Kikyo was standing in a field just near Kaede’s village. She watched as Inuyasha and friends set off on their quest to locate more jewel shards, which they felt would lead them to Naraku.

She glared at Inuyasha in the distance with a straight and narrow expression.

Inuyasha then looked off into the field believing he had seen something, but nothing was there.

“Inuyasha? What’s wrong?” said Kagome.

He turned back to face forward, “It’s nothing.”

With her soul collectors, Kikyo had levitated herself high up into a cloud. “Inuyasha…” she said under her breath “I still don’t know if I wish to defeat you or not, but when the time comes, I will know what I truly must do if I am to find peace.

But I cannot shake off this dark feeling of something dreadful about to occur.”

As Inuyasha and friends trekked through the field, Kagome suddenly stopped, “I can feel it; a sacred jewel shard, maybe two heading this way.”

“Two shards?” said Shippo.

Inuyasha felt whoever this was bound to be strong and he readied the Tetsusaiga. “I’m ready for it!”

Suddenly, he began to smell a familiar scent, “That smell! Oh, no… not him?!” and surely enough a big tornado wave came rushing over the lands, and there stood Koga, leader of the Wolf Demon Pack.

“Koga!” grumbled Inuyasha, and he sheathed his sword, while Koga acted smug as usualy, “Well, well, long time, no see, Mutt.”

Inuyasha growled, “Still haven’t learned your manners. Well, I’ll be glad to teach you--!”

“Inuyasha, SIT…!” sneered Kagome.

WHAPP!! “Ugh!!” groaned Inuyasha.

Koga snickered, “Nicely done, Kagome.” and he leapt right over to acting all cool and suave, much to Inuyasha’s annoyance.

“Hunting more jewel shard, huh? Well so am I, and the fact I just happen to run into you here further confirms my feelings are real to you.”

Kagome felt deeply underwhelmed by his flirtatious smug, “Uh… that’s neat.” she said was shaky sarcasm.

Even the others rolled their eyes at Koga’s sleaze routine.

“Even I myself never act this way towards women.” said Miroku.

“No, you act much worse.” Sango grumbled.

“Really worse.” agreed Shippo.

“So, Koga…” said Kagome, after she had pulled herself away from Koga “Why are you out here again?”

“Like I said,” replied Koga, “I’m looking for more sacred jewel shards, and I just happen to run into you. What do you say you come on and help me?”

Kagome shuddered at his obvious advanced, when suddenly Inuyasha intervened and slapped Koga’s arm out of the way. “Look here, Wolf Boy, you want to find the jewel shards, fine, but knock it off with you swooning with Kagome.”

Koga growled, “Gonna make me, Mutt?! And after I came here to warn you as well?”

“Ha! Warn us of what?!”

Koga scoffed, “I’m only telling you this for Kagome’s sake, but word has it there’s been some kind of dark power striking around the nearby villages.”

“A dark power?” asked Kagome.

“Yep,” replied Koga “We wolf demons can hone in on our sixth senses,” he glared at Inuyasha as if to insult him, but didn’t and continued, “I’ve been seeing some sort of dark aura in the air that that’s been feeding on the people, but then for some reason it just vanishes, as if something was absorbing it.

I can’t see what it is, even with my senses, but I’ve got a feeling whatever it is can’t be up to any good to absorb darkness like that.”

The group began to realize he was referring to the Dark Angels. There could be no other explanation, and naturally Koga was not tied to dark powers, or responsible for a Dark Angel’s demise, so he could never hope to see one even with his wolf senses.

“Yeah, well thanks for the warning,” said Inuyasha “But we already know about all this, and you’re worrying over nothing. So, why don’t you beat it and let us go on our way.”

He and Koga faced each other like the heated rivals they were. “I’m getting sick of your voice!” growled Koga “A real man knows how to look out for others!”

“Some man you are!” protested Inuyasha.

All the others were very annoyed by their bickering.

“Look, Koga…” said Kagome “I think there’s something you ought to know.” and she told him everything she knew about The Dark Angels, The Dark Zone, Lord Erebus, and even Nobunaga.

She didn’t tell him about the ponies.

“And these Dark Angels, they just roam about, take the aura, go back to their world and do nothing?” Koga laughed “That’s got to be the silliest thing I ever heard.”

“It’s not silly!” snapped Kagome, “They really exist, and they’re really out there.”

“Oh, I didn’t deny their existence,” said Koga “I just think it’s silly; they don’t get their dream girls, they don’t have much respect or manliness so they decide to die off and wallow in despair forever. Sounds more like a bunch of wimps than men.”

Miroku urged Koga not to make such sport, “From what Kagome has said, the Dark Angels mean no harm, and only wish to carry on without trouble.”

“Ha!” scoffed Koga “Don’t make me laugh, their all the same. They’re most likely up to no good, and if these guys think they can scare me they’ve got another thing coming.”

“Do you even realize what you are saying?!” sneered Sango.

“I realize I’ve wasted enough time here. I’ll be on my way. Pity you can’t come, Kagome, but I’ll be near.”

Koga winked at her, much to her and Inuyasha’s irk. Then he took off, rushing across the land.

Inuyasha cracked his knuckles, “I’d like to send him to the Dark Zone.”

Everyone ignored his grumbling, and they all continued on their journey.

Along the way, Inuyasha sniffed the air, “Stop!” he said to the others.

“What is it?” asked Miroku, but Inuyasha only growled and rushed on ahead.

“Inuyasha!” cried Kagome.

“Let’s follow him!” cried Shippo. Sango agreed and urged Kirara to go forth quicker.

As Inuyasha sped on ahead, he could see in the distance, “…Sesshomaru!”

His brother glared at him, “Inuyasha, you didn’t waste any time.”

Jaken and Rin were ducking down in a nearby forest edge and watching what was surely about to be a huge fight. “Good luck, my lord Sesshomaru.” said Jaken.

Rin said nothing and watched with deep concern for her master.

Inuyasha didn’t even draw the Tetsusaiga and sneered “Look, I don’t have time to play good guy bay guy with you today, so why don’t you just get out of the way and save yourself the humiliation!”

Sesshomaru could only snicker, “You sound awfully confident, or could you just be stalling to cover the fact you no longer have the ponies by your side.”

Inuyasha stiffened.

“Yes, I know all of them.” said Sesshomaru “Most unusual creatures, I must say, and that got me thinking: Perhaps they have all kinds of power and abilities more astounding than that of what I’ve seen.

…And now, you’re going to tell me everything I want to know about them, including how to find them again.”

Inuyasha was already fed up with his brother’s lust, “Even if I did understand it fully myself, I wouldn’t tell you a thing. The ponies have gone home and they won’t be coming back any time soon. So you’re out of luck, Sesshomaru.”

Sesshomaru didn’t seem too badly disturbed by all this, “How tragic, for you… It means I’ll have no regrets in destroying you after all.”

He drew out his sword, Tokijin, and lunged forth, and Inuyasha leapt out of the way.

“Inuyasha!” called Kagome.

“Look! It’s Sesshomaru!” shouted Miroku.

Sesshomaru didn’t seem to care much that the others were here.

“HIRAIKOTSU” Sango shouted, tossing her giant boomerang.

“Oh, no you don’t!” Jaken shouted as he blasted the weapon with his staff from afar. “You dare interfere with Lord Sesshomaru and I shall…” he stopped when Kirara blew fire at him, frightening him to take cover again behind the foliage.

Kagome then armed her bow and fired at Sesshomaru, forcing him to jump back hard, and the group stood together.

“How truly pathetic.” mocked Sesshomaru “Even without the ponies you still have to rely on your little followers to aid you.”

“Ha!” scoffed Inuyasha “As I recall, Jaken came to your aid too, not that it matters.”

His brother was still unmoved, and Jaken and Rin stayed hidden out of sight.

Inuyasha told the others what Sesshomaru demanded.

“So you wish to learn more of the My Little Ponies.” said Miroku “Your efforts will be for naught. We refuse to give you any information.”

Sesshomaru didn’t even blink.

“Don’t you have anything to say?” asked Sango.

Sesshomaru still didn’t move.

“He’s really starting to creep me out.” whimpered Shippo.

Suddenly, Inuyasha sniffed and he growled, and Kagome began to sense the presence of more sacred jewel shards, a very large amount, which could only mean one thing…!

The entire group felt the chills running down their spine, and surely enough he appeared, dressed in his baboon fur.

“Naraku!” growled Inuyasha.

Miroku and Sangon sneered at the sight of the Demon Lord, while Shippo hid in Kagome’s backpack.

“Master Jaken!” cried Rin.

“S-S-S-S-Steady on, Rin…” whimpered Jaken “Just stay down very low, don’t make a sound.”

Naraku glared at everyone snickering wickedly, “We seemed fated to keep running into each other, don’t we?”

Inuyasha growled and drew his sword “You…!!” and he lunged forth to attack, only for Naraku to skillfully swerve out of the way.

“MONSTER!!” thundered Miroku as he leapt in to swat him with his staff, and Naraku swerved again.

Naraku then unleashed a wave of demons from under his furry robes at the group.

“Ambush!” cried Kagome.

Sango and Kirara leapt in and began to slaughter many of the creatures that came at them.

Kagome shot others, but many more remained. “There are too many demons!”

Miroku didn’t dare use his Wind Tunnel for fear of hurting any of his friends, but Inuyasha had cornered a load of demons to one side, away from everyone else. “WIND SCAR” In a blazing wave the demons were disintegrated, and STILL there were more!

“Damn!” snarled Inuyasha “I’ll just have to blast them again…!”

Just as he was about to do so, the demons were already blasted by another burning wave, caused by Sesshomaru and his Tokijin blade.

“How noble.” teased Naraku “The Big brother protecting the younger brother.”

Sesshomaru scoffed, “I feel no sentiments, but if anyone will destroy Inuyasha… it shall be me, and anyone who gets in my way will perish.”

Inuyasha sighed; typical of his brother.

The demons were all gone, but Naraku was far from beaten. “So it’s come to this, has it?” he hissed, and he unleashed his demonic roots making himself into a giant once again with his root-like tentacles at the ready.

“Take cover!” shouted Sango.

Naraku unleashed his tentacles all over, slamming at the group forcing them all to scatter and roll about to avoid getting hit.

“He’s moving too fast to get a clear shot at his main body!” cried Miroku.

“Oh, this is bad!” whimpered Shippo. He really felt bad that there wasn’t much he could do to help the others at all.

“Easy, Shippo.” said Kagome, and she took him and herself to the sides to keep safe. There were far too many tentacles moving around for her to get a clear shot with her arrows. “If only they could distract him somehow, then we could strike his body and get him.”

She could only watch helplessly as her friends and Sesshomaru dodged the tentacles.

WHAPP!! Kirara was hit her in the side and Sango fell off her back, plummeting down.

“SANGO!!” cried Miroku.

Inuyasha saw and quickly leapt up high, scooping her up, and landing her down on the ground safely, and while Kirara was hit, she managed to straighten herself out and land softly, but she was very weak and changed back into her cat form.

“Are you alright, Sango?” Miroku asked out of deep concern.

“I’m fine, but we can’t fight like this.”

Naraku snickered “Don’t tell me you’ve given in already? Perhaps I was wrong when I felt I underestimated you all.”

“Shut up!” snarled Inuyasha, “I’ll have your head for that one, Naraku!”

Sesshomaru dashed right past him and bounded his way up the huge demonic body.

“Wait! Sesshomaru!” called Kagome.

“Oh, my goodness…!” Jaken cried from the bushes.

Rin was too frightened to even scream!

Sesshomaru made a clear bound at Naraku’s main body. Naraku defended himself by swinging his tentacles, which Sesshomaru skillfully dodged causing Naraku to hit himself by mistake.

Closer and closer, Sesshomaru neared the main body to attack, but at the last few feet he failed to dodge a tentacle attack and was stuck hard in his leg and was bleeding badly.

“He’s been hit!” cried Kagome.

“Lord Sesshomaru!” shouted Rin.

Sesshomaru abandoned his target and bounded painfully off the tentacles to get to safety. He landed in the forest edge near his companions, but groaned in agony of his hurt leg.

“My lord…!” cried Jaken. “Rin, quickly, find some soothing herbs from the wilderness.”

Rin agreed, but Sesshomaru stopped her, “No, Rin! I am not that hurt, and it’s too dangerous to go off.”

So Rin agreed not to go off, but stayed by her master’s side.

“So much for him.” hissed Naraku, and then he turned back to face the group… whom were charging straight at him. “Quick, while he’s distracted!” shouted Inuyasha, and he bounded straight up the long surface of the body, like climbing a huge tree.

Naraku unleashed his tentacles for him which he dodged and slashed with his sword.

Naraku tried again to smash at him, but Miroku leapt in and blocked the tentacles with his staff.

“HIRAIKOTSU” Sango threw her boomerang to tangle up other tentacles, and lassoed a couple more with her sickle-chain.

Inuyasha got closer and closer to striking the main body, but still Naraku wasn’t willing to accept defeat, “I’m afraid close won’t do it, Inuyasha.” He called to him, and from under his fur coat, he unleash another barrage of demons at him.

“Inuyasha!” cried Kagome. She didn’t dare fire an arrow out of fear of hitting him, and all the others were too tied up to help either, but Inuyasha was ready for this, “IRON REAVER SOUL STEALER!”

The demons were all slashed to bits, and Inyasha leapt through the shower of blood and corpses, and just as he was about to slice the head off, he was grabbed by one unseen tentacle, and he dropped his sword to the ground.

“Inuyasha!” cried Kagome.

Everyone gawked at him, and even Sesshomaru showed concern, only for it seemed he would not be the one to destroy his brother. Inuyasha was bound so tightly he couldn’t even move!

“Well, I should commend you for your efforts.” hissed Naraku “But don’t worry of your friends. Their deaths will follow yours shortly.”

Inuyasha growled and struggled to break free, and just when it looked like the end was in sight.

POW!! A sacred arrow was shot straight at Naraku’s head, slicing it right off in a streak of light.

“A Sacred Arrow…?” said Kagome. She had not fired it at all, and she could see, standing in a tall tree by the forest edge “…Kikyo!”

Inuyasha saw her too, “…Kikyo!”

Their eyes met as they stared each other. Inyasha was so lost in the gaze he didn’t even realize he was falling as Naraku’s body was shattering.

“Inuyasha!” called Kagome.

Shippo leapt out of her bag and transformed into a big balloon and caught Inuyasha safely as the body of Naraku collapsed to bits, and revealing that it was just another puppet clone and not the real Naraku.

Even a few demons that remained sneakily slipped off with the sacred jewel shards that powered the dummy, which no one seem to notice.

“We’ve been deceived again!” grumbled Sango.

“Ugh!” growled Miroku. He looked down at the head of the baboon fur, “When will you ever show yourself?!”

Naraku’s voice taunted him, “I will show myself to you when the time is right, and now before; that is assuming you will live long enough to see that day.”

He said nothing more and his voice trailed off.

Everyone simply let it go; there was no sense in dreading on it.

Shippo set down on the ground and poofed back into his normal self.

“Inuyasha, are you okay?” asked Kagome, but Inuyasha didn’t answer and kept looking up at Kikyo in the trees.

“Kikyo!”

She kept looking at him, and then began to slip off into the forest. “Wait! Kikyo…!” cried Inuyasha, and he leapt up chasing after her.

“Inuyasha!” called Kagome, but he was already gone.

“It figures he’d pursue her.” said Sango.

Kagome didn’t know if she felt annoyed, upset, or anything!

“Hey! Where’d Sesshomaru go?” asked Shippo.

Sesshomaru, Jaken and Rin were nowhere to be seen; hinting that they slipped off while everyone was distracted.

…Which they had; slipped deep into the forest.

“Lord Sesshomaru. You should rest your leg.” said Rin.

“I am fine, Rin. I have been injured before. This is truly nothing that I cannot heal on my own. All I need is rest.”

“Yes, of course.” said Jaken “Good rest is all you need, and soon we’ll be able smite Inuyasha and--”

“Jaken… please…” Sesshomaru said softly, and he drifted off to sleep.

Poor Rin sat directly beside him and fell to sleep herself. Jaken could only sigh.

Inuyasha continued to pursue Kikyo deep into the forest. Suddenly, he could see a light up ahead in the center of the woods and he stopped dead in his tracks.

There stood Kikyo, with her soul collectors feeding her.

“Kikyo.”

She looked up at him, and her face remained expressionless as ever. “The darkness is growing worse.” she said to him “You feel it, don’t you, Inuyasha?”

He didn’t know how to answer her, as he didn’t tell her about the Darkness he had experienced and seen.

“I know, Inuyasha.” Kikyo suddenly said “I know what you have been through.”

Inuyasha stiffed “You know… about The Dark Angels?”

Kikyo shut her eyes, “My spirit is cursed, and I am kept alive by harnessing the souls of dead women, but I am able to understand of such things though I have never seen them, and I can fear them as well.

Even you should know by now how deadly it is to disturb or disrupt the dead, no matter how great the temptation.”

Inuyasha was well aware of this, “What are you trying to say exactly?”

Kikyo looked right up into the skies through the opening in the forest ceiling. “I fear that terrible things are bound to happen if they continue as they are, and not even Naraku will be able to fathom such consequences that may come.”

This worried Inuyasha. “Even Naraku can’t handle?” he wondered in thought, and he thought of the Dark Angels and all that power they absorbed through the eons, “Kikyo may be right, but as long as nobody disturbs the Dark Angels or even tries to anger them… things should be okay.”

He turned to look back at Kikyo, “…She’s gone!” He couldn’t see her anywhere or where she could’ve gone.

“Inuyasha…!” Miroku called to him as he and the gang arrived on the scene.

“What happened?” asked Kagome “And where’s Kikyo?”

Inuyasha remained silent, still a little upset that Kikyo had gone again, but also still concerned about the warning she had given him.

In Equestria, after Twilight woke from her nap, and after Rarity had some much needed time to find her strength after being upset, the ponies told Twilight their idea of traveling to the Feudal Era, back in time, and hopefully change history.

“No!” Twilight snapped “No, no, no, and again… No! Out of the question…!”

“But Why?” asked Pinkie “Why, why, why, and again why?”

Applejack sighed, “Tell me we’re not going to be doin’ that all through this convo?”

Twilight would not hear any arguments, “I know you have your reasons for wanting to, but I have my reasons NOT wanting to.”

One-by-one, she listed the reasons…

“Reason 1: We can’t just connect to the Feudal Era like that, and even if we could it’s doubtful we’ll be able to get back again.”

Rarity and Rainbow realized this. They only got back to Equestria via the Dark Angels. They would probably still be in Kagome’s world were it not for them.

“Two:” said Twilight “…You realize that changing the past could involve bigger problems. It could even make the future worse!”

“Could… as in “Maybe.” said Rarity “But just think; we could get Spike back, and save the lives of many of the other Dark Angels.”

“And that’s exactly reason 3!” said Twilight “Even if we really could save our Dark Angels, is it fair that only they be saved while all the others are still imprisoned in the Dark Zone for all eternity?”

The entire room went silent.

“I guess we didn’t think of that.” said Fluttershy.

“So I guess that’s it then?” asked Rainbow “We just give up the whole thing?”

“I never said I was giving up.” said Twilight “I just said that I don’t want to try changing the past, especially when I have a better idea.”

The others all gawked at her, “What idea?” asked Starlight.

Twilight wasn’t so sure if she had it all worked out herself, as she only just thought it up, “Lord Erebus said the Dark Zone is a curse-- a Curse… as in Magic.

Soooo… I think it’s just possible that The Dark Zone can be dispelled, and the Dark Angels can be magically restored back to their former lives.”

She felt so confident that her idea could work while all the others were aghast at such a thought, even Starlight was not so optimistic. “You… want to try and use magic on an ENTIRE DIMENSION IN THE AFTERLIFE?!!” she shouted, and her voice echoed along the castle walls “Sorry, but seriously?!”

“I’m inclined to agree with Starlight.” said Rarity “Do you honestly think such a plot is even feasible?”

“Yeah,” agreed Applejack “I mean… sure, we beat a whole bunch of bad guys, curses and crises before, but THIS…?!! Even I can’t begin to think of it all.”

The others all felt the exact same way.

“Look, I know it sounds crazy…” said Twilight.

“Yeah, it does.” Pinkie muttered, and if anyone knew crazy it was she.

“…But,” said Twilight “If we could do all that stuff before, we can at least try to do this? After all, we’ve never given up before, have we?”

The others could not deny this a bit, and of course they did think of the positives like Spike being returned to them, the other Dark Angels could be restored; after many eons to be exact!!

But even still, it looked as if Twilight was overlooking the many important things, but she excused herself from the table before anyone could question her, “I’ve got a lot of work to do, mostly reading.” she said. She was planning to read every single book that she could, and every single possibility of the kind of magic she would need to get to the Dark Zone and possibly dispel it, if she even could.

“Something tells me she’s about to fall into one of her obsessive periods again.” said Rainbow, and the others agreed.

Starlight was more worried that the Dark Angels wouldn’t this one bit, if they found out Twilight was even thinking of affecting their domicile.

In the Digi-Destined world, it was almost nightfall.

Kari was sitting on a bench with Gatomon sitting next to her. She had a really bad day at school, she got low test scores, failed to hand in assignments due to her being so badly distracted.

Now she had just gotten the call, she would be repeating eleventh grade for certain, unless she attended summer school and made up for the loss.

No matter how understandable it was among those who knew, even if her teachers were told it was not excusable to just slack and ignore her schoolwork.

Gatomon was starting to feel a balance of sorry and pity for her. “You shouldn’t keep beating yourself up like this.” she said to her.

Kari hung her head low, running her fingers through her hair.

Then TK came along, “Kari…”

“Oh, Hi, TK.” said without even looking up at him, which worried him all the more. He sat down next to her, “I’ve been texting you all day and you hardly spoke a word in school.

Are you still upset about Davis?”

She looked at him rather sternly, “Of course I am!” she growled softly, then she apologized for that, “It was bad enough ever since he died to begin with, and now I find out what he’s been doing, and there’s more of them!” she referred to the entire Dark Zone in general and all the Dark Angels who were trapped there for eons. “A’rgh…!” she groaned “How did things ever get so messed up like this?!”

Davis was spying on her from way up, but keeping out of sight not wanting her to see him. He couldn’t believe after all she had learned from her visit to the Dark Zone she was acting as if she still refused to accept responsibility for her poor behaviour and actions.

“Can’t you can’t teach and old bitch new tricks.” he grumbled to himself, and then he silently vanished, but it only he had stayed longer he would have heard what TK said then…!

“Look, I don’t know if this helps or not, but I’ve been thinking,” and he explained his theory about Erebus being some kind of evil fink at work, but Kari wasn’t so sure of this. “It could be…” she said “But I really don’t think it is. If Erebus really is evil and gathering that darkness for himself, why hasn’t he actually done anything with it in the many eons?

Why does he forbid the Dark Angels from using it outside the Dark Zone?”

Much as TK knew to consider the possibilities he was wrong, he still wasn’t so sure. “Maybe they’re just absorbing so much power for something really, really huge?

Point is… I think Erebus needs to be stopped before he hurts anyone else.”

Kari was so mixed up she didn’t know what to think at first. “TK, please…!” she suddenly snapped “You don’t know if the Dark Angels are really evil, but they haven’t done anything wrong to anyone? We can’t just judge someone for how they look or what they seem to be doing.

…That’s pretty much what killed Davis to begin with.”

She referred to how badly Davis was judged by many.

-All those girls wanting to date him just because he was popular to boost their own image and not caring about Davis at all.

-Davis’ mom insisting and pestering he get a girlfriend thinking he couldn’t be happy being alone, when she never actually gave him a chance to show how he wasn’t hurt by it.

-Then there were other girls Davis had crushes on way back that thought of him as a dork, and refused to give him the time of day, and only changed their grooves when he was popular and heroic enough, but their vanity showed them only being gold diggers.

…Of course, Kari herself was hardly any better; not willing to give him even one chance herself and not seeing him in a better light either.

“Kari? Kari…?” TK called to her snapping her out of her trance.

Kari rubbed her eyes.

“TK, I don’t think you should put this much pressure on Kari.” said Gatomon “The last time you acted on impulse, looked what happened to you and Patamon.”

TK clenched his fists as anger and sadness pierced him inside, and it made him think more about Erebus, Davis and the rest of the Dark Zone for causing a lot of this trauma, and his losing his status as a Digi Destined and separated from Patamon; despite the other facts he seemed to be overlooking!

“I just really can’t take this anymore.” said Kari, “All this darkness, stress, and hateful feelings! It’s like something’s really going to go wrong, something worse than anything that’s happened so far. I just feel it!”

TK couldn’t argue with her there, but his assumption was the Dark Angels couldn’t be allowed to continue like this.

“Can I walk home with you?” he asked.

“Thanks, but… I’d really like to be alone. I need to think.” and Kari got up, pecked him on the cheek, and walked off.

“Kari, wait…!” Gatomon called as she dashed off to catch up to her, leaving TK on his own as the sky got dark and the street lights came on.

He was really starting to feel that Kari was starting to slip from him as well, hardly showing as much affection, or interest in dating again, she wouldn’t let him help her study to get her school game back in gear, which was also another reason he grades were so poor to begin with.

“I really wish Patamon was here now.” he said to himself “I can’t bear to think of him in the Dark Ocean by himself.”

From within in Digital World, at the Dark Ocean, Patamon was wandering along the dark beaches on his daily route to keep the place cleaner.

He sighed sadly as he looked out over the calm seas.

TK clenched his fists, feeling his anger growing. “Those Dark Angels!” he grumbled “No good can come from anything that dark! I want those mother (bleepers) to pay for this!

And they will!”

The only problem he had, other than not realizing his own faults, was how to pull it off. There had to be some way for him to get at the Dark Angels, maybe even force Erebus to expose himself as the evil he thought him to be.

When he got him, he emailed all the others, and told them about his theory regarding the Dark Angels, but each and every single response was practically the same-- No one really felt like going along with it.

Mimi and Sora dismissed the very theory of the Dark Angels being evil, since they had done no such back actions.

Joe refused and felt that TK was slipping into one of his anger at evil moments again, and suggested he cool off.

Yolei, Cody, and even Ken refused, heeding Erebus’ warning to not interfere with the Dark Angels’ business. Ken also stated he couldn’t bear to make Davis’ spirit any more upset than it already was. “The poor guy’s been through enough, and so have all of us. Let it go!” he said.

Even Izzy refused, stating while it would be tempting to learn even more about the Dark Angels and their ways of afterlife, he too wished to leave them in peace. Plus, all these distortions in dimensions were a dangerous thing to be tampering with. “If we’re not careful, we could end up destabilizing the entire space-time continuum for all worlds, as well as our own. That would lead to consequences so incredibly massive I can’t even say them.

Point is, let it be.”

Finally, even Matt himself refused, even though he understood where his brother was coming from, “Just because you may think the Dark Angels are evil doesn’t make them so. Darkness doesn’t always mean evil, TK.

And about you and Patamon; I hate to do this to you, but it was YOUR fault; you were the ones who got on Davis’ back, and YOU were the ones who destroyed Ex-Veemon. The Dark Angels are not to blame. You brought it on yourself!

You’re not going to make things any better by starting a fight; believe me, I know this too well.”

TK angrily pounded his computer and growled.

“TK?” his mom called as she came into his room “Are you alright? You’ve been growling and pounding ever since you came home?”

“Just a little frustrated, Mom.” replied TK. He hadn’t told her about the Dark Zone or the Dark Angels. With the exception of Jun and her mom, none of the other families knew about it.

“Are you still upset about your girlfriend?” asked Mom.

Her son nodded, “It shows doesn’t it?

I don’t know what to do, mom. I try to help and she keeps pushing me away.”

“Sometimes people just can’t get over their problems.” replied his mom “I should know; your father could never get over his anger issues.”

She stopped there, not really wanting to talk about the divorce.

“Even if some people can’t get over their problems, at least they can find a way to try and live with themselves, but it’s best you try not to complicate things.

Remember, honey, things just happen sometimes, and we can’t always control them.”

Then she left him alone in his room, and despite what she said being true, TK still believed “…This is one thing that can be changed, and needs to be before anyone else gets hurt.

Those Dark Angels are going down!”

In the Titans’ World,

Terra was relaxed, and very relaxed. Raven taught her how to meditate and to clear her mind to help her remain calm, just as the doctor cautioned.

“Ahh…” Terra sighed as she let her breath out slowly while sitting on the couch, “Nice… calm… quiet.” she kept repeating that over and over and she felt well at ease.

“That’s it.” said Raven “Just keep that pose going, I’ll be right back.” and she left Terra at the sofa and went to converse with the others at the table. “She’s fine.”

“Well, that’s good,” said Robin “But what’s bad is that we’ve done our own investigations in the city, and I can’t believe how very little signs of Beast Boy there were.”

He confirmed the images Beast Boy’s images, as well as Raven’s own findings in the city-- hardly any Beast Boy merchandise or memorabilia. Even the people…

Many of the citizens hardly knew Beast Boy at all, despite having lived in Jump City many years, as they were too focused on the other Teen Titans. And any citizens that DID know of Beast Boy were very rude and callous towards him.

“Loser…”

“Geek…”

They referred to him as, and some even stated, “Beast Boy… he was never cool, not like the rest of you Titans. Hell, why you even let a guy like that be on your team is beyond me.”

The Titans all felt very livid at the townspeople, “No wonder he threw such a fit.” said Cyborg “No wonder the darkness got him either.”

Starfire said nothing, she never felt so hurt for Beast Boy, and upset for herself and the others being a partial aid in the darkness grabbing his soul.

She remembered, back in the Dark Zone when he angrily dismissed everyone. No wanted apology, no reconciliation. Just up and kick them out.

Robin could tell what she was thinking, and he felt the same as she, he then looked at the sun crystal which was placed in the center of the table. He remembered how angrily and livid the ponies seemed after it was revealed how the Titans badly handled Beast Boy, and the way they just forced him to move on and got him thrown in the nuthouse for keeping quiet in court.

Still regardless of anyone’s emotions, “I think it’d be best if we just forgot about this whole thing.” he suggested

The others all gawked at him, and Terra’s gave a twitched, followed by her heart skipping a beat.

The other Titans seemed to agree with Robin. All this pursuit had done was cause nothing but more pain, more trauma, and even threats from the Dark Angels themselves. “They said they did not wish to be disturbed.” said Starfire.

“You should never try to argue with spirits.” added Raven, and then she thought of Erebus himself, “…Or a god for that.”

Terra looked way down as she held her stomach. Cyborg approached her, “I know you heard us.”

She nodded sadly, “I really don’t think I can let go that easily.” She wasn’t kidding either, and she understood even more how Beast Boy felt when he didn’t give up on her at her school, which made it all the more crushing in the end.

“Terra, I know how you feel…” said Cyborg “But, and I know this is gonna hurt but we gotta face the facts: We can’t bring BB back to life, and even if we could he made it clear he didn’t want to come back.”

Terra remembered how Beast Boy even insulted her pregnancy, even suggesting the baby be aborted so as not to put up with her for a mom.

Terra was still determined to keep the child and raise it well, but it still hurt her that Beast Boy refused forgiveness. “I know I can’t force him to forgive, but I just wish he were here.”

Something shadowy then went past the window. She looked up, but it turned out to be a couple of seagulls flying back and forth making shadows in the light.

Terra knew that she and Raven were the only ones that could see Beast Boy, but he hadn’t shown himself ever since he had brought them all to the Dark Zone. Most likely he was avoiding them by staying clear out of sight.

Beast Boy was indeed doing just that; whenever he was about on his sprees for dark aura, he made sure to keep clear out of the Titans’ sight by flying very high up, or just keeping as far from them as he possibly could so Raven’s magic wouldn’t interfere with his own limited powers.

He was standing atop the tallest building in town. His wings, as his cape, remained perfectly still as ordinary winds did not affect him.

He looked over the entire city, and the miserable sight it was with all the changes going on; so many business joints but hardly any fun zones, more people at work but hardly anyone just playing around and having fun!

People in the streets were even starting to turn on each other; the big picking on the small, the rich snubbing at the not so rich. Those who were poor and hungry in the streets were being ignored as usual so they had to resort to stealing and mugging to survive because of other people’s selfishness and stupidity.

“Look at them all!” Beast Boy grumbled to himself as he felt his rage spiking “It’s a dog-eat-dog world!” He clenched his fists tightly and shouted, “…NOTHING BUT (BLEEP)-TARDS!!”)

Of course… no one could actually hear him, but he felt a little better after that huge shout out, and he was panting a little.

One of the senior Dark Angels appeared, having sensed his outrage, together, they spoke in their native language; the eerie wind sounds.

The subtitles translated…

“I sensed your disturbance from home.”

Beast Boy sighed and responded, “I’m okay, but there’s not a time when I don’t feel like paying back these assholes for the way they treated me and the many others before and now.”

The sentry knew just how he felt, being a victim of the same events that made the darkness swallow him, thousands of years ago. “We all have our reasons for wanting to, but the mortals have done nothing to truly warrant us to abandon our ways.

These are the wishes of Lord Erebus.”

Beast Boy respected this, and together he and his comrade left to head back to the Dark Zone.

As the days passed, Twilight did nothing but study, study, study! She would take a book on physics, magic, legacies or anything at all she could find that contained keywords to help her in her project to getting back to the Dark Zone and lifting whatever curse there was.

She would take a book off the shelf, make whatever notes and formulas she could, then put it down in a pile by the doors to the library.

The stack of books got taller as the shelves started to become barren, and Twilight began to scribble notes and formulas along the walls when she ran out of paper.

Naturally, Starlight came in and checked on her and gave her some food on a tray. She would try and get Twilight’s attention asking her, “How’s it coming?” or “Are you okay?” to which Twilight would merely respond with “Uh-huh.” or “Okay.” even when the answers didn’t even fit such questions.

In the nights, Twilight would use solar panels to harness moonlight-- it was after all just reflected sunlight-- which she felt would be a most vital part in her project; light of the full moon.

It wasn’t long before Twilight started experimenting-- mixing potions, combining her magic to mix them well.

This often resulted in small explosions and forcing her to reconfigure her formulas to try again, which only resulted in BIGGER explosions that could be seen from outside the castle windows, and some ponies passing nearby felt the shaking.

A week later, the other ponies all met outside in the fields “She just keeps working.” said Starlight, and then she let out a yawn “Those explosions keep me awake at night.”

The others all sighed, “I don’t think we should let Twilight work like this anymore.” said Fluttershy “I know we all agreed it was our best plan, but is it really worth it now?”

“Not to me it isn’t…” said Discord, who seemed to be standing there from out of nowhere.

“Hey, where’d you come from?” asked Rainbow.

“We were having a private conversation.” added Rarity.

Discord snuffed, “Is that why you’re out here in public?” he motioned to other passersby, “Besides, everyone within a ten-mile radius has felt those explosion tremors. Even I felt them in my own dimension.”

The girls rolled their eyes.

“What is she doing anyway?” asked Discord.

The ponies didn’t think it would be too much to explain to Discord, but it was Pinkie Pie who decided, “Well, you see…” and she took in a huge breath and spilled the beans very fast, “It all started when Spike suddenly died, and we all went transported to different realms and we learned about The Dark and the Dark Zone, but they kicked us all out not wanting anything to do with us…” she paused and took in another huge breathe “Sooooo… Twilight thinks she can dispel whatever curse is on the Dark Zone and set the Dark Angels all free and maybe we’ll get spike back.

…Get it?”

Discord’s eyes were swirling and his ears were steaming. “Um…. yeah…! Just one little thing I’d like to ask.” he paused and cleared his throat “…ARE YOU ALL COMPLETELY OUT OF YOUR MINDS?!!”

His shouting was so loud he practically made the ground shake. Birds flew off and ponies passing by began to back away.

“Don’t you all realize how dangerous it is to even THINK ABOUT tampering with dimensional balance?!”

“Well…” said Rainbow “We do… kinda… realize there’s a risk involved.”

“Trust me on this.” snapped Discord “Look, I know you all think of me as weird and unusual at times, but I’m being serious. You HAVE to get Twilight to stop this project, and if you don’t then I will.”

“Discord, wait…!” cried Fluttershy.

“Sorry, Fluttershy, but this time not even YOU can convince me to change my mind. I’m doing this for your own goods!”

He vanished and was gone.

“Wow! I’ve never seen him in such a panic.” said Pinkie.

“I don’t think he’d get this jumpy unless it was real serious.” added Applejack “Maybe we should be thinkin’ of tellin’ Twilight to call it off.”

The more the girls thought about it… the more they really didn’t know what to think or do.

Discord had appeared inside the castle, and spoke with Twilight. Twilight was so-overworked and overly obsessed with her project, she wasn’t really acting or thinking like her normal self.

“What?!” she snapped at him “I’ve already come so far. I’m not giving up on this.”

“Oh, yes you are!” protested Discord “I already told you how dangerous this is.”

“I know it’s dangerous, but taking risks never stopped before.”

“Twilight, for once will you just listen!” growled Discord “You’re meddling with things that ARE NOT meant to meddled with! This is one risk you shouldn’t take!”

“And what about Spike?” growled Twilight. “What about all the Dark Angels? They should just stay there, cursed and miserable?!

And what about other innocent men all over dimensions? Erebus said if the darkness gets them they’ll become Dark Angels too.

I’m trying TO HELP THEM, Discord. I’m the Princess of Friendship and it’s what I do!!”

It was official, she had lost her mind, worse than any other time she had. Discord could see there was no getting through to her with reason. “I’m not going to let you do this, Twilight.” Discord said, and he prepared to, in good conscience, detain Twilight in a magical cage, and attempt to destroy her work.

“NO!! I WON’T LET YOU!!” shouted Twilight, and she actually managed to break out of that prison; having studied Discord’s powers for many years and before Discord could do anything else, Twilight held him with her own magic and teleported him out of the castle, and she put up a strong force field around her room so that no one would be able to disturb her again.

Discord tried all he could, and his power was unable to break it. “I don’t believe this!” he cried “That Twilight sure studied up well if she can cancel out my power.”

Regardless of all this, there was one pony he knew could help him now to stop Twilight’s project, and hopefully before it was too late!