You can bet, all of Ponyville was really upset to hear the news, and an enormous service was held for Spike’s burial.

A large statue of spike was erected by Mayor Mare, because everyone knew who Spike was, and how even though he made some mistakes in the past, he was a good friend, a special little guy…

…and that only made it much harder for everyone.

Rarity was sobbing softly non-stop. She had a hankie in one hoof to dry her eyes, and a huge drink of water by her side with a large straw due to crying so much and dehydrating herself.

The others were all just as upset too; even Discord was at the service, dressed all in black. He said nothing at all and didn’t bother to make any wisecracks. He even dispended tissues for everyone; making them appear out of thin air.

Fluttershy was pleased with him for showing his morality, and he smiled sadly at her, but really he was just as upset that Spike was gone.

Easily, no one… absolutely no one was more upset than Twilight. She had taken care of Spike ever since he was given to her as an egg, like a mother caring for her child.

It was more than understandable that she was so devastated would most likely never recover from such pain. “Spike…” she sobbed softly under her breath.

Celestia and Luna were both shaking in pain and sorrow and dabbing their eyes.

Finally, the Wonderbolts with Rainbow Dash on the squad soared across the skies making a colorful trail of smoke in a salute.

“You okay, Cadet?” asked Spitfire.

Rainbow nodded sadly, and she did her best to hide her tears; it wasn’t cool for a Wonderbolt to cry.

The Cutie Mark Crusaders were all standing with each of their respective families, but they were feeling sicker than sad; sick with themselves feeling it was their fault that Spike was dead due to their plan going awry.

They still hadn’t told anyone about it, especially now considering what had happened to Spike, which they blamed themselves for, but they didn’t want to think of what kind of punishment the elders would give to them for screwing up so badly.

So for now they agreed to keep their mouths shut.

Over the past weeks, the ponies had their cries and got over it a bit and were able to return to their normal lives, but the tragedy left scars and burns that would never truly heal, especially for the friends themselves.

Twilight would look at the spot near her bed where Spike’s basket used to lay, and she would shed a few tears.

Starlight would hear her cries and come to see what was wrong, only to then breakout in a soft cry herself.

Rainbow flew through the skies… much slower than ever.

Applejack pulled her farm plow along with a face bluer than a wet weekend. Her whole family understood and shared some of her pain. They all missed Spike too, but the chores still had to be done.

Some of the friends felt worse than the others.

Pinkie Pie was mixing up some cake batter, which she had been doing for twenty whole minutes, but her mind seemed elsewhere. She just stood there mixing the batter while staring into space.

“Pinkie…” said Carrot Cake “I think it’s mixed enough.”

Pinkie looked down and realized that the batter had been mixed so much it was much too thick to be of any use. She picked up the heavy bowl, still in a sad trance, and carried it over to the fridge, when her apron string got caught on the low cupboard door and she fell dropping the mix and everything.

“Oh, Pinkie…!” cried Cup Cake. She and her husband went over to find Pinkie in tears, but not because of the fall, but over Spike. The Cake’s held her softly to comfort her as she continued to cry.

Even Fluttershy was plenty upset. Her eyes were all red and baggy from crying so much, and she looked as if she hardly got much sleep, unable to shake off the pain. This made it hard to do her chores and feed the animals the proper foods and the right amount, so Angel took over and straightened things out.

As for Rarity, she was on her couch, sobbing and going “Om-nom-nom…” as she ate many quarts of ice-cream. “It’s not fair…” she sobbed “It’s just not fair. Why did this have to happen?”

In her hoof she held the secret-admirer letter, which she still believed Spike had written; practically her only supposed keepsake of him. She kept reading it over and over and remembering how mean she was to Spike; blaming him for ruining her dress, which she now understood wasn’t his fault but hers-- her perfume attracted the bugs.

“Oh, Spike…” she sobbed “If ever I could bring you back, so help me… I’d do anything for that! Anything…!”

From upstairs, Sweetie Belle could hear Rarity crying, and it only broke her heart even more with guilt and shame. She felt like breaking the promise she and her friends made.

There was a knock at the door, and Rarity was too lost in her sorrows to hear. “I’ll get it.” Sweetie called, and she trotted to the door to reveal it was Starlight and Twilight, going around and checking on all their friends.

They took notice of the many empty ice-cream quarts by Rarity’s sofa.

“Rarity, are you okay?” Twilight asked. Rarity looked up to show her tearstained face. “Here…” Starlight said levitating a tissue box to her. “Thank you.” Rarity cried and she blew her nose really hard and long… Twilight even checked the grandmother clock to time the length.

“Oh, I can’t stand it!” cried Rarity “Everywhere I turn I’m reminded of Spike and how awfully we treated him.”

Twilight felt the same way and a little tear rolled down her cheek. “He was so special to me; to all of us. He was a great helper, even when he made a few mistakes.”

Starlight agreed, “I only knew him for a short while, but he was willing to forgive me of my past mistakes just like Twilight did. He helped me become who I am today.”

Sweetie Belle heard the ladies, and it made her stomach churn with guilt.

Rarity then looked at the secret-admirer letter, “At least I have this adorable keepsake he wrote me.”

Twilight look at the words on the letter, “Wait a second…!” she levitated the letter out of Rarity’s grasp. “Hey!” she snapped at her, but Twilight just observed the letter more closely, “This isn’t Spike’s handwriting, he always uses cursive writing, and it’s written in pencil, Spike used quills.”

“What?” snapped Rarity, and she observed the letter again, “But if Spike didn’t write this, then why did he show up with a romantic picnic?”

Sweetie Belle finally cracked, “IT WAS ME!!” she cried. The mares all turned round and gawked at her, “Sweetie Belle?!” cried Rarity.

Sweetie Belle took a huge breath and explained everything really fast, “I was upset that Rarity was rejecting Spike in vain, so the Crusaders and I came up with this idea to bring you and Spike together hoping you’d change your mind, even though we promised Ms. Cheerilee we wouldn’t, so I wrote the letter and we set you and Spike up on the picnic, but things didn’t go as we hoped it would!” she stopped to catch her breath.

The mares were nothing short of shocked, “Sweetie Belle…!” Rarity said softly.

Then there was a knock at the door; it was Applejack and Rainbow Dash, they brought along Scootaloo and Applebloom, and they looked pretty remorseful. “They’ve got somethin’ to tell you, Rarity.” said Applejack.

“I already told her.” said Sweetie.

The other girls confessed that they felt overly guilty and confessed as well.

Much as the ladies were all disappointed greatly with the girls, they just couldn’t find it in their hearts to punish them; not that it would make a difference anyway, and the fact that Spike’s death wasn’t their fault.

“We’re still really sorry.” said Scootaloo.

“Sorrier than sorry.” added Applebloom.

“We know you are…” said Twilight “We’re very disappointed girls, but we’ll deal with this some other time.”

The girls felt very remorseful, and upset.

So far four different guys from four different worlds had died; all suffering from the exact same mysterious ailment, and yet nobody had any idea of what it was or how it really happened. Not that it really changed matters.

As the months passed, everyone got over the extreme sadness and found strength to carry on with their lives.

Kagome often returned to the feudal Era to continue with the search for the jewel shards. Eventually, she, Inuyasha and Shippo met up with Miroku and Sango, and the fallen priestess Kikyo was revived in an unstable way, and they and others learned of the existence of the Demon Lord, Naraku, all wanting to hunt him down and destroy him.

Princess Tsuyu however, she was enjoying life as much as she could with her husband, and her pet Hiyoshimaru. She and her husband were even thinking of having children soon, but everyone now and then, Tsuyu would take a moment and pray to the shrines for Nobunaga’s soul.

“Oh, please… hear my prayer, and let Amari Nobunaga’s soul be resting in the light of peace.”

Hiyoshimaru scratched his little bum in confusion and ignorance.

Suddenly, Tsuyu had that strange feeling she was being watched again, and she was… being observed from the bottom of the stairs leading to the shrine by that same dark creature.

He was just standing out there in the open, but the guards at their posts just stood there as if they couldn’t see him at all.

The creature sighed, and began to fade away just as the Princess descended the stairs.

“Huh?” she cried as she could swear she saw the last of creature fading.

“Something disturbs you, Princess?” asked one of the guards.

“Did you see him…?” asked Tsuyu.

The guards looked around, “Seen who? There has been no one else here, believe us, we would have seen.”

Tsuyu looked all around but couldn’t see the creature anywhere, yet she had distinct feeling deep inside her she would see him again.

The Digi Destined, they had it worse!

Kari and TK still had hard times getting over their exile from the Digital World, and it only rubbed in their faces worse of the death of Davis and Ex-Veemon.

At first they each spent a while at home, in their rooms not talking much and bewailing all that happened and all that they lost, but they found their strengths to at least get up and go back to school.

Unfortunately, Davis’ death affected other people as well, preferably the soccer team. Davis was the best captain the team ever had, and without him their Co-captain took over, but their playing was horrible without Davis’ plans and skills and it cost them the right to be in the playoffs.

“This is awful…” said Ken “We had a real chance this season too.”

Yolei sighed “I don’t know what you miss more, Davis or playing soccer like you used to.”

Her boyfriend gave her a teasing but sad look.

They shared a warm hug, both missing Davis loads.

Sad to say, Kari was anything but herself. Though she was in school, she wasn’t doing so well. She was often silent and still, and hardly smiled as much anymore. This made it hard for her to pay attention during class.

“Are you alright, Ms. Kamyia?” all her teachers would ask, to which Kari would reply, “I’m okay… I guess.”

Her teachers, her friends, even her family were growing very concerned for her, especially TK.

Between classes, TK met up with Kari at her locker and he cut straight to the chase, “Kari, I know it hurts, it hurts me just as much, but you can’t let this sadness rule you forever.”

“What?”

“Kari, I’m just worried about you. I haven’t seen you like this since The Dark Ocean.”

“Can you blame me?!” Kari snapped “How can you be taking this so lightly? We’ve lost our Digimon! We’ll never see the Digital World again! And what about Davis, he’s gone!”

TK raised his hands, “Kari, calm down!”

“Calm down?!” cried Kari “How can you say such a thing!”

WHAPP!! Kari was slapped hard across the face; not by TK, but rather by Yolei. “Kari, snap out of it!” she scolded her.

“Yolei!” cried Ken.

“No!” his girlfriend snapped, “Look, I get that you’re upset. We all are, but all this moping about it isn’t going to make things better, especially not for you.”

Kari’s features hardened, “Listen…”

“No! You listen! Davis is gone, we can’t do anything about that.” she paused and looked over at Ken “Sorry…”

Her boyfriend nodded.

“And two: you lost your Digimon, there’s not much we can do about that either, but you still have other things in life, like TK, your other friends, your family… and all you can do is mope around all the time feeling sorry for yourself?”

WHAPP!! Kari smacked Yolei hard, much to the boys’ shock. “You just don’t get it!” cried Kari and she ran off sobbing.

“Kari…!” TK called to her, and then he sneered at Yolei “Thanks, you’ve been a real help.” And he chased after his girlfriend.

Yolei could only sigh, and Ken was very angry, “I understand how they feel, but I really hope they don’t get any worse. You know what happened to me…”

Yolei nodded, “I’m just glad Cody’s not here to see this, but I think we need to talk with Tai and Matt again.”

Ken agreed.

Kari ran down the streets going faster and faster, until she finally stopped for a breath of air by a corner walkway. She couldn’t believe she actually ran out of school like that, but her anguish and guilt still plagued her.

She still remembered those horrible scenes…

-Ex-Veemon being destroyed when Magna-Angemon knocked him into Titamon’s sword.

-She herself punching Davis in the face and he passed out and later died.

-Then there was Gennai stripping her and TK of their D3s, and Patamon and Gatomon left them.

“A’RGH!!” She growled as she slammed the lamppost, making passersby jump in fright by her sudden outburst. They just kept right on going about their business, while Kari continued to nurse her pain…

Unaware she was being watched by someone else…

A mysterious dark creature was standing on the other side of the street, just looking at her, and yet all the passersby just walked right past him not even noticing him.

The creature sighed, “Poor girl, but I can’t do anything about it.”

The creature turned and walked up the street, just as Kari looked up and across, spotting him just as he turned away from her, “Ah…?!”

His head was turned away but she recognized the guy anywhere. “Davis…!” she cried and she dashed across the street; cars screech to a halt and the drivers yelled at Kari, but she took no notice and dashed round the corner, “Davis…” she called, but she couldn’t see him anywhere.

“I swore I saw…” then she snapped herself out of it remembering that it couldn’t have been him. She just sat there with her back against the wall of building and sank down to the ground.

People passing by thought she was a beggar and threw her a few coins, which she hardly noticed as she was too lost in her own darkness.

In the Titan’s Verse, Terra woke up one morning to the sound of a baby crying. She sighed and got up out of bed to see what her child wanted, but much to her surprise…

“Beast Boy…?!”

It was him, and he was standing by the crib holding the baby out of view in front of him. He turned his head and smiled at her, “Morning sunshine.”

Terra was most confused, “I thought you were dead?”

He shook his head “If I were dead who’d take care of my wife and kid?”

“Wife…?!” Terra asked in shock and then looked down at her left hand to a ring on her finger, and along the walls of the bedroom was a picture of her and Beast Boy at their wedding, and next to it was a picture them in the hospital after the baby was born…

…Terra’s head covered the part of the picture where the child was.

She was more confused than ever. She didn’t remember any or all of this happening to her, but when Beast Boy came over and showed her their baby, still out of view, he smiled widened, “Aww…” she cooed as she looked down at her child’s little face.

The baby cooed at her as it reached up with its little hand.

Beast Boy then walked over to his wife and looked deep into her eyes, and she looked back at him…

But suddenly, his eyes went dark and the entire scene around her warped into nothing but black; long endless black.

She began to panic, and Beast Boy and her baby began to fade off into the darkness. “Wait!” she called “Come back! Don’t leave me!”

Then they were gone, and suddenly she could hear the voice of Slade, “It’s no use, Terra.”

Her features hardened, “Slade!” she growled, and that’s when appeared as a large image before her. She tried to use her powers against him, only realize there were no rocks or earth for her to control.

“Silly girl…” Slade mocked her “You haven’t really changed at all. You’re still the same pitiful girl you always were, and you still cause pain to those you love.”

“SHUT UP!!” Terra shouted and she lunged straight at him, only for the image to disappear. She fell with a thud, and Slade then appeared in two places. “I see you still haven’t better control over you emotions.”

Terra lunged at one image, only for it to vanish, and two more images appeared. Every time she tackled one, more and more appeared, but Slade’s voice continued to torment her. “It’s no wonder Beast Boy is dead. It wouldn’t surprise me if he did himself in just avoid you!”

“NO!!!” shouted Terra. She clutched her head trying to drown out his taunting.

“You’re the one who wanted him to leave you alone. You’re the one who didn’t want to see him anymore, and yet you decided it wasn’t enough and you sent him to his doom.”

Terra was spinning round and round in the darkness, and there before her eyes, she saw Beast Boy’s gravestone, which read to her…

“NOOOOOOOO…!!!!”

She woke up screaming, then panting. She was in her old room at Titan’s Tower, where she had spent the last few months since she gave up her school life. She felt that she could never return now since it would be obvious she had feelings for Beast Boy; whether he was alive or not, and the she wanted to keep his baby, he school friends would never understand… unless she confessed her bad past.

Her pregnant stomach was a little larger now, only three months along.

Still in fright from her nightmare, and in woe from the consequences of her selfish ways, “Oh my god…!” she cried, and her tears began to flow.

Robin and the other Titans came into her room when the heard her scream. “Terra…! You okay?” asked Robin. “Yeah, girl you were yellin’ in your sleep.” added Cyborg.

Raven yawned, “You mean yelling in her sleep again!”

“Friend, Terra, you were having the bad dreams again.” said Starfire. Terra nodded tearfully.

The Titans blamed part of this on her pregnancy, but they knew the real reason behind it all.

“Oh, Terra…” Cyborg said as he hugged her softly letting her cry. “I just can’t get over it, I can’t.” she sobbed. “Shh-Shh… easy girl.” said Cyborg “You gotta think of the baby.”

Robin gave Terra a cup of water, which she sipped all the way down. “I didn’t think it was possible to feel this haunted in my life.” she said “And I can’t believe you guys actually took me in again.”

Starfire smiled at her “We would gladly have taken you back from the moment you had returned. You had no need to feel frightened.”

The others nodded, even Raven did, though she still had initial doubts about Terra given her history, but she could see now that Terra was just as lost and as alone as ever; she knew the feeling… sometimes.

Terra smiled sadly at everyone.

“Get some sleep…” Robin said “Things will be a little better in the morning.”

Terra sighed as she lay down, “Well, Beast Boy’s still going to be dead in the morning, and nothing can change that.”

Raven sighed, “Can’t say we didn’t try.” she grumbled to herself

As Terra turned over to fall back asleep, she faced the large window in her room which over looked the city across the water… and she suddenly saw something fly past her window.

“Huh?” she cried as she bolted upright in bed.

“What? What is it?” asked Robin.

“I thought I saw…” she looked out “Never mind…” and she yawned and finally dozed off to sleep.

“Poor girl…” Cyborg whispered. The others felt really bad for her too, but all they could really do was continue to care for her and the baby.

Nevertheless, they all headed back to bed…

…while at the same time, what Terra saw was still out there circling the tower, and then it flew over the city and levitated in midair.

The creature sighed, “I guess I might as well head back.”

With that, he clapped his hands together and waved them out in front creating a small dark vortex, and he flew through it; flying through a dark gap in dimensions, surrounding by dark swirling colors and flashes of red and white lightning streaks

Then he emerged in a stark dark place where it was as dark as night, darker even. The skies were all covered with thick dark clouds, with hints of dark purple streaks. The lands were all dark, long and practically endless. All ways there was darkness and more darkness. The grounds were dry and covered with dark purple and grey sand, and no vegetation or plant life whatsoever. There were large mountains in the distances, and soft yet eerie winds whistling around.

The creature turned out to be Beast Boy, or rather a dark version of himself. His skin was a very dark shade of grey. He wore a black outfit with a hint of silvery glitter twinkling all over it. Over his face he wore a soft black mask that resembled Robin’s mask, but much bigger and covered more of his face than just round the eyes. The eye parts themselves were also black and shiny rather than white and clear. Large black lines marked down his face from his mask to his jaw line, and behind him were large black angel-like wings that doubled as a cape now that he was walking again.

He hung his head low feeling rather shameful or sorry, but then he walked along the darkness, seemingly to nowhere, and he ran into three more creatures like himself.

Nobunaga…

Davis…

…and Spike

All of them looked exactly the same as he did, all dark, wearing black; marks on their faces, their wings were their capes. Only Nobunaga’s skin tone seemed much darker than any of the others.

Beast Boy opened his mouth to speak, and he spoke in that hissing windy sound. The subtitled read… “How did your patrols go?”

Nobunaga replied, “Much has changed over the past five-hundred years in my Dimension.”

Davis spoke, but in plain English, “Guys, we’re home now, we can talk normally.”

Spike sighed “Thank goodness. I still can’t seem to get a hang of this language.”

“Hey, you’ll learn it in time.” said Beast Boy “That’s all any of us seem to have in this shithole of a Dark Zone.”

“Please…” Nobunaga said “I wish you would refrain from using such foul language.”

Davis sighed “Look, Nob…”

“…Nobunaga!”

“Whatever. You may have been here longer, but the three of us are still noobs. Let it sink in.”

Suddenly, another creature approached them from behind Spike. “Whoa!” Spike cried. This creature just like they were; only his skin was completely black. He had no facial features-- no visible nose, mouth, ears-- almost as if he were wearing a complete black spandex suit.

However, he wore a red sash, and matching shoulder pads and belt. “Our lord wishes to see the four of you, immediately.”

The sentry left, and the quartet made their way across the dark lands passing over many, many creatures like themselves. All of which were male, and all of which looked the same as the sentry did-- all dark, with no facial features.

They all looked ordinary humanoid like; same height, same shape… nothing that special or different. Some were even returning through portals like Beast Boy did while others were leaving for different dimensions planning to return later.

“So that’s what I’ll look like someday.” Spike said to himself “Well, at least I’ll be taller.”

Soon they had arrived in a large vacant are of the dark lands, and they all bowed on the ground before someone who was out of view, and could not be seen from where they were seen.

He spoke in a deep yet soft voice, almost as if he were saddened, “I have called the four of you here out of concern. You seem to forget that while you are sent to observe your specific worlds, you are not restricted to simply one place.

Nobunaga, you might have learned this long ago, but your comrades are still new.”

Nobunaga bowed “My lord, they simply are adjusting. You said the many before us had time to understand and accept.”

“So I did…” replied The Lord “I understand this is difficult for you all, but you must understand this is what you are now.”

“We get all that…” said Spike “But, it’s just so hard. Besides, I don’t get what the big deal is. Nobody can see or hear us anyway, and all we’re really doing is just looking at everyone… preferably our old friends.”

Beast Boy scoffed “Yeah, the mother (Bleepers) that are responsible for us being here to begin with and now here we are forced to watch over them and absorb crap so they don’t get shit on.”

“That will do…” snapped The Lord “Listen carefully… Since the beginning of time there has been much seen, much done, and this cycle will continue for all of eternity, but there is one thing that remains the same in any world of any kind: anything is possible.”

The boys all looked deeply taken in by what he said.

“Go with care, Dark Angels, and remember: This is your domain.”

He said no more, and the boys took their leave.

“I can’t help but feel sorry for him.” said Nobunaga Beast Boy “He’s had it way worse than any of us ever did.”

“At least I actually got laid before I got here.” said Beast Boy.

“Lucky you…” grumbled Davis.

“No, unlucky me!” said Beast Boy “That bitch lied to me and to others, landed me in the nuthouse… well, you already know.”

“Well, there’s not much we can do about that.” said Spike “I’m going to head for Equestria for a bit. I’ll catch up you guys later.”

“Take it easy, Spike.” said Davis.

Spike then left through a portal he conjured and was gone.

The other three sighed, and all they could do was sit and shut their eyes in extremely long meditation. There was literally nothing much else to do due to their practically being nothing at all in these lands, and being dead, they didn’t need to eat or sleep, and had not much use for most things.

This was what they were, now and forever!

As for Spike, he was doing exactly what his chums did, flying about his former world, unseen and unheard by practically everyone. He could fly through the thickets of walls, nothing could harm him. He especially loved the fact that he could fly now…

…And yet all he could do was observe every pony and every other creature going about in their daily life. They all seemed to be going along happier in the past few months.

Spike could only sigh, “Reminds me of how things used to be.”

He looked way over and could see the memorial statue of him in town square. It had loads of flowers and wreaths around its base. Many of which were old and withered away, but some were freshly laid there.

Spike clenched his fist in a mix of sadness and anger. It hurt him so much to remember how all this happened.

“Hey, you there!” someone called. He saw a pony seemingly looking his way. “…You in the black.”

Spike gasped and felt he had been seen, only for the pony to run up to him, and pass right through him, and dashing up to another pony that was wearing a black leather jacket.

Spike felt really silly.

“Where’d you get that jacket? I want one.”

“I got it from Carousel Boutique. Rarity’s started a whole new line up of leather clothing.”

“Rarity…” Spike thought softly. He had seen her a lot on his observational patrols, and checked up on every one of his friends as well now and then. “I might as well see what’s going on.”

Pinkie Pie’s place was the closest, and he saw her playing with the Cake babies while the parents were loading another wagon of goodies for a party they were catering. They all looked so happy, and yet it reminded Spike of when he messed up trying to help them.

Then he looked up and saw Rainbow Dash helping the other pegasi move the clouds away for a particularly beautiful day. “That’s right… let the sun shine through.” Rainbow called.

The sun shone brighter than ever. The light didn’t seem to bother Spike at all because couldn’t feel it at all.

He sighed, and flew straight past Rainbow on his way. “Brr-rrr-rr…!” Rainbow shivered “Is it getting cold or is it me?”

As Spike flew along his way he saw Fluttershy tending to her animals without trouble, and Applejack came along with fresh wagon of apples she was delivering to the market.

“Howdy Fluttershy.”

“Hello Applejack.”

The girls both seemed happened and just went along with their respective businesses. Spike was somewhat glad they were happy, but rather upset remembering their little falling outs as well.

Then he moved on to The Castle of Friendship. “Oh, boy…!” Spike sighed. It really hurt him deeply coming to his former home, but he had his orders and knew his purpose being in that world.

He flew right up to the castle, passing right through the solid crystal walls. The first thing he did was look around the place, taking a moment to reflect that he lived here once.

Twilight then came into the map room levitating a checklist and quill in front of her face. She was followed by Starlight who was levitating a whole stack of books behind her. “That’s all of them… I think.”

Twilight checked the list, “Yep. That’s all the books we’re going to donate. In fact… we’re all done with the list in record time.”

Starlight placed the books down on the table for them to look through as they loaded into a burlap sack to take with them into town.

Suddenly, Twilight stopped on one particular Daring Do story: “Daring Do and the Mythical Dragon.” And she looked very sad “This was a book I read to Spike when he was just a hatchling.”

“Oh, Twilight...” cried Starlight and the girls began to have a small sad moment again. Even after three months they still hadn’t gotten over Spike’s mysterious death, and they missed him dearly.

Spike saw the whole thing, and he felt pretty upset himself. “They really do miss me.” he said to himself, but he shook himself into reality. They couldn’t see him and that was that.

He just flew off, out through the walls again.

He clasped his head softly still feeling that bit of remorse creeping up on him, and he still had one other friend to check up on, so he flew off towards Rarity’s place, but suddenly he stopped and looked down by the statue of him in town square, and there she was leaving a fresh set of flowers by the statue.

He couldn’t help but fly in closer, hovering up a little back behind her.

She just stood there having placed the flowers down and looked sadly at the statue. “I miss you, Spikey Wikey.” she cried softly. A single tear fell from her eye.

Spike clenched his fists tightly. He decided to leave before he saw anything else that would break his… or would have broken his heart, and he fluttered off into the sky.

Rarity turned round and wiped her eyes, while looking up at the sky. “Huh…?” she cried as she swore she could see an unusual creature soaring up through the clouds. “What is that?”

The creature had flown much too high for her to see, but she was certain she saw it.

Spike flew high up, and his Dark Angel form was glowing pulsating with more darkness than ever. “Guess I’m full. I might as well head back to Dark Zone. I’ve done my good deed.” He took a moment to look down at the world below, “At least they don’t have to suffer as much now.” and he vanished through a portal and was gone.

While down below, Rarity was walking around still looking up in the sky. “I’m positive I saw…” she kept saying to herself. Then suddenly, not looking where she was going, she bumped right into Applejack.

“Watch it!” Applejack groaned “I don’t need another shipment of apples ruined.”

“Oh, forgive me, Applejack.” and she told her about the creature she swore she saw. Applejack dismissed it, “I think you’re just seein’ things cuz’ you miss Spike.”

Rarity sighed “I guess you could be right.” and she turned to walk sadly home, much to Applejack’s concern “Poor girl, she just ain’t gettin’ over it.” Then again she herself hadn’t gotten over it either. She had her moments to think of Spike, but just didn’t let it rule over her and wanted to move on in life.

All she could do was give the others their space when they felt down and hope they’d come around.

Three more months later…

Kagome was preparing to head to the Feudal Era and was just checking to see she had packed everything she needed. “I think that’s all of it. Thanks for helping me, Sota.”

Her brother smiled at her, “I wish I could come with you.”

Kagome patted her brother’s head “Sorry, Sota. You know not just anyone can pass through the well. Besides, I think it’s a little too dangerous for you.”

Their mother came in and reminded Sota “And don’t you have a spelling test today, and you’re going to meet Hitomi at the animal shelter.”

Sota blushed at the mention of his girlfriend “Yeah, I remember. Okay, I’m going. Good luck, Sis.”

Then he was off to school.

At the same time, in the Digital World, Izzy was psyched, “The solar eclipse is going to happen today. The Digital Gate will open like it first did for us that time at summer camp.”

“Focus, Izzy!” said Mimi “We’re here to talk about Kari.”

Izzy remembered and shut his laptop.

All the other Digi-Destined except for Kari and TK were gathered in a Digital Park and all their respective Digimon were there too.

“Kari’s been getting way worse.” said Tai.

“Tell me about it.” said Matt “She and TK haven’t gone out in months, and whenever he tries to talk with her she gets all hyper-active.”

He recalled what TK had said that Kari had been saying to him…

“I just don’t feel like going out.”

“Studying for the test isn’t going to make things better!”

One time she was shouting hysterically and in tears, “WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE!! DAVIS GONE… I’LL NEVER SEE GATOMON OR THE DIGITAL WORLD EVER AGAIN!!”

Agumon was horrified to hear that, “Wow! She’s really taken this a lot worse than we thought.”

“Isn’t there anything you can do for her?” asked Gabumon.

Tai honestly couldn’t answer that, “It’s worse than you think. Kari’s been claiming to actually see Davis.”

“Still…?” asked Sora “That’s not possible.”

“Maybe…” agreed Biyomon “Or… Maybe she sees something the rest of us can’t?”

No one said a thing believing that was possible. “I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I hope that is the case.” said Tai “My mom’s been talking, and she thinks Kari may need professional help.”

Gommamon gulped hard, “You… you don’t mean…?”

Tai clenched his fists hard and tried to fight his tears coming, “I don’t want that, but there may not be any other way.”

“He’s right…” said Joe “I’ve studied forms of psychosis, and believe me, if Kari doesn’t show any improvement, this just may be the only option for her.”

Palemon shuddered “They can’t do that to her! They mustn’t!”

Mimi felt the same way. “I wish Gennai hadn’t taken away Gatomon and Patamon.”

Everyone wished that, but Gennai’s decision came from the four guardians. “They’re banned for life and that’s that.” said Cody “Frankly, I can’t say I blame them.”

The others practically agreed, the way Kari and TK behaved was beyond words of horrid, whether the deaths were accidental or not.

“I wonder how Kari and TK are handling things now?” wondered Hawkmon.

It was Saturday, and Kari was walking in the streets with the same downer expression on her face. The months had been grueling to her. No matter how hard she tried she just couldn’t seem to get over things and move on with her life.

She was doing horribly in school that she was on the verge of either having to attend summer school or repeat Grade 11 altogether.

“Kari…” TK called as he jogged up to her.

“Not now, TK.” she groaned.

“Yes, now!” he said firmly to her “Your mom talked with my mom, they’re saying I shouldn’t see you anymore.”

Kari’s heart skipped a beat, “What?!” she snapped.

“Well, think about it…” said TK “You’ve hardly been speaking to me, you’ve been moping around so much, and our last date was months ago. Kari, I’m worried about you-- about us.”

Kari was aware of this herself, but she still couldn’t seem to rid herself of the darkness that plagued her. “Maybe it’s for the best then.”

“What?”

“All our dating has done is cause nothing but trouble, TK. I never thought it could but it has.”

“Kari, that’s ridiculous.” protested TK, “Normally I don’t like to argue with you, but it wasn’t your fault or mine. Davis just couldn’t accept that you chose me. He threw a whinny tantrum, and he tried to make other people miserable when they were only trying to help him.”

Kari’s head was going crazy. In a way, TK was right, but then again it was possible he wasn’t.

Davis’ Dark Angel was right nearby on his bout, “Keep telling yourself that, you little shit.” He grumbled, and then he turned to leave, but Kari looked up and saw him, “Davis…?”

Davis stopped right where he was “What?”

“Huh?” TK turned round to look by the building.

Kari finally saw him fully in view “Davis!”

“What…?! You can see me?”

Kari couldn’t believe her eyes, “It is you!”

TK was most confused, “Kari, there’s nobody there. Who are you talking to?”

“Davis! It’s Davis!” cried Kari, but when she looked back, he had gone. “Davis…? He was right there. At least it looked like him.”

TK shook his head, “Kari, there’s no one on this side of the street but us. Nobody’s come near here since I came.”

Kari refused to believe that, “I know what I saw, TK. It was Davis, and I can swear I’ve seen him before, now I know it’s true. I’m not crazy!”

For the first time ever, TK wasn’t sure he could believe her; the way she looking at him and panting like she had just run a marathon, “Okay, I think you need a coffee.” He said as he walked her down the street.

As soon as they were gone, Davis-- had melded himself into the solid brick of the building--stuck his head out to see if Kari was gone. “She could see me?” he said to himself “How is that possible? I’m just a shadow.”

In the Titan’s World, the Titan’s had taken Terra out for lunch. Now that she was six months along, and her stomach very bloated, her appetite was rather ravenous, but she was warned by the others not to overdo it.

They all were at the new Pizza Place and sat outside on the new patio, and Terra almost ordered an extra-large with everything on it; even anchovies. “No, no, no…” said Robin “We told you not to give into your cravings.”

“It is not good for you or the child.” agreed Starfire.

“I can’t help it.” said Terra, practically shouting, “I’ve never been so starving in my life!”

“You’ve also never been as loud either.” grumbled Raven.

“Hey, come on. She can’t help it.” said Cyborg “It happens to a woman when she’s pregnant, Just roll with it.”

“I’ll try, but no promises.”

As they all waited for their food, Terra kept stroking her stomach and wondering if the baby would be a boy or a girl. She never had an ultra-sound; the Titans strangely didn’t have the equipment for that.

Then of course, she looked sad again for Beast Boy.

“Uh, on… here she goes again.” Raven muttered.

Terra didn’t say two words, and she didn’t have to, everyone felt the same; that the baby would never know its father.

Robin put his hand on her shoulder, but she knew what he was going to say; that he and the others would be there for her. “We all feel we owe it that much to Beast Boy.” he said to her, and she smiled at him.

Suddenly, “Ooh…” she groaned softly, making the others gawk at her in concern, “It’s just a kick, just a kick. It’s still another two and a half months at the most.”

Soon everyone was eating their lunch, and Terra took it easy of course, not to eat too much.

Suddenly, she looked up, and saw a familiar looking dark creature flying high up over the street. She gaged softly on her soda.

“What’s wrong?” asked Cyborg. “You felt another kick?” added Starfire.

Terra pointed nervously outward “It’s Beast Boy.”

Raven rolled her eyes, “That was my guess.”

“No, look! Look!”

“Don’t bother.” said Raven.

Beast Boy just hovered where he was looking all around. Robin, Starfire, and Cyborg all looked in his direction.

“Do you see him?” cried Terra.

The others turned to look back at him, and shook their heads at her. This was not the first time that Terra had claimed to have seen Beast Boy. “Terra, you’ve got stop thinking you can see him.”

“I’m not pretending; I HAVE seen him. I DO see him. He’s right there!”

She saw Beast Boy take off into the skies, going higher and higher until he was out of sight. “No! He’s gone again!”

The Titans all sighed.

…That’s when alarms sounded from a jewelry store across the street.

“Raven, stay here and keep any eye on Terra.” said Robin.

“Okay.” Raven agreed. She knew that Terra was in no condition for heroics or actions.

A gaggle of thieves all dressed in black suits complete with ski-masks exited the jewellery store with bags full of stolen goods, just as the police surrounded the area.

“Drop the bags and get your hands up!” shouted the Captain, to which the thieves simply threw several grenades at the cars, forcing the cops to run.

POW!! The bombs exploded, destroying the cars and even blasted some of the over onto their sides.

“Let’s get out of here!” one of the thieves called as he and his team made a break for an armored truck, which belonged to them, only to run into the trio of Titans, “That’s as far as you go, buckos.” said Cyborg. “Hand over those jewels!” demanded Robin.

“Make us Teen Tits!” one of the thieves mocked, and he threw a powerful smoke bomb at the heroes, making black clouds appear all over the area.

“Don’t let them get away!” shouted Robin.

Starfire flew up high out of the smoke, and saw the thieves making a break for their truck, to which she began firing her star-bolts around them, breaking some of the bags open and causing loads of jewels and goods to fall out.

“Our score…!”

“Never mind…! Let’s split!”

Robin and Cyborg came leaping out through the fading smog, and Cyborg, with Star’s help, pushed the huge truck over on its side rendering it useless.

“That’s it!” thundered a thief, and he held up his shotgun, only for it to be knocked out of his hand by Robin’s birdrang. Then Robin himself came in, tackling the punk to the ground.

Starfire and Cyborg helped apprehend the remaining thugs, and strip them of their weapons and stolen loot.

“Give me that!” snarled Cyborg as he wrenched a bag from one of the goons and tossed it aside. Many of the jewels spilled out all over the road… including a rather large crystal that was shaped like a sun with a carving of a unicorn on it!

As the battle continued, the sun shone deeply on the crystal, and it began to glow, which no one noticed at first.

While all this was happening, Beast Boy was hovering high above overlooking the city, “Time to absorb, and then head back.” he said to himself, and he stuck out his arms and began glowing with a dark aura… just like Spike did.

Down below, Terra could only watch as the trio apprehended the thieves across the street, while Raven’s nose was buried in her book.

Seeing the Titans in action really brought back memories to Terra, and rounding up bad guys was rather fun, but she knew she couldn’t go out there while pregnant. However, she did notice from atop the roof of the jewelry store, there was one thief the team hadn’t accounted, aiming a bazooka down below.

“Look!” she cried to Raven. Raven looked up and saw the thief, and there was no time to warn the others to get out of the way. “Stay here!” she cautioned Terra as she folded her hood on “I got this.”

Then she flew across the street and aimed directly at the thief on the roof, “Azarath… Metrion… ZINTHOS!!” She unleashed a wave of energy for the thief. “Whoa!” he cried as he saw the power heading straight for him, causing to drop his bazooka in fright, down to the ground.

Suddenly, the magic curved and sailed upward. “It’s veering away!” cried Raven.

Beast Boy was still absorbing way above, when suddenly he looked down at the magic heading straight for him. “Whoa!” he groaned as he absorbed the power. “This is Raven’s power!

What the Hell’s going on down there?”

He soared down closer, and closer towards the scene of the action, just in time to see the police apprehending all the thieves thanks to the Titans.

Raven looked up, and she gasped and removed her hood. “Beast Boy…?”

Terra could see him from the patio too.

“Raven…!” Robin called as he and the others rushed over to her, but she didn’t even turn to look at them, and watched as Beast Boy flew back up into the sky and vanished through a dark portal.

“Friend, Raven, what is wrong?” asked Starfire.

“You look like you saw a ghost.” said Cyborg.

Raven hesitated and finally answered, “I saw him… with my own eyes. It was Beast Boy!”

The trio looked concerned. “You have seen Beast Boy?” asked Starfire. “Well… it looked like him. He looked like so kind of… angel.”

The Titans wanted to question her more about it, but they all decided to help pick up all the jewels that were spilt all over the road and get them back inside the store.

It didn’t take too long thanks to Raven’s telekinetic force. She even picked up the large crystal with the unicorn on it, which was no longer glowing, but still no one noticed it.

“Thank goodness you saved this.” said the storekeeper “It’s the rarest and prettiest gem ever found on Earth. No one knows who carved it and when. We were going to put it on display when those goons burst in here.”

“It is ever so beautiful.” said Starfire.

“Beautiful or not, we better get going.” said Cyborg, and they all left the store making their way back to the pizza place and Terra.

The shopkeeper then put the large crustal on a display pillow in the store window and left it there for all to see. The second his back was turned, however, the crystal started glowing again thanks to sunlight it had absorbed.

That night, the Titans sat down in the lounge with Terra.

“I’m sorry I didn’t believe you.” Raven said.

Terra smiled, but the others were confused. “You both saw Beast Boy?” asked Robin “And looked like some kind of Dark Angel?”

“That’s what I’ve been telling you all for months.” said Terra “He just flew by my window, or anywhere that I saw him, and then just disappeared.”

“I saw him…” said Raven “It must’ve been him that veered my power off, like he absorbed it. Then he was gone.”

The others fond this odd, that Raven and Terra saw Beast Boy and they didn’t; even when they looked exactly where Terra pointed each time, they saw nothing but clear air.

“I think we-- or rather you two,” said Cyborg “…Should watch out if you see him again. I think we need to do a little experiment.”

The others all agreed, and Terra felt rather anxious, “Beast Boy…”

While in Equestria, the full moon was rising into the sky…

In spite of the sadness of missing Spike, the ponies did do their best to carry on, especially considering a great event coming up.

Flurry Heart was almost six months old, and Twilight, Shining Armor and Cadance agreed to hold a small party for her at Twilight’s place. Even Princesses Luna and Celestia were invited, as they were part of the family.

The reason they were holding this small party was to get away from all the hustle and bustle most ponies would be giving, as well as to avoid having a great big gala or something like that. This way everyone would be able to have a more fun and enjoyable party, especially for little Flurry who wasn’t use to big crowds all the time.

“I don’t get why we’re decorating tonight…” said Starlight “Flurry’s half-birthday isn’t until tomorrow.”

“I just want everything to be nice and setup.” replied Twilight “All our friends are coming over tonight to help with the decorations, and for a sleepover.” She felt giddy with excitement, “I haven’t had a slumber party since long ago when I lived at Golden Oaks Library, and this time it’ll be fantastic with all our friends, even the Princesses.”

“What about your parents? Their Flurry’s grand-folks, won’t they be coming?”

“Not until tomorrow morning. The latest train they could get from Canterlot to Ponyville doesn’t leave until late. It’s how they prefer to travel.”

Starlight wasn’t one to argue, and so they continued to decorate, and soon the other guests had arrived.

“PARTY TIME!!” hollered Pinkie Pie.

“Easy there, Sugar Cube.” said Applejack.

“Yeah, wait for the guests of honor to actually arrive first.” added Rainbow Dash.

Twilight and Starlight welcomed their guests in, “Where’s Rarity?” asked Starlight.

“She wanted to stop over at Spike’s memorial statue again.” replied Fluttershy “The poor thing.”

A moment of silence fell upon the group, as they all took that time to remember Spike. “I guess not all of us are here after all.” Twilight said to herself.

Suddenly, there was a bright flash of light emitting from a window, and the two royal sisters appeared. “Greetings, every pony.” said Celestia, and everyone else bowed to the princesses.

Luna noticed the rather sad expressions on their faces, “Have we come at a bad time?”

“Oh, no, no…” Twilight assured them “It’s just… well… we were…”

“Remembering Spike?” asked Celestia “We understand how you all must feel. We ourselves feel no different. There’s nothing more tragic than losing a friend or loved on.”

Luna agreed, “However, life will continue for us, and we must be brave.”

The others all agreed, and so they got back to work with the sisters’ help. Soon, the entire room was fully decorated, and no sooner did the guests of honor arrive-- Shining Armor, Princess Cadance and Flurry Heart.

Twilight hugged her brother and her sister-in-law lovingly, and then cuddled with her little niece. “Aw, who’s almost a big filly now.” she cooed at the baby.

Shining Armor pretended to be Flurry’s voice answering, “I am almost a big fiwwy now auntie twiwight.”

Cadance and Twilight giggled.

“Where’s Rarity?” asked Cadance.

“Here-Here-Here…” Rarity called as she entered “So sorry I’m late, I was… well… a little busy.”

Everyone thought it best not to mention Spike, knowing she had taken it the hardest out of any of them.

Suddenly, as the full shone brightly onto the castle, there was a bright light flashing from one of the rooms, and making strong winds bellow through the castle.

“What’s happening?” cried Starlight.

Flurry Heart began to cry in the scary stress. “Oh, easy, honey!” Cadance said as she rocked her daughter carefully.

Even still, everyone had to see what was going on, and headed down the halls following the force of the energy. “Look…!” cried Applejack pointing at a doorway that was wobbling violently with flashes of light.

“It’s coming from the Crystal Mirror chamber.” cried Twilight. She used her magic to quickly open the doors, and everyone could see into the room… the mirror gateway was going crazy! It was glowing and sparking like malfunctioning robot.

In the Dark Zone, the dark skies began to go crazy worrying the dark angels.

“What is that?”

“Something’s happening?!”

The Lord whom was still unseen could feel the disturbance, “The dimensional barriers between worlds are being compromised by a strange force! We must not allow any outside to enter into our world.

Dark Angels… my children, band together with me and protect our domicile.”

Everywhere across the endless void of the Dark Zone, all the dark angels agreed, and held their arms up high. All at once, the angels were bathed in waves of dark aura, which they unleashed way up into the darks skies, strengthening the Dark Zone and steadying out the stress to keep their world safe and undetected from forces not of their own kind!

“That’ll keep them out.”

“Thank the bleakness.”

Even the lord was pleased, “We must not allow outsiders to know of our existence.”

Davis and the other guys on his team regrouped, “I’ve been seen!” Davis cried.

“Say what?!” snapped Beast Boy.

“How’s that possible?” wondered Spike.

Nobunaga had a fearful look on his face, “The Lord shall not be happy to hear this.”

Kagome was ready to jump into the well and head for the Feudal Era, “Here goes…”

The Solar Eclipse was beginning in the Digi Destined’s world, just as the gang were planning to head back to the Real World from the Digital World. “Prepare for Digi-Port Warp.” said Tai.

In the jewellery shop, in the Titan’s World, was closed, but that strange sun crystal began to glow brightly as the full moon shone on it through the window.

While back in Twilight’s Castle, the Mirror Gate was still going berserk.

“What’s wrong with it?” asked Rainbow “It looks like it’s going to blow.”

“Okay, that doesn’t seem like any fun.” cried Pinkie.

Twilight managed to get to the gate’s control console and tried everything she could. “I can’t stop it! The power levels are overloading! It’s like the gate has a mind of its own.”

Celestia suddenly remembered, “Of course…!” and she looked out the window to see the full moon shining full-blast onto the mirror. “Every thirty moons the magical gate opens by itself in the light of the full moon.”

Right there, everyone noted the problem: Because Twilight had altered the gateway so she could open it whenever she needed to, obviously her one blind spot was how the gate would react to opening automatically with all the systems and magical qualities projected into it.

The gate growing more and more unstable by the second, and now it was shooting out wads of energy all over the place.

“EVERY PONY OUT!!” shouted Twilight, but it was too late!

Kagome jumped into the well, passing through the dimensional time warp…

“Digi-Port Open!” shouted Tai as he, the other humans and all their Digimon warped to the real world.

The sun crystal in the jewelry store was glowing brighter than ever, and flickering with sparks of energy!

All at the same moment, the mirror shined brightly and fired a blast of power at the entire gang of ponies, sucking them all into the glass.

All of them fell through an unusual vortex—not like the kind that took Twilight to Canterlot High-- “The portals malfunctioned!” she screamed. “Ya think?!!” called Applejack.

In the midst of the tumbled and turning about, Cadance lost Flurry out of her grip! “FLURRY HEART!!” she screamed, and tried to rush after her baby, “CADANCE…!!” Shining Armor called to his wife.

“SISTER…!!” Luna called to Celestia, and the two found themselves being pulled further away from one another.

The ponies were all throwing in groups of four…

-Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Cadance, Luna.

-Twilight, Fluttershy, Shining Armor, Starlight.

-Applejack, Pinkie Pie Flurry Heart, Celestia.

WHAMM!!! The three groups all disappeared in bright flashes into the warp.