arm was just like a robot. Like ones from those science fiction movies."

"You mean a prosthetic limb?" Twilight asked.

"Yeah, that. But he had those for his ears as well as an eyepatch. Just based on the look alone he sounds like he's had a rough time in his life."

"Well he's far away from them now!" Pinkie smiled. "No one can hurt him here."

"Pinkie's right. The only thing he's gonna be endangered by would be if another entity from Equestria shows up." Applejack replied.

"Well, lets just hope we don't get endangered any time soon." Sunset replied.

At that moment, the bell rung, only it wasn't for the next period, it was the fire alarm. And suddenly, Micro Chips charged into the room covered in smoke.

"A chemical blew up in the science lab, we've got a fire!"

In a flash, all of the students began to make a run for it, and ran outside to the front of the school for evacuation. However, there were still students inside, and Applejack noticed.

"Wait, there are still people in there! We got to get them out!" Applejack tried to run in, but Rainbow pulled her back.

"We can't go in during the fire, I'm not gonna let you die!" Rainbow yelled.

At that moment. Tox got an idea. He began running inside the building and no one stopped him.

"Wait! What is he doing!? He's gonna get himself killed!" Sunset shouted.

But he was already inside and they couldn't stop him.

Toxigo ran inside the high school to attempt to get some people out of there. So he ran right past some of the lockers, and ran right up the stairs where the fire was coming from. There he could see inside one of the science rooms there was a fire, and it was spreading.

"Oh great... Okay, uh.. what to do, what to do..."

Tox then looked at the equine like amulet around his neck, and watched as it gleamed.

"Of course, stupid, STUPID, STUPID! "

A plan had been set into motion. Toxigo found some students worried and unsure of where to go during the fire, but he could get to them.

"Hey!"

That got the attention of some of the scared students.

"Over here! I've got a way to get you out!" The students then came over to where he is, and as the amulet glowed with a golden light shine, Toxigo omitted a beam of energy from a blue jewel in the palm of his mechanical hand, and the blast opened up a portal that showed the outside steps to the remains of the Wondercolt statue. In a fit of panic, everyone ran right through the portal without question, shocking everyone on the other side.

"What in tarnation!? Where did that portal come from!?" Applejack yelled.

"Some guy with green skin and an eye patch got the Great and Powerful Trixie out of the fire!" Trixie said beaming with pride.

Fluttershy knew who fit that description. "Wait, that's what the new student had. He had green skin and an eye patch."

"Yeah... yeah that's Tox!" Sunset exclaimed. "Wait, so he's the one who got you out?"

Trixie simply nodded at that with a smile. This was a little interesting...

Back inside, Toxigo kept searching for any other students around, and he came over to hearing a sound of a cry of pain. "Hang on, I'm coming!"

Turns out the cry was from Applebloom. She had attempted to escape from the fire but she had broken a bone in her foot. She managed to get as far away from the room as possible though. Luckily, Toxigo had found her.

"Hey, you okay?" Toxigo asked.

"No, I snapped a bone in my foot." She said, but then she looked up to see that the person who responded wasn't anyone she knew at Canterlot High.

"Wait, who are you?" Applebloom asked.

"I'm a new student. Name's Toxigo. Ex-Shadowbolt. Hang on, I'm gonna get you out." Toxigo said, reassuring her safety.

"Wait, if were one of the Shadowbolts, why are you helping me?" Applebloom asked.

"Well, sometimes we just have to show a little bit of kindness."

Then out of nowhere, suddenly Toxigo felt a bit of energy rising inside of his chest. Looking down he could see he was begininng to glow with green energy.

"Uh..."

Suddenly, a burst of green energy illuminated around his body making him float into the air. His ears transformed from being on his sides, to being on top of his head like horse/bat ears. Along with that, a long green ponytail came from the back his head and went down.

"Wow! You can pony up too?" Applebloom asked.

"I... uh... I have no idea what means and I have no idea why I just did that. But right now I'm more focused on getting us out of here before we burn to a crisp" Toxigo said not losing his focus.

So he lifted Applebloom up, and slowly walked out carrying her towards the portal. But something to his attention as he looked behind him and saw a vision of a girl with long orange hair, and she was dressed in punk like attire, and she was smiling evilly. But she suddenly left his vision, and even though he thought he saw her, he just made the assumption that it was really the smoke inhalation giving him strange visions.

So Toxigo got Applebloom out of the building, and over to her family members. Everyone was finally out of the building, but Toxigo didn't want the building to burn down, so he ran right back inside.

"Hey, come back! You're gonna die in there!" yelled Sunset.

But he was already in the building. He saw where the fire was coming from again, but it was going to be more of a challenge because the fire had spread.

"Aw come on! Oh wait what was I thinking, stupid! Stupid! Stupid!"

In a moment, the amulet illuminated again, this time teleporting away from that part of the fire closer to where it was coming from.

"Okay, now to put this thing out. Lets see... there has to be a fire extinguisher or something to put that out around here..."

He turned his head to the left, seeing a fire extinguisher mounted on the wall.

"Yes! Lets just pray there's enough in there!"

After pulling the pin, and aiming the hose, he held the trigger as long as possible so all of the fire was being extinguished, and he managed to get out of the room to put of the fires to the other areas that were quickly spreading, and in a few moments, the fire had been put out. So, then after that, he simply walked down the stairs moving through the smoke and over to the front with the others.

"The fire.." Tox then coughed hard from the smoke having getting close to his face. "Sorry. Heavy on the smoke. The fire is... is out!"

Everyone then cheered after hearing that. But as that went on, Applejack looked around for a second, and noticed Applebloom was missing, again. She knew that couldn't be right since she couldn't walk with one foot, but she also knew none of the students around would have the right mind to kidnap someone. Well, none that were enemies...

"Applebloom! Where'd ya go!?" Applejack yelled.

But then she looked and saw a paper taped onto the side of the Wondercolt statue with her emblem on it, and with her name that said Applejack. She then turned the paper around to see that it was actually a ransom note. It read, 'If you ever want to see your sister back alive and unharmed, you must open up the portal so we may be freed'. Signed-

"Sunset! The Dazzlings are back, they took Applebloom!" Applejack worried.

"What!? Wait, how did they get her!?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"I don't care how they got her, they have my sister, I don't want her harmed!"

Toxigo heard every word of this, and immediately sprung into action. He stepped onto the sidewalk and gave a quick look around.

"Hm... they couldn't have gone far... Lets see where you are by looking in your eyes.. shall we?"

Tox placed his hands on the wings of the amulet around his neck, and closed his eye, and in his head he got a vision of where Applebloom was being taken to. She was being dragged off by three girls in hoods, to a outside area of Camp Everfree.

"Locked...on."

The Mane Seven then saw Toxigo standing out in the middle of the street and questioned what he was doing. So they ran over to him and began interrogating him.

"Um, what are you doing?" Sunset asked.

"I have a lock on your sibling. I believe I can find your sister." Toxigo said as he was about to run off, but Applejack wasn't so sure.

"Wait, let us help!" Rainbow asked.

"I would, but I'm sure that would only put your sister in more harm than she already is." Tox snapped.

"How do I know you're being honest? We've only just met you, how do we know you're not the one who did it?" Applejack questioned.

"Applejack, he was inside the building when Applebloom was out here, and he got everyone out and put out the fire. I don't think he would be one behind this." Sunset said.

"Just tell some others, and get help. I promise to be back with your sister alive." Toxigo then raced on off, but ran back to grab his walking stick that he left lying on the Wondercolt statue.

"I forgot, I need this."

And Tox ran off again, leaving a worried Applejack and her friends scared and pondering over this extremely bizarre student.

Chapter 5: Toxigo Vs The Dazzlings

Applebloom was dragged and forced from the area by three figures in hoods. She couldn't see a thing under their hoods, and she couldn't identify them which made it worse. So the three then entered an area which was common in the suburban area outside of Canterlot, which was Camp Everfree, a famous camp for anyone in the town or city and is well known for many of the creatures that lived in there. But in this part of the woods, she was dragged into what looked like a campground that was empty, and she saw there were some tents set up, with the tenants being only the three hooded members. They tied Applebloom's hands behind a pole so she wouldn't escape, not that she would since her foot was broken, but they wanted to take extra precautions.

Applebloom struggled to try and escape, but sadly she couldn't. "Who are you, and what do you want with me!?" Applebloom said sounding scared out of her mind. The hooded members then took their hoods off, revealing underneath that it was Adagio Dazzle, Aria Blaze, and Sonata Dusk.

"Well we're the Dazzlings, I'm sure you remember us from the Battle of the Bands." Adagio responded. Applebloom was now more terrified than ever after seeing them.

"I thought you ran away after the battle." Applebloom asked questioning them.

"Well we did run, but we never left. But to answer your second question, you are our leverage. We would consider getting revenge on the Rainbooms, but it isn't worth losing something else that's of value. Now, here's the deal. The Rainbooms are gonna open that portal that resides in the statue if they want you back alive." Adagio explained.

Applebloom then struggled again to try and escape but sadly got nowhere near to even getting a little free.

"You're not going anywhere kid. You might as well just forget it, cause no one is coming to save you." Aria then said sounding grumpy as usual.

The three Dazzlings not saying anything else after that, went into their tents closing out for the night, but they kept the fire going so their leverage wouldn't get cold. Applebloom struggled hard but it was no use; she couldn't escape.

At that same time Toxigo was hidden in trees watching the entire thing. He had no idea who they were.

"Who are they... Ugh, it doesn't matter. Kidnapping is dangerous on any level."

Once he knew their motive for kidnapping, and he just had to get Applebloom out, but he wasn't sure as to how. He didn't want himself revealing vital information to the enemy, but he also didn't want to leave Applebloom alone with no way of someone finding her.

"I got to get her out of there... But how... Hm..."

And so with a bit of thinking, he got an idea.

"Hm... Maybe I can use my magic? But if they know?" Tox sighed just thinking. "Looks like its the only option I have."

Making a leap down from the trees, and landing on the ground into a bush, sadly on his back--

"OW!"

Tox got up, brushed off the thorns and leaves that were stuck on him, and started moving towards the camp.

The first move of action was that Toxigo stole a pot and bat from their tent that they had stored kitchen supplies so that they could get their attention. He then very loudly, walking around the camp in shadow, banged the pot with the bat really loudly attempting to get their attention.

"Hey you hooded creeps! We've got a dead body out here with your name on it! No really, there's a sign that says 'Woe is me and all others who are murdered by attractive ladies!' I suggest you go and take it!" Toxigo yelled.

Applebloom saw Toxigo, but all she saw was darkness covering him, then Toxigo ran off as the Dazzlings emerged from their tents.

"Who's making that noise, I swear I'm gonna rip their guts out." Aria said sounding grumpy as usual.

They looked around, and didn't see a thing. All they saw was tied up Applebloom, the burning fire to keep her warm, and their tents. But something caught their attention, they listened in on a very strange noise. The noise was of a bit of a whir. Like if energy was being beamed.

The Dazzlings looked around to find the mysterious noise, only for them to turn and see that Applebloom was now gone and freed.

"Oh great Adagio. You just let our only chance of escaping here, escape." Aria responded.

"Maybe if someone had tied up the ropes tight enough she wouldn't have escaped." Adagio said.

"Hey, I tied her up tight. The ropes are impossible to get out of." Sonata responded.

"Well if she escaped, She probably didn't go far. She can't go far with a broken foot." Adagio said with an evil grin.

"Well unless a friend came and freed her from the ropes, and knew that Sonata wouldn't be smart enough to tie her up, then yes, she can go far." Toxigo responded.

The three sirens turned around to see a dark figure which to them was unidentifiable but they could see Applebloom clearly now sitting on a log near the burning fire.

"Who are you?" Adagio asked.

"How about I explain who I am, in song..." Music was about to kick up, but then-

"No I'm just teasing you sirens. I'm not clever enough to come up with lyrics right now." Toxigo said laughing a bit.

However, his tone of laughing soon stopped, as he gave an evil grin facing the sirens. He emerged from the dark shadows looking at all of them with a devious smirk, which gave the former sirens a full look at his body.

"Who are you..." Adagio asked with anger.

"Oh who am I" Toxigo asked mockingly. "Well....that's actually a legitmate question. But, I'm not gonna say because you three are crazy for kidnapping this girl, and frankly I don't think trusting you is an option right now. And I... believe in magic...." Toxigo said sounding like he was going to kill them.

Tox shined with a green aura surrounding his body, along with the golden glow of the amulet, as he floated into the air looking at them maliciously. Suddenly, his ears transformed near the top of his head in the shape of pony ears, green wings spawned from his back, and the back of his hair grew long and lustrous floating all the way to his back. Then dramatic music rose up, and Toxigo began singing an ominous tune.

Freed, freed....
Free...Now lets make some....
I'm possessing magic, I'm possessing magic
I've possessed some magic, magic....
I possessed the magic, I own the magic, I control the magic
I believe... in magic....

The three sirens stood still in fear, but Adagio while showing fear secretly had a new plan in mind. She was aware Toxigo possessed magic, and she was going to think of a way they could get it from him. Little did she know, Toxigo was many steps ahead of her. Once he floated himself back onto the dirt, Toxigo simply looked at the girls with an over the top expression on his face, and yelled "WHOO!!!!! I love magic!"

The three girls got into fighting positions, and Tox got into a fighting stance, ready to battle.

"Bring it on" Adagio snarled.

"I think I will." Tox smirked.

Adagio and Tox began circling each around each other, and began throwing some oddly specific banter.

"So, what's your story? You look like something that should be out of those video games everyone speaks of." Adagio remarked.

"Long story short, standing out gets you nearly murdered. Now, if you don't want me to fight you which I don't, I will take Applebloom, and leave you three peacefully alone..."

"I think not, we want out of this world and she's our only chance of getting out."

"What are you talking about?" Tox asked.

"You really don't know what we're saying?" Adagio asked.

"No, and honestly, I'm not concerned with that right now."

Adagio began to make the first charge, and Tox responded by making a spin and roundhouse kick to her face. Followed by a kick to the chest, a knee to the crotch, and one final kick to the ground. Adagio, was out. Tox saw what he did and put his hands on his face.

"Oh... god..." He leaned over to her chest and listened in on her heart, and sighed in relief. "Oh, thank god... She's fine. She's... knocked out, but she'll live.

Aria and Sonata were surprised, and their jaws were wide open, and they hadn't said a word.

"Um... Are we gonna fight or no? Because I believe I just started a fight and I think its only fair that we finished it."

Aria finally closed her jaw and cracked her knuckles in anger.

"Oh finally you're doing something." Tox complained.

Aria this time slipped out a weapon. A small little switchblade knife from her pocket, and she was ready to make any stabbings.

"So we're fighting with weapons? Very well, we fight with weapons."

Tox's prosthetic hand began a transformation. The metal began clanking, the titanium began transforming, and the gears turned, until the hand transformed into a blue colored blade. Tox swung his arm around getting ready to use it, and Aria began the first attack. She made a first swipe, and Tox blocked with his arm blade. Aria aimed for his face, only for Tox to push her back to keep the blade from slitting any blood from his face. Aria made another strike again, only for Tox to grab her hand so hard that she dropped the switchblade, and Tox kneed her in the stomach, making her fall to the ground.

"Why do I keep knocking people out!? This is just making me look bad!" Tox whined.

He turned his head towards Sonata who was looking terrified beyond belief.

"Are you gonna listen to me, or are you gonna get kneed like they did?"

Sonata could only raise her arms in surrender. She was terrified.

"Trust me honey, I hated every minute of what I was doing right here."

It wasn't until later that now, he was tying up the three girls to the pole that they had tied Applebloom to. Aria was the only one unconscious, with Sonata still awake, and Adagio slowly regaining her consciousness. And currently, Sonata and Aria had tape across their mouths, and Tox was about to apply some onto Adagio's, and she woke up to see it.

"Wait...what are you doing? No, don't you dare put that--MMM!"

Adagio had a rag shoved into her mouth, which was then sealed by the roll of duct tape wrapped around her head. And she was incredibly angry.

"Now you listen to me... whoever you are, sorry I failed to get your name. Sorry. Anyways...I don't know who you are, I don't know what you are, but I can tell you this..." Toxigo then leaned in towards Adagio some more, eye to eye.

"You're not going to be hurting anyone. And don't think about questioning how I'm able to use magic, you won't be around me enough to find out how. Now if you'll excuse us, I've got a family member to help. So Applebloom, shall we go?" Toxigo asked to Applebloom.

"Um....Sure, I guess." Applebloom responded sounding unsure.

Toxigo gave Applebloom a hand to help her walk, and the two simply walked out leaving the three sirens tied up with no way of breaking free.

"Oh don't worry. I'm sure you can escape that easily. I intentionally did a bad job of tying them so you can break out of those. I'm not gonna let you die!" Tox yelled back.

"MMM! IMM GMMM KMMM YMMM!" Adagio muffled.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah...I know, burn in Tartarus." Tox nonchalantly replied.

Little did he know by using the magic, he had alerted something manical in Equestria...

Over in Equestria, in a dark and damp cave, many creatures had been resting, and were continuing to rest in the night. However, one of them, with glowing green eyes felt something. The presence of that powerful magic from the amulet, had awoken the creature.

"The Alicorn Amulet, has been unleashed..."

Chapter 6: Meet the Rainbooms/The Truth

After Toxigo and Applebloom left the campsite with Toxigo helping Applebloom move, what with a broken foot and all, they started a conversation as they walked on the sidewalk.

"So, wait, what's your name again?" Applebloom asked.

"Toxigo Paralysis. Pleasure to meet you Applebloom." Tox smiled.

"So... wait, how exactly did you do all of that?" Applebloom asked.

"Do what?"

"Fight the Dazzlings?" Applebloom asked.

"Dazzlings?" Tox laughed. "That's their name? That's... incredibly stupid."

His laughing dropped to dead silence and looked forwards as they continued to walk away. Toxigo didn't want to admit who he was to her, but he knew he couldn't erase any of those images from her head, so he had to be honest.

"Magic."

That was all Toxigo had said to her as they continued on. Eventually as they hit the town, Toxigo pulled out a phone from his pocket and handed it to Applebloom.

"Here, you should call your sister, she'll want to know you're okay."

Applebloom then took the phone, dialed in the number and gave Applejack their location. Soon, a truck came by driven by Applejack who had found them.

"Oh good heaven's you're alright!" Applejack exclaimed, being happy to see her sister. "They didn't hurt you did they?"

"No, but what they wanted me for isn't good."

"But why did they take you?" Applejack asked?

"Because they wanted to get back into Equestria using the portal in the statue, and the only way they could see on getting back was for them to take someone you all care for, and use him or her as leverage so you'd let them out." Toxigo explained.

"Oh, its you. Well, thank you kindly for saving my sister." Applejack said thanking him.

"Not a problem." Toxigo replied. But Applebloom gestured to Applejack she wanted to talk alone about something.

"Uh, can you excuse us for a moment?" Applejack asked. Toxigo just simply nodded and let them talk in private.

"Sis, while I'm thankful he saved me, there's something off about him. He used... magic." Applebloom whispered

"What do you mean, he used magic?"

"Back at school during that fire, he rose into the air, and he ponied up just like you!"

Applejack looked back at Toxigo who just stood patiently, and then her attention was back at Applebloom.

"Okay, I'll talk with him about that. Maybe he'll explain how that's possible."

Applejack then turned to face Toxigo.

"Do you need a ride back to your place?", Applejack asked politely.

Toxigo gave one nod, and went into the backseat, while Applebloom went to the shotgun seat. The ride back to Applejack's farm so she could drop Applebloom off was silent the entire time. No one said a word, and barely anyone moved a muscle. Applejack just kept her hands on the wheel, and kept her eyes on the nightly lit road. So after stopping at her home, Big Mac came from the house and helped Applebloom into the house. Then Applejack talked to her granny, or Granny Smith in this case, and so Applejack walked back to the truck. Toxigo then moved himself to the front seat of the vehicle, and they got back out on the road again... in awkward silence.

Until Applejack broke the silence.

"So, uh, Applebloom told me you used magic to stop them. Is.... is that true?" Applejack asked trying not to sound suspicious.

"....Yes."

"Oh, well, uh... How, did you use magic, exactly?"

"Its magic, you don't need to explain it."

Applejack was a little agitated at that response. "Okay, I'm going to be honest with you. Applebloom told me you used some form of magic, and I know that you saw everything that had happened at the Friendship Games with Twilight being forced to unleash the magic"

"I still question how no one was paying attention to the plants entering from the portals when their attention was on the games. Seriously is everyone just nonchalant they see giant monsters like yesterday's thing?"

"You're getting off-track here. She saw you use magic, I know she's telling the truth, and you've got to tell me what happened."

Toxigo didn't respond after that, he was afraid of what she might say. "Applejack. I would honestly, tell you the truth. I would, but.... every time I told the truth, it ended up going up in my face. Besides, what makes you think you'll believe I'm being honest with you?"

Applejack then responded with, "I'll know when you're telling the truth. And you don't have to be afraid. I'm not gonna judge you for what you'll say."

Toxigo then paused for a second, gave a sigh, and then answered with, "Alright. I'll tell the truth. But, can't it wait until tomorrow? I'm a little tired, I've been fighting three attractive women who can't sing for three hours."

Applejack pause for a moment, and decided if he wasn't going to talk tonight, it be worth him talking tomorrow. "You swear you'll talk tomorrow?" she asked.

Toxigo replied with "I promise with my one working eye."

Applejack then simply said "Fine". She didn't know if he was gonna be honest or not, but if he was gonna talk tomorrow, it'd still be worth getting some answers out of him. And who knows, maybe they could learn a little more on this strange person.

So she dropped him off at his place, following which she returned back to her home. Toxigo then entered his home, and slid against the door onto the ground landing on his butt thinking about what he was going to do. He was going to be found out, and he had no where else to go.

"Great... I'm screwed."

The next day at school was much more peaceful than what had happened with the fire. The students continued their lives as normal, but they couldn't keep their minds off of one thing. Students saw a synthetic limbed guy run through fire without getting a scratch, and all continued to let that boggle in their mind.

Outside Toxigo approached the school. It was now 7:45, just 15 minutes before school started. He stood still in fear of what their reactions might be if they had found out he was something much more. So slowly walking in, he kept a lookout for if anyone was calling for him, luckily no shout outs were being called.

The trip down the hallway, was pretty awkward though. Students gave a few stares to see him, but they didn't say anything mean. They just gave a few hellos and compliments on his actions, and left him alone.

Why does everybody know me here!? I'm just a new kid!

As time went by, he couldn't help but notice himself sweating like crazy just over the stress of revealing who he was to Applejack. He hadn't ran into her yet, but he could only imagine she would call him out on it. But there was still time before they would ever get to a break session.

But even in the classroom, he couldn't focus on his own work. He was too busy staring at the girl right in front of him, Sunset Shimmer. The fiery hair, the orange skin, she was the most beautiful thing in the world... If only he could get closer to her...

The bell had rung, and it had gotten close to lunch time. However, just as Tox was about to head to class, he caught sight of the same cowgirl walking on over to the practice room. An ample opportunity had opened up, and now he was gonna take it. So, he turned to the side, and gave a knock on the door.

"Hello?" Applejack called.

"Uh, Applejack, its me. Toxigo, you wanted me to explain myself yesterday, I kept my word." Toxigo responded.

"Oh, come on in."

Toxigo then opened the door and entered in, but to his shock there were a few other girls standing in the room. In the room with Applejack was Fluttershy, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie, Twilight, Flash, and the ravishing Sunset Shimmer. He got such a huge shock that his back hit against the door and slid down again. "You never said anything about there being others", Toxigo replied sounding annoyed beyond all belief.

"I figured we would want to hear what you had to say about using magic."

"Next time tell me these things so I would be ready." he responded.

So Toxigo got back up, brushed the dust off of his clothes.

"So... am I gonna be left in the dark as to who they are?"

"Oh my apologies darling, I'm Rarity. Pleasure to meet you." Rarity shook hands with Tox's titanium skinned hand.

"That's Rainbow Dash..." Applejack replied as Tox shook hands with Rainbow.

"I'm Flash. Nice to meet you." Flash smiled.

"Pleasure to meet you as well Sentry." Tox replied.

"And that's Pinkie, and--"

"Twilight Sparkle and Sunset Shimmer. No need to tell me their names." Tox replied. "I already met Sunset, and I know Twilight from the... Friendship Games... incident." Tox hesitantly replied.

Twilight blushed with embarrassment out of remembering that event.

"You... know about that?" Twilight asked.

Tox nodded with a sad face. "Yeah, I do. I still can't believe they had the audacity to do that to you. You're okay, right?"

"Yeah I am. Now that I'm attending this school. So, wait, you're a former Shadowbolt, when did you leave Crystal Prep?"

"I left Crystal Prep around near the end of the year. The amount of abuse I had been suffering was beginning to be too much until I snapped, yelled at Cinch saying I'm out of her precious school, away from her precious reputation, and never came back. From that moment, I devoted myself to never going near CPA, that way I wouldn't have to suffer any more." Tox replied.

"Well as much as we'd like to hear more about you, I think you still need to explain what my sister saw you do." Applejack replied.

Tox's face drooped slightly, and so, he took a deep breath, and finally was ready to reveal his secret. "Okay, uh.... This is hard, I.... I want say this right." Toxigo started off.

"Sugarcube, it will be alright. We're not gonna judge you."

"Okay, uh... Well, you know at the Friendship Games, there was the attack from that raging she-demon firing portals at Canterlot High because Cinch blackmailed Twilight into using it to win just a petty competition which resulted in everyone's lives in danger?"

"Yes...." Applejack raised a brow.

"Well, if you think I'm just one of the students now aware of the magic existence, you're wrong. I know what that was. That was Equestrian magic, and all of the magic that was being fired was used to open up portals into Equestria. The one chance I could have taken for me to escape, but I didn't take it. There is too much going on here in this world and I can't return back."

The Human Seven paused for a moment. They were all thinking the same thing the minute he brought up Equestria to them. Could he really be, from Equestria?

"Wait, wait a minute. How do you know about Equestria?" Sunset asked.

"Because I know you are from Equestria, Shimmer-cakes. So am I."

Sunset's face drooped in shock after hearing that response, and she blushed after being called that. "Wha-wh... What? And Shimmer-cakes, really? But wait, what do you mean you're from Equestria?'

Toxigo took a deep breath, faced them right in the eye, and said. "I, Toxigo Paralysis, am a unicorn. From Equestria. The only reason I'm here in this dimension is because I've lost everything I had in Equestria and I wanted to escape my past and come here to begin a new life. However, I've made some bad decisions when I came to this world which led me to Crystal Prep and to me losing some limbs, and anger busting out, and all right up to where we are now." Toxigo finally said and turned his head away in case of angry or over the top reactions.

For a while, the room went silent. No one said a word, no one moved a muscle, no one made a sound. They had all taken in what he had just said. Their newest student, who they only heard was tormented by their rival school, more than Twilight, and possessed magic to save Applebloom, was from Equestria. The only question that came to their minds, is he really a unicorn from Equestria, or is their new student something more sinister?

Sunset's face was drooped in shock. She hadn't considered the idea of anyone else being from Equestria living in this world. Applejack however could tell from the tone in his clear and somewhat raspy voice wasn't lying, and so she approached him.

"Thank you."

"For what? Spilling the only thing that kept me awake every day to a bunch of girls I don't even know. And Shimmer-cakes?"

"No, you were being honest with us. And we were honest with you saying we wouldn't judge you."

Suddenly out of nowhere, Applejack rose in the air and she ponied up again, only to be followed by Toxigo who gave a green glow with the transformation, sprouting the ears, and tail again.

"Wait... you just... ponied up..." Sunset asked sounding like she had just seen a ghost.

"Okay, I don't know why I'm floating in the air along with you or growing horse ears or the ponytail, but at this point, I stopped questioning things because I've had a pretty weird day yesterday, and I can only imagine its gonna get even weirder as time moves on. But... if any of you know about this, I'm more than willing to hear it." Tox replied sounding more than annoyed.

"I do actually. All of us pony up when we're showing the truest part of ourselves, which allows us to do just that." Sunset said. After that, Toxigo's ponytail evaporated and his ears transformed back into place, and now they all finally began their conversation again.

"So...you're...you're from Equestria?" Sunset asked nervously

"Yes, I am Sunset."

"How long...."

"Been here for 6 years now, but I don't know how old I am in this human body. I know I'm still young, that's for sure. And if you think I've been planning on world domination, don't. I would have done something by now. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to head off and get some food. See you girls later I guess, and have a nice day."

Toxigo then left the room leaving the Rainbooms and Twilight alone, questioning everything that had just happened. Oh and Pinkie was chewing on a cupcake. But she did see something odd. Sunset had been blushing at the sight of Toxigo, and when she was called 'Shimmer-cakes', which led to a thought inside Pinkie's mind, Does Sunset have a crush on him?

Chapter 7: Escaped From Equestria

Later during the day, the Human Seven were having lunch in the cafeteria discussing their newest Equestrian student, but it was clear that him flat out saying he was from Equestria didn't fly with them. The thing that was all going on in their minds was that whether he was telling the truth about living with them in peace, or if he had something sinister in that prosthetic. He was still very, very, suspicious. And during that same time, Toxigo was on his way to the lunchroom as well. But he quickly noticed the seven of them in there, and decided to listen in on the conversation because he knew they would probably be talking about him. So a small antenna raised from his left robotic ear so he could listen in, plus it helped with his bat hearing. Suddenly, he managed to hit at a frequency where he could hear them.

"Something doesn't feel right girls. I don't think anyone would admit that they're from another world just like that." Sunset said sounding worried.

"I could tell he was being honest Sunset. But as for why he ponied up, I don't understand that though." Applejack responded.

"Maybe he ponied up because he's like us! OOH! Or-Or, maybe he's like Princess Twilight!" Pinkie said with glee, and a big smile.

"I don't think that's the case Pinkie. But something else feels off about him. Its like he's hiding something else from us."

"What else would he have to hide? He's from Equestria, he's lived a bad life here with the Shadowbolts, and is now starting a new life with Canterlot High. What else is there?" Rainbow Dash asked. While she had fought the forces of evil magic before, she was just as curious as to who he is.

"That's just it. I feel like there's something else off about him, but I just can't put my finger on it." Sunset replied.

"We'll if he is planning on doing something truly nefarious, I'm sure we can stop him just like with the Dazzlings." Rarity reassured. Back outside, Toxigo stood silent thinking about everything they said. They didn't have any signs of good feeling towards him, and he didn't to come off as evil towards them.

"Hm... how can I possibly convince them that I'm not evil? What's the logical choice here..."

At somepoint, Flash and his bandmates Ringo and Brawly Beats entered into the cafeteria room with their instruments, and set up their equipment to the side. Soon some others saw what they were doing and began questioning what they were doing.

"Um, what are you doing?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"Oh we're-" Flash then pulled out a slip of paper that was handed to him earlier "-helping make the musical score for another song number. Basically, we've got someone outside waiting, he asked us to help with a song." Flash responded.

"Oooh! Another song!" Pinkie cooed with glee.

Soon, Flash's group started up the music, everyone's focus was on the shadow outside the lunchroom doors. Soon Toxigo's foot kicked them open and he proceeded to enter the cafeteria, and everyone's attention was on him.

"Hello everyone of CHS. I'm sure some of you have heard of the recent activity involving the Dazzlings now back, and wanting revenge?"

Everyone nodded.

"Did the hostage say anything on the use of magic, involved in the attempted rescue?" Tox asked.

Everyone nodded once again and a few murmurs of saying "Yes" spread.

"I'm the one making the magic happen where she was. The magic I used was only to bring in backup to help save her from the revenging Dazzlings."

Everyone then looked at each other worried. All their thoughts were was on whether he would use the magic against them, and Toxigo could tell that's what their thoughts were on.

"Alright, if you're thinking I'm planning on taking over the school, I'm not. In fact, why don't I explain myself. Flash?"

The music kicked up, and Tox began singing.

Toxigo:
When I was younger, just a small little colt
I didn't think I'd be hurt by the Shadowbolts
My entire life I'd been running and hiding
But now Canterlot's the folks I'll be siding
Because you all are the ones with the Magic of Friendship!

Tox then jumped onto one of the lunch tables, continuing to sing.
And back then my momma said.. (What did she say?)
I said "Toxigo I think someday..."
"Maybe as a teen,
you'll get back at the changeling queen"

And Tox immediately leaped off the table doing a ninja roll and made a jump into the air landing on his feet.

Escaped From Equestria... (Escaped from Equestria)
I have a talent for running from death (death)
Escaped from Equestria... (Escaped from Equestria)
Just keep away from my venomous breath (deadly breath)

My hatred is strong for the Shadowbolts
But hating them has done me nothing
Escaped from Equestria
I'm still strong and surviving

Brawly: Here is he girls, he's toxic to the core
Ringo: Watch him drink down that chemical, oh my gosh!
Flash: He's an equine and he'll never ever try to make a kill
Band: Who wants a pony that makes the blood go chill
Oh my gosh, its the queen!
Toxigo: I think not, come on boys, start this scene!

Escaped from Equestria... (goodness gracious)
and I'll enjoy the new life that I picked

Escaped from Equestria, and I've got the hots for the Sun shining chick
When I start extracting the magic
Cinch had been saying to lose would be tragic... (tra-tragic)
And though I may cause you some of you distress
Somewhere and heaven above me, I know that my mom is proud of me...

A tear then came down his eye remembering a horrible flashback of a terrible event that had occurred with his mother.

Toxigo: I escaped from Equestria, and I'm alive...

The song had finally ended, and silence had filled the room. The only sound that came was a little bit of Pinkie giving some applause but everyone stared at her, and she immediately stopped. Eventually someone broke the silence.

"You know, I don't think we understood what you were singing exactly. I lost track of what you were explaining."

Toxigo paused for a moment, took a moment to breath in, and explained. "I lost my mother to a queen bent on ruling and I've been running and hiding until I came across the portal to this realm. Little did I know that the magic I possessed came with me to this world, and I've used it to help fight off the Dazzlings. And in my time that I've lived here, I've been beaten up by the Shadowbolts, I've lost an arm, my ears, an eye, and I may have blown up a car a few nights ago. That is my story to tell. I do not plan on ruling this world, and if I was, I would have done it by now. So, either you can hate me, or just let me live in this world with no conflicting danger whatsoever."

After his explanation, he waited to see if anyone was going to say anything nasty to him or freak out over that he was from Sunset's world. So far, nothing. Until Trixie stood up from her table and said, "The Great and Powerful Trixie doesn't hate you, if anything she's glad you saved her from the fire that broke out yesterday." She replied with a smile.

"Yeah dude, besides, someone who's not gonna take over, that's cool by me." replied Sandalwood.

"So, you're all alright with me attending Canterlot like the rest of you?" Toxigo asked.

Everyone gave a resounding "Yes", and Toxigo gave his thanks and proceeded to just get lunch. He grabbed his lunch tray, and took a table and ate in peace while everyone in the background and other tables talked about their new discovery. Their new student being an entity from Equestria, and not planning on taking over the world? This was their lucky day.

"Well, that came out of nowhere." Twilight reacted.

"But, you guys have to admit, that, was... awesome." Rainbow replied with a smile.

Rainbow then noticed Sunset was blushing again after her comment. She too had been thinking Sunset was liking this new guy...

"Well, even if it was, I really don't think that would convince everyone to..." Sunset stopped to notice Applejack giggling slightly. "What's so funny?"

"I just caught the new guy staring at you."

Sunset gave a glance towards the table he was eating alone at, and found him just focused on his own food.

"He's just staring at his lunch, I don't see what you mean." Sunset replied.

"I mean, I caught him looking at you. For a couple of seconds." Applejack replied. "You know, in all honesty, he kind of does pull a suspicious look."

"Yeah... something else seems off." Pinkie replied, scratching her chin.

"I must admit though, the dark and grim appearance kind of works for him." Rarity stated.

"Yeah, he actually looks like a pretty good looking guy." Sunset commented.

"What if we invite him over to eat with us, I think we could learn a little more from him...?" Twilight offered.

"That's a pretty good idea. I'm gonna ask him." Sunset was about to get up, but then her head turned to see Tox was already standing in front of her, with his food.

"DAH! Um... uh..." Sunset blushed at the sight of him standing right in front of her.

"I overheard your conversation. Alright if I sit?" Tox asked.

"Um... sure, yeah, go right ahead." Sunset hesitantly said.

Tox took kindly to her words and took a seat at the table with them. He took a bite of his sandwich, and once he finished, he looked at the other girls who were awkwardly staring.

"What?" Tox asked.

"How exactly did you hear us?" Rainbow asked.

"See these ears?" Tox gestured to the synthetic ears that were quite obvious for them to notice. "These little babies have advanced my hearing. Ever since I lost my real ears and got these installed, I've been able to pick up every conversation and sound for miles."

"Impressive..." Twilight replied.

Tox couldn't help but smile at Twilight's comment.

"So...how are you enjoying CHS so far?" Fluttershy asked.

"Its been amazing actually. I've gone through this day well, and not one person tried to intentionally kill me. Its very refreshing."

Pinkie accidentally spit-take at that moment, which spit water into Tox's face.

"Oops... Hehe..." Pinkie blushed.

Tox simply wiped the water spit off his face, even though there were a few spots still dripping.

"Sorry about that Toxy. But in all seriousness, someone tried to kill you?" Pinkie asked.

Tox paused at that moment, not saying a word. Until he spoke again.

"Yes. And its not just someone, its a majority of the students at CPA except for Cinch, Dean Cadence, and Twilight. And this one guy everyone called Fancypants, he was at least nice to me." Tox replied with some depression.

Everyone look at each other worried. The look on his face clearly shown he didn't like CPA at all. Even Sunset knew how much he despised going to CPA.

"So... if you don't mind my asking, why is a unicorn from Equestria now residing in this world darling?" Tox immediately stopped eating after hearing that, and he looked up at Rarity with his diamond shaped retina staring into her soul. This question was a question that Tox never liked to answer.

"I don't want to talk about it." Tox replied with a bit of bluntness to it.

"Well how come?" Rarity asked.

"I said I don't want to talk about it, okay?" the tone in Tox's voice raised up a bit, and he immediately left the table exiting the cafeteria.

Rarity couldn't help but slide down low in her chair after hearing the tone.

"I think I might have struck a heartstrings..."

Chapter 8: A Day With Rainbow Dash

The end of the school day had came, the Mane Seven came to a group meeting in the music room again for discussion over the random musical number that appeared in the cafeteria.

"So, he just admitted his identity to everyone in the cafeteria, after our discussion a few hours ago?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"Yep!" Pinkie said with a smile.

"Even if some of our other friends believe he's not evil, how can we be sure that he wasn't lying?" Sunset pondered while scratching her chin. "We've got to do something that will allow us to check in on any amount of his activity to see what he's up to."

"So are we all going to take turns looking after him?" Pinkie asked.

"Yes. Just based on his behavior when he met all of us at once he seemed uncomfortable, not to mention he lashed out at Rarity when she just asked about his past. We'll all take time to know him just one at a time. Since Fluttershy and Applejack already spent time with him, I guess that leaves to the rest of us to get to know him. So the question is, who wants to go next?" Twilight asked.

"Why don't you go Sunset?" Applejack asked.

"Oh.. uh.. well.... Um... Actually I think it'd be better if someone else talked to him first."

"Hold on a second." Pinkie then zoomed up close. "Avoiding wanting to talk to him, yet still wanting to get close to him, blushing after being called Shimmer-cakes and when he got up super close to our table... Omigosh! You totally have a crush on him!" Pinkie exclaimed with joy.

"What!? No, I don't!" Sunset was blushing after hearing that. But she froze after thinking something else. "Wait, he said he can hear things from a mile around. Check if he's listening!"

Rainbow leaped from her chair and creaked the door open to see if anyone or specifically, Tox was out there. She closed the door after confirming no one was outside and rejoined the conversation.

"Yes you do. You're blushing hard! You totally are in love with him! Oooh, what should we call you two? Maybe Sunigo? Toxset?" Pinkie exclaimed.

"I don't have a crush on him!"

"Yeah you do. You're lying. You're a worse liar than Applejack." Rainbow Dash replied.

"Okay, so maybe I do! So what if I find his eye-patch cool or, his eye beautiful with the yellow glow, or even find his apocalyptic punk look hot?... Uh, did I say that out loud?"

"Yep." came from everyone.

"Okay, can you please promise me you won't tell him, I want to tell him myself. If I ever get the courage to do so. Ugh, still can't believe I admitted that." Sunset rubbed her hand on her face in embarrassment.

"Oh relax darling, I'm sure you'll have the courage to do so. And don't worry, none of us will judge you if you ever want to go out on a date with him, I will admit he is quite handsome with the dark and grim look. And if you ever need help on ever going on a date, I'm the one to talk to." Rarity replied.

"Thanks Rarity. Now back to the real situation here, does anyone want to go do some spying?"

The room went silent for a little bit, but eventually Rainbow Dash stood up. "I'll go. He'll probably want someone to show him some of the cool stuff around town. I got it." Rainbow said with pride.

"Okay, just be subtle, and don't give him an indication that we're attempting to spy on him." Sunset assured.

"Relax, what's the worse that could happen?" Rainbow Dash asked, only to get a not so amused face expression from Sunset.

"I promise I won't give him any signs that we're spying."

However little did they know Toxigo had picked up the frequency of their entire conversation with a raised antenna from his metallic bat ear, but he didn't get upset. He knew he would have to gain their trust in order to get by them.

"The lack of subtly is disturbing. Seriously, that's just unprofessional."

Later near the end of day, Toxigo was opening up his locker getting his stuff to leave. Rainbow Dash was at the end of the hallway with a group he was familiar with, the contestants that didn't make it to the finals; Flash Sentry, Sandalwood, Micro Chips, Derpy, Lyra Heartstrings, and Bon Bon 'Sweetie' Drops. The group started walking down the hallway only to stop as Toxigo immediately said something.

"Rainbow Dash if you think secretly reporting back to the others about my behavior and activity will get them to like me, that's not gonna work."

Rainbow Dash's jaw had lowered in surprise.

"Wait, what do you mean?" Rainbow asked.

"I know you girls don't trust me well enough after my out of nowhere musical number." Toxigo said as he closed his locker and extended his walking staff out. "But I understand I have to earn your trust if you girls are going to let me stay in this world in peace. So if you all want to go into the order of giving reports back on my activity, fine. Just don't write things down that shouldn't be said or written down. So, are we going somewhere?" Toxigo finally had finished.

Rainbow Dash pulled her jaw back up and said, "Yes, I figured some of the popular students here at CHS should show you around town along with me. But to introduce them, this is--"

"Flash Sentry, Sandalwood, Micro Chips, Ditzy "Derpy" Doo, Lyra Heartstrings, and a Ms Bon Bon "Sweetie" Drops?"

Rainbow Dash's jaw went down again, and all Toxigo did was just stand in silence. "You should really close your mouth. Flies can get in that way, and let me tell you they're not tasty." Toxigo replied.

Rainbow simply fixed her jaw again, and the group of 8 exited out again. They walked out of the high school into the small town where everyone seemed to hang out and Toxgio saw many of the different places they had. He saw a police station, the music store that Vinyl Scratch owned, and a fast food joint called Inside-Out Burger. Eventually the group hung out against the basketball court fence. After staying in silence for a bit, the group decided to go walking again, only this time they had struck a conversation with Toxigo learning a little more about him.

"So wait, because you have that Equestrian amulet around your neck, that means you are able to conjure up spells?" Micro asked.

"That's correct Micro. Since I have it with me, it means I can tap into my magic, and I can use it for my own desires. Mostly all I use it for is for spell practices, escaping bad situations, or even giving people a good scare." Toxgio replied. "In fact I actually have a spell book with me I look into for spells."

"Cool. So, does that mean you can cast any spell you want in this world?" asked Derpy.

"Sort of, but I don't use it too much. Mostly just to avoid attention. Unfortunately I seemed to fail at that in the last 2 days. One, using a fireball to blow up a car out of a rage. Two, suddenly sprouting wings, ears, and tail during random times. Three, using my magic to upgrade myself to fight against the Dazzlings. And that's about it." Toxigo finished.

"Dude, that's awesome. Did anyone teach you that stuff?" asked Sandalwood.

"No, I taught myself how to do all of that. When you spend all of your time alone, you learn to your own stuff."

"But wait, don't you have any parents worried?" asked Bon Bon.

Silence was all that came from Toxigo after that question. He actually had never met his mother, as he actually has no memories of her or any relative. All he remembered of the past was running, and running, and running.

"Um, did I upset you? I'm sorry if I did." asked Bon Bon.

"No you didn't upset me Bon Bon. I just... I don't like talking about that subject. My family was kind of... killed. And, all I remember from her was to keep on running to stay alive."

Rainbow was surprised at what Tox had said. He had lashed out because he didn't want to talk about it, but because he was with the others he suddenly started revealing information on his past? But another question had ran through her mind.

"Wait, what do you mean stay alive?" Rainbow asked.

"I don't want to talk about it Skittles. It hurts me enough as it is." Toxigo responded.

"....Skittles? Really?"

As the group turned around the corner, they ran into a familiar foe. Adagio stood in front of them looking incredibly ticked off. Toxigo however kept a smug smirk on his face remembering that he basically owned them when he battled them.

"Hi Dagi. I see you got out of the ropes I intentionally did a bad job of tying."

Adagio just stood keeping that angry face expression.

"Wait, you tied up the Dazzlings?" Rainbow asked.

"Yes. Yes I did. It wasn't easy I'll tell you that. Especially when it came to trying to take them down. Oh wait, Dagi, you still got a small strand of the duct tape on the side of your face. Just saying. Come on, lets leave her be."

The group then walked away, except for Rainbow Dash who looked back and said. "I'm watching you."

Adagio gave a look back and walked off again. Entering into an alleyway, she slammed her fist not so hard against the brick wall in anger. She wasn't happy with how she had beaten by another entity from Equestria, only this one wasn't familiar or an old enemy. This one was something different, something odd, something... magical.

As she proceeded to walk down the alleyway over to another part of the town, Aria Blaze and Sonata Dusk joined her from two different sides. Together the group walked again this time looking to take a hostage once more, only this time, they know they can get something even more. A human's safety and health back, for Toxigo's magic. As they turned around a corner, they had found Lyra and Bon Bon exiting out of a candy store getting candy, only for them to turn and see the Dazzlings standing in front of them. The three then gave an indication saying to go forward and they proceeded walking.

"Just keep walking Drops, Heartstrings. Don't obey and we will hurt you." Adagio said with an evil tone in her voice.

Only as they were passing by a loading truck, their heads turned to see Thunderbass, Brawly Beats, Trixie Lulamoon, Vinyl Scratch, and Octavia Melody standing there, looking unhappy. Adagio then turned her head behind to see Flash, Derpy, Sandalwood and Micro Chips right behind them keeping them from escaping. Aria then nudged her arm for her to turn her around to see Rainbow Dash and Toxigo standing with Lyra and Bon Bon giving smug expressions. Rainbow gestured with her cyan colored arm for them to walk away, and the three walked away as they should have. The giant group then gave a yell at them saying to go away, and then proceeded to walk away.

"Huh. Its funny. Back in the Battle Of The Bands, they were Dazzling and loving it." Thunderbass commented.

The group continued walking away again, only to find coming from another alleyway were the Dazzlings again. This time, the group all shot their arms towards them like if they were going to grab them and yelled "AH!" at them. The Dazzlings immediately ran away after seeing their group again. Later the gang decided to go and play basketball as a stress reliever from their return. Rainbow Dash was quite impressed with Toxigo, despite not being good, he got along with everyone that played. But as the basketball was tossed to him and as he tossed it to someone else, he stood frozen in fear. The sight of who the basket ball was tossed to kept him standing frozen in place, not sure of what to do. Everyone soon turned to see who he was facing, he was facing 6 Crystal Prep students, some of which aided the Shadowbolts in the Friendship Games. They faced Jet Set, his girlfriend Upper Crust, Royal Pin, Suri Polomare, Fleur De Lis, Trenderhoof, and their ringleader Neon Lights.

The only ones that weren't the Shadowbolt bullies were the 5 Shadowbolts that managed to stay in the Friendship Games longer. But the Wondercolts group that were there standing could clearly tell Toxigo was afraid of them. He had been standing still, facing them with a look of fear on his face. And little did any of them know, Tox had pressed a red button on his arm which none of them had picked up on.

After a bit of silence Rainbow decided to break the awkward silence. "Hey. Cool to see you guys again. You guys want to want basketball with us? We could use some more players." Rainbow offered.

"We're not here for any basketball, rainbow pride. We're only here, for him," Neon said pointing a grayish blue finger at Tox.

"Why are you here for him in the first place?" Flash asked.

"Why don't we explain. You see, the little snot head has been a pain in my backside for a long time. Actually, he's been a pain to all of us. Constantly asking us if we wants to hang out. Well we kept saying no because one, we didn't care about him, two, he shows no pride in Crystal Prep and three we've had lots of work to do. But, the main reason we've come is because he's made life at Crystal Prep even worse. Cinch was upset that we lost at the Friendship Games, and by the way, she still declares you all cheating. And she took her anger out on us by adding on more homework and cutting down on the extra-curricular activities so that we still stay on top. But then this little mucus colored Metal Gear Solid kid just had to blow up Indigo's car. We heard Indy trying to explain to Cinch someone else did it, but that only enraged her and she added on the workload. All because of him. And now, he's going to pay."

Toxigo slowly backed up in fear, only to hear words come from his new friends.

"Okay, first off all, Cinch brought the failure onto herself by even blackmailing Twilight to releasing the stolen magic to begin with. Second, she only has herself to blame for constantly dropping all of the workload on you. He has nothing to do with you, and I'm surprised you have the nerve to try and pin the blame on him after all of the suffering you've done to him." Flash exclaimed.

"And what are you ever talking about?" Jet Set asked in his snooty voice.

"How about when you shoved a spinning drill bit into his face? Or Indigo running over him with the car to begin with? Or... Actually I don't know how you lost the ears, Tox how did you ever lose those to begin with? Didn't you say Sour Sweet was responsible for it?" asked Micro Chips.

"Sour Sweet helped, is what she did. Lemon Zest is the primary reason for this. During another torture session they slipped the headset on my head and played the music really loud. So loud in such I didn't hear a thing and at that point, only for Sour Sweet ripped my ears off! I had to build these mechanical replacements. However, despite how much pain it still gives me that it doesn't feel real, the synthetic replacements have improved my hearing quite amazingly."

"Okay..." came from Micro Chips.

"First off, what happened in shop class was he didn't get out of the way and got a drill bit right in his eye, this little prick is just a liar, and we're not trying to kill him! All we've been trying to do was get back at him for being such an annoyance!"

The Wondercolts all gasped. Neon had just confirmed they did bully him, and even Rainbow was surprised at what they had heard.

"An annoyance!? AN ANNOYANCE!? I just wanted friends, all I wanted was to be your friends, was it necessary to shove a spinning drill bit into my face!?"

Neon paused to think, and angrily replied "Okay maybe that was a little too far-"

"A LITTLE!?" everyone shouted.

"Okay, it was too far, but it's not as much as what those 5 girls that made it to the finalists did, they hurt you just as much as I did, so why does it matter what I did over what they did?"

Tox's eye turned into a void of empty white as the anger filled his voice. "You took away what I value most about the human body, and it really hurt you know!?"

"Well maybe if you gave support for all of us, then maybe we wouldn't be right here now would we?" Neon huffed.

Rainbow decided that was the last straw. He had said enough. "Support? Support!? Maybe he didn't want to give support for everything you all did to him! You never wanted to talk to him, you picked on him, abused him, recklessly assaulted him, and you constantly got away with it! And you're seriously taking your anger out on him for the Friendship Games? That's just petty of you! Its just a competition that you always beat us at and never let us forget it! And why don't you just leave him alone, what the heck is wrong with you! Just because he wants to be your friend means you have the right to hurt him!? Not... Cool. Now, if you want to leave peacefully without any issues, I suggest you get out of here and beat it. You mess with my friends, you mess with me." Rainbow Dash replied.

Just at that exact moment, Rainbow's body gave a blue glow and she grew pony ears, wings, and a tail once more. Royal Pin cringed at the sight of that, while Jet Set and Upper Crust's eyes were wide open with their jaw's hanging out. Neon Lights simply just gave an angry unsmiling face expression and the group started walking away. Soon Rainbow Dash put an arm on Toxigo's shoulder giving him an indication that he was okay.

"Its okay, we're not letting them hurt you. Come on, lets just go play somewhere else."

Tox smiled back at Rainbow. He was feeling very thankful that he had friends with him.

So the Wondercolts group started to walk away from the area, except for Trixie who gave one last look at them.

"Psychotic jerks... I'm not letting them hurt my friends."

But as she was about to walk away she almost tripped forwards on her face. She knew she didn't step on any rocks, and the trip felt like someone's foot. She turned to see that Suri Polomare was giving a smug expression on her face that was a mockery of an apology, along with her arms going out saying "sorry". But Trixie had tricks up her sleeve, she raised an arm out gesturing for her to wait, looked back at the Wondercolts, and back at Suri and shrugged. She extended an arm asking to start over, only for her to swing a kick towards her kicking her down.

"That's for hurting Toxigo, and for tripping the Great and Powerful Trixie!"

Trixie then decided to walk away with her victory intact, only for Suri to toss something towards the back of her head.

"Oh it is on!" Trixie yelled before tackling Suri to the ground.

The two rolled over, punched, kicked, and spit at each other but neither were defeated. Eventually Fleur De Lis had to just simply walk up and take Suri just to get out of there, only for Trixie to kick her in the flannel skirted butt. But after that, other Crystal Prep students started running in, and Trixie knew she needed backup.

"Guys! Hey guys!" Trixie yelled.

Eventually the group heard her and as Trixie ran towards them, so did the Shadowbolts, resulting in all of them starting to run.

"Trixie you attacked them!?" Flash yelled.

"I had to! They shouldn't have messed with us!"

"Trixie, no offense, but you're an idiot!" Tox shouted.

As the giant group of Wondercolts began running, several of them took different directions and Tox quickly noticed the Bolts kept chasing them.

"Why are they still chasing us!?" Tox yelled.

"I think they're after you!" Rainbow shouted. "Just go somewhere else, we'll keep them occupied!"

"Got it!" Tox then using the amulet while running, teleported into dust, right in an alleyway which the Shadowbolts already ran past. Toxigo leaned out the side watching them run away, and breathed in relief.

"Well at least I'm away from them for the time..." Tox turned his head and saw Fleur standing, then turning his head left he saw Jet Set and Upper Crust standing, and it wasn't long to see that Suri had also arrived.

"Oh...marvelous."

In another area, Rainbow Dash, Trixie, and Flash were running away from more Shadowbolts but found themselves trapped in an alleyway with only one way of escaping, and that was the path ahead of them.

"Why did you have to tackle Suri?" Flash said sounding afraid.

"Suri should never have tackled the Great and Powerful Trixie, or hurt our friend! I thought we already discussed this!"

"Well it doesn't matter right now, we have no way of getting out of here." Rainbow exclaimed. At that moment, Royal Pin, Suri, Fleur, and Neon Lights came to the front of the group.

"No way of escaping now, is there, Wondercluts." Neon sneered with an angry grin. "You should have just let us win the Friendship Games, and maybe we wouldn't be here, now would we?"

"You were going to release a power you couldn't control dude! That's just dangerous!" Flash yelled.

"And what did you do to Toxigo!?" Rainbow yelled in fear.

Their eyes turned to see Jet Set and Upper Crust tossing his unconscious body in front of them, showing many signs of damage. He had millions of cuts, bruises, scratches, and some bones were bent the wrong way. He also had several dents and damage that were done to his mechanical arm, and some fingers were shown to be almost all the way off, with some wires that were disconnected. Along with that amount of damage, they could see his mechanical bat ears had some damage to it and millions of dents into it. Concerned for possible death, Trixie bent down to place a finger on him to check for a pulse.

"I... I can't tell if he's dead or not."

"Well of course he's not dead you dread-locked idiot. You think we're monsters? You really think we would actually kill him? We may be jerks but even we're smart enough to know murder is something no one can get off of so easily. Even if we've recklessly hurt him"

"When I get my hands on you, you will be sorry!" Rainbow yelled with a tear down her face in anger. She was now really angry that someone hurt one of their friends, and maybe almost killing him again.

"And just how can you stop us? There are more of us, than there are of you. Besides, its time someone teaches you what happens when you mess with Crystal Prep students."

Neon lived to regret those words, because at that moment, things were going to go down. Soon, they heard a machine humming noise, and they were wondering as to where it was coming from.

"Leave my friends alone...." Came a distorted and demonic voice.

Their heads turned towards the unconscious boy on the ground, and now, they became terrified. Tox's body was slowly, getting off the ground, even though he still had major wounds and bones bent. And in a millisecond, he was standing on both his feet, looking incredibly pissed off.

"I said, leave my friends alone!"

The golden amulet around his neck illuminated, and he began firing energy shots from his fists towards the ground in front of him, which was giving the Shadowbolts an indication to leave them.

"You recklessly tried to hurt me, and attack my friends! I will not let you hurt my friends, and you aren't going to hurt me anymore! You mess with my friends, You. Mess. With. Me!"

At that moment, his body glowed with a bright green glow. Pony ears spawned onto the sides of his head and the back of his hair grew long and lustrous like minty green fabric. And all of the Bolts began to run away from the attack and they didn't come back.

Once they all left, Tox limped back around to look at the five of them all concerned.

"Are you okay?" Trixie asked sounding worried.

"I'm fine Trixie. Other than getting severely beaten up, I'm okay." A few sparks sizzled from the left side of his head due to his ear almost being completely off, and the only thing keeping it connected were the wires.

"How... did you just do that?" Rainbow asked in shock.

"This amulet around my neck, I used some of my magic to get myself standing back up and may have powered up just a bit."

"Oh... that's actually kind of freaky and awesome at the same time. And, as long as we're here--"

"No, Rainbow, let me." Trixie interrupted. "Trixie is sorry for causing them to go chase after you and us. I hope, you can, maybe, forgive?" Trixie hesitated.

"I forgive you Trixie. Besides, it wasn't a total failure. Because..."

Tox hit a button on his arm, and it played the entire conversation they all had back in the basketball court which surprised them all.

"You got evidence?" Flash asked.

"Yep. After many years of abuse, I finally have some hard evidence against them. And all I can do, is just hit one button and the evidence will be sent to every single email to all of the students and faculty of CHS. But... I'm not gonna do it."

"Why not? You have hard evidence against them, you should send it." Flash replied.

"As much as I want to send the evidence out, there are two things here. One, the recording isn't enough, I need more. And two, I'm tired of dealing with their bullcrap. I just want some time to chill, hang out with you guys... I... I want to experience the feeling of having friends by my side." Tox replied with a weak smile.

"Well I'm sorry we couldn't hang out today." Rainbow somberly replied.

"Who said we didn't?" Tox asked. "From my viewpoint, we all hung out together and you got to know me a little more. Even if part of that was interrupted by my former enemies. Even still, I enjoyed hanging with you guys. Maybe we can do it again." Tox offered.

"Yeah, we should. So, see you tomorrow then?" Rainbow asked.

"Yeah. See you Skittles." Tox smiled as he began limping away, but then Flash spoke up.

"Um, are you sure you can make it back? You look like you need to go to the hospital."

"No, don't worry about it Sentry. Besides... just...watch."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfAv8yAaHps

His leg that was slightly twisted in a very odd manner was slowly moving back into normal, the wires that were shown to be out and to be the things making the fingers move reconnected back into place, and the mechanical fingers moved back into their sockets. They also noticed the metal bending itself back out from being smashed in on his arm, and the ear that was hanging loose, pulled itself back onto the side of his head and twitched again, signalling it was restored.

After giving them a wave goodbye and smile, Toxigo left the alleyway to walk back to his home, and Rainbow Dash's small group looked at him walking off in the sunset, giving a smile.

"You know something Flash?" Rainbow asked

"What?"

"I know Sunset and Fluttershy said he seems a like a good guy. Now I'm starting to believe it. And that's awesome." Rainbow smiled.

Chapter 9: Sleepover At Pinkie Pie's

The next day at school, the Human Seven were all talking together once more to hear what happened on Rainbow Dash's day with Toxigo. Rainbow had explained everything that happened. Tox admitting the reason for not wanting to talk about his past, and the Shadowbolts exposing the truth behind their abuse and attack. All 7 girls were in deep thought over the entire thing, but suspicion was still living.

"So, wait, let me get this straight. He didn't want to talk about it because had lost his family, and the Crystal Prep kids intentionally tried to murder him?" Sunset asked still trying to comprehend the entire situation.

"Yeah, and I know it may sound pretty crazy, which it is, but its true. Neon admitted that they tried to kill him. And Tox defended us from the Shadowbolts. I don't think he's evil guys, he was telling the truth." Rainbow replied.

"Well maybe if that's true or not we still need to check up on everything about him though. But still, keep a low profile on him though."

"That may be a bit of a problem Sunset." Rainbow hesitantly replied.

"Why?"

"I walked over to his locker and it turns out he heard our entire conversation. But its okay, he says he knows he has to earn our trust if he's going to live around here!" Rainbow said quickly. Sunset just face palmed after hearing that their plan had just been discovered. But Twilight had some hope for them.

"Wait, hold on, you said he knew he had to earn our trust from him right?"

"Yes."

"Well then we can still see if we can. We just need to get him to come to an environment where all of us can observe him, Anyone have any ideas?"

"OOH! I have an idea! Slumber party at my place!" Pinkie said with joy.

"I have to agree with Pinkie on this one, if he's in the house with us, we can observe him while we have fun with him." Rarity replied.

"I suppose we can try that. Alright, sleepover at Pinkie Pie's. But how are we going to convince him to come over?"

"What if I ask him, he's talked to me before." Applejack asked.

"I don't see how that works but okay, if you want to ask him, go right ahead." Sunset finished.

"I'll go too Applejack. I for one need to apologize for asking him about a sensitive subject." Rarity replied.

Later that day Applejack and Rarity walked through the hallways looking to see where Toxigo was. So they made a sharp turn left and found themselves going to an empty room where it was almost completely dark. They tried turning on the light-switch but no luck had came. But after pausing, they watched in the darkness several different streams of light constantly flash and zoom around, as if lasers or energy was being fired. And from the few flashes they could clearly see Tox was in the room practicing, wielding his magic.

Once the light had restored itself, they found Tox standing in a position with his arms spread out as if he was stretching. And soon he stood frozen after seeing Applejack and Rarity standing there. "Um... How long were you standing there?" Toxigo asked.

"Long enough to see you practice magic darling." Rarity replied.

"Uh.. okay." Toxigo awkwardly replied. "So, what brings you to my own personal room of magic practice?"

"Well we heard how fantastic you were with Rainbow Dash yesterday about defending her, and we wanted to see if you maybe wanted to come to a sleepover as a form of celebration." Rarity asked.

"Celebration? No, no, no you don't need to go to any trouble for celebration. I was just doing what any man or woman should do. But, if you want me to come over for a sleepover just as friends I'll gladly come."

"Alright, its settled then. We'll see you at the sleepover." Applejack finished.

"Wait, what time do you want me to show up?" Toxigo asked.

"I guess maybe after school, sometime around 4:00. We'll hang out, get some work done, party, stuff like that."

"Okay, I'm in. See you then Jackie." Toxigo finished with a smile.

Applejack still faced him with a "Really?" expression, but Rarity suddenly remembered what she was gonna ask.

"Oh,uh, Tox, darling. I almost forgot, I wanted to apologize for asking about a sensitive topic yesterday." Rarity asked.

"Okay....?" Tox hesitantly replied.

"Well, you see, you told some of our other friends and Rainbow about why you didn't want to talk about that, and I can understand not wanting to talk about your past, so I must apologize. Do you forgive me?"

Toxigo thought it over, and came with a conclusion. "Yes, I do."

Rarity still gave a smile of interest on her face. "Well thank you, darling. So shall we see you at the sleepover?"

"Yes. See you Rare."

After their plan and conversation, they walked out of the room and continued to go back to their normal class schedules, but they didn't focus because they were anxious to see Toxigo again so they could learn a little more about him.

It was later that day, or should I say night, Toxigo had finally came to the sleepover at Pinkie's. All seven girls were there and all were allowed to, plus Pinkie's parents were out of town on a business trip owning a rock farm, so it meant Pinkie and her sisters staying home, luckily none of them were planning on bothering any of them.

"Okay, okay, Pinkie Pie, truth or dare?" Toxigo asked.

"Dare!"

"Okay, I dare you drink down this entire bottle of soda, with one gulp."

Everyone did an "OOH" at that, but Pinkie accepted the challenge. She opened a bottle, and chugged it down like a bottle of beer. When she finished, she gave a big burp.

"Okay then, I shouldn't have underestimated you there, that's very impressive. I don't think I can chug down a bottle like that."

"Its not so hard for me! However, it does leave a little... Little... be right back!" Pinkie then zoomed off upstairs.

"I take it she's going to the bathroom?"

"Yep."

"Understood. So who's turn is it?"

"Alright, its my turn." Rainbow said. "Truth or dare?"

"Well because I'm not in the mood to being honest right now, I pick dare."

"I dare you to leave a scary voicemail to the principal of Crystal Prep."

"Rainbow Dash, that's diabolical." Toxigo said with over-dramatics.

"And?"

"I was just saying. Let me just get my phone!" Toxigo excitedly pulled out his phone, dialed in the numbers with his synthetic fingers, and then held it to his ear.

"Hold on, its ringing, and... okay, message will be sent in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Hello there Abacus.... This is the devil himself... I know what you've done.... You hurt Twilight at the Friendship Games... You should never have messed with a power you don't understand... If you want to live, you must apologize to her, and to everyone you've insulted... Crystal Prep isn't the best school... Best schools would never be gloating about their scores,.. If you don't obey me and apologize to everyone you insulted about your precious reputation.... I will send the demons of Tartarus after you.... Now be quick, you've got 24 hours.... MUAWAHAHAHA!!!!"

Toxigo hung up the phone while everyone's jaws were hanging out and eyes were widened by what Toxigo had said.

"When I leave scary messages, I leave scary messages. And I don't mess around."

It wasn't long until everyone then started laughing and Toxigo joined in on the laughter.

"Okay, best prank call we've done yet." Rainbow said.

"Yeah... Oh, wait I wanted to ask Toxy something." Rarity replied.

"Sure Rarity, what's that?"

"Truth or dare?"

"Okay I guess I'll go a little risky, truth."

"Did you ever try to make a friend while you were at Crystal Prep?"

Silence filled the room in awkwardness, but Toxy did reply.

"I actually did try to, but I didn't have much since most of them are just mean. And it didn't help when I tried building myself a friend."

"You tried to do what?" Sunset asked.

"I wanted to try and build myself my own friend, but that didn't work during the time because I didn't have any magic or special parts to get it made."

Soon the doorbell rang leaving them all questioning who could it be.

"Pizza guy?" Rainbow asked.

"I don't think so, that's way to early, and we ordered pizza a few minutes ago." Fluttershy responded.

So she went to the door and opened it up, what she didn't expect to see was the five Crystal Prep girls that they had played against in the Friendship Games. Indigo Zap, Sugarcoat, Sour Sweet, Sunny Flare, and Lemon Zest.

"Uh, hey what are you guys doing here?"

"We wanted to talk to you about something."

Toxigo immediately recognized that voice, and freaked.

Oh hell no...

The first choice of action was to throw himself over the couch like a sack of potatoes and hide behind it until they all left. The girls all gave questioning face expressions but remembered he didn't like them and they hurt him to no end, so hiding behind the couch was the only option.

"Uh, sure come on in." Twilight offered to take their coats and hung them up and they entered into the living room, where they saw Applejack, Rarity, a returning Pinkie, Fluttershy, Rainbow, and Sunset in their PJs. Luckily for Tox, he had hidden behind the couch and the furniture was set in a way that none of them could see him.

"I take it you all are having a slumber party?" Sunny asked.

"Yes, it is a Friday night." Fluttershy responded.

"Very lovely dearie." Replied Flare in the polite friendly voice as she always had.

"So, why are you all here?" Sunset asked.

"I wanted to talk to you about something. Its about this guy. I don't know if any of you know him, are you familiar with someone named Toxigo Paralysis?" Indigo asked.

"Eyepatch, bat ears, synthetic arm?" Rainbow asked with a bit of bluntness, getting a resounding nod from Indigo.

"Rainbow Dash, I think you mean the student that they all abused and tried to murder from day one until he just drove down to the breaking point and blew a car belonging to Crystal Prep Academy." Rarity replied.

"Wait, how do you know about that?" Indigo asked.

"Because he admitted he blew up your car to all of us off screen because he was afraid to face any of you!" came from Pinkie.

"And I can't blame him, y'all hurt him every day of his life, and you wanted to kill him." came from Applejack looking very upset.

"But wait-"

"Not to mention some of your classmates tried to attack Rainbow Dash! And all because you were being stupid-heads, and you didn't think about what could happen, when you released magic that none of you know how to control!" Pinkie responded.

"Now, hold on a sec-"

"And add on actions committing an act of murder because you didn't like him!" Rarity yelled.

"Just, wait! Alright, look none of us are proud of what we did! All of us are to blame for what we did. But its only because were caught up in the Friendship Games, we all tortured him because he didn't show any support for Crystal Prep. Our constant gloating and obsession with winning caused him to rebel against us. We got so upset he didn't support us and basically insulted us so much that we did things. Things that we aren't proud of, things we... should never have done. I ran over him with the car, Lemon Zest made him go deaf, Sugarcoat locked him overnight in a video-game arcade with no way of escaping without setting off the alarm, Sour Sweet pushed him down a flight of steps making him have to go to the hospital several times for dislocated bones including sawing his ears off, and Flare gave him several scratches and punches and kicks at random times. Look we don't expect him to be happy with us, and if he's enraged with us, its perfectly reasonable. We just hope he's okay."

The girls could see the Shadow 5 were truly upset. The tone in their voices and the teary eyes did seem like they were genuinely sorry for what they had done. But their attention was drawn away to listen to voices only the Shadow 5 and Twilight were familiar with.

Unleash the magic, Unleash the magic,
If we lose then you're to blame
They all had used it, maybe abused it,
So then why can't we do the same?

The Shadowbolt girls turned their heads to face the hallway and saw Toxigo standing there with a black bathrobe and drinking hot chocolate from a coffee mug. Along with his one brow raised giving an indication of unamuse. His yellow demonic eye stared at them straight on, as if looking right into their souls and wanting more than to give them pain. They could see from the prosthetic arm he had recorded them egging Twilight into releasing the supernatural magic.

"By the way, I'm fine, Zappy. No thanks to you jackasses. But...lets just say my mental condition has become much better than I was at Crystal Prep, not that any of you helped at all." He said before sipping another bit of his drink.

"Toxy, I-"

"Forget it Indy, I don't want to hear anything from you."

"Okay is it Zappy, or Indy? And why do you call her that?" Rarity asked.

"She's my ex-girlfriend, Rarity. She and I used to be a couple, until she blackmailed me to continue to be with her after she found apparently I'm an orphan. Not to mention when I refused to be with her anymore, that's when all of the torture from her began. One of which was that she threatened to tell Cinch that I am living alone in a house underage without an adult, and if she did tell, I would be taken away from what little life I had and put into foster homes. Little snitch then gave me insults about not having a mommy."

"WHAT!? You threatened to take his life away because he didn't have a mommy! You diabolical monsters!" Pinkie yelled.

"That was too over-dramatic. You should really wait for the conversation to be over before making any comments." said a deadpan Sugarcoat.

"Thank you, Sugarcoat. Funny how they gave you that name, I take it you're always mono-toned and brutal to every person you meet? Sometimes I wonder if you talk to your mother with that mouth. You ever tell her that she looked like a giant purple eggplant in the purple dress?" Tox said with sarcasm.

"Talk about not having a mother dearie." Sunny Flare sneered at him, becoming very agitated.

Tox paused after Sunny's comment, and continued to speak.

"Hehehehehe... By the way, I heard everything you said, I'm not forgiving you.... Sugarcoat, you're too honest, you should learn to lie every now and then. Flare, hath no accent, stop saying dearie to everyone. Sour Sweet, I know for a fact you're not bipolar, you're just mean. Lemon Zest, your headset is up way too loud, how can you hear what people are talking to? And Indigo, Blaring, Zap...the chick that tried to talk me into letting go everything you did to me. You look like you're trying to be a copy-cat against Lightning. Remember old Lightning Dust?"

Everyone paused in silenced after hearing that last sentence while Lemon and Sunny were trying to hold back Sour from charging at Toxigo and beating him up, and Tox had a smirk on his face watching their anger boil.

"Dearie, stop. You know we came here to apologize, not start another fight."

Sour noticed her actions and got back standing straight, brushed the dust off her uniform, and had her hands behind her back and gave a nervous smile.

"You know I find it quite interesting how you say you wish to make up your actions, but yet you still insult me and try and kill me again. And I'd strongly advise you don't mess with me...." Tox smirked.

"And...why not?" Lemon asked.

"Little did any of you know that by you constantly hurting me, I've gotten more powerful than ever before. I now possess magic, and I can use it against you in any way or fashion I want. I suppose Neon hasn't told you that he almost died trying to kill me again?"

Now everyone was scared and nervous. They didn't know what his next action would be based on the tone of his voice.

"Um, Tox? You're not still holding grudges against us? Are you? That's a very stupid question considering what we've done." Sour asked.

"Oh you two-faced Sour Patch. Normally I would have pressed charges against you and all of your friends for everything you did and I would have exposed all of my hard evidence against you, but hey, why not let you off scot-free much like Cinch got off for her crimes. She gets off scot-free for blackmail, insulting a faculty to their faces in a microphone, forcing someone to release a power they have no control of, disregarding the safety and intelligence of their students, and for almost letting all of us possibly die. But getting to the point, I'm letting you off because its in the past. However..."

Toxigo's arm immediately transformed into a little two-barrelled rifle weapon that started charging up and he pointed it at the five Shadowbolts, and suddenly his yellow eye turned into an empty void of nothingness.

"If I catch any of you anywhere near me, or if you try to beat an apology out of me, you will wish you never have done it. Capiece, Shadowbolts?" Tox said with a demonic tone.

The Shadowbolts nodded quickly in fear, and Toxigo's arm transformed back to normal, as well as his eye.

"Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going away from you, because I don't want to talk to you anymore." Tox was about to walk away, but...

"Tox wait! We just wanted to talk to you! We wanted to apologize!" Indigo pleaded. "Please!"

Toxigo didn't want to give Indigo the satisfaction, but instead, he turned with a glowing eye and said--

"You can talk to me when you learn not to mess with an entity from another dimension where equine creatures reside. Actually, don't talk to me at all. You don't need to talk to me, you don't deserve to talk to me, and you will never talk to me."

Toxigo then left the hallway going upstairs to the door in Pinkie's room, entered in and slammed it shut. He then slid down onto the floor and kept his eyes closed, and turned off his ears. To have only silence around him, so he wouldn't have to hear any of their thoughts, or reactions.

He eventually exited out of the room but he didn't go talk to any of them. At that point, everyone was ready to head to bed. But Toxigo on the other hand couldn't sleep. He decided to just stay up, while drinking hot chocolate. He sat at the cobblestone counter top on a bar stool sitting near the island countertop in Pinkie's kitchen. Just drinking his hot chocolate, in sorrow. He stared down at the chocolate and marshmallow filled drink and stayed silent for about a few minutes until he heard someone coming down.

"Hey Tox. What are you doing up?"

That voice had come from Sunset who had came down in the middle of the night for some water.

"I'm just having a drink. What about you?"

"I'm getting some water. How come you're up this late at night? Can't sleep?"

Tox simply shook his head basically saying yes. "I can't go to sleep, especially after those Bolts came in here looking for me. They may say they want to make sure I'm okay, but I'm smart enough to know that they want me to pay for giving them more trouble."

"Tox. They didn't come here to cause trouble. After you went upstairs they talked with all of us and said they were feeling guilty for what they did to you. Just like they did with Twilight."

"Yeah, well its going to take more than sorry to repay for what they did. All of the abuse, the insults, the blackmailing, and the attempted murder, its too much Shimmer-cakes."

Sunset didn't know how to reply to that. She knew every word that Tox said was right, as for none of them should be forgiven so easily for the things that did to him. But she knew that they were desperate and truthfully wanted to make things right with him, so it would be up to her to try and get them all alone together to talk out their issues. But for now, she thought she would take time to talk with him to get to know him on other levels seeing how she never talked to him personally. So she simply pulled out a stool chair and sat across from him.

"Hey Tox, I'm.. I'm sorry."

"For what? You have nothing to be sorry for."

"No I do. When you admitted who you were to us, I honestly didn't think you actually came here to live in peace. I honestly thought you were up to something else like planning on ruling Equestria or getting more power, but based on how you're doing; going to Canterlot and hanging out with us, I think you're a good guy. Er, colt, stallion, whatever how old you are."

"No Shimmer-cakes, its okay. I understand I had to earn your trust. From my view I didn't think you would believe it so easily so I thought I'd had to earn your trust by hanging out with you guys. And I must ask, do you, trust me?"

"Yes. Yes I do."

"Thanks. Shimmer-cakes."

After a pause the two sat in silence for a bit, but Sunset wanted to start fresh.

"I think we should start over. How about, we ask each other questions, and once we've answered them, we keep on going. You okay with that?" Tox gave a smiling nod of approval. Sunset then extended her arm out for a handshake. "Hi, my name's Sunset."

Tox was on board with what she was doing and decided to start fresh as well, and he gave a handshake back. "My name's Tox. Toxigo, if you wish."

"I'll just call you Tox, for now. So, I have to ask, when did you find your way to this world?"

"I entered in this world at some point when I was 8 or 9 in human years, I honestly have no idea what period of pony years I'm at right now, its been so long, and my memory of Equestria isn't great. But, how does a unicorn like you end up here in the human world. I saw your demon form 2 years ago, but I don't know what led to that?"

"That was back when I was evil. I turned into a raging she-demon after placing a crown on my head that was an Element of Harmony from Equestria. The power was too much and soon I turned into a giant demon wanting total power and control of Equestria after abandoning my studies under Princess Celestia. And, lets just say after you turn a raging she-demon everyone immediately hates you..."

"I know how you feel there. Every day I attended CPA I was hated."

"Well, yeah, but they had no reason to hate you, everyone had a reason to hate me."

"Still, even then, I understand what it feels to have everyone hate you." Tox replied.

"Okay, my turn. I understand you kept on running and running from a malevolent queen, right?" Sunset asked.

"That is correct."

"How did you find your way into this world?"

"I stowed away on a train to the Crystal Empire and stayed hidden for a couple of days, and after sneaking into the Empire I discovered that mirror that led into this world. And because I didn't want her to find me, I ran right through it, learned about how this world worked and worked my way up to here right now. Luckily she never found me. Now back to me, how did you end up becoming friends with everyone after becoming that, demon, thing?"

"It wasn't easy, I can say that. I had to earn everyone's trust back by working for it. It was painful at first, but after working through it, having friends is actually quite nice."

"I can imagine so. And I have to admit, it feels nice having you girls as friends rather than those Shadowbolts."

"Yeah." Sunset sighed.

"Oh wait, another question, I have to ask this, my friends told me you had powers. How are you able to use magic here?"

"That's a good question and I believe that's worth answering. I didn't possess magic before, but I over the years I had started to possess it again, and I had no idea why. But soon, all the answers led to this little thing."

Tox showed the Amulet around his neck, which Sunset had no idea as to what it is.

"This Amulet has allowed me to tap into my magic abilities, which has helped a bit. When I lost some of my body parts, and had to replace them with the technology, I combined some of its magic into the machines, which gained me a little more power, and the machines became one with me. As for how it ended up where I found it, I have no idea. But that is how I am able to use my magic here in this world."

"Oh, okay." Sunset replied trying to process all of the information just told her.

After a bit of silence fell, Tox decided to break the ice again once more.

"So, you date much? Just, thought I'd ask."

"I did date Flash but that was only to raise popularity. I didn't really like him."

"Oh alright. I guess..." Tox awkwardly replied.

Sunset thought again about what she was going to say, and then spoke.

"So... uh, I'm going to say this. I know you think everyone thinks low of you, but the truth is they don't. They're just too afraid to know the real you. And I think I've seen the side of you that you really are."

"Thanks, Shimmer-cakes."

After once again, more silence. And during this, Tox didn't realize it, but he was slowly moving his synthetic hand onto Sunset's orange hand. He picked up on it, and moved it away trying to avoid any awkwardness. Sunset blushed after seeing him quickly retract his arm back. Eventually Toxy got up from his chair to go get some more marshmallows into his cup, and before walking back he slowly felt the red on Sunset's hair, which he slapped his arm to stop. But little did he know Sunset kind of liked it.

Sunset then walked over to get some water for her cup, and then paused to take a closer look at the muscle on Tox's real arm, and was quite impressed. Tox's left ear twitched a bit signaling that he knew she was there, but Sunset didn't move a muscle. She stood by next to him, drinking from the plastic cup, and she heard a metallic clanking noise. She saw Tox had placed his hand on the table as well as he was opening up the gauntlet, checking the wiring and circuitry. He then flipped the lid back on, and was right up face to face with Sunset. Both backed off and blushed after being almost uncomfortably close. But in their minds, they didn't find it uncomfortable at all. Tox and Sunset both moved their hands closer to touch one another, and their eyes and eye were locked onto each other in a romantic hypnotizing trance, but just as they were going to lean in closer--

"Hey."

Both Tox and Sunset screamed out in terror and backed off in awkwardness and saw standing near a cabinet with chips in her hand, Pinkie's sister Maud.

"Just came down for a late night snack." Maud said in her usual deadpan voice. She grabbed her chip bag and then walked away from the kitchen going back upstairs.

"It still bugs me thinking that Maud is related to Pinkie. How is that even remotely possible?" Tox asked.

"I wondered the same time I ran into her."

After a little bit of laughing at that, silence filled the room once more. "Well I better get back to bed, I need some sleep. Night Toxy."

"Goodnight Shimmercakes."

After Sunset left for bed, Tox gave a smile thinking about the evening. Talking with Sunset had helped his anger issues and he was starting to fall in love with her. But he would have to wait for another time to be asking her out on a date, or anything beyond that. But the very thought of being with her made him very excited.

Over in Equestria, a strange bug like creature had snuck her way into the very castle of Princess Twilight. She wandered the halls, and discovered a room where the mirror to travel to the human world was.

Her eyes glowed as she laughed manically, then facing the portal, she said "The Amulet... has been located..."

Chapter 10: Element of Laughter/Do We Have A Deal?

Back in the human world, everyone was still at Pinkie's house. The sun was rising up to the early morning of Saturday and all of the girls, and the one guy was still sleeping. Well, almost all of them. Pinkie however was awake at this time, busy making herself an early breakfast, and because she was alone, wearing only a bed shirt. And while she was making breakfast she was jamming out to a song on the radio.

Going out tonight, I'm feeling alright
Gonna let it all hang out...
Gonna make some noise, really raise my voice
Really gonna scream and shout...

At that same moment Tox walked into the kitchen with his black robe with a toxic symbol on the left chest pocket and his wacky Vinyl Scratch styled hair all messed up. He saw Pinkie jamming out to the song and she eventually saw Tox. "Hi Toxy!"

"Morning Pinks. Mind if I dance along?"

"No go right ahead. Someone's in a happy mood."

Tox began dancing in a very silly manner along with Pinkie Pie and he began to explain. "Well last night, I had a nice talk with Sunset last night. She came down for a drink in the middle of the night, we eventually struck up a conversation and..."

"And what?"

"Ugh. We were locked onto each other like two people in love except Maud walked in and ruined the moment."

"Aw. I'm so sorry! I'll go talk to Maud about it."

"No Pinks, its okay. She didn't know, she was just getting a late night snack. Don't be mad at her. Okay?"

"Okie-dokie-loki!"

"But what do you say I change the song here, I know a good song to jam to."

"Sure!"

Tox immediately pulled out his iPod, placed it on a little radio, went through some of the songs and hit play on one. Soon the room flowed with a 1950s rock song, and soon Pinkie and Toxy began dancing to the music along with also making a mess while making breakfast. Both began singing along with the song, dancing around, and just being silly. This suddenly triggered the energy in Pinkie as she soon began glowing, ears sprouted, a tail formed, and floated into the air. "I guess you've got the same thing like everyone else as well." Tox responded.

"Yep!"

Eventually Pinkie floated back down and the ears, and tail evaporated. At that moment, Rarity and Twilight entered into the kitchen. "Morning Pinkie." Twilight said.

"Morning Twilight."Pinkie said with glee.

"Morning Sparky."

Twilight paused after hearing that comment. "Sparky?"

"Yeah, I came up with nicknames for all of you guys. Pinkie is Pink, Rainbow is Skittles, Rarity is Rare, Applejack is Jackie, Fluttershy is Shy, you're Sparky, Adagio is Dagi, and Sunset is Shimmer-cakes."

"Um, alright." Twilight hesitantly responded.

"So Tox, I must ask what's gotten you into a much happier mood then you were when the Crystal Prep students came by- oh, sorry. I forgotten what they had done."

"No, its alright Rarity. In fact I'm in a much happier mood from yesterday because I got to spend time with Shimmercakes."

"Oh congrats darling, I take it you two got along well last night?"

"Yes, yes we did."

"And...?" Came from Pinkie.

"I'm not saying anything else Pink."

"Oh come on!"

"What is she talking about?"

"Toxy, its okay if you two didn't kiss."

"Tox what is she talking about?" Twilight asked.

"Ugh, fine. We both were in a locked trance onto each other until Maud came in and ruined the moment."

"My, my, someone's smitten."

"Rarity, please. Not, now. It still kills me I didn't make a move. Anyways...." Tox asked. "So, any of you guys have plans for today?"

"I have to go help finish setting up the Welcome New Students party. Wanna help?" Pinkie asked.

"I don't see why not, I've got nothing else to do. Sure, of course. But wait, what about everyone else?"

"You don't worry them darling, we'll tell them you're out." Rarity answered.

"Thanks Rarity. Lets go Pink!"

"Okie-doki-loki!"

Both Tox and Pinkie zoomed out of the house and entered into Tox's Plymouth Fury car, and drove off to the high school again. So the two of them moved their way down the hallways and over to the gym where they were setting up the party, only for...

"Oh my god! What happened here!?"

The entire gym party that Pinkie had set up had been completely destroyed. The streamers were all torn up, the banners had been tagged, the tables had been tossed over, and walls had been spray painted in black. Pinkie's puffy hair had suddenly deflated into just straight hair giving sign of depression. Tox looked around at some of the damage to see if there were any clues but so far he hadn't found anything. He found a few remains of balloons that were popped, more destroyed banners, and a few more tables knocked over. But as he looked up he saw that they had camera's set on the side. Tox immediately got an idea. He proceeded to speed out of the room and teleported himself into the security room using the amulet once again, and sat at the desk looking at the security monitors.

"Alright, my little eyes in the sky, what did you pick up last night?"

Tox hit a few keys and soon a video from the night before began to play.

As his one eye examined the footage, he could sees that a few students in Crystal Prep uniforms had snuck into the place the during the Friday night the girls were having a sleepover, and they had trashed the place. The camera luckily managed to catch a few familiar faces like Neon, Royal, Jet Set, and even Suri. Tox immediately stopped showing the footage after seeing them.

I can't believe this, what reason what would they have to trash the place?

As he teleported himself back over to the gym where Pinkie still stood, Tox thought back to their last encounters with them but he couldn't find any reasons for them trashing the gym, outside of either wanting back at Tox or just to destroy CHS's reputation. But he didn't think long about what happened the night before because his focus was onto Pinkie right now who looked like she was about to cry over all of her hard work gone for nothing.

"Oh, Pinks... I'm... I'm so sorry."

Pinkie's lip quivered and her eyes were watering with sadness. The sight of a girl who wanted to make everyone smile suddenly now ready to cry was extremely heart wrenching.

"No, no, please. Don't cry..." Tox pleaded.

Luckily an idea popped into his head. So when Pinkie didn't even take a glance at him, Tox performed a spell on himself which created a big flash and that got Pinkie's attention, but when she turned she didn't see anything.

"Pink! Over here! Right behind you!"

Pinkie turned around to see he was face to face with a very little pony. Pinkie was looking down at a small little pony, who was Toxigo. He had green fur, a ruffled up mane, one mechanical talon for his prostetic limb, pointy robot ears, and he had a toxic symbol for a cutie mark. Pinkie's hair then puffed back up to normal and was in Aw at the sight of the green pony.

"Omigosh, you're so adorable!"

Pinkie immediately gave Tox a big squeezing hug. "Uh Pink? I can't... I can't, breathe!"

"Oh, my bad. So wait, is that your original form?"

"Yes, this is what I actually look like. This is what I look like. I'm a unicorn back in Equestria."

"But wait, why did you turn back into that?"

"Because I didn't want to see one of my best friends cry. I wanted to get a smile on your face. And I can see it worked."

Pinkie gave a smile back but then looked back at all of the damage that had been done. "How am I going to fix all of this?"

"Why not let a little bit of unicorn magic assist you?" Tox offered.

Pinkie accepted Tox's offer, and soon the two of them began to spruce up, and spice up the gym to restore it. The banners were restored to normal, the tables were nice and clean, the streamers were hung in their proper places, and everything that had been ripped to pieces, broken, or shattered, had been repaired.

Once the final banner had been restored, Tox spoke up to look at Pinkie with a grin. "Alright, now that its fixed, what do you say to a little celebration?"

"Yes, of course!"

Tox then in a bright energy glow transformed back into his human form again once more, but had to crouch down and held onto his stomach in pain.

"You okay Toxy?" Pinkie asked.

"I'm fine. Its just the magic is a little heavy on my system. Very rare do I perform a transformation. If I do, it kind of sucks all of the magic out of me, only for it to come back the very next day." Tox replied, still breathing heavily.

Back on his feet, Toxigo pressed play on a little CD player that was near the stage and soon music began to play again. This time, the song that was playing was The Spectacle by Countess Coloratura. Tox and Pinkie both jammed out to the music that had came from her song, and this time out of nowhere, Tox ponied up once again and Pinkie's eyes were locked onto that.

"Okay, this is just getting random now." Tox said as he floated himself back onto the ground.

"What do you mean?"

"I keep ponying up every time for random reasons and I don't know why. First it happened when I helped save Applebloom, then it came to being honest with Applejack, then defending Rainbow Dash, and now I pony up just by dancing with you? I don't get how this works."

"I think you're like us. All of us pony up when we're really passionate about our hobbies. You're obviously from Equestria, and I think you have the same reactions just like we all do."

"Yes but how am I connected to you guys? I have no history with you guys whatsoever so how can I possibly be related to any of you? So how can I possibly pony up like all of you when you're all connected to the magic?"

"Maybe we'll find out another time. We should probably tell the others we're done."

"Good idea. And once it hits Monday, I'm laying all of this evidence over to Celestia, she deserves to know our rivals have struck again. "

"Agreed."

Tox and Pinkie then left the building, locked the door and went back to their own homes to await for Monday next week to reveal the hard evidence, for the damage...

Nightfall had struck. Over back at the Dazzlings camp, the three were sitting around a campfire discussing a new plan to try and get their magic back, and to escape from the human world.

"Come on Adagio, its not going to work. That eye-patched freak is too smart and he knows how to stop us." Aria grumbled.

"Maybe so, but we can take advantage of his abilities. We just need to get one of those pesky Rainbooms then we can get his magic."

"But how?"

"I'm working on it!" Adagio yelled in anger.

Little did they know that they were being watched upon by a pair of green eyes in the forest. The figure kept herself hidden in the trees, but soon her cover was blown by a mere step on a twig, which got the Dazzlings attention.

"Someone's there!" Sonata exclaimed.

"Its obvious, Sonata, you didn't have to state the obvious." Aria complained.

They got ready into fighting stances as they saw a shadowy figure walking into their camp area. The darkness kept her covered until she had finally stepped their way over revealing to be...

"Sunset Shimmer?" Adagio asked in shock.

"Hello Sirens. Its been a while."

"Why are you here?" Aria grumbled.

"I only came to here to strike a deal with you. I understand you're lacking magic at the moment and I was wondering if maybe we could work together. For both of our interests..."

"And why would we do that and... Wait a minute. Sunset never talks like that. Sunset Shimmer never talked like that at all. Who are you?"

Sunset slowly smirked looking incredibly malicious. Suddenly twisted her head to the left facing up and the sound made a big cracking noise leaving Sonata cringing in disgust. Sunset then turned her head facing them once again now her eyes glowing menacing green, and she spoke with a bit of distortion in her voice. "Let me introduce myself, I am Chrysalis. Queen Chrysalis."

"Wait a minute, Queen of the Changelings?"

"The same one, Adagio. Now let me explain, I've recently been tracking magic... Alicorn magic, actually."

"I don't follow." Sonata shrugged.

"I'll explain that my dear Sonata. Me and my soldiers have been searching for food for my subjects, but I suddenly have felt a disturbance... a disturbance which alerted my presence of magic used from the Alicorn Amulet, a powerful amulet that can grant its user the powers of the alicorn, which is more power than the mighty Princess Celestia. But as for how it managed to work its way into this world, I'll never know. But honestly, I don't care. And then I learned about how a former student of Princess Celestia has been living here, along with three Sirens who feed off of everyone's hatred to rule the world... Suddenly, a perfect opportunity had awakened..."

"Why were you searching for us?" Adagio asked.

"Because I know you all have been banished from Equestria and you would absolutely care to come back to your own world to take over again. And I know that the former student of Celestia's is a friend of ugh... Princess Twilight. Taking her would make a perfect reason for the Royal Sisters to give up and let us take over. So, why not cut a deal. I understand that there are certain girls including this world's Twilight Sparkle who've been keeping you from getting your escape to Equestria. I'll help you kidnap them, and then once we have them, we will all head back to Equestria. Once we arrive, we begin planning our attack on Canterlot.... Hehehehe...First Canterlot, then all of Equestria. Interested?"

The three Dazzlings all then gathered into a huddle to discuss an agreement.

"Adagio, I'm not so sure about this. She feeds off love, we feed off of hate, I don't know how much we can work together." Aria responded.

"What choice do we have? Its either work with her, or be forever stuck in this world with no power. So lets just go along with it for now, and wait to see if she is going to betray any of us." Adagio replied.

Adagio paused for a moment, then gave a dastardly evil smile. "I think we can come to an agreement my good queen. One question though, there's someone who possesses that Alicorn Amulet you speak of, and he's been keeping us from escaping as well. How exactly do we take him out?"

"Don't worry... I've got a plan. Once he's alone, we strike and steal that Amulet. But... if we can't take that Amulet before we leave with the hostages, then when we stage Canterlot, we hold these 'human equivalents' as ransom, and demand for the Amulet. If we possess it, our power will be so strong, no force on this putrid planet or in Equestria can stop us.... Now, do we have a deal?" Chrysalis extended a hand out to shake.

Adagio took kindly to Chrysalis's offer, and shook hands with her.

Chrysalis gave a smile back towards Adagio, and spoke again. "Glad we all can work together towards a common goal...."

A new plan had been put into motion. Sirens and Changelings, hatred and love, two opposites, working side by side towards a common goal....

Chapter 11: Weekend at Toxigo's

Another week had past for the students at Canterlot High, for them it was just same old, same old. But for Sunset's friends, they were going onto another hang out with Toxigo. This time, they were invited over to his house for a sleepover for Friday evening, so all of them were finally going to be able to see his new home. All 7 of them have brought their sleeping bags and gear and were either walking or driving their way to Tox's. As they saw the front lawn and outer exterior look of it they could see a few things. The outside of it looked like a Japanese styled house with arches going out on the corner ends, with a mini swamp surrounding the front with a few plants and lily pads floating, and there was one pathway walking over to the door. Along with those, there were small trees with pink flowers blooming from them that were on opposites sides of the bog water.

"Oh my goodness, I love the nature. Its breathtaking." Fluttershy said with happiness.

"Not bad. Very nice." Applejack responded after.

"Are we going stay and watch his bog grow or are we going inside?" Rainbow complained.

The group then walked on the cobblestone pathway over to the door and knocked.

"Who is it?"

"We're here!" Pinkie called out in a sing-song voice.

Tox opened up the door, and gestured for them to come inside.

"Welcome to my home."

The seven girls were going 'Oohs' and 'Ahs' at some of the things that were inside his home. The saw some posters for pegasi flyers called the Wonderbolts, a few plants, and old and unusual objects that they could only assume were relics or mementos from back in Equestria.

While they were looking around they also saw a few bookshelves built into the walls with such a huge amount of books that Twilight had to keep herself from constantly harassing Tox just to see what he had. As they moved their way over to the living room where Toxigo was hanging out they also saw a few bathrooms, a very large kitchen, and what they could guess was an office room but it was closed and locked. So they entered into the living room where a TV show was playing on the station.

"How did you get this place?" Rarity asked. "It is extravagant."

"Well, I can't say much, but I will say this. Apparently the portal to Equestria and back to Earth turns my golden coins into very high amount of cash. And with that, I got to pick the house I want, and I just simply needed to move my belongings over into my new home." Tox replied.

Once everyone took a seat on any bit of couches or chairs, everyone then proceeded to find a seat on any area of furniture and while they began their conversation they also looked at some of the things he had inside of his house.

"Oh, can I offer any of you a drink of any kind?" Tox asked.

Soon Tox started offering them drinks, some of them which took kindly and said yes.

They caught sight of many old items that Tox explained were old items he brought over from Equestria, some DVDs on shelves, and some more random items. Eventually the group started watching TV and eating snacks. And as the slumber party continued, they got to learn a little more about him, and a few more things about Equestria.

"So wait, you tried to make an online video series giving info on where you're from, but people took it as a joke?" Rainbow asked.

"Yes. It started out just as me attempting to get help to say I'm from another world, but as others saw it, they just assumed it was a comedy show. People never took it seriously. But then again I'm a human trying to tell someone I'm from a world filled with magical flying horses. Who's the crazy one now." Tox replied.

Everyone gave a nod, but Fluttershy could see Rarity's attention wasn't on their conversation. "Toxigo darling, I apologize for staring, but what is that around your neck?" Rarity asked politely.

"Oh this? This everyone, is the Alicorn Amulet." Tox replied.

Everyone's face shown they were intrigued by the golden jewel.

"What exactly does the 'Alicorn Amulet' do?" Applejack asked.

"The Alicorn Amulet basically gives a pony the powers of the Alicorn, its pretty powerful stuff." Sunset replied with a smile, but then grew dark. "But there's a bit of a side effect to it..."

"What do you mean by side effect?" Fluttershy asked.

"One of the effects include that the more it gets used, the more corrupted the pony becomes. And there are a certain amount of spells that just cannot be performed like duplicating another target, changing one's gender, bringing one back from the dead, time travel, super speed, immortality, etc" Tox finished.

"Oh... my..." Fluttershy cooed.

Everyone nodded at Fluttershy's response. However, a question had erupted into Sunset's mind.

"Wait, if that amulet can corrupt anyone or 'anypony', how come it's not corrupting you?" Rarity asked raising a brow.

Immediately everyone stared at Tox with a hint of awkwardness at Rarity's question.

"Thats... actually a very good question." Tox replied. "I don't know why. This thing has a mind of its own mind you. But for some reason everytime I use my magic, I don't think it did anything. But honestly I'm just thankful I'm not corrupted and hellbent on trying to attack any of you. But, just in case, if I am actually corrupted and I don't know it, please pull this thing off my neck immediately. Now, how's anyone up for some video games?"

Soon the night continued on as the group continued with more games. Soon it came to them playing Twister, some action video games, and watching some movies and so forth. Eventually everyone went to sleep and drifted off into their dreams through the night. But all that went onto Toxigo's mind was knowing his entire situation now. Sunset knows that he's from Equestria, he's had a run in with the Shadowbolts twice now in the 2 weeks he's tried to avoid them, and now he's got the Dazzlings to deal with who are bent on returning back to Equestria. Netherless, they can be stopped, and they will be stopped.

The next morning, Tox was up making breakfast while some of his favorite tunes were playing from an iPod mounted on a radio. Everyone was still asleep, but they knew eventually the smell of sizzling bacon and steaming pancakes would wake them up. For now his mind was focused on making the food. Just keep your eye on the food. Eye on the food...

"Alright... golden, fluffy, pancakes. Lets see here..."

He grabbed the flour already in the measuring cup and poured it in making a huge splash of flour hitting his face.

"*Cough*" Tox soon began hacking up some of the flour that accidently went into his mouth onto the floor. "Great. There goes that batch."

After sweeping up the mess he made and grabbing the now ruined batter, he dumped the bits into the trash and chucked the bowl into the sink.

"Now lets try and make this work."

Once again, making an attempt not to screw up actually succeeded this time in making the pancake batter. Soon the pitter-patter of feet made his ears twitch up and he listened in, and met the sight of Sunset Shimmer in her PJs coming in to the kitchen.

"Is something burning?" Sunset asked.

"Morning Shimmer-cakes." Tox smiled.

"Oh, Tox. Good morning." Sunset gave a friendly smile back.

"Sleep well?"

"Yeah, I slept great." Sunset replied.

"Pancakes?" Tox offered as he flipped one into the air only for it to go through the small metal spike on his left ear. "It would help if I could see what I'm doing, my depth perception is incredibly off."

"Oh yes, thank you. That's so sweet of you." Sunset cooed.

After getting the pancake off his ear and into the trash can before simply grabbing a pancake, putting it on a plate, and handing it to Sunset.

"So... what's up Shimmer-cakes?" Tox grinned.

Sunset giggled at Tox's nickname for her. "Not a whole lot actually. And now with the lack of activity going on with the Dazzlings, I'm starting to get a little worried."

"I'm sure they're probably either giving up or thinking of some long, complicated and extensive plan for revenge. Which by the way, they're not gonna succeed with because I'm around. And I'm not gonna let them hurt you or any of you guys."

"Aw...thanks." Sunset replied before eating another pancake. "Oh, something I wanted to ask. Do you have any hobbies?" Sunset asked.

"What do you mean?" Tox asked.

"Like special skills, things that you're good at?" Sunset inquired.

"Um... Yeah I guess so. Why?" Tox asked.

"Well all I seem to see you do so far in these last few weeks are that you're good at athletics, but that's about it." Sunset replied.

"Actually, I am good at some stuff. Like, uh... Oh." Tox stopped.

Their attention turned to Rarity who's hair was in a frizzy mess, and she was wearing a pink fuzzy robe.

"Morning Rare." Tox said with a smile.

"Morning Tox." Rarity replied groggily.

"You sleep well?"

"Yes I did in fact. Those mattresses were very comfortable."

"That's good. Pancakes?"

"Sure, thank you."

Rarity then sat on a stool chair sitting at the concrete counter top that was on the left of the stove where Tox was cooking, and Tox continued to talk.

"I'm pretty good with technology, as you can tell by the prosthetic limb and the ears. I made all of those myself." Tox said with pride.

"Whoa, that's pretty cool." Sunset replied.

"And there's actually some other things I've been working on with my tech. You want to see what I built?" Tox asked.

Later, once all of the girls were finally awake and still in their PJs, Tox led them to his garage where his red 1957 Plymouth Fury rested, and saw some tables and other things covered in sheets. Tox pulled the sheet off of a table revealing a what appeared as a robot. Its shape was as a teenage girl, its titanium covering was bronze colored, and one feature that stood out, it possessed hair styled and colored exactly like Rainbow Dash.

"Whoa... what is that?" Sunset asked.

"Friends, meet Echo. One of my failed experiments. I tried building her to be my own friend when I was alone. Alas, I had no luck." Tox replied.

"How come it looks a little like me?" Rainbow asked sounding very curious.

"Long story short, I was looking for a model to base it off of, and you were the first person in my view point, so I just took a photo and modeled it after you. I... hope that's not too disturbing?" Tox hesitated.

"That's kind of creepy... but, a little awesome." Rainbow replied. "Can she work?"

Tox shook his head. "I tried but... she just isn't going to work. I tried everything I could, but it's not working. Now, she just sits here, collecting dust."

The girls all looked at the face of the bronze automaton as its eyelids were closed and expression was neutral, until Pinkie spoke up.

"Why not use the amulet around your neck to activate it?" Pinkie suggested.

A metaphorical light bulb hung over Tox's head, and he gave a wicked smile. "I hadn't considered that before... Let me try."

Tox held his hands onto the amulet around his neck, his eye closed, and the girls watched in awe as they watched blue energy flow from the amulet go right into the open port of the android. But once the stream had finished flowing.... nothing happened. Not a sound was made, not a gear turned, not a whir or a clank was emitting from the robot.

Tox sighed in annoyance and pulled out a sheet to cover up the robot once again. "Well, I guess not every machine or invention is destined to work."

Sunset walked over to Tox and held him in a hug and patting his back. "I'm so sorry..."

"That's okay. I do actually have some experiments that work. You girls want to see what did work?" Tox offered.

The girls said 'yes', and Tox showed them over to another covered sheet and stopped. "Now... before I show any of you this stuff, I need to tell you something. What I made is probably not 100 percent legal. When Midnight Sparkle came to power, I became worried about what any other threats from Equestria would come here, and so I had to develop my own little...defenses. You promise not to tell anyone what you see?" Tox asked.

Everyone nodded, but Tox wasn't the least bit convinced.

"Do you swear?"

A few of them groaned. "Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye." everyone finished.

Tox rose a finger wondering what they said, but then stopped. "I take that as yes then?"

"Can you just show us already?" Rainbow complained.

"Alright, alright. Here we go." Tox pulled the sheet off revealing three different weapons. But these weren't ordinary weapons, they were the latest in high technology. Made out of titanium, steel, copper, and computer technology. Each one of them were in their own design. One was styled like a heavy Gatling gun, another one was set like a mini-gun that would be mounted on someone's arm, and another one was set as a standard high tech science fiction rifle, with a little counter on the side showing how many shells were in it.

"These are the LED Light Cannons. High powered weapons that run on energy cells and are specifically designed to counteract against magic. I didn't know when I'd have access to magic, so I built these little babies so if a threat or entity makes it way here from Equestria-"

Tox then smirked to the girls as he cocked the rifle. "I'm ready for them."

"Oooh.... cool." Pinkie remarked.

"How did you ever build these?" Fluttershy asked.

"Well Fluttershy, when you take several years of technology based classes like if you're taking shop, robotics, engineering, and if you got your cutie mark for making a piece of technology back in Equestria, that's how you become good at it." Tox smiled.

"Well that's all dandy and all, but, how exactly do these weapons work?" Applejack asked.

"You want to see?" Tox asked.

Applejack nodded.

"Follow me ladies." Tox asked.

Tox walked them over to another area of his home, into a big dark room. The lights flickered on revealing what looked like a giant lab. Many parts of machines, gears, and other appliances. It was extremely messy, so messy that you couldn't even tell what items he had in there.

The group walked over to a small little area that was boxed in, and they could see on the wall there was a cardboard cutout of Abacus Cinch, who had spray painted devil horns and a mustache.

Twilight was about to question it, until Tox interrupted.

"If you're questioning the devil Cinch I have at the end over there... I was going through a rough time. So, who wants to go first? Sunset? You want to try?"

"Sure."

So Tox pulled out the mini-gun and began teaching her how to use it.

"Okay, so first thing, strap it so its above your wrist." Tox instructed.

Sunset strapped it to her arm, and tightened it.

"Okay, now to get it to fire, you hold that loose bar that's wired to the gun, and press the red button. That will shoot the energy."

Sunset aimed the mini-gun towards the cardboard cut out, closed one eye to focus, and hit the trigger sending a huge amount of force pushing her back and falling towards the ground.

"Ow..."

"Oh my god, I'm so sorry! I should have warned you, there's a bit of a kick in them." Tox hissed.

Sunset raised a thumbs up to let them know she was okay, much to everyone's relief.

Eventually everyone was learning to use the light cannons and they were starting to get the hang out how they worked.

"I must say darling, this is quite generous of you to let us try and use these things." Rarity remarked.

"Well as far as what you guys told me, you're defenders of this area since evil entities from Equestria like coming over to Canterlot High. Besides, it feels pretty good to help a friend, and I find it quite fun to show you guys things that I've made."

Tox's face drooped as he felt a whir of energy flowing inside of his body. "Oh god no, not again!"

Tox had ponied up again, this time responding to being generous to his friends, only this time he only went so far as to hit the top of the ceiling and he fell down landing on his back.

"Oooh...." The girls reacted.

"That's got to hurt." Rainbow reacted.

Only until a piece of machinery from the side came down and fell on him, making him groan in pain.

"Not as much as that." Applejack replied.

Tox raised a hand in the air with a thumbs up saying he was okay, and pushed the parts off of him, once he stood back up his face shown he was less than amused.

"Okay... this is just becoming extremely random. Even I don't understand this impossible shit!" Tox complained.

Sunset scratched her chin in thought over his pony ups, but sadly couldn't come up with a conclusion. He ponied up every time he was repeating one of their own elements, but she couldn't figure out why.

"I don't know. I'll send a message to Princess Twilight asking about that." Sunset reassured, getting a nod from Tox. After clearing all of the junk that had fallen on him, he looked at them with a friendly smile and asked a question.

"Anyone want to go out for lunch?"

Chapter 12: A Shadowed Truth

Over at a fast food joint, five Shadowbolt girls were all eating out and having a blast, enjoying each other's company. Well, not all of them...

"Alright girls, got your shakes." Indigo replied.

Indigo got a few thanks from them, and took a seat and drank out of her chocolate shake, however she had a look of sadness on her face.

"Indigo? Dearie are you okay?" Sunny asked.

Indigo sighed. "No..."

"Its our failure to make amends with Tox, isn't it?" Sugarcoat bluntly asked.

Indigo just gave a snarling look at Sugarcoat.

"I think that's pretty obvious, Sugarcoat." Sour Sweet replied.

Indigo just buried her face in her hands, and groaned a bit. "Yeah..."

Sunny simply just pat Indigo's back feeling sympathy for her friend.

"Does anyone have any ideas on how we can make up with him?" Indigo asked, and at that moment Lemon coughed out a bit of her fries. Taking in a breather, she looked at Indigo with a look of unamuse.

"Are you sure that's a good idea? You saw him, he's stronger now. He's got a freaking arm cannon." Lemon whined.

"Doesn't anyone else wonder how exactly he possesses weaponry?" Sunny asked.

Everyone paused and scratched their chins all in deep thoughts. It was strange that he had weapons, but more importantly, how exactly did he get them?

"Black market deals? Witch doctors? Genies?" Sugarcoat offered.

Sour and Sunny shared a look of disbelief towards Sugarcoat. They refused to believe in any sort of the supernatural. But after their encounters with magic at the Friendship Games, they'd almost believe anything now.

"Wait, hold on. I think I might got something." Indigo spoke up, grabbing their attention. "I remember a while back when we dated he was pretty good with technology. Maybe he built that arm after I.... I ran him over." Indigo somberly finished as a lip quivered.

"How can he build something with one hand?" Lemon inquired. "That kind of seems impossible."

"Not impossible. Improbable. You can still do things with one hand, however its very difficult." Sugarcoat replied.

"I'm kind of surprised the dude isn't dead yet. Shouldn't our stunts killed him?" Lemon asked.

"Yeah, they should. But all we did was make it worse by making him stronger and... its... there's nothing we can do to make up for it!" Indigo yelled before slamming her face against the tables and sobbing into her arms.

Lemon could only help by moving over and holding her friend in a tight hug, all the while the other three were contemplating what to do.

"Wait, I got an idea." Sour asked. "What if Twilight and those other girls she's now friends with? We know he's friends with them, maybe if we find them, we can find Toxigo." she sweetly finished. "Of course they probably won't listen as well."

"I say we try it!" Lemon said with pride, only to get disagreeing faces. "Or we could we leave him alone and we won't shot at." Lemon hesitated and she slid down her chair.

Indigo gave her idea some thought, and sighed. "Well, if we're gonna make up with him, we might as well do it while he's around some of his friends. Maybe they won't let him attack us."

"Oh he'll attack you alright." a voice from the left called.

The girls heads turned to the left table and saw Neon sneering at them, and they all groaned in annoyance. They didn't want to be dealing with an old enemy.

"What do you want Neon?" Sour grumbled.

"Oh nothing. Just thanking you for giving me an idea on finding him." with that, Neon chuckled and walked away leaving them to ponder as to what he meant.

Indigo's head raised up in a flash and her heart began pounding. She knew exactly what Neon was saying.

"Oh my god, he's gonna kill him!" Indigo quivered.

"Well, what do we do?" Sour asked.

"We've got to get there first! Lets go!" Indigo and the girls were about to take off, but they stopped to see they left their milkshakes on the table.

"And take the milkshakes with us." Sugarcoat stated.

They raced back, grabbed their shakes, and headed for Indigo's car, hoping to intercept them before Neon could get a chance.

Over in another part of town, Sunset, Toxigo, and all of them were driving over to place to hang out. Where were they going to this time? Well, now they were going over to a skating rink in an attempt to teach Tox how to skate. However, the trip over wasn't so smooth.

SCREECH

"Will you keep your eyes on the road!?" Rarity shouted.

"I'm trying! I can barely see what I'm doing, I can't see straight!" Tox argued.

"Remind me why we asked him to drive?" Twilight asked.

"I thought he would get us there fine!" Rainbow complained.

After 10 more minutes of bickering, they finally made it over to a parking spot, but everyone was too shaken up by they parked. The look on Tox's face shown he was incredibly scared to even set foot out of the car.

"I told you one of you should drive instead of me. All of that, that we just went through... that is why I don't drive!" Tox spewed.

"If you don't drive, then what's the point of that red old car we saw in the garage?" Applejack asked.

"That was a prop from a 1980s horror movie about a possessed killer car that I bought when I was still a Shadowbolt." Tox replied.

The doors unlocked and the girls slowly moved out of Sunset's car, all still shaking from Tox's crazy driving. Sunset had to hold onto the side of the car just keep her balance. But as she was about to make another step she almost fell forward, but luckily a synthetic hand helped her catch her balance.

"Whoa. You okay Shimmercakes?" Tox asked.

"I'll be fine." Sunset replied blushing at Tox's question.

"Why do you keep calling her Shimmercakes?" Pinkie asked.

"Well, its uh... you see, uh.... well... Never ask me that again please." Tox quickly replied.

The girls and one boy walked inside of the skating rink, and took a seat at a table to get some food. And while they waited, Toxigo who had never been at CHS before, was getting the complete explanation over what had been happening at CHS the last couple of times they've dealt with magic.

"So wait, the Dazzlings are actually sea horse, hybrid, things?" Tox asked sounding unsured.

"Yep." Pinkie replied with a smile.

"Huh. But wait, another question, I got to ask. Has anyone else besides you 7 and me included do that, pony, up, thing?" Tox asked.

"Actually yeah, there are. Two other students over at CHS have the exact same power. One of them being Flash, and the other one being a student named Coppermane." Twilight replied.

"I'm not familiar with that name. Who is he?" Tox asked raising a brow.

"That's Fluttershy's boyfriend! He was a former CPA student like you, had the same bullies, and then he moved over to our school, but then we encountered two big meanies who kept pushing him around, until he finally stood up to them declaring his love for Fluttershy and ponied up like all of us declaring two new Elements of Harmony!" Pinkie exclaimed making a Cheshire cat grin when she finished.

Tox froze trying to process the onslaught of information Pinkie just tossed his way.

"Um.... Okay. That's, a little confusing. What's an Element of Harmony?"

Sunset questioned as to how he didn't know what it was, but then remembered had lived on Earth longer than he had in Equestria.

"I'll explain that to you later. It'd take too long to explain." Sunset replied.

"And it would take too long to explain in this part of the story!" Pinkie winked.

"I..." Tox then cleared his throat, and remembered the old truth about Pinkie. It's just Pinkie being Pinkie, don't question it.

So Rarity, Sunset, and Tox were the first one's to go out onto the skating track. While Sunset and Rarity had already gotten the hang of skating, Tox was still trying his best not to trip and fall flat on his face.

"Toxy, you got to move with your body. Force yourself to the left when going that direction!" Sunset instructed.

"I'm trying! Its a little hard to move in these infernal blades! Whoa-oh!" Tox accidently leaned forward and fell down. "I'm okay!"

Rarity helped Tox up, and soon she and Sunset began giving more helpful tips and instructions, and pretty soon Tox was beginning to get the hang of it.

"That's it, you're doing great!" Sunset cheered.

Outside of the track, the rest of the girls were watching and giving cheering support. But little did they know someone else had been watching.

In the darkness of the area, hidden, were a pair of green threatening eyes that had been watching all of them for a while. The eyes leered at them, until their attention was over to the left and watched 5 girls run over to the Rainbooms.

"What are they doing here?" Applejack's eyebrows furled.

"Look, we came to warn you. Neon's on his way!" Indigo explained.

"Why should we believe you?" Fluttershy argued.

"I don't expect any of you to believe me, but right now he's outside and he's cracking his knuckles." Indigo refuted.

Their heads turned to see Neon running down their way pushing Indigo and Lemon out of the way and finding a spot to stand in the track to get ready to make his swing.

"Tox! Look out!" Indigo shouted.

Indigo's cry alerted Tox's ears and sure enough, he found Neon standing in the way, and in a perfect moment, he grinded the wheels to a halt and stood standing staring down Neon. Tox took off the roller skates and made cracking sounds with his neck, stretching. But little did Neon know, Tox had pressed a button on the side of the snythetic arm that had done something that he didn't know.

"Its been a while since I've seen you, isn't it?" Neon deviously smirked.

"Been too long, Neon..." Tox's eye began glowing with a scary yellow.

"Why don't we finish this once and for all?" Neon asked.

"Yes... why don't we?" Tox snarled.

Neon was now beginning to regret having saying those words and driving down to the skating rink to begin with. It looked as if Toxigo was beginning to power up and was going to unleash a full on power blast. His eye turned into a yellow empty void, his fists began fusing with energy He backed up for a few feet, until--

"Stop!" Indigo shouted, her voice echoing all over the skating rink.

Tox's fists no longer were fusing with power, and all became silent. Indigo listened as not a sound was emanating from Toxigo, only for him to turn around with his eye now an empty void of glowing scary yellow.

Indigo's eyes bulged out of fear. She began to regret having made her decision.

"T-Toxy?" Indigo pleaded.

Toxigo slowly began walking towards Indigo void of any expression on his face other than anger, and Indigo began backing up as well trying to get away from the power induced maniac.

Sour stood in the way to try and stop him, but Toxigo unfazed by Sour just swatted her to the side like a bug and she landed on the ground. Lemon tried to do the same, but Tox just stomped on her foot and kicked her right to the crotch, taking her down to the ground.

"Okay.... that hurt..." Lemon winced while on the ground.

Sugarcoat began standing in the way, but she quickly was taken down, and followed by Sunny who was grabbed by the face and shoved forcefully to the ground. Sunset and the girls tried to go after him but they kept bouncing off of him like a shield had formed itself over him, making him impossible to strike.

Indigo was now backed up against a wall, face to face with her broken, disabled, and now power corrupted ex-boyfriend. No where to go, no where to run, and nothing she could do to stop him. She felt energy raising her up into the air as she was pinned against the wall as if gravity were forcing her against it, making it impossible for her to move her limbs.

"Toxy... please!" Indigo pleaded.

"After you got off scot-free for nearly killing me? Letting you go is the last thing I prepared to do to you!"

Sunset ran over to where they were and stood right behind Toxigo, but was aware she was seen.

"Toxy, please. This isn't you! That amulet, its corrupting you. That power is turning you evil! You have to stop!" Sunset shouted.

Toxigo's only movement was his head which twisted around looking at Sunset behind her.

"This horrendous bitch needs to die! She along with her friends have gotten away with nearly murdering me for too long! Its time she pays the price and finally understanding what happens when you mess with an entity you don't understand." Tox turned her head back at Indigo still shaking with fear.

"Please..." Indigo was now crying. She had never been so scared to face her own death.

"Scared, aren't we? Now you understand how I felt, when I was lying down on the road, awaiting my fate for death. But instead, a much more suiting path came for me... one that will lead to your demise..."

Indigo's friends were quaking in fear over what was going to happen, but out of nowhere, Rainbow Dash wearing a long gray coat that stretched all the way down to her feet began charging towards Tox, Sunset, and Indigo.

"Sunset, you take that amulet, I take Indigo!" Rainbow ordered.

Sunset didn't want to, but it seemed as there was no choice. Tox's synthetic arm powered up, getting ready to blast Indigo into an oblivion, Rainbow managed to break through the magic and tackled her to the ground as the blast shattered the wall into bits of rubble, and for Sunset to tackle Toxigo to the ground.

Once Indigo was down, Rainbow unexpected pulled out a weapon from the bottom of her coat pocket which was a mini pistol, and began firing shots towards Toxigo's arm which began putting holes in it.

"Rainbow, what are you doing!?" Sunset shouted. She couldn't believe her eyes. But when she turned around and saw her friends standing, there was... Rainbow Dash still with them? But, that's impossible. Two Rainbow Dash's?

However, Toxigo was still distracted by this other Rainbow's firing, and so while he was occupied, Sunset quickly swiped her hand near his neck, grabbed the Amulet, and ripped it off his neck, making a short circuit sound and making his eye flash brightly. His eye reverted back to its black diamond retina, and he backed off in pain from one final blast from the other Rainbow, which shot off the synthetic arm. with all there being left was a few gears and parts to the elbow being all that was still attached, and the rest hit the floor.

Toxigo groaned in pain from the attacks, but then gasped as he looked at the damage he had done. Blowing a hole in the wall, scaring his friends to no end, and nearly murdering someone himself. His actions were starting to become one of a monster. He thought back to all of his actions he had done before: Blowing up Indigo's car in rage, hurting Adagio, almost hurting Neon with firing several energy blasts, pointing a gun at the five Bolts who only wanted to make up with him, and now almost committing an act of murder in a bit of rage.

"Toxy?" Sunset asked. She wasn't sure if her friend was okay.

Tox's eye began filling with heavy amounts of pain and water. Soon a tear leaked down his face and began walking away from everyone.

"Leave me alone... all of you! For your own safety, just leave me be, and you won't die!" Toxigo immediately ran out of the skating arena and didn't look back at everyone's worried faces, leaving behind the golden Alicorn Amulet in front of Sunset's feet.

Neon just smirked at what he seen and spoke up. "You see what I mean? I was trying to stop that asshole from killing any of you. But no, you don't listen because you're just so good with magic aren't you?" Neon mocked Sunset.

Sunset glared at Neon looking incredibly angry.

"But, I suppose he isn't going to hurt you anymore. Later... bitch." Neon insulted and walked away.

Sunset had to keep her best from not bursting out in rage from that insult. But after cooling down, she helped Indigo back up and helped her calm down from the crying.

"I'm, very sorry about that Indigo. I didn't think he was going to burst like that." Sunset said.

"Its... Its okay." Indigo whimpered as Lemon came around and held her in a tight hug, giving her a shoulder to cry on.

"Any chance you can explain as to WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT!?" Lemon shouted in panic. "We've not only made him stronger, we've made him worse!"

"Actually, that wasn't you girls who did that last one." Applejack replied.

"What are you talking about?" Sugarcoat asked.

"I'm afraid the poor dear has been corrupted by a soul sucking amulet." Rarity replied.

"What does that mean?" Sour asked.

"Easy! Tox took a magical amulet from the same world Sunset lives in which was the world opened up by all of those portals from the Friendship Games which also he's from, and he got corrupted by the overdose of power." Pinkie quickly said.

"Hold on a minute. He's from... he's..." Indigo stammered as she was clearing the tears from her face.

"He's Equestrian." Rainbow groaned.

"You mean I've been dating--" Indigo began.

"An immigrant from a magical world?" Sugarcoat interrupted.

"Um.... yes?" Fluttershy quietly responded.

"Wow... I... I'm sorry I... Look. I know, none of us are deserving of a second chance--" Indigo started.

"We really aren't." Sugarcoat interrupted.

"But... we do want to make amends with him, but I don't know how. Any suggestions?" Indigo asked.

Everyone stayed silent thinking for an idea, until an idea popped into Pinkie's head.

"I have an idea!" Pinkie gathered everyone around into a group huddle, and everyone was on board with her idea.

"You sure that's gonna work dude?" Lemon asked.

"Absolutely!" Pinkie smiled.

"Well, its better than no idea." Twilight replied.

"Ahem." Rainbow interrupted getting everyone's attention.

They all turned their heads to look at her, and Rainbow gestured to the other rainbow dressed in the gray trench coat. But they didn't have long to look at her, for their attention was suddenly drawn to a very peculiar sound...

BEEP. BEEP. BEEP. BEEP.

Twilight walked over and found Tox's prosthetic arm, picked up and flipped it over to look at the small screen implanted on the side. Everyone gathered around and saw a little red button that was blinking very slowly for some reason. After a bit of messing with the controls, Twilight finally flipped the screen on.

"Oh, okay. Found the screen button."

On the screen they could see a small radar circle in the lower left, a health gauge in the upper right corner, and a tab on the lower right showing a list. Twilight with her finger pushed on the iPod like screen, revealing a list of very odd items. But one of them stood out. A title with a video icon on the left of it reading Sunset: Please Read.

"Should I press it?" Twilight asked.

Sunset didn't say a word. On one hand, important information could be shown, but on the other hand, it could be a trap. Well, it looked like their choice was clear.

"Hit it."

Twilight pushed on the icon, and a recording began playing.

"Sunset, if you find this message I strongly suggest you and any of our friends listen in. I was well aware of the Alicorn Amulet corrupting me, but unfortunately I'm not strong enough to stop myself from using its power. I may not know what will have happened at this point, but I have made a smarter move in handling my issues with the Bolts. I have sent video evidence to everyone so they will know the truth about the whole situation. If you press the Evidence file, you'll be able to see who has sent it."

Twilight scrolled through the file and found a list of people, and began saying their names out loud.

"Principal Celestia, Vice Principal Luna, Dean Cadence, Police Officer Shining Armor, Principal Cinch, Sunset Shimmer, Twilight Sparkle, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Applejack, Rarity, Flash Sentry..." Twilight rambled off and came to a realization. "He sent it to everyone ."

"However, what some of you don't know is, while everyone has that message, I accidently made the misfortunate of activating a very small detenator. I strongly suggest you guys find a place to put it where it won't hurt anyone, put a helmet on your head, and run like hell." Tox finished.

Now everyone's eyes bulged out of their head. They were in possession of a bomb?

"Self destruction in 10.... 9...."

The trench coat wearing Rainbow Dash grabbed the arm, and began running out the skating area and into the parking lot, and was running off with it.

Everyone ran outside to see the other Rainbow about to toss the bomb, but it set off and blew up in a fiery blaze. Luckily everyone had hidden behind barriers. Their eyes peaked up to see the other Rainbow Dash...not hurt or dead? Only one bit of damage they saw was now the coat was off, and there was a bit of steam emitting from the front of her face, but none of them could get a glimpse of the front of her face.

Sunset began walking up towards the other Rainbow to check on her.

"Hey, are you okay?" Sunset asked.

The other Rainbow turned around to face her, and what Sunset got was a shock. She wasn't dead, but on her left eye, a bunch of her skin was torn off. What's even stranger was she wasn't bleeding any blood, but there wasn't any damage or dent to be seen. The skin fell off revealing bronze titanium skin and a orange glowing eye that stared right on at her.

"What the?" Sunset almost fell back in shock.

The steaming Rainbow Dash turned around, and began walking off into the streets leaving Sunset alone, confused, shocked, and surprised. And that metal, that bronze glimmering metal. It looked very familiar... had the robot they looked at in the garage found her way over to their location?

Author's Notes:

By the way, since the sequel to this is a collaboration/crossover, I felt it would be important to have some early foreshadowing for when the sequel is read, the information displayed here makes sense for later.

Apologies to Magic Step for making this sound confusing but, do not worry, I will explain this part later in the story and hopefully it will make more sense and be a little more clearer.

And also, Magic Step. A fun little game for you, keep track of the order for which Shadowbolts get taken down here. That's coming back to play later

Chapter 13: Resolution of the Past/Element of Generosity

Author's Notes:

Sorry for the wait guys, been wanting to get more words and explanation into these two upcoming chapters. Enjoy it. You too Magic Step.

Also sorry if it seems rushed.

The next day at school, the students continued attending classes as normal, but this time things would be a little different, and it was clear things were different. This time Tox didn't show up to school at all, which made a bit of the staff worried. Until Principal Celestia received a very interesting video.

Later that day, Twilight and Sunset walked through the hallways on her way to the principal's office after being called down.

"You think Principal Celestia got the evidence Tox sent?" Twilight asked.

"I'm not sure." Sunset replied.

"Oh, were you able to talk to him?"

"No. He hasn't responded to any of my calls or texts. I even tried video chatting, but nothing. I've got to ask Principal Celestia if I can go see him." Sunset replied.

"Maybe she will. Oh and were you able to salvage any parts from the uh... explosion?" Twilight hesitated.

"I grabbed as much as I could, A few titanium plates, maybe 2 fingers, and what was left of the control panel." Sunset replied with a look of sadness on her face.

"Sunset are you okay?" Twilight asked.

"Yeah, why?" Sunset replied trying to shrug it off.

"You don't look fine Sunset, and I know you're not. What's wrong?" Twilight asked.

Sunset sighed heavily and looked at Twilight.

"I'm worried. That amulet is now beginning to corrupt him and we barely saved Indigo. You saw the look on his face. What if he's packing his stuff to flee town and never show up again? What if he never wants to talk to me again? What if goes back to Equestria? What if--"

"Sunset! Its okay." Twilight held onto Sunset's shoulders to get her to face her. "I'm sure he hasn't left yet. Lets just go see Principal Celestia, and then I'm sure you can go see him." Twilight smiled.

Sunset gave a smile back and hugged Twilight. "If you say so."

So the two of them reciprocated from the hug and entered in Principal's Celestia office. To their surprise, she had more visitors in the room. In the room as from what they could see, Principal Celestia sitting at her desk with Vice Principal Luna standing beside her, Abacus Cinch standing with Twilight's brother Shining Armor and sister-in-law Dean Cadence. And across sitting from Principal was a not so happy Neon Lights, and a stressed out Indigo Zap, Lemon Zest, Sour Sweet, Sugarcoat, and Sunny Flare.

"You called for us, Principal Celestia?" Sunset asked.

Principal Celestia nodded.

"Why is my brother and Dean Cadence here?" Twilight asked, and the minute she saw Cinch, she began to back up a bit.

"Twily, its okay. Cinch isn't here for personal revenge. In fact, she's actually helped us." Shining Armor replied.

Twilight's attention was then turned back to Principal Celestia speaking.

"It has come to our attention that our newest student had been bullied and still was dealing with it up to today. Am I correct?" Celestia asked.

"Yes." Sunset replied.

"And yesterday, Toxigo Paralysis sent us all this very interesting video footage." Celestia turned her computer monitor around revealing what was sent.

The videos being shown were all footage from his head, everything he had seen in the past, everything providing proof and evidence that he was bullied by the Crystal Prep kids.

The first video shown was him face to face with Sour Sweet, who began off by pushing him down showing in his vision the open arm out on a concrete road.

"Oh no... I think I know what's gonna happen..." Sunset braced for what was going to happen.

The sudden sound of a car revving and turning on was heard. And in a moment they could hear it screeching, as the sound of the engine was speeding closer and closer and closer, and closer....

"Turn it off, turn it off!" Sunset shouted, stressed to see the graphic detail that would be coming up.

Celestia luckily had stopped the video after seeing how stressed out Sunset was.

"I'm very sorry to scare you like that Sunset. Quite frankly, all of us were terrified to see those images." Celestia calmly replied.

"Even I was absolutely shocked to see the behaviors that were displayed." Cinch replied with her eyebrows in anger

Sunset lips snarled from seeing her. She still remembered exactly who this woman was and the actions that followed with her at the Friendship Games.

"Why is she here? Shouldn't she be trying to get more students to follow in her footsteps and protecting her reputation?" Sunset sarcastically asked. Of all the people that could have been in the room with her, she didn't want to deal with Abacus Cinch.

"Sunset, is it?" Cinch asked.

Sunset just slowly nodded, her eyes still giving the cold stare.

"I'll be honest. After an amount of consideration from the Friendship Games, I have come to realize my actions weren't very professional. And, I must admit, I am utterly ashamed. I became so obsessed with my reputation, that I became a ruthless, unjust, sociopathic monster. I did some things that I myself am not too proud of. I did nothing to stop bullying when there was true hard evidence in front of me, I forced Twilight into releasing a supernatural power that even I should have realized was dangerous on its own. If I'd known my actions were going to hurt my own students, I would have done something. But... I didn't. And so, I owe Canterlot High, and you two a serious apology. However, right now we're getting off topic. As of today, a former student of mine and your newest one as I am told, has sent me evidence regarding being... bullied. I couldn't believe my own students nearly stooped to almost committing an act of murder in an attempt to stop a student from wanting to make friends. In fact, this wasn't the first time. Neon Lights along with several of his friends kept on abusing other students to do what he said to keep Crystal Prep a living Tartarus."

"That bastard didn't belong at CPA in the first place, and if supported our school I wouldn't have hurt him now would I?" Neon remarked.

"You watch your foul mouth Neon... Anyways, we will be heavily punishing him for his actions against Toxigo, and for a majority of students of Crystal Prep. Where is Toxigo anyways?" Cinch asked.

"He's not showing up because of something that happened yesterday. And I need to talk to him. He's not returning calls, he won't answer a text, nothing." Sunset replied.

"If you wish to go see him, go right ahead. You have my permission." Celestia replied.

"Thank you. And I will be back with him." Sunset said before stepping out the door.

So as Sunset began heading outside and walking over to the parking lot, everyone still in Principal Celestia's office continued to talk.

"Anyways, I didn't want to believe what I had seen was true, but Shining Armor did bring some very interesting... reports if you will." Cinch replied.

Shining Armor laid photos and documents out on Celestia's desk. Some of that they could see were crime scene photos like of the dislocated arm, and even pages of doctors notes describing the illness and injury.

"All of those just helped back up Tox's evidence. And it just goes to prove more reasons that make me glad Twily had left Crystal Prep so she didn't have to deal with that." Shining Armor then gave a cold stare towards the 6 students sitting in the chairs.

While part of Twilight was thankful she didn't get hurt, she was still terrified of their actions and for her own friend having somehow survived that. She couldn't imagine what he had gone through and could only pray that he was okay.

Sunset drove on a motorcycle all the way over to Toxigo's dojo home, with a box attached and sitting on the back of the bike with what was left of his prosthetic arm and the Alicorn Amulet. Luckily a tarp was strapped over it to keep it in. But all Sunset could think about was whether he was okay or not.

So she parked the motorcycle, grabbed the box and began walking up to the front door. She placed the cardboard box down so she had free hands, and knocked.

"Toxy? You there?"

"Go away!" Tox yelled. Sunset could tell he wasn't okay. He sounded as if he was trying not to cry.

"Toxy, please. Can't we talk?" Sunset pleaded.

"There isn't anything to talk about! I overdosed the use of that infernal amulet, and I almost killed someone. Just leave me be so I won't hurt you!" Tox shouted.

"Please? Can you just talk to me?" Sunset asked.

She listened for a moment and didn't hear a sound, until he spoke again.

"You're not gonna leave until you talk to me, aren't you?" Tox groaned.

"Nope." Sunset bluntly replied.

Tox just moaned and opened the door partway, allowing a bit of light to shine on a side of his face. Sunset saw a bit of Tox she didn't see before. He wasn't wearing an eye patch this time, and surprisingly there was a black and yellow demonic colored eye surrounded by a bunch of skin that looked as if acid corroded part of it.

"Whoa... Is that why you wear the eye-patch?" Sunset asked.

Tox then opened the door all the way to look at her. His face shown major signs of depression, as well as change, his yellow eye had been affected by the amulet, now colored in a demonic red. He was still dressed in the same tank top and short black spandex leggings, but he dropped the belt attached with the short sheet coat.

"Yeah. Its a fake eye by the way. I had it ordered to look this way for a scary factor." Tox weakly joked. "Also... look down at my feet."

"Why?"

"Just... look."

Sunset looked down and she gasped slightly. Apparently he didn't just have a prosthetic arm, but he had a prosthetic right foot. It was metallic, there were some bars and joints keeping it up, only the foot was very talon-like. Two talons out in the front, with a heel behind keeping him balanced.

"But... how? If you've been wearing the boots, how does--"

Sunset's attention was back down as she listened to the sounds of metal clanking, gears turning, and whirring as she saw the talon foot began transforming back into a human foot, but was still metallic.

"Same technology that my once arm was." Tox then opened the door all the way and allowed her to walk in.

"You want anything to drink, or no?" Tox asked.

"Um, no thanks." Sunset replied, and then put the box on a chair. "I, um... got what's left of your arm. It kind of, blew up. I tried to salvage most of it, but most of it kind of, burned..."

"Its fine. I have plenty of metal parts to rebuild it." Tox replied sitting on the couch, and then Sunset followed and sat next to him.

"You.... You want to talk about what happened, yesterday?" Sunset hesitated.

"What's there to talk about Sunset? That amulet transformed me into a raging psychotic monster. I almost killed people, because of that damn thing." Tox's voice was incredibly furious, and his other arm that still possessed flesh was shaking, and his fist was clenched tight on the couch.

"Its not your fault. I didn't think that amulet would stop and take over you like that." Sunset replied.

Tox then stared at Sunset, still keeping the depressed face and asked. "Where's the amulet?"

"I put it in the box..." Sunset hesitated, waiting for Tox to flip out.

"Never take it out of that box. Don't even hand it back to give to me, that thing is too dangerous and I almost killed someone with it, and I can't even go out and face anyone after...af...after what I've...I've done." Tox replied, and sniffed as a tear came down his face.

"Oh Toxy..."

Sunset held Tox in a tight hug and she pat his back to give him comfort, and listened as he cried on her shoulder. No wonder he hadn't left the house. He was too afraid to even step out and see anyone.

"Its okay..." Sunset cooed.

"Sunset, look at me. I'm crying like a baby, I almost killed someone who tried to stop me from killing someone else, I'm disabled, and everyone hates me!"

"Toxy, no..." Sunset's hand was placed onto the side of Toxigo's face, so she could look him in the eye.

"You're not a baby. Not at all. And no one hates you. We still like you, and all of CHS likes you. You helped defend some of our friends, and not to mention that you're from Equestria and you've been nothing but nice, and sweet, and kind to all of us around here. You're my best friend. Don't ever forget that." Sunset finished.

Tox looked at Sunset, but his eyes turned looking away, still not convinced. Sunset was a little disheartened to see him sad, and she came up with one last remark to see if it'd get a smile on his face.

"You know, I understand you're disabled, but... I have to say, the prosthetics kind of make you look like an action hero. That's kind of awesome." Sunset stated.

That compliment got a smile on Toxigo's face and looked at Sunset smiling.

"Thanks."

So, after a bit of silence, Sunset got into thinking, and asked.

"Hey uh, we're having the 'Welcome New Students Party' at school. Want to join us?" Sunset offered.

Tox pondered as to whether or not he should join, but came to agreement. "I would. However, I can't really go until my arm gets repaired. And unfortunately, that's going to take some time. Unless, you want to help repair me?" Tox offered.

Sunset beamed with joy. She was gonna be able to spend more time with Toxy?

"Sure, yeah. I love to!"

"Sweet, follow me."

Toxigo led Sunset over to the garage and the two of them began pulling out parts. A few minutes later one of the tables they cleared off for arm repair was now surrounded by metal, steel, gears, wires, macro-resistors, and many different computer and technology parts.

The remains of the arm that was attached to Toxigo was resting on the table, ready to be repaired, and now Toxigo and Sunset wore workshop outfits.

"Now lets see what we can do to fix this." Tox stated.

Sunset smiled as she flipped down her welder's mask, followed by Tox who flipped down a mask as well. And so activating a blowtorch, they began repairs.

Back at CHS, the 5 Shadowbolt girls were now sitting in the Rainboom's practice room, all sitting patiently with Twilight and the others. However, there was a bit of awkward silence as they just... sat there. No one said a word, no one moved a muscle. The other Rainbooms excluding Twilight just stared down at the Shadowbolts after they were also shown the same video evidence regarding their actions. Nothing but shame could be found on their faces.

"So... how have you've been doing?" Indigo asked trying to break the tension.

All she got back were more angry stares with Twilight being the only one not giving any look of anger towards them.

"Is.... Is Toxigo okay?" Sunny hesitated.

More silence ensued. None of them wanting give them the satisfaction.

"You uh... Any of you single?" Lemon asked.

From that question alone the girls gave her awkward stares.

"I'm only asking!" Lemon with her hands in the air with protest.

Twilight looked down at her phone and received a text from Sunset. Her eyes moved as she read the text, with it reading:

Twilight.

Toxy's okay. I have talked with him, he seems to be alright. However he's not going to be wearing the Alicorn Amulet for a while. However I did manage to help fix him up, and we're heading out the door going back to CHS. See you soon.

Sunset.

Twilight gave a smile and texted back.

Okay. Hope you return soon, right now our friends are kind of going off on a stare off against the Shadowbolts.

After a bit of repairs, Toxigo's arm was finally healed and now Sunset hopped onto her motorcycle, and Toxigo held onto her sides as they rode down the open road on their way to Canterlot High.

As Toxigo looked at the houses and cars speeding right past them, along with the wind blowing against his skin, Sunset kept her eyes out on the road ahead, all the while Toxigo held onto her tight in fear of possibly falling off the bike.

"You okay back there?" Sunset asked.

"I'm fine! Just trying to keep myself from falling off. I've fallen off motorcycles before and it hurts. A lot! Especially when it falls on you."

Sunset couldn't help but chuckle at his witty remark.

10 minutes had passed and finally, they had arrived back at Canterlot High.

Sunset threw the brakes and flipped the parking handle on her motorcycle, and helped Toxigo get off the bike.

"You okay?" Sunset asked.

"I'm good!" Toxigo winced, walking stiff. "Just, give me a minute."

Eventually Toxigo finally healed of his supposed injury and began walking with Sunset inside the school. This time Toxigo now wore the same tank top and short spandex tights, with the belt and waistcoat attached, but this time, he only wore his one left boot with his cutie mark embezzled on the front. He left behind the other boot, allowing everyone to see the other prosthetic limb. It did look more exposed and open without any metal plating over it, but on Toxigo's part it was intentional.

They entered inside and found their way to the practice room. Toxigo opened the door first and gestured for Sunset to go first.

"After you milady?" Tox asked.

"Oh, thanks." Sunset cooed.

Sunset entered in first and her friends all turned their heads giving a friendly smile to her, and an even more friendly smile when Toxigo entered.

"Toxigo?" The five Rainbooms asked. They didn't expect him to return after what had happened yesterday.

"Uh... hey. Sorry for scaring you like that yesterday. I, didn't know what came over me." Toxigo's head hung in shame.

"Hey, don't worry about it." Rainbow replied. "None of us didn't know that Amulet corrupted you and made you go crazy. Uh, no offense."

Tox just sighed. "None taken..."

"Oh come on!!!" Sour complained.

"Seriously?" Sunny whined.

"He gets forgiven but we get an angry stare down?" Lemon stared.

Toxigo then stared at the five girls with a scary look on his face and they quickly stopped complaining. Especially when they saw two parts of him they never seen before. One being the scary glass eye on the left side of his face which made them all gasp, and when they looked down and saw the right prosthetic leg underneath the knee.

"Okay. Which one of you did that?" Rainbow asked sarcastically.

"None of them did that Rainbow, the leg was my own fault. And I don't want to get into detail but... lets just say its probably best to just call the authorities when you got a cell phone right next to you as your leg is trapped underneath a giant pile of scrap metal at a junkyard."

"EW!!!! Ugh..." Rarity couldn't help herself, the implications alone were disturbing enough. But she noticed how Toxigo was still standing there and staring at her awkwardly. "Oh, uh... sorry to hear about that, darling."

"Its fine. I've already learned to live with pain and little to no flesh. Anyways..." Tox's head turned towards the Shadowbolts girls all looking incredibly ashamed. "Why are they here? I'm sure they don't have any interest to talk to me after I almost killed one of them."

"No, we do." Indigo said. She stood up on her feet and looked Toxigo in the mismatched colored eyes.

"Thats a little unsettling. Anyways... Look, about everything that happened between us, and all of those months of torture and abuse we gave you for not supporting Crystal Prep at the Friendship Games. I... I wanted to make up with you, if... if that's okay?" Indigo hesitated.

Toxigo however wasn't convinced in the slightest.

"Make up? Why would I make up with you five? All of you from day one kept on bullying me and tried to make my life living Tartarus! You didn't care about how I feel, and you never did! And all because I do stuff that suddenly damages your reputation you're begging me to forgive you? That's incredibly pathetic you know!"

"But we--" Indigo pleaded.

"There's no but, and there's no we. I dumped you a long time ago because of all of the bullshit you had me go through. What kind of idiots are you? Putting your goddamn reputation before the lives of every human being around you, real mature of you! And for that matter, what did Twilight do to deserve your crap? What did either one of us do!? All I wanted to do was live a normal life, a life where I could live in peace without having to worry about any impending danger. But because of you girls, I had to keep to myself and keep running and hiding from all of you Prepping assholes! And Indy... Why did you even attack me? I was your own boyfriend, I wanted to protect you, I wanted to give you care and respect like any human being! What did I do that warranted you running me over with my car almost killing me!?"

The four Shadowbolt girls minus Indigo were in complete shock. They had no right to hurt him, and there was no chance of ever making up with him. They took a sweet guy who just wanted friends and turned him into an angry raging isolated wall.

"Dude. we... we just--" Lemon began.

"Lemon, stop." Indigo interrupted.

"Wh-What?" Lemon asked.

"Stop. Forget it. I give up." Indigo said as she held her hand on her face.

"But, we can't give up. You said you wanted to make up with him." Sour asked.

"Well we just... we... we just can't!" Indigo yelled. Her eyes were now watering and becoming bloodshot. Was she crying?

"Just...forget it! He's right. We can't make up with him! After all of the... bullshit, that we put him through, I wouldn't blame him for it!" Indigo's voice was shaking trying to get the words out, and tears leaked from her face.

Toxigo was really surprised to see the emotion from his ex. She was sorry after all. And maybe he shouldn't have given her poor judgement...

"Zappy?" Toxigo interjected.

"No, Toxy! I understand! You hate me, I get it!" Indigo cried into her hands.

"Zappy?"

"Just say it! You hate me, I'm a huge asshole!"

And Toxigo did the most unthinkable, unimaginable thing he could have done. He walked over to Indigo and held her in a hug and pat her back as she continued to sob. And to her surprise as she opened her eyes, she saw the slick dark green hair beside her.

"T-Toxy?" Indigo stammered.

Toxigo and Indigo reciprocated from the hug, and Toxigo wiped the tears away from Indigo's face with a smooth metal finger.

"I didn't believe you before. But, after what I've seen here... I can tell you're not lying." Tox smiled.

Indigo's spirits beamed. He couldn't be...

"You.... You mean you--"

"Now, hold on." Toxigo interrupted. "I'm still mad at you girls for what you did. And I'm willing to make up with you girls, however that's going to take some time and you're gonna have to make up BIG TIME for it."

"I understand Toxy. And we kind of made a start for it." Indigo replied, sniffing.

"How so Zappy?"

"We heard that you were getting harassed by the hospital for not having enough money to pay for your medical bills for the robotic limb replacements, so we all chipped in and used our money to pay for your bill. You won't have to worry about them anymore dearie." Sunny Flare replied.

Toxigo then gave a bit of a weak smile and looked at Flare and said, "Thank you, Flare. All of you, for that."

"Not a problem dude."

"No worry at all."

"So, are you guys okay now?" Sunset asked, getting their attention.

"I'll be fine Sunset. They still have a lot to do if they're going to earn my respect though. But I suppose for now I can drop the grudge." Toxigo replied getting smiles from everyone in the room.

So the group now with their problems restored and fixed, they walked back to the gym and joined in on the party. The Mane 7 however, first went over to a dressing room to change into dresses for the party, and then came back. Soon they all sat at a table and continued to talk.

"So, they have to earn his respect if he's going to fully forgive them?" Applejack asked.

"Yep. Simple as that."

"Well at least you're all finally making up. Heaven forbid we have another rivalry fight again." Rarity replied.

Everyone nodded at that, and proceeded to join in on the party festivities. The group sitting at the table watched as the Shadowbolts jammed out and had fun with everyone in the disco shining party. Tox heard Abacus Cinch call for his name, and he walked over to talk to her.

"Yes Principal Cinch?"

"First of all I'd like to apologize for not doing anything to stop all of the bullying you had to deal with all of the years. I should never have run Crystal Prep with the idea of being one on top and having no mercy that it drove them to the point of abusing anyone that stood in their way."

"I don't understand the logic behind that, but keep going." Tox replied.

"But most importantly, I am glad to see you're alright. It's probably for the best you come here to Canterlot High. It seems they understand a lot more on the concept of being proper than anyone at Crystal Prep. But if there's anything you need or want to talk about, my door is always open."

"Thank you Abacus Cinch. Although I must ask, what was going on in your head when you were gonna have Twilight unleash the magic?" Tox raised a brow.

"That was all my anger and competition side speaking. My mind wasn't in the right place at the time and I should have known better to not mess with a power you don't understand nor control."

"Okay. Just promise you won't do something like that again?"

Giving a friendly smile, Abacus looked at Tox and said. "That is a promise, I plan to keep."

Tox gave a smile to Abacus, and then proceeded to have a seat at the table with everyone else as they enjoyed the party. Tox however noticed Sunset was looking a little sad, but he figured out why. She had been watching some of the young couples that were dancing out on the floor, and just by the look on her face, he could tell what was up with her. Eventually at some point, Tox gestured Rarity to follow him out of the gym and back into their music room.

"What is it darling?"

"I need a suit. I want to ask Sunset if she wants to dance."

"Well of course!"

Toxigo didn't remember what had happened, but he remember being tossed into a separate room where he went through several suit changes. Eventually he found just the one he wanted. He now wore a dark green blazer, with the sleeves tucked up, black pants, and wore a minty green tie. He looked into a mirror staring at his reflection finding himself to be a very handsome colt, er man.

"I appreciate you helping me Rarity. I know it seems a little much to ask..-"

"Oh its not trouble at all darling. Helping my friends in need is what gives me energy!" At that moment, Rarity ponied up, once again sprouting the ears, and the long ponytail. Eventually she died down and turned back to her normal self, and exited the room. Tox faced himself in the mirror just checking himself one last time, and exited out of the room, walking into the gym room and sat down at the table Sunset Shimmer was sitting at.

"Hey Shimmer-cakes." Tox said with a smile.

"Hey Toxy. Nice suit." Sunset replied.

"Thanks. I love your dress."

"Thank you."

"So, uh, how's the party going? Looks like everyone's getting along pretty well."

"They are. And the party hasn't been interrupted once, not even by Abacus Cinch."

"That's good to hear." Tox replied. He then paused for a bit and could see Sunset was feeling a little down. "You alright Sunset?"

"Yeah I'm fine, just remembering when I used to have Flash. But as I've said before, he was just for popularity. But now that I think about it, I do kind of wish I was dating. Someone to hold hands with, someone to go on romantic dates with, someone... to love, you know?"

"I know Shimmer-cakes. I know."

After a bit of silence Toxigo thought over how she was feeling. Even thought they both were friends, they still had feelings towards one another. And he wanted to take her out on a date, but tonight wasn't going to be the night for it. But he got an idea as to how to cheer her up. So he got up, faced her and asked--

"Hey uh, you want to go out on the dance floor?" He asked extending a metallic hand. Sunset gave a smile and took his hand. And just like before, he ponied up again, and he died down once more. Soon the both of them walked down onto the dance floor as now they were playing a slow song. The song that was playing was We Belong Together by Robert and Johnny.

You're mine... and we belong together....

Toxy and Sunset both then danced together to the slow moving song enjoying each others company, and both stared into each others eyes and eye as they danced to the music. Tox's fleshy hand slid between Sunset's fiery red hair, feeling very silky smooth between the fingers. In the backgrounds, there were other couples who were dancing as well, and Flash was dancing with Sci-Twi as well. And as they danced, the Shadowbolts sat at a table and smiled as they watched their new soon to be friend finally relaxing from all of their terror. As the Shadowbolts watched him dance with Sunset, they all made an agreement from there on, they would all begin a new friendship with Toxigo, and pay for all of their mistakes, but for now, they would enjoy the party.

Little did any of them know that they were all watched by a pair of monstrous green eyes, who had watched everything. And little do any of them know they soon will be in something very bad...

"Hehehehe... Well, this might be easier than I thought."

Sunset walked with Toxigo back to his home just before she was going to leave for the night, and as they walked up to the front door...

"You know, this night turned out a lot better than I thought." Toxigo stated.

"Yeah, it did, didn't it?" Sunset smiled. "You're gonna talk to them right?"

"Shimmercakes..." Toxigo whined.

"You said you'd give them the benefit of the doubt." Sunset retorted still keeping her friendly voice.

Toxigo groaned. He really didn't want to, but how could he resist saying no to his Shimmercakes? "Okay, I'll try to work with them."

"I know you can." Sunset smiled.

"Alright. So, shall I see you tomorrow then?" Toxigo quickly said.

"Yeah. See you later Toxy."

"I'll miss you!" Toxigo called out making Sunset laugh.

What Sunset didn't see was Toxigo muttering to himself in anger. "Damn it man, you should have asked her out."

Toxigo unlocked the door into his home groaning over his own failure. He had been getting closer and closer with Sunset ever since they hung out, and he wanted to ask her out on a date. He wanted to call her, his very own girlfriend. The thought alone made him incredibly giddy.

But as he was about to go and turn the lights out for the night--

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK

Toxigo was taken aback. Did Sunset come back to ask him something?

So he walked back and opened the door, and was met with a blow to the face and fell on the floor. He arched his head up slightly and was met with the sight of a devious Sunset Shimmer smirking.

"Here's.... Sunny!" she deviously said.

Chapter 14: A New Team/To Equestria!

The next day at Canterlot High, everyone continued to attend their classes as normal and proceed on with their homework. But there was something wrong that had occurred to Principal Celestia and Vice-Principal Luna. There have been no signs of Sunset, Twilight, Pinkie, Applejack, Rainbow, Rarity, Fluttershy, or Toxigo. It wasn't like for almost all of them to be late for class, so they knew they had to do something. They called their parents but they said that they never came home which got them worried.

So Flash decided to on the case and find out what happened. But first thing's first. He wanted to stop by and get help from the 5 five Shadowbolt girls first. So, he sat in his car, and dialed in the number.

"Hello?" Indigo came on the other line, smacking her lips. It seemed as if she was just getting up.

"Indigo, its Flash. I think I may need you and the other girls." Flash asked.

"Why? What's wrong?" she asked from the other line.

"Sunset and the girls have gone missing and I haven't heard from Toxigo." Flash replied.

The other line was becoming silent for a moment. Flash thought he had lost Indigo or that she hung up.

"Indigo? You there?" he asked.

"I'll call the others. Be there soon."

Flash waited by his car for the Shadowbolt girls, and they all met up. And so the first stop to go to was on over to Toxigo's house to check on him first.

"You really think he wouldn't come back to school from yesterday?" Sugarcoat replied.

"You don't know, and I don't know, maybe he didn't really accept our apology. And quite frankly, I still wouldn't blame him." Indigo replied.

"But how do you know where he lives, and how do you know you can find him?" Sunny asked.

"I know because in the few months we actually dated each other, I knew he liked Japanese styled architecture, and if he had the option to have his own house, I'm sure he would have a house in the style of... Japanese...architecture...." Indigo didn't finish her sentence, because what caught her eye made her stop.

They all had made it Toxigo's home, but, it didn't look good at all. Just from the huge amount of damage on the front, they could tell a great battle had taken place over at it. There were large holes in the house, debris floating in the swamp water, and electricity sparks coming from the lights.

"Whoa dude... what happened here?" Lemon asked.

"Looks like either something got loose, or something tried getting in and caused destruction." Sugarcoat responded.

"Well we can't just stand here, come on we better go in." Flash replied.

So they tried walking their way into the house but they also encountered a bunch of more broken debris and they all tried to avoid anything that would be falling, and also watching their steps in giant holes and broken floorboards. After they walked downstairs they found Toxigo lying on the ground, looking beat up, and with his mechanical arm ripped off with the circuits still sizzling. Indigo then crouched down and helped Toxigo off the ground.

"Tox? Tox? You alright?" Indigo asked get rid of some more debris.

"Does he look okay!?" Flash yelled in worry.

Tox's yellow eye then opened up but winced slightly at the light shining from the hole in the roof, and he pulled himself up. "Z-Zappy?"

"Oh my god! Are you okay?"

"No... I'm not. I just got attacked yesterday."

"Well what happened? Who attacked you?" Lemon asked

"Strange enough, it was Sunset. But, she couldn't have. I know she wouldn't attack me." Tox wheezed.

"Maybe it was an imposter." Sugarcoat suggested.

"Well whoever she or he was attacked me, and... sucked a majority of the magic, out from the Alicorn Amulet. Its still recharging, but one thing's for sure...she's not alone."

"How so?" Sunny asked, clearing off more debris.

Tox then stood back up and attempted to get a drink while also explaining his situation. " If someone posed as Sunset Shimmer to make an attack to trick me into letting them in, following which she attacked me, there's not doubt she's working with the Dazzlings. My ears picked up audio and recorded everything while I was knocked out. They kidnapped Sunset, Twilight, and the others." Tox replied.

"Well what do we do?" Sunny asked. "Should we go and rescue them?"

"I don't know Flare, I... I don't know. I'm sure if we try to, we'll just fall for a trap or we might endanger their lives even more." Tox replied pulling himself together.

"One question, if you don't mind my asking." Sour asked.

"Okay." Tox awaited for Sour's questions.

"Who the hell are the Dazzlings?" Sour sourly asked.

"Are they more of those magical creatures that exists in that world where those giant killer plants came from?" Sugarcoat asked.

"Yes Sugarcoat. From the short history lesson Sunset gave me, they were three dangerous creatures from a 1000 years ago that feed off of hatred and chaos. Their singing voices turned everyone against each other, feeding off their hate. Unfortunately old crazy Starswirl the Bearded opened up the trash hole and tossed them in. I'm starting to think he didn't really think sometimes. But getting back to the point, those sirens, er, the Dazzlings, they've now taken forms of three girls that I swear to god look like their in their 20s. They're names are Adagio, Aria, and Sonata. And as crazy as it sounds, they're from the same world." Tox replied.

"I don't think its was crazy. I think its crazy that some old dude just tossed them into a portal like its a garbage compactor, but after our encounter with the plants at the Friendship Games, I'll believe anything. Even if you tell me that Bigfoot exists, aliens probed you, or even if you were possessed by a ghost and made you black out and you wake up in the ruins of a drunken midnight party." Lemon replied.

Everyone gave an awkward stare towards Lemon at that last response.

"It happened, to a...friend, of mine." Lemon hesitated.

"Well what are we doing here standing around for? Wasting time for an evil succubus to try and take over?" Sour said.

Sour picked Tox's synthetic arm right off the floor and set it on the counter, and Tox moved into a position where the circuits would reconnect with magic, and thus his arm got connected once more. But they all stopped after hearing a strange clatter noise.

"Dah! What was that?" Indigo asked.

"Its probably just more of my house falling apart Zappy."

But another clattering sound appeared followed by a smash, and an activation voice?

"Paralysis Systems. Echo Dash, online."

Followed the clanking of running feet.

"Or on the other hand, someone has been listening to our entire conversation." Sunny sounding scared replied.

Sunny was right, for someone was inside the house with them. So to defend themselves, they all grabbed kitchen knives out of a wooden drawer and Tox transformed his mechanical arm into a cannon weapon. They listened in again and found where the source was coming from, and it was coming from... the garage?

The girls and boys walked on over to the garage after the door to it fell forward and looked to see where it was coming from. Fortunately, they found the source which was hiding behind a giant stack of boxes, as some boxes fell down.

"Who keeps piles of boxes around? Seriously?" Sunny groaned.

"Hey, don't you talk that way about my boxes! I like boxes!" Tox yelled back.

Their eyes then turned back towards the boxes and could see a shadow of a figure hiding behind it, but the question was, who is it? The small group creeped their way forward for a few steps but still kept their eyes out for anything that may jump at them.

"We're not alone..." Lemon cooed.

"Alright, whoever you are, come out now, and we won't kill you!" Sour Sweet yelled.

"Yes because I'm sure that will get him or her to exit out." Sugarcoat complained.

"Girls, not now. Show yourself!" Tox shouted towards the boxes. "I have a high powered weapon in my arm and I suggest you show yourself!" Tox replied. The group kept holding their weapons waiting for action, but as the figure revealed herself...

"I am Dash. Built to protect those who cannot protect themselves."

The figure stepped out, and from what they could see, it was Rainbow Dash. However when she stepped out she was standing naked which made them cringe.

"Dah, oh god!" Tox looked away, and then looked back. "No, wait, never mind. I've seen naked chicks before. Nothing new."

"Seriously Rainbow? There's an image I'll never get out of my head!" Indigo cringed as she covered her eyes.

"She's kind of hot." Lemon remarked.

Tox turned to Lemon who blushed, and stared at her with a look that just screamed 'Are you freaking kidding me?' They looked back at the supposedly naked Rainbow Dash, and saw one detail that proved it wasn't her. The left side of her face was all scratched up revealing bronze skin underneath, as well as the skin over the eye now exposing her orange illuminating eye. There was also several amounts of skin scratches on the rest of her body revealing bronze skin underneath her cyan exterior.

"How are you so calm and mature with looking at a naked girl!?" Indigo shouted.

"First of all, that's not a girl, that's a synthetic human. Second, I've already seen you naked on one of our nights when--" Toxigo began.

"NO! Please do not go into detail!" Sunny begged.

In a bit of a flash, Indigo threw a towel towards the supposed naked robot, and she wrapped herself in it to make them more comfortable in talking to her.

"That's... a little better." Flash stated. "Wait, what did you say your name was?"

"I am Echo Dash. Cybernetic organism designed by Toxigo Paralysis. Directive is to befriend, protect, and serve." Echo replied.

"So, wait a minute, you're the android that we all met back in the stadium?" Sunny asked.

"That is correct Sunny Flare. I was activated orders to defend and protect."

"And may I ask, how are you functioning and if you're functioning now then were you able to identify who attacked yesterday?" Tox asked raising a brow.

"I began functioning once you flowed magic from the item identified as the Alicorn Amulet. Unfortunately, the one who posed as Sunset Shimmer I haven't been able to identify. However, I managed to plant a tiny tracking device onto the attacker."

"Good, so we should be able to track her every move?"

Dash gave a sad nod responding to yes, but then spoke up again. "Unfortunately no. I cannot pinpoint her exact location. However, based on numerous amounts of checks, she hasn't figured out the device is on her yet. But the audio sensors say she plans on making a striking attack on the city of Canterlot in Equestria." Echo replied.

Tox's heart pounded against his chest like a bell would rang on the top of a church.

"No... Canterlot? There are thousands of families and civilians living there. We can't let them win! How much time do we have before she plans on making the strike?"

"1 week, 13 hours, 40 minutes, 10 seconds."

"Then we have no time to lose. First, we need to get you clothes, Second, we let the staff at CHS know they want to leave and keep them distracted. We can't let them return to Equestria. Third, we suit up, load up, and head to Equestria. Flash, Echo, lets go!"

Toxigo began to storm out leaving the five girls all questioning his choice.

"Hey, wait!" Indigo shouted, grabbing Toxigo's attention onto her.

"Why don't we help?"

"No offense, but you girls blackmailed a student into releasing magic for your own benefit and you treated the giant Rumor Weeds like they're just flies in your face. You really think you might stand against whatever creatures reside in Equestria?" Toxigo snared.

"Bro, come on. We don't know if we'll get help. They're willing help us, and right now they're all we got." Flash implored.

Toxigo stared back at the girls. He really didn't want them to be helping after all the crap they had done to him. But it didn't seem like he had any choice. Either the three of them go alone and get their butts kicked losing any chance of keeping their world safe, or work with the Bolts and finally stop the Dazzlings plan from being put into action. Tox's hand rubbed on his face and he groaned in annoyance.

"Fine. Fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine! But... if you girls are going with me to help..." Tox began.

The girls bobbed their heads up and down gesturing yes.

"You will do what I say, you will follow my orders, and you will not question any crazy magical creatures, antics, or out of nowhere musical numbers we might come across. Do I make myself clear?"

The girls were a little shaken up at his tone, but realized if they wanted to win his respect, they'd have to do what he said.

"You've made yourself perfectly clear dearie. And do not worry, we will try and stay on our best behavior and be mature when we go to Equestria." Sunny replied.

Toxigo gave a smile to Sunny. "Thanks. Now lets get going."

"Will you keep them still!?" Chrysalis disguised as Sunset yelled.

"I'm trying, they keep budging!" Adagio yelled back. She was in the process of trying to tie up Rainbow Dash, but she kept on struggling to get free, but had no luck.

"We will get back at you, and you'll be- MMM!" At that moment Rainbow got a rag shoved into her mouth and duct tape rolled right over it. After Adagio finished tying the knots, she moved her over to the other Rainbooms who were all tied up as well, along with Sci-Twi. While Rarity and Fluttershy were scared out of their minds, Rainbow and Applejack kept trying to break out of their restrains but had no luck, and Sci-Twi and Pinkie just sat and waited for what they were planning on doing. And with Sunset, Aria and Sonata held her as Adagio and Chrysalis continued to converse, and she was tied up and gagged like everyone else.

"You have absorbed enough magic, you've taken their friends, lets just go!" Adagio complained.

"Not just yet, Adagio. We still need to know if he's going to make a move against us. He'll no doubt come up with a plan to stop us."

"And just how are we going to check on him?"

Chrysalis turned her attention onto Sonata and Aria who still kept Sunset secure. "Why not send them in? We need someone to stay behind to keep an eye on them."

"Ugh, why us? Why don't you go check on them?" Aria complained.

"Because I'm the one running the plan here, now go!"

"But Sonata's just annoying and she's gonna make us stop for tacos!"

"I do not! Besides I already ate!" Sonata argued.

"Just....go." Adagio finished.

Eventually the two younger sirens then headed out and left to go find them. Sunset while watching them leave had only one thought in her head. Be careful Tox...

Meanwhile over at school, Principal Celestia walked through the hallways and caught sight of an out of breath Toxigo and Flash having entered in the school, along with Echo now fully restored in her Rainbow Dash skin but not so out of breath like the two boys were.

"Toxigo? Where were you, and where are the others?"

Toxigo raised a hand, gesturing for her to wait as he continued to catch his breath, and arched up wiping the sweat away from his face.

"Okay. Principal Celestia... We've got a problem. Very big problem." Toxigo stated.

"Why? What's wrong?"

"An entity from Equestria has come here on Earth." Toxigo replied.

At that moment, the five Shadowbolt girls had finally made it inside and were slowing down to catch their breath as well.

"Did it ever occur to you, that we might not be able to run as fast, as you can?" Sour grumbled.

"Oh stuff it, will you? Time is of the essence here!" Tox retorted.

They took the conversation into Principal Celestia's office, and filled her in on the situation at hand. But little did they know, that Aria and Sonata were preparing to make a move as they snuck in through the doors of the school.

"...And so we have to keep them from leaving this world if we can stop them."

"I see. Is there anything I can do to help?" Principal Celestia asked.

"The only thing that comes to mind is... wait, of course. I forgot, one second!" Tox then ran out of the room, and quickly returned with Sunset's book which had her cutie mark on it. "Keep this book with you on all times. If it buzzes, its probably an answer from me. You can also write back to me to give me an update. Also, do not allow them to leave. If they do manage to leave, don't worry, we'll put all our might to try and stop them. However, if there is a notice saying that they've become too strong, I want you to evacuate everyone from the school grounds in case that they might want to take over your world."

"Very well."

Just at that moment, the electricity sizzled, the lights flickered, and suddenly they went out and left them in the darkness. And out of nowhere, they listened in to the sound of a high pitched scream of terror, and it was coming from Lemon Zest. Suddenly the power flipped back on, and they all quickly looked around except for Toxy, and saw Lemon wasn't there.

"Where did she go!?" Sunny screamed.

"I don't know, I'm sure she just loves to scream like that for fun!" Sour yelled.

"Lock the doors. Lock down all the doors, now!" Tox ordered. Soon they all ran out of the room and did just that, they got to every door leading to outside, and locked them up tight. And to make another move, Tox using his mind powers, sent secret messages to a majority of the student body's heads telling them to lock down the school to keep the two sirens from escaping.

Aria and Sonata were trying to escape with a handcuffed and tape gagged Lemon Zest, and they were trying to move fast. Lemon kept struggling to get free but sadly had no luck. "Why did you grab her Sonata?! That wasn't in the plan!" Aria complained.

"I thought we had to get leverage to get out of here!"

"We already have enough leverage, and because you made a move, now we have to take her with us!" Aria grumbled while forcing their hostage away.

"Well don't blame me for trying!"

"LMT MM GH!!!" Lemon muffled.

"Will you shut up!?" Aria yelled.

"You're giving us away!" Sonata whispered.

They forced Lemon to follow with them as they attempted to bust down a door but had no luck as they were locked up tight. Their next option was to go through the gym doors but as they entered into the main foyer, all of the hallways were blocked by the Shadowbolt students, and none of them were looking happy.

"Give us our friend back, now!" Indigo angrily said.

"Or what?" Aria replied.

"Maybe you should do what she says and let her go."

Aria and Sonata turned their heads to the right to see Echo Dash standing there determined. But to Aria and Sonata's viewpoint, it was just Rainbow Dash in a different hairstyle and had on different clothes.

"What!? How did she escape!?" Aria freaked out.

But her demeanor immediately changed to angry and enraged as she pulled out a hammer that hung on a side of her pocket and she tried swinging at Echo. Echo however was prepared, she dodged left, right, up, down, and all around. However, Aria managed to strike one blow to Echo and that was to the side of her face up near her left eye, and she groaned in pain.

"Ergh...." Echo groaned.

Her groan was so loud it go a few students attention and they all surrounded the sirens to keep them from leaving, and Aria faced back to Echo and got a bit of a shock. This Rainbow Dash she was fighting didn't get any blood spilled, or have any injury, but rather part of her skin shell, showing part of her bronze endo-skeleton and orange eye. She twitched and stared back at her with a devious grin.

"Wha..Wh--Wait, what!?"

"Lights out, sucker." Echo then swing a roundhouse kick to her chest knocking her to the ground, and making a spinning kick towards Sonata and both were on the ground cowering from Echo, while Lemon stayed standing watching and trying to get out of her restraints but still having no luck.

"You stepped on my friends. Now I will step on you!"

"Echo, Echo, its okay. They're down, no need to attack them anymore. Just keep them here, I'm going to free Lemon."

Tox then walked over to Lemon Zest showing signs of being relieved, and proceeded to pull the microfoam tape off her mouth. "You alright Lemon?"

"I am now, agh..." Lemon was scrunching at her face from having the tape ripped off her mouth. "But, wait, why did you save me? I thought we had to earn your respect first."

Tox continued to cut through the handcuffs while explaining himself. "Well Lemon, I may have said you had to earn my respect, but that doesn't mean I would not help you. Besides, I already forgave you guys." Tox finished as Lemon was freed from her restraints.

Lemon feeling the pain around her wrists began rubbing at them, and then looked to Toxigo. "You sure?"

"I'm sure Lemon. In fact just to make it clear to you, I forgive you." Suddenly at that moment, out of nowhere, a burst of green and yellow energy surged through his body.

"Oh come on, not again!" Toxigo facepalmed.

Then he floated into the air, and once again sprouted a tail, wings, and his robotic bat ears transformed to the top of his head forming robotic pony ears, and then he landed back onto the ground, and the tail and wings went away and his ears transformed back to normal.

"Wait, what was that!?"

"You... grew pony ears?" Lemon asked.

"And a ponytail?" Sugarcoat asked, moving her glasses slightly down.

"I..I think so. How did that happen? I didn't show off any Element of Harmony. How does forgiving someone automatically make you pony up? Ah.... ugh. Never mind. That's not important right now."

While ponying up out of nowhere did seem very out of the ordinary, his attention wasn't focused on the strange power up, but rather on getting answers as to where his friends had been taken.

Tox then turned his attention back to Aria and Sonata who were recovering from their fall, only for Aria to get a sudden surprise as Toxigo's arm grabbed her by the throat and he pinned her against the wall.

"I'm only going to ask you this once. Where. Are. My. Friends!?" Tox's teeth gritted.

"I'm not telling you." Aria grumbled.

"Very well. If you're not going to tell then I'm gonna have to use force. And I'm not afraid of opening. Your. Freaking. Head." Toxigo shouted.

Aria noticed his hand began clanking and whirring, transforming into a blade like weapon. Worse, it was vibrating, as if like an electric knife. Aria winced for a moment as it kept on moving closer to her face, but she unfortunately gave up. She didn't want to risk getting herself killed over something like this.

"Okay, okay! I'll talk! Just keep that blade away from my face!" Aria cried out.

Toxigo transformed the blade back into his arm and released her only for a bit so she wasn't pinned, but she picked up on how she had nowhere to go since the rest of the Bolts stood by Toxigo all snarling.

"Now, I believe he asked you a question. What have you done, to his friends?" Sour asked.

Aria groaned. She now began to regret having said she'd talk, but she had no choice.

"They're back in Equestria."

"Who is your accomplice?" Toxigo snared.

Aria grinned deviously. "Queen... Chrysalis." she replied.

Lemon and Sugarcoat's heads turned to look at Toxigo and noticed something seemed off about him. His eyes had widened, and his expression quickly became terrified.

"Tox? Dude?" Lemon waved a hand in front of his face which got his attention.

"Are you okay?" Sugarcoat asked, this time sounding actually concerned.

"Yeah, I'm... I'm fine. Lets just tie them up and keep them locked up somewhere so they can't escape."

The girls led Aria and Sonata away with Toxigo leading them, but the girls were questioning his moment of silence. Why did he freeze like that?

The small group of remainders all sat in chairs while Tox talked to the Shadowbolts, Echo, and Flash discussing a form of a plan, and they had Aria and Sonata thrown into a closet both tied up and gagged.

"Okay, so now I have the rest of the information we need. Sunset and the others are trapped in Equestria, the question is where. However there's one thing that bugs me, if she's going to have total power, why not take my Amulet? That gives ponies complete power, I don't see how she couldn't take it."

"Maybe Chrysalis or whatever couldn't take it because it's attached to you in a way that she can't take it. Or it might have defended you from getting hurt." Sugarcoat replied flatly.

"That's a good point Sugar. But I'm not sure. That doesn't matter now though, we got to get to Equestria to get them free first. This mission is incredibly dangerous, the fate of our home, our entire planet and all of Equestria depends on us. I understand if you don't want to do it, and its alright to say no. So if you don't want to do it, just say it now."

The room remained in silence for a little bit, until Sunny spoke up. "We said we had to repay for our mistakes we've made by helping you dearie, and I believe this is something we should all help with."

"Count me in! A chance to fight supervillains? I'd do that any day!" Lemon beamed with joy.

"Me too." Sugarcoat responded.

"Finally something I can lay my rage out on!" Sour agreed.

"If this means helping a friend in need, I'll gladly assist." Flash agreed.

"What about you Indy? You in?"

Indigo paused to consider his offer. Fighting supervillains kind of seemed cool in her head, and who knows? Maybe she could get a cool experience out of helping him fight against them. "Alright you've gotten me excited I just can't say no. I'm in!" Indigo replied.

Soon they all put their hands all together in agreement, and they all stacked hands on top of one another to show their agreement and loyalty. A group had been formed, and now, a plan was set into motion.

As the day continued on, Tox got the Shadowbolts and Flash all into training and learning to use their equipment. Tox had to teach them all how to walk on their hands and legs to teach them how to walk like regular ponies since they'd be turned into ponies the minute they came into Equestria, which unfortunately was incredibly awkward to do considering the places they walked around.

"Right, left, right, left, right, left! Move those legs!" Tox shouted.

"This is weird! Besides, everyone can look up my skirt! They can see my panties for gods sake!" Indigo complained.

"Hey, they're kind of cute!" Lemon joked.

"Shut up Lemon!" Indigo yelled.

"How are you girls friends again?" Tox yelled back.

Later he had them help him out in his own lab at his home and together, the 8 of them developed some new weapons and items that would specifically be designed to tap into their strengths, talents, and weaknesses. Some items included a new headset for Lemon that had a visor, antenna and microphone attached, a giant colorful gun designed for Pinkie Pie which they filled with popcorn kernels for ammo, chest armor designed to hook into heavy weapon along with high power equipment, etc. He even had to give them a few lessons on Equestria to keep them prepared like some of the towns, the creatures, and town folks. But every once in a while he had to toss erasers at Lemon to get her to focus.

"Hey!" Tox shouted while tossing another eraser at Lemon who ducked for cover.

"Seriously? You are like the worst students ever!" Tox joked.

But after a few hours of training, they all were ready to move. But there was one last thing to do before they left...

The girls were entering into the science room after a very early dinner at Inside-Out Burger and noticed Toxigo sitting on the desk intensely writing in some book.

"Dearie, what are you doing?" Sunny asked.

"I, Flare, am writing a message to Princess Twilight Sparkle on the other side of the portal to let her know that they'll be coming, so I need her to shut down the portal so Chrysalis and the Dazzlings won't leave."

Lemon spit-take on her drink out of surprise, and the drink splashed all over Indigo's face who was less than amused. Lemon just quietly chuckled.

"P-Princess, Twilight?" Lemon's eyes bulged.

"Yep. The Twilight in the other dimension from what I'm told is high royalty. So... we better not piss her off." Tox whispered. "Anyways ladies, do you all have the backpacks I requested you get?"

"Yep." Everyone replied.

"Perfect, now just to do a quick inventory check." Toxigo walked over to the table, and Flash pointed to every item and named them as they went along.

"Water bottles, snacks, giant batteries to power up the Light Cannons, blueprints, dissembled weapons to lighten the load, fabrics, camouflage suits, book of ancient spells, warrior robes you got Rarity to design for fun, armor, extra prosthetic limbs just in case you lose one, arrows, grenades, shurikens, swords, we should be good." Flash replied. "Wait, what about the Alicorn Amulet?"

Toxigo paused. He hadn't considered taking it with him. He kept it off his neck being afraid what had happened before. He didn't want to almost kill more of his friends because the anger clouded his mind by using that soul-sucking, mind absorbing monster that existed in the form of the jewel. However, it'd be bad enough just allowing that thing to rest with their enemy all alone, so leaving it behind was not an option. He just simply put it around his neck, and gulped in fear. Not wanting to show any fear, he just kept his cool and calm demeanor around his friends.

"Perfect!" Tox made one clap with his hands.

"Do you think we might have gone a little over the top with the weaponry? I think we might have made a little too much." Sugarcoat asked.

"Oh Sugar, Sugar, Sugar.... You can never have too much weaponry." Tox smiled.

"You're so over the top its not even funny." Sugarcoat bluntly stated.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah... now come on! Time's a wasting." Toxigo then looked at all of the girls standing in their new clothes all holding their weaponry.

Indigo now wore long jeans, a pink shirt with an indigo shaped cloud shooting a lightning bolt, and running boots, and she kept on her aviator goggles. In her hands, she had strapped mini light cannons onto both of her arms to double to the power.

Lemon Zest now wore yellow short shorts, a small pink tank top with a lemon slice with flowers pictured on it, and her headphones was now turned into a headset so she may communicate with any of them. And in her hands was a pulse rifle.

Sugarcoat now wore a yellow button up shirt with an image of a stick of dynamite shown on it, and also with a flat skirt with yellow boots. Along on her belt, she had several colorful sticks of what looked like dynamite.

Sunny Flare now wore a short black jacket, a pink skirt with a cloudy graphic on it, pink boots, and on her belt she had little sun shaped shurikens shaped like her own hair clip.

Last one was Sour Sweet, she had on a pinkish purple skirt with a heart and diamond graphic on it. She also painted little black marks under her eyes much like sports players and in her hands was her archery kit

Flash just kept on his normal clothes, but had extra additions like an headset with an eyepiece, and he had a heavy light cannon hanging on his back.

As for Echo, she just kept her normal clothes she had on, and let her left eye exposed as the synthetic human she was.

"Alright, if we're going to take them down, we need to get to Equestria first. But that leads to some concerns. The portal in the Wondercolt Statue leads to the castle of Princess Twilight. I would like to avoid going through that way because one that's the most obvious place to go to, and the Dazzlings can follow us through that way. Hopefully with it shut down they can't go anywhere. In the meantime, I had built a new machine that will blast a portal open and take us to Equestria by going into a hyper-drive like portal. Sort of the like the ones you see in science fiction films. And now, we've got all of our things. Weapons, gear, knowledge of Equestria, we should be good. Everyone ready?"

Everyone gave a resounding "Yes", and so they started to move. But Sour stopped them for a brief moment.

"Wait, what about the two Dazzlings that are tied up in the closet? Are we going to leave them there?" Sour asked in a sweet voice.

"Yes, we are Sweets. Adagio and Chrysalis will find them eventually, and we don't have a lot of time, now come on, lets go." Tox finished.

They exited the room leaving the two Sirens trying to scream underneath their gags to be let out, but all that came out were muffled pleads.

As the group walked now all suited up, with their arsenal of weapons and supplies, they stopped to listen to a sound of... teleportation?

They turned their bodies around to look down at the hallway and saw standing... was Adagio Dazzle, along with someone the group had never seen before. All but one of them immediately picked up on who she was.

The person that appeared with Adagio in the teleportation was an adult, dressed in black dark clothes, much of like a police officer. She had body armor covering her chest, no sleeves, dark green pants with black boots, a holster which contained a gun and a stick, and her badge was in the shape of a crown.

Toxigo couldn't help but gasp loudly at the sight of an old enemy...

"You!" Toxigo quivered.

"Yes.... me..." Chrysalis replied opening her green gazing eyes.

"That's her? That's Queen Chrysalis?" Sunny asked.

Toxigo just slowly nodded in fear.

"Its been such a long time since I've seen you... little colt. And look, you've grown since the last time I've seen you. Remarkable.... your family would have been proud..." Chrysalis mocked.

Toxigo's eyebrows furled with anger.

"My family means nothing to me anymore!" Toxigo retorted as a tear leaked down his face.

"Oh my, have I struck a nerve? Hehehe.... pity. And if I recall you had more flesh the last time I checked. But I guess it doesn't matter... you'll still perish like your family had, and just like everyone else you loved..." Chrysalis manically laughed.

"We won't let you hurt our friend!" Sour yelled.

"We've hurt him a lot more than you ever have, and we're not going to let scum like you kill him!" Lemon shouted.

Toxigo was taken aback. These girls were actually defending him?

"You... you really mean that?" Toxigo asked.

The five of them looked back at Toxigo with the friendliest smiles they could offer.

"We do. You're our friend. We should have been supportive of you before like you were with us. And now, we're supporting you all the way." Sunny replied.

"Thanks." Toxigo then turned his attention to Chrysalis with a look of anger and asked.

"Alright Chrysalis. I'm going to ask you this once. I know my friends are in Equestria. Where, did you take them?" Toxigo snarled.

Chrysalis just snickered. "Persistent are we? As much as I admire that, I wouldn't be so concerned with their fates, but rather of your own... I don't know how you've managed to stay young for all of these years especially considering how long ago its been since we met, but this time, I'll make sure you don't last anymore..."

"Oh you think you're so tough aren't you? Well if you think you're so tough, why didn't you take my Alicorn Amulet when you had the chance?"

"I couldn't rip it out of your pathetic little neck. Fortunately, learning a spell or two on absorbing magical energy has helped me quite, miraculously... While I may not be able to take it from you, I know I can absorb magic from it. Making me more stronger than I was before..."

Toxigo began to become a little worried, but he just had to ask one more question before they left.

"But why me? Why me of all people? Why do you care so much about me that you take them away and put your time and energy just focusing on me?"

"Because I knew that you have a special bond between them and yourself and so I decided to cut the chains that held you together. You would never be able to get them back. But I suppose I'm correct for the time being. After all you're still just a temperamental colt who suffers breakdowns whenever someone even tries asking your family history."

Toxigo's face expressed high shock as his eyes widened and lips drooped. "But, that was only one time that... Ugh, no! I won't let you hurt me or my friends!"

"Enough talk, time to finish you once and for all." Adagio replied.

Sugarcoat somehow was one step ahead of them, and popped a cap off of colorful stick of dynaminte from her holster, and tossed it where Adagio and Chrysalis stood. Both of their eyes gazed down and looking slightly afraid.

"Oh no..." Adagio said.

KABOOM

The group ducked their heads away from the explosion and as they turned their heads back they noticed the bomb didn't blow any part of the hallway up, but rather... trapped Chrysalis and Adagio? Their feet were covered and trapped in giant goops of a pink sticky substance.

"How did you--" Flash began.

"Its one of the sticky bombs I designed, now lets go!" Sugarcoat insisted.

The girls and boys began fleeing from the two psychotic magic chicks and began heading for the auditorium/gymnasium.

"Is that why you were acting scared earlier today?" Indigo said as they ran down the halls.

"Yes, that's why I'm scared. That queen took away everyone I loved and fed off their love for me, grew powerful, and chased me across Equestria. And that's the short version! Right now, can we focus on getting the hell out of here!?"

"Will you quit shouting, you're alerting their attention!" Flash argued.

"Echo, are they after us?" Tox asked.

"Negative."

"Good, we've got some time."

The group barged into the gymnasium and stopped in awe of the giant machine that was soon going to be used to teleport them to Equestria. There were legs holding it up, several machines and controls connected to it, and the way it was set was in a position that one would need to just simply step underneath it, and they'd immediately get sucked up into it.

"Are we gonna stand here in awe, or are gonna lock up the doors to keep them from getting in?" Sunny retorted.

"She's right, lock up the door!" Toxigo replied.

The girls closed the door, and set it into a position locking it up. Not taking any chances, they ran over to the machine, and Echo began powering it up. Soon it finally flipped on after a few button presses and combinations and began whirring and sucking up bits of the air around them creating wind blowing past all of their hair.

"Okay, go, go, go!" Toxigo ordered.

Flash was the first to jump in, and nearly tossed around as went right through it.

"Who's next?" Toxigo asked looking mischievous.

"Ooh, me! Me, me, me!" Lemon begged.

"Alright Lemon, go!"

Lemon ran up made a jump and raised a fist like if she was a superman. "WHOO!!!!"

Sunny decided to make the next run, as she made a starting jump and as she was underneath the portal she flew up screaming in fear.

"Is she dead?" Sugarcoat asked.

Toxigo scratched his chin to think for a moment. "Nah she's fine" he sarcastically replied.

Indigo and Sour stared at him with horrified expressions on their faces. Toxigo couldn't help but laugh a bit.

"She's just up there floating with Flash and Lemon. They won't go anywhere without us." Toxigo reassured.

"Is making cruel jokes your way of punishing us?" Sour grumbled.

Toxigo simply made a 'boop' sound as he tapped his nose smiling, and giving a nod.

"Okay, we do deserve it." Sour sweetly replied.

Their attention was grabbed to the sound of... bodies slamming against doors?

"Oh... crap." Indigo stated.

Their heads turned to see Chrysalis evilly staring down at them.

"Great, come on!" Toxigo shouted.

Echo and Indigo were the next ones to jump through the portal, leaving only Sour, Sugarcoat, and Toxigo.

"Okay, we can't let them come with us. Any ideas?" Toxigo offered.

"I do!" Sugarcoat shouted, and she pulled out grenades from her backpack. She then strapped them to the ground in several positions surrounding the portal, along with on the controls and machines.

"Great thinking Sugarcoat!" Toxigo complimented, surprisingly getting a smile from Sugarcoat.

"Okay, Sour, Sugarcoat, lets go!"

"Right behind you!" Sour replied.

The three of them made the final jump into the portal. Soon, the grenades began going off around the portal smashing the technology into bits and pieces. Electricity sparks going all over the place, metal peeling itself off, and explosions setting off all around. Each and every one of them, continuously destroying more and more of the portal.

By the time the final grenade went off, the portal had been completely crushed and was in several amount of pieces. Chrysalis and Adagio finally broke through the locked door and saw that they arrived too late. Their enemy had escaped.

Clenching fists, grinding teeth, and angry eyebrows, Adagio picked up a piece of the machine and tossed it out of anger.

"Great. They've escaped. Now we have no chance of truly defeating them and ruling Equestria once and for all..." Adagio growled.

Chrysalis was unfazed by Adagio's anger. She had planned for this outcome.

"Relax my dear Adagio... I already have a plan set in motion. I have absorbed enough magic to open up a new portal to get us back to Equestria. Something that Toxigo himself cannot do... Hehehehe... we'll be there before they have the chance." Chrysalis replied.

Adagio smirked deviously after hearing that.

"Mark my words, Toxigo... you will not be so lucky next time we meet... And if you can't even handle a few of my insults, I relish seeing you in pain once your friends die.... Hehehehehehe...." Chrysalis chuckled evilly.

For the group didn't know, she was already many steps ahead of them...

Author's Notes:

Sorry if this seems rushed. Been trying to get off my lazy butt to get this chapter out.

Chapter 15: Welcome to Equestria

The group of eight were now soaring through a long stream of energy around them like they were going in hyperspace to another planet, only this was taking them to another dimension. Leaving all thoughts of the past behind, the group was ready for action and ready to fight an entity who would no doubt take over the world. During the travel, the Shadowbolts all were starting to act silly what with having the ability to float in zero gravity. Indigo started swimming around, Lemon held onto a single body pose like if she was a superhero, and even Sugarcoat was having fun just spinning around watching everything around her,

Tox watched as the girls were enjoying themselves floating and flying around in their bubble, but turned his focus onto Sunny Flare who was keeping her focus forward and looked at all of the energy flowing right by them.

"Hey Flare, enjoying the ride so far?" Tox asked as he floated right next to her.

"So far, yeah I am dearie. Its quite nice actually." Flare said looking towards Tox's scary eyes.

"Hey, uh, mind if I ask you something?"

"Sure."

"How come you always act like you're a British lady with the politeness and constantly calling people dearie?"

"I... I don't know. I guess it always comes back to my childhood. When I was a little girl, I always admired British characters on television, and I wanted to be like them. But then I found the hard truth that I'm not British unlike that Rarity girl. But I always keep the act because I want to be an actor. I wanted to be in the performing arts like with the celebrities up in Hollywood." replied Flare upside down.

"You should take that up. I'm sure you can be amazing at it."

"Well its all in a matter of landing a role. Its impossible for actors to get work these days, and some people when they audition, they don't even get a part just because some directors or writers don't like them. I don't want to be like those people."

"I understand you want to get up there in Hollywood, but I know you can do it. Just follow your own dream, the only person who's stopping you, is yourself. Just keep going for it, and I know you can do it. All you have to do is believe in yourself. I know it may sound something out of a cat poster, but it is true."

Sunny gave a smile back, and turned her head forward once more, before asking this question. "We almost there yet? We've been floating for a while now."

"We'll be there soon. Just relax and enjoy the ride." Toxigo said as he was still floating upside in front of her. And he just gave one tap on her nose making a 'boop' sound.

As Toxigo kept floating in the zero gravity environment, he stared towards Sugarcoat who seemed very unfazed by everyone floating around. Unsure if she was okay, he swam his way towards her direction and once again faced her as he was upside in her vision.

"You okay Sugar?" Toxigo asked.

"I'm fine," she said.

"I'm not so sure about that. Look, I don't want to annoy you, but I need to know if something's bothering you. That's what friends do."

"Bother people to the bone?" Sugarcoat bluntly replied.

Toxigo just stared at her unamused still upside down.

"Okay, I... Part of me is worried of how we're gonna tell our families back home. I don't think my parents are going to believe I'm flying in some portal to a magical world full of equines."

"Well how come you're worried on telling them about that?" Toxigo raised a brow and his eye gazing as a jar of peanut butter floated on by past their heads.

"Well, back in my household, no one lies. Everyone has to tell the truth or else they get kicked out of the family. It ran through my family for generations, all dating back in the 1900s. Back in that time, my great-great-great-great-great grandfather kind of betrayed my family out of a petty reason. From then on, our families through the ages had to stay 100 percent honest with each other. Couldn't lie once." Sugarcoat replied. And Toxigo could notice a tiny bit of tears coming through her eyes.

Toxigo couldn't help but float over a little closer and wipe the tears from her eyes and watched as the droplets floated in the zero gravity portal they were closed in.

"Is that why you're blunt to all of us?" Toxigo asked.

Sugarcoat couldn't help but nod sadly.

"Well, Sugarcoat there isn't anything wrong with a little bit of lying every now and then. And truth be told, I think that's going to be a powerful weapon to use against the Chrysalis and her changelings."

"Well why do you say that?" Sugarcoat asked, bending her glasses down.

"Because changelings are masters of deception, highly manipulative and compulsive liars. They can take on any of our forms and can sneak right under our noses. So you've got to learn to lie and know when someone is lying. Something we need to work on."

Sugarcoat just nodded in response and their conversation apparently got the others attention, and someone else spoke up.

"So, you said these changelings can pose as anyone?" Sour asked.

"That's correct." Toxigo replied.

"Well, okay, this leads to my question. Do they have anything they feed off of? Something we can use against them?" Sunny asked.

"There is one thing. Changelings feed off of the love you have for someone. That makes them very powerful. So, while we're there, please don't act all lovey dovey around anyone, please? If you can?"

"Got it, no falling in love." Flash replied.

"Got it dude." Lemon replied.

"Perfect." Toxigo smiled. He checked the screen on his synthetic arm and picked up the time. "Okay, we should be there soon."

"Um, Toxigo?" Sour asked.

"Yes Sweets?" Tox answered.

"You did plan for how we'd land onto the surface right?" Sour asked sounding very nervous.

Tox's face crept with confusion and it drooped to a realization. "Oh yeah that's what I forgot."

"WHAT!?" Everyone except for Echo shouted.

"Okay, so I might have forgotten to plan how to get us down, but I'm sure we'll land safely."

Indigo just looked furious at Toxigo. "Are you freaking kidding me!? We're not gonna survive if we just crash!"

"I know! Okay, does anyone have an idea?" Toxigo asked.

"Why not that amulet around your neck?" Flash asked.

Toxigo's eyes bulged out of his head. "No! I can't! Anything but that! That infernal thing's the reason I almost killed Indigo!" Toxigo shouted.

"But we know that thing's powerful. I think you can make energy shields to surround all of us when we go to the surface!" Sunny replied.

"But... but what if it begins corrupting me again!? I don't want to go through that again!"

"I don't think you have much of a choice here!" Sugarcoat shouted.

Toxigo looked ahead and saw the portal was showing the outside of the entire planet of Equestria. Their space journey was becoming closer to an end. Toxigo sadly didn't want to use the amulet after what he went through before, but he certainly didn't want everyone to not make it in the crash.

"Ugh, alright! Even though there's probably a thousand other ways we could handle this situation and thousands of other ideas we can plan out that could get us on the ground safer, I'll do it." Toxigo held the amulet around his neck and it began to illuminate.

His one eye that was now red glowed once again and became an even more scarier and darker red than it had before. Soon everyone became surrounded blue shield bubbles as they began descending towards the end of the portal. Soon giant amounts of flame soared past the shields as they soon began to enter the atmosphere....

Down on the ground of Ponyville, night time had taken place.

"The stars are so beautiful this time of night." Twilight remarked staring at the constellations.

Twilight had been leaning against a railing at her own castle watching the stars. But however her mind was pondering over the strange letter she gotten from 'Sunset'. She had no idea the message was from Toxigo who signed it as Sunset just to get Twilight to shut down the portal. She had sent a letter to Princess Celestia asking her to come quickly as possible and she made the promise to arrive tomorrow.

As her eyes gazed back up at the starry night, something in the sky had caught her attention. 8 white dots that were in the shape of one of the constellations were slowly moving down from the sky, and it looked as if they were going to crash into Equestria.

"Wait a minute... there was no warning of a meteor shower. Oh no..."

Twilight noticed the 8 meteors were becoming closer and closer towards Ponyville. And she had never seen anything like it. The meteors flew over some houses, right past Twilight's castle, crashing in a spot over near a hill and a small lake. The crashes had dug into the dirt, and there was steam coming from each one of the objects. The rescue team had crash landed to Equestria.

The next day, it was a beautiful day with a sun shining. The birds were out chirping, the folks were out walking, and the grass was moving to the wind blowing. There were lots of animals out playing, leaping and jumping about, and many bugs out buzzing and zooming.

The group had survived the crash but unfortunately, the 5 Bolts along with Flash were too tired to get up, so Echo and Toxigo ended up creating beds out of sheets they pulled out from their saddle bags, with another sheet on top being blankets and beds and got them all tucked in. Toxigo tried assembling his own bed but he fell asleep just trying to and just rested on the bed, all the while Echo stood outside of their little half circle in sleep mode. She continued to stand asleep until her audio frequencies kicked in at the sound of moving hooves.

"Paralysis Systems. Echo Dash, online."

Echo turned her head to see Toxigo finally awake and stretching his legs and his back just trying to get up.

"Good morning, Master Toxigo." Echo said.

"Morning Echo." Toxigo yawned.

"I trust you had a good night's sleep."

"Well if you can count falling asleep trying to assemble your own bed, yes." Toxigo said. As he scratched his eyes he noticed Echo in front of him had now taken on a new form. She wasn't the same human he had designed, but rather now in the form of the pony equivalent to Rainbow Dash. She still had some skin torn off around her eye and a few dents and scratches torn on her skin as well, but she was still standing.

"Did you..." Toxigo began.

"Entering in Equestria's atmosphere has changed all of our physical forms into ponies, I myself concluded. No damage detected."

Toxigo sighed in relief. "You're able to adapt walking like that right?"

"That is correct. Data files on horse movement have been loaded into my memory banks, therefore I am able to adapt as a pegasus in this new form." Echo replied.

Toxigo turned his head to the side seeing all 6 of them asleep and twitching in their dream lands. Indigo was lying herself on Lemon's back, Sugarcoat was sleeping on her back like a vampire, Flash was on his side while his head rested on a pillow, and Sunny and Sour were cuddled close to each other for warmth.

"Echo, are you able to assemble breakfast from the foods I've brought with us?"

"Affirmative."

"Good. I'm gonna, look around for a bit, get an idea of where we are, and then I'm gonna jump into the lake to get myself up."

"Aye, Aye, sir." Echo replied.

Toxigo began trotting along the path, just taking in the peaceful scenery around him. He had never seen such a relaxing and beautiful scenery in his life. The Everfree forest sadly wasn't this relaxing, but then again, he always showed up at bad times during the year for it. His eye gazed at the trees moving in the little bit of wind, he watched as a small little stream of water run beside him, the grass moving to the sounds of nature, and the birds singing in the air. He had never felt so relaxed. Along with walking among the path, he began singing a little tune to himself.

Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale about a faithful trip
that started from the planet Earth, your mind will need a grip

The boss was a mighty unicorn
the rocker swave and cool

Five Shadowbolts flew with that day for a universal tour, a universal tour...

The landing started getting rough, the tiny crew were tossed,
if not for the courage of the fearless crew, the members would be lost,
the members would be lost

The group set ground on a patch of this uncharted giant world....

With Toxigo.... the rocker too
The athletic chick... and the blunt...
the lesbian... the acting coach and Sour Sweet

Here on Toxigo's world.....

Toxigo then approached an end of the path as he found himself on the side of a hill and found a sign next to a bit of a fence that read 'Welcome to Ponyville'.

"Huh, Ponyville. Weird name for a town." Toxigo muttered to himself before turning around and walking back.

Toxigo's hooves clopped along the path as he approached the lake their camp was set up near. Then, taking a deep breath, taking a step back, he ran up, and made a jump into the giant lake almost like a pool dive. Surprisingly the sound of the splashing water didn't wake any of them up. He swam underneath, and then rose his head up swaying his wet mane out of his face. However bits of it were still wet and end up getting stuck to the side of his face.

"Huh, guess there isn't always good things to having a huge mane." Toxigo swam his little pony legs across the river and walked onto the grass, still dripping wet from the cool water.

He shook himself like a dog getting water off itself, and walked over to Echo who handed him a towel to dry himself off. "Oh what I wouldn't give to spend a day at the beach." Toxigo calmly said.

He took a seat around the burning fire, and soon the smell of fresh bacon and pancakes got all of their attention. They began trotting out to the fire pit and none of them even noticed they were different forms yet.

"Morning Toxy." Indigo said as she rubbed her eyes not realizing they were hooves, and once her vision cleared she was now staring at a green pony with a blazing demonic eye.

"Dah! Toxy, did you..." Indigo began.

"Yes Indigo, I'm a unicorn. Our crash into the atmosphere changed our forms so now we're ponies. Hence why I'm a pony, and that's why Echo's now a pony." Toxigo replied.

"Oh. Okay, well, that does explain the hooves." Indigo said nonchalantly. Suddenly her eyes widened to the realization. "Wait... why do I have hooves!?"

"Really? You're only now noticing this?" Tox rhetorically asked.

The others caught on and noticed their different forms, and as they looked back up their eyes began twitching. Well, except for Flash.

"Oh no." Flash said.

All five of them froze their faces in shock and in terrified news, all screamed loudly so hard that glass shattered all over town, birds flew from their nests and even ponies fell down in shock. Their sounds echoed all the way across Equestria, so everyone could pick it up for miles.

"Uh-- You can stop now. No, you're all fine." Tox tried saying over their screaming, but they still kept going. And at somepoint their pitches were beginning to hurt his glass eye in his face. "No, please, please stop!"

4 Minutes Later Which Feels Like An Eternal Hour Later

Flash raised a hoof to a metaphorical watch on his supposed wrist, and then placed it back down on the dirt before saying "One hour, that's a new record."

Tox grew tired of them screaming, until the glass eye in his face shattered and he screamed in agony. He ran off to the medic kit and using his magic, pulled the glass out of his eye, and covered it with a bandage and a new eyepatch, making him furious. And out of anger of them still screaming, he raised them into the air using the Alicorn Amulet again, and threw them all into same lake he swam in.

"GET A HOLD OF YOURSELVES!"

The five of them walked out of the water and were once calm again. "Okay, sorry, its just gonna take a bit of time to get used to this." Sunny replied.

"Just don't do that again." Toxigo said, before ripping the amulet off his neck again. "Also, seriously? A freaking hour!? I was trying to air out my one eye and now I have to wear the eye patch again because you just shattered the glass. Thank you so bloody much."

Indigo looked down in shame. "Sorry..."

Sour then looked down at herself and began covering... certain areas that made her blush. "Don't look at me, I'm naked!" She said.

"Um, you do realize we're all naked. Ponies, uh, don't normally wear clothes." Toxigo said. "Besides Indy, we've seen each other naked before, its not like when we were about to"

"Don't go there!" Indigo raised a hoof. "That's... way too awkward for me, okay?"

"Okay, okay, I'll stop. Anyone want breakfast?" Toxigo offered.

Everyone then sat down as Echo passed the breakfast to everyone and somehow they managed to adapt to eating with their own hooves, which was very hard for a majority of them. Flash, Sunny, Indigo, and Echo Dash now took on the form of Pegasi. Sugarcoat and Sour Sweet took on forms of Earth ponies, and Lemon Zest took on the form of a unicorn.

"You seem to be handling now being ponies very well. Very, unrealistically well..."

"We've joined you on this quest, its best to stay calm about new changes." Sugarcoat said.

"I suppose so, but seriously no one should be this calm after something like that. I'm seriously questioning how you stayed calm during the Friendship Games." Toxigo replied.

"We'll while that may have seemed very unrealistic of us to stay calm, it wasn't anything bad like..." Sunny began but something got her attention. Something on Toxigo seemed a little, off.

Toxigo picked up on Sunny staring at him. "Um... Sunny? You okay? Is there a bit of bacon stuck in my teeth?"

"No, nothing like that its just... well, there's something that seems a little off about you." Sunny replied.

"Actually, she's got a point. You need a mirror or something to get what we're saying." Sugarcoat replied.

"Oh come on, it can't be that bad--" Toxigo was interrupted by Sour grabbing a mirror with her mouth and somehow getting it in front of his face. Toxigo looked into it and saw what they had meant. His one eye that was working was now blazing, scary, demonic red.

"Okay... that's very bad..." Toxigo said.

He levitated the mirror to face to get a closer look, blinked a few times, and rubbed at it with his hoof to feel for anything, but nothing. But, it must be nothing. He quickly took the amulet off when he should have, and he didn't have any dark or disturbing feelings.

"Okay, so my eye has changed color. Nothing else out of the ordinary. I think that's just part of the side affects from using the amulet. Which means, I need to lay off from using it for the time being."

After everyone finally finished their food, they grabbed their supplies in the giant saddlebags and awaited for Tox to give instructions.

"Okay, lets see what we go here. We've got four pegasi, two earth ponies, and two unicorns. We should be good. Now, we're gonna go into Ponyville, and I'd advise, we all stay together and don't do anything that will grab attention. Okay?"

Everyone gave a nod and they soon began trotting along the dirt. After looking at some of the sights, they then walked into Ponyville and kept an eye out for anything odd or suspicious. And while they kept walking they soon began asking questions on things they were never taught.

"Hey uh, dude, something I got to ask. What's with the tattoo on the side of your butt?" Lemon asked.

"Oh that's the cutie mark."

"*snicker*, what?" Came from Lemon trying her hardest not to laugh.

"I know how girly this sounds, but basically, its a symbol that represents your calling in life, and your special talents. For example-" Tox then turned to a side to show his cutie mark. "-mine was supposed to mean my specialization in handling toxic elements, however as of living in the human world, that doesn't seem to be the case my strengths and abilities" he finished showing the black bio-hazard emblem with black sparkles surrounding it.

"But why- *snicker* is it placed right over on the side of your butt? It looks like you got a tramp stamp!" Lemon tried asking but that just resulted in her laughing hard along with Indigo, while Sugarcoat, Sunny, and Sour had straight faces looking unamused. "You do realize we all tattoos on our posteriors as well? So technically we all have tramp stamps" Sugarcoat asked.

Eventually, the two of them stopped laughing and noticed their cutie marks as well, and stopped in silence. So after their pointless laughing the group walked over a bridge and stood outside the town of Ponyville, facing the citizens go on their daily lives. "Okay, we need to move quick. We'll split into groups to cover more ground, and use the earpieces to stay in contact with one another. Sunny, Indigo, Echo, and Flash you're all together. Go to the east side of town."

The three pegasi then left and went that direction. "Sugarcoat and Sour, you head to the west part of town." With that, Sugarcoat and Sour trotted off. "And Lemon, you're with me. We're going to see Princess Twilight."

After that, Tox and Lemon trotted along looking around Ponyville, while getting a few stares as they saw the sight of new ponies coming into town. The arm, the eyepatch and ears did get Toxigo some odd looks though. But it didn't bother him much.

As Lemon looked around, a bit of nervousness grew on her face, and she moved up a little closer to Toxigo.

"Hey, uh, Tox? Can I uh.. ask you something?"

"Sure Zest. What's that?" Tox asked still keeping his head forward.

"Well, uh... we're friends, right?" Lemon hesitated.

"Yeah." Tox asked.

"And, friends tell each other secrets, right?" Lemon said.

"I believe so. Yeah, why?"

Lemon and Tox stopped near a water fountain and both sat on the ledge, and Lemon began to explain. "I, uh... you know I made those awkward comments around the girls?"

Toxigo raised a brow. "You mean the ones that sounded like you found ladies hot?"

Lemon blushed out of embarrassment, and her pony ears flipped down. "Uh... yeah. I uh... none of my friends know this, but, uh.. Can you keep a secret?"

"Actually, I already know you're a lesbian, and that's fine."

Lemon looked up at Toxigo with a look of sadness and shock on her face. "It is? But... wait how do you know?"

"Your lack of subtly kind of makes it obvious. But, its okay. Being gay is nothing to be ashamed of. It doesn't really affect the way we look at you. You're still the same silly, fun, enjoyable rocker we know and love. I'm cool with it" Toxigo smiled.

"Yeah but... what will they think? Its bad enough I can't be myself around everyone."

Toxigo was confused. What did she mean?

"Zest, what exactly do you mean?"

"Well, back at Crystal Prep, everyone kind of looks down on people like that. Because everyone's all rich and wealthy, they believe anyone that's of 'lower class' is just... nothing. Kind of how they see people like me. The only reason I'm still standing and going to CPA is because I had to pretend to be straight. And I hate it!" Lemon eyes began watering, and her lips began trembling.

Toxigo was shocked. He had never seen this side of Lemon before.

"Do you know how hard it is, to walk around, in a school where you can't be yourself? Where you have to be straight!? Where you can't just be yourself and find... your own girlfriend..." Lemon cried into her hooves and Toxigo pulled her in for a hug.

"Lemon, I'm so sorry... I didn't know you felt like this."

Lemon pulled out of the hug and looked at Toxigo with bloodshot eyes. "Its hard... My own dad doesn't know I prefer women."

"Well, Lemon, I don't know how much help I can be, but I do understand how you feel. Every day of my life at CPA, I've had to hide my secret that you already know. At least you're actually a human. Everyone's looked at me like I was a weirdo. But, I can tell you this."

Lemon looked up at Toxigo with her eyes still heavy from water.

"Believe it or not, there are actually two girls at CHS, Vinyl and Octavia, and they're dating each other. And everyone treats them like regular people, because, nothing had really changed about them. And I know being gay hasn't changed you a bit. And that's why I'm proud to call you a friend again." Toxigo gave a friendly smile.

"So... you don't care that I..."

"No, I don't. You're a very cool girl. A little rough around the shoulders and a little reckless, but still a cool person. I guarantee you'll find a very sweet girl. Maybe someone who has the same interests as you, someone who's sweet. And I bet they'll love the heavy metal tunes you like."

Lemon smiled as she wiped the tears from her face. "Thanks."

"I'm sure you'll find a special someone. Now, what do you say we keep moving, I think we should find- Oh my god, don't look!"

"What?" Lemon asked before looking.

"I said don't look!"

All three of their eyes were facing down on the concrete rocks they were sitting on, and away from the direction Tox asked not to look at.

"Why are we looking down?" Lemon asked.

"Because that's Princess Celestia with Twilight! That's not good!"

"Princess, Celestia?" Lemon asked.

"Long story short, she's the ruler of Equestria who raises the sun, and is not one to be messed with. Ugh, but I still need to talk to Twilight. *sigh*, guess we're gonna have to face them either way. Come on, lets go."

Princess Twilight and Princess Celestia were standing outside of the castle doors talking about the strange message Twilight had been sent.

"And Sunset told you to shut down the portal to the other world?" Celestia kindly asked.

"Yes, but something doesn't add up. The handwriting doesn't look like hers and I don't see how--"

"How Chrysalis could have made her way into the human world?" Tox finished. All of their eyes turned to see Toxigo standing along with Lemon Zest.

"Wait, who are you?" Twilight asked

"My name is Toxigo Paralysis, pleasure to make your acquaintance Princess Twilight. And the reason Sunset sent that message was because she along with the other human equivalents to you and your friends were kidnapped. And I need your help to get my Shimmer-cakes back."

"Shimmercakes? Why... Wait. What do you mean, kidnapped?" Twilight asked.

"What part of kidnapped do you not understand?" Toxigo groaned. "Queen Chrysalis along with the Dazzlings kidnapped Sunset, and the rest of the human equivalents to you and your friends. Fortunately, they're trapped in that world for the time being since I asked you to shut down the portal to the statue, and with the help of a member on my rescue team, we blew up the way we got here so they couldn't follow us."

"Oh, uh... Wait. You're the new guy Sunset told me she met. Yeah, you're her new friend." Twilight's memory was coming back to her.

"Um... yeah.." Toxigo hesitated.

Twilight zoomed up and shook hooves with Toxigo's prosthetic hoof, and Toxigo returned the hoof shake.

"Very nice to meet you. So... do you have any idea where Sunset and the others are?"

"That in fact I do. They're over in the changeling hive, but unfortunately I have no idea where that is." Toxigo sadly replied.

"I do!" Twilight said. "Follow me."

Toxigo, Princess Celestia, Twilight, and Lemon Zest trotted inside of the castle and entered into the throne room. Lemon gazed in shock of the amount of thrones.

"Whoa, dude... that's a lot of thrones." Lemon said.

Princess Celestia then guided the three of them with a light shining from her horn as it went over the map, leading it over to a dark patch of mountains with skulls around them.

"Thats... that's where the changeling hive is?" Toxigo stuttered.

"Unfortunately, yes." Celestia replied.

"Well, isn't that just great...." Toxigo sarcastically said.

"What if we help?" Twilight asked.

Toxigo's ears, flipped up. He was offered help, from Royalty no less?

"You.... you'd offer to help?" Toxigo asked.

"Of course. Sunset's one of my friends, and a changeling invasion is nothing to forget. We'll totally help you out." Twilight smiled.

Toxigo gave a smile back. "Thanks Twilight." He then turned his head to Princess Celestia. "Are you going to help too?"

"I would help you either way." Celestia replied with a friendly tone in her voice.

"Thank you, Princess Celestia. Well if we're going to find them, we're gonna need to round up everyone. I'll see about calling in the Shadowbolts."

Tox then fired a beam from his horn showing a holographic screen showing the front of Echo Dash who had on her Rainbow Dash skin suit still torn. "Echo Dash, where are you?"

"Wait, that's Rainbow Dash. Why did you call her Echo?"

"We'll explain that later dude." Lemon responded.

"Echo, are the Shadowbolts with you, and if they are, where are you and them?" Tox asked.

"They're all with us, unfortunately they are being held down by Royal Guards."

Toxigo snarled his teeth. "What do you mean... held...down?"

Echo then gestured her head to the left to move the supposed screen, and Tox turned the screen view towards them and it showed some of Celestia's Royal Guards holding down Indigo, Sour, Sugarcoat, and Sunny while Flash and Echo stood by watching them wrestle.

"Echo, care to explain to me why they're all tied up?"

"Disobedience of your orders specifying not to attract attention and not to cause trouble resulted in them being taken down by Royal Guards."

The screen then turned back to Echo Dash, and then Flash appeared to the side.

"Echo and I talked to the guards and we backed off as they ordered us to since we didn't go attacking any guards." Flash finally saw he was talking to Toxigo but she saw Twilight standing with him.

"Hey Twilight, uh... its been a while hasn't it?"

"Flash, just see about getting the Royal Guards on over here with everyone. And that includes...." Twilight forgot who the others that were with them, until Tox spoke up.

"Echo and the Shadowbolts." Toxigo groaned.

"And that includes Echo and the Shadowbolts. We'll see you soon."

"Okay Twilight. We'll be there soon." Flash smile.

After hanging up, Tox then banged his head against the door in frustration. "One job, one stinkin job, and that was to not attract attention or cause trouble, how is that hard to do!?"

Chapter 16: Load Up/Colonial Wondercolts

Author's Notes:

Things begin to get a little darker in this chapter, just warning you guys...

And apologizing for the grammar issues. I've wanted to get this out.

Twilight and Princess Celestia were very concerned. The look on Tox's face wasn't a happy face, especially after finding out that his allies that he brought with him attracted unwanted attention, and thought they all could take down equines that they had never met.

"You have got to be kidding me! Why did you attack them!?" Toxigo growled.

"They were staring us like we were weird." Indigo argued.

"We were acting weird, we all kept walking on our hind legs like humans." Sugarcoat bluntly stated. "We did get one green pony smiling at us like crazy. I'm pretty sure we made her day."

"Still, you attacked them!? Why!? Actually, no, I don't care anymore, I'm just gonna say it. You cannot attack civilians in other dimensions who have lived in their environment a lot longer than you! I can't believe I have to tell you this, but I really shouldn't. Imagine what would happen if you did that to the enemy, they would immediately find out we're here, take you, and strike an attack! It's bad enough I let Shimmercakes get taken along with everyone else, but I can't let anyone else be kidnapped because that will only escalate our problems even more. GOT IT!?"

The five Shadowbolts in pony forms with their heads down in shame all gave slow nods along with face expressions showing they were clearly terrified of him.

"Good. Now come on, we've got to make a ship, and we got to get moving."

Soon the giant group started to get moving, but the Shadowbolts stayed in the back, far from Tox worried they would make him mad again, and everyone could tell they were sad and ashamed about what they did. Flash having concerns for Tox, galloped ahead and trotted next to Tox. "Hey dude, you alright?"

"No I'm not Flash, I'm stressed out of my mind. Its bad enough that Sunset or the others aren't here, but our situation is worse. Queen Chrysalis probably has enough power to basically obliterate me, its my fault her getting this much power to begin with, and on top of that, I basically lied to everyone about what I really am, and I'm afraid of losing everyone I love! I... I..."

"Dude. Its alright. I know how you feel actually." Flash said in a calm voice.

"You do?" Tox asked raising one brow of his red eye, while also wiping one tear away.

"Yeah, I do. I've been under lots of stress before. Like back in the Battle of the Bands, I honestly thought it was my fault that we didn't win the competition. I thought that it was all of my fault for us not winning, and from there my friends go mad at me for it, and they even yelled at me when we were trying to figure what song to play so we could win. I got so stressed out that even there I wanted to just quit, and not be their friends anymore. And when you said that you were stressed out over the situation, you got me thinking of back when we were back on Earth. So, yeah, I understand how you feel. But I can tell you this, it gets better. Soon, you'll be able to resolve all of those issues, and you'll be back with your friends before you even know it. And don't worry about being stressed. I'm positive that you will do great. And we will win this."

Tox gave a smile to Flash and gave a nod. "Thanks Flash. Your wisdom is admirable. I appreciate your support, and I'm glad you understand what it means being in my hooves."

"I understand that, more than you know it. And I can personally guarantee you, that Queen's gonna get more punches by me than she will on you."

Toxigo just simply smiled at his friend's remark. His compassion was very admirable.

The group eventually found a stopping point in the center of town where they had addressed to all of the civilians in Ponyville to just stay in town and do not go to Canterlot until they handled the situation, luckily they had several royal guards to stay in Ponyville in ever a case that the changelings would invade. But as the giant group stood together, Tox gave them the plan on what they would have to do.

"Alright, here is the plan. We're going to create a giant ship using all of our brains and wits, magic, technology, hard work, blood, sweat, and gears. After we make the ship, we'll park near the Changeling hive, go inside and try to get our friends out, and we're only going for just that. Nothing else, we don't need any of those bugs chasing after us. But there are chances they probably will have found their way back here, so I strongly suggest everyone put all of their strength and wits into it. I thank you all for the support you've given me, and all the help I can get."

Everyone gave smile and nods in response to his speech. Until Indigo raised a hoof.

"Um... two questions? One how are going to make a ship, and two how can any of us help if we're horses?" Indigo asked.

Toxigo face-hooved in annoyance. "Alright, look. I have planned for that--"

"Yet you didn't plan for how we'd land?" Sugarcoat asked.

"Look! The way I see it, there are two options. One, we use the Alicorn Amulet to transform you back into your human forms which will make me entirely useless considering it's corrupting me, both mentally and physically, or we work on making this ship while you're still horses, and I turn you back when we're done."

The girls and Flash pondered his offers, and Echo spoke up.

"Probability dictates that we'll need your help in technological services." Echo replied.

Toxigo then nodded to Echo and then looked at the rest of the group. "Never mind its been settled. Now, if we're going to stop them, we better load up. We've got a long journey ahead of us."

The blueprints were rolled out, the tools were laid out on a table, and construction outfits were put on. The group began to start building the ship, and Toxigo began instructing them.

"Twilight, you and Flash are on turbos! Indy, you and I are on decks! Lemon and Sugarcoat, you're on support beams! Sunny and Sour, you two are on sails! Celestia... I don't even know what to have you do. Just stand and watch pretty, I guess, I don't know, I don't order high royalty around." Toxigo ordered.

Five Minutes Later...

"Are you freaking kidding me?" Indigo said. "You're expecting me to pick up a hammer with my bare hooves? How can I pick it up if I don't have any fingers to freaking grab it!?"

"That's easy." Toxigo said.

Toxigo moved his hoof over the hammer, touched it, and then somehow got a grip onto it and picked it up, making Indigo's jaw drop.

"Okay... bullshit! You didn't just do that!" Indigo yelled.

"Yeah I did." Toxigo smirked. He was feeling pretty good right now.

"But.... how!?"

"I'm not telling you. What's the fun in that?" Toxigo huffed as he trotted off. Until he came back to speak again. "That's a little something I learned from Pinkie Pie."

The group started getting material together to start creating a giant boat. Many parts stood about like metal, wood, chemicals, nails, and much more. Toxigo even pulled out from his saddle bags, several amounts of blueprints to help them get an idea on what ship for them to make.

"Okay, I got several ideas I wanted to use. I wanted to create a ship with turbo engines so that would get us there faster, and I've got enough material with us to help create working engines. We just need to get them made."

Echo got to work on assembling the engines, all the while everyone else continued to assemble the rest of the ship which was starting to look like a work of art.

4 Long Hard Working Hours (With Magic) Later

Everyone looked up to see their masterpiece had been finished. The ship was now complete and ready to go. On it, there were several turbo engines at the back of it to speed up, and some near the front to help assist it off the ground. The outside exterior was all designed in the same art style that was Toxigo's dojo home on Earth, there were anchors hanging off the side, a ladder to climb up on, and giant sails to keep it sailing in the sky. And sentry light cannons were mounted on the sides of the ship so they could run on their own without any pony or human to need to stand behind to control it. There was also a dragon shaped head near the front

"Okay. Shadowbolts, Flash, Echo. Get ready. I'm gonna see if this will work." Toxigo said.

The 7 of them got ready and stood on their hooves in front of Toxigo. His eye illuminated menacing red once again, the amulet glowed once more. Soon the 8 of them began glowing from the outside, and in one puff of smoke... they were humans, once again.

The girls eyes opened to look around them, and found they were roughly the same size as the ponies next to them.

"Oh, they're so adorable!" Sour said. "If you don't count the real life horse smell."

"Can we please forget about that? I didn't like walking around naked, its just so... it didn't feel right." Sunny said.

"Well, we've got our clothes back on, that's good isn't it?" Lemon asked.

The girls all replied 'yes' and nods in agreement. Only one slight problem...

Indigo turned her head to look at Toxigo who was crouched on the ground, with the Alicorn Amulet lying in front of him, and he was wheezing in pain.

"Toxy? You okay?" Indigo asked.

Toxigo raised his metal hand up, gesturing for her to wait, and he slowly got himself on his feet.

"I really need to stop using that thing from on." Toxigo said catching his breath. He began to try and stand like normal but he almost fell forward, and accepted a hand from Flash and Echo who helped him get back up.

"Is that why you said you didn't want to use that thing?" Flash asked.

"Yep. That damn thing not only tried to get me to kill Indy, but it's also eating away my own magic. Here on out, I must stop using magic. I'll just fight with my own hands and weapons." Toxigo replied.

Toxigo turned his head towards Twilight and Princess Celestia who both looked shocked and had no idea on how they should react. Their friend that they just made in a few minutes had possession of a highly dangerous weapon that Twilight had to have a duel against due to its previous user's intentions.

Toxigo groaned from seeing their faces. "Okay, I'll explain why I have the dangerous weapon with me when we get this ship moving. Okay?"

Twilight's head just shook like crazy trying to get herself awake and not think that was a dream. She secretly wished it wasn't a dream.

Soon, everyone started walking on a loading board and got onto the ship, Tox got into the main cabin where he'd be taking control of driving, along with Flash and Indigo, and everyone else was hanging onto something on the ship so none of them would be falling.

"Alright everyone hang on tight, we're gonna be blasting off in a few moments. Echo, you have the countdown."

"10. Clearing launch area... 9, pulling up ladders, 8, cargo supply checked, 7, checking circuit boards.... 6, firing turbos... 5... 4.... 3... 2...1... BLAST.... OFF!!!!!"

The giant ship fired flames and energy from its turbos, and floated up into the sky, then making a circle turn, it flew across Ponyville and started heading off towards the mountains. Inside the cabin, Tox had set the ship in auto-pilot mode, so he could go onto the deck and talk to the others with a look of determination on his face. He was determined to get his friends and his Shimmer-cakes back, and he wasn't going to fail.

"Sunset, here I come."

Up in the skies above, the flagship now labeled the CHS Wondercolt written in bright blue and yellow on its side, soared above in the cloudy air heading towards the changeling hive. Many pony civilians saw them above, but they just ignored them as no form of attack or harm had been coming from it. On the ship, the Shadowbolts all gasped in awes and oohs as they watched the sky above them.

"I never been this high in the sky before. Its amazing." Flare stated in awe.

"My dad took me on several airplane trips, he showed me sights like this when were over in airfields back in Cloudsdale. It was awesome!" Indigo said.

But both of their thoughts were interrupted when they heard Sour Sweet throwing up and she was holding onto the railing near the side of the ship, letting the contents of her stomach fall towards the ground.

"Oh look there's my breakfast" Sour stated sounding sick.

"Ew...." came from Sunny and Indigo. "Since when do you get airsick?"

"I guess I never have been one for being up in the air. I never went on airplanes so, I guess the feeling's just new.... Oh, one moment." Sour then leaned back over against the railing again and let more contents out, and Sugarcoat trotted on over hearing the noise.

"She can't handle being this high up, can she?" Sugarcoat asked.

Sunny and Indigo shook their heads saying no.

"Ah. That's understandable. Not everyone wants to be up over a thousand feet in the air like this." Sugarcoat replied. She then looked around on the deck and found someone she couldn't see.

"Where's Lemon Zest?"

Up in the main cabin, Toxigo kept his hands at the ship wheel, while Lemon sat at a computer chair to a computer screen with a headset on, continuously rocking to her tunes. The computers she had been looking at were all Point of View camera's that were sitting on shoulder armor for the rescue group. Above the camera screens, there were little heart monitors that read everyone's health. all the while Flash was looking at locations on the map of Equestria.

"Flash, activate navi-computer. See where we are on the map." Toxigo ordered.

"Got it captain." Flash then messed with the controls and found the location they were at. "We're almost there actually."

"That's good. Just need to keep it on autopilot and we'll be there soon." Toxigo stated.

Lemon then got off from her chair and started dancing all around, and soon she came right up next to Tox. "Dude, you got to hear this!"

Lemon's headset plopped right onto Toxigo's head, resulting in Toxigo dropping to the floor agonizing in pain trying to get the headset off. Soon it was thrown off and landed on Lemon's feet, and Toxigo stood back up looking less than pleased.

"Two things. One, you're lucky the ship is in autopilot mode. Two, your idea of fun and everyone else's ideas are different. So can you kindly sit back down and keep an eye on the POV cams to make sure they're still working?" Toxigo huffed sounding impatient.

"No problem dude." Lemon walked back to her chair and continuously flipped through more cameras. And at that moment, Twilight then entered into the cabin, keeping her wings in place.

"How's the control going? Are we almost there yet?"

"Navi-computer dictates that we will arrive in less than 30 parsecs." Echo replied.

"What did she say?" Flash asked.

"We'll arrive in almost about 5 minutes. I think. I don't know, I don't even know what parsecs even mean, I'm just giving an answer" Tox replied.

Flash then walked over to a station chair, while Twilight sat in the other one and the two began striking up a conversation. "So, this is what you actually look like?"

"Yeah, I'm sorry its a little weird to see me as a... well, a pony."

"No I figured I'd see you in your real form soon enough. So, is it true, you're a princess?" Flash asked.

"Yes, its true. But I don't really carry that title everywhere I go though. So, how is the Human me in your world?" Twilight asked.

"She's doing really good, everyone's warmed up to her. Just wish I didn't remember the thing that happened to her before."

"And whats that?"

"Oh, its nothing. But what I'm saying is sort of a touchy subject matter, and it kind of drives Tox the wrong way." Flash replied.

"He's not lying Twilight." Tox yelled back keeping his eye on the sky.

"Well just tell me, what happened?"

"Alright, uh... Something that happened with our world's Twilight turned her into a raging she-demon." Flash began.

"Just like with Sunset at the Fall Formal. But that was when she placed my crown on her head, what ever happened there?"

"Uh, I think its best Tox tell you. He knows this story better than I do." Flash replied.

"Basically Twilight, what happened is the "teammates" your equivalent had pressured and blackmailed her into releasing magic she had accidentally stolen in an attempt to win a petty high school competition when its intents and purposes was for our schools to get along and make friends with one another. Real mature. In fact, I think its almost interest- Whoa, oh dear!"

"What, what's going on!?" Flash screamed.

The ship's alarm began going off, and it kept shaking right and left as Toxigo began going crazy at the wheel trying to keep it stable. And up ahead, there was the changeling cave... only problem was it was several feet above, and they right smack below it going to crash into another mountain.

"Echo, I said to set the controls fly over the mountain, not into it!"

Echo fell off to the side and banged her head against a support beam, luckily no damage had been done.

"The settings applied onto the rudder is only for left and right." Echo replied still in a monotone voice.

"What do you mean the rudder can only turn left or right!? What kind of ship can't go up or down, I told you that in the plans! Oh, oh dear! HANG ON!!!! AHHH!!!!"

Everyone started screaming as they were about to crash right into the black rocky mountain. Everyone turned their heads away not wanting to see, and then everything went black.

Twilight and Flash came to, to notice that the ship had shot itself right into the mountain. Part of it was leaning forward down, and the back rudders were sticking out. Their eyes then locked onto everyone pulling themselves together trying to get up. As they stood up, they looked near the front of the control room and saw that Lemon and Toxigo were now lying on the glass window in front of the control cabin, both looking distressed over the crash.

"See, this is why I should never be allowed to drive any moving vehicle." Toxigo bluntly said with a hint of sarcasm.

"Did you crash every car you drove?" Lemon asked raising a brow. This gave a little bit of concern to the green haired chick.

"No, its just having one eye creates horrible depth perception." Toxigo replied.

"Oh, well, at least we didn't fly through the giant window." Lemon said trying to lighten the mood.

On the deck of the ship, Sugarcoat now was lying on top of Sunny Flare due from the crash, with her glasses now off her face.

"Sugarcoat...please... get off! You're... crushing my spine!" Sunny grunted.

Sugarcoat got off of Sunny's back, re-adjusted her hair into place, and placed her glasses back on her face, while also helping up some of the others.

"Well, we made it."

Sunny stood up and looked ahead at a bit of the rocks the ship had crashed into. Some of them were now on top of the ship.

"This is starting to become a common thing. I hope we don't crash again, because that's becoming a little painful." Sunny said.

After getting everyone back on their feet and hooves, they managed to pull the ship out of the mountain and park it over to another mountain. Soon after planning, and going over plans, a small rescue team started loading up. Tox, Flash, Sour, Indigo, Sugarcoat, Lemon, Sunny, and Echo began climbing up to the top where the cave's opening was.

"Alright, before we go in, I must add in this comment. You all look like awesome war heroes. Colonial Marines." Toxigo grinned.

"Wouldn't it make more sense to call us Colonial Wondercolts?" Sugarcoat bluntly asked raising a brow.

"That's a good point actually, yeah, Colonial Wondercolts fits much better. Oh by the way, do not worry. I have Princess Twilight and Celestia set up in the main control room on the ship, and they con monitor everything on some TV screens we had installed. That's also part of the reason I have clipped these little mini cams on you guys." Toxigo replied.

"So, whatever we see, they'll be able to see as well?" Indigo asked.

"Affirmative." Echo replied.

Toxigo then looked at everyone again to see everyone was now suited up, and ready to move. One thing everyone had on were shoulder armor equipped with a mini camera mounted on the side, but the rest of their attire was a different question.

Flash Sentry had on a headset with a microphone, camouflage pants, and he was holding a pulse rifle in front of him. The only addition of his clothes he didn't have was the gray jacket because it would be hot inside the cave.

Lemon had camouflage short shorts, black boots, and a white tank top. On her belt, she had a small device built to track magic like Twilight's detector she used before, and on her head, she had a headset equipped with a microphone and antenna, that way she could pick up sounds from far away and listen in the enemies conversation, a purple visor attached to the headset for her to look through and detect other threats, and she had armor that had a heavy light cannon attached to it.

Indigo Zap had her goggles flipped down over her eyes, black finger-less gloves, and a pulse rifle. Her clothes were long camouflage pants, still retaining the pink shirt, black boots, and two holsters strapped to her legs holding two energy pistols.

Sugarcoat had the same kind of equipment like Lemon, only she had on a visor that would allow her to see deeper in the mountain, along with picking up more frequencies.

Sunny Flare and Sour Sweet as the last ones, had armor padding on their arms and feet, and wore camouflage shorts, and gray tank tops along with finger-less gloves.

Last one being Echo, she now wore dark pants, a white shirt with a gear shooting a lightning bolt graphic on it, a punk black jacket, and black sunshades.

"Okay, Wondercolts. Lets get going." Toxigo ordered.

The trip entering into the mountain, seemed to be going quite well. No signs of danger were yet to come. But in everyone's eyes, the changeling hive was very disgusting to walk through. Several amounts of gooey, green blobs kept on leaking and they splattered all over the cavern every time a single one made a drop. The group luckily were able to avoid each one that made a fall.

In order of them walking, Toxigo took the lead with a light shining on his shoulder, followed by Indigo right behind him, and Sour behind Indigo, and the others right behind. Toxigo as he kept moving forward, kept breathing heavily and his eye constantly darting everywhere just making sure they were safe. Sour then picked up on how Toxigo was sounding like he was hyperventilating with the heavy breathing and his shaking hands.

"Toxigo, are you okay?" Sour asked with the sweetest voice she could muster.

"I... I... I guess... so.... W-Why?" Toxigo whispered.

"You sound like someone who's dying." Sour grumbled. "Not that its a bad thing... but, are you okay?"

"No, I'm... I'm fine. I guess its just... the thought of... s-something popping up and attacking us... is a l-little scary." Toxigo confessed.

"Well, how about if we sing a bit? The changelings won't get set off by those, will they?" Sour asked.

"No. As far as my knowledge goes, you'll only set them off if you accidentally pull the trigger, or shoot any of their babies as they're hatching. Our voices shouldn't set them off." Toxigo replied.

"Okay, well what do you want to sing?" Sour asked.

"Well, I... Hold on. Sour can I ask you something?" Toxigo asked.

"Um... sure." Sour replied.

"How come you're starting to be nice to me, and then a few seconds after your remark you're being mean? Or is it passive agressive?"

"Oh, that... its uh... actually, that's just sort of my condition" Sour replied. "I've actually got a case of schizophrenia."

"Oh... actually I have no idea what that means." Toxigo confessed.

"Schizophrenia is a chronic and severe mental disorder that affects how a person thinks, feels, and behaves." Echo replied.

Sour then sighed sadly. "Its true."

Toxigo looked back at Sour with a look of smypathy. "Oh, I'm so sorry. I didn't know."

"Its okay." Sour replied.

"Haven't you tried talking to someone about this?" Toxigo asked.

As the group made a right, and stepped over more rocks and parts of the cavern, Sour continued to explain her story.

"Well I did go to see a doctor about it, but unfortunately a few visits aren't helping me." Sour replied. "Especially since everyone looks at me like I'm some freak!"

"Well, I don't see you as a freak." Toxigo replied.

"You don't?" Sour asked.

"No. Not at all. I think its awful that somehow you managed to get my ears off my head, which I'll never understand how you did, but I don't think that condition makes you a freak. I mean, look at me. I've got a demonic eye, artificial limbs, and I'm actually a unicorn in a human body. If anyone's the freak here, that's me. You're not a freak, don't listen to those guys at CPA" Toxigo said in a calm voice.

"Oh." Sour said. She didn't have anything else to say, and she was quite surprised at Toxigo's response. "So... want to sing for a bit? Maybe that could lift your spirits up a bit?"

"I don't know how much it will do, but I can't see why not. Let me just think for a moment..." Toxigo pondered.

"I came in like a wrecking, ball..." Lemon began only to get a cold glare from Toxigo.

"Never sing anything from that atrocious person, ever." Toxigo said.

"Baby, baby, baby-" Lemon began again.

"Don't even sing that either. Both of those singers are dead to me." Toxigo said.

"Well how come?" Sunny asked.

"Well, Sunny, and this is just my personal opinion. When you give attention to those artists, you are killing the art of music. Murdering it!" Toxigo angrily replied.

"Maybe we should just not sing at all, and focus on getting your friends out." Sugarcoat replied.

As they made a right turn, Echo and Lemon took the lead up front, holding magic trackers to detect for any sight of their friends.

"So far, zip. I can't get anything out here." Lemon replied.

Toxigo's eye observed parts of the cave. He could see some very odd shapes into some of the cavern walls. Some of which looked like... wings? It was clear there were changelings inside the cave asleep.

"Okay, everyone's asleep. I hope it stays that way, I'd hate to start a war in a few minutes." Tox whispered. Everyone gave nods in response and kept moving forward.

As the group moved further into the cave, they suddenly, finally got signs of where their friends were placed. Lemon who's eyes were on the detector screen, got a reading of multiple signals on her tracker.

"Locked on targets. About a few feet away." Echo stated.

Everyone kept their stances and eyes open to look out for any changelings to attack. Sugarcoat kept surveying the area, and looked at the structures in the wall, very reminiscent to a bee hive. But luckily for them, there had been no sight of the bugs around.

The group came across a side of a cavern wall, almost of like a room, and they found human Twilight, Rainbow, Rarity, Pinkie, Applejack, and Fluttershy strapped to the walls with the green goop, all asleep, still having tape across their mouths.

"Well, we found them. I just hope they're alive." Toxigo replied.

Suddenly, the girls started slowly waking up, and they all groaned at the feeling of getting the tape ripped off their mouths.

"Ow... agh... that hurts... Toxigo! Am I ever so happy to see you again!" Rarity exclaimed, but then got a shh.

"Shh... Not so loud. We're inside the changeling hive, and while they may not be waking up to our talking, they can get set off. Are you okay? They didn't hurt any of you, did they?" Toxigo said as the Bolts began cutting through their restraints.

"Oh goodness no." Rarity said shaking her head. "They just strapped us to the wall and left us here alone. Could have used without the gags though..." Rarity replied. She then looked to see Flash and Echo standing with him, along with the other Bolts.

"Oh, and you brought Flash and the Shadowbolts as well!" Rarity cooed.

"They offered to help, and honestly I couldn't say no. But, wait a minute. Something doesn't add up. How are you all still humans? Shouldn't you be horses by now?" Toxigo asked.

"That disgusting bug put a spell on us that would keep us humans. She said it would make, 'transporting' us a little easier." Rarity groaned.

"Well I believe we now have those jerks trapped back in the human world. Which is bad on its own but I was concerned about getting you guys. Now, where is Sunset?" Tox whispered.

"Sunset is over near the changeling throne. They were ordered to keep a close eye on her for the Queen's plan." Applejack said quietly.

"Okay, I got to go get her free." Tox started to get moving, but-

"Wait, some of us should go with you. As backup, of course." Sour whispered.

"Okay. Flash, Sour Sweet, you're with me. Everyone else, stay on guard, and defend. Alert us for any changeling movement."

"Yes sir." Echo whispered. Rainbow Dash raised an eyebrow facing Echo and asked. "Wait, isn't she the robot double that Sunset said she saw when Tox's arm exploded?"

"Incorrect. I am Echo Dash. Built to protect those who cannot protect themselves." Echo replied.

"We'll let them have a quiet conversation." Tox said before leading Flash and Sour away.

After crawling through some more passageways, and cave taverns, they eventually found the queen's throne. Over on the left of it, their eyes turned onto the sight of Sunset knocked out, tape across her mouth, and glued to wall just like the others.

Soon they quickly moved towards her, and Sour and Flash cut through the goo, and Tox removed the tape off of Sunset's mouth. "Shimmer-cakes? Come on, please... don't be dead."

Sour could see the look of distress that had laid on Tox's face, hoping for Sunset's health to be intact. And hope had been given as Sunset slowly woke up and saw Tox in her peripheral vision.

"T-Toxy? You saved me." Sunset cooed.

"Technically, we saved you while he had a mild panic attack, but he did plan everything and led us all to here, so yeah." Sour replied.

After Sunset got free from her bonds, Tox held onto an arm so she could get assistance walking. "Alright, lets get out of here."

"Toxy... we can't. They know you're here." Sunset whispered. "It's a trap..."

"What!?" Tox whisper yelled. After a short pause, he noticed something he didn't pick up on. He turned his head around facing the darkness above along with the others, and noticed a pair of green glowing eyes in the dark. Then a bit of pain hit Toxigo's stomach as he groaned in pain, and the 3 of them noticed something else. A stream of glowing red energy was flowing from the Alicorn Amulet into the darkness of the cave, followed by a maniacal laughter.

"Yes... the power grows..."

Suddenly the figured emerged revealing herself to be a powered up, buffed up, and stronger, Queen Chrysalis. She now had six legs, set in the position of a praying mantis, her front two legs were now giant claws with two talon fingers on each one, fangs and thorax's jarring out near the sides of her jaw, and horns and spikes were poking from the back of her head, down near her mosquito wings. And she constantly made clicking noises with her jaw as she spoke.

"Oh, sweet Celestia..." Tox muttered to himself trying to get up.

"What a lovely surprise, to see her friends try to come in and save her. Surprised you had the gall to try and break into my hive to free your friends, but enough talk, you're going to die...." A beam of energy started to glow from her horn, as she was getting ready to obliterate the group where they stand.

"Get out of here, I'll hold her back." Sour told them.

"What!? Sour I'm not gonna leave anyone behind-"

"I said now! I may not have done a lot of things that were good, but I'll have it said that Sour Sweet died sacrificing herself for her friends." Sour replied.

The three then ran out of the cavern, and Sour stood proudly with a determined expression on her face.

"Now, will you kindly, follow me..."

The Queen stomped her hooves onto the ground and Sour pointed her heavy light cannon towards the Queen, with an over the top expression on her face.

The Queen, unfazed by Sour's heavy artillery, just laughed manically. "Fools die... as you will know..."

A giant slam hit the ground, and Sour's eyes widened. Did that slam come from behind her...

She turned her head around to gaze into 6 glowing scary eyes in the darkness. Distracted by the eyes, the Queen took her opportunity and her horn glowed with a green aura.

"I think I will send my regards to Toxigo. Farewell... MUAHAHAHHAHA!!!"

Back on the CHS Wondercolt, Twilight behind the computer screen gasped in horror as she saw the heart rate monitor for Sour Sweet suddenly drop to a flat-line. She couldn't be...

The group of three being Flash, Sunset, and Toxigo kept moving their way back towards the others, and all they heard was a scream from Sour which sent a chill down Tox's spine. He hoped what had happened wasn't what he was thinking.

"No, we got to go back for her!" Tox immediately turned around, only for Flash to hold him back.

"She told us to keep running, and that's what we got to do. I don't want to leave her either, but right now, she said for us to get out of here with everyone alive." Flash insisted.

Tox stood for a moment taking that in consideration, but realized there was nothing he could do to save her, and they kept moving forward.

With the others, they kept their guard up trying to search for anything out of place, but so far they had nothing. Unfortunately, the speak of the devil had spoken, and their trackers were going off. "Whoa, hang on I got something!" Lemon exclaimed. "There are multiple signals, all over the place."

"I don't see anything." Sugarcoat replied.

"Sugarcoat's right, there isn't anything around here." Applejack said.

"No, I'm telling you, there's something moving and its not us!" Lemon exclaimed.

For Lemon was right. Sounds of a little bit of buzzing and crawling could be heard which sent chills down everyone's spine, including Fluttershy's.

"They're all around us man, they're everywhere." Lemon panicked.

And in a few moments, Flash, Sunset and Tox ran right into the area they were in. "What just happened!?" Flash yelled.

Rainbow Dash panicked, "Those changelings just woke up! Wait, where's Sour?"

"Sour said she'd hold our backs while we ran back here, but I don't think she's okay." Sunset replied.

"She's dead!" Princess Twilight shouted into the microphone. This got everyone gasping.

"No..." Human Twilight said.

"She... She can't be!" Lemon sputtered.

"I'm serious! Her heart rate monitor just dropped to a flat-line!" Princess shouted.

Tox's rage slowly grew as his fist was clenched up, and he loaded up his arm into its rifle mode. "Lemon?"

"Yeah?" Lemon asked.

Tox loaded up his arm gun, making a cocking noise, and yelled- "LETS ROCK!!!!"

"YEAH!!!!"

"YEAH!!!!!!" Everyone shouted.

Changelings began emerging from the walls and attempted to make attacks against the group but they loaded up the light cannons and fired them back.

"Locked, on, target." Echo computed.

"They're coming out of the walls! They're coming out of the freaking walls!" Indigo yelled.

"On your right man!" Lemon screamed, and soon others started screaming.

"Rainbow right behind!"

"On the left!"

"BLAST THEM!"

"They're coming out of the walls!"

Clicking, buzzing, and screams of battle came into the cavern as they continuously fired towards the bugs. Sweat ran down their faces, eyes were locked onto their targets, and the sound of shouts and screams of the waging battle bounced off the walls spreading through the cave.

"Guys, listen, you got to get out of there!" Princess Twilight yelled in the mic in the cabin. She was panicking very hard.

Human Twilight held her hand up against her ear so she could attempt to listen from her headset piece that was given to her from Princess Twilight, but she could barely hear a thing. "What!? What!? Say that again, all after, retreat!"

"I said I want you to retreat back to the front of the cave where-"

At that moment, the human Twilight didn't listen in any more, for she was grabbed and tossed into the air by a pair of arms, and taken by swarm of hooves and vanished into the darkness of the top of the cave, screaming still being taken up by the hooves.

"Twilight....Please... no..." Sunset teared up.

All that had fallen were her glasses which landed on the ground and Sunset quickly grabbed. Back at the CHS Shadowbolt, Twilight and Celestia watched the video screens in horror at the sight of them all being attacked by the changelings, and suddenly human Twilight's heart rate monitor now slowly drooping. Princess Twilight's jaw dropped when she heard them talk about the other Twilight being obliterated.

"Get them out of there, we must leave!" Celestia ordered.

Twilight quickly shouted, "Tox, Sunset, who ever is left, just get out of there now!"

"Got it Twilight, we're running out now!" Sunset yelled into her mic.

On the screens, they could see into Indigo's and Toxigo's POV cameras and watched as they freaked out attempting to flee the area.

"Where's Twilight!? Where's Twilight!?" Tox yelled into Indigo's camera looking terrified.

Indigo being horrified at what she seen yelled as she ran "Twilight's gone, lets just get the hell out of here!"

Tox realizing that they were ambushed and had fallen right into a trap, yelled. "Lets go Wondercolts!"

From the camera point of view, Twilight and Celestia could see them fighting off the changelings from their helmet cams. Flash fired towards one with his pulse rifle, Lemon had an over the top expression on her face as she fired several energy rounds to more bugs, and Tox fired bullets from his arm cannon.

"Come on, move it, move it!"

"We got to get out of here-"

"Lemon look out!"

"Flash right behind!"

"Lets go Wondercolts!"

"Keep moving!"

"We are leaving!"

"Sunset, move it!"

More shots from their light cannons fired towards the bugs, and the other two Dazzlings who attempted to destroy them as well. Back on the CHS Shadowbolt, Princess Twilight knew what she had to do. She rushed over to the cabin, and started the engine heading towards the mountain where the changeling hive resided. The engines put in all their might to rush over to the cave, and luckily they had came just in time for they were about to get out of the cave. They quickly threw out the walking board and came sight to see them escape just in time.

The first ones leaving were Indigo running and panicking, followed by Applejack and Fluttershy helping carry Rarity who had twisted her leg in the fight, followed by Sugarcoat helping Sunny, followed by Rainbow and Pinkie right behind.

"Wait. where's Sunset?" Rainbow asked.

The last ones about to exit out were Sunset who was getting a helping hand by Flash. Along with Echo, Tox, and Lemon who kept firing their weapons at the bugs and were moving their way towards the ship.

"Hurry, come on!" Rainbow yelled.

"Toxy! We are leaving!" Sunset yelled. Lemon continuously fired more energy rounds at the changelings which continued to stun them and knock them out onto the ground.

"Get em Lemon!" Toxigo shouted.

"Run for it dude!" Lemon yelled.

She pulled the trigger again, but it didn't fire anything else, which she could only assume meant she had run out of ammo.

"Oh, shoot!" Lemon freaked.

She quickly took the armor that was connected to the gun off so she could lighten the load, but it also knocked her headset off, and Tox quickly made it float into the air and went right into his hand so he got ahold of it. "Don't worry, I got your headset!"

"Thanks!"

Lemon pulled out another light cannon gun, which was a smaller one which she mounted on her arm and she fired some more energy rounds. Sunset and Flash quickly got onto the ship, and Echo pulled herself onto the boat, and Tox ran up as well, but stopped for a moment to notice Lemon still firing towards the changelings, and Sonata and Adagio were waiting to jump at her at two different sides.

"Lemon, look out!" Toxigo yelled.

Lemon took immediate action and fired some shots at Sonata who became stunned by the blasts, but Adagio took advantage of her being distracted and fired a beam of energy from her eyes which vaporized her into.... nothing. No signs of her were left, she just... vanished.

"LEMON!!! NO!!!!" Tox screamed in fear. He tried running back to go back, but Indigo kept holding him back. "No! Let me go I got to save her!"

Indigo in a bit of anger, grabbed him, faced him right in the eye and yelled. "Forget Lemon, she's dead! Get us out of here Princess!"

In a quick motion, the ship pulled itself away from the cave, and fired a missile towards the top of the cave, and boulders came tumbling down blocking the front of the cave, trapping the changelings, the Dazzlings and the Queen all inside, meaning now they all have more time to prepare to stop her. After making another spin, the ship activated its turbos and it shot off into the hopefully, peaceful valley...

Chapter 17: Midnight Awakens/I Quit

Author's Notes:

Apologies for the very short backstory that is shown here Magic Step. I was trying to keep it short, and straight to the point.

Back in the collapsed cave, Adagio was pulling her stunned sibling over to the throne room with the help of Aria, plus with some help from Chrysalis who was using her magic to help move them over.

"I can't believe this, one shot, and they get stunned." Adagio complained.

"Their weaponry counteracted against our magic... More powerful that I had imagined it to be." Chrysalis replied.

At that very moment Sonata finally woke up from their stunned slumber and got off from the dirt and pavement and stretched her limbs.

"Agh, how long have was I out?" Sonata asked.

"About half an hour." Chrysalis replied.

"Did we get any of them?" Sonata asked.

"Oh we did my dear Sonata...." Chrysalis chuckled.

Adagio stared at Chrysalis looking very unamused. "What exactly did that spell you taught us, do to them?"

Chrysalis stomped her now mantis legs over to a side of a cavern wall, and fired a beam from her horn which opened up a portal. Once the three still humanized sirens looked inside, they could barely see a thing. It was incredibly dark, but eventually they found something. Two bodies floating out in an emptiness, one was unconscious, and the other was awake and incredibly angry. One was Lemon Zest and the other was Sour Sweet.

Lemon Zest was knocked out, all the while Sour held onto her and stared with great anger towards the three sirens who stared at her.

"I will strangle you once I escape!" Sour grunted.

Sonata just stuck her tongue out at her and poked her head out of the hole with her siblings. "What is that?"

Chrysalis chucked slightly. "That is the Realm of Darkness. A void of emptiness, darkness, and death... and if those two don't get out of there in less than 24 hours, their bodies will decay... and they will die...."

"Hold on there. We captured three of them, and yet, only two of them were in there. Where's the third?" Adagio asked.

Chrysalis stomped over to another dark area, and from the darkness they could see her mantis claw pick up something, and then entered back into the light, plopping it down. She had Human Twilight held captive, as she was sitting on the ground while her feet and hands were wrapped tight from the sticky green blob, and some of the green blob was applied onto her mouth to silence her.

"I still beg to ask my dear Queen, why didn't you banish her into the same realm with the others?" Adagio asked.

"Because Ms Dazzle, those two girls have no use for me, this, human...Twilight, on the other hand has some much more use than I ever imagined. Using magic that I have absorbed from that Amulet, I took a look into her mind and have found the most interesting piece of information.." Chrysalis then started circling Twilight as she spoke, and kept making clicking sounds with her mouth, "Our little Twilight turned into the most horrifying being I could ever imagine, she had transformed into a she-demon properly named... Midnight Sparkle..."

Twilight's eyes expressed great fear of the thought that could be forming inside the Queen's head.

"What's the point here, your highness?" Aria grumbled.

"The point being is that we're going to have her, help us... by transforming her into the very nightmare that continues to haunt her to this very day."

Twilight tried getting out of her restraints and screams muffled from her blob gag, but no luck.

"And just how are we going to do that? In case you haven't noticed our powers do not work in that manner." Adagio asked with some concern.

"I am well aware of that Adagio... Which is why I absorbed the magic from the Alicorn Amulet in the first place...Now. Lets begin, the transformation..." Chrysalis chuckled.

Chrysalis's horn began to glow green, her eyes turned into white voids, and fire began emanating from her breath. Her mantis legs dug into the ground to keep her in place, her claws clicked and snapped, her chest began glowing green and arched back getting ready for a blast...

After she glowed, she shot her chest back up, and a laser emitted from her horn, her eyes, and her breath began blasting dark purple magic towards a scared Twilight on the ground, creating a bunch of smoke, clouding their vision.

Once the smoke had cleared, there now floating, was a reawakened, nightmare. She was no longer the sweet Twilight her friends knew. Her eyes opened, and stared down the shocked humanized Sirens. They didn't know whether to be scared, shocked, or happy in an evil sense.

Twilight now was in the form, of a raging she demon. Her hair was all sticking up in the air waving, a flaming cyan mask was worn on her face, a cyan horn formed on the top of her head, huge dark black wings with a cyan glowing stream on each one of them were keeping her hovering in the air, and her outfit was embezzled in dark purple.

Chrysalis was very proud of her evil achievement and laughed maniacally, followed by the now returned, Midnight Sparkle.

"MUAHAHAHAHAA!!! I am back once again!" Midnight boomed.

"Excellent... Now with the sound of a siren's call, a she-demon, and a changeling queen, nothing can stop us now!"

Chrysalis, the Sirens, and Midnight all shared a maniacal laughter. Nothing would stop them now...

Back on the CHS Wondercolt, everyone was slowly recovering from the battle that had just occurred. Everyone was down in the medical ward and a few of them were getting patched up from their wounds. Sugarcoat sat on a bed while bandages were being wrapped around the bottom of her left leg, just above her foot. Rarity had a full on bandage to set her right foot back into position after she twisted it, and Sunny was getting a bandage wrapped around the top of her head after hitting it against some of the walls of the cavern during their escape. As they were getting patched up, Indigo was checking the computer for their vitals which all read to be okay and healthy. But she checked a screen for Twilight's vitals which were all high on normal.

"Hey, guys check it out. Twilight's still alive. Her vitals are all alive, she's healthy and okay!" Indigo said with still a state of panic. She was still shaken up from the fight in the hive.

Toxigo shook with a little bit of fear, and then spoke up "T-Then.... we.. we got to go back for her." Tox stammered.

"What!?" Indigo sputtered.

"I'm not leaving anyone behind!"

"Forget that, I'm not going back in that hive with those monsters!" Indigo yelled.

"Its not right to leave them behind!"

"Toxigo!" Indigo then got right up in Tox's face and unleashed a major amount of anger and distress. "Will you think about what just happened for one goddamn second!? Maybe you haven't been keeping up on current events but we just got our asses kicked, we lost Lemon and Sour, and that... thing, has an entire army on her side! You are trying to win a war that you have no chance of winning!"

"This isn't the Friendship Games, Indy!" Tox yelled.

Silence filled the room, and both Indigo and Tox stood glaring angry faces with each other with clenched fists. Nostrils were flared, expressions were angered, and everyone was wondering if they were going to fight each other.

"This... is... not... a game. The fate of our entire world depends on us" Toxigo replied with full seriousness.

"Oh my god, you sound just like Cinch saying the Friendship Games are all depending on Twilight unleashing magic! Do you not see that you have no way to win this!?"

"I never took you for a coward, Zappy." Toxigo snared with his arms crossed.

"Oh, I'm the coward here!? I'm the coward!? Have you not seen yourself lately!? Your eye has become scary, you've been panicking and shaking ever since you found out who the kidnapper was, and you're still shaking! You say we're the monsters, well I'm starting to believe maybe you're actually the monster here!" Indigo snarled.

Everyone gasped. Insults weren't something Toxigo took well, and it only made it worse that he was still powered up from before.

Toxigo's fists were clenching with anger and his one eye illuminated blood red, staring down Indigo's soul.

"Do you not think I am aware of this? I am fully aware of the situation at hand, I know we've lost some people, but we just gained more as well! And Sour sacrificed herself to save me, to keep me alive and going. I'm not letting her go down in vain. I'm not letting...them... go down in vain. Right now, the fate of our entire world depends on me, its my fault for getting our friends into that position to begin with, and I am going to fix it by finishing off that Queen, once and for all. And if you don't believe we have a chance of survival.... Then I suggest you get the hell out of here. If you want to avenge them, then I suggest you shut.... the hell... up. If you want to leave, then get... out."

Toxigo began stomping towards the door, but before leaving, he stopped and turned to face his ex one last time. "You know, I dated you because you were strong. You wouldn't give up even at your lowest point, and you kept on moving. But I can see now that's not who you are."

Toxigo stomped out of the medical ward and slammed the door, making the room so silent, the only sound to be heard were the beeps of the heart rate monitors on the computers. Almost everyone exchanged faces with each other, and all had their own thoughts and concerns on their argument. Indigo during all of this, with her face expressed with anger, had enough of it.

"Well I'm going. I'm not gonna stay around while she kills more of us. Come on Sugar, Sunny, we're getting out of here."

Indigo started to make her way towards the door, but she turned to see Sugarcoat and Sunny hadn't moved from their original positions, both of them still sat down on of the beds looking at Indigo incredibly angry, with furled eyebrows and frowns.

"Well?" Indigo asked.

"I'm not going anywhere. We can't just walk away from this. Sour and Lemon wouldn't want this." Sugarcoat bluntly said.

Sunny nodded in agreement.

"I'm afraid I have to agree with Sugar. While I am sad that we had lost poor Sour and Lemon, we cannot just keep focusing on what we lost. We must keep moving forward and help them win this battle. Its what they would want us to do. If you keep focusing on what you left behind, you'll never see what lies ahead." Sunny replied.

Indigo didn't know how to respond to what they had said, but she knew she couldn't force them to go with her. "Fine. Stay here and let them kill you. But don't come to me if some of you perish in the fight." Indigo left the ward, and they never saw her again, making the entire room silent.

"Wow. What a jerk." Rainbow said breaking the silence.

Sugar and Sunny however were less than happy to see Indigo leave them all alone. Sugar however couldn't keep it in, thinking about what had happened to Sour or Lemon. It got the other girls attention to hear her.

"Sugar? Are you okay?" Applejack asked easing a bit, waiting for a blunt response.

"*sniff* No..." Sugarcoat whimpered.

The girls, Sunny included were surprised to hear that tone from Sugarcoat. Never in their lives at CPA did she hear any emotion coming from Sugarcoat other than just saying things with a hint of bluntness in her tone.

"I guess it just hit me thinking... Lemon and Sour are dead... and we're never seeing them again!" Sugar then sobbed at what had happened and Sunny held Sugar in a tight embrace letting her cry on her shoulder.

"Wow, I never took you for having these kind of feelings." Flash said.

"T-that's because I never wanted people...I.. I'm like that. I never wanted to show any weakness."

"But you're not weak. Having feelings doesn't make you weak, it just goes to show you're like all of us" Sunny comforted.

"No... feelings make me weak. Just like how we all thought about Canterlot High..."

"Sugarcube, no." Applejack then faced Sugarcoat in the eye. "Feelings don't make you weak. It shows you have a heart like everyone else. And its not your fault for losing them. I personally can assure we won't let them go out like that."

Sugar then wiped a tear from her eye, and Sunny Flare continued to let her cry on her shoulder. Soon Applejack and Rarity joined in as well to give the two friends comfort. And as they hugged in an attempt to stay calm, Sunset turned her attention to the computer Indigo was facing and could see Twilight's vitals were perfectly healthy and okay.

"Indigo's right. Twilight's still alive."

"Well shouldn't we go in and get her out?" Rainbow asked.

Sunset sighed. As much as she wanted to go in to save her friend, it would be way to dangerous now. Especially with them knowing that they had arrived and they could be awaiting their arrival.

"As much as I hate to say it, she's right. There are too many of them in there, and if we barge in now they'll probably take us all out. But we're not giving up. We just have to keep on going." Sunset ordered.

"I still can't believe that happened to them." Rainbow replied.

"Me neither. I didn't think it had to end like this." Fluttershy cooed. She tried her best to not cry.

Sunny overheard their conversation and helped Sugarcoat walk over to where they stood.

"I'm very sorry for your loss. But I promise we're not going to let them win." Sunset replied.

Sunny and Sugarcoat nodded.

"Are you two still gonna help us finish this fight?" Applejack asked.

"After what we just encountered, there's no way I'm going back. I'm staying to finish what Sour and Lemon started" Sugarcoat replied with seriousness.

"Me too. I'm still in." Sunny replied.

Sunset smiled in relief. "Thanks you two. I really appreciate it."

The evening had came, Luna raised the moon, and everyone finally had head to bed. Toxigo however couldn't sleep just thinking about the events that had happened. He tossed, turned, gritted his teeth, placed the pillows in between his legs, took his sock off, but nothing helped.

An hour or so passed, and he still couldn't sleep. So he got his clothes back up and he went onto the main deck and hung onto the railing. Looking down he could see they were hovering over Ponyville where the only things that could be seen were the houses and the street lamps shining on the cobblestone and rocky paths.

"What the hell have I dragged them into?" Toxigo muttered to himself.

All through the 10 minutes he stood watching Ponyville from an above height, he drank from his cup of marshmallow and hot chocolate, and his synthetic talon kept scrunching up and tapping onto the deck, still thinking about what he had just been a witness to. But he didn't keep his focus on it when suddenly he heard some steps walking right behind him.

"What do you want Princess?" Tox groaned.

"Actually its just me." Sunset replied.

Toxigo turned his head around and looked at Sunset who was standing right behind and in a moment of shock, he quickly turned his head back around blushing.

"Oh, uh, hey, Shimmercakes... uh, what are you doing up?" Toxigo stuttered. He began sweating like crazy and his synthetic finger began tapping against the railings.

"I couldn't sleep. And I heard you walking around so I wanted to check up on you." Sunset then leaned over on the railing next to Toxigo and noticed him looking incredibly nervous.

"Are you okay?" Sunset asked.

"No..." Toxigo moaned.

"How come?

Toxigo looked at Sunset, still keeping his eyes hidden in the shades. "Everything that happened today, I... I don't think I can do this."

"Why?" Sunset was concerned.

"Sunset, I....Going in that hive... and seeing all of those changelings....there, there must thousands of those things... I've never been so scared in my life. I know I may have fears over CPA back on Earth but.... really, Chrysalis is my number thing I'm afraid of. She...I... I still can't believe I'm alive..." Toxigo whimpered.

Sunset's was intrigued. What did he mean by still alive?

"Well, what happened between you two?" Sunset asked.

"*sigh*, well, I have to be honest. There's something else about me that I didn't tell you. And I think its time I told the truth about me and Chrysalis" Tox replied while wiping a tear away.

"What do you mean?"

"My history with her kind of goes way back...."

"Okay." Sunset replied as Toxigo gripped her hand tightly, just thinking about the horrible memories that ensued through his head.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1bd9L5Tw7k

"Several years ago, back when I was just a little kid..."

Outside of Canterlot and Ponyville, a village had been under attack. Swarms of changelings had been attacking many civilians in the tiny village. They attacked with pounces, blasting them with their magic, taking on different forms and making the punches on them, they were everywhere.

In one the homes under attack, down in a basement, a little green unicorn colt with a ruffled up green and yellow mane and glowing yellow eyes stayed hidden in the darkness and whimpered in fear. He could only listen to the sounds of yelling, laser blasting, and changeling roars. He had never been this scared in his life. His hooves kept shaking, teeth kept chattering, and sweat ran down his forehead. All he could do was stay hidden in the closet, in the basement of his home, and pray they wouldn't find him....

Outside in the village, Queen Chrysalis stomped her hole filled legs across the dirt looking down towards all of the civilians now finished off, and laughing maniacally.

"Are there any others left, General?" Chrysalis asked.

"Only one my Queen. Mothball has sensed one left. A unicorn colt, he's hiding out. Shall we find him?"

"No... let him stay. We've got what we came for... Lets go!" Chrysalis ordered.

"Yes my Queen. You heard her, lets go!"

The changelings wings fluttered quickly, and they all took off into the sky heading towards their hive, carrying with them giant cocoons filled with some civilians they captured for their own personal desires...

Toxigo finally stepped out of the home after several hours of silence ensued. He tiptoed up the stairs, trying to not make a sound, and peaked his head outside his home, and from what he seen, made him gasp. Houses were destroyed, fires had been set burning more homes in the process, everything and everyone he knew and loved were.... gone.

"No... no.... they can't be gone!" Toxigo cried.

Toxigo trotted over to all parts of the town, flipping the remains of the homes upside down to see if there was anyone left or if anyone was still alive. Unfortunately, no one was, and no one was left. The entire town had been destroyed, with no one left, and all but Toxigo stood, watching it burn.

He then turned his head to see two bodies on the ground and trotted close to them, the sights alone of who they were, were scary enough on their own.

"M-Mommy...? Daddy?"

Alas, no sounds came from their corpses, dead, on the ground, not moving a single muscle. Eyes closed, shanked chests, and no pulse, Toxigo's only family were gone. All he could do, was just lay his head on his dead mother, and cry.

"I could only watch as my entire village and my family, died before my eyes. The one place I called home, burned in pieces. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust... everything, and everyone I knew, was gone. Without much option, I took what I could salvage from the wreckage of some of the homes, and took what I could to survive. Enough cash, books that I could use to teach myself skills and spells, and with them, I wandered off. Not knowing where to go, not having anything left to lose or care for, just... just ran off."

Toxigo, carrying two saddlebags on his back walked far from the village as fast as he could, and began running off to the distance, not looking back, all the while tears ran down his face. Never looking back, never returning, and never setting foot back at the village, he kept on running, and running, and running.

Several days of running went by, and he couldn't keep it in himself anymore. He found himself on top of a hill, above a building site which had a signed labeled 'Coming Soon, Ponyville'. He turned his head towards a giant lake and stared down in the water with depression on his face. Permanent frown, watering eyes, and water splashing down into the lake, he held his head down in sadness.

"I... I can't do this anymore. No one misses me, everyone's dead... Its time I left this world."

Toxigo pulled out a spell book, and flipping through the pages he found one page in particular he was searching for. He found a page with several mathematical formulas and words specifying the spell. Skimming through it and slamming the book shut and dropping it to the ground, he swam out into the open of the lake and looked at the forestry one last time.

"Goodbye mom, dad, sis... wherever you are...."

Toxigo's horn lit up, and in a puff of smoke, he was gone. Only he wasn't gone, he had been sinking down to the bottom of the lake, now trapped inside of a giant ice block. To never be pulled up, salvaged, or opened up, ever again....

"I don't know how long I imprisoned myself in that giant ice cube, but little did I know, that ponies actually found me and actually pulled me out, and freed me from a thing I wanted to stay permanently in."

Toxigo's eyes opened widely, and gasped. He couldn't remember what had happened. But, whats with all of the white and the bright light? Am I in... heaven?

"I was met with a doctor who explained what had happened. He told me that a salvage team found me in the bottom of the lake, and brought me here in case. I explained to him why I was frozen in the lake, and he told me things I didn't even know had happened. The village I once lived in was now nothing but a ghost town, and in that time span that I referred to, 57 years had gone by. I had no idea that much time had gone by, but at that point I didn't care anymore."

"Fifty...seven... years...." young Toxigo stuttered.

"I'm very sorry, but, its true." the doctor replied. "If you like, I can give you time to let all of this sink in--"

"When can I leave?" Toxigo interrupted.

"I'm sorry?" the doctor asked.

"When. Can. I. Leave?"

"Well from the reports I have, you should be allowed to leave now as a matter of fact, your bags are sitting on the chair next to you and I just need--"

"Yeah whatever, I don't care anymore, I'm leaving this world, bye!"

Toxigo grabbed his bags and zoomed out of the room, not looking back leaving the doctor standing and thinking as to why he even came into the room in the first place.

"From there on, after sneaking aboard several train rides, I found myself sneaking into the castle of Princess Celestia, and I discovered... you."

Toxigo peaked out from a closet, and stared towards an orange colored unicorn mare. She was, beautiful... A sun shaped cutie mark, turquoise eyes, and lustrous red and yellow hair....

Princess Celestia walked away with a whining Sunset Shimmer, and closed the doors. Once the coast was clear, Toxigo stepped out of the room and walked towards the mirror. Staring at his own reflection, he pondered whether he should go through it.

"She says this leads to another world.... Well, if it does... Then I want in it. I can't take this world anymore!" Toxigo shouted.

Little did he know that his own voice alerted their attention, and without any other choice, he leaped through the mirror, letting the guards be dumbfounded....

Toxigo stood on the ground of Canterlot High School, crouched down. He arched his back to look right up, and his eyes illuminated menacingly as he looked at his no longer existing hooves.

"So... no hooves. Interesting...."

Sunset was shocked. He had no idea he had been through so much that he lost the only people he called family to those changelings.

"From there on, I blindly wandered my way around Earth, came across some cheap apartments, and got myself transferred to Crystal Prep. From I remembered back in that time, the students were only out for themselves, and not those around them. It was the perfect place for me to call a new home. Only for my eyes to open up to reality at the Friendship Games, and realizing magic had made its way into this world, and that maybe....just maybe there was more to life than winning and upholding reputation. And that's when CPA began committing homicidal acts against me that should result in them going to jail, making me more unwanted and hated than I already was since someone wandering around acting like he didn't know zip would affect their reputation. But...whenever I see them, I keeping seeing those changelings... I never forgot what they did. And while they may have left me to live, I always kept thinking that they would come back to... to..." Toxigo began shaking and trembling just trying to get the last sentence out. "to.. f-finish me... off."

Toxigo's eye began watering and Sunset held onto him as he cried on his shoulder.

"Oh, Toxy... I'm so sorry..." Sunset said as she pat his back.

Toxigo just cried on Sunset shoulders, and Sunset held him for the longest time. No child should have ever suffered through that, and it certainly didn't help that he enrolled at a school now filled with homicidal maniacs.

"I'm so sorry Toxy, and believe me, I know how it feels to be alone and not be wanted by anyone around." Sunset replied.

"Y-you.... you do?" Toxigo stammered.

"Yeah, I do." Sunset stared at Toxigo's now red, scary, permanent menacing eye.

"Back when I came into this world, I pushed everyone away. I hurt everyone, just... just me being here drove everyone away from each other and divided into separate groups. And then, when Princess Twilight came into the picture, I... I didn't think there was another way. I may have been accepted by them, but I was hated by everyone around me. But I can say this, you didn't deserve the hate, I did. What you did didn't warrant everyone at CPA hating you."

Toxigo just looked down still sad.

"Oh come here..." Sunset held him again allowing him to cry on her shoulder once more.

Toxigo's eye opened up to look right behind and noticed Pinkie, Rainbow, Rarity, Applejack, Fluttershy, and Flash standing there looking concerned.

He then backed off from the hug looking shocked. "How much did of that conversation did you hear?"

"I heard everything and soon the others all got up and I explained everything that happened so far to keep them all in the loop." Pinkie replied.

"I can't believe you went through all of that man..." Flash said.

Toxigo's head hung down looking away from them. "Believe me, I'm surprised I'm not dead when I should be."

"Now don't say that sugarcube!" Applejack exclaimed, making Toxigo's ears twitch up and give his attention onto her. "The fact that you aren't dead is amazing. It goes to show how tough you are. You haven't been taken down by them at this point in time, and I think its amazing you managed to find your way into our world."

"Yes but its my fault that they're after us in the first place. That Alicorn Amulet is what attracted Queen Chrysalis in the first place, and she's the reason you're all in this mess." Toxigo said.

"Its not your fault darling. Neither you or any of us would have expected her coming." Rarity replied.

"But still, I'm the reason we're all in this in the first place. And besides, what have I accomplished since I moved in with you guys? Chrysalis is right... all I am is just a tempermental colt who suffers breakdowns."

"Toxy?" Sunset asked, getting him to look at her.

"Look I know you've been afraid of everything that's happened around you, but that's all in the past. In the past few weeks we've seen you do things you haven't done before. You opened up to us, you defended us, you made friends with us and everyone at CHS. All you've done is help us in our times of need. I know you've changed, and you know it too. But we can't do this without you, we all need you.... and... I need you."

Tox froze in place after hearing what Sunset had spoken. No one had ever said that to him in his entire life. He turned his head to face her and asked, "You... you need me?"

"Of course we do. You've gotten a team over here and you've managed to avoid getting taken down, and you've built cool weapons for us to use against them!" Pinkie grinned a Cheshire cat grin.

"Pinkie's right. Besides, we've handled things greater than this, and now you've become part of it." Rainbow said.

Tox gave a smile to the girls, which lightening their faces to see him still with them.

"Alright, you're right. I came back into this world for you girls, and I'm not going to stop here. We're gonna work together, we're gonna kick some ass, chew bubblegum, and take names!"

The girls all cheered in victory.

"Okay, you guys better get some sleep. Tomorrow, we prepare some new forms of equipment to counteract against the Queen. And I have just the ideas on how to fight them...." Toxigo said as he stared off at the moon, illuminating in the night.

Chapter 18: Equestria, HECK YEAH!

The next morning was much more peaceful than the morning before. The sun was shining bright, the birds were happily chirping, it was going to be a start of a beautiful morning. In Sugarcoat and Sunny Flare's bedroom, they were still snoring heavily. Some of their clothes were strewn about, the sheets and pillows and blankets were spread all over their beds, and they spread their bodies out on the beds like animals.

The alarm clock went off and Sugarcoat's fist smashed it to bits. She opened an eye to see it smashed to bits, and then proceeded to get up.

"I really need to stop destroying alarm clocks." Sugarcoat replied.

Smacking her lips and yawning, she used the bathroom that they installed on the ship, picked up her clothes that had been placed on the floor onto the bed, and she put on a bathrobe. She then placed her orange glasses onto her face, and then Sunny woke up just by her feet making the floorboards creak.

"Morning Sunny." Sugarcoat said.

"Good morning dearie." Sunny said groggily.

Sunny then got her bathrobe on and they entered into the kitchen where Echo Dash was cooking eggs and bacon.

"Morning Echo. Do you know where the others are?"

"Rarity La Belle is downstairs with the help of Fluttershy in making new robes and attire for when we battle the changeling army."

"Okay well what about everyone else? Where are they?"

"Subject SS/2187 AKA Sunset Shimmer and Master Toxigo are target practicing on the upper deck. Rainbow, Pinkie, Applejack and Princess Twilight are making pancakes in the other room, and the royal sisters are alerting all of the royal guards to set up defenses here in Canterlot."

"Wait, we're here?" Sunny asked.

"I pulled the ship in over to Canterlot while you all were asleep. Right now we're hovering above Canterlot Castle."

"Well at least the trip was saved." Sugarcoat bluntly stated.

"Yes. Now if you can call up Master Toxigo and the others to alert them that their breakfast is ready, that would be helpful."

Sugarcoat and Sunny walked downstairs and entered a room to see human Rarity and Fluttershy creating new robe attire along with some skin tight outfits that got Sugar and Sunny's attention. They were black and purple colored, with streaks of yellow lightning going across some areas, along with yellow goggles mounted on head mannequins. They also had belts with little pouches that no doubt carried extra ammo with them.

Rarity then noticed them standing in the door frame.

"Oh good morning you two, I trust you had a good night's sleep?" Rarity asked.

"Yes, we did. Would those be our new suits?" Sunny asked.

Rarity nodded. "Yes, in fact Toxigo requested I make the new suits with the design ideas he gave me. They're quite fabulous."

Sugarcoat adjusted her glasses down trying to process what she had said. "Oh great, he designed them. Who wants to bet they're gonna look incredibly demeaning and only exist to make our bodies look hot?"

Fluttershy and Rarity just glared at them.

"Not that, we, believe they're um..." Sunny began, sweat running down her face. "*clears throat*, breakfast is done, that's why we came by."

Sunny and Sugarcoat just ran off to go somewhere else.

"That was very rude of you Sugarcoat." Sunny snared.

"Well its true." Sugarcoat replied.

Sunny just face palmed in annoyance.

On the deck, Toxigo was with Sunset, attempting to teach her how to use one of the weapons he designed.

"Okay, so what you want to do is, slide this part back..."

Sunset pulled a slider back on the pulse rifle she held tightly in her hands.

"Perfect. Now, do you see the little number on the side there?"

Sunset turned the gun on its side to see a little number now at 99.

"That tells you how much bullets are in that thing. And if the counter reads to zero, just hit it on the side, pull the ammo out and slide a new clip in."

Sunset smiled. "So how come you know all of this?"

"Well, Shimmercakes, I designed the weapons so, really I think that's self explanatory." Tox chuckled.

"Hey." a voice interrupted.

Both Sunset and Toxigo turned their heads to Sunny and Sugarcoat in their bathrobes standing looking at them.

"Morning you two." Sunset said with a friendly voice.

"Morning dearie. We came by to say breakfast is ready." Sunny replied.

"Oh, sweet, lets go." Toxigo said.

With that, Toxigo and Sunset walked down with Sunny and Sugarcoat down into the dining room for their breakfast.

Soon everyone joined them, and now sitting at the table eating plenty of pancakes, bacon, and eggs along with milk and orange juice were human Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie, Fluttershy, Rainbow, Sunset, Flash, Sunny, Sugarcoat, and Toxigo. All the while, Echo occasionally walked around and poured others drinks acting as a waiter for them.

"So... how is everyone doing so far?" Toxigo asked. "I hope you're doing much better than you were yesterday?"

"Oh, yes. I'm glad we're not stuck in that changeling cave." Fluttershy replied.

"Me too, those things were just... ugh, creepy." Rainbow said.

Everyone nodded in agreement.

"Has Indigo come back?" Sunny asked.

"Think about it she isn't at the table, so what do you think?" Tox replied sounding blunt.

"I don't think she'll be coming back since she's giving up so easily." Sugarcoat said.

"Well at this point I don't care. Frankly, its good she's not around. She's been incredibly whiny, and plus constantly seeing her is just a reminder of that.... one incident I'm not going to mention.... plus I can't remember the last time she ever did anything nice for me when we were dating. Hence one of the many reasons I dumped her."

Everyone looked up in awkwardness staring at Toxigo.

"The point is.... we need to keep going. Besides, there's still plenty of us, we can do it."

Tox then took a sip from his chocolate milk, and everyone was greeted by Princess Twilight.

"Morning everyone." Twilight said.

"Morning Princess." Toxigo said.

"You know, its just Twilight. You don't need to refer to her by her royalty name you know." Rainbow said.

"Yes but having coming across two of them is confusing! Besides I thought calling her Princess would help me tell them apart." Toxigo replied.

Twilight levitated a chair out and sat down next to Sunset, and joined in on their conversation.

"So, how is everyone?" Twilight asked.

Everyone nodded to give a gesture of yes.

"Oh before I forget, Sunset there was something else important that I didn't tell you. When I was with the Shadowbolts, we had an encounter with the Dazzlings, and for some reason, I ponied up out of nowhere. And that was just from me saying that I forgave them." Toxigo spoke up.

"Wait, you ponied up?" Twilight asked.

"Yeah, I did. And it happened several other times before. And that was just repeating the traits from the rest of the humans. But for some reason I don't know why I did just flat out of nowhere." Toxigo said.

"I think I may have a reason for that. The Tree of Harmony that used to reside in the Everfree Forest, holds different Elements on its branches to represent the Elements of Harmony."

Toxigo's jaw was a little open and his eyes were scrunched up. "I'm sorry... what?"

"It takes too long to explain. But there has been rumor going that for the empty branches, there would new elements unlocked in time. I think your pony ups with the repeats of everyone else was signaling something to you. Yeah... I think you have unlocked an element."

"Yeah, unlocking a new element that explains how I ponied up at the Battle of the Bands." Sunset replied.

"Yes, yes it does. But if that's the case, then maybe there are others out there who have elements as well. In fact, we discovered two others who had elements. Flash is one of them, as well as Coppermane back on Earth"

"Wait, you mean Fluttershy's boyfriend?" Toxigo asked.

"Yeah, that's him. Why do you know him?" Twilight asked sounding intrigued.

"Unfortunately, no. I haven't met him, but from what Sunset explained to me and from what I remember, he's a former Shadowbolt and he's got one of those Elements as well. As for what it is, I'll never know." Toxigo replied.

"Do you know what he looks like?" Flash asked.

"Coppermane has white skin, copper colored hair, bit of a shy guy, and nowadays he's seen with a hoodie with a white music staff with a treble clef, along with sparkles in the background." Sugarcoat bluntly stated, getting stares from everyone. "We saw him with Fluttershy at the Friendship Games."

Tox's face kept a look of confusion.

"I'm sorry I still don't recognize him, you got a photo?"

Fluttershy pulled a phone from her pocket and showed some photos of her and Coppermane together.

"Oh wait I recognize that guy. I saw him at Crystal Prep, but then one day he lashed out at Neon Lights... I found that surprising at first. Nowadays I've grown very happy that he has done that. Tell him I said thanks for that."

"Oh, um... okay.. I guess." Fluttershy responded.

"And now that I think of it, I've seen that guy rocking the grand piano a few times. Very impressive talent right there."

"Yeah..." Fluttershy blushed.

Tox's eye then looked at Fluttershy again, and spoke up. "So, wait, why did he lash out at Neon?"

"He lashed out because he was being pushed to the breaking point. Everyone constantly picked on him and they wouldn't leave him alone, so he, blew a fuse and... um.. beat him up." Flutterhsy cooed.

"Ouch... my deepest sympathies to your boyfriend Shy. Well, at least going to CHS got him away from the CPA kids right?"

"Sadly no." Sunset replied.

"Neon Lights tried to sabotage their relationship." Rainbow replied.

A look of grim anger appeared on Tox's face, and his fists were clenched tight to the point they were almost turning white, but he stopped and took a deep breath to calm down.

"Wow. Just... wow. How low does he step? He hurts people just to prove he's better than them, and became homicidal when dealing with me. Typical." Tox then took another bite of the pancake. "Remind me, when we get back to slap him right across the face."

"No, its okay, you don't have to go to that much--"

"Fluttershy. Neon Lights has hurt me enough and he can hurt me all he wants, but no one hurts a friend of my friend. Any friend of yours, is a friend of mine, and I'm not gonna let him get away with that."

"If you say so dearie." Sunny replied, then took another bite of her food.

"So-" Sugarcoat then finished chewing. "-what exactly are we doing to get ready for this battle?"

Toxigo moved his synthetic finger over a map of Canterlot City and the castle giving them directions on what to do.

"Okay, here's what we're gonna do, we're gonna mount the Changeling Cannons in different parts of the city, so they can take out the changelings in different areas, luckily they're impossible to get rid of. We should have a chance to take them down. And all of us are going to split into groups so we may handle different soldiers and warriors that come through to try and kill us."

Sugarcoat and Applejack looked at each other both nodding in agreement.

"Now here are the groups. Jackie and Rare will take the east where pony Rarity's Boutique is set up. Skittles, Echo, and Shy, will take the south side where you'll find a shop with a giant pair of scissors over it, you'll take the street there. Flash, Pinks, and the Royal Princesses will take the west side. The rest of us, being Shimmer-cakes, Sugar, and Flare will take the north side."

Tox then looked up to everyone and everyone faced him as he spoke.

"I couldn't have picked any other group of friends to fight along side with. I'm glad you all came for me, and you're helping me deal with this. Now..." Tox loaded the barrels on his arm rifle, and smiled towards everyone, "-Lets have a battle."

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Everyone started putting batteries and energy cells into the light cannons, arming their weapons, and prepping new suits.

The Mane Six, which included Sunset, all wore kimono/robe-like outfits, each with their cutie mark emblems on them, belts to hold weapons on the side, all in different colors, and all of the suits were reminiscent to warrior robes.

Sugarcoat now wore a super-tight spandex outfit, which was all in black with blue and yellow lightning bolts, her belt had little sticks of yellow and blue colored dynamite, she had blue goggles which went over her glasses, and on her back she had a Gatling light cannon.

Sunny Flare's attire was new too, she had on a spandex outfit as well, only hers was purple with black streaks, her belt had a rainy cloud emblem on it, on her sides she had shurikens in the shape of her hair clip, a headset on her face with a microphone, and she had chest armor, with spikes on the shoulder pads.

Flash, on the other hand, equipped himself with golden Royal Guard armor, along with a Spartan helmet, a sash attached hanging below the belt, and running boots. He also had two mini-light cannons strapped to his arms so he could fire them off towards the enemy.

Once everyone was suited up, they all stood over on a side of the ship high above Canterlot, all the while the wind was blowing in their hair.

"Why are we here again?" Sugarcoat asked.

"Because, we're gonna skydive off the ship and parachute into Canterlot." Toxigo said with a crazy smile on his face.

"Wouldn't it make more sense to just park the ship towards the ground?" Pinkie asked.

"Failures in instructing ship assembly have made the option unavailable." Echo replied.

"Besides, this is more fun!" Toxigo replied.

"I'm not so sure about this..." Sunset said.

"Come on Shimmer-cakes. I'm not jumping down there alone... How about this? I hold your hand, you hold mine, we both go down together. Okay?" Toxigo offered.

Sunset laughed a bit at Toxigo's offer, and humbly agreed. How could she say no to him?

"Okay, I suppose. Just promise me we won't get hurt." Sunset replied.

"I promise." Toxigo grinned. "So, who's going first?"

"So, even though there's probably a thousand other ways we could get down there, this is what you're really going with?" Sugarcoat asked.

"And for being blunt like that, you're the first to go." Toxigo deviously grinned.

"Wait, what!?" Sugarcoat realized.

"See you!"

Soon Sugarcoat and Sunny were pushed off the side and began hurling towards the ground screaming as their bodies whooshed through the clouds.

Flash and everyone stared at Toxigo just shocked at what he just did. He just...pushed them over? Toxigo looked back and saw their faces.

"Don't worry guys, I installed a device onto their suits that will save them before they hit the ground and their bodies splatter over the streets. Bet that will be nasty to look at."

"That's very unsettling you know!" Flash replied.

"Well, what are you gonna get? I'm scary!"

Toxigo turned and held onto Sunset's hand. Sunset looked down and gulped at how high they were up, but remembered she would be jumping down with her friend.

"Here goes nothing. 3.... 2... 1... EQUESTRIA!!!!"

Toxigo and Sunset jumped off the side grabbing onto each other's hands as their bodies felt the air rushing right past them.

"Well, if they're going that way, me too." Rainbow replied. She backed up away from the side getting ready for a running start. Soon she sped up her pace and as she ran, jumped right off the side shouting in victory.

"WHOO-HOO!!!!!" Rainbow yelled.

It wasn't long until the rest of the girls just stayed together and jumped off the side as well joining everyone as they all whirred through the sky. Aiming for the ground, ready with their new plan, and for a whole new battle to await them.

Equestria... Equestria....
Equestria! Heck yeah!
Saving the world from eternal chaos!
Equestria! Heck yeah!
Friendship is the only path yeah!
Chrysalis, your time is through, cause now you have to answer to
Equestria! Heck yeah!
Now you will pay for all your terror!
Equestria! Heck yeah!...

Chapter 19: The Tide Continues To Change

Author's Notes:

With the YouTube music added into the fic, I figured that's what would be playing in some of those scenes. Just thought I'd tell you guys.

Once everyone found spots to land onto the ground, everyone got into positions onto the streets of Canterlot City, holding their weapons. Sunny Flare then lowered her visor down to look towards the oncoming army of changelings, but she noticed some other additions. She noticed the Dazzlings, two of which she recognized, but the one in the middle with the big orange puffy hair she didn't recognize.

"Well I can say this for a fact. There's a lot of bugs." Sunny said.

"Wait, what do you mean?" Tox then pulled out some binoculars to take a closer a look and gulped. "Thats...t...that's a lot of changelings. I... I can't. I can't, I just... there's thousands of them, what if--"

Sunset held onto Toxigo's shoulders to look him in the eye. "Its okay. We're all here. We're not gonna let them hurt you. Just, remember we're all here and we won't let them hurt you."

The thought alone made Toxigo happy. "Thanks. By the way, is Sugarcoat ready on the motorbike?" Tox asked.

"Yes, she's ready and waiting for when they attack." Sunny replied.

"Good. Tell her to keep her position." Sunset replied.

"Got it. Sugarcoat, orders are to stay in position until changelings charge in." Sunny radioed Sugarcoat.

"Copy that. Over and out." Sugarcoat replied.

Over in another part of town, Rainbow Dash got into position by getting onto a motocross bike, sitting at an end of the street, with light cannons mounted on the sides of the bike. She still had the kimono robe attire, but with some extra additions like a helmet to keep on and holding a light cannon on her back to carry in case her bike goes down. Fluttershy took position onto a rooftop holding a light cannon mounted on her arm, and Echo stood right next to her with two light cannons mounted on her arms, an eyepiece over her left eye, and on her back was a jet-pack. But while the two of them were on the rooftop, Echo flipped down her eyepiece and decided to get a closer look. Looking through the visor eyepiece, it zoomed in on the oncoming army, and found even more figures.

"Charging army indicates three more life forms have joined their army." Echo said.

"Who else with them?"

"Scanning now.... Life forms are of three sirens, in the form of humans."

"That's them..." Fluttershy quietly said.

Over with the villains, the armies and their leaders slowly moved towards Canterlot Castle getting ready for a charge down. Chrysalis went through another transformation, this time the front of her chest took on a humanoid form, but her head stayed monstrous as ever, and instead of claws she now possessed hands, while the rest of her body retained a mantis like structure.

"Our chance for revenge is right in front of us girls, all we have to do destroy them all." Adagio said.

"I can't wait to take down those infernal Rainbooms. Can't believe they managed to escape though." Aria grumbled.

"It doesn't matter now young Aria. There's still several of their friends that have been eliminated, and we can eliminate even more of them. While you all handle them, I'll take Canterlot Castle. I'll see if the Royal Sisters need some rearrangements for the new home.... If you manage to capture that despicable green one named Toxigo, bring him and any other friends with him to me... I'd like to personally watch as he dies in front of me, once and for all." Chrysalis snarled.

"No problem my dear Queen. No problem at all..." Adagio replied smirking deviously.

Over back with Sunset's end, the group of three being Sunset, Flare, and Toxigo readied their weapons for battle, with looks of determination.

"The first wave's coming in!" Flare shouted.

"Got it Flare, lets do this. Be careful."

"You do realize we're high school students? Not military soldiers?" Sunny replied.

"Doesn't matter, you signed the deal, you're here, lets fight!" Toxigo replied.

And thus, the invasion had begun. Changelings, Chrysalis, and the Dazzlings began terrorizing the town by firing several amounts of lasers towards the buildings basically trying to destroy them.

Fluttershy and Echo from the rooftop managed to help out the guards by being snipers. Fluttershy tried to shoot some of the changelings by shooting arrows, which she used during the Friendship Games but alas she barely could hit any of them making them laugh at her misfortune. In return, she aimed the light cannon on her arm towards them, and simply pulled the trigger which took them down easier.

Rainbow also took the time to ram some of the changelings down by speeding up on her motocross bike, which had the energy cannons mounted on the sides, and as she sped up, she held onto a button on the handle bars which pulled the trigger on the energy cannons which locked on and shot down several changelings.

"WHOO HOO!!! THIS! IS! AWESOME!" Rainbow shouted in victory.

Over at Flash Sentry's end, he loaded up an energy rifle, and managed to hit every target that came his way. Changelings came from every direction, but with the help of Pinkie using her party cannon rifle, she and Flash shot down all the changelings that came at them.

"Whoa, nice shot Pinkie." Flash complimented.

"Thanks! Whoop, look out!" Pinkie pulled the trigger again and shot confetti and streamers towards another changeling, and the bug was so shocked he flinched back and he started coughing up confetti.

"Ugh... that's not very tasty." Pinkie said.

Over at Applejack and Rarity's end they were hiding behind some tables they set up as a defense board in front of pony Rarity's boutique, and were patiently waiting for any changelings to attack.

"Ready Rarity?"

"Absolutely Applejack. Oh and I absolutely adore these robes, they're spectacular. Where did Tox say he got the idea from?" Rarity asked.

"He said he got the idea from this science fiction film called Star Fights or Star.... Star Wars, Galaxy Wars... I don't know, but he wanted to make clothes that would help us move around better. I don't see how fighting in Japanese like robes will help, but I'm not gonna argue with his logic." Applejack replied.

The two of them peaked up and saw some changelings standing rubbing their hooves against the ground signalling that they were going to charge. Soon their eyes glowed, and they began charging, only for Applejack to chuck apple shaped grenades at them which gave them electric shocks and knocked them out. Eventually some more changeling soldiers hit the ground and shot lasers towards them which Rarity blocked by quickly activating a shield from her gauntlet which deflected right off the shield back towards the changelings knocking them down.

"Nice block." Applejack smiled.

"Why thank you darling, all thanks to Tox's handiwork." Rarity beamed.

Over at Sunset's end, the group of three were all ready for action as dozens of changelings right in front of them.

"I've been waiting to do this for a long time." Tox snarled. After cocking his rifle arm, the group of three opened fire upon the changelings as they came running in. Energy came blasting, hooves came charging, and roars were cried.

Sunset then joined in as she pulled out her pulse rifle and found more of them buzzing from the air up and began hurling straight towards them.

"I don't think so!" Sunset said.

And soon, moving quickly she fired at each and every single one of them that came flying right at her. Her hands moved like lightning as she kept moving the pulse rifle to side to side aiming at every single one of them, stunning them instantly. The last one came down and she managed to fire off the last electro round in her clip.

She turned her head to look at a grinning Toxigo.

"Nice shooting Tex." Toxigo said.

"Thanks." Sunset smiled.

Eventually Sugarcoat with a grin, came charging in on the motocross bike and started shooting down more of the bugs like an action hero with the cannons mounted on the sides of the bike.

"WHOO-HOO!!!!" Sugarcoat yelled.

Soon Sugarcoat stopped firing at them after realizing she was out of energy shells, and made a jump off the bike which launched itself towards more of the bugs ramming them over.

"Lets shoot some." Sugarcoat said.

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After gazing towards more fallen enemies and giving a fist gesture in victory, she pulled out the energy Gatling cannon hanging on her back, and activated it, stood next to Sunny Flare and pointed it towards the changelings charging in, both yelling towards them. Both of them even lifted the light cannons onto their shoulders pressing the trigger behind them stunning two charging ones.

"Normally I don't act like this, but... This is the best time!" Sugarcoat shouted with joy. She had never felt this happy in a long time. She was out with Sunny shooting bugs like they were in a real life video game.

Toxigo with Sunset stood by each other as well and fired some more.

"I've never felt happier and more alive!" Toxigo shouted over the firing. He finally felt like he could fight these things instead of cowering away from them.

Sunset couldn't help but laugh at Toxigo's comment.

Both of them stood back to back as they shot down more changelings in the air with the energy cannons, and soon Sugarcoat and Sunny Flare joined them as well, as now it became four all with them standing together. Eventually Sunny and Sugarcoat stopped using the cannons, and started using their other weapons. Sunny started throwing her shuriken hair clips towards the enemy which bounced off all of the changelings in the air, and went right back to her hand. Sugarcoat then pulled out some dynamite sticks from her holster, and flung them towards the changelings which exploded and got them stuck into huge globs of cotton candy.

"Remind me to thank Pinkie for the idea." Sugarcoat said.

Sunset began making fighting moves of her own, going all Jackie Chan on the changelings that came near. She used several amounts of judo, tai kwon do, and karate. Toxigo performed the same acrobatic movements as well, but also throwing in several arm rifle shots, and even more karate. After all of the changelings got knocked down and unconscious, the four of them cheered in victory, however, that was a bad idea because they soon were surrounded by the Dazzlings.

"You're not done with us..." Adagio snarled.

"Hello Dagi, its been a while." Tox replied smirking.

"Too long, Toxigo... And you're coming with us."

"I don't think so Dagi."

But at that moment, Adagio fired off an electric shock from a gun at Toxigo and Sunset who both became knocked out and fell to the ground unconscious.

"I simply used one of the smaller guns you accidently left behind. Pretty unwise of you... Now, if you two want to live, you will surrender." Adagio said to Sugar and Sunny still standing.

Sugarcoat and Sunny had no choice but to listen to her. So they raised their arms in surrendering, and Aria snagged their hands in electrocuffs, and their hands were placed at the back of their heads.

"Now lets go, the Queen is waiting for us in Canterlot Castle."

So Adagio picked up a now handcuffed Toxigo and Sunset and carried them both on her shoulders leading away, while Aria and Sonata held their weapons against them gesturing them to follow her, all the way to Canterlot Castle unnoticed and unseen. But little did they know a figure in black and purple spandex tights, with streaks of lightning bolts on them, and a mask with gold goggles, had been watching the entire time.

Over at Canterlot Castle, the Dazzlings stood in the throne room, where Queen Chrysalis was standing facing the handcuffed prisoners. Toxigo and Sunset eventually woke up from the mild shock and both were horrified to see the predicament they were in. Their eyes turned ahead to stare at the mutated Chrysalis now looking like a mutated monster, and their eyes turned to the sides to see Sugarcoat and Sunny next to them, along with the Dazzlings standing alongside Chrysalis.

"Oh, great..." Toxigo muttered.

Toxigo, Sunset, Sugarcoat, and Flare were now all on the floor on their knees, standing side by side with their hands behind their backs, handcuffed. All of them were terrified to be facing the Queen of the changelings, especially when they're cuffed and on the ground unable to get free.

"Its been a while since we last met, haven't we, Toxigo?" Chrysalis said, bending herself down grabbing Toxigo by the chin to look at him.

Toxigo breathed heavily from even looking right at her changed face and new body.

"Scared are we?.... It makes it so much more fun when I'll finish you off...and just who are these other two girls with you? I've never met such a more delicious looking meal...."

"They came with him all the way, they were some of the other girls who attacked us. Shadowbolts, I presume." Adagio replied.

"You mean that other elite flying team? Hm...they don't look anything like the other Shadowbolts." Chrysalis said as she got closer and observed them while also smacking her lips in hunger.

"Because they're humans my good Queen. Now, about our payment." Adagio said.

"What payment?"

"You promised you would recreate our old pendants so we can have our singing voices again, but so far we aren't getting those, so I suggest we get paid, now."

"Just you wait, Adagio dear. I will be back soon..." Chrysalis then marched off making the ground shake and exited through the door, leaving the Dazzlings in the throne room guarding the prisoners.

"Its a lie you know." Tox spoke.

"What did you say?" Adagio replied confused, then moved up front so he could look him in the eye.

"Chrysalis isn't going to go through with your demands. She's gonna double cross you." Toxigo said.

"And why do you say that?"

Tox's jaw dropped after hearing that question, and he stared blankly at them like they were idiots before raising his tone.

"Really? You can't be this serious? This is Queen Chrysalis we're talking about. Queen of the changelings, queen of creatures bent on manipulation and feeding off of the love from everyone, a master of deception, and a compulsive liar. You really expect her to honor. Her. Word?"

Adagio was caught in a shock she didn't know how to respond.

"Well uh--"

"Adagio. Listen to me. All of you Dazzlings. I know you don't want to, but can you just...listen."

Aria and Sonata both walked up and stood with Adagio facing Tox in the eye, and let him continue speaking, and Sunset, Sugar, and Flare all listened to him.

"I know you all wanted back at the Rainbooms and Twilight for a long time, I get it. Believe me, I wanted to get back at the two girls right behind me for stuff they did in the human world to me. They've done horrible things along with those two other girls Chrysalis took down. Not very good things. But planning revenge isn't worth it. Revenge isn't something that will keep you satisfied. The only way to get out of the situation is to either ask for forgiveness, or move on and make amends. If you join us, we can get you a lifetime of happiness."

The three Dazzlings paused and took in thought over what Tox had offered. For a long time they desired to get back at Twilight and her friends for taking them down at the Battle of the Bands, but not a single one of them considered taking a different route then getting even. Adagio took some thought and gave this to ponder.

If she is lying to us.... I much rather suffer punishment by them than being obliterated by her.

"But why do you think she'll betray us, outside of those other reasons?" Aria asked.

"Because love beats hate." Toxigo finished with seriousness.

But the Dazzlings didn't have time to respond as soon Queen Chrysalis and walked into the throne room, grinning maliciously.

"Alright, Dazzlings, who would you like to kill first?" Chrysalis asked.

All of the exchanged looks with one another, until Sonata stood forward and stood her ground against the Queen with an angry face expression.

"No! I'm not gonna stand by and kill them! I never thought about living a new life instead of constantly failing at revenge, but now I am!"

"Sonata, what are you doing?" Aria shrieked. She was now actually scared for her sister.

"No Aria! Not here, and not now! I may an idiot, but I know killing them isn't the right thing to do! And this was never about us to begin with, this was all about you!" Sonata shouted with a firm foot on the ground.

Chrysalis froze for a moment, then gave an evil smile and laughed manically.

"Well if that's how you feel my dear Sonata, I WILL BANISH YOU INTO THE REALM OF DARKNESS ALONG WITH THE TIMBERWOLVES AND EVERYONE ELSE!" The Queen opened fire on Sonata and zapped her, and she vanished, going into the same realm with Lemon and Sour. Aria was so terrified at what she saw, she tried walking back to flee, but soon Chrysalis turned to face her and trapped her in a corner.

"And I do appreciate your loyalty to me Aria, but I'm afraid Sonata was right. This is all about me! I BANISH YOU TOO!" Chrysalis then zapped Aria who joined Sonata in the same void.

After zapping them, Chrysalis stomped her bug legs onto the ground as she walked up facing the group of cuffed humans, and Adagio began backing down in fear.

"Goodbye, weaklings... I never loved you puny mortals anyway...." But just as Chrysalis was about to zap them, she was thrown back by an enormous blast of energy which shook her to the side and knocked her down. She quickly got back up on her feet and saw the sight of someone wearing an armor with a heavy light cannon attached to the bottom of it as she held it. The girl then moved forward with a determined expression on her face and spoke.

"Get away from them you bitch!" she snarled.

The girl standing was all suited in spandex tights, and was wearing one of the armors attached with a weapon.

"Oh that's what happened to that one." Tox stated.

Chrysalis hissed towards the girl, and she made some shots towards the Queen knocking her down.

Having the time to react, she stripped the heavy gun armor off of her, revealing herself in black and purple spandex tights, with streaks of lightning on it, a belt with gun holsters, shoulder armor, gauntlet communicators, golden goggles flipped over her eyes, black boots, and on her back she had what looked like a long hoverboard, and another energy cannon. She stared towards them, and pulled the goggles over her face onto her forehead, and took a bit of the mask off unveiling her indigo colored hair.

"Indigo! You're back!" Sunny exclaimed.

Indigo managed cut through all of their restraints as they had time.

"You... you came back for us." Toxigo said. He couldn't believe his eye.

"I thought about what you said and you were right, I shouldn't leave you all alone to fight them. I agreed I was going to pay for my mistakes, and if that means fighting along side you guys in a battle, then so be it." Indigo grinned.

Tox then looked at Indigo with a smile and said "Well I'm glad you've come back to help us."

"I hate to interrupt right now, but we should probably run right now!" Sugarcoat interrupted.

"Right, come on!" Tox led Sunset, the three Shadowbolts and Adagio away from the throne room, but they were all chased by changelings who came charging after them.

The group ended up locking themselves in a kitchen room, and they barricaded the doors to keep the enemy out.

"I'm beginning to regret having come to this planet. I'm sorry, but none of us are cut out for being soldiers" Sugarcoat bluntly stated.

"I agree, its pretty hard. Go any faster and we just may pass out." Sunny replied.

"Not now." Tox said not paying attention to the Bolts.

Sunset not paying attention to them, turned her attention towards Adagio who had been adverting their attention. She walked up towards her, and placed a hand on her shoulder.

"Adagio? Are you okay?" Sunset asked.

"*sniff* no...."

Sunset was taken aback at what she had heard. Adagio Dazzle was actually, seriously, emotionally crying.

"What's wrong?"

"I... I am so sorry... I didn't know we could have gone a different way. But now I lost my sisters...."

Adagio then nearly choked Sunset giving her a tight hug, and Sunset exchanged a hug back trying to comfort her. She allowed Adagio to cry on her shoulder just letting her sadness out.

"I'm so sorry Adagio." Sunset said in a gentle tone.

"No, you have nothing to be sorry for. I'm the one who needs to apologize. You offered me a chance to redeem myself and I never took it. Its all my fault you're in this mess in the first place. And now my sisters are gone...."

Tox slowly walked up towards Adagio and wiped away another tear with his synthetic finger. Adagio opened her eyes to feel the cold touch of metal on her face and saw Tox right behind Sunset looking at her with sympathy.

"I may not be able to get them back, but I can assure you this, they won't go down just like that. We're fighting to stop Chrysalis, and we will stop her. I promise. In the meantime, why not help us figure a way out of here?" Tox offered.

Adagio gave a nod, and accepted the light cannon that Tox offered her. She strapped it to her right arm, and Tox gave the quick instructions on how to use it.

"Toxigo, I... I don't know what to say. I, kidnapped your friends and yet, you forgive me? Why?" Adagio whimpered.

"You didn't kidnap them. Chrysalis did. But right, we should focus on getting--"

Toxigo was interrupted by the sound of a slam against the door.

The humans cocked their energy guns to prepare for them to charge down the door. Adagio strapped a mini light cannon to her wrist prepping for when they would break, and Toxigo readied his arm rifle.

"Sunny, please tell me you have the tracker on you? I'd like to know how many of them are there." Toxigo said.

Sunny quickly activated the tracker and pointed it towards the barricaded door. Sweat ran down her cyan skin as she constantly looked down towards the tracker and at the door just making sure they weren't going to bash it down.

"9 meters!" Sunny stated.

The group stood together with their weapons all ready and waiting for them to charge through.

"8...-" Sunny quickly looked at the tracker. "7....-" And Sunny kept on looking up and down and up and down just keeping her guard up. "6... 5..."

"That can't be right, that's right where we are." Indigo replied, as she leaned in closer to see it.

"Well if they're in the room then...." Sunset started to speak, but then thought of a disturbing idea. What if the changelings weren't in the room, but rather... on top of the room?

Tox stood on top of some counter tops to get up to the ceiling, and leaned in closer to listen in. Just to double check, he opened up a ceiling tile and peaked his head in to check while also surveying with a light. Unfortunately, the sight he was given was a bunch of changelings climbing in the very ceiling!

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He got such a huge shock the minute changelings started bursting through one part of the ceiling he fell right down onto his back.

"They're over there! Get them!" Indigo shouted.

Sunny, Sugarcoat, and Indigo fired the light cannons like crazy towards the changelings that kept on bursting through, but they were going through the shells like mad. Indigo fired so many shells that she was starting a pile of bullet shells around her feet, and soon it kept on piling up that the shells were right up to her chest, and she still kept firing like an action hero.

Sugarcoat turned to the side to see the shells piling up and smiled.

"You'd make Rambo proud!" Sugarcoat shouted.

"Maybe!" Indigo yelled back.

"Sunset! Do you have an idea on how we can out of here!?" Adagio screamed.

"Yes I do, follow me!" Sunset lead Adagio over to another door but unfortunately it was locked.

Indigo was getting into the fight for once. She kept on shooting each and every one of the changelings and she was barely missing a target.

"Can't you just kick the door down?" Adagio said.

"I tried that, it's not working, we're trying to pick the lock!" Sunset shouted over the firing of rifles.

"Alright you buggers, you want some!? GET SOME! Get some! Get some! Yeah!? How do you like that!? You like that you miserable ticks!?" Indigo shouted as she kept on using the ammo from her energy rifle. With a huge grin, determined eyes, and ignoring everything else around her, nothing was stopping her.

"Come on! Come on! Come and get it baby! Come on I don't got all day! Come on! Come on you bastards! Come on you too! Oh you want some of this!? I'll give you some!" Indigo shouted.

But Indigo couldn't keep her focus on them for much long because soon a hole burst through the floor, and some changelings grabbed onto her and were dragging her down.

"Hey! Screw you!" Indigo tried firing at them, but she couldn't focus and aim her gun towards them.

"Indigo!" Sunny yelled. She ran over to try and pull her out of the hole, but other changelings interfered and tried to kill her, and she took them down some more.

Indigo tried her hardest to climb up, but too many hooves wrapped around her, and she disappeared into the hole yelling. Sunny looked back at it but she was too late. First Sour and Lemon, now you...

"Sunny, come on!" Tox shouted.

Sunny and Sugarcoat had no choice but they ran towards the door now unlocked and the group made it through. The locked the doors just in case, and all took a moment to breath. Tox looked up and noticed Indigo wasn't there.

"Indigo didn't make it, did she?" Toxigo asked.

Sunny shook her head sadly in response.

"We got to go back!" Toxigo exclaimed as he tried to run towards the room, only to be held back by Sugarcoat.

"We can't go back. She's gone now." Sugarcoat said with a somber face.

Toxigo stared back at the door and back at Sugarcoat and groaned. "Well, at least she redeemed herself" Tox said as he loaded up his gun.

The changelings immediately began breaking through the doors, and the group started running again pursued by the swarm of bugs.

"Follow me! I know a shortcut!" Sunset ordered as she lead the remaining group.

The group kept running down the hall, trying to avoid getting caught by the bugs. In the front, Sunset led, followed by Adagio, all the while continued by Toxigo who kept checking behind for Sunny Flare, and Sugarcoat stayed at the back trying to keep the bugs off their tail. Even though Sugarcoat kept shooting one by one, they still kept going.

She pulled the trigger again, but found she was out of bullets. She threw the energy Gatling cannon to another bug, and just simply pulled out an energy pistol.

"Sugarcoat! Move!"Toxigo yelled.

The group ran to the right into another hallway, while Sugarcoat kept firing. Another bug sped up and caught up to her and gave a big bite on her leg which injured her.

"OW! Agh... I'm down!" Sugarcoat shouted.

The group stopped partway to hear her scream.

"Sugarcoat!" Tox shouted.

As Sugarcoat tried to crawl on the ground, Flare decided to change her direction.

"Go! Just keep going!" Flare said as she pat the side of Tox's shoulder before running.

Flare ran over to where Sugarcoat was and helped her up.

"Where are you hurt?" Flare asked.

"One of them gave a big bite on the leg." Sugarcoat moaned.

Flare got her back up on her feet helping her attempt to walk, but unfortunately a changeling landed in the way and knocked them down, only to be shot by Flare. The two of them turned heads to look at the army of changelings heading their way, and both looked worried.

"You think this is our end?" Sugarcoat asked.

"I believe so. Well, at least it will be said we went down fighting. I think that's quite an accomplishment." Flare weakly smiled to Sugarcoat who rested her head on Flare's chest and Flare wrapped an arm around her just to stay close to her as they would face their end.

"You know, if Lemon was here, she'd probably find our skin tight spandex outfits sexy. She always wanted to look attractive in attire", Sugarcoat bluntly stated.

Flare gave a light laugh towards Sugar's comment. "You always were blunt Sugarcoat."

"And you were always polite." Sugar then looked up to face her in the eye. "That's what I liked about you."

Flare gave a smile and rested her head against Sugar's. "Thank you, Sugarcoat."

The two of them turned their heads up to see Midnight Sparkle laughing manically hovering above them.

"Oh what a happy display of affections. To bad neither one of you will live long enough." Midnight laughed manically just before charging up her hands with energy.

"Oh no..." Sugarcoat said.

"It can't be..."

"This is why I hate fighting." Sugarcoat stated.

"You know I'd much rather die by exploding myself than being zapped into the realm they rest in." Flare stated.

"I think that can be easily arranged. I got a few bombs on me left." Sugarcoat replied as she pulled out a grenade from her holster. Sugar then popped the top off of the grenade and was ready to pull the trigger.

"You want to die with me?" Sugarcoat asked.

"I'd rather die with you than be killed with them." Flare smiled as a tear went down her face.

"Toxigo would be proud. And this, goes for all of our friends. For Sunset, for Lemon, Sour, Indigo... and, Toxigo. Lets hope this pays for everything we've done to you Tox," Sugar then hit her thumb onto the button and Flare wrapped a hand around hers, following which all of their hands were wrapped around the trigger.

"Let this be sign, that we will stay friends, now and forever." Sugarcoat finished before closing her eyes.

Flare closed her eyes with tears still going down but with a smile on her face.

Back with the remaining three, they all made it to a ledge of a balcony in another part of the castle where they had lost the changelings, but they listened in carefully and felt a big explosion inside the building which shook them down, and they could see smoke coming from inside and part of the top of the castle came down. Tox turned his head back to look in the smoke filled hallway, and a tear came down his face taking in notice that Sugarcoat and Sunny didn't make it.

"Well, that's the last of them. Everyone died fighting for me." Toxigo said.

But he didn't have much time to mourn for Sunset's and Toxigo's head turned to see a staircase leading down.

"Lets go!" Sunset ordered as Adagio and Toxigo followed behind, hopefully getting away from the castle as best as can be.

Chapter 20: The Elements Have Awakened

After escaping Canterlot Castle, Sunset, Toxigo and Adagio ran to where the train station was since it was the farthest location from the castle, and the changelings continued the attack. The three of them all met up with everyone else who were all meeting there for the time being, including having to make a new plan.

"Why is Adagio with you guys?" Applejack asked sounding annoyed.

"Long story short, she's agreed to help us after her sisters were... zapped. To say the least." Sunset replied.

"Oh, well... wait. What about the others? Weren't Sugarcoat and Sunny with you?" Fluttershy asked.

"They... They didn't make it." Toxigo said. "Indigo came for us at the last minute to save us but she got dragged down by those bugs, and Sugarcoat and Sunny Flare blew themselves up. I can at least say this, they have redeemed themselves. Everything they all went through, for me, will be honored."

At that moment, they heard the sound of a sewer grate clattering, and they turned to see a grate fire up into the air and hit the ground. Hands came out of the hole, revealing Indigo Zap climbing out of the hole with a different appearance now. Her hair was ruffled up, one of the lenses on her goggles was cracked, a scar went down her right eye with some blood going down, the top of her suit was now gone revealing a gray tank top, there were some cuts and little bits of the legs of the suit gone.

"Next time.... when we say we'll make it up... maybe just have us do chores! This isn't what I had in mind!" Indigo asked sounding exhausted as she breathed heavily.

"Indy... You're alive! What happened?" Toxigo asked.

"They dragged me down, but I managed to kick them away and I had to crawl through the sewer systems over to here to escape their sights. Now, two things, one what where's Sugarcoat and Sunny, and can someone get me a band-aid? The blood is coming from eye, and that doesn't feel good." Indigo winced feeling the pain.

Applejack came over to her with a medic kit, and Sunset explained what happened to her. Indigo as she felt the small band-aid below her eye though over the situation with a concerned face, but she straightened herself back up.

"Well, you don't have to worry. I'm still around and I'm staying. But, I should say, Toxy... I'm... I'm sorry. I shouldn't have left, I made a promise to stay with you by your side but I didn't do that. I... I..."

"Indigo. You were stressed out, and that's understandable. I am glad you've come back to help though."

"Well, its not just that, its also.... you know..." Indigo gestured with her hand.

"Oh you mean that stuff before when we were dating?" Toxigo asked.

"Yeah that, I... I'm sorry I wasn't a good girlfriend, I understand I shouldn't have treated you like that and I had no right to. I don't suppose there's any chance we can..."

"Let me interrupt you there Indy." Toxigo said. "Looking back, I don't think we did so great as a couple. And quite frankly, I don't think we should get back together."

Indigo gave a frown to his response, but came up with an alternative solution. "Can we at least be friends?"

Toxigo smiled. "Of course."

Toxigo and Indigo shared a hug embracing their new found friendship.

"So, now that we're friends again, can we focus on our next course of action? I'm afraid the more time we waste standing around the more time those insects continue to grow and advance on us." Rarity said.

"She's right. New plan. We're gonna...wait a minute..." Tox stopped and looked up.

"What? What is it?" Sunset said.

Everyone looked to the sky as they watched Midnight Sparkle float into the air with two bubbles following right behind her. In them, they could see Sugarcoat and Flare still alive but detained in the bubbles.

"They're not dead yet!?" Indigo shouted.

"So they didn't die. Well, that's somewhat of a relief." Toxigo said.

Midnight Sparkle above, as she floated in the air fired an energy beam into the sky which opened up a portal into just a black circle. They didn't know what was inside the portal, but they knew they were alive.

"Anyone have a suggestion for how to get the other Twilight back to normal?" Indigo asked.

"Maybe we could get Sunset to turn into the angel form again to handle it?" Applejack offered.

"But that's gonna require a lot of magic, and that's not something we have much of." Sunset replied.

Everyone pondered for a few seconds and then all heads turned to Toxigo. Toxigo wasn't sure what they were gesturing but he quickly caught on.

"I'm not bringing the Alicorn Amulet out." Toxigo said.

"Tox, come on. What other choice do we have?" Flash asked.

Toxigo thought their situation over and realized he was right. There was no other option they could pick, he groaned and pulled out the Amulet from his pocket that he had buried it in.

"What is this, like the fourth time!?" Toxigo complained. He hooked the Amulet around his neck, and looked towards Sunset.

"Please promise me you won't fail."

"I won't. I know I won't." Sunset replied.

"Okay.... here goes nothing..."

The Amulet illuminated bright gold, Toxigo's red eye illuminated more demonic red and a blast of blue energy fired from it onto Sunset, engulfing her in a giant energy bubble, which beamed brightly, transforming her into her Daydream Shimmer form once again.

As she hovered above everyone, everyone gave awes and happy smiles. Once Toxigo removed the Amulet again, he looked up to see Sunset floating in her new form.

"Sunset... you... you look beautiful..." Toxigo said.

"Aw... thank you." Sunset replied.

"Now, lets go save our friends." Toxigo replied.

"Okay, new plan, free Sugar and Flare, Lets go!" Tox ordered.

Everyone stormed out to go back out in the battlefield to attempt to get themselves over to Midnight Sparkle's location, Indigo and Adagio looked at each other both getting an idea on how to rescue their friends.

"So...I believe there's some jet packs we can use somewhere on the ship. Want to take flight control, or me?" Indigo asked.

Adagio stood still in silence to think for a moment, but got an idea. "I fly, you shoot."

A few moments later, Adagio had transformed into her siren creature form with Indigo riding on her back. With a new set of goggles on her eyes, a helmet on her head, and wearing a fresh new spandex tight suit, she was ready to move.

"Are you ready to ride?" Indigo asked.

"No!" Indigo replied sounding scared beyond all belief.

"Hang on!"

Adagio soared through the streets of Canterlot slowly moving herself up into the air as Indigo held onto her tight scared out of her mind as they took flight into the sky above Canterlot, with the sole intention of freeing Sugarcoat and Sunny from the clutches of Midnight.

As they reached up to the sky, Midnight had Sugarcoat inside a glowing purple aura, while Sunny stayed trapped in a giant bubble, and the look on their faces were terrified beyond all belief.

"Twilight! Come on! I know you're in there! You have to fight the control!" Sugarcoat yelled.

"Twilight is no longer here weakling... there is only Midnight... And just like everyone else, you will-- AGH!!" Midnight nearly lunched back after being hit by an energy blast. She turned to see Indigo on Adagio's back hovering in the air.

"Twilight, listen to me! This isn't you! You are a nice girl, you would never hurt your friends!" Sunny pleaded.

"Oh please, friends only made things weak, you all held me down, and you only wanted me to release the magic to win a petty game..."

"That's in the past Twilight!" Indigo shouted as she pulled the trigger on her weapon which shot Midnight in the chest pushing her back.

Just at that moment, they heard a scream and saw Aria fall through the hole and hanging onto the side trying not to fall, and then Sonata fell as well and Aria grabbed her hand just in time.

"I got you!" Aria shouted.

"Aria! Sonata! You're alive!" Adagio had tears of joy streaming down her face to see the sight that her sisters were alive.

"Adagio, you're actually, crying?" Aria asked.

"Yes!"

"Well any chance you can help us get down? I don't want us hurt from the fall!" Sonata asked.

Luck had come to their way as Toxigo and Flash flew up with jet packs on their backs.

"Hang on! We'll get you down!" Flash shouted.

"Wait!" Aria shouted.

"What?" Toxigo asked.

"There are others in there! The other two girls we zapped, they're in there!" Sonata shouted.

"Get everyone out, I'll handle Twilight!" Sunset said.

"Well you better move quick! I don't think that portal will stay open for long!" Aria yelled.

Sunset led Midnight far from the portal, and everyone got into action. Soon, Indigo jumped up into the portal and came swimming back with Sour Sweet holding onto her, and in her other hand was an unconscious Lemon Zest.

"You okay?" Indigo asked.

"I'm fine, Lemon's knocked out though." Sour replied. "Could have wanted you to free us sooner though."

Sour hoped onto the back of Adagio with Indigo, and once now in the air, Aria and Sonata took advantage of having magic again and transformed into their siren forms and allowed Flash and Toxigo to get onto their backs and Toxigo held onto Lemon Zest as the three of them flew from the portal as it was about to close.

Back with Sunset and Midnight Sparkle, the two continuously kept firing portal blasts towards one another and neither one could make a hit. They chased one another by hovering and soaring through Canterlot where several citizens had to duck and find cover in the city streets. Everyone watched in shock and awe at the sight of the two god-like girls battling.

As they battled, Toxigo glanced at Sunset in her powered up form and smiled.

"That's my Shimmer-cakes."

Back with Daydream Shimmer and Midnight Sparkle now were at a magical energy beat down firing two beams towards one another to hit the other, but neither were getting the upper hand. Until Sunset started moving closer and the energy was getting more towards Midnight. The glowing yellow and orange and red beam hit Midnight first which engulfed her into a void of pure white, and she faced Daydream Shimmer who offered a hand to her.

"Twilight, I know you're in there. Just let me help you..." Sunset offered.

Midnight faced Sunset with a few blinks but grabbed her hand, and in flash, the two of them were back on the ground back to normal. Twilight's eyes opened up and found herself on the streets of Canterlot. She had no idea what had happened.

"Wait, what just happened?" Twilight asked.

"You don't remember?" Sunset asked.

Twilight shook her head responding no,

"I'll explain later, right now we got to run."

And with that Sunset and Twilight ran back to the train station without getting caught by any changelings in sight.

Echo finally accessed the ship's controls and she managed to get the CHS Wondercolt down onto the ground to park, and they went into the medical ward where Lemon Zest was hooked up to some IV units and still not awake.

"She's healthy and okay, but she's knocked out for the time being. She'll wake up. Eventually." Applejack replied.

"Well, at least she's alive." Sugar replied as she was cleaning some of the black dirt off her face.

"As soon as they wake up, I'm going to give them a big apology for what I've done." Indigo replied.

"Its not your fault dearie." Sunny said as she placed a hand on her shoulder. "Besides, you already made up for your actions by coming back to help us."

Indigo looked at Flare in her purple eyes, and she gave a smile and hugged her. "I'm just glad you're all alive. I don't know what I'd do without you."

"You'd probably go into a deep depression and not talk to anyone to the point where your emotions would bottle up and you'd lash out at someone." Sugarcoat bluntly stated.

"That's putting it mildly Sugar." Flare replied.

"Are any of you gonna stay behind to watch her, or you gonna join us in this final fight?" Toxigo asked.

"I'll stay behind. Besides I can't move very far with the way my foot's feeling. The bite kind of took a lot out of me." Sugarcoat said as she carefully moved herself over to a chair next to Lemon on the bed.

"Well if you're staying, then I should too." Sour replied.

"Me too." Sunny followed.

"Alright, if you're gonna stay together, that's fine, just stay safe" Tox said before stepping outside to join the others.

The Dazzlings stood with them all looking bashful and ashamed, and Adagio held onto her sisters giving them tight hugs for fear of losing them again. After reuniting with her sisters, Adagio cleared her throat, and talked.

"Look um... I'm new to this whole 'friendship' idea, but do I just assume we need to apologize, for what we did?" Adagio asked.

"I'd believe that would be the appropriate response considering all the horrible, inconsiderate--... um, yes darling." Rarity replied.

"Alright, I... I'm sorry. I know we don't deserve your forgiveness--"

"Hold it right, there, Dagi. I can tell how you're feeling, and I understand. But you did actually help us back there, and I can tell you care for your siblings a lot. And because you helped us get our friends back, I forgive you."

Tox then felt another surge of energy.

"Are you freaking kidding me!?" Toxigo yelled.

He floated up into the air, and ponied up once again much to the Dazzlings shock and surprise.

"Okay, why is this... Wait a minute. I get it. I understand it now!" Tox yelled with a smile on his face.

"What, what do you mean?" Sunset asked.

"I get it now. I understand why I ponied up all those times before. I ponied up to all your elements because it was a sign. The pony ups were all signs saying there was another Element of Harmony. Twilight said that there were other Elements on the Tree of Harmony that are yet to be unlocked, and two of them were unlocked before. Another one was unlocked because of me! It makes sense!"

Soon the 7 girls, and Flash all started floating in the air and glowing along with Tox.

"Honesty...." Applejack then ponied up.

"Generosity...." Rarity then ponied up.

"Kindness..." Then Fluttershy.

"Laughter..." Pinkie.

"Magic..." Human Twilight.

"Acceptance...." Sunset Shimmer.

"Compassion...." Flash then ponied up.

Toxigo opened up his red eye with the black diamond retina changing its color back to normal yellolw as Tox spoke the final word. "Forgiveness..."

All of them rose into the air, hands joining together in harmony, all growing long and luminous hair. Flash had grown long blue hair that extended all the way to his back, and orange wings that sprouted from his back, and horse ears grew on the sides of his head. Toxigo ponied up as well, as the metallic bat ears transformed to the top of his head appearing on the sides, the back of his hair extended out glowing minty green, and his eye glowing bright. Everyone else which included the Dazzlings, the Royal Sisters, and Echo all faced them with grins as they watched them burst with energy.

"We possess something that can never be taken down or destroyed, something that lives inside of all of us You all have changed the way I look on life. No matter what comes, no matter the foe or entity that stands in our way, I will always consider you all my best friends. Nothing can bring me down. For a while, I believed I was just a survivor of misery, but now, I see the truth. I was meant to be with you all, I was meant to join all of you in peace and harmony, defending whatever forces of evil comes our way. United we stand, now and forever, divided, we fall! Hand upon hand, brothers and sisters, no one shall be greater than all. Today, it will be said we saved our world. Because we possess the most powerful force in the universe: The Magic of Friendship."

Once they all landed onto the ground, everyone looked at each other with smiles.

"Here's what we're gonna do, we're gonna win this fight, and we'll keep on going. Twilight, can you and the Royal Sisters evacuate the citizens from the area?" Toxigo asked.

"Yes, we can." Celestia replied.

"Great, thank. This fight's gonna be pretty... messy. Dazzlings, Echo, Element Bearers, we're gonna fight Chrysalis, together. For today, the Elements of Harmony..." Toxigo paused to open his eye as it glowed bright yellow

"--have awakened."

"Ready! Break!" The group shouted.

Author's Notes:

Apologies for this being rushed.

The Final Battle is approaching them! Will they make it out okay? Will they succeed, will they all come home in one piece? Stay tuned!

Chapter 21: Lets Have A Battle!

The group of girls and two boys now still in their pony-up forms, all got their gear and armor ready to battle the queen, along with some of their other friends to help along the way.

Toxigo slipped the eye patch over the non working eye making another grin, and replied with, "Its time to kick ass and chew bubble gum."

"And I've got plenty of gum!" Pinkie exclaimed as she pulled small box of bubble gum from her hair.

"Always good to have a supply Pinks. Now, about how we'll face her, I have a few ideas." Tox then ran over to the ship and dragged out a bag hanging on his bag no doubt carrying supplies. Some of the war surplus they could see him dump out were some guns, artillery bombs. and armor. Soon he started picking up items one by one passing them to different people.

"Dazzlings?" Tox then faced the three of them. "Are you able to fight since you have access to your magic now?"

"We should be able to handle ourselves." Adagio replied.

"And the rest of us already have enough power from the pony ups, but just in case, I got some extra weaponry and gear."

And with that notion, Tox passed Pinkie a colorful looking gun that looked like it contained popcorn for ammo, a jetpack to apply onto Rainbow's wings, tough armor for Applejack, and several bits of gear and supplies for the others.

"Echo, can you handle yourself?" Toxigo asked.

"Affirmative."

"Alright ladies and gentleman, its time..." Tox then cocked his arm rifle to load up and grinned. "Lets have a battle."

The group of 13 walked towards the Queen who had swatted parts of some buildings with her fists, and her attention was turned to the girls and boys all standing prepared to face her.

"Queen Chrysalis! My name is Toxigo Paratoya!"

Adagio face palmed after hearing that opening statement. Did he really just say that? Tox heard her facepalm but he decided to just get to the point.

"Whatever, you killed my family, prepare to die!"

Chrysalis made the first move, firing energy beams from her eyes which went over their heads destroying part of a building. The group turned around to see her one shot obliterated the building, leaving them very surprised.

Rainbow then soared into the air still knowing how to operate her wings (despite only having them for short amounts of time in the human world) managed to get her body off the ground and into the air and zoomed by her friends grabbing Chrysalis's attention.

Chrysalis began making a swing at Rainbow trying to pound her, but alas she had no luck. Snarling after seeing she missed, she then turned her head only to get a punch across the face by Rainbow speeding by. The punch was so strong she almost fell to the ground but she caught herself before making any fall to the cobblestones.

"You really think you puny creatures can stop me?"

"Well, duh!" Pinkie replied.

Chrysalis fired another beam after another just trying to annihilate just one of them, but she had no luck. She felt an energy blast to the back of the head and came face with the Dazzlings all floating in the air with the pony ears, wings, and pony tails.

"You attack my sisters, and now I break your bones!" Adagio shrieked.

The three Dazzlings charged forward firing laser beams from their demonic pitch red eyes, but Chrysalis wasn't affected by the blasts and she swat them to the side with her left fist and the three of them crashed through the window of a florist shop. The three of them popped their heads up from the crash, and Sonata had a a pot-less flower on top of her head.

"That could have gone better." Sonata stated.

The girls weren't having so much luck after all, including the two boys. Applejack attempted to ram right into her foot only for her to be kicked down, Rarity tried distracting her by shining a light in her face, she just kicked her down as well. Flash tried fighting back by using a light cannon and aiming it at her face, but that only damaged her slightly and she quickly regenerated.

Rainbow came soaring in again, but this time Chrysalis grabbed her and tossed her to the side which was towards another store.

"Oh crap." Rainbow said before her body slammed through the glass shattering the window and landing on the floor.

Chrysalis turned her head to see Sunset getting ready to make a charge, only for Chrysalis to kick her to the ground with one of her legs. Rarity tried attacking her in return, but Chrysalis simply fired more beams from her fists forcing Rarity to go back.

But during their non-stop fighting despite the amount of failures of them being tossed, kicked and being shot at, Chrysalis began... groaning in pain? She held onto her stomach she started groaning and held onto her chest in pain.

"Yes, now here's my chance!" Tox said.

Tox flew up into the air, striking several punches to the face, with an over the top angry expression on his face.

"This! *punch* Is! *punch* For! *punch* Taking! *punch* My! *punch* Friends *punch* and *punch *for* killing *punch* my *punch* FAMILY!" Toxigo said as he continuously punched Chrysalis across the face hovering in the air with the Amulet's help.

Chrysalis then opened her threatening eyes and gave a punch across his face with her fist knocking him to the ground. But more hurt sent to her stomach again and she was trying her hardest not to fall down in pain.

"Why is she groaning?" Fluttershy asked.

Chrysalis just smiled and stood back up looking at all of them.

"So a little bit of the power overdose has affected me...I can handle this power, I was destined to handle it, I was made to handle it. Do you think I can't? I am the Queen, I was fit to handle it, something none of you can..."

They were soon all levitated and wrapped around a green aura right in front of her face, and with a quick notion she tossed them far off into the air only for them to crash right onto the CHS Wondercolt ship, alarming the Bolts below deck.

The Bolts ran out to the deck and saw the group of fighters all on the ground looking incredibly hurt from having crashed onto hard rocks. So they walked over to help them get back on their feet, and they all looked at one other with distress.

"Well this is just great! We're in some pretty huge trouble now!" Rainbow freaked.

"What are we going to do!?" Fluttershy screamed. She couldn't stay calm any more, not after what they had just gone through.

"Fluttershy, calm down! Look I'm sure we'll find a way to stop her." Applejack replied trying to keep her calm.

"She's right, we just need to get ourselves back up and carefully... walk back and fight again." Toxigo replied.

"Not necessary Toxigo. I will handle this, all of you evacuate." Echo ordered.

Everyone was confused. Why is Echo suddenly taking charge here, and why she demanding they leave

"Echo, we can stop her." Toxigo said as he began walking, only for Echo to get in his way.

"Sir, I insist you evacuate the city."

"Echo, get out of my way." Toxigo said agitated.

"I cannot go home."

"What are you talking about Echo, why not?" Toxigo asked.

"That is classified, Master. You must leave."

"What do you mean classified? You don't keep secrets from me!"

"You must leave."

"Tell me what's classified!"

"Leave."

"Tell me Echo! That's an ORDER!" Toxigo yelled sending chills down everyone's spine.

Both Echo and Toxigo were silent as they stared into each other's eyes, as Toxigo waited for an answer.

"Aye aye, sir."

Echo's eyes flashed for a moment, and soon a projection screen came from her eyes. So everyone gathered around so they all could get a closer look at what she was talking about. And as she guided them through the picture, they couldn't believe what they were seeing. Their eyes were gazing upon a skeletal structure of Queen Chrysalis in her new monstrous form.

"The overdose of the usage of the magic from the Alicorn Amulet has begun to corrupt her heart. But this corruption isn't like any we've seen. If that magic doesn't get out of her in less than 10 minutes, she will explode like an atomic bomb and take all of Equestria with us. There is an alternate way to stop this. If one absorbs some of the magic from her system, there is a chance she'll only take Canterlot with her."

Everyone looked at each other with big concern. They knew Chrysalis had gotten stronger with the power overdose, but they didn't think that it would be too much in a sense that she would become a nuclear explosion.

"If someone were to absorb that magic, is there a chance of survival?" human Twilight asked.

Echo shook her head, "No there isn't. Probability dictates if any of you tried to do that, you will explode. Because I was built to protect you, I will sacrifice my own well being to keep you all alive."

"Echo, you can't. You can't absorb magic. If you do, its just gonna create a bigger explosion since a bunch of liquids I installed in you are highly flammable. Besides, the only way to absorb the magic is with the Alicorn Amulet, and I'm the one in possession of it. I'll go." Tox said.

Sunset couldn't keep her breath after hearing his response.

"W-What..." Sunset cooed.

Toxigo could see Sunset didn't seem thrilled with the idea, in fact she seemed very scared with her quivering lips and watering eyes. "Shimmer-cakes. Only I can stop her. And that will probably mean I might possibly... blow up." Tox winced waiting for Sunset's response.

Sunset couldn't believe a word he said. Did she hear that correctly? Did she hear him say he might blow up?

"Please tell me you're kidding." Sunset asked trying to keep herself together.

Tox sadly shook his head no. "I'm not. The only way to keep our entire world safe is for someone to absorb bits of the magical energy that is inside Queen Chrysalis. If part of her power is gone then she'll just take Canterlot instead of all of Equestria. And I don't want any of you to die, so I'm the only one up for the task. I didn't think I would end up using the Alicorn Amulet some more, but it looks like that's my only option." Toxigo finished.

"But, you can't! If you absorb that power, you'll die! I... I...-" Sunset was in tears just hearing what he had to say. She couldn't bare the thought of losing her best friend. "-I can't let you die! I love you!"

All the girls gasped after hearing her say that out loud. She just flat out stated, she loved Tox. She had always loved him from the very start, and couldn't stand the thought of him dying. All of the times they spent together, every second they got to know each other, and had helped each other through with their problems, she couldn't have imagined all of that going away.

The thought had sunken into everyone's minds, and they all waited for Tox to respond. He had been eerily quiet after hearing her remark, and he walked up to Sunset still crying in her hands. She looked up to face Tox, and he wiped away a tear with a synthetic finger and feeling it against Sunset's cheek.

Out of nowhere, Tox pulled her close and gave her kiss right on the lips. Sunset was about to resist, but she didn't. She held him close, both kissing in a romantic embrace. And when they didn't notice it, Pinkie quickly slipped out her phone and took a photo of them kissing just for Sunset to keep as a memory, and put the phone back in her pocket.

Once they both broke out of the kiss embrace, Sunset placed a hand on his face with a sad look, and Toxigo felt the warmness on Sunset's face with his fleshy hand.

"Shimmer-cakes, I know you care for me deeply, and I'm glad you do. In fact, truth be told... I love you too, I always have, and I always will. But... if you truly love me, you'll let me go. You know you must, and you know I'm the only one who can do this." Toxigo replied in a sweet voice. "Though honestly, I think there's more life in every single one of you guys, than there ever was in me..."

Author's Notes:

Apologies if the fight scene isn't the least bit riveting to read. I was trying to get straight to the point and I didn't want to drag anything out.

Chapter 22: Unleash The Magic!

Toxigo:
I realize that you always deeply loved me,
its so sweet of you to care for me that way,
to meet a lady just like you, I've met one or maybe two
But the best ones drop right out and go away

At that moment, the three Dazzlings appeared from the different sides of Toxigo, all singing along in perfect harmony.

Dazzlings: (Oh, wuh-oh-wuh, oh oh, wuh-oh-wuh)

Now, I understand you learned some revelations (oh-wuh)
It's nice you care not the safety of yours (oh-oh-oh-oh)
But if I don't win this war
Well then we'll be near done for
She'll explode and take us all right with the core

Dazzlings:
(Oh, wuh-oh-wuh, oh oh, wuh-oh-wuh)
Consume the magic, absorb the magic,
If we lose then we're to blame...
that Queen had used us, and she abused us
So why can't we do the same?
(Oh, wuh-oh-wuh, oh oh, wuh-oh-wuh)

Toxigo:
Call me crazy, call me wonky,
say this plan will go rocky
More important are the lives that will be lost
A chance like this won't come again
I'll regret not taking it
Isn't saving all our lives and health worth the cost?

Soon the four Shadowbolts who were still awake along with Echo started singing along as well, all on board with Tox's plan as well. They circled around the group showing their serious expressions on their faces, along with standing beside Toxigo showing their commitment.

Shadowbolts:
(Oh, wuh-oh-wuh, oh oh, wuh-oh-wuh)
Unleash the magic, unleash the magic
we're not enemies after all
our only reason, for our actions
is praying Toxigo will not fall
(Oh, wuh-oh-wuh, oh oh, wuh-oh-wuh)

Soon Toxigo began moving away from them, and the 6 girls that were singing along with him, had to do their best to keep everyone away from him so they didn't get hurt.

Toxigo:
What I am saying's very simple
And since its saving the lives of yours
I only want to keep our world away from
Being in the claws of hers

And as for me, and all the others....
We only want to stop that evil spawn
And I'll sacrifice myself and my
legacy will live on....

Shadowbolts/Dazzlings/Echo:
Unleash the magic, unleash the magic
If we lose then we'll all die
But we will win it, since he began it
Its times like this that the stakes are high

Unleash the magic, unleash the magic,
If she wins then its our fault
She will be finished, and be diminished
Its time to put that Queen to a halt

Unleash the magic, release the magic
If she wins then its a crime
But he can win it, since we're all in it
Its all on him to not fail this time

Dazzlings: Unleash the magic, free the magic now...
Shadowbolts: Unleash the magic, free the magic now...

Adagio and Indigo then had to try their hardest to keep Sunset from charging right after Toxigo, and soon Twilight and Flash had to hold onto her to keep her from chasing him.

(Dazzlings: Unleash the magic, free the magic now)
Tox: Imagine all that'll go by letting her free...
(Shadowbolts: Unleash the magic, free the magic)

Toxigo kept on walking to where the Queen was, who was destroying more buildings attempting to search for them.

(Dazzlings: Unleash the magic, free the magic now)
Tox: And now winning this war depends on me...
(Shadowbolts: Unleash the magic, free the magic now)

The Queen's attention was drawn towards Toxigo who grinned evilly as she stared down on him.

(Dazzlings: Unleash the magic, free the magic now)
Tox: And what gates might open if she tries to take it...
(Shadowbolts: Unleash the magic, free the magic now)

"Tox! No!!!!" Sunset yelled trying to charge after only to be held back by Twilight.

(Dazzlings: Unleash the magic, free the magic now)
Tox: And my friendship's all I really want to see...

All: Unleash the magic, free the magic
Unleash the magic, free the magic,
Unleash the magic, free the magic,
Unleash the magic, free the magic...
Now!

Toxigo stood before Queen Chrysalis with a determined look on his face, showing no signs of mercy or backing down.

"You given up yet?"

"No..."

Toxigo held his hands onto the Alicorn Amulet and his eye changed back to dark red illuminating in her face. As if the light wasn't enough pain, she began to feel it in her heart as she felt and saw a stream of energy fly out of it, going right into Toxigo's heart.

Soon his body began glowing bright minty green with the magic. His ears transformed back into pony ears again, his hair grew lustrous and long, and he began floating up into the air once again.

And as he floated, he pulled out from underneath the waist coat a small envelope, and ripped off the amulet around his neck, holding it in his prosthetic grip. As more magic came flying into his heart, the pain was now beginning to grow. He couldn't hold in all of that power.

Toxigo began screaming in pain as the magic filled into his system, and then suddenly, out of nowhere, his prosthetic hand just shot right out of its socket firing towards the ground and crashing underneath some rubble. Soon he felt one his synthetic ears fire itself right off, and following that his prosthetic foot exploded into nothing but spare parts. His demise had begun...

Weakly and slowly, Chrysalis opened her green eyes to face Toxigo still glowing with the energy inside his body, beginning to make him suffer.

"Why... save... me? You know...there's no saving yourself...." Chrysalis weakly asked.

Toxigo faced her with one eye glowing due to the power, while the other one kept firing another laser beam.

"Because I don't want myself saved. I want my friends safe, and that means keeping you safe from the power overload." Toxigo wheezed.

"You knew I was going to die?"

Tox gave a nod replying to her question.

"Why didn't you tell me?" Chrysalis asked.

"Would... y-you have believed me?" Tox asked.

Chrysalis sadly shook her head no. She didn't think any of it would be happening.

More energy beams kept blasting from him. Cracks of shining green and yellow were forming on his chest, and pieces that were falling off were firing off energy. His eye kept blasting laser beams, more bits of metal started falling off, and he began screaming in pain.

"Agh... THIS... HURTS... SO... MUCH!"

Soon the magic began emanating from his fists and he launched magic balls like crazy which started destroying more of the buildings and causing more explosions and destroying more of the city. Not only that, but changelings burst through the buildings as well trying to escape their impending doom.

By now, the Royal Sisters had come back and heard about what was going on. Luckily they had all citizens evacuated from the area, and they received the order to head back towards their ship.

"We must leave now!" Celestia ordered.

As everyone was about to head onto the ship, Sunset turned around and began running back.

"Sunset! No! We have to leave!" Princess Twilight pleaded.

"You go! I have to go back for him!" Sunset yelled not looking back towards them.

Rainbow groaned and was about to charge after her, until--

"No, you guys keep going, I'm getting her back!" Indigo barked and she chased after Sunset.

Not questioning her demand, the group activated the ship and began to take off into the air as Indigo ran after Sunset.

As fires erupted, and explosions went off, the wind blew past their hair as they ran over to the middle of the street as they watched Toxigo slowly fall apart.

"No.... Toxy..." Sunset whimpered.

Chaos and destruction surrounded them, offering no relief or chance away from the impending danger. Sunset in a bit of fear latched herself onto Indigo who held her tightly.

"Sunset I'm so sorry we ever hurt him in the first place! I never thought it would end for him like this and I wish I could take it all back!" Indigo quickly confessed, under stress of the destruction around them.

"Its okay! I'm just happy you came back to help him at the last minute when he needed it!" Sunset shouted back.

Soon both of their attention was onto Chrysalis who weakly stood up looking furious. "There's no where to run! And now... you will join him in death, only this time...you'll die by me!"

Sunset wept into Indigo's shoulders, and Indigo held onto her staring savagely at Chrysalis. It looked as if their end had come soon enough.

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But as luck would have it, the CHS Wondercolt came down hovering right above the streets, extending a loading stairs from the side for them to run up of, going another door leading to the main control room.

"Look!" Indigo exclaimed.

Suddenly Twilight hung on the side and gestured for them to get in.

"Come on!" Twilight shouted over the explosions, extending a hand for them to get up.

Sunset and Indigo quickly ran towards the stairs and climbed up, looking back at Toxigo still falling apart.

"Don't look back, just keep going." Indigo said trying to keep Sunset calm.

All three shook as they got inside and another explosion went off shaking them. The explosion hit the ship, slamming it sideways, its landing legs getting tangled in some tarps for some of the restaurant covers. The landing legs retracted from its parking mode, ripping free, but still trailing some debris.

As Indigo grabbed onto the side in the main control room with Flash behind the wheel, human Twilight held onto Sunset tightly who was still shaking.

"Punch it Flash!" Twilight shouted.

Flash did as he was told and hit his foot on the gas pedal which made the engines roar with power. They took off from the ground and blasted through the city as more explosions went off, Sunset and Twilight slammed against their seats, Flash gazing as everything was burning and going up in flames around him, and everything was just going in a blur.

The ship made it through the city going up in flames, and soon a bright flash of light shined and soon enough....

KABOOM

The explosion shook their ship making everyone almost fall to the floor just from the shock wave. They had made it out from the destruction, of Canterlot. Their ship was a little scorched, but they had made it.

"Well... its over. Equestria and Earth, are safe." Indigo said taking in what just happened.

As Sunset breathed heavily from the intensity, she looked at Twilight with a weak smile.

"He did it. He saved us." Sunset said.

"He did, didn't he?" Twilight said. She held Sunset in a hug for comfort. "Don't worry, once the smoke clears, we'll head over to find him. I'm sure he's okay."

Twilight didn't really know if she was okay or not, but anything was possible. She just hoped there was still some glimmer of light for him.

Chapter 23: Dear Sunset Shimmer

The explosion had gone off, leaving many things behind. The destruction of an entire city, several fires and chaos around it, including creating smoke in the sky, while an orange sunset was set off in the distance.

Once they could see it was clear for them to land, the CHS Wondercolt pulled itself into the damaged city of Canterlot, and from the look of it, the explosion took half of the city with it. Parts of the buildings toppled off, bricks and concrete were in shattered bits, and shards of glass scattered over the streets and in the shops. Everyone got off the ship, and slowly walked through the damage. Sugarcoat however had to sit in a wheelchair due to her leg damaged, and so Sour pushed her from the back.

As they walked to the pinpoint of the explosion, they could all see a huge explosion mark on the center of the road where the Queen and Toxigo last stood, the last spot Indigo and Sunset found him in as he was slowly falling apart. Without any hesitancy, everyone began to dig through parts of the rubble to see if there were any remnants of survivors, whether it would be Chrysalis or Toxigo.

"Hey guys!"

The two of them turned around to see Indigo pulling up a dark green crown almost the size of her head.

"I found Chrysalis's crown! Don't know what happened to her though, I don't see her!" Indigo called out, and then Sunset continued to go digging in the rubble.

Sunset continued to look through the debris, in hopes that the love her life was still alive.

"Toxy! Toxy!" Sunset shouted.

Sunset's eyes winced at a bright light, and her vision was turned as she found something gleaming in the sunlight. She found the Alicorn Amulet on the ground looking as if it was snagged off from someone's neck. Worried sick, she held onto it and kept looking for signs to see if he's alive.

Sunset threw some more debris out of the way, and found an object that stood out. Lustrous silver metal which revealed to be Tox's arm.

"I found him!" Sunset called to her friends.

Sunset and some friends rushed over to the pile of debris and got the rubble off of the prosthetic arm. Once Sunset pulled it out, she saw the limb incredibly damaged. Wires were hanging out, one of the fingers was almost near just detaching from the wiring, and the jewel inside the palm was shattered in just blue shards.

"Oh no... Tox! Toxy!" Sunset called out.

Echo then walked over to where they stood giving her report.

"No signs detected." Echo said.

"Don't you have any way to find him? Tracking? Heat signature?" Sunny asked.

"Affirmative."

This got Sunset's attention. Maybe they could find him easier than they thought.

"Echo, scan for his heat signature." Sunset ordered.

"Aye aye, sir."

Echo activated her heat vision, and began turning her head in a 360 motion scanning the environment around them, but alas coming across no signs.

"No signatures detected. Toxigo Paralysis, is not here."

Sunset's stress levels were growing higher, but she noticed something else on the prosthetic arm. She looked at the palm one more time and saw a slip of paper that was taped to the palm, which had Sunset's cutie mark on it. She pulled the paper off, unfolded it, and closed it back in a mili-second because she was unable to read it had said. Sour Sweet saw the paper she threw, picked it up and unfolded and saw why she threw it.

"Don't you want to see what it says?" Sour asked.

"No, I don't." Sunset replied.

"What's it say?" Sugarcoat asked.

Sour looked to Sunset who didn't look back at them, and Sour cleared her throat to read the letter.

"Dear Shimmer-cakes, Sparky, Royal Princesses, Pinks, Skittles, Rare, Jackie, Shy, Dazzlings, and Shadowbolts. Wow those nicknames are weird, anyways...

By the time you find this letter in the wreckage from the explosion, I will probably be in a million pieces or be dead, floating in a void of darkness and fear. I wrote this letter in ever the case this would happen, and honestly I knew this would happen when Chrysalis absorbed the power. I didn't want to tell you because I didn't want you to be worried for me. I care for you guys so much I didn't want you to get hurt because of me. But to get the point as to what I wrote this, I wanted to leave my final words and wishes to you all. I give my thanks and love to Sparky, Pinks, Skittles, Rare, Jackie, and Shy for getting me out of my dark and grim shell into a life where I got attention and where I was cared for, I had never been more happier in my life. So I graciously thank you for helping me.

Dazzlings, I understand the position you've all been in, wanting more power and yet getting nothing out of it. But there is a greater power that you can get so much more out of. Under the teachings of Sunset Shimmer and her friends, I have learned much more from them, and if you learn from them, I can guarantee you a life of happiness. Shadow 5, I understand you all have been feeling guilty for what you've done to me, and I have forgiven you. I understand fighting in this long and tiring war wasn't what you had in mind, but I appreciate you making through it anyway. But if you all prefer to do a different form of making amends, here's what you'll do. You will attend Canterlot High School to learn the Magic of Friendship, you will try to be friendly to all of the staff and students around you, and you will do what Sunset says. And if you can, please rebuild parts of my home if you can, turn it into a haunted house for Halloween maybe, or at least, just spruce it up so Echo can be able to live there on her own, and do check up on her just to make sure she's still functioning.

My last notes go to Sunset Shimmer. Shimmer-cakes, I love you with all my heart, and if I would, I would have loved to spend eternity with you. You cared for me greatly in the last couple of days, and I always cared for you. And I know it won't be easy for you to move on without me, so if you want, keep the Amulet I always keep around my neck, around yours, so you can have a reminder of who I was. Just be careful with the power, DO NOT let it corrupt you. But in case, there is a way you can wear it without being corrupted. Just slide the ends into a metal connection blocker which will not allow any magic to be used as you wear it. You're the only girl I trust with that much power now. And as for the arm, keep it with you just in case you might need it. It can be used as a weapon to defend yourself, remember that. And as for my final request, when you go back to Earth and explain this story, if you ever do plan on some funeral or something, instead, make it a celebration for the victory and for what you've gained, rather than focusing on what you've left behind. I know you'll be able to move on without me, and I hope that you can. I love you Shimmer-cakes, and I always have, and I always will. And always remember, you possess the most powerful magic in the universe, the Magic of Friendship.

Love,
the last survivor of the Village of the Mysterious South, and the Element of Forgiveness, Toxigo Paralysis."

Once Sour stopped reading the letter. Sunset walked back looking at the letter the whole way through, then folded it up and put it in her pocket. Human Twilight having concern for Sunset, walked up to her to check on her.

"Sunset? Are you okay?"

"*sighs*, I'll be alright. I at least know, he loves me. B-But, now I..." Sunset's lips quivered and her hands were shaking up. "I... I won't be able to see him again!" Sunset cooed.

"If you want to talk about this, I'm here for you." Twilight said.

Sunset then out of nowhere held Twilight in a tight embrace crying on Twilight's shoulder, and Twilight held her back allowing Sunset to let her emotions out. Everyone taking in notice Tox was dead all held their heads down in respect for who've they lost.

"Maybe we should say some words, to respect him?" Fluttershy asked.

"I think that seems like the appropriate thing to do." Indigo replied. "Who's gonna speak?"

"I think I should, I know how to speak at these things." Sunny said.

Everyone had set a fire to allow the remnants of both of them to burn. One of them was the bio-hazard belt buckle they salvaged from the wreckage, and the other was the Queen's crown. Everyone had gathered around and had tried their best to stay calm and collective. And for the most part, everyone was. Sunset was still tearing up from what had happened, and none of them stopped her.

Sunny cleared her throat, as she began speaking. "We commence, this child, and the Queen to your keeping, O lord. Their bodies have been taken from the shadow of our nights. They have been released from all darkness and pain...."

Soon, Sour walked over holding the belt buckle, and Fluttershy walked over holding the Queen's crown in her hands. Both of them were ready, and Sunny continued with her speech.

"The unicorn and the Queen, have gone beyond our world. They are forever eternal and everlasting. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust." Sunny finished wiping a tear away.

Fluttershy and Sour tossed the items into the fire and watched as the fire consumed them, burning them to ashes and dust.

Aria and Sonata looked at each other with concern, until Aria spoke up. "You know... you're not the worst thing to exist. The Queen was. I... I know I don't really show it but... I actually care about you. You're my own sister."

Sonata gave a weak smile. "Thanks."

Aria held Sonata in a hug, and soon Adagio joined in on them as all three were hugging one another, and none of them felt any remorse or distaste.

"We will never forget you, Toxigo Paralysis. Your sacrifice will be commended." Celestia commented.

It was later in the afternoon, and the soon was close to setting into the night. Everyone had gotten over to Twilight's castle, and the girls and boy were ready to go home. Sonata was carrying Lemon Zest in her arms since they couldn't move a stretcher through the mirror, and Indigo helped Sugarcoat walk.

"We're going to need to a hospital when we go back. We can just tell them I got bitten by a lion, and Lemon hit her head on a rock." Sugarcoat said.

But before any of them were about to leave, Princess Twilight spoke with them one last time just before they went.

"Adagio. Before any of you leave, I spoke with Celestia and she said you all are allowed to roam free here in Equestria. Since you all have helped fight for our freedom, the charges that have been placed on you before have been dropped."

Adagio thought for a moment. They were finally free to roam in Equestria, but they thought back to what Toxigo had done for them. He never killed them, he helped save Adagio's sisters, and he sacrificed his own well being just to keep them alive. She thought about this again, and decided to go through with his final request, and to go back and live out the rest of their lives in the human world.

"As much as that sounds amazing Princess, I think it'd only be... nice, if we stay in the human world to learn from Sunset Shimmer about...friendship. It would be the right thing to do considering what Toxigo had done to keep us all alive." Adagio replied.

"Very well. But the portal is always open if you want to come here." Princess Twilight replied.

"Thank you, Princess."

And with that, the Dazzlings entered through the portal back to Earth. The Shadowbolts then looked at Sunset, giving her friendly smiles.

"We'll be waiting for you guys on the other side." Sugarcoat said.

So the 4 Shadowbolts, Flash, and Echo Dash all made their way through the portal going back to Earth. Leaving Sunset and the human equivalents with Princess Twilight.

"Sunset, you sure you'll be okay?" Princess asked.

"I'll be alright Twilight. And I'll carry out Tox's last wishes and watch over his stuff." She said looking at the Amulet held in the grasp of the synthetic hand.

"And we'll keep an eye on the Dazzlings, and any signs of other Equestrian magic on the loose. I'm sorry we destroyed most of Canterlot" Human Twilight asked.

"Don't worry about cleaning up Canterlot, we have that covered. Stay safe girls. I'll be sure to visit to see how you're doing." Princess Twilight replied.

"Thanks Twilight." Sunset replied, just before kneeing down and accepting a hug from the small horse. She got back up on her feet and walked towards the portal, followed by the other girls entering through as well, thus returning back to Earth.

On the other side, the 10 of them were waiting for the group of 7 to come back, and they all saw them return back.

"So, I trust talking with the Princess went okay?" Adagio asked.

Sunset simply nodded still holding the arm and amulet with her. Their attention was turned to the sound of an opening door and they saw Principal Celestia walking down seeing all of them.

"Sunset, are you girls okay? Toxigo told me to keep an eye out for when you all return." Principal Celestia then saw the three Dazzlings all together, and they gave nervous smiles to the principal who wasn't happy to see them.

"Principal Celestia, its okay. They apologized and they helped us defeat the Queen who took us." Twilight responded.

"And what has happened to Tox?" Celestia asked.

"I'm afraid the poor darling has.... has..." Rarity started to explain but she couldn't get herself to say it.

"Tox died trying to save us and keeping our entire world from being destroyed!" Fluttershy finished, just before sobbing into her hands and being pulled into a hug by Rainbow Dash.

"Oh... I'm so sorry to hear for your loss. Should we send you all home to recover?" Celestia replied in a calm voice.

"No..." Sunset depressingly said.

"Well, shall we arrange a funeral?"

"No. He asked us to instead of mourning what has been lost to celebrate what has been gained. And from that, we just got three of our enemies reformed, and 5 former students of CPA coming to join us. So, maybe I don't know. Pinkie you think you have enough energy to make a victory party?"

"I would, but I just can't get myself to smile right now. Maybe next week? I should be better by then. Maybe we can invite Crystal Prep over, since he was on both of those sides." Pinkie asked with her hair just flat and deflated.

"Alright, thank you." Sunset sniffed.

Pinkie then walked over to Sunset holding her in a tight embrace to let her cry on her shoulder, and soon all of them joined together in a group hug, including the Dazzlings, Flash, Echo, and the Shadow 5. It would take some time for things to be okay, but they all had each other to get through what had been gained, and what had been lost.

As the night had struck, and everyone had gone home, something else had planned to arrive.

In the stars above Canterlot, four objects from outer space were soaring down into Earth's atmosphere. Burning bright, and flaming through the sky, the meteors flew right above CHS, right above the town, and through the city, and their trajectory was aiming into the grassy hill near a mansion. The meteors had finally crashed digging into the ground and rested right onto the front part of the hill, still steaming from the extreme heat.

The mansion the meteors crashed right near looked very old and rigid, as if no one had been living in it for many years. But that was only the exterior, what laid inside was the real question.

The footsteps of a heeled boots were hitting the mud as the figure ran over to see the meteors had hit the ground, and was were still steaming heavily. The figure shined their flashlight onto the gigantic rock getting a closer look and all she saw was darkness. Until a pair of scary demonic eyes illuminated in the darkness.

Chapter 24: Toxic Angel/The End

The next week, everyone at CHS attended the war celebration. Students were in dresses and suits, all wanting to look well to not only celebrate their victory with making amends with the Dazzlings but also paying their respects for Toxigo who was now lost to their worlds. Both Earth's, and Equestria. Even Crystal Prep attended their celebration to give their respects, and a majority of them were kind. Well, not all of them but most of them were.

Some of the CHS students were a little hasty when it came to seeing the Dazzlings and the Shadow 5 considering everything they knew about them. However everyone was kind to the two separate groups and the two groups were kind to everyone at CHS as promised they would.

As for the Mane 7, they were preparing themselves to go to the party, and all were just finalizing their hair and makeup for the party. Soon a knock on the door came.

"May I come in?" a boy from asked.

"Yes, come on in." Rarity replied.

Soon entered in a boy with reddish hair, pale skin, and in a nice suit. Otherwise known as Coppermane, Fluttershy's boyfriend.

"Hey. I'd thought I'd come in to see how you girls are doing. You doing okay?" he asked.

"Most of us seemed to have recovered alright, but Sunset's taking this pretty hard." Fluttershy replied.

"I can't blame her. And to if she wants, please let her know that I'm here if she wants to talk about it." he replied holding Fluttershy in a tight embrace.

Twilight then walked over to where Sunset was to check on her, and she was staring into a mirror with the Alicorn Amulet around her neck.

"You ready?" Twilight asked.

"Yeah. I am... Just give me a moment." Sunset replied.

Twilight left Sunset alone to look in the mirror one more time. She looked at the Amulet around her neck, and then looked back as one tear ran down her face. "Lets do this."

Sunset made it out of the room she was preparing herself in and walked towards the stage, got up, and Celestia was about to hand the mike. On the stage, there were several green and yellow lights shining around it, and there was a display case with holders showing Toxigo's arm for everyone to see, still looking nearly disassembled. A light had shined on the synthetic arm illuminated in dark and mucky green, and all over the auditorium there were lots of darkly lit lights all in green and yellow.

"And now, Sunset Shimmer has the stand." Celestia then handed the mike to Sunset.

"Thanks Principal Celestia. Hello everyone, welcome to the party. This is actually celebrating two things. One, the Dazzlings we have faced before are now reformed and on our side. And this is also sort of a small funeral for, my best friend. However, I would like to devote a few minutes to honoring his memory." Sunset spoke in the microphone.

Soon Sonata Dusk, Aria Blaze, and Adagio Dazzle joined onstage together behind her getting ready, all wearing dresses.

"This song, I'd like to dedicate to my best friend Toxigo Paralysis who sadly is no longer with us. But if he was here, I'm sure he'd love to see that we all are doing alright. Anyways, I devote this piece, to you Toxy. Wherever... you may end up."

After Sunset spoke, the music began to kick up nice and slow, and Sunset began singing.

I didn't think he wanted freedom here
How would I know that there was more to fear
He's been here so long, how could this be?
Saving us from an evil entity

Toxic Angel, please come to me
Full of life and of strong toxicity
Toxic Angel I'm on my knees
We will stay strong and keep up a major legacy

Did we just lose?
Were we beaten?
Had taken down the bug cretin
Trying to find him, now I'm not so sure
I hoped what's left isn't blood and gore

The Dazzlings then moved up and sung along as background chorus for Sunset.

Toxic Angel, please come to me (Come to me...)
Full of life and of strong toxicity
Toxic Angel I'm on my knees (on my knees)
We will stay strong and keep up a major legacy

(Yeah, yeah, yeah....)
I was concerned you were an entity
Just wanting control of our family
(Yeah...yeah, yeah....)
Can't stop thinking that you'd made me smile.
And you fought them all Toxy style
Going crazy while the engines slammed
Then my heart skipped when I saw his hand...

"I looked on the ground and found his arm, but it was the saddest thing I've ever seen. All in ruin, strapped with the Alicorn Amulet, one letter, telling me to keep moving on. For we have the Magic of Friendship, and nothing shall stop us. I will always love you Tox. Now, and forever...." Sunset spoke in between the song.

Toxic Angel, please come to me (Come to me...)
Full of life and strong toxicity
Toxic Angel I'm on my knees (on my knees...)
You'll live forever in my memory!

Sunset was nearing the end of the song. As as she reached the end, she beamed with energy with bright glowing orange, and ponied up. But this time, she grew the ears and tail as she did before, shining as bright as a the rising sun. Everyone would have cheered but they were going to be respectful and wait for her to be finished.

Toxic Angel please come to me (Come to me...)
Full of life and strong toxicity
Toxic Angel I'm on my knees (on my knees)
I will miss you for eternity.....

Once Sunset finished the song, everyone cheered for her, and she looked down at them, giving a weak smile for the crowd, and she knew in her heart, Toxigo, would be proud.