Lucky for Sunset Shimmer, the amulet didn’t travel very far. For it along with the monster had only gone so far as to fall asleep after a night of chaos and they ended up in an alleyway in the small town of Canterlot.

The changeling hybrid opened his eyes slowly, flinching bright sunlight.

“Ugh… my head. Wait… where am I? What… what happened? How did I get here?”

The hybrid then felt the side of his left hand, feeling the pain along with a few droplets of green blood. It looked at its palm seeing the green blood dripping down, and gasped slightly.

“Green blood… why am I bleeding green… more importantly, why is it coming out of my system…”

After looking around at where he was, it discovered his body was still in its monstrous state. Trying with what little strength it had, it attempted to pull itself up but it lacked the strength to get up.

“I must go. I need to go... I need to find... Sunset...”

The changeling hybrid started to lose his vision and soon he ended up falling onto the ground face first into the ground blacking out.

Over at a food court, the former Shadow 5 were all with their food awaiting for Coppermane to arrive. He had called them over in a request to talk to them and giving updates.

“Did anyone hear from Sunset?” Sunny asked.

“Sort of. She kept crying and I didn’t understand a single word she said.” Sugarcoat replied.

Everyone nodded in agreement.

“What was she even crying about?” Lemon asked.

“The amulet she was asked to watch was stolen.” a familiar voice said.

Their heads turned to look at who talked and saw Coppermane. Their eyes bulged to see the huge scratch that went down his left cheek and reaching above his eye. There were still some marks showing, but most of it was shown to have healed.

“Dude, did you mess with a baby tiger down at the animal shelter again?” Lemon asked.

“No, I didn’t. I had a run in with that monster that you and Indigo met the night you broke in the other Sunset's house.” Coppermane said as he took a seat next to Sunny.

“You finally saw that changeling hybrid?” Indigo asked.

“Yeah I did. You were right. That thing is scary.” Coppermane shuddered.

“Did it do anything else to you?” Sour asked.

“Yeah, it did. It held me against the wall and taunted me with all my deepest fears, and said that Neon Lights was gonna die and… this last thing that’s actually got me worried the most.”

“What did it say?” Sunny asked.

“This thing said something like ‘This isn’t your world to rule. She will rise again’ or something.” Coppermane replied.

The girls looked at each other concerned, something about that seemed off.

“You don’t think the “she” that thing was referring to is…” Sour began.

“I highly doubt that’s the case. She died from the explosion, remember?” Sugarcoat replied.

“We didn’t see the explosion. For all we know, she could have found a way to make it out alive.” Sour said.

“Who are you talking about?” Coppermane asked.

“Queen Chrysalis.” Indigo replied.

“Wait, is she the changeling queen that kidnapped the girls?”

“Yep,” they all said.

“But I thought she was killed from the explosion in Canterlot.” Coppermane said.

“Well that’s the other thing, we were evacuated from area, and we didn’t see what happened. So… that’s…” Sunny began, but she soon paused, taking a deep thought. What if the Queen didn’t die from the explosion? What if she was still alive? But how?

“Well if she is alive, we’ll take her down. There’s no way we’re letting those things take over.” Indigo smirked. "We beat them before, we can do it again!"

Coppermane smiled in relief and as he looked to the others he noticed something he didn’t see before. All of them had different wounds and cuts on them like if they were recently hurt.

“So… you said you girls made up with Smokestack, right?” Coppermane asked.

“Yeah. We did.” Indigo quietly responded.

“How exactly?” Coppermane raised a brow.

“We got our butts handed to us fighting changelings in Equestria as well as nearly died and got an understanding of how dangerous Canterlot High’s job is of keeping the magic safe.” Sugarcoat bluntly replied.

Coppermane blinked with a deranged look. “So... is that why a bunch of you girls look like you were recently attacked?”

“Yep, pretty much. I got the scar from crawling around in the sewers.” Indigo replied and pointed to the red scar going down her left eye.

“I got the knee bandage from a bite.” Sugarcoat said pulling her pant leg up showing the bandage wrapped around her knee.

“As for why Sour and Lemon don’t really have scratches is because they got chucked into an empty realm and stayed there floating for a majority of our battle time.” Sunny replied.

Awkward silence fell.

“...Oookayyyy?” Coppermane replied hesitantly.

“Why do you ask?” Lemon asked.

“Well, something kind of got me curious with my conversation with Sunset. Our Sunset. She said Neon Lights was the reason he had a fake eye, but she didn't tell me why. Not that I want to know, but...” Coppermane finished.

The table went completely silent and the girls stared at each other.

“Please don’t ask what we did, please don’t ask what we did, please don’t ask what we did…” Lemon whispered to herself.

“I wanted to ask, why did any of you hurt him?”

Indigo paused. She really didn’t want to tell him about what they did, especially after they were about to make up with one another. But they knew he was gonna find out eventually.

“You… you promise you won’t walk away from us when we tell you?” Sunny asked.

“Yeah… why?”

“Well, some of the stuff we did was just… evil. And after you gave us the benefit of the doubt, I… I didn’t want to tell you because we thought you wouldn’t trust us again.”

Coppermane could tell Sunny wasn’t lying. But as much as they were right, he had to know.

“Sunny, I promise I won’t walk away from you girls. Just tell me what you did.” Coppermane replied.

Indigo gave a sigh and said the first response. “Well, first thing we have to tell you. We never wanted... We... We never wanted to hurt Smokie. None of us did, but... we had no choice. We were blackmailed into hurting him.”

Coppermane’s eyes widened a bit. “But, by who?”

Lemon gulped. “Neon Lights.”

Coppermane groaned. “I thought so. Why did he blackmail you?”

“From what we remember, after the Friendship Games, he and his groupies began bullying everyone to doing what they wanted, one of them being Smokestack. They blackmailed us into hurting him with them because if not they’d post some… inappropriate pictures that no one should ever have.”

“Ouch…” Coppermane said.

“Actually, we’re all to blame. Mostly it was Neon though.” Sour said.

“Well, what did they have you guys do?” Coppermane asked.

“All of us were sent at different times to beat him up. Always to catch him off guard when he never saw us. Shower rooms, lockers, empty classrooms with a trap, the usual stuff you know. But... Neon Lights went too far. On one night, he beat him up really hard, and Smokestack's face got slammed into a glass window, breaking it. After that, glass shard hit one of his eyes really bad.” Sugarcoat bluntly replied.

Coppermane’s eyes bulged out of his head and his mouth expressed great amount of terror.

“Good god... that’s terrible!”

The girls nodded.

“We all still regret everything we’ve done. Now he’s dead, and everyone at CHS is still giving us a hard time about what we did to him… and you.” Indigo replied.

Coppermane suddenly became intrigued.

“What do you mean including me?”

“Everyone at CHS hates us for what we did to Smokie and you.” Sunny responded.

“I don’t think they’ll forget what we did for a long time.” Lemon replied.

“Well, I can see why. But how about this? Next week, on Monday, I’ll try and tell everyone to stop picking on you girls and tell them that my disputes with you five are over.” Coppermane offered.

The five of them paused for a moment and all gave each other nods. It seemed like a fair response.

“I think that’s a yes.” Indigo said.

“Perfect.” Coppermane said. "

“Hey, since you’re here, you want lunch?” Sunny offered.

“I don’t see why not. But after this, I need to go shopping for some Halloween supplies. Pinkie Pie needed us to pick up some things since she's pretty busy at the Oldies Diner.” Coppermane said as he took a menu with all of them.

As Coppermane ate with the girls, they were all in deep conversation, mostly discussing their plans for the upcoming Halloween party. But one thing on everyone’s mind was this. The had enough information on what their threats were, they just had to figure out what did human Sunset Shimmer want from this whole deal?

A car sat out in the front of the abandoned home that belonged to Smokestack. And in the car were three Crystal Prep boys.

"Alright boys. You ready for this?" Neon asked.

"Yeah. Lets go."

"But be alert. These neighborhoods aren't empty you know." Jet Set nodded.

All three of them stepped out of the car and walked up on the pathway going up to the front door.

"What if someone's home?" Royal asked.

"I doubt anyone's home." Neon replied.

"Can you at least knock?"

Neon sighed. He placed his hand on the door and knocked a few times. But as he knocked, the door just slowly moved open. The door wasn't even locked.

The three boys eyes went down on the door handle as it opened up on its own with nothing supporting it.

"Well how about that, the door's unlocked." Royal grinned.

"So... salvage time?" Neon asked.

Jet grinned at Neon. "Salvage time.

As time went on, the three boys managed to scalpel a good amount of gear that was locked up and hidden away in the dwelling. Not surprisingly, the boys found a huge collection of tech and spare parts that Smokestack had taken with him from a junk yard; probably for creating more gadgets.

“Did we get everything?” Royal asked.

“Well most of the items we were able to access, everything else is just too impossible to break through.” Jet replied.

“Okay, so does that mean we finally let the place burn?” Royal asked.

“Yes, it does.” Neon replied sounding unsure, making his friends concerned.

“Neon are you okay?” Jet asked.

“Ah, no, actually.” Neon replied.

“How come?” Royal asked.

Neon took a deep breath and spoke.

“Is… Is what we’re doing… right?”

Royal and Jet looked at each other with confused faces.

“What do you mean?” Royal asked.

“Is what, we’re doing, right here and right now, right?” Neon asked.

“When did you get so concerned about that? What we are doing is right, we’re putting an end to world destruction.” Jet replied.

“Oh… right.” Neon responded.

Royal and Jet got back to more loading up the car, while Neon looked at the front of the house in ruins. He couldn’t help but just feel a little bit bad that they were stealing things from a dead guy.

“We’re gonna get this stuff over to Sunset. You want the honor of burning the place down?” Royal asked.

“Yeah, I would. Go on ahead, I’ll catch up.” Neon replied.

"I'll go pay a little visit to Coppermane, along with a little friend of mine..." Jet Set said, raising up a silver weapon in his hands.

With that, Jet and Royal drove off in their truck leaving Neon to look back to the house and talk to himself, and supposedly to the spirit of Smokestack.

“Hey, Smokie. How are you doing? Well, I assume you’re doing much better since you’re dead and far away from me.” Neon laughed.

His eyes gazed towards the open door, and the lights that were still sizzling with electricity.

“You know… I remember when we were actually friends. Did... did you have to go? What's so special about CHS that made you decide to leave us? You couldn't tell us why, could you? No of course not… you… you had to go out and die.” Neon said with his voice breaking up.

Neon rubbed his hands over his eyes trying to clear the tears from his face, and then once he opened them he got such a shock of what he saw standing in front of him. He thought he was seeing someone standing right in front of him, but he wasn’t so sure.

He shook his head violently trying to get the image out of his head, and once his eyes opened, it wasn’t there.

“Get a grip on yourself, Neon. You’re just seeing things. He’s dead. He doesn’t matter anymore.” Neon said to himself.

“Neon….. Neon….” A voice whispered.

The voice sent chills down Neon’s spine. There couldn’t have been anyone inside the house, could there? The sound of thunder made him shriek a bit and looked up to see the stormy clouds.

“Oh, right. There’s supposed to be a thunderstorm today.” Neon said.

Neon quickly walked inside just to get out of the storm. But as he looked inside again he groaned. There were giant holes int he top of the house, and so now there was rain dropping on the inside. But he wasn't gonna let a little rain bother him. He began to walk around the house, just to make sure no one else was inside. He walked into the kitchen, nothing. He walked into the living room, nothing. Where was that noise coming from?

He opened a door which led him into Smokestack's bedroom still messy as it was last time he was there. He could see lots of clothes scattered about, bed not made, a few knick-knacks on the floor, and much more. He looked down, and picked one up to take a look. The toy he analyzed was looking like a small white wolf that looked as if it could form a cassette tape.

“Oh, I didn’t know you were a fan of Mighty Morphers.” Neon said before putting it back down.

He continued to look around and found a huge board on the wall with several amounts of push pins and photos attached to it, looking as if all of the pictures were all linked together. This one was just like their Sunset, what with the linking the magical occurrences over at CHS.

“So you were also curious about the magic anomalies too.”

Neon then turned his head and from he saw made him shocked. He picked up a picture frame which had a photo of him and all of their friends including Smokestack all standing with each other making silly faces at a carnival like environment, embezzled with a caption that said “Best Friends Forever”

Neon’s eyes hands were beginning to shake up and he couldn't help but look in shock and awe at the photo.

“You…. you kept that photo. I can’t believe you still kept that photo of after everything we’ve done…”

Unfortunately he quickly became distracted by the sound of clattering which made him put the picture back down. However, he froze to look back at it, and so he opened up the back, folded up the picture and put it in his pocket.

So Neon walked into another room. The garage maybe? He opened the door entering inside and stopped in shock. What he found wasn't a garage. But the room was massive. It was like a giant engineering lab and auto-body shop. There was a car raised up on some jacks for repairs along with the front hood opened up, giant boxes filled with more pieces of spare metal, and a workbench area where tons of tools were set up.

"You seem to have a lot of spare time on your hands huh buddy?" Neon said to himself.

Turning his head to the side, he looked to where he heard the source coming from. But for some reason, no one was in there. Or was there? His eyes gazed to the ground which looked as if some muddy footprints had been traced. Either someone had been recently walking in here, or Royal forgot to wipe his feet again.

Neon walked, following the footsteps and found himself walking through to another part of the lab. He took off his sunglasses to take a better look at the equipment around him. The first thing he noticed was this part of the lab was set like a shooting range. There were target beams across him, and right in front of them was a stand for a weapon to be held on. And on the target beam was a big hand-drawn picture of from what he could see, a strange black horse that had a bug like appearance to it.

"Correction. You have way too much free time on your hands."

He turned his head and almost got a shock. There was someone else in the room with him. But all he was seeing was the back of someone looking down at a desk, and with his arms crossed behind him like he was deep in thought.

From the back he could tell this person had on a black tank top, gray wolf skin color, and two black boots. This figure also had what looked like the tail bottom of a large coat around his waist, and his hair was all ruffled up and messy.

After standing in silence, Neon cleared his throat and spoke.

“Hi. Uh, sorry for intruding in like this, but the door was open.”

No sound or reply came back from the figure. But Neon blinked again and suddenly the details on that figure were becoming a little… familiar...

“Smokie… is… is that you?”

The figure turned himself around giggling quietly which made Neon gasp in fear. This person… it couldn’t have been. He stared right at the face of someone he never would have imagined to show up. But what made him scarier was that his eyes were all dark voids with nothing in them.

Neon slapped his face and winced in pain from how hard he hit himself. He turned his head back and saw the person wasn’t there. It was all visions from his imagination.

“God... No… never… never!” Neon shouted.

He grabbed a sledgehammer from off a wall and started swinging around at random places in the engineering lab. The hammer swung down on the engine of the car, it hit a beam that held the top of the roof up, he slammed into compartments holding more tools and supplies, he swung it everywhere.

Sweat ran down his face swung the sledgehammer towards an operating generator which began to start spewing small sparks of electricity from within. Fearing his life, Neon quickly walked away as best as possible. In seconds, the generator started to catch ablaze, but the flames quickly spread. It spread towards the walls, and then soon they started to be engulfed in the flames. The fire began to spread even more as papers burned, the target cardboard cutouts were burning to ashes and dust, and soon parts of the ceiling began to collapse and fall apart.

"No... what have I done?"

For once in his life, Neon felt sorry. With no other choice and no way to cover up his actions, Neon ran out of the house as quick as he could and jumped into his car, and sped off.

In the rear view mirror, he could only watch as the house burned to the ground, falling apart to ashes and dust….

Any predictions for what will happen next?