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..."