Completely unaware of the events that had just happened at the museum, the Titans lay their guest on the sofa, and Raven prepared a cold, damp wash cloth to softly dab the girl with.

Twilight began to awaken, but she still felt really woozy as she looked up and all around her at the strange people looking at her.

“Where am I? What happened?”

Robin answered her softly, “We found you passed out in your rowboat, and we brought you here for safety.”

Twilight then sat upright and remembered trying to row to the island.

“Is this, Titan’s Tower?” she asked “And you’re the “Teen Titans?”

The Titans all exchanged looks of confusion, or pride, but Robin answered “Yes. I’m Robin.”

“I’m Cyborg.”

“…Raven.”

Starfire, being her usual self, approached the girl spouting off, “Hello, I am Starfire.

Who are you?

What is your name?

Are you lost?

Are you alone?

Do you need a friend?

Would you be my friend?”

Twilight felt a bit freaked out by her coming onto her like this, it reminded her so much of Pinkie Pie.

Robin calmed Starfire down an addressed the girl. “We need to know who you are and what you were doing out there on the water at this time of night.”

Raven stepped close to keep psychic contact with Twilight in case she tried to fib her way out of things. So far, she couldn’t sense any ill-intentions.

Twilight sat properly on the sofa and hesitated a moment, “I don’t know if you’re really going to believe any of this, so I’ll try as best I can to explain.”

“We’re listening…” said Cyborg.

Twilight spoke calmly and carefully as she promised…

“My name is Twilight Sparkle. I’m not really a human creature, but a My Little Pony, and I come from a world called “Equestria.” I came here to this world by mistake, and that’s why I came here seeking all of you, because you can help me get back home.”

Just those few words left the Titans astounded, Twilight expected they would and suspected they wouldn’t believe her.

Cyborg scanned her with his wrist-com, and his polygraph readings showed she wasn’t lying, and Raven still couldn’t’ sense any other ill-intentions within.

Still, the Titans could not be fully sure.

“I can prove it.” said Twilight, and she stood before Raven and motioned at her brooch clip, “May I have that please?”

Raven blinked in confusion “What for? It’s just a simple clip I use.”

Twilight insisted, and Raven gave her it to her.

Twilight then told all the Titans to look deeply into the jewel.

The Titans huddled around, and surely enough they could see images of Equestria within the jewel, fully-proving Twilight’s story.

“Incredible!” said Robin.

“It is beyond incredible!” added Starfire.

Raven was beyond words, she never knew her brooch had power like this, especially when Twilight explained about the jewel in her world, the one that was responsible for her being here.

“Wait a minute…” Raven said “I remember during my studies and training in Azarath…”

Her mind flashed back to her childhood and studying ancient artifacts and magical items. One of which was that of a special jewel that was forged thousands of years ago.

“This jewel was enchanted with great power.” Raven explained “It could separate into two equal halves, and when given enough power in the light of a full moon, it could teleport its user to the world in where the other jewel lay.”

Cyborg gawked at Raven’s brooch, “So, it’s like a two-way tunnel that connects our world to Twilight’s world.”

Twilight agreed, but she was surprised to learn all this herself.

She then asked Raven,

“But how did you get half of jewel, and the other half found its way into Equestria?”

Raven had not a clue and could only guess, “I just found the brooch one day, and even in the light of the full moon it never glowed at all.”

Twilight figured it was because of the recent unearthing of the half jewel in her world, “Maybe both the jewels have to be exposed in moonlight, but the half that I have was buried so long…”

She stopped and then said “…The point is, this is my ticket home, and I can’t thank you all enough for this. So I’ll be going now.”

“But wait!” cried Starfire “You cannot simply just leave. There is so much we wish to know about you and your world.”

“Yeah, I mean, what’s it like there?” asked Cyborg “Are there more like you? What kind of powers do you have?”

Even Robin was curious about all this stuff and he couldn’t resist asking, “Maybe… we could go with you? Now that we know how to get there and how to get back, it shouldn’t be too much to ask.”

The more Twilight thought of this, the more she began to share their thoughts. After all, she had just discovered a whole new world, and all of Equestria would want to know about it.

The discoveries, the fascinations, the stories…

She would go down in history as a great pony adventurer.

“Yes!” she decided “I don’t think it would be too much for you to come and visit.”

Starfire leapt with excitement and glee. “I cannot wait to meet all the strange and wonderful creatures, and make new friends as well.”

“Hold it!” Raven said “Um… I hate to spoil everyone’s joy but, doesn’t that thing need moonlight to work?”

Everyone realized, and looked out at the moonless sky.

Cyborg checked his wrist-com, “Ah, man! The next full moon isn’t for several days.”

Everyone looked dismayed, especially Twilight. She was stuck here for now.

Her stomach then rumbled, “Sorry. Right now it would be breakfast time in my world.”

Cyborg offered to fic her up something, and Twilight soon had a little snack feeling better, but she was still very sleepy from being up so long.

The Titans were all feeling tired too.

“I think we should all just go to bed, and figure this out in the morning.” Robin suggested, and he looked at Twilight “You’re more than welcome to stay with us.”

Twilight smiled warmly. It felt so nice to being treated nicely after all the rudeness and bad attitudes she had faced earlier.

“Thank you.”

The Titans all smiled at her.

Then they all adjourned off to bed, escorting Twilight down the hall to the only available room they could give her-- Terra’s old room, which they had kept dusted and made available for guests due to Terra never returning.

“This is our guest room.” said Robin “I hope you’ll be comfortable here…” but when he turned back to face Twilight he saw that she had already fallen onto the bed and was snoring softly as she slept.

Raven used her powers to softly lift Twilight up, and tuck her properly into the bed.

“You know,” whispered Cyborg “I think I’m going to like this little lady.”

The others all agreed, and then they all headed off to bed themselves.

“Wait!” Starfire said, stopping everyone, “We have still forgotten of Beast Boy. Surely he will want to know of all this.”

Everyone looked in the direction of Beast Boy’s room down the hall, and though no one had seen him all day, they figured he was probably fast asleep and decided to introduce him to Twilight in the morning.

“Night all.” said Cyborg, and he and his teammates headed off to bed.

Meanwhile, it was getting around mid-morning in Equestria, and Starlight had canceled all classes at the school for good reason.

After searching and searching, Twilight was nowhere to be found and Starlight called all the other ponies-- writing letters to them summoning them all to the castle.

Discord was invited as well, and he came treading into the room wearing a towel and a bathing cap groaning, “Sheesh, it’s getting so a guy can’t even get himself wet around here.”

Fluttershy gave him a stern look. “Twilight’s missing. Shouldn’t you at least show some concern?”

He sighed and put on a mock-sad face, “Oh, how terrible. Twilight’s gone missing overnight. The world is coming to an end.”

The others all rolled their eyes at him and then turned to Starlight.

“I’ve written to Princess Celestia. She must know of our situation, but I think it would be best if we tell no-pony else.”

Rarity shuddered “I can’t begin to think of the panic that will ensue when the public finds out.”

Twilight’s relatives were very concerned. They just couldn’t go back to the Crystal Empire knowing she was missing, especially not her brother.

“It’s not like her to just run off like that.” said Shining Armor “You don’t think maybe she was kidnapped, do you?”

“No way!” snapped Rainbow “Twilight would be able to handle any kidnappers.”

“Don’t get ahead of yourself.” said Applejack “I’m not saying Twilight’s no good and all, but what if there was something else involved, something really powerful that we don’t know of?”

Pinkie looked up and down and all around, “I don’t see anything, and nothing suspicious has been around lately.”

Spike groaned in dismay. “Look, this isn’t getting us anywhere. We have to find out what happened to Twilight.”

Discord then donned a detective uniform and smoked a pipe while saying in an English accent, “I say, let us visit the scene of the crime.”

Everyone blinked at him awkwardly.

“There is no crime.” said Cadance.

Discord shrugged, “Whatever, let’s just look.”

Everyone adjourned to the study where Twilight was last seen the other night.

The place was still a mess from Twilight’s constant studying.

“Oh, my!” said Fluttershy “Twilight must’ve been studying extra hard these past few days.”

Still, there was no way of knowing what happened to Twilight.

“Hmm…” said Discord “The window is open. Perhaps Twilight decided she just needed some time to herself, and left in the night to go on a quest of self-discovery!”

None of the others seemed to buy it.

“Just a thought.” said Discord.

Rarity then noticed the jewel Twilight had been observing, on the floor under the table.

She levitated it up with her magic and, once again, ogled at how lovely her reflection looked in it.

“Rarity!” snapped Applejack.

“Oh, I’m sorry, but I can’t help myself. How can I when--” she stopped when she noticed images forming in the jewel “…What in the world?”

Starlight walked over. “What is it? What are you looking at?” then she could see the images of Jump City in the jewel itself. “Wow!”

All the ponies huddled around and Pinkie kept leaping up and over her friends trying to get a better view.

“Whoa, this is getting way freaky!” said Rainbow.

“It looks like a whole other dimension.” added Cadance.

“Well, well,” said Discord “Looks like that mystery is solved. This thingy is obviously some sort of inter-dimensional transport doohickey that transports creatures to and from the world viewed inside.”

Everyone gawked up at him.

“What? Can you word it any better?”

The others all sighed, but they were relieved that they at least had some answers.

“Now that we know what happened to Twilight,” said Spike “How do we get her back? How does this thing even work?”

Fluttershy asked Discord, “Can’t you do anything?”

“Whoa-ho-hoa! easy there. No can do.” replied Discord “Bending reality is one thing, but messing with interdimensional warps, especially ones I know nothing about, that could be dangerous, and I don’t just mean a simple oppsie. I mean that one false move and I could possibly collapse the entire space-time continuum, which would in term… wipe out all existence in all worlds as we know it.”

He took in a huge breath after saying all that. “Well, that took a lot out of me. I could go use some tea.” and right there, he poofed a steaming hot cup of tea out of thin air and sipped, “Ahh! Delightful.”

Pinkie took the jewel and shook it about, and then shouted at it, “HEY YOU!! SHOW US HOW YOU WORK ALREADY!! WE WANT OUR FRIEND BACK!!”

All she managed to do was make Flurry Heart cry, much to the annoyance of her parents.

“Come on, let’s put her down in the bedroom.” suggested Shining Armor.

Starlight quickly wrote another letter to Princess Celestia, and suggested that she come to the castle at once to help unlock this mystery.

She gave the letter to Spike and he sent it on its way.

“What do we do now?” he asked.

Starlight levitated the jewel away from Pinkie. “Right now, we may as well continue trying to figure out how this works. I know Twilight would try if it was one of us.”

All the friends agreed, and even Discord, but he sighed, “It’s going to be a long day.”

All day long the gang tried everything.

-Rubbing the jewel.
-Blowing on it.
-Clasping it tightly and thinking hard of wanting to be teleported.
-Making a simple wish.

Pinkie tried saying “Open Portal-Thingy.” But that didn’t work either. “It was worth a try.”

The day seemed to pass by before any of them new it, which meant that daybreak was just coming in Jump City.

Beast Boy awoke to find himself still lying on the floor of his room, and his head was pounding.

“Oh!” he groaned as he slowly got up. He remembered seeing a whole bunch of awful sights, like breaking into the museum, pulling the sword from its pedestal, murdering the curator, and an evil voice calling to him.

Since he woke up in his room, he merely dismissed it all. “What a nightmare!”

He felt his face, and even with his gloves on, he felt dry and shriveled. He needed to look in a mirror right away.

Sadly, after he left his room, he could see down the hall, the bathroom door was shut and he could hear the shower running and whistling coming from inside, meaning it was occupied.

Beast Boy knew one other place where he could find a mirror-- Terra’s old room.

He just waltzed right in, and immediately just looking around the barley lit room made his sadness catch up with him, thinking of her and how she was never coming back.

Maybe this was a bad idea coming in here, but he still needed to look at himself.

There on the coffee table sat the heart-shaped mirror box, still where it was since it was last touched-- when he tried to help Terra remember who she was, or rather convince her to stop trying to forget it all.

He sighed, and sat down on the sofa as he took the box and opened it.

One look at his reflection showed he was physically fine, but he still looked terrible-- a miserable pile of pathetic worthlessness.

He hadn’t forgotten how badly his former friends had acted towards him, and after the fight they had last night, he was determined to follow up on the decision he had written in his diary.

Suddenly, he looked at his reflection, and it seemed to instantly change into an evil expression as his eyes glowed in the mirror.

He could even hear the faint sounds of evil snickering like before in his dream… if it was a dream!

He quickly closed the box up and felt his aching head.

“What’s happening to me?” he wondered.

He was snapped out of his trance by the soft sounds of stirring coming from over by the bed.

From far in the shadows, he could see plainly someone was defiantly under the covers of Terra’s bed.

Rather than go closer to the bed and see who it was-- he knew better than to do such a thing-- he crept over to the curtains, and swiftly swung them wide open letting the morning sunlight in.

The girl in bed leapt up in fright, which made Beast Boy leap in fright.

Back and forth, they yelped and screamed in shock.

Finally, the other Titans came rushing down, even Robin, wearing his bathrobe.

“Beast Boy, what are you doing in here?”

“What am I doing here?” snapped Beast Boy “Who the heck is she and what is SHE doing here in Terra’s room?!”

Starfire assured him “There is no need for the panicking.” and she hovered over to the bed. “This is Twilight Sparkle, our new friend, and is staying for us for the while.

Twilight this is friend Beast Boy.”

Still recovering from her shock, “Pleasure…” Twilight groaned.

“Likewise.” agreed Beast Boy.

Robin still wanted to know what possessed Beast Boy to just barge into the room like that, despite that he didn’t know Twilight was there.

“I needed a mirror, and the bathroom was occupied. You do the math. Besides that, why did you guys agree to give some stranger Terra’s room?”

“Yo, man. Chill out.” said Cyborg, and he and the others explained Twilight’s story.

“Uh… ooooookaaaay.” he remarked “So you’re some magical horse from a magical horse-dimension and you can’t get back until the next full moon.”

“That’s about it… except I’m a pony, not a horse.” replied Twilight.

Beast Boy said nothing after that.

Cyborg then called to everyone, “Okay, y’all, why don’t we all just go have breakfast. I’m craving waffles.”

“Oh, joy… waffles.” Raven sarcastically remarked.

“Alright!” cheered Robin.

“How delightful.” added Starfire, but Beast Boy didn’t seem the least bit interested, which the others seemed to notice.

The Titans took no notice of his attitude, not wanting to cause trouble in front of their houseguest, and headed off for the lounge.

As soon as they were out of sight, Beast Boy sourly left the room, walking past Twilight on his way out.

Twilight began to feel there was some bad tension happening between the others and Beast Boy.

At the table, Robin checked the daily paper of the robbery and murder last night!

“The museum curator was allegedly murdered and a sword had been reported stolen.”

The others all gawked at him as he continued to read the headline.

“Security at the National History Museum were shocked this morning to discover one of their newest artifacts had been reported missing from its display, yet security knows no one entered and after watching security footage, report the weapon allegedly vanished into thin air without any means of being moved.

What was even more shocked was the museum curator was found brutally slaughtered in the parking lot of the museum, but there was no sign of the assassin who did the job.

Strangely, however, shortly after being discovered, the body of the curator seemed to vanish into thin air without a trace, though his blood remained stained all over the parking lot.”

The gang all felt sick to their stomachs, and Raven softly pushed her plate away. “Well, that’s breakfast over with.”

“That’s horrible!” said Twilight “Who would want to kill the manager of museum?”

The Titans didn’t know, but they felt horrible that such a thing happened.

“There’s more.” said Robin, and he read the next story.

“In relation to the murder, the police discovered an anonymous not the curator held telling him to watch the security footage in view of the changes against the Teen Titans.

When the police viewed the footage it turned out that Beast Boy was proven innocent for the alleged crime, and that he was pushed into the display case by two school girls from Murakami High School.

The Teen Titans are hereby cleared of all charges waged against them.”

Twilight was still confused, but the Titans all looked upset with themselves, and looked over at Beast Boy who was eating all by himself at the sofa, as far away from the gang as he could be.

Starfire got up from the table and hovered over to him hoping to warm up to him. “Beast Boy, have you heard? You are proven innocent.”

He paid her no mind and didn’t even look at her.

“We are ever so sorry for having misjudged you.”

He still did not respond, and instead put down his empty plate and headed for the window.

“Where are you going?” asked Cyborg.

Beast Boy turned and sneered at him, “…Out. Is that okay with you?!”

Cyborg’s features hardened, and Raven snuffed and held her book up over her face so as not to look at him.

Robin stood, and though he not pleased with Beast Boy’s behaviour, especially in front of their guest, after what he had just read in the paper, “Beast Boy, I think we should all sit down and talk about this.”

Beast Boy just scoffed. “Why don’t you just read my diary again, then you’ll get a clearer picture.”

Robin felt offended, but Beast Boy left before he could say another word.

Twilight felt she had seen enough and had to ask, “Is there something going on between you and him?”

Robin sighed, “We’re just, sort of, you know, having a few disagreements or two. Beast Boy’s going through hard times.”

“That’s no reason for him to take it out on us.” grumbled Raven.

Starfire then brought up, “We did read his diary, which was horrible enough.”

“Yeah, and he said all those bad things about us.” added Cyborg “And after all we’ve done for him all this time.”

Now Twilight really didn’t need to hear anymore. This was a definite friendship crisis at the highest degree if ever she saw it.

She slammed her hand on the table getting everyone’s attention. “…I’m going to help you all.” she declared.

The Titans all gawked at her and blinked in confusion.

“Uh, that’s okay,” Robin said “We’re thinking of getting a professional to help us with this problem.”

Twilight insisted, “Oh, but I am professional.” and she told them all about her status back in Equestria.

“You are a Princess?” squealed Starfire “I, too, am I princess.”

“Well, what do you know? We’re entertaining royalty.” chuckled Cyborg.

Twilight giggled and blushed, “I’m not that kind of political princess. I don’t make laws; I don’t collect taxes or that sort of thing, but am an authority of the Power of Friendship, and part of my duty is sort friendship problems…” she paused “…Which, I’ve noticed, there seem to be much of around this city.”

She reflected upon all the people she ran into the other day, and how they were all so rude and uncouth to her.

“In Equestria, Friendship rules. You can’t turn anywhere without seeing loads of it being spread all over, but here… I’ve hardly seen any of it at all.”

Robin didn’t want to sound offensive, but he informed her, “This is a different world than what we’re used to. Not everyone seems to believe in friendship in this world.”

Cyborg nodded, “If anything a lot more people here believe that power and wealth is the way to go. Believe me; I’ve seen my share of some snobs.”

“And we were all being threatened with lawsuit,” said Raven “…For something Beast Boy didn’t do, and nobody bothered to investigate properly.”

Twilight felt sick to her stomach, but she was now more than convinced that this world was in need of an improvement in friendship, and she was planning to start with the Titans and Beast Boy.

“It’s no big deal, Twilight,” said Robin “You don’t have to do this, and we couldn’t ask you to get involved.”

“You don’t have to ask me. I want to do this, and besides… I can’t go home for a while yet, and I might as well make the most of things while I’m here.

It’s also the least I can do for you guys taking me in like this, and that’s what friends do: help one another.”

The Titans all pondered about it, and felt they had nothing to lose by trying.

Twilight smiled… until she spotted the picture on the newspaper of the sword that was stolen from the museum, and she recognized the fire emblem on the sword, which matched the emblem on her book back home.

“Is it possible?” she wondered.

“You okay?” asked Cyborg.

Twilight shrugged the thought off, figuring it was just an artwork coincidence.

“It’s nothing… I hope.”

Meanwhile, it was well after sundown in Equestria, and Twilight’s were simply frustrated after all their failed attempts to unlock the jewel’s power.

“This isn’t getting us anywhere.” groaned Applejack.

“I know, frustrating isn’t it?” said Discord.

Rainbow fluttered up at him sneering, “What are you talking about? I didn’t see you do much to help out!”

“Not true! I’ve been thinking of ways, but they all just don’t work out.”

Fluttershy stepped in. “Stop this, both of you!” then she looked up at Discord “I’m sorry, but Rainbow is right. You could make a suggestion or something.”

Discord scoffed, “Well, I know when I’m not wanted. Call me when you all actually have a proper idea.”

Then he vanished.

“Oh, Discord, wait!” called Fluttershy.

“Ah, let him go.” said Rainbow “We don’t need him to figure this out.”

“…I wouldn’t say that exactly.” said a familiar voice, and in a bright flash of light, Princess Celestia appeared with Princess Luna as well.

Everyone was delighted to see them both, especially Cadance and Shining Armor.

“Thank goodness you’re both here.” said Starlight. She explained the situation about the jewel, “We can’t seem to get it to work. We were hoping you could help us.”

Celestia looked a bit regretful, “I’m afraid there isn’t much more than we can do ourselves. We hardly know anything about this strange object either. That’s why we sent it here in the first place.”

The gang all looked downhearted. The situation was starting to look more hopeless than ever.

“But we can help you,” said Luna “If Princess Twilight Sparkle is to be returned to us from the other dimension, we must do all that we can.”

Her sister agreed. “Now, can you tell us everything again, from the beginning?”

Starlight explained, how Twilight was in the study with the jewel, “…We heard her screaming, and then we came over we saw she was gone, and the jewel was on the floor, but we didn’t notice that until this morning.”

The sisters pondered deeply and then asked to see the study themselves.

They were nearly shocked by the state of mess the place was in, “That’s Twilight,” said Celestia “I always did admire her hard concentration.”

Rarity showed the sisters where she found the jewel under the table.

“The jewel was always kept right here on table itself.” said Starlight.

The sisters observed the jewel, placing it directly on the table. Cadance put Flurry Heart in her buggy on the table too to observe the jewel with her aunts, and they all admired the images of Jump City within the jewel, but the sisters still had not a clue of what empowered it.

“And you say that ordinary magic didn’t do it?” asked Celestia.

The others all confirmed.

“We’ve tried everything.” said Spike “And worse, even if we do get it working, how can we be sure we can get Twilight back?”

Starlight’s eyes widened, “We didn’t think of that.”

Everyone began to contemplate the seriousness involved, and Luna then noticed through the open window, outside it was getting pretty dark.

“Excuse me a moment. I must raise the moon.”

So she flew out the window and up into the sky. Using her powers, she raised a full moon into its starting point.

At the same time, the light shone straight through the open window, and right onto the jewel, which made it begin to pulsate again.

“Look!” cried Pinkie.

Everyone gawked in awe at the jewel, and Flurry began to playful reach for it from her buggy.

“Flurry…!” Cadance rushed over and grabbed her daughter off the table, knocking the jewel to the floor and out of the moonlight, causing it to cease glowing.

Everyone gawked at the jewel on the floor.

“You all saw that, didn’t you?” asked Starlight.

Everyone nodded.

Spike approached the jewel intending to grab it, but Celestia levitated him up. “No, Spike. You mustn’t touch it.”

Spike gasped softly.

Celestia then wondered, and levitated the jewel back onto the table where it was, in the moonlight, and the jewel began to glow again.

“How astounding!” cried Rarity.

Princess Luna returned just in time to see the commotion and remarked, “My heavens…!”

“It’s the moonlight.” chirped Pinkie.

Everyone began to happen upon the same thought of how Twilight must’ve discovered the jewel’s power and how she was transported to the other world.

“Now that we know all this,” said Rainbow “Let’s go get Twilight back.”

“I’m all for that.” agreed Applejack.

All the others agreed, except for Starlight who seemed skeptical.

“No.” Celestia said bluntly “I cannot allow that, not just yet, or have you all forgotten about what we have theorized?”

“She’s right.” agreed Starlight “We now know that we CAN teleport to this other world, but we still don’t know if it’s possible to make a return trip.

And even still, we don’t know what that world is like. How do we know what we’ll find? How do we know if we can survive?”

Much as the others all understand that, Spike was still protested. “Well, what about Twilight? Imagine what she could be going through? She’s lost in that world, and she could be in trouble too.”

This greatly disturbed Shining Armor, and while he knew his sister was brave and strong, he still wished he could at least know if she was okay.

His wife touched his limb giving the expression that she felt the same way.

“I understand how you all must feel.” said Celestia “I myself feel no different, but you must understand that I am not willing to take such a risk until we know more.

That is why I am taking this jewel back to Canterlot, so that we may observe it more and try to find more answers, as well as to keep it safe.

Meanwhile, I ask that you all keep this to yourselves. We must not alert the public of Twilight’s mishap.”

Rarity bowed and declared, “Indeed your majesty. Why if the public hears of this, there would be panic and worry and… and… and…!!”

Applejack caught her, “Rarity breathe!”

Rarity calmed down.

The sisters then bid their farewells and vanished in bright glows of light.

With all said and done, and not much else to do, Applejack stretched out and yawned. “Well, might as well head home and hit the hay.”

“I think so too.” agreed Rainbow.

Spike was mortified. “How can you all think about going to bed at a time like this?”

“Uh… because we’re tired, and we’ve had a long day.” said Pinkie.

Fluttershy comforted Spike, “Spike, it’s not that we aren’t worried. We’re very worried.”

Rarity nodded, “But you heard the princess. There is simply nothing more we can do at the moment, darling. Perhaps a good night’s rest will help us to think more clearly.

After all, I needn’t remind you all we must work hard to keep this secret safe from prying eyes.”

Soon, the friends all left after bidding their goodnights, and Spike felt worse than ever, like he would never get to sleep that night.

“Come on, Spike.” said Starlight “It’ll be okay.”

“How do you know?”

Starlight really didn’t know, but she was only trying to think positive like Twilight would.

Author's Notes:

It's always been astounding that contradiction...

-Take the risk
-Don't take the risk

-The only way to figure it out is to try it.
-The risk is simply too great to try.

-We need to help them
-We can't help them if the same thing happens to us too.

-We have a friend in trouble, and we're prepared to take the risk
-Oh, look at you, leaping into action without thinking ahead first.

Still, I know it doesn't matter how its done (Haters just gonna be petty either way. Take the risk or not.)

As for the contradiction itself... I guess it is what it is.