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.