Several days had passed since the ponies had gone missing, and all of Equestria was still searching frantically for any clues that could lead to where they went.

Discord was easily the most irritated. He had been staying at Friendship Castle all this time, and the inside of the castle was starting to look desolate like a hurricane had hit it.

Tables and chairs were all tipped over; smelly socks hung from the ceiling-- odd as he never wore socks—dirty dishes and plates lay about, and all kinds of decorations costumes and other things Discord ever used in his acts lay about, draped over furniture.

Discord himself looked shriveled and disheveled after watching over the place for so many days and having been on his own all that time. No interactions with anyone by clones of himself which got so boring it hurt.

He just sat on a messy couch, in a filthy bathrobe and was snoring loudly. He was suddenly awoken by a small dish sliding off an unbalanced table that crashed.

“Hey!” Discord shouted, and he bolted upright looking ready to fight only to find he was still all alone. He groaned and held his head. “I guess we should clean this place up.”

His inner voice in his mind spoke to him. “Yeah, even looks cleaner than this.”

“Hey, watch it, Discord,” he said to himself “You’re talking to yourself again… and not in a good way.”

Before he could actually do anything, the main foyer doors creaked opened, making Discord freeze on the spot.

He turned round and there, he couldn’t believe his eyes, were Twilight Sparkle and Starlight Glimmer, finally home.

“Twilight…! Starlight…!” he cried “You’re finally home! This is so neat! Oh, I’m saved, I don’t believe I… I…” he stopped when he noticed the spiritless looks on their faces, and their lack of excitement or saying anything. They didn’t even seem to notice, or care, of the big mess the castle was in. They just walked right in, still not saying a thing. Twilight almost looked as if she wanted to cry.

“Oooo… kay.” said Discord, then he figured that maybe if he tidied the place up, then they’d snap out of their woes, and with one snap of his fingers… poof… the entire castle was put back right again, inside and outside. Everything was put back where it was, all the furniture set back upright, the outside of the castle looked just like it should

“No need to thank me.” Discord called out, but still the girls didn’t even acknowledge him and looked gloomier than ever.

If only he had known what the girls had been through, but seeing as they were a little too upset to talk, he thought it best maybe to leave them and let them settle in. At least it meant that he could finally leave the castle.

He also just realized, “Maybe the others are back too!!”

He left the castle and went to every possible location he could. Surely enough, all the ponies had returned, and yet every single one of them had the exact same expressions and gloominess as Twilight and Starlight did.

Pinkie Pie, her puffy pink mane was all flat and down, and her pretty pink coat was slightly paler than normal; this only happened when she was super-duper depressed. All she ever did was sit in a rocking chair, cradling, not a baby, not Gummy, but just a cushion from the sofa, rocking back and forth.

Even in Canterlot, though the entire village was aware the royal sisters had returned, the place was very quiet, and all the ponies were going about their daily lives as usual as if nothing had happened.

When Discord questioned why, “The Princesses looked pretty upset upon their return,” one of the residence replied, “They specifically requested to be left in peace; no celebration, no excitement… nothing. They even refuse to speak of what happened.”

Rarity was weeping miserably in her home. Not like her usual loud bursts of sobbing, but rather silent, somber weeping. All the curtains were drawn making it darker inside, and Rarity just sobbed into a cushion as she lay stretched out on the sofa.

Discord wanted to go inside and try to talk to her, but Sweetie Belle and the other crusaders came along at that moment and urged him not too. “There’s point, not right now.” said Sweetie Belle. “I’ve never seen Rarity so upset, and she won’t even tell me what’s wrong.”

“Applejack’s no better.” said Applebloom. “She hasn’t come out of her room since she got home a couple of hours ago.”

“I noticed that…” said Discord.

“Rainbow Dash actually opened up with Me.” said Scootaloo, and the others all gawked at her. Discord frantically glared her in the eyes, “If you know something tell me! Tell me what’s bothering her, and all the ponies!”

All the girls were a little shaken, and astonished by his attitude; obviously his being overly worried and concerned for the ponies all this time, as well as being shut up in the castle for all those days affected him.

Nevertheless, Scootaloo explained what Rainbow had told her, about the mirror portal malfunctioning, the world she had gone too, Inuyasha and friends, but most of all… she told her about The Dark Zone, the Dark Angels… and how Spike was there, and how he and his friends were rather short with the ponies and the other groups.

This made the others realize and understand the ponies’ feelings, especially Rarity’s. It wasn’t as if she and Spike were ever a couple, she rejected him of course; but the way Spike had turned his back on her and just demanded she leave… now she knew how it felt to be horrible rejected and crushed!

“Gosh…” said Discord “Even I’m never that harsh.

…I am? Naaahhh…”

Now that all was understood, the four agreed the best thing to do was leave the ponies be and let them get it out of their systems. Maybe then it would be easier to talk to them.

Still, Discord couldn’t help but walk off.

“Where are you going?” asked Sweetie Belle.

“I need to check on something.” he called back.

He went off to Fluttershy’s to see how she was handling things.

Tree Hugger had left since Fluttershy was home.

Discord didn’t get too close, as he could see through a telescope, she was outside but looking down hearted. She was just sitting on a log with birds and squirrels all around her trying to comfort her, and Angel snuggled into her lap. She stroked him softly, but her lips didn’t even flicker to smile the weakest of smiles.

Discord lowered his telescope, and for once he decided it best to just let Fluttershy have her space for a while.

In the Titans’ world, Terra was resting softly in the hospital. The doctor confirmed Robin’s diagnoses, “Her brain activity is off the charts, her pulse was racing, but she’s stable now; most definitely a state of shock.

She’s very lucky though, this could have had serious effects on the baby.”

The Titans were relieved to hear that the baby was fine too, but the doctor was still in shock, “I must say though, I’ve never seen a young lady so agitated before.” he then looked over at Robin, “…What happened to make her pass out like this, do you know?”

The Titans didn’t know how in the world to explain it to the man, “Well, she’s just really upset.” Robin said “The baby’s father isn’t here.”

“What?” asked the doctor “You’re not the father?”

Starfire looked very irked, “He most certainly is not!” she grumbled. Robin calmed her down.

The doctor easily deduced that Cyborg wasn’t the father… how could he possibly be, being all metal… down there!

“Then who was the father?”

The Titans couldn’t believe he would ask such a question. “Beast Boy, of course.” said Cyborg “…You know, “Beast Boy?”

The man just stood there with a confused look on his face, which only made the Titans feel confused themselves.

“You don’t know who Beast Boy is?” asked Raven.

“Yo’ man… look!” said Cyborg, and he punched his computer to show an old picture of the five original Titans standing together.

“Oh…!” said the doctor “That guy, I keep forgetting his name. I don’t really pay much attention about him. Come to think of it, I don’t know anybody in this city who does.”

The Titans felt livid, now fully realizing all the more Beast Boy had told them the truth that no one in the city cared for him, looked up to him or appreciated him that much.

“Um… would you excuse me please?” said Raven “There’s something I have to do…” and she folded her hood over her head and flew out the window.

The doctor cleared his throat, “I have other patients to see.” He looked back down at Terra and said “She’ll be fine, she’ll wake up soon. In the meantime, she needs to avoid stress. She only got lucky this time. Another attack like that and it could be very serious, for both her and the baby.”

Then he was gone.

“I do not believe I like that man much.” grumbled Starfire “Insisting that Robin is the father of the child.”

Robin and Cyborg were more concerned about the man’s arrogance towards Beast Boy.

Raven felt the same way, which was why she left; to venture into town and check around the place, as if for the first time in quite a while. She checked all the goods stores, and found out, just like in the images Beast Boy showed her, there were tons of merchandise of herself and the other Titans, but no Beast Boy merchandise at all.

When she asked the store managers of this, she got the response every time. “That kid was never juicy news or popular. We couldn’t even GIVE any of that stuff away.”

Raven flew high above the town and realized a lot more changes had happened than even she realized. Now, even some more of her favorite places were gone.

-The library was emptied out and to be made into a department store.

-The curio shop that she went to buy relic replicas and statues for her room was boarded up and abandoned.

-Even the poetry café, she didn’t really like it all that much, but it was a place in town that suited her needs-- quiet, dark, and relaxing-- it was gone too. Now it was a corner hardware store.

The jewelry store however was booming with business; people coming from all over town to get a glimpse of Princess Celestia’s crown jewels that she left behind, which were both now on display in the window but not for sale.

After a while, Raven stood atop a skyscraper, and deep inside, she felt her stomach giving a small churn of slight depression and upset, “This must be what Beast Boy felt.” she said to herself

Suddenly, she got another feeling; one that said she wasn’t alone up there!

“It’s sickening, isn’t It.” hissed a familiar voice. Raven didn’t have to turn round to know, “…Slade!”

The creep was right behind her with his arms folded, and still taunting her “You finally understand the awful truth, don’t you, Raven? It’s a pity you can’t make up for it now.”

Rave swiftly turned round and angrily blasted him with dark aura, sending him over the side and plummeting to the vacant lot below where no one else was around.

Slade, as he fell, managed to athletically grip onto a flagpole sticking out one of the sides of the building, and swing himself to land safely on the ground.

He looked up and saw Raven rushed straight down at him from above, shrouded in aura to crash into him. He dodged and she stopped just a few inches before the ground. She then used her powers to grab three full garbage cans in the lot and hurl them at him.

Slade dodged two, but got hit by the third one and was sent sailing into a dumpster, which he emerged from a split second later, “Really now, is this necessary; losing your rage upon me.”

“Don’t make me send you to another dimension!” Raven growled at him, and she levitated the dumpster up to slam it down upon him, but Slade used his mighty strength to actually hold it up and throw it towards Raven, which she barely dodged.

“You can fight me all you like, but nothing will really have changed. Beast Boy will never come back, and frankly I can’t blame him. I’m even surprised you and other titans are still friends with one another.”

Raven’s eyes glowed deathly red, “Shut up, you bastard!” she growled “Don’t you talk that way about my friends again!

Azarath… Metrion… ZINTHOS!!”

She unleashed a strong dark wave of energy straight at him, hitting him hard and making a wide pillar of darkness that shop up into the sky and could be seen for miles.

When the darkness faded, Slade was lying flat on the ground, all damaged and battered up-- just another one of his robot clones.

Even though it was beaten up, Slade was right when he told Raven nothing had changed.

When Raven got back to the hospital, she told the others,

“You fought with Slade?” asked Robin.

“That’s not important now.” replied Raven, and she explained of all the changes she saw in the city, as well as the reconfirming that Beast Boy wasn’t as appreciated by the people as they, the other titans, were.

The Titans were more upset than ever, not just for Beast Boy, but now for everyone in the city altogether… and their own selves too, and worse, even the ponies seemed mad at them before they all parted ways.

“I don’t think I can blame them anymore.” said Cyborg. He couldn’t forget the story of Beast Boy’s life, and how furious he looked when he told them all to leave and never return.

“Be…east… Boy…” Terra groaned as she softly began to awaken.

Robin looked over her and softly caressed her face with his hand, “Easy, Terra… Just take it easy.”

Terra rubbed her eyes, “Where am I?”

“You are at the hospital.” replied Starfire “You had passed out upon our return.”

Terra remembered, The Dark Zone, Beast Boy balking at her and demanding she leave, and that neither she nor their baby was important to him.

She looked on the verge of tears again.

“Hey, hey, hey, easy, girl!” said Cyborg “The doc said not to get worked up, it’s not good for the baby.”

Now knowing this, Terra took in a few deep breaths and calmed down, though the thoughts were so gruesome, she knew she would never be able to shake them.

Her friends all huddled around her, even Raven, and promised to help look after her as best they could, but they knew this wouldn’t be easy.

Robin was also deeply in thought about all those other groups they saw in the Dark Zone. “I wonder who they were, and what they’re doing now.”

In Kagome’s world, she Sota and Inuyasha were chilling out at the dinner table.

Sota was still much shaken from the whole experience of the Dark Zone. He couldn’t even eat his dinner properly as he was trembling so frightened he dropped his chopsticks.

“Oh, honey…” his mother said as she hugged him tightly. Then she glared at Kagome and Inuyasha “What were you two thinking, bringing a little boy to such a horrible, frightening place?”

“Give me a break!” scoffed Inuyasha “We didn’t bring him there willingly. We were pulled in ourselves. We couldn’t control it.”

“He’s right, mom.” said Kagome “Anyway, I don’t think it really matters now.”

She was still thinking about the Dark Angels, not just Nobunaga, but the others who were much more verbally hostile to the groups and the ponies. She couldn’t blame them, but she really didn’t like how they were, especially Erebus.

“All we ever do is take the dark aura, return here, meditate and then back out again for more.”

“That sounds really boring.” said Kagome “They have all that power to use and they hardly use any of it at all.”

“What’s your point?” asked Inuyasha, “Think about it; they’re not really hurting anybody, and they’re not trying to hurt anyone either. They made their choice to be the way they are, so maybe we ought to respect their wishes and leave them be.”

Kagome didn’t like his attitude one bit, but she couldn’t argue with it. “I guess you’re right.”

She still couldn’t stop thinking about it though, not even long into the night whereas she lay wide awake in bed, while Inuyasha meditated outside.

Kagome wasn’t just thinking of the Dark Angels, but of the ponies and those other groups. She never got a chance to talk to or get to know them, but now her eyes were really open as she thought to herself, “There are so many worlds, so many dimensions, and they all have a different way of life.”

She rolled over in bed and glanced at Inuyasha outside, and she thought of the Feudal Era and all it’s its wonders and mysteries, and now there were even more worlds out there.

She knew she would never feel the same again, but she was also glad that Princess Tsuyu didn’t know about the Dark Zone. Who knew how hysterical she’d become if she found out!

In the Digi-Destined’s world, it was nearly Six A.M. Tai and Kari spent the night with Jun and her mom, both ladies were still highly devastated from the entire experience.

The ladies had hardly gotten any sleep at all. Jun came out of her room with frizzled hair and huge bags under her eyes. She looked rather dehydrated too, a result of crying so much.

Tai got his girlfriend a cup of water which helped her a little, but she still looked all beat out.

“I’m calling your profs...” Tai said “You can’t go to campus like this.”

Jun was too tired and upset to even think of an argument, and figured he was right.

After made the call, he sat down next to his girlfriend and comforted her. Then he looked over at the sofa, and saw Kari was fast asleep, with Gatomon sleeping atop the couch rim.

He felt worried for her too. All that they had experienced all they had seen. He really cared for his sister and would always try to defend her honor, but there was no denying it anymore, Kari was largely responsible for Davis being sent to the Dark Zone. He was actually very surprised that she was sleeping blissfully, and thought surely after experiencing all that she’d be absolutely destroyed inside and awake all night like Jun did.

“You okay?” Jun asked.

“Yeah… I’m alright.” Tai replied “Considering we’ve all just had a horrifying experience, everyone’s down in the chops, you’re so tired you can barely your eyes open and my sister’s liable to have it really hard…

…Yeah, I’m alright.”

Jun could barely smile, and she softly rested her head on his shoulder, but she too was upset for Kari and for her mom.

She could hear the faint distant sounds of her mom snoring from the big bedroom, she had finally fallen asleep.

…But Kari was starting to stir in her sleep on the sofa. The nightmare she was having were just replays of the experiences in the Dark Zone, and all those things Davis showed her of how badly she acted towards him and everything else that sentenced him to his doom.

“Take a good look, Kari…!” Davis jeered at her “Take a good… long… (Bleeping)… look…! This is what you did to me!”

Kari shook her head fearfully “No… No… I…!”

“There’s no excuse!” shouted Davis “You’re just as dark as the darkness you claimed to fight off! Some child of light you are!”

The angrier he got, the more the dark aura around him flared up, and his eyes flashed a dark shade of eerie red. “DIE MOTHER (BLEEPER)!!”

“NO…!! NOOOOOOOOO…!!!” Kari screamed as Davis blasted her, and everything flashed white…

…Kari gasped as she bolted up right, frightening Gatomon and she fell off the couch and onto the floor. “Oooh… ever heard an alarm clock?” she grumbled.

“Kari!” cried Tai as he ran over to his sister’s side. She was panting and her forehead was sweaty. “Are you okay?”

Kari sadly shook her head, “No…” she peeped “…No, I’m not.”

She just sat there, with tears of shame falling down her face.

She was so lost deep in her own darkness she didn’t notice her cellphone on the table vibrating. Tai checked it and there were quite a few texts from TK.

“Hey, Kari…?”

“Are you okay?”

“Please answer!”

“I’m very worried about you!!”

Kari didn’t look too up to answer right now, so Tai answered for her…

“This is Tai, Kari’s okay… well, sort of. She’s just really bummed; we all are.”

TK got the message, and now he was really worried for Kari, and more infuriated at the entire Dark Zone concept, especially the way Davis had acted.

True, he couldn’t deny at least some of the images he had seen, and realized he did play a part in it all, “Damn you, Davis!” he growled softly “You had to go and make everyone miserable just because you couldn’t accept things and get over yourself!”

He even thought of the other Dark Angels, and how they balked at all the other groups; not even caring about the fascinations behind the other groups.

His hatred of darkness, and what he deemed, bad creatures, was really starting to broil! “I can’t believe such a place like that even exists, or was created to begin with!”

He then thought back to how the Dark Angels acted so hostile, and creepy towards not just the groups, but life itself. Even Lord Erebus was obviously corrupted by the darkness he ruled!

“We are the way we are because we choose to be.”

TK felt he wouldn’t be fooled by this. “Nothing good ever comes from darkness.” He began to sink deeper and deeper into his delusions, and began to think that Erebus wasn’t what he seemed and really was capturing all those guys and poisoning their minds to hate life just so he could gather all this power for himself!

…Not that they all weren’t already nuts in life in his view, the way they behaved and bitched about how bad their lives were instead of growing a pair of balls and moving on.

He was starting to really lose his cool, like when he really wanted to fight with someone. “If I ever see another Dark Angel, they’re going to wish they never crawled out of the rocks they came from!!” he growled.

Menawhile, Izzy hadn’t slept all night neither, not really all because he was upset about the deep emotional trauma everyone had experienced, but what he had just learned changed his life forever, more than when he first ever went to the Digital World.

He has spent the entire night trying to document all he had learned into his computers.

Finally, his mother came in, having just woken up, “Izzy, you’re already up?” she said through a yawn.

“Actually, I’m still up.” he groggily replied, turning his head to show his sleepy eyes that were tapped open, much to his mom’s shock. “I’ve made way too many discoveries, I can’t possibly sleep.”

He was really sounding paranoid, due to his weariness, and his mom wouldn’t have any of this. “I think I should call your professors and say you won’t be coming into class today.”

Izzy tried to protest, but his mother wouldn’t hear of it, and she pulled the tape off her son’s eyes, which made Izzy feel like dropping down hard from the weariness. “Maybe… a little sleep… won’t hurt.” he said through his yawning, and he was out like a light.

A few days later

Kagome and Inuyasha reunited with their group in Kaede’s the Feudal Era, and shared of their stories of the Dark Zone, and all that stuff, and you can bet the others were all astonished and frightened a bit.

“Those Dark Angels sound really creepy.” shuddered Shippo. Kirara hissed softly, feeling the same way.

“And to think…” said Sango “Many of those angels have been wandering in darkness for eons around other worlds, including our own.”

“The afterlife is a thing of mystery, Sango.” Miroku said “No one really knows what to expect upon the time of their death and where their spirit will lead, but I must say… this is all so incredible.

The Dark Angels collect all the dark aura they can from our world and the many others spoken of, and yet they hardly do anything at all with it or themselves by remain silent and still.”

They were all still glad that the ponies made it back to their own world, but Kagome was still shaken by the amounts of anger, hatred and misery the angels seemed to throw out at everyone. “That Beast Boy and Davis, they seemed really peeved, and I don’t think I can blame them at all.”

“Are you still on about that?” asked Inuyasha “Look, I know they had hard lives, but it’s not like anything’s going to change about it, no matter how much anyone feels sorry for them or anything like that. You heard what Erebus said: they didn’t choose to fall into the darkness, but they choose to be what they are.”

Kaede came along, and was also aware of the situation, “Inuyasha may have a point.” she said “I can understand all your feelings, but some things cannot and must not be tampered with lest the consequences be fatal.”

Miroku shared her warning, “So long as the Dark Angels don’t wish to harm anyone, I can see no harm in in them either.

Perhaps it would be best if we focused back on our true objective; to find and destroy Naraku.”

Everyone agreed.

While back in the land of Wassashi, Princess Tsuyu and Lord Kimo had long since returned home from their peace mission. The Princess looked much happier since her last depression. She was in the royal garden sniffing the flowers, and Hiyoshimaru held up one of them he had picked for her.

“Aww… thank you.” she cooed at her little friend.

The little monkey blushed.

Lord Kimo smiled at the two outside. It did him good to see his wife so happy again, and he tried his best not to mention Nobunaga’s name or anything that may trigger it off. All he wanted was peace for Tsuyu.

As for Nobunaga, of that time, he hovered above the palace, so the princess would not see him. “Princess…” he sighed softly.

Then he gathered whatever Dark Aura he could and vanished back to the Dark Zone.

In Equestria, in the present,

It seemed that all Twilight ever did was work on repairing the mirror gateway. Thankfully the damages were not hopeless. She managed to get the mirror back in place and cleaned up the broken bits and pieces of the machine and replaced them with new parts.

The newest feature was the machine was no longer affected by the light of the full moon, so even after another two and a half year the machine wouldn’t go berserk again like it did before.

Still, after all this time she was miserably looking down. She hardly came out from the mirror chamber, and Starlight brought her meals.

Today she brought her lunch, and saw she was nearly finished putting everything back together. “Been working all night?”

Twilight turned her sleepy head to face her, “No, just woke up early.”

Starlight shuddered at the sight of her frazzled mane and baggy eyes. “Sooooo… is the mirror working.”

Twilight rubbed her eyes and straightened her mane. “I works,” she answered “But it only transports to the dimension of Canterlot High. I don’t know how to make it transport us to any of the other worlds. It all just happened by chance.”

“But why would you want to go back?” asked Starlight “I really don’t think I’d like to run into Kari again.” She was still infuriated with Kari, now seeing how cold-hearted she truly was.

Twilight felt the same way, “I can’t deny, she had been a very poor friend to Davis, but… she did help us, and she gave us shelter.

Besides that, there’s so many other worlds I don’t know of, and I’d love to explore them all again.”

Now she was starting to sound like her old self again, which Starlight had to smile about…

She wasn’t the only one, a lot of the ponies were starting to feel like themselves again; Rainbow Dash was flying about, Pinkie Pie was baking cakes and playing with the twins again, Applejack was back to hauling apples.

She was now hauling a wagon of apples down the road into Ponyville, and she stopped at Fluttershy’s to bring her order of a pail full.

“Here ya go, Fluttershy.”

“Thank you, Applejack.” replied Fluttershy.

Angel hopped up to Applejack and gave a simple dandelion as payment, “Aww, ain’t that sweet of you.”

Angel blushed.

Just as Applejack was about to pull out, she saw Rarity coming down the path, but instead of looking straight ahead, she was looking straight up at the sky.

BONK! She walked clean into a tree. “Oof…!” she groaned and fell down onto her tail.

Fluttershy and Applejack rushed over and helped her up, “Are you okay, Rarity?” Fluttershy asked.

“Quite.” Rarity simply responded, and then looked back up in the sky.

“Um… what exactly are you lookin’ at?” asked Applejack.

“I’m looking for Spike.” replied Rarity. She remembered what she learned from the Dark Zone and felt that she was one of few who would actually be able to see Spike’s Dark Angel naturally, without the aid of magic.

Obviously, she still hadn’t quite let things be yet, much to the others dismay.

“Rarity,” Applejack said “Look, we know how you feel. We all miss, Spike, and we all feel bad… but you heard him; he doesn’t want anything to do with us. We can’t bring him back to life anyway.”

“You’re wrong!” Rarity yelled making the others wince in fright. She apologized quickly, “Forgive me for that, but I just can’t believe Spike would really act that way. That’s not the Spikey-Wikey I know.”

“Um… well…” Fluttershy stammered “I don’t know… Spike seemed pretty mad at us before he died.” Remembering all that made her stomach churn with guilt over her own part in hurting Spike, still she managed to keep hold of herself.

“What are you saying?” snapped Rarity “That we should just forget him? Leave him in that dark prison to rot for all time?” He voice got dramatically louder and louder, and then she was panting heavily.

Applejack and Fluttershy hardly knew what to say, but they could Rarity wasn’t well.

“Well, I’m NOT giving up on our friend!” Rarity stated “I can’t just leave him, and I hate always feeling upset like this! I will-- nay… I MUST find Spike and try to speak to him.”

Then she headed off still looking up and all over the sky and she crashed into another tree from not watching in front of her, “Perhaps I should find a different way than this.” she grumbled.

The others could tell she was on the verge of an extreme mental breakdown. It was understandable, but Rarity needed help.

The duo rounded up the others and they all met up at Friendship Palace. Starlight was presiding over the meeting as Twilight was napping in her bedroom.

“Poor thing…” said Starlight “I checked on her again and she was flat on the floor, didn’t even touch her lunch.”

“That’s fine and dandy,” said Applejack “But what in the hills are we gonna do about Rarity? She’s really goin’ over the edge about Spike.”

“Well I’m sure not.” said Pinkie Pie “Cookie, any-pony?” she then asked holding up a tray of cookies, that all looked like Spike’s face when he was alive, and not a Dark Angel

The cookies still tasted good anyway. “Well, it’s not like we can go back in time to get him back anyway.” said Fluttershy.

Rainbow then gasped, and almost choked on her cookie. “That’s it!” she cried “Fluttershy, you’re a genius!”

Fluttershy blinked once, “What?”

“What are you talking about?”

Rainbow made her long story short, “I was in Inuyasha’s world, and that was five hundred years ago.”

All the others caught onto her idea; maybe it was possible to fix things. If they could get the mirror gate working again, they could warp to Inuyasha’s dimension and then work things out from there.

“Uh, just one thing…” said Starlight “We don’t know if that’s even possible. Remember, we all were transported through the gate by a stroke of strange fate.”

“She’s right, you know.” said Pinkie “But still, if we can make it so Spike never dies, that’d be AWESOME!!”

“Um… shouldn’t we talk with Twilight about this?” asked Applejack.

“Well, yes, but not just now.” said Starlight.

Suddenly, they all heard a big crash outside, and they all flew to the window and looked down below where they saw Rarity running about like a wild pony, as if she were chasing something they couldn’t see.

“Spike… please wait!” she called out to what seemed like thin air.

The others all gasped, and dashed for outside.

Spike was only minding his own business collecting dark aura as always, when Rarity spotted him and gave chase.

“Get away from me!!” Spike demanded, but Rarity continued to chase him through town. Suddenly, Spike realized “What the heck am I doing anyway?” and he skidded to an instant halt causing Rarity to rush out of control, passing straight through him, she screamed and crashed right into a bunch of shrubs.

“Oooh…!” Spike groaned, and he saw Rarity get out form the bush covered in twigs and leaves, and her eyes were spinning. She shook herself awake, brushing the filth off her and tried to confront him.

“Spike, please… can we not talk about this?”

Her tearful eyes and sorrowful voice fell on deaf ears. Spike just folded his arms and turned away from her “There’s nothing you can say that I want to hear, or even make a difference.

Now I mean it, Rarity; Leave me and the Dark Angels alone!”

Then he vanished through a portal he made in the ground, and was gone.

Poor Rarity was crushed, again, and flopped down on her tail and began to sob softly into her hooves just as the others rushed onto the scene.

“Rarity…?” said Starlight, seeing how upset she was the others could tell they were too late. Not that it would’ve made much a difference anyway, and it didn’t take much to deduce that Spike had told her off.

“Oh, Rarity…” cried Fluttershy, and she went over to comfort her friend.

The others all felt really bad, feeling their own shames mounting up again.

All this only enflamed their idea of wanting to find a way to undo Spike’s death all the more, but they still didn’t know how to pull it off.

Spike returned to the Dark Zone, looking very sour. He unleashed his aura and then regrouped with the others. “I can’t believe Rarity’s still not off my case!” he groaned.

“You know, we ARE trying to meditate.” said Davis.

“Sorry.” grumbled Spike.

Nobunaga suggested “Perhaps next time you should remain out of sight of those who can see you. Then you can roam about freely.”

He based that off of his knowledge of his memories of centuries ago; Princess Tsuyu never learned of the Dark Zone, or anything connected to it. Obviously Kagome and Inuyasha never told her any of it and it was forgotten in time.

“Many times I had seen the princess.” said Nobunaga, “She lived well, her life was blissful with no further demon attacks, and she and her husband died peacefully when their time came, and they were succeeded by their offspring.”

He stopped, and felt very sad and hurtful, still wishing it could had been himself and the princess, but that was impossible even while he was alive, he knew that.

“Hey, easy, dude.” said Beast Boy, but then again what was he saying? He knew Terra was pregnant with his own child, but as he told Terra during the confrontation, he didn’t care and there was nothing he could do about it anyway.

“I’m dead, I can’t care for the kid.” he said to himself.

While the quartet continued to talk things over, Lord Erebus, still in his smaller form, sighed as he viewed them from afar. The Dark Zone was just barely getting back to normal since the ponies’ interference destabilized it softly, and angered the Dark Angels.

“My lord,” the sentry said “You seem uneased. Is there something wrong?”

Erebus remained silent for a moment, “I have always believed that Anything is Possible, and throughout the many eons and eons I have existed here, I have always feared it as well.

I wish things only to remain as they are; we dark angels remain unscathed, undisturbed, and just left to our own ways.”

The sentry began to fear the way the lord was sounding, “And… what if we are disturbed beyond reason?” he had to ask.

Erebus clenched his fists, and his eyes shimmered red with slight anger. “I would rather not think of it, but… if we must take action, so be it.”

Author's Notes:

Ugh, getting a little sick of all this stalling, I want so much for the war to start so I can beat on the characters.