Only five minutes later, the six ponies -and one changeling- were on a tour of the town. There were buildings known from the show, plus a few others from games and other shows. The mane six’s houses matched with both sides of their characters, canon and non-canon. As they walked, Jolis felt something stinging the back of her mind. She felt… nothing. No emotion at all. It just seemed to stop.

“Twilight! Princess Cadence has sent me to deliver this scroll to you!” A Crystal Pegasus shouted as he circled down to them, a scroll in hand.

Twilight quickly took the scroll and read over it. She made a face similar to… disgust maybe, but nothing seemed to back it up. She groaned, passing the scroll over to Spike, who had joined up with us during the walk.

“Well that can’t be good,” As Spike looked over the scroll, sadness radiated off of him. “The Crystal Heart has been split and stollen. Shining caught one of the thieves with a piece of the Heart on them, but without the rest of the Heart, all emotion will be cut off for ponies.”

“Well tha’ don’t make a darn lick o’ sense. We were doin’ just fine before we even knew that consarned thing even existed,” Apple Ikasoruk stated rather nonchalantly.

“That’s probably because the Heart was still in one piece and HIDDEN not CUT UP or DESTROYED,” was PInkie’s response to that. There was something akin to emotion backing it up, but it quickly faded.

“Look, we’ve got things to do,” Twilight told the Crystal Pegasus. “And a newcomer-”

“-Who would like to help,” She cut Twilight off, “Being from a place that relies heavily on, and draws reasoning from, the entire emotion spectrum I cannot just stand by and let you wither into careless monotony.” Jolis took the scroll, reading over the finer details.

Apparently, when they ran off they each had a fourth of the Heart; the bottom point, which the Empire had gotten back, the midsection, which taken by a larger, red Earth pony, and two top lumps, one held by a unicorn with a long white beard, the other possessed by a pegasus carrying ‘unknown weapons’.

According to the note, the disappearance of the heart seised the natural flow of emotion through Equestria. A failsafe to encourage its return, no doubt.

“Thank you ma’am. I was sent out with orders to not return until I could pass this off to somepony,” The stallion gave her a small triangular parcel. Upon opening it she found that it was the lower section of the Crystal Heart. In the box was a note, and as she skimmed over it the piece of emotional crystal seemed to sink into her hand. Once she had taken notice of it, pale blue crystal had filled in the holes of her right hand and arm. On top of that, a small heart shaped socket appeared on the center of her stomach with the lower part was filed by the crystal.

“Well, that’s... interesting,” She said as she looked her arm over. “I guess I should get started?”

“Sure but first you should get some supplies from around town,” Twilight stated emptily looking over the the note again, “As a princess, and a local one at that I can write up requisition forms for anything you need.”

“Leave it to the princess of friendship to be friendly even when all emotion is being sucked out of the universe. Yeah that’ll be helpful because I don’t think I’ll have time to build dispensers everywhere,” Jolis joked as they turn to head to Castle HQ as Solid Sparkle named the crystal tree, “Seriously though I’ll need the help.

“That’s why I’m also going to give you this.” Solid held out a circular pendant with the Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker symbol on it.

“This is a…?” She looked it over confused as to what it was, and what it’s for.

“It’s a summons token. Something I’ve been working on. Celestia had a book about these beings called displaced. One of the things they do is make Tokens that let others summon them to our world,” Twilight went into her mini-rant on the subject, and Jolis, losing interest, decided to keep going through her pockets to try to find out the maximum of her items. After finding she actually had every item from both TF2 and the entire CoD franchise Twilight had stopped.

A few hours walking around the Castle, and the requisition forms were done. Jolis accepted them with a smile, and the blue Crystal warmed slightly. A wave of happiness pulsed from Jolis. She grips her head as she gets visions from the other pieces. One of them was of the large red thief. He had tripped, at one point during his run away from the castle. After the tumble his mask fell off to reveal Big Mac.