Sunset and the rest of her group decided to take the long walk back to the castle. Mainly for three reasons. One, for Sunset, was trying to calm herself down. Two, so the others can see the city. Three, Isaac, Carver, and Randall could avoid getting teleportation sickness for. And Moondancer and Coco Pummel were still with them because they were heading for Canterlot castle for some business.

They can say, Moondancer and Coco both were amazed by the technology that Sunset's team had, especially the individual armor each of them wore.

Especially the high tech and intimidating armor Carver was wearing. With his griffon physic, his appearance really suited him well in his Spec Forces suit. More than that, they had some conversation on the way on to the castle. However, Twilight was talking with AJ and with her group, while Coco and Moondancer were talking with Sunset's group.

"Why are you both want to head to the castle?" Sunset asked to Coco and Moondancer.

"Well, some of the Princesses staff wanted Coco to make some new uniform dresses for them, and I come along to help her with that," Moondancer answered.

"Huh, figures.." Sunset commented.

"You sounded like you don't like dresses," Coco said with a sad tone.

"Kind of hard too after working and got her skills to be an expert engineer like me," Isaac added.

"Expert engineer?" Moondancer asked in surprise. "So you can fix everything?"

"Well yeah," Sunset replied. " Seeing how advanced this place is, everything here looks easy for us compared to what we have."

"Amen to that," Isaac added.

"That griffon over there, is he a soldier for the Griffon Kingdom, right?" Coco asked in nervous.

"It's Carver, and no I'm not," Carver answered with a flat tone. "I'm a soldier for Earth Defense Force."

"Sounds like you were protecting a planet," Moondancer commented, which received the glares of Sunset's team. "What?"

"Well that's what he does before that time Sunset and Isaac helped him with that," Randall said.

"Yeah..." Sunset then popped out her inventory slot screen hologram in front of everyone, which surprised Coco and Moondancer. "Well, at least my Plasma Cutter is with me."

The other three quickly reminded of their weapons and quickly popped out the hologram screens in front of them, the residence in the Canterlot city recoiled in surprise either. "Well, looks like we all only brought our Plasma Cutters here, including Randall," Isaac said.

"At least we got something for self-defense," Carver said.

"And for fixing and cutting," Sunset added.

"Damn right," Randall said in agreement.

After they turned off their screens, they looked around them again to see that the residents were amazed by what they just did. They only kept moving along despite the residence still glaring at them in amazement.

"What... was that?" Moondancer asked in stunned.

"Inventory Screen, hologram," Sunset answered as they closed their inventory screen. "It's not something you see every day or here in this day of age really because it's not magic, and besides our tech is much more advanced than anything Equestria has now."

"Oooh..." Coco was amazed. "Sounds cool."

"Yeah, I know." Sunset smiling at their childlike wonder.

They kept on walking until reaching the edge side of the town, meaning they just finished their quick tour around the Canterlot. Isaac, Carver, and Randall felt better afterward from the tour because of how the buildings in the town looked like and feel like they are in the year of Medieval.

While they glanced around them, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna horns silently glowed and charged up the teleportation spell. Then in a quick blink of an eye, Sunset's and the princesses group were all teleported to the great hall inside Canterlot Castle. The hall that has stairs with the windows of Celestia's and Luna's sun and moon colored-drawing after the first stairs, two ways stairs were heading left and right. More than that, the hall had a checkered floor with red carpets laid out to the stairs that stretched in four directions, while on the stairs stretched into 3. Sunset's team, besides Sunset and the rest of the natural born ponies, felt disoriented from the sudden teleport until they had a better look at their current. They then realized that the princesses teleported them.

"Goddammit, Princess! Could you at least warn us you go teleporting us like that?!" Carver asked in annoyed as he felt dizzy.

"If I did, you all will going flying off like you did earlier," Celestia replied wisely.

"Sounds fair," Isaac commented, which is really right about that.

"So, this is where we went on our own ways," Moondancer said to Sunset. "See ya later, Sunset."

"Later," Sunset replied with a nod before Coco and Moondancer went off to the other section of the castle to finished up their errands.

Eventually, the Princesses and Sunset's team separate themselves from Twilight and her friends as they returned to Sunset's guest room. They all entered the guest room and closed the door. They all were standing in the middle of the room, having a conversation about something. Something about what they were going to do when they return back to the human world during and after they deal with the problems at CHS.

"Well, Carver's going to be a cop back there," Sunset said. "Isaac, Randall, what are you gonna working as?"

"You know?" Isaac replied. "I better off as a freelancer engineer for now."

"I think I'll go stick with Carver," Randall said. "But I'll probably be working with mechanics and engineering stuff too because I was also an engineer long before joining the Unitologists."

"Goddamn, you amaze me," Carver commented as Isaac and Sunset smiled to found out they now had another old-timer engineer with them.

"Mr, Clark. Mr, Char. If thou art is looking for work we could hire the for any jobs we may have for the in the foreseeable future?" Luna offered. "We art very interested in thy skills if you can aid our ponies into our stares ." Luna herself had little stares herself twinkling in her eye at the hope at the possibilities the two could bring.

Isaac and Randall looked at each other before glancing over at Sunset. She shrugs her shoulders while she lifted her hoof and tilting it side to side. Translation: "Not sure about it, sounds like a bad idea."

"Will come back to that after everything has calmed down and were settled in one place," Isaac answered to which Randall nodded in agreement.

Princess Luna started to squeal like a foul before realizing what she did and blushed in embellishment. Much to her sister's amusement.

"And in the meantime, you'll be living in ma'h house for awhile," AJ stated.

"Yep, until we made a few credits to get ourselves an apartment," Isaac said.

"I still got my own old apartment in the city," Sunset said. "But it's still sealed off by the police, not sure about you guys."

"You know, there's also another apartment next to yours, Sunset," AJ said. "Ah' heard the owner of that apartment already moved away to another city."

"Huh, looks like we just found our own apartment," Isaac said as he glanced at them. "That's convenient."

"Well, after we pay for the apartment," Randall said, then he showed two of his prosthetic fingers to them and open-closed while saying. "We're going to do some 'renovations' in our apartment."

"Yeah, pays to be prepared," Sunset commented in agreement.

"Are yall telling me that you're going to adding an armory into your apartment?!" AJ asked in amazement.

"Eeyup," Isaac, Carver, Sunset, and Randall said in unison.

"By the way, about that CHS stuffs," Isaac said to change the topic. "Are you sure you want to go back to that school?"

"Yep," Sunset replied.

"Despite that your former friends at CHS hate you?" Carver asked. "This is not going to work you know. Why can't you let it go away?"

"They may be my former friends, yes," Sunset said. "But I want to find out who did this to them and will make sure they realize that what they have done and pay for it with what they have done to me."

Sunset then looked over to AJ with a sharp eye. "Including you."

AJ gulped again at this, but then Isaac defended her. "Hey! Calm down, let's just focus on this problem alright?"

Sunset only sighed. "Alright, ok."

"Look, maybe we can be friends again and put all this behind us?" AJ asked nervously.

Sunset only silent for a moment on that. Though that reminded them of their friends, who fought to helped them and died along the way. Either by their own hands or the monsters. They were all dead because of them. The only thing that left for Sunset is only her family and her former friends.

"I hope so," Sunset replied with a frown and sorrow as she looked away from AJ. "The only thing that's left for me is only my former friends...... and my family. No one else than that. Everyone else we know is all dead."
Sunset then looked down to the ground in sorrow and grief, as she whispered to herself. "Ellie...."

Isaac did hear that and felt sadness and grief from it. Isaac then put his hoof on Sunsets shoulder. "We're going to be alright. You're going to be alright, ok?"

Sunset was silent in content, but she replied. "Okay, Isaac."

"You still have us," Carver added. "Don't worry about it."

"Okay, Carver," Sunset replied with a nod.

"I hope you haven't forgotten about me, Sunset." Said Princess Celestia.

"Celestia?" Sunset said in confusion already forgetting that Celestia and Luna were still with them.

"For as long as I can remember I've always seen Equestria as my home and welcomed all who live within its borders. As for all my students, both after and before your time. I've treated them like an extension of my family. Like I do for all the ponies of Equestria, I see them as my fouls, and I do care for them" Celestia said as she walked up and hugged her former student.

"Including the ones that are rebellious." She whispered into Sunset's ear. Making her crack a smile before parting, with Sunset feeling a little lighter the sentiment.

"By the way, what are you going to do for work when we get back, Sunset?" Randall asked.

"Freelancer engineer," Sunset said as she shrugged. "Nothing more than that, for now."

"Alright then," Randall said at last.

They all paused for a moment before Isaac asked something to Sunset. "Sunset, you said this place full of magic right?"

"Yeah," Sunset replied.

"Does that includes the age reversing spell?" Isaac asked again, which got her up on that.

"Yes it does, but the only ones who can do that around here is only Celestia. I was actually thinking about asking you about that." She said over to Celestia.

"You're thinking that Sunset should be back to school again?!" Carver asked. "She's already grown up!"

"Really, like she said before she did not officially finish high school," Isaac said. "Before she was working under me to be an Engineer for the CEC, I gave her the offer to work alongside me in CEC, and they just accepted it. I didn't even have to put her in school before all this shit on the Ishimura happened."

"Wait, what?" Randall asked in surprise. "That was reckless but smart your part?"

"Can't believe it," Sunset added. "Worked as an engineer only to face several Necromorph outbreaks."

Isaac and Randall felt the same about it, isn't it the soldiers who were supposed to be prepared for that? "Gonna agree on that," Isaac said.

"So Princess, would you like to do the reverse age spell?" AJ asked.

"I would not be against it but would need to gather up some of my strength for it. It is not an easy spell just to do at moments noticed. Meet us over in the throne room in a few minutes, I'll be ready for you then." Celestia instructed before she and her sister left their room.

After they left the two princesses left, Sunsets group continued on talking about their plans for the future. What they were thinking about adding to the apartment. What to do with the remains of the Terra Nova, that sort of thing.

"So are we ready to go?" Sunset asked everyone.

"Sure, why not?" Carver answered before they went out of the room and went looking for the throne room, but not before Sunset used the mapping system because it's been a long while since she lived here in the castle that she doesn't remember.

As they kept walking, Isaac and Sunset suddenly both felt dizzy. They both realized that they were still suffering the effects from the Markers. Their dementia was striking their heads again as they started to stagger while they walked. It made AJ quickly worried about what was happening to them. Sunset and Isaac both kept hearing these words.

"Make Us Whole... Make Us Whole... Make Us Whole... Make Us Whole..."

"Get the fuck out from my head!" Sunset blurted in pain as the chant continues.

"Are the memories coming back to you? They are coming back to me..... the good ones...... oh ooh....... the bad one..... and the more I remember, the more my head hurts..... I can see the symbols...... can you see the symbols to Isaac, Sunset?"

"Just stop it...." Isaac said as they both holding their heads in pain.

"YOU MADE ME DIE!"

"Hey, you're okay?!" Carver asked quickly as he and Randall patted their backs and wake them back to reality.

"Car-Carver..." Sunset said as she trailed off and looked at him. "I-I'm fine."

"Yeah, me too," Isaac said as he and Sunset lower down their hooves from their heads.

"What happened?" AJ asked worriedly as she had watched them suffer.

"It's their dementia," Randall said. "They'll be fine."

They traversed the path, following the direction of the Locator. Luckily, they found Celestia right where she said she be in the throne room. Celestia was with Luna and was talking with Twilight and Starlight. When they entered the room, the attention of the alicorns and the unicorn were directed toward Sunset and her approaching group. They came closer to them and started up their conversation.

"Princess Celestia," Sunset greeted. "I'm ready whenever you are."

"Ready for what exactly?" Twilight asked. Sunset figuring that She and Starlight haven't been updated on the situation.

"Sunset has asked Celestia to use the age reversing spell," Isaac explained.

"Oh, we actually wanted to talk to you about it," Starlight added in surprise.

"Well, what about it?" Carver asked.

"I am ready to cast the reverse aging spell for you," Celestia said. "But I must warn you that this aging spell will be permanent."

"Any other side effects on it besides that?" Sunset asked. "Can it affect someone's personality or intelligence?"

"It won't affect personality or even intelligence," Twilight answered. "The only side effect of this spell is that after this spell is given to you, we can't reverse the spell again to go back to your original age until we wait for a year. But if after a year passed, we can't revert the spell back to your original age, and it will be permanent."

"Well, that's great," Randall commented.

"We can use the spell right now if you are ready Sunset," Celestia said."But are you absolutely sure?"

Sunset felt so much doubt about it. She's physically twenty-two years old with a mental maturity of a nineteen-year-old, while Isaac is nearly in his fifties and Carver is in his late thirties. You know, Sunset wanted that but not sure if she wanted to. What about Isaac and Carver? Won't they be on board this? Fully grown up Sunset goes back to school because she's not officially passed her school days, won't they object to that?

Sunset kept thinking about the proposal after she announced it earlier and decided that she kept Isaac, AJ, Randall, and Carver waiting long enough for her decision. Isaac could see her doubts in Sunsets eyes. For as long as Isaac has known her, things have not been very well for the last six years. The only thing she got out of that time was only bad memories, including some of the things they were doing while in hiding for 3 years after escaping Titan Station. Isaac just wanted to see Sunset was happy with her life.
Isaac then put his hoof on her shoulder. "Do it, Sunset."

"Wha-?" Sunset asked in surprise. "I wasn't sure you were with me on this?"

"Look, the only last thing I want is for you to be happy living your life," Isaac replied. "After all we did together to survive, I can't bear to see you suffer because you missed all of this. Your still the only family I had, and I'm not moving away because of this. Where ever home is, either in this world or in OUR world, is home for us."

Sunset still not convinced about this, but then Carver helped Isaac on that. "I already lost my family, alright? But I'm still not losing you or Isaac or Randall here. You're like a daughter to me, I wish Dylan were here to play with you. We won't get in your way because of this. It's your choice."

Sunset only remained silent for a moment, she has made her choice. "Alright then, Celestia, do it."

"Alright, you said you're physically twenty-two years old," Celestia stated. "Let me reversed the age to seventeen."

Celestia then glowed her horn and engulfed her magic around Sunset and was covered with very bright light which made everyone in the room looked away. After a moment of glowing magic, the bright magic fade away from Sunset and everyone looked over to her. For sure she was still in the same condition, but she felt a little younger again in her seventeen years. Though there was something odd for Isaac and Carver. They both felt like they were in their early thirty years old younger. Which Isaac asked Celestia immediately.

"Wait? Did you just used the age spell on me as well?" Isaac asked, which surprised Sunset and AJ.

"Well, yes, quietly," Luna replied shyly. "We thought if Isaac and Carver also got the age spell back into their 30's it made things much better."

That's a maybe, Isaac however still felt weary and haggard as before though, as for Carver, however. "Someone get me a mirror will quick."

Twilight did so by summoning one for the griffon. Carver looked over himself and saw that he had more feathers going over his bald head. "I don't know if this is good for a griffon, but I think I look good," he smiled at himself. Isaac walked and to looked over himself.

"All pepper and no salt? Wow, thirty never looked so good."

"Hey, why Randall didn't get one?" AJ asked.

"If their plan was setting my age to 30 then you're out of luck," Randall replied. "I'm 31 years old."

"Huh, okay," Twilight added. "So, when you all return to the human world?"

"Tonight," Randall answered. "We'll be sleeping over at AJ's house again and before heading to that school. Except me, because I want to tour around that city. You know see what the past was like without all the flying car's and check out that apartment that AJ was talking about."

"I'll come with you," Twilight said. "Since this is a magic problem, I'm the only one who may be able to help you with any problems that may show up."

"Okay, Twilight," Carver said as he gave a thumbs up at her with his claw. "Just don't screw shit up anymore then it already is, alright?"

"Okay," Twilight answered awkwardly to his profanities.

"What the time is now?" Isaac asked.

"Currently 4:30 PM in the evening," Luna answered. "You want to go to Twilight's castle where the mirror is?"

"Yeah, but first," Sunset paused. "I want to see Ponyville again. its been a while from my standpoint and like to see as much as I can before leaving. "

"Sounds like a town," Randall stated, which is true.

"Well, kind of," Sunset added.

"Alright then," Starlight paused. "Let's go to Ponyville."

One train ride Later

Sunset's group, along with the princesses and Starlight were having a tour at Ponyville. Besides the sights of the town, the pony residence were surprised by the new ponies, one of them some residents recognized as Sunset Shimmer has returned and greeted her kindly. Though the shocking one for them, however, was the presence of the badass griffon in scary black armor.

Carver in his Spec Forces suit was doing his best at ignoring the looks he was getting. Sunset and Celestia had told them to calm down because Carver the griffon was actually on their side, which they all sighed in relieve. Much more than that, they were greeted by the rest of the Elements Of Harmony. What was scary to them was, Pinkie came out from nowhere and shoot out a cannon of confetti to them and shouted the 'welcome-back party' to them. Isaac had already pulled out his rifle and nearly pulled the trigger on Pinkie if Randall had not managed to hold him off with his kinesis magic.

"Can you at least tell her to stop popping up from nowhere like that?!" Isaac shouted in fear and worry. "I nearly made someone killed here!"

"Pinkie, you hear that?" Twilight asked Pinkie. "Stop freaking them out like that."

"Oh oh... OK."

"Pinkie is just being Pinkie," Sunset reminded herself as did AJ.

As they kept walking on, they reached Sugarcube Corner where Pinkie worked in. They all decided to go in and ordered some food. As they wait for the snacks, they looked around the sugary cafe they're in. Cakes, muffins, cupcakes were everywhere to them, and the room was very well decorated. More than that, the ponies inside the cafe were amazed by the presence of Sunset's group with their futuristic armor on, especially Octavia and Lyra who just asking questions to Sunset on what she and her group were wearing.

Once they got their hooves on the snacks and cakes, Isaac, Carver, and Randall didn't want to stop eating. It had been many years since any of them had eaten a cake in their life, and also it tasted very, very good and had many good things to say about it.

"All other food is ruined for now because of this," Isaac said as he munched on the pink frosted strawberry cake in orgasmic bliss.

"Its like there is a battle going on about in my mouth," Carver said in awe from the chocolate cupcake in his claw.

"I CAN SEE THE HOLY LAND!" Shouted the wide eye Randall, as he and Celestia scarfed as much the extra caffeinated coffee cake down in their mouths as fast as they can. Much to Sunset's and Luna's amusement as they sipped their milkshakes.

Pinkie could suck in as much pride and happiness as she could from the comments she'd received. Now she can put a stamp her goods saying their 'other world approved' on her treats.

After that, along with a stomach pump and a detox later thanks to Pinkie. They went out of the cafe and continued to tour around the town. After they finished their tour, they headed to Twilight's Castle of Harmony and the whole Sunset's group were surprised by the structure of her castle.

"Is that castle made of crystals?" Randall asked in impression.

"Yeah," Starlight answered.

"Man wished I had churches like that where we came from," Randall commented, which he received the glares of Sunset's group about it. "Hey! This is better than what that crazy cult said to build the church."

"Well," Isaac paused. "How I cannot agree on that?"

They proceeded to head into the castle and waited for night to dawn on them. Isaac, Carver, and Randall already realized that nearly the whole castle was made of crystals for sure. The five spent their time reading the books in the library or were having a chat with each other. Sunset was with AJ, Carver, and Twilight having said chat.

"You sure you want on board on this Carver?" Sunset asked.

"Why not kid?" Carver asked back with a shrug. "You have problems back in that school, and I'm gonna help you with that."

"Yeah, but are you sure about that?" Sunset asked again.

Carver only chuckled at this and made a grin on his beak, he just rubbed Sunset's mane with his claw. "You already sounds like my boy again."

"You did tell us what happened to your family, Carver?" Twilight asked as she leaned forward on the table.

Carver suddenly felt sensitive on what she asked, but then he shared about what happened to his family. "The Unitologist killed them before I able to save them."

AJ and Twilight felt bad for what happened to his family. "Ah'm sorry to hear that," AJ said in sad.

Carver only chuckled at her statement and shook his head. "Try harder."

They were not sure on what Carver meant by that, except Sunset, though she wasn't going to say what is it. "You one hard soldier, Carver."

"Tell that to the government who tried to kill you," Carver shot back while pointing his index finger of his claw at her, which he laughed at that.

Sunset smiled a little on the joke. "Hilarious."

"By the way," Twilight interrupted. "Is there anything I need to know before I'm going back to the human world?"

"First of all, there is a human counterpart of you in CHS," AJ answered. "The difference between you and her I could tell is she wears eyeglasses and dose her hair up in a bun."

"Wow, can't wait to see you in glasses, Twilight. What's next?" Sunset asked in sarcasm but yet not smiling.

"I'm not sure if ya' all familiar with the Dazzlings," AJ said in doubt. "But they are the students of CHS as well, and we are friends of them."

"They're still around?" Sunset said in surprised.

"Yeah, and now that I think about it with the memory loss thing. I remember asking Aria about where they came from, and she just looked lost. When I asked again about it she said her sisters couldn't remember where they came from and asked me to tell our friends about it."

"Which add more to the pile to why we need to stop this. Anything else than that?" Carver asked.

"Got another best friend named Juniper Montage," AJ replied. "A movie enthusiast. Nothing else than that, except for Sunset's presence, when she shows up the whole school gone hostile."

"I'm sure I can handle that," Sunset said with confidence. "Been through three outbreaks each and came out on top. A school full of angry high school teenagers? A cakewalk."

When night fell upon the castle, around ten PM, Sunset's team and Twilight were getting ready to return to the human world. Twilight brought her bag with her and was bringing some useful stuff for her journey to the human world. AJ checked everything she had in her bag and was making sure not lose her phone because she'd was going to call Big Mac to pick them up when needed. Sunset was preparing at the activated mirror portal.

The rest of the princesses and the Elements Of Harmony watched them preparing for their departure. Sunset's team and Twilight looked back at them and waved at them.

"Goodbye, everyone," Sunset said as she waved her hoof at them.

"Be careful out there, Sunset," Celestia replied back before the group activated their helmets (except AJ and Twilight) and entered the portal and reach the human world.

Canterlot High School, 10:15 PM.

Sunset was the first to pop out the bright portal before the rest came out as well and piled up on one spot. They piled off and managed to get back on their two feet and looked around the area. The good thing was the area they're in are dark and safe. AJ quickly pulled out her phone and called Big Mac for a pick up with the family truck. As they waited for a few moments, hiding by the bushes on the front side of the school looking out for any signs of trouble until Big Mac arrived.

Twilight took a seat between Applejack and her brother while Sunset and the rest took their seats on the back of the truck, hiding their whole bodies from the public. It was a quick ten-minute drive thanks to the quiet traffic as they reached Applejack's house with any fuss. They got off the truck and collapsed their helmets and proceeds to enter the hose and was greeted by Granny Smith and Applebloom.

Twilight, Isaac, and Carver went off to the guest room to rest for tomorrow while Randall decided to sleep on the sofa in the living room again. Sunset decided that she wanted to be the lookout for the night instead of sleeping. But after awhile Sunset's vision started to blur and everything around her were starting to get funky before she started hearing voices.

"Why did you come looking for me if you knew I was dead, Sunset? Did you think I would forgive you?"

"Shut up!" Sunset whispered to herself.

"Don't let it take me! Please! Help me!"

"No, she's dead."

"Tell her I didn't mean to do it! See her! Tell her!"

"Shut up!" Sunset shouted. When they were gone, she realized everything was coming back to normal and that she had another dose of dementia hit her.

In silent, Sunset sat back down in her chair and looked at herself. Earlier she changed into her hacker suit and had placed her Plasma Cutter on the table next to her. Sunset then looked out the window to see the view while she resisted her sleep. Though as the night moves on, Sunset was startled by someone when she heard her name be called. Turning her head around, she that it was Randall that snapped her out of her watch.

"You're not sleeping yet?" Randall asked.

"No," Sunset replied, "I just don't want to sleep."

Randall stayed silent for a moment before speaking again. "What's with the shouting earlier about? Dementia?"

Sunset stares at him in silence but replied to his question with a nod.

"Hey, at least we're safe from those monsters," Randall added.

Sunset just in doubt. "I don't feel so."

"Why?" Randall asked.

"It's just..." Sunset paused for a moment. "I felt that we didn't escape our fate yet. I felt that those things still following us around."

"I understand what you mean," Randall said. "What I'm trying to tell you now is take a break, Sunset. You've been fighting for your life for a long time. now get some rest will ya?"

Sunset didn't reply. Instead, she just looked out the window again to watch the view.

"Alright, good night, Sunset," Randall said before he turned his back and slept.

"Good night," Sunset replied without looking at him.

Sunset took her watch for mere minutes until her eyes were felt sleepy. Without moment noticed, she slowly closed her eyes and drifted into sleep. Not going so sure whether this time will be a nightmare or not.

---

The Sprawl, 2511

Isaac was lending his shoulder to Sunset from their latest encounter with the pack and a Tripod. She wasn't thrilled with the development of babies turning into killing machines and even less so of kids being slaughtered for the same purpose. And with Nicole tormenting them both to the point of death via hallucinations stabbing them in the eye. They had to rely on each other when she started coming around. With the encounters of blots of madness, they've been receiving were getting worse by one after the other.
Climbing into the elevator, Isaac goes and hits the lift controls sending them upward towards the top levels of the church and hopefully near Diana's position. With that done he opened a com channel with Diana,

"Diana, you still with us? We're almost at the top of the Church."

"You're almost there, " Diana replied. "I'll be waiting near the shuttle."
When the call ended, a Slasher burst through the ceiling and landed between them, "Shit!" Sunset cursed.

Isaac reacted quick and threw a right hook in the Slasher's maul. It stumbled back, giving Sunset time to line up a shot with her plasma cutter and sending multiple shots into its chest shoulders and head. When the elevator stopped, Sunset walked out and used her hands to whipped the blood off her. "This is the last time I'm ever riding an elevator in a church."

The two walked down the path in front of them passed a set of windows looking out at the Sprawl. They paused for a few seconds to stare out at the station that had been their prison for the last three years.
"It almost looks peaceful doesn't it, Isaac?" Sunset said.

"Yeah, it was a beautiful place once. Now it's a shadow of its former self." Isaac replied.

"Do you think it was expensive to live here?" Asked Sunset.

"If it was then it's not now. Figure the outbreak is going to be the downfall of the real-estate market on this station. Going to be hell to sell, right?" Isaac replied jokingly. Sunset merely deadpan through her helmet at Isaac.

"Isaac from now on, I make the jokes."

"What? Oh come on," Isaac whined.

"No, that joke was bad, and you should feel bad for using it," Sunset said sternly.

"I would say the "you're not my mother" joke, but then you'd probably do a better job than she did."

"You're damn right I would, I would have taught you better jokes and try to set you up with the neighbor's daughter while pestering you to give me grand fouls to spoil," Sunset replied, falling back to her Equestrian vocabulary before entering a nearby lounge by the looks of it. After looking the room over, she glanced over the paperback books that sat on a bookshelf. Reading over the names on the books, she saw there were only about various things about Unitology. Disappointed about the books, she made her way back to Isaac.

Walking down the corridor, their RIG locators blinked showing that they made it to their destination. Isaac hit the open switch while they disengage their helmets seeing the woman known as Diana ahead with her back turned away from them. Suddenly two men grabbed Isaac by each of his arms while a third grabbed Sunset by her collar area forward and put her in a chokehold.

"Diana... You're a Unitologist." Isaac glared at the women.

"Why am I not surprised," Sunset grunted around the man's arm.

"Why did we trust you?" Isaac asked while he struggled against the two men.

"Well you two didn't have a choice, I said there was a cure you two came running," Diana explained while she still had her back turned to us.

"Why are you doing this? Why can't everyone just leave us alone?" Isaac inquired.

"Yeah, whats in it for you? Fame? Money?!" Sunset said while she tried to wiggle out of her captors grasp.

"You two are a pair of dangerous secrets, Isaac, Sunset," Diana answered as she turned around and faced them. "EarthGov won't leave you alone because they're afraid that you'll find and destroy their Marker... After all, you guys did build it." Diana said with a smile.

"What?" Sunset/Isaac said together. "What are you talking about?"

Diana smile became a little bit bigger at the question. "That's why we went through all the effort to bring you here, to build Markers for us, to spread glorious Convergence throughout the entire galaxy!"

Isaac and Sunsets eyes were wide at what Diana just said. Like she didn't care if the Markers were the case for all the deaths that's been happening on the Sprawl. Isaac was the first one break from the news, "You people are unbelievable!"

"Forget that Isaac, they're completely insane, I doubt they even have a cure, to begin with, did yea?!" Sunset called out on the women.

"Oh we don't want to cure you, we need those precious little heads of yours just the way they are." Diana then looked at the thugs that held us. "Now will you escort Isaac and Sunset to the shuttle and put them in stasis. The last thing we want is for them to die."

Before the goons could move them over, the Unitologists ship blew up and cracked the glass that protected them from the vacuum of space as Tiedemann's gunship came into view. Diana yelled at the thing before the gunship tore her apart in a hail of gunfire before her body was sucked out into space. The shooting also killed one of the goons holding Isaac as his body flew out into the void as well. Isaac and Sunset locked in their mag boots to the floor while they wrestle out away from the other thugs.

Sunset remembered a few judo moves from when Rainbow Dash demonstrated a few movements to get someone away from you. Like Fluttershy's perverted brother, or the guy that held Sunset with a chokehold. Using the depressure of space to her advantage, Sunset engaged her helmet while crouching over and lifted the man on her back before throwing him over her shoulder and letting the air suck him out the window. While that happened, Isaac brought the other guy in front of him while engaging his helmet, and spartan kicked him off him as the thug screamed for his life out into space. But doing so left him unbalanced as he fell on his back. His boot disengaged themselves as Isaac tried to grab on to something.

Sunset tried to reach for Isaac only to lose balance herself and grabbing hold of the nearest thing she could hold onto, that being an emergency hatch that was on the floor. Pulling the cover off, Sunset looked back to see Isaac on a guardrail and was struggling to pull himself up. Reaching out with her hand, Sunset focused with all her might to unleash her magic again to grab hold of him. Feeling the strong emotions growing in her, Sunsets had an aura of red energy surround both her hand and Isaac's back. Relieving some of the pressure off him as he pulled himself up and jumped on to Sunset and sending the two down the passage and felling towards the bottom.

The pair tumbled down till they fell flat on the metal platform. The two groaned in discomfort as they got to their feet and tried to catch a break. That break was short lived as the two engineers looked up and paled of a giant Necromorph staring down at them. It then released an ear-shattering scream and started collapsing the area they inhabited.

Sunset and Isaac ran for their lives under the thing in an attempt to get away. But as pipes fell and other things, blocked their path they were forced to turn around and open fire on the yellow weakness that was the things arm. The combined attack blew off part of its arm covering and made it attack them again, causing more pipes to fall. Force the two to move back again and were now getting their backs to the wall as they shot off another part of its defense at its arm. The thing then grabbed Isaac with its other arm and hauled him into the air, where it attempted to eat him. Sunset raised her plasma cutter and shot the rest of the arm's defense plating to pieces. It roared again as it slammed Isaac to the ground before Sunset finished it off by severing its arm off and throwing Isaac down the hall.

Sunset rushed to Isaac's side, putting him back on his feet and started running again. The door ahead of them needed a Kinesis Module to move it, though with a large Necromorph coming up from behind they needed to work fast. Isaac used a Stasis charge to slow it down, buying them a few seconds, while Sunset used her Kinesis tool to open the door. When the door slid open, they ran ahead of the thing and came to another glass filled room and spotted the gunship waiting for them as it fired. As they got down to grip onto the floor beneath them, the thing that they were running away from, charged into the room, knocked everything around and the pushed the two of them out into space it with it.

From there they all collided with the side of the gunship. Isaac grabbed hold of Sunset and used their thrusters to pushed off the Gunship. The monster Necromorph grabbed unto Sunset while she was in flight causing Isaac to jerk back and saw what was going on. Upon a reaching a sudden decision, he fired at an explosive canister that was attached to the gunship's bottom.

The force of the explosion sent them flying through a nearby window in a different location from where one they left through, but as soon the breaching seal was in place, and both gravity and oxygen were restored. The two sighed in both relief and annoyance from being back at square one.

---

Sunset quickly woke up from her slumber and quickly found out she had her Plasma Cutter in her hand. Then she realized that was a dream, that time with that dead bitch Diana back in The Sprawl. Noticing what the time it was from the clock on the wall, Sunset sat down her tool on the table and leaned back in her chair. Without warning, someone grabbed her shoulder, and she quickly got up and took her Plasma Cutter whilst turning around and aiming her gun at the person. Turns out, that was Applejack who grabbed her shoulder, and she was in fear.

"Sunset?" Applejack asked, her voice laced with fear. "Will you....?

Sunset then lower down her Cutter and put it on the table again, before she sat down whilst Applejack was left standing next to her. "You shouldn't have sneaked up on me like that," Sunset said.

"Sorry, Ah' didn't mean to," Applejack replied. "You're okay?"

"Just nightmares," Sunset replied solidly. "Nothing else."

AJ stay silent for a while until she said something to her. "We'll be heading to school soon. So Ah' think it's better if Ah' go and talk to the others about you first before ya' showed up."

"Then I just need to prepare for it," Sunset added. "Hang on, I want to give you something for communication."

"What is it?" AJ asked curiously.

Sunset stood up and pulled out something from her inventory slot. It was a small metal object that applied to use to the wrist. She gave it to AJ, and she just stared at it.

"I made it myself back in Equestria," Sunset said. "It's like a part of a RIG, this is the device which only displays audio hologram when I contact you. You just need to attach it to your wrist of your jacket, and we're good to go. No need for an earpiece if you want to talk to me or Isaac and the rest."

"Oh?" AJ quickly understanding how to use the device as she just kept it in the pocket of her pajama pants. "Alright."

Applejack then looked around them again, noticing it was just after five in the in the morning. "Want some breakfast?"

"Yeah, sure."

Canterlot High School, 09:00 AM

Applejack went out to the school first because Sunset and the rest of the team and along with Twilight apparently had some errands with the local authorities about what had happened three days ago. Applejack, of course, did not forget to put on the small communication device around her wrist with her brown workmen's jacket while she wore her blue jeans. It was still cold out after all. The plan was for her to talk with her friends about Sunset's return before introducing her to them, though already she knew it was not going to go down well. But what worries her worst was Sunset's mentions of her dementia and how it seems to be getting worse. Nevertheless, she needed to talk to the others first.

AJ traveled through the halls of the school lockers after entering through the school's main entrance. Along the way, she was greeted with her other friends in the CHS, but AJ didn't greet them back which made them felt concerned about what was going on. But then again they didn't mind about it and continue on to their activities. After a minute of traveling the halls, she found her friends, The Rainbooms, The Dazzlings, Juniper, and Wallflower. Applejack came over to them, and she was greeted by them.

"Hey," Applejack called. "How'sare ya' doing?"

"Well doing well, darling," Rarity replied like a noble lady. "It was a nice vacation, such a bad thing you didn't come as well."

"Ya' know how things go," Applejack stated. "Your family needs you, and you have to help them."

"It's nice to hear that," Adagio said. "Your family doing alright?"

"Yeah," Applejack replied. "Financial problem is also done as well. Just hope those Flim Flam Brothers didn't bother me anymore."

"They're still annoying you?" Human Twilight or Sci-Twi asked.

"Hhmm," Applejack scoffed. "They never stop doing that."

"Hey, we maybe can help you on that," Juniper added to support her.

"No need, Sugarcube," Applejack replied sincerely. "It's my own problem anyway."

"You sure?" Rainbow asked in doubt.

"Nah, I'm fine," Applejack replied.

"Do you know what we had to do when we're on vacation?!" Pinkie asked cheerily. "We were camping, swimming, sailing, touring, climbing, mfmmfmffmmff!!!!" not gonna finish up telling that if not for Wallflower closed her mouth with her hand.

"The point of what she's saying is we all had a very good time on the vacation," Wallflower concluded.

"Ah' know," Applejack then decided to change the topic. "Ya' know, there's something Ah' need to tell you and it important that enough that I need all of ya's attention. "

When Applejack said that, they all looked at her in content and upset. "It's about the Anon-A-Miss isn't?" Fluttershy asked an upset.

"Yeah, but..." Applejack then got cut off by Rainbow

"Damn it Applejack!" Rainbow said angrily. "Look, we agreed to not talk about this!"

"Ah' know, but-" Applejack then got interrupted by a hologram that just appeared in front of her.

The sudden appearance of the hologram surprised all of them including AJ.

Applejack then realized it was the audio link of her communicating device on her wrist. They were amazed by the appearance of the hologram including the students around them as well... But then the audio hologram speaks, loud enough for them to hear.

"AJ, you there?" the sound was bloody familiar for them.

Applejack paused for a moment before replying in nervous as she lifted her wrist comm in front of her face. "Ah'm here."
"You told them I'm coming?" the hologram replied.

"Well.... kind of..." Applejack replied, which made every student in the school surprised.

"Roger," the hologram replied. "I'm already at school and heading to you now."

"Ok," Applejack replied lastly before the audio-link was cut off.
They all were silent for a few moments until Sonata interrupted the silence. "Is that her?"

"Yeah, it's her."

Then they heard the steps, it was odd because the sound of the steps was like metal stepping on the ceramic material. They all looked over towards the source of the sound, and there she was. Slowly appearing from the other end side of the hall where some students, was a girl in her black jacket with the hoodie hiding her face walking towards them.

Everyone watched as the girl walked towards them before stopping right in front of the Rainbooms and Dazzlings, hatred began to boil in every student's minds. Both bands including Juniper and Wallflower except Applejack stepped back from her in hatred.

"Sunset Shimmer," Rainbow called out. "After a year you already have your gut to return to CHS."

Sunset only chuckled at Rainbow's statement. "Try harder."

"Applejack, what's going on?" Juniper called slowly. "After everything, you and the others said about her, and you're on her side?"

Applejack can say nothing but remain silent. "AJ, you're a traitor..." Fluttershy said angrily.

"It's not like what you think..." Applejack replied back.

"Then what is she doing here?!" Sci-Twi asked. Trying to understand her friend's reason.

"You must be Twilight Sparkle," Sunset stated, which surprise everyone except AJ for her knowledge of her name.

"Wait, you know her?" Juniper asked in surprise.

"How did you know my name?" Sci-Twi asked.

"Applejack told me about you," Sunset replied.

"Why are you telling her about Twilight?!" Pinkie asked angrily. "You betrayed us!"

"Ah'm not betraying ya', alright?!" Applejack stated. "Ah' don't have any plans with her to betray you."

"Then will you go tell Sunset to fuck off from this school right now?" Demanded Wallflower.

"I'm not going anywhere, Wallflower Bush," Sunset said, which surprised them all from that. "I'm coming back here to deal with some problems in CHS."

"Hang on a minute," Sonata said, notice of her clothes. "What are you wearing?"

They all just quickly realized of her clothes she was wearing right now. Applejack already knew what Sunset was wearing. Sunset was wearing her metallic boots that cover the feet and the calf of her body, RIG-modified black hoodie jacket, the Holo Projector on her chest and pouches on her belt. It was so bizarre that Rainbow could swear she was wearing something cool. They then looked back at Sunset's hidden face again and continued the conversation.

"I don't know what you're wearing right now," Adagio stated. "But for sure you have to get out from here."

"I'm not going anywhere," Sunset replied sternly.

"Get the fuck off from here!" Rainbow shouted.

"Not going out of here," Sunset replied calmly and slowly.

"Oh, you want to fight, eh?" Rainbow asked as every student around Sunset came closer to her, wanting to beat her down. "You're only alone here with Applejack, and you don't have to stand a chance against all of us. Now, Fuck..... OFF!"

"Not going to happen," Sunset replied again slowly.

Rainbow clenched her fist, wanting to punch her face. "I'm going to beat you."

Sunset only stood there calmly. "Don't do it...... I'm warning you."

Rainbow only laughed at that, and quickly swing her fist towards her face. But before her fist reached her face, someone grabbed her fist and made her stop. Rainbow looked up and found out that, someone else already grabbed her fist. A man, large scar on his face and his head was buzzed in a military style. He was strong, too strong for Rainbow to fight. He then forced Rainbow to turn around whilst shifting her fist and locked it on her back, before he threw her away towards her friends. His sudden appearance surprised everyone in the school.

"You're late, Carver," Sunset said.

"And you're early," Carver replied as he looked at her.

"Where's Isaac?" Sunset asked to Carver.

"Right here," Isaac called out as both Sunset and Carver looked behind them to look at him coming over to them.

"So, this is all your former friends?" Carver asked with a flat tone.

"Yeah, Carver," Sunset replied.

"What the-?" Rarity surprised of the appearance of other two men with Sunset. "Who are they? Your bodyguards?"

"My family," Sunset answered.

"Your family?" Juniper asked when then she realized their clothing. "Wait, they-"

When they noticed on what Juniper meant by their clothes, nearly the same as Sunset's wearing, they were amazed on that. "That looks cool," Rainbow whispered to herself.

That was when the Principal and Vice principal showed up from behind the Rainbooms and Dazzlings and saw what was going on. When Principal Celestia and VP Luna noticed the girl who showed up at the school was Sunset, their moods were shifted to either angry or glad that she has returned after a year of disappearance which the students assume she moved to another city instead of vanishing into thin air. But they felt something odd after knowing that Sunset was with two strange men she didn't know either of them as they wore strange and futuristic clothes.

"Sunset Shimmer," Celestia called out. "I don't know what's going on with you. But you have made a lot of trouble in the past you know?"

"I know, Principal Celestia," Sunset replied. "I just want to talk to all of you."

"By setting off a trouble first?" Luna asked in disbelieve.

"She didn't start this, ma'am," Isaac said. "They started the trouble first."

"Who are you?" Celestia asked.

"Her family," Carver answered, which surprised both of the principals. "Hang on, where's Twilight?"

"Wait you know her?!" The Rainbooms and Dazzlings asked in shock except for Sci-Twi.

"Umm... I'm right here?" Sci-Twi said in confusion.

"Not you," Isaac replied, but then someone else just popped up from behind Isaac. "Oh, there you are."

The Students and staff all became quite shocked when the appearance of another Twilight appearing in the school. To know the difference, Sci-Twi was using eyeglasses and had her hair in a bun while Twilight had her hair down and didn't wear glasses. Sci-Twi felt so awkward until she felt that was her twin sister, Twilight however already prepared for this and gave a flat emotion about this.

"Something's wrong, Twilight?" Sunset asked to Sci-Twi who was in shock.

"Did I just got cloned?" Sci-Twi asked in worried and shock.

"No, you didn't," Carver replied. "Ma'am, we should continue this discussion in your office along these girls, including with all those that are here at this time."

"Very well, let's go to my office then," VP Luna hesitantly replied. Seeing the situation was not something to have in the halls, and all followed VP Luna to her office. The rest of the students that weren't involved with the discussion decided to get back on what are they doing.

As the group kept walking down the halls and followed the principals to Luna's office for further discussion. Sunset suddenly tripped a little on something, before Isaac also got tripped. When asking them what's wrong, they replied that they felt the headaches again. And Sunset heard that again as she holds her head with her hand.

"We're all gonna burn for what we did to you."

"Shut up..." Sunset mumbled to herself in annoyance and pain.

"I thought she could help me, I just had to make her see."

"Get out from my head," Sunset mumbled again to herself as she grabbed her in pain.

"You will make us whole."

"Fuck off."

"THIS IS ALL YOUR FUCKING FAULT!! SHE DOESN'T LOVE YOU!!"

"Just shut up!" Sunset shouted, which surprised everyone that was with her and made Isaac came over to her in worry.

"We didn't say anything to you!" Juniper blurted at Sunset.
"Because she was talking to herself goddammit!" Carver replied harshly, which made them taken back by his swearing. "How is she doing?"

"Hey, you okay?" Isaac asked Sunset as he lifted her face and looked at her.

"I'm-I'm fine," Sunset replied in stammered. "I just keep hearing those words again."

"Okay then," Isaac said as he removes his hands from her face and patted her shoulders.

"What happened to her?" Celestia asked.

"She's suffering dementia," Isaac replied, which they were quickly concerned of her conditioned.
"Oh that's going to be a problem," Luna commented.
"it's the third time I heard someone said that," Isaac stated before they move on to the office.

"How did she got that?" Sci-Twi asked.

"Long story," Isaac replied sincerely.

"Can you open up your hoodie?" Fluttershy asked. "There's no need to be afraid of us."

"I'm not afraid of you," Sunset replied coldly. "I just don't want you to see my face."

They kept walking on, and they reached Luna's office. Sunset, Twilight, Isaac, and Carver stood in the middle of the room. Luna sat down on her chair while Celestia stood next to her. The Dazzlings and The Rainbooms, including Juniper and Wallflower, stood in a circle around Sunset's group whilst giving their suspicious face at them. Applejack only stood in between Sunset's group and the band's group in worry.

And about the room... it was spacious enough to fill the 17 people inside. One window in the room and a table with the moon sickle drawing on the front. Cabinets and board at the wall and a picture of a view of a full moon hung on the wall. Documents were on Luna's table and were left unconditioned.

"Before we talk," Celestia said. "May we know who are you, gentlemen?"

"My name is Isaac Clarke," Isaac introduced. "I was a Ship Systems Engineer for the CEC."

"What's this CEC?" Luna asked curiously.

"Concordance Extraction Corporation," Isaac replied. "A mining company."
"Oh, I've never heard of them," Celestia commented. "What about you?"

"Sergeant John Carver," Carver replied, which surprised everyone in the room that he was a soldier. "EDF."

"EDF?" Fluttershy asked.

"Sorry, kid," Carver said nonchalantly. "Classified."

"And you're...." Celestia paused in perplexed as she points at her. "Twilight Sparkle?"

"Princess Twilight Sparkle," Twilight corrected. "And I came from another universe to deal with a problem that is here."

"From another universe?" Juniper asked in confusion. "What do you mean?"

"There's a two way portal between this world and hers," Sunset answered.

"It's right at the base of the statue in front of the school. Her world is Equestria and is a world of magic where she's pony along with the residences of multiple species while there she is actually the counterpart this Twilight's world."

"Ponies? Magic?" Rarity laughed. "There's no such thing as that!"

That was when Twilight lifted her hand used her magic to telekinetically lifted Sci-Twi's eyeglasses, they all were amazed as they left their jaws hanging. "Believe it now?"

Sci-Twi quickly took back her glasses, and the rest felt disbelieve on what they saw. "O-Okay now, but- why are you here?"

"We're here because something has happened to you," Twilight replied formally. "To all of you."

"What do you mean?" Aria asked quickly as she leaned her back against a wall. "There's nothing happened to us all."

"Then we want to ask you something," Sunset said, she then looked over to each of them. "Do you remember anything from the Fall Formal Party until The Battle Of The Bands about me?"

"You're only a bad person in the whole school," Pinkie said. "When in the Fall Formal, all you did was bullying and hurt everyone in the school. You didn't do anything but bring chaos when we let you join our band, though we managed to defeat the Dazzlings that time without you. And after that? You betrayed us by sharing secrets to anyone in the school via Anon-A-Miss! How's that?!"

Sunset's team were all silent for a while until Sunset broke the silence. "Don't you feel anything odd about that?"

"No, we're not," Sonata answered confidently. "Ain't that right, AJ?"

Applejack didn't immediately reply, though she felt scared to answer. "Actually.... yes. Ah' don't feel right about it."

They were surprised Applejack answered it like that.

"What do you mean you don't feel right about it? That's all we can remember," Luna asked in confusion.

"What Sunset and Twilight are trying to tell you," Isaac concluded to them as he crossed his arms in front of his chest. "Is that all of your memories of Sunset and Princess Twilight along with all the magic you know about was erased."

They felt disbelieved on what are they hearing, including the Dazzlings. "Is that....... why we can't remember where we came from before coming here?" Adagio asked in realization.

"Hang on, what do you mean?" Rarity asked in confusion as she leaned her head forward at Adagio.

"The only things you remember must be when you and your sister first ended school last year, right?" Twilight asked. "And you didn't discuss with your friends about it?"

"That true," Sonata added, which made everyone in the room starting to believe at Sunset. "But who would do this?"

Isaac, Carver, Sunset, and Twilight slowly looked over to the only person who didn't speak a single thing in the room. "Wallflower Blush, you seem to be worried about something."

They all quickly looked over to Wallflower, who was seems to be sweating a little on her forehead. "No, I'm not worried."

Applejack then sensed something in her tone. "Wallflower, you're lying."

Their suspicions about Wallflower were starting to raise up after hearing everything about what Sunset and Twilight said and what AJ just said.

"What are you hiding, Wallflower?" Celestia asked in a little mad as her eyes sharpen at her.

"Nothing," Wallflower replied as she shook her head quickly.

"If Applejack sensed you're lying," Fluttershy added whilst shrinking her eyes. "We know you're lying."

Wallflower can say nothing for the least of the situation, but then insincerely told them. "Alright, you won."

She then grabbed her bag off her back and open it as her hand went in to grab something. She then pulled it out from her bag, Isaac, and Carver was right about it. It was the Memory Stone she was holding.

"The Memory Stone...." Twilight recalled slowly as everyone widened their eyes upon the stone.

Sunset raised her hand towards the Memory Stone. "Give it to me, Wallflower."

Wallflower was about to give it to Sunset, but that was a trick. "No!"

Wallflower quickly triggered the Memory Stone and set off a green beam of magic from the stone randomly into the room. Everyone managed to duck down in time, save one, Fluttershy was then hit by the magic beam. Fluttershy shook a few times before nearly falling after getting hit by the beam as she holds her head in pain. Everyone in the room quickly stood up after that attack looked around the room while Wallflower was preparing her Memory Stone.

"Everyone alright?" Isaac shouted in worried as he looked at each of them.

"Hang on," Fluttershy said after recovering from her headache. "Why I'm in Vice-Principal Luna's office? What are you doing here?!" Fluttershy shouted in surprise as she spots Sunset.

"Wallflower attacked us with that magic rock thing!" Rainbow replied quickly as she looked at her.

"Wait, what do you mean Wallflower attacked us with a magic rock?" Fluttershy asked, which shocked them all that Wallflower had just erased her memory of what happened today.

"Wallflower, don't do it!" Celestia shouted.

"What the hell are you doing, Wallflower?!" Sci-Twi shouted in panic as they stay away from Wallflower except for Sunset, Isaac, and Carver.

"Stop this, Wallflower!" Sunset shouted angrily. "You don't have to do this!"

"Oh really?" Wallflower asked. "After what you have done and what you tried to change in the school. Your friends think of each other as you think of me, which is not at all!"

Wallflower was quickly going to set off another beam of magic from the stone. Sunset, on instinct, tried to stop her by running at her head on to get hold of the stone with both hands while Wallflower still holding her stone. Instead of the stone setting off a beam of magic, the green magic caged Sunset in front of Wallflower as Sunset stood still as she kept her hold on the stone. Sunset then started to scream in pain while the green glowing magic around her, torturing her in front of the others.

"Sunset!" Isaac shouted as both he and Carver quickly run at Sunset and Wallflower and held Sunset by her shoulders, which quickly affected them as well they became covered by the green magic as well.

While this occurs, Wallflower proudly thought that Sunset and her family's memories will be taken away by the magic of the Memory Stone. But instead of that happening, the magic was backfired and produced a loud explosion-like sound and a very bright white light to blind the whole room.

After all of that happened, Wallflower fell back from the explosion of magic and recovered herself as she took the stone on the ground while the rest of the people in the room slowly recovered themselves from the very bright light explosion. They all then looked over to the three victims who have sacrificed themselves to the magic of the Memory Stone.

Instead of seeing them recovered from the event and we're going to ask what had happened, the three of them looked like they were suffering some sort of seizure. The three were shaking violently, breathing hard, and most of all screaming in pain whilst holding their bowed down heads in agony. They all were confused why they weren't having the after effects like Fluttershy had, especially Wallflower.

Rarity was so scared and confused about what's going on with Sunset and her family. "What's wrong with them?"

---

The trio Necromorph survivors were stood still on their feet while recovering from the pain of what The Memory Stone did to them. After recovering, they looked around them to see if everyone's alright. Instead of that, all they saw was the sky, and whole empty space were colored in dark-bloody red. The only ground that exists in that place is only the single platform of rock they were on. There were lit-candles along the edges of the rocky-floating platform. And the only light in that place was only the bright orange light on the north side of their position.

"What the-?" Carver asked in shock as he looked around them wildly. "Did we-?!"

"Shit!" Isaac swore as he nods. "This is not good!"

"How do we get out here?!" Sunset asked with a shout.

"How the fucking hell should I know?!" Carver replied angrily. "How did that stone managed to put us here instead of getting our memories erased?!"

"I don't know about that either!" Sunset shouted back angrily at his face. "Let's us focus on getting out of here!"

"Marker Killers..."

They had gone quite and immediately recognized that voice. The mad prophet bastard of the Moons. That bastard was the Cult Leader of the Unitologist. His sinister laughs and voice boiled up the hate the trio had to the Unitologist fanatics. He must be taken down.

The trio turned around slowly at the bastard and with their anger and hatred face on to the bastard. They pulled out their trustworthy Plasma Cutters and aimed at him. The Cult Leader was standing meters away from them ahead. After a few moments of waiting for someone to act, the Cult Leader made his move. Move slowly towards the trio Marker Killers as they prepared to pull the triggers.

"The sky would part, and you would draw them up, and they would be devoured, and we would become one with them... Complete the Church... Make Us Whole...."

They're starting to shoot the bastard as hard as they can while the prophet kept marching towards them calmly as he slowly absorbs the shots of Plasma Cutters.

"The world will have the rebirth and the evolution like we wanted to be..... Join us..... and be whole with us."

"Oh-Fuck-You!!" Sunset swore loudly at him as she shot him. "Just die!"

"The space would tear itself into a new world where we all can be united, and you'll be united with it..... Make Us Whole....."

"You didn't us break before!" Isaac shouted as they fire fiercely at him. "You WON'T break us now!"

As they kept shooting the monstrosity human ahead of them. The Cult Leader let himself be exploded after the shots of Plasma Energies and gave out a very bright light to every direction. Blinding the trio Necromorph survivors into consciousness.

---

The trio who had suffered the agony of hard dementia and headache slowly came back to consciousness and slowly lower down their hands into their sides. They were still shaking a little as they three lifted their heads and looked around them. Everyone except Wallflower looked worried about what had happened to them, they were suffering different effects than what Fluttershy had done. Sunset then slowly looked up towards Wallflower as her whole body was still shaking after the Memory Stone backfired. Sunset was silent for a moment, still in massive shock but then asked.

"Wallflower...... what the fuck have you done...?"

They all were amazed and shock to found out that the Memory Stone didn't erase her memories like what Wallflower did to Fluttershy. Sunset, Isaac, and Carver slowly made themselves stood straight and fixed their stares at Wallflower, even though both Isaac and Sunset somehow both looked weary from their body postures. They were prepared for Wallflower if she did anything like that again. But they were confused on what happened.

"Why didn't our memories didn't get erased?" Isaac asked as he rubbed his face to drive away the mountain headache.

"The.... magic must have backfired..." Twilight paused, then came up with a conclusion. "It must be your dementia. Its what made the magic backfired on you. It's shielding you from the magic!"

"WHAT!?" everyone except Wallflower, Sunset, Isaac, and Carver shouted in unison and disbelieve.

"No, no!" Wallflower insisted try to use the Memory Stone on them again. "I'm not going to let you-"

Suddenly, the Memory Stone was flying away from her hands unexpectedly and fast. Then the Memory Stone stopped and floating in the air next to Sunset. They were wide eyes with awe that Isaac was using the ability to do telekinesis on the Memory Stone with his hand raised forward at the Memory Stone. Unlike with Twilight's power, his telekinesis doesn't have glowing magic. They don't know what the hell they've achieved.

"I though Twilight was the only one who had magic," Juniper added in disbelieve.

"It is," Isaac answered. "It's my Kinesis Module. Made by science girl."

Sci-Twi and Twilight quickly got what he meant by that and wanted to ask more, but failed after Sunset asked Isaac. "Give the stone to me."

Sunset quickly takes the stone as Isaac turns off his Kinesis Module and lowered his hand into his side. "How do I destroy it?" Sunset asked quickly and cold.

"I-I don't know," Twilight answered nervously as she shrugged and raised her both hands in the air. "Clover The Clever didn't mention anything on destroying the stone.

"Then I do it in my own way," Sunset replied as she took a look on the stone for the last time.

Wallflower could do nothing but to watch Sunset was about to destroy the stone, sealing her defeat. Sunset quickly threw the stone to the ground in front of her and, in their disbelieve of her strength, stomped the stone in one shot with the metal shoes of hers broke the stone. Just one stomp to the stone, the Memory Stone had been cracked in haft, destroying whatever magic held inside. And with the magic within the stone gone bright in green light magically upon the impact and everyone in the room except Wallflower, Juniper, Twilight, Sci-Twi and Sunset's group were starting to have some sort of headaches as they held their heads for the little pain they had. They were starting to remember everything they did.

"Oh my God..." Applejack said as she recovers from her headache. "Sunset...."

"Noooooo!" Wallflower shouted in defeat. "No.... not the stone... why...?"

"I remember, I remember everything," Rarity said as she looked over to Sunset. "You...... changed after that Fall Formal. Then helped us defeat the Dazzlings. You were a good person. But now, I'm not sure about this..... Anon-A-Miss now. We started to believe a little that it wasn't you..."

Sunset kept her eyes on Wallflower with a fixed stare, filled with nothing but the cold and anger while her face is still hiding underneath her hood. "With this done, I want to ask you one thing. Why did you do it?"

Wallflower kept staring in defeat at the shards of rock that used to be the Memory Stone, but then looked up answered her with anger. "Why did I do this? You and all of you ignored me because I'm just invisible to all of you! And about you, I watch you at that time you were being evil and manipulate to everyone in this school. And after 'your' friends stopped you from doing so, you became friends with them and even then still ignored me like other careless people you are. Picking your own friends despite what was wrong with anyone else, which is me! When that Battle Of The Bands happened, you screwed somethings up, yes! But you still managed to maintain that friendship until your damn Anon-A-Miss profile shows up and betrayed all of us, for you going back to your old ways. I HATE YOU, AND I WISH YOU WERE DEAD!!"

Wallflower quickly realized what had she just said to Sunset and quickly closed her mouth in fear and awkward. The students and the principals in the room were shocked and taken back as they gasped at what she said. Twilight, Isaac, and Carver only opened their mouth in disbelieve of what Wallflower said to Sunset. Sunset herself, however, oddly gave a different reaction than she should be.

Sunset frowned in sadness instead of angry. The reason why she wasn't angry, was the last word that Wallflower said to her. Sunset quickly looked down to her left and was left silent in doubt and agitation. That word reminded of someone that she regretted on, for failing to save someone Isaac knows.

"Nicole..."

They all heard the name Sunset mentioned, and were confused on what she meant. Isaac, on the other hand, knew that, reminding himself again of who died in USG Ishimura. Twilight of course also remembered that name, from that dream Princess Luna, had shown her, she felt sad again reminded of how she died by killing herself before she turned into one of those things. Sunset then looked up again towards Wallflower in silent. Then Sunset reached up with her hands and pulled her hood back, revealing her face.

Wallflower was aghast and taken back by what had happened to Sunset's face. Noticing the small scars over her eyes of the face and large scars on her forehead, she felt regret about what she had just said when she looked at her and that stare, it was so cold that she could feel it down to her blood. What happened to Sunset?

"You know?" Sunset paused with a sorrowful sigh as she looked down and closed her eyes, before looking up to her. "I wished I died as well back there. But...... when that day was supposed to happen to me. It didn't.... I don't know if I'm alive or dead anymore..."

Wallflower didn't expect if Sunset's answer to be that, she regretted saying that to her. Sunset then looked behind her and showed herself to each of her former friends and principals in the room before turning to those she called family. They were also taken aback to see the scars she had on her face. But then, something else was showing on her face.

"Sunset...." Applejack called. "You're bleeding..."

Sunset, Isaac, and Carver immediately touch their bottom of their nose. And there was blood pouring from their nose, must be because of the backfired-magic of the stone. Carver and Isaac only wiped away the blood on their nose while Sunset did the same but also checked for blood underneath her eye.

"My eye not bleeding too, is it?" she asked, which terrified them all a little on what she asked.

"N-no?" Adagio replied in doubt.

Sunset only nodded at her, before she turned around again towards the door and went out. Sunset was heading for the nearby restroom to calm her mental state down and to check for any other body condition. Everyone else in the room only started towards Wallflower for the actions of erasing everyone's memories of the time Sunset was good. For sure this was not going well.

"Wallflower Blush," Celestia started. "I will decide what is your punishment will be because of your bad actions at a later date, for now, you'll have tell everyone the truth about it before you will report back to me when it's done. Is that clear?"

"Yes... Principal Celestia..." Wallflower replied as she sighed in defeat.

"Isaac," Luna called. "Who's Ni-?"

"Shut up," Isaac replied harshly, which made everyone upset to his reaction.

"Hey!" Pinkie shouted. "She's just asking who is Ni-!"

"Just shut up!" Isaac shouted angrily as he turned towards Pinkie. "Don't say her name, am I clear!?" They immediately learned that he must've been haunted by that name, they only decided to kept it silent.

"I'm going to look for Sunset," Isaac replied as he left the room, leaving only Carver with them.

"Are they going to be alright?" Aria asked in worried.

"Hey, kid," Carver called out. "To be honest, none of us will ever be alright."

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