“And there, that should do for now.” Silver patted down the huge bandaid she had put on her knee. “It didn’t hurt all that bad, but thanks for taking me here, Home Run.”

“Anytime,” the boy chuckled. “You’re Moonglade’s sister anyway. I owe it to her to watch after her twin sister, hmm?”

“Heheh… yeah…” Silver made a thin smile and looked away. “Well, now that it’s all taken care of, we should go to the gym. I wonder what they’re up to now.”

“And hopefully we’re not going to have anymore magical disturbances, huh?” Home Run held the door open for her. “We need to watch out for your Twilight’s pendant.”

“Yes we do…” Silver skipped out the door. “I’ve seen her tinkering with that thing a whole lot, but I didn’t know what it did until today. What a device. It absorbs magic? I mean, how would she even know what magic is? Why is there even magic? How is there magic?”

“Long story, Silver Rose.” Home Run walked alongside her as they made for the gym. “Much too long to tell right now. Umm… a few of the girls have magic from some event a while back. I wasn’t here then. Did Moonglade tell you? I’ve only just transferred over to Canterlot not even half a year ago. My dad got transferred here. Oh, he’s a bus driver for your school, did you know that?”

“I knew it!” Silver pumped a fist down. “I thought he looked like you. I mean, uh, from photos my sister has shown me of you.”

“Yeah. My old principal, Principal Frost, he wanted me to go to CHS, because it has a better environment. Looking at your school, I think he was right. Uh, no offense.”

“Don’t worry, I feel the same way…”

Silver wished her mother had sent her to Canterlot High instead. The students seemed friendlier and more outgoing, with far less competition, though this Friendship Games was getting everyone quite worked up. It would definitely be a better place to find love to eat.

When they got to the gym, Silver found the students had segregated themselves to separate sides of the place again. With a farewell, she left Home Run and went to the side her schoolmates were waiting at.

“What’s the situation?” Silver asked Fleur, who was talking to Royal Pin.

“Oh, there you are,” Fleur said in relief. “When we couldn’t find you, we thought you had fallen prey to those plants.”

“It’ll take more than a bit of shrubbery to do me in,” Silver laughed. “I have to say though, I don’t think those were on the program for the Games.”

“Certainly not.” Royal Pin looked to the stage where their four principals were standing. “I believe Principal Cinch is accusing Canterlot High of cheating, though I wouldn’t put it past them. Did you see that rainbow one? She flew.”

“I saw that,” Silver nodded, unsure of what to think. She’d never seen wings on a human before. “Though to be fair, the plant was our fault. That thing only appeared because of Twilight Sparkle’s little device.”

“Yes, but that device only activated because of Canterlot High’s magic,” Royal Pin argued, putting his hands on his blazer. “If they didn’t have such material, we wouldn’t have lost the last round.”

“Come on, you can’t blame them for this.” Silver watched Royal Pin’s and Fleur’s faces. How in the world did the word ‘magic’ become such a normal thing to say? The real questions they should be asking were, ‘How do they even have magic’, and ‘Am I dreaming’. “They wouldn’t have known that Twilight would have such a device.”

“I still think Canterlot High is responsible…” Fleur looked over to the other side where the CHS students were standing.

The sirens were by the corner as usual, looking more irritated than ever. Hopefully they were okay during the relay.

Silver wanted to go over and talk to them, but then Dean Cadance had tapped on the mic a few times to get their attention.

“Attention, students!” she said. “Now that everyone has been accounted for, we apologize for the strange occurrences that happened during the tricross relay. Principal Celestia assures us that there was no danger to anyone, and that it will not happen again.”

“I doubt that.” Fleur folded her arms.

“Now to move on to the next event,” the dean continued. “Please move out to the front of the school for the final event!”

“Well whoop dee doo,” Royal Pin grumbled. “There better not be any more of the flying around in this last one. That’s blatantly cheating.”

Does no one question the magic?

Silver followed the crowds out of the gym doors, getting pushed one from behind as a big burly boy pushed out of the exit. He was at least triple her size and he didn’t look like any high school student.

“How rude…” Silver frowned at his retreating shape. Her rising ire caused her fangs to poke out a tiny bit, but she mastered herself and forced them back up.

As she stepped outside, Silver noticed that the previously sunny day had sunken into an overcast state, grey clouds covering the sky and giving the school an unhealthy pallor.

“Hopefully it doesn’t rain.” Fleur gave her soft pink hair a flick. “Rainwater is bad for my hair.”

“Doesn’t look much like rain,” Quillion said, looking up. “Wind’s moving too fast for that.”

“Just to set the scene for our final round, huh? Well, let’s see what’s going to happen here.”

There were four sets of stands positioned outside the front of the school, two of the left side of the building and the other two on the right, facing each other, giving both sides a good view of the Wondercolts statue. Banners of both school’s teams were hung down from the school building, letting Silver know which side to go to.

For some reason, looking at the statue gave Silver an odd feeling, as if something inside her was reacting. A moment later, the flicker of disquiet passed, and she focused on finding a seat next to Canvas.

She soon found her artistic friend, sitting on the front row, fiddling with her camera.

“Hey, Canvas.” Silver waved when she sat down. “How’s it going?”

“Silver!” Canvas wrapped her in a one armed hug. “I haven’t seen you since the first event! Things have been okay. I’ve been by myself, just taking photos. I took some of those maneating plants. Wanna see?”

She scrolled through her photos until they arrived at the tricross relay, where she had pretty decent images of the plants. One picture was of Indigo Zap riding off one of the plants’ heads.

“So they were real, were they?” Silver mused at the photographic evidence. “Keep a backup of these,” she instructed. “They might come in useful later.”

“Sure!” Canvas smiled happily. “I was planning on keeping them anyway. I mean, not everyday you see a maneating plant, huh?”

“Yeah…” Silver sighed, leaning against the side of the stand. “Everyone’s taking this way too well.”

The Friendship Games competitors had gathered in between their respective stands, facing the other team. Sunny and the others looked at Canterlot High’s side with varying levels of irritation and superiority. Silver was getting tired of inhaling the same flavor all day. At least Home Run tasted better, with what little time she had with him. Wasn’t someone else going to feel something different? She would almost settle for Cinch at this rate. Almost. But then she remembered getting sick from it and she changed her mind.

“One more round, huh?” Silver watched the competitors glare at each other, the wind whipping at their hair. “Well, I hope we win.”

She spent the next few minutes scrolling through her phone, seeing if she had any messages she might’ve missed all day. She actually had some, one from her aunt and another from Home Run.

The one from her aunt read, Hey sweetie how goes the games? Is your school winning?

Silver typed back a short summary on everything that had happened today, but for the magic absorbing device, she only mentioned it briefly, telling her aunt that she would explain it more in detail when she got back home.

Then she looked over at the one Home Run had sent and couldn’t help but smile.

Hi Moonglade. Met ur sister today. Shes real cool. The games are going fine if u want a note on it. There were some weird things that happened today like maneating plants but we settled it fine. She hurt her knee but she said itll be ok. Hope to c u soon!

Such a cute boy… Silver read the message again. Then she typed a quick reply, ending it with a few hearts. She held the phone to her chest, imagining it was Home Run and that she was Moonglade. If only mother hadn’t made me make a new persona. Perhaps I could be with Home Run right this moment...

“I know I’m asking you to beat a team that isn’t playing fair,” Silver’s ears pricked up. It seemed that Crystal Prep’s principal was giving her team a talk. Looking down, she found them huddled around her, listening intently. “But Canterlot High must be made to understand that even with magic at their disposal, beating Crystal Prep is simply not an option.”

Hm. Now what have you got to say, you old hagfish?

“What if they grow wings again?” Sugarcoat asked bluntly.

Silver liked how they were talking about it like they saw it everyday. It was just amazing how fast these students accepted magic. She herself was still coming to terms with it, and she herself was a magical creature. Sort of. Maybe not magical exactly, but she was at least supernatural. Half supernatural. It didn’t matter.

“A fair question,” the old hagfish said. “Though I believe we can now fight fire with fire.”

All their eyes turned to Twilight Sparkle.

Silver’s lip curled in disgust as Cinch’s stink grew stronger. Nothing good was going to come out of this discussion, that she knew.

“I’ve seen what your device can do, Twilight,” Cinch continued. “Containing magical energy is fine, but have you considered releasing it?”

“Did you hear all that Canvas.” Silver nudged her friend. “Things don’t sound like they’re going in a good direction.”

“Yeah, it kinda doesn’t…” Canvas rubbed her chin and watched Cinch.

Twilight looked distressed. Smelled distressed too. “But I don’t even understand how it works!”

“But you’d like to,” Cinch pointed out. “And since our opponents have already used it to stay competitive, I see no reason why we shouldn’t do the same,” a nasty undercurrent entered Cinch’s aura. “Unless of course, you have no interest in Everton. Though honestly, I think there’s more knowledge packed in that little device than any independent study program could offer.”

Silver didn’t think it was a good idea. They shouldn’t be messing with something they had no idea about, and it wasn’t like they already knew what magic was. This was the first day they should’ve seen anything like this.

And then what happened next made Silver slap a hand to her face, making Canvas jump and turn to look at her. Principal Cinch began singing.

“I realize that you’ve always been an outcast. It’s not everyone at school that likes to think.”

That instantly made Silver think about Sunny during the spelling bee again. Sunny was great at all her other subjects. The young changeling still couldn’t understand how she could be so bad at English.

“To find a student that’s like you,” Cinch continued, walking back and forth between Twilight and the other Shadowbolts. “I’ve had one or maybe two, but the good ones disappear before I blink.”

No doubt because you’re insufferable. Silver thought snidely, folding her arms across her chest. An unpleasant taste was starting to rise from Cinch and the Shadowbolts. Oh, no. Please don’t join in, please don’t join in, please don’t-

“Oh, wuh-oh-wuh, oh. Oh, wuh-oh-wuh,” The Shadowbolts chorused.

They joined in. Of course. Silver sighed and covered her face. What was it with their schools and singing? She looked over to Canvas, who was busy checking out a picture on her camera and sketching it out on her sketchbook, even with the sky so dark.

“Now I understand you have your reservations.” The Shadowbolts sang their bit after that before Cinch continued again. “It’s hard to have a brain as large as yours.” And then they added in their ‘oh oh oh’s’.

Silver Rose put her hands to her ears and tried to ignore them. Singing was one thing, but singing about everything was driving her nuts. Even her mother didn’t do that.

“Canvas, why does everyone sing here…?” she groaned into her lap. “Just what is up with that.”

Canvas continued to scroll through the photos on her camera.

“Canvas, are you paying attention?” Silver demanded.

“No,” Canvas replied, not looking up.

“Good,” Silver said, not paying attention either.

The young changeling chose to ignore the rest of her song, doing her best to keep herself occupied. She realized she had never sent Home Run a picture of herself in the hairband he had gotten for her, so she decided to open up her messages. Because she enjoyed admiring herself, she easily found one of Moonglade wearing the hairband, though finding a picture of herself decently clothed proved a little more difficult. She liked to see her curves as well, meaning most of her pictures there were of her dressed in either her underwear or a towel, and there was even one of herself with nothing on, but there was no way she was sending that one.

She eventually found one of herself in Moonglade’s home clothes and chose to send him that one. Attached to the picture, was a simple message to let him know what this was.

Hey Home Run thot i should send u a picture of what ur hairband looks like on me because i dont wear it much outside. How do i look?

When she was done, she kept her phone and looked over to Canterlot High’s stands, searching for Home Run. She spotted him sitting at the last row, just pulling out his phone.

Yes! He’s checking my message!

“Gee, when are we starting?” Canvas looked up from her sketch. Silver looked over. Her friend was drawing a picture of the maneater plants and it looked quite similar, even for a sketch. “Canterlot High’s side looks ready, I don’t know why ours isn’t.”

Silver Rose looked over and saw the Wondercolts already watching them, waiting for Crystal Prep’s Shadowbolts to ready themselves, most likely.

“Come on… just stop singing and let’s get this done…” Silver grumbled, turning her attention back to Principal Cinch’s song.

“What I’m suggesting is very simple, and since it’s win win on all scores,” the wretched woman continued with her lyrics. “You only want to learn of the magic that you have stored, and as for me and all the others, we only want what we deserve…”

“You don’t deserve any of this.” Silver wanted to raise her voice, but she managed to control herself and said it out in a normal voice. The ominous taste was strong in the air now and Silver felt her stomach churn. She had trained hard to not fall prey to the different emotions she had to face, but this one was getting stronger than she had ever felt before.

“That our school will clinch the win and my legacy will endure!” Principal Cinch and the Shadowbolts proclaimed, holding her arms up.

“Why do the rest of you care about her legacy?” Silver groused, wrapping her arms around her stomach. This wasn’t good. If it kept up, she might need to throw up somewhere and she couldn’t afford to be sick now.

“Silver?” Canvas Splash touched her arm. “Are you okay? You don’t look so well. You’re sweating.”

Silver only just noticed the beads of sweat on her forehead and wiped them off. “Just… I don’t know. Maybe it was something from lunch. I’ll be fine.”

“Unleash the magic, free the magic now…” the Shadowbolts sang. “Unleash the magic, free the magic now…”

Twilight also seemed to be singing now, slowly walking toward the center of the field, pendant in hand. “Imagine all I’ll learn by setting it free…”

“Don’t do it, Twilight,” Silver said, mostly for her own benefit, one hand still on her stomach.

“If both teams are ready,” Vice Principal Luna said into a microphone.

“Ooh, is it going to start?” Canvas looked up from her work and closed her sketchbook. “Finally! I thought it wouldn’t be for another hour or something. Sketchy was telling me I should just go home.”

No one seemed to have noticed Twilight, who was still walking and singing. ‘And now winning these games depends on me…”

The bespectacled girl held up her pendant on a palm and pushed something on it; it looked like a button.

“She’s not thinking of doing it is she?” Silver stood up, considering going down there to intervene. She had seen what the device could do. She didn’t want more maneater plants to show up.

The other side seemed to be thinking the same, with Sunset Shimmer stepping forward, her eyes wary as well, watching Twilight Sparkle.

In the background, the Shadowbolts continued to chant, “Unleash the magic, free the magic now…”

“The last event of the Friendship Games begins…!” Dean Cadance added her voice in at the front doors of the school building.

Silver looked back to Twilight who was gazing at her device almost hungrily, then she stretched her arms out and placed one over the device.

“Unleash the magic, free the magic now…”

This won’t end well… Silver suddenly got a chill down her back. That was a bad sign; changeling intuition was rarely ever wrong. She leapt off the stands, landing by the side as both Sunset and Twilight’s purple dog began running for her, trying to stop her.

“Unleash the magic, free the magic…”

“Now!” Dean Cadance, Vice Principal Luna and the Shadowbolts all yelled at once.

Silver would’ve run over to try and stop Twilight as well, but at the same moment, Twilight had opened her device, releasing a pulse of bright magic, knocking the Wondercolts and the Shadowbolts down, before shrinking back into Twilight’s pendant. Without warning, she was lifted up into the air, still holding on to a ball of purple magic as her pendant dropped to the floor.

“Ah crap,” Silver breathed. She would have indulged in some more flavorsome oaths, but what she saw next took her breath away.

The ball began to expand and all the young changeling could do was watch as it began to envelop Twilight, with Principal Cinch and the Shadowbolts backing away from her.

“Help… Meeeeee!” Twilight shrieked to her team, but no one made a move to do anything.

And then she disappeared in the magical ball, only her silhouette still visible from the outside. Silver could only prepare herself for the worst.

And then the ball exploded again, but this time when it cleared, Twilight had changed. She no longer had her school uniform or even her glasses on, but what floated there on huge, falcon-like wings was something that Silver could only describe as both terrifying and enthralling at the same time. She felt her fangs slip into view, but for once she felt no impulse to engage. This was simply too much, and for the first time in her life, Silver felt outclassed.

“If only I had a weapon…” she hissed, stepping behind the stands to observe what might happen next. She didn’t dare interfere in this matter.

She could see and hear Sunset and Twilight talking briefly, then Twilight stretched out her hand and a beam of energy shot forth, striking the rearing horse statue and shattering it. But that was not the worrying part. Where the statue had once been, a purple rimmed hole now swirled, clearly depicting another place entirely.

This is mad. I need help.

Silver Rose whipped out her phone and dialled her aunt. In only a single ring, she picked up.

“Hello, sweetie.”

“Aunt Ivory, I think I need help.”

“Oh? What’s going on?”

“No time to explain,” Silver said as she watched Twilight open more rifts in the air. “I need backup. Bring a big gun or something. There’s a monster tearing the place apart.”

There was silence on the other side for a few seconds. “A-Are you sure, sweetie? And I don’t know if your mother keeps those around here. What’s going on?”

Silver tried to think of what to say, but at that moment, a rift appeared beside her and she quickly stepped away, cursing as she did so.

“Language, young lady!” her aunt said on the other side. “You do not need to taint your mouth with such words!”

“Check the gun cabinet,” Silver said quickly, trying to make herself heard above the screaming. “I know mother keeps a couple of assault rifles in there with attachments. The place is falling apart here!”

“Okay, okay, you sound urgent. I’ll see what I can do and I’ll be right over. Be careful, okay?”

“Sure, thanks, Aunt Ivory!”

Silver hung up and pocketed her phone, then stepped away from more portals as students ran past her.

And I thought the plants were crazy. This is all just absolutely unreal!

Silver spotted Cinch running away from the scene, taking cover behind the other set of seats. She peered out at the destruction with wide eyes, smelling of fear and shame.

Silver smirked at the principal’s plight. Then she edged out into the open, just in time to see a massive hole get blasted in the ground. The hole grew, bits of the floor falling away into the portal.

Students who were unfortunate enough to be standing near the hole when it opened attempted to make a run for it, but a few of them were too slow and fell in. Sunset Shimmer’s friends darted to the rescue.

Silver looked around, but there were no teachers in sight. The road was empty, meaning no backup from her aunt yet. What was she to do?

Just then, there was a rush of wind as Lemon Zest, Sugarcoat, Sour Sweet, Indigo Zap, and Sunny Flare went running past her to grab the students who were slipping into the hole in the floor. Silver would’ve stopped to rub her eyes in disbelief as she watched her friends help Sunset Shimmer’s friends, but with all the rifts appearing all over the place and any wrong move would mean disaster, she let it go for now, instead focusing on the event before her eyes.

She also spotted Home Run, his baseball team and Quillion and the fencing team running around, helping people out of the portals. Jet Set and Upper Crust were also out and about, pulling a girl with blue hair out from a portal.

“Guess I should join in too.” Silver nodded and rushed over, grabbing the hand of a blonde haired girl, channeling her stored away love energy to haul her out with one hand, quickly tossing her to safety before moving on. She hoped they wouldn’t think too much of her increased strength while their lives were on the line.

She had pulled out one of her own schoolmates when she heard a gasp and looked up. On his way from saving another student, the floor below Home Run’s feet cracked and collapsed under him, sending him plunging down.

Silver held her breath for a second, clutching her hands to her chest, but then blew out a sigh of relief when he caught on to the side, dangling down into the portal with only his fingers preventing him from falling through.

“Home Run!” Silver wasted no time and running over, expending some of her love energy to reach him faster. Her teeth were bared in a feral snarl as she leapt the last few meters to Home Run’s position. Her right hand shot out and caught the boy by the wrist just as he lost his grip.

Her body slammed against the ground as she slid to a stop over the portal, her arm holding Home Run dangling down into the large rift, refusing to let go.

“Hold on!” she grunted, forced to use more energy to hold on to him.

“Not gonna let go!” Home Run yelled up, looking down at his feet swinging in the air.

Looking down, Silver Rose could see several houses below, along with colorful horses walking or flying around. She decided there was no way her day was going to get any weirder.

Slowly pushing up to her knees, the young changeling kept one hand on the ground while the other began to lift Home Run, using more love energy to perform the deed.

Come on…! Almost there… Just a little… more!

Silver felt something within her, whether it was a welling of power or not, something seemed to spark inside her, growing warmer. With a quick burst of strength, Silver yanked Home Run up, falling to her back as she pulled with all her might. Home Run flew out of the portal and landed on top of her, his eyes wide with fear and shock. Their chests touched for a few seconds, only a few seconds, but Silver felt as though there was something burning within Home Run’s. It was almost hot to touch.

“Thanks,” Home Run panted, their hands still entwined. Silver smelled gratitude, but he quickly withdrew his hand and got off her, holding the limb with his other hand. “Your hands,” he explained. “They’re really… hot.”

“A-Are they…?” Silver looked at her hands and rubbed them together. He was right. Even though she couldn’t feel heat as well, she felt them radiating warmth. Then she looked back up at Home Run. “They are. And y-you… your chest… it was hot too.”

“It was?” Home Run touched it, immediately withdrawing his hand. “Ouch! I… what is going on?”

Under him, the floor began to crack more.

Silver wasted no time in getting to her feet and grabbing Home Run around the arm, dragging him further away from the rift. She let go as soon as she could, remembering her hands were hot.

“No time to ponder now. We need to get to safety!” She motioned with her head away from the center of the school. “I don’t know what we’re going to do about this.”

“Don’t worry.” Home Run ran along with her to the side. “Sunset and the girls will find a way. They always do.”

“I hope so.” She remembered the tales of the girls she had heard from the sirens, but she couldn’t help but wonder what would happen if they couldn’t do anything about this. Their world might just cease to exist if the rifts kept up their work. Hopefully Aunt Ivory would be here soon to deal with things. Perhaps if the girls couldn’t solve this, maybe guns would.

All the while, she felt her hands grow hotter and hotter, until even she was beginning to feel uncomfortable. She waved them in the air to try and cool them off, but all that accomplished was make tiny plumes of smoke rise from the tips of her fingers.

“Am I… Am I supposed to be feeling this?” Home Run had a hand on his chest again, recoiling at the touch a few times. “I-I’m not feeling so great…” Then a hand went to his mouth and he ran for a bush.

“Ah, hay, sorry, Home Run,” Silver said, and ran over to a small alcove, where she wouldn’t easily be spotted, by either her classmates or whatever Twilight Sparkle had become.

As soon as she made it there, both her hands suddenly erupted into a torrent of green flames, charring the cuffs of her blazer in the process.

“Ah, ah! What?!” The young changeling panicked and flung her hands around, trying to extinguish the flames. It was only after she started thinking about it did she realize there was no pain and she stopped trying to put it out.

The tongues of fire crawled up each finger, lingering at the tips like candles before winking out of existence. A few more moments later, the flames died out completely, revealing that it had burnt away the dye on her hands.

And more importantly, shiny black talons almost three inches long now protruded from the tips of her fingers, each one devilishly sharp and ready for action.

“Wh-what…?” Silver looked at them, bringing them close to her face to get a better look.

She had seen her mother and aunt with claws like this, but she had never been able to do this to any part of her body like they could. Could something in the portal have triggered something within her to do this? Something had certainly changed her biology a little, but right now, the more pressing question was…

“How am I supposed to go out there now?” Silver looked around her alcove, afraid to leave it.

Peeping out from her hiding place, Silver watched as Sunset Shimmer exchanged some more words with Twilight, which were inaudible even with her heightened sense of hearing from the howling sounds coming from the rifts in the air. The smell of fear was rife in the air, and the sounds of students screaming and running around only added to the cacophony that was assaulting Silver’s ears.

To make matters worse, a portal opened up behind her, against the wall of her little alcove, slowly growing bigger, breaking the edges of her reality.

Frantic, Silver looked back outside, hoping for all this to end soon. Sunset Shimmer was now clamped on to Twilight’s device, holding it up in one hand. Whether her eyes were playing tricks on her or not, different colors of light began shining up from her five friends, lancing up into the dark sky like signals. Silver watched as each one began to bend down, flowing into the device and to her amazement, Sunset Shimmer began to levitate as well, facing the flying Twilight.

And then she tossed the device down, creating another bubble of magic which enveloped her. Silver closed her eyes and when she opened them again, there Sunset Shimmer was, in the air on level with Twilight, dressed in a white and pink outfit, with a horn and wings of her own, but made out of light. There was also a strange red line going across her face, making her look a little like a raccoon.

“This really is the weirdest day of my life…” Silver put a claw under her jaw to stop it from dropping, but she stopped when it began to hurt. Those claws were sharp.

Sunset Shimmer held out both hands, blinding beams of light shining forth as she closed up the rifts in the air, leaving only the hole in the ground. Silver looked at the one behind herself, smiling with relief to find it gone as well.

And then the two of them blasted magic from their hands, their attacks meeting in the middle and smashing against each other, fighting to gain the upper hand. Sunset Shimmer had really put on a great display of power, but it seemed like it was only all talk and no show as Twilight’s magic began to push hers back, slowly but steadily.

Silver Rose found herself rooting for Sunset, because if Twilight won, who knew what would happen to the world. “You can do this, Sunset Shimmer! You can do this!”

Just as it looked like Sunset was about to be overwhelmed, the purple dog from before leapt out of Fluttershy’s arms and stared up at Twilight, who seemed to react to it. Apparently this small distraction was able to give Sunset the upper hand and the energy beam battle soon shifted in her favor, overwhelming Twilight and shrouding both combatants in a pillar of brilliant light.

And then there was silence.