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