Luna groaned with annoyance, she could hear the doorbell being rung several times, followed by several pounding hits against the front door, loud enough to reach the upstairs. The Vice Principal of CHS didn’t know why Celestia hadn’t heard all that racket, then again, Luna was always the night owl of the family. She reached into the drawer of her nightstand and pulled out a gun, Celestia wasn’t exactly pleased with her purchase of the weapon but given everything that had happened in the last few weeks, better safe than sorry. Luna made her way downstairs, holding the gun in a ready position as she neared the door. She didn’t turn on any lights, not wanting to alert the potential threat outside her door. When she got to the peephole, she looked through it and gasped.

“Sunset?”

She quickly put the gun in the drawer next to the door, flipped on the porch lights and living room lights, and quickly opened the door. Sunset was standing there, hugging herself, eyes wide with fear and anxiety. She was dressed in her pajamas and her bike was parked in the driveway, which meant that Sunset drove all the way to their house in her pajamas at this late hour.

“Sunset, what’s going on, are you okay?!” Luna asked.

“Vi – err – Luna, c-can you go and get Celestia, I-I need to talk to her right now,” said Sunset.

Luna ushered Sunset inside the house, took a quick glance outside to make sure she wasn’t being followed, and then locked the door. The Vice Principal of CHS guided Sunset onto the couch, seated her, and looked her over to make sure she wasn’t injured. “Sunset, I’ll get Celestia, but tell me what’s wrong first. Why did you drive all the way here, at night, in your pajamas? Are you in some kind of trouble?”

Sunset just hugged herself tighter. “Please, Luna, I appreciate that you’re trying to help me, but this is something that only Celestia can help me with! So, please, go and get her!”

Luna got up and was halfway towards the stairs before she stopped and asked, “Just to make sure…you…um…you aren’t pregnant, are you?”

“Unless Pinkie Pie managed to grow a dick in the last couple of days – NO!!!” Sunset yelled.

It was probably not something a woman of her age and official position should think about, but if there was one student who could defy logic enough to make that possible, it would be Pinkie Pie. Luna dashed up the stairs and hurriedly made her way into her big sister’s room, Celestia was sprawled out on her bed, the blankets kicked off and slumping onto the floor.

“How dignified,” Luna muttered as she approached her sister’s bed. “Tia, wake up!”

“Mmmm…middle of the night Luna…let me sleep,” Celestia groaned.

Luna shook her big sister until she managed to get her to open her eyes. “This is serious! Sunset Shimmer is downstairs, in our living room, and she looks scared!”

Those words were like a lightning bolt to Celestia’s senses, instantly sobering her up, and making her shoot straight up into a sitting position. “Sunset’s here, at our house?! Why?!”

Luna shook her head. “I don’t know, she won’t tell me! She’ll only talk to you.”

\\\/// I sense something amiss, there’s traces of the Darkness in this house. Make haste Celestia! \\\///

Not wasting anymore time, Celestia jumped out of bed and rushed down the stairs with Luna hot on her tail. Celestia spotted Sunset sitting on the couch and quickly embraced her in a tight hug. “Sunset, are you alright?”

“No…No I’m not alright! Something’s wrong with the Witchblade and me!” Sunset confessed.

Luna paused for a moment.

Celestia broke the embrace a little and looked at Sunset with surprise. “Sunset, Luna’s here, are you sure this is–?”

“YES! I don’t care if she knows right now, we need to deal with what’s going on with me and Witchblade!” Sunset insisted.

Luna moved closer and asked, “Tia, what in the world is she talking about?”

“Luna, I’ll explain everything to you later, I swear, but right now, I need to concentrate on Sunset! Okay?!”

Luna didn’t press it, she knew that Celestia was in her “mother hen” mode and that it was best to stay out of her way when that happened. Still, she was also Sunset’s guardian, and for some reason, Luna felt as if she had been left out of the loop on something very important right now. However, now was not the time to nitpick, the main thing right now was to help Sunset.

“Tell me what happened, Angelus said she sensed traces of the Darkness,” said Celestia.

“I…I think he might’ve done something to Witchblade, infected it somehow during our fight last weekend! I was talking to Limestone Pie, Pinkie’s big sister, I wanted to smooth things over due to some misunderstanding we had a few days ago. Anyway, w-we came back to my place, I might’ve bought a few beers…”

“Sunset!” Celestia and Luna admonished.

“I only had one! A-Anyway, she got too drunk to go home so I had her stay at my place overnight! But…that’s when the bad stuff happened! I…I started having this vivid dream about Limestone seducing me! Then…Then she started to ask me to act on my dark impulses, and when I finally snapped myself out of it, I was standing next to the couch and Witchblade’s metal strands were extending out towards her, blacker than night! What’s happening!”

“Angelus?” Celestia asked.

\\\/// Let me see my Son. \\\///

“Give me your wrist, Sunset.”

Sunset did as she instructed, allowing Celestia to place her right hand over it. Immediately upon making contact, a violent, electrical surge went off and shocked Celestia’s hand away as she gave a loud “OW!”

“I’m sorry! I-I didn’t mean to do that!” Sunset apologized. Just then, the metal of the bracelet began to react. “Now what?!”

Upon uttering those words, the Witchblade exploded outwards with numerous razor-sharp metal strands. Celestia quickly got off the couch and backed away from Sunset, putting Luna at her back. With a wave of Celestia’s hand, a barrier of light formed around them, protecting Luna from whatever was happening to Sunset. The two older women could only stand by and watch as the metal strands began to rip Sunset’s clothes apart, enshrouding her in the armor of the Witchblade. A cocoon was formed, made of the shadow metal, a couple of seconds went by and the cocoon opened to reveal a transformed Sunset. Her right arm was covered in the shadow metal, creating an oversized claw gauntlet, with dagger sharp fingertips, and the red gemstone resting atop the hand. Sunset’s left was covered in armor, but each knuckle had an arrowhead spike, along her arm was a row of spikes, and the left shoulder pauldron extended outwards like a curved blade. The armor wrapped around Sunset’s thighs, creating a slight blade curve to them that carried all the way down to her spike tipped boots. Her shoulders and neck were covered in armor, from which two strands went down her body, forming a “V” pattern that covered the nipples and her crotch, while simultaneously covering her rear and connecting with the thigh armor. The yellow streaks in Sunset’s hair were gone, replaced by black streaks, and her eyes were now just pools of darkness with shadow wisps coming from the corners.

“What…What happened to Sunset?!” Celestia asked.

\\\/// My Son is born from light and darkness, the Darkness must’ve infused its essence into our Son, throwing off the balance inside him. And in so doing, has corrupted the bearer, Sunset. \\\///

“Do you think Sombra knows that Sunset is Witchblade?”

\\\/// No, if anything, I suspect Sombra believed that at some point Sunset as Witchblade was going to encounter us, in this case it was just dumb luck. However, we do have a problem. The longer this corruption stays with her, the more likely she’ll become a minion of Sombra and the Darkness. We must purge it from her, now.\\\///

Luna looked from her sister and to Sunset, who was somehow covered in shadow armor that was a bit reminiscent of when she became a demon, and now Celestia was creating barriers of light. “Celestia what in the FUCK is going on here?!”

“Lots of things that I can’t go into detail right now! Angelus!”

A flash of light went off around Celestia, when it faded, she was donned in her golden armor, flaring her white wings as her fiery golden hair flowed down her back. Luna fell onto her rear as she stared up at her big sister with a gaping mouth, unable to form the words needed to accurately express what she was feeling in this moment.

“T-T-Tia?!” Luna stammered.

Celestia glanced over her shoulder, her eyes hadn’t shifted, indicating that Celestia was currently in control. “Again…later.”

“That’s what I was waiting for! ANGELUS!” Sunset bellowed as she jumped straight for her.

Before she could reach her another flash of light went off, blinding Luna for a moment. When she opened her eyes, both were gone.

“Wha…W-Wha…WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON???!!!”

The great deserts of Somnambula, a hot, arid environment that was hostile to most life that hadn’t adapted to the near endless sand dunes, intense heat, and blustering winds. A flash of golden light went off over one of the dunes and from it plummeted Sunset, she rolled around in the sand for a few seconds before she struck the sand, flipped into the air, and landed with a flourish. Celestia’s wings were flared as she slowly descended into a hover a few inches off the sand.

“Where are we?” Celestia asked.

\\\/// I brought us to a desert, I figured it was better that we try and fight her here. A barren desert is a better battleground than a populated area. Now, allow me to–\\\///

“I’m sorry, Angelus, but let me try and reach her at the very least,” Celestia pleaded.

\\\/// Very well, try and reach her, I’ll be formulating a plan in the meantime. \\\///

Celestia nodded her head and glared intensely at Sunset as she spoke, “Sunset, I need you to try and fight this! You’re stronger than the Darkness, stronger than your impulses!”

“HA! I’ve been fighting my impulses ever since I went all goody-goody! Do you have any idea how much work it is to be a ‘good person’?!” Sunset stuck out her tongue and brought her left hand to her face, she ran her tongue over the index finger, and slowly glided her hand over her body. “Do you have any idea how much I want to bathe in the love and passion of some of the hottest girls around me and make them all mine?! No, you wouldn’t, but now I have a chance to! The Darkness’ power that’s inside me is telling me how to make it all mine! And I’m sorry, Celestia, but Angelus needs to die! Not just for my sake but the world’s!”

Sunset raised her large gauntlet and slammed it against the sand. The impact kicked up a dust cloud that obscured the entire area. Celestia got on guard and formed a battle mask over her face, gold colored with magenta glowing eyes. Thanks to this creation she didn’t have to worry about the sand getting in her eyes or her nose and mouth, thankfully this quick thinking paid off. Sunset appeared before her at rapid speeds, she raised her right hand and swiped at Celestia. The host of the Angelus formed a light shield construct in her left hand just as Sunset’s claw came down, the impact blasted away the sand cloud and the sand beneath them.

Despite this, Sunset’s sadistic, gleeful smile didn’t leave her, she raised her left hand and into it formed a katana. Celestia opened her right hand and summoned a medieval light construct sword. Sunset brought down her sword while Celestia slashed with hers, the two blades ringed in the air upon contact, creating yet another shockwave that dispersed another ten feet of sand.

“Sunset, you’re stronger than this! You’ve beaten your own darkness, so fight against this one,” said Celestia.

“Or – here’s a thought – I don’t fight it and I just enjoy the hell out of it!”

The shadow metal coalesced around her back, and from it sprouted two long dragon heads. Their eyes shined red as their metal maws opened and roared with fury, the dragon head tendrils were twice the size of Sunset and Celestia and looked about ready to tear Celestia in half. Upon seeing them, Celestia immediately retreated a few steps, putting some distance between herself and Sunset. The twin dragon heads roared as they charged straight for Celestia, the winged warrior dismissed her sword and shield and brought her hands together, golden light swirled between them into a sphere and then burst forth in a beam of energy. The dragon heads weaved around the beam and continued to dog Celestia, but then Celestia redirected the beam and fired it at the ground.

A sand plume shot into the air and hid her presence; however, this did not deter the dragon heads as they went straight through the cloud of sand and emerged on the other side with nothing. The dragon heads looked confused, wondering how they could’ve missed their target. Their answer was given when Celestia appeared in the sky having teleported away, the host of the Angelus slashed the air with her right hand and created a crescent energy blade that sailed downwards towards the sand plume. The blade sliced through the trunks of the dragon head tentacles, melting the metal and making the dragon heads release a metal shredding screech of death.

Celestia shifted her focus back to Sunset, which turned out to be a mistake as Sunset had taken off into the sky. Sunset zipped through the air, becoming a dark streak as she slammed herself into Celestia. She grabbed her by the neck with her left hand, squeezing tightly to crush her throat as they flew, the wind rushing past their ears. Sunset closed her right claw into a fist, and from the top of it a ten-inch-long blade formed. With little hesitation, Sunset drove the blade right through Celestia’s stomach, the face mask disappeared as she began to cough up blood. The pain was slightly familiar from when Sombra stabbed her, but it wasn’t like she was used to it.

“Sunset, try and think! Show me that you’re at least trying to fight in there!”

“Oh, would you just shut up! I told you I’m – Celestia…!” Sunset’s right eye returned normal, showing her original turquoise colored iris. “Celestia, I’m sorry, the Darkness is creeping deeper into me! I can’t fight it for much longer! AAAAHHHH!!!” Sunset’s right eye returned to the blackness that it once was as she shook her head. “Whoa, well, that was annoying. Where was I? Oh, getting back to killing you!”

Celestia gritted her teeth as she slammed her left palm against the blade and released a burst of golden energy. Cracks formed in the blade as it broke in half, with that same hand, Celestia pressed it against Sunset’s chest and discharged another energy burst. Sunset cried out in pain as the golden light burned at her skin, jettisoning her in the air and making the corrupted hero release her grip on Celestia’s neck. With Sunset pushed away, she gripped the broken half of the blade and pulled it out quickly, giving a hiss of pain, but thankfully the wound closed.

“She’s still fighting in there, we have to save her,” said Celestia.

\\\/// This is good, I know a way to do it, but you’ll need to fight her more seriously. I can take over if you wish. \\\///

“No, I’m tired of being on the sidelines, I’ll fight her. Sunset’s been fighting to protect her friends, me, and everyone! It’s time that I did something, it’s the adults who should protect the children, not the other way around!” Celestia declared.

\\\/// Hmm…very well, we’ll do it this way then. \\\///

Celestia froze in midair, her body felt a surge of power coursing through her veins, in a matter of seconds, Celestia’s body was outlined in a golden aura, and when she opened her eyes, the normal magenta color had been replaced with a golden one.

\\\/// I’ve granted you more access to my power so that you can fight her. Can you see my plan now that I’ve done this? \\\///

“Yes, we just need to weaken her, right?”

\\\/// Yes, that means no holding back. Normally the light would make the Darkness wilt away, but since my Son has the aspect of light, he’s immune to that. So, the only option is to bear down on them relentlessly. \\\///

“Then let’s do this!”

Sunset’s black aura flared as she stared down Celestia, with her right claw she unleashed a black fire jet stream straight for her. Celestia responded with a golden inferno blast right back at her. The two flame attacks met at the middle and exploded upon contact, Celestia warped from behind the explosion and appeared on Sunset’s left, brandishing a light construct sword. Sunset sensed the attack and countered with the shoulder pauldron, the blade extending outwards and clashed with Celestia’s sword, Celestia summoned a second sword into her left hand and began dueling with the pauldron. The sound of each strike resounded in the air like thunder, making the dunes bellow rattle with each successive hit. Sunset broke away and willed multiple shadow metal tentacles to come out of her armor and begin an assault on Celestia. The thunderous rings continued, but at much faster speeds as Celestia managed to parry and counter each attack that came her way. Ten of the tentacles had her cornered, but at the last second, she teleported away just as the blades went to skewer her.

Sunset clenched her right fist and went for a backhand strike, sensing that Celestia was going to appear from the back. She did, but only for a split second as a warp shadow appeared in Celestia’s place. Sunset’s fist passed right through the warp shadow, making it turn into particles of light. That feint allowed Celestia to reappear overhead and come down on Sunset with a spinning ax kick. Sunset looked up just in time to see Celestia’s right leg hit her on the left shoulder. The former unicorn released a cry of pain as she felt and heard her bones breaking like snapping toothpicks from the harsh blow. Sunset fell from the sky like a lead weight in water and hit the sand with a dull thud.

Once on the ground, Celestia raised her right hand and summoned twelve dozen spheres of light. The spheres discharged one energy blast after another, barraging the area that Sunset landed in a hailstorm of destruction. Sand and smoke were sent straight up into the air with explosion after explosion going off in a seemingly never-ending assault. While those were firing, Celestia, with her still raised right hand, was gathering more and more light energy. A large ball of golden light formed overhead with each passing second, waiting for the right moment to fire it.

An explosion of black fire erupted from the barrage point, making Celestia stop her attack. The sand was on fire with black flames, as Sunset stood in the center. Her left arm was hanging limp and useless at her side for a moment, but then the bones began to mend, her bruised and bloodied flesh returned to its original state as Sunset regained feeling and control of her left arm. However, her moment was short-lived when Celestia threw down the sphere, Sunset raised her right claw and created a tornado of black fire that rose to meet Celestia’s attack. The two elemental attacks clashed in the air for a few seconds, until Celestia pointed both hands at it and willed more energy into the sphere. The golden orb doubled in size and speed as it pushed through the flames and hit its mark.

A giant explosion went off that could be seen for miles, flattening whatever sand dunes were in the vicinity and the next two miles. Celestia was still on guard, but waited for the dust to settle, when she did, the whole area had become glass and Sunset was at the center of the crater from the explosion.

“She’s fighting it from within, that’s the only reason we’ve been able to stand a chance,” [/b]said Celestia.

\\\/// …Admittedly, I must agree. Her attacks are wild, acting more on instinct than forethought as per Sunset’s normal modus operandi. \\\///

“Is everything ready?”

\\\/// She’s in position, you do realize that this might hurt Sunset. \\\///

“Will she live, and will the Darkness’ corruption leave her?”

\\\/// Yes. \\\///

“Then let’s get it done and save my…my…” Celestia so badly wanted to call Sunset her daughter, but she knew that Sunset wasn’t sure how she saw her, however, in this moment, Sunset needed a mother and a warrior to save her. “Let’s go save my daughter!”

Sunset hurt all over, but she broke herself free from the glass as she stood back up. Shadow metal demon wings flared out of her back as she shot up into the air, Sunset threw a punch for Celestia, but the winged light bringer caught the punch in her left hand. That’s when Celestia smirked, catching Sunset off guard. A flash of light went off again and both Celestia and Sunset vanished from the desert. Sunset blinked and when she opened her eyes, she realized that the bright desert sun was gone, replaced by the bright moon and burgundy night skies of Canterlot City.

“What’s the matter, got tired of the desert scene, or did you just want an audience for when I rip your wings off?!”

“No, I just needed to get you in position!”

“What?” Celestia teleported yet again, but when she did Sunset’s eyes widened. In the air was a black cloaked figure wielding a shimmering spear, it took about a second for Sunset to realize that that figure was in fact Fluttershy as the Magdalena. “Fluttershy?!”

“Percutiamus!” Fluttershy cried out as she tossed the Spear of Destiny right at Sunset.

The Spear flew like a guided missile, but at five times the speed, appearing like a golden streak of light. Sunset tried to bring up a shield, but it was no use, the corruption of the Darkness made the shadow metal useless against the holy weapon. Sunset gasped as the blade of the Spear sunk into her stomach, golden electricity arced from the spear and into Sunset, making her cry out in excruciating pain. The corrupted hero fell out of the sky, plummeting until a flash of golden light enveloped Sunset, and quickly after, the same thing appeared around Fluttershy.

On a nearby roof, another golden light flashed, and from it emerged Sunset, Fluttershy, and Celestia. Sunset was paralyzed on the ground, writhing in pain as the holy weapon attacked the Darkness’ essence.

Fluttershy put her hood down and said, “I’m glad I got your message in time.”

“It was a long shot according to Angelus, but this was the best way to help Sunset,” said Celestia.

Angelus had contacted Zofiel, her bird Sentinel, and through him, she conveyed her plan to Fluttershy. The plan was that Fluttershy would wait at a determined point in full gear, knowing that Spear of Destiny would be the best way to immobilize Sunset, but that was only part one of the plan.

“Angelus told me that your light and mine can purge the Darkness’ corruption from Sunset. Are you up for this?”

“If it’s for Sunset, then I’ll do whatever I can to help her!”

Celestia smiled, “Alright.”

Fluttershy held out her right hand and Celestia did the same. The two women called to the pure divine light within them, Sunset shouted in pain as the white light of Angelus and Fluttershy illuminated the area, the dark strands of the Darkness tried to cling onto Sunset’s body, but in the end it was a futile attempt as the excess remnants of the Darkness was burned from Sunset and the Witchblade. When the light faded, the metal of the Witchblade no longer had the shadow quality to it and returned to its normal obsidian color. The armor retracted until it was back in its bracelet form, which incidentally left Sunset nude. Fluttershy carefully removed the Spear of Destiny from Sunset, allowing the wound to fully close.

Celestia knelt before Sunset and picked her up into her arms. “Thank you, Fluttershy, for helping me save Sunset.”

Fluttershy shook her head as she smiled. “Like I said, if it’s for Sunset, for my friends, I’ll do whatever I can to help. What will you do now, Principal Celestia?”

“I’ll take Sunset back to my house where I can keep an eye on her. She most likely – no, she won’t be at school tomorrow. You don’t have to go tomorrow either, after tonight, I’m sure you’re tired.”

“No, I’ll go, I should tell them what happened in person. Um, but I wouldn’t mind a lift home, if that’s alright?” Fluttershy asked.

“Not at all.”

“Wait, what happened to Shimmer?!”

Sunset Shimmer had excused herself to go to the girl’s room, having received a text from Pinkie Pie that Shimmer, her interdimensional twin, had been infected with some of the Darkness’ power and that said twin had a brawl with the Angelus last night. Sunset growled angrily as she raised her right hand, balled it into a fist, and struck the mirror in front of her. The mirror cracked with pieces of the glass falling into the sink and further shattering, Sunset withdrew her hand and saw several tiny shards of glass embedded in her flesh. The stinging only lasted for about a second before her wounds were engulfed in flames and healed instantly.

“Dammit, I knew something was wrong after that fight! I should’ve put my foot down or something,” said Sunset, chastising herself.

{Sunset, it’s not your fault, not even Shimmer realized what was happening until it happened.}

Sunset sighed heavily, exhaling all the frustration in her body as much as possible. “How is she doing right now?”

{Well, after I told the girls I called you. She’s resting at Principal Celestia’s place after they had their fight.}

Sunset raised an eyebrow. “Wait, she was well enough to have a fight with your principal?”

{Oh, guess she didn’t tell you that part…well…um, Principal Celestia is the host of that Angelus thing.}

Now Sunset was more worried. “And you think that’s it’s okay for her to be there? What if she tries something?!”

{No, no, it’s alright, really! Principal Celestia is like Shimmer’s pseudo mom. A-Anyway, me and the girls are going to stop by and see how she is doing. Principal Celestia is with her right now and Vice Principal Luna’s been put in charge for now. Did you and Twilight want to come and see her? I mean, you don’t have to if you don’t want to, but I know she’d be happy to see you.}

“Like that’s even a question, of course I’m coming to see her! And I will bring Sparky, this wasn’t exactly the way I wanted her to meet all of Shimmer’s friends, but I guess that slumber party plan’s out the window.”

There was a faint sound in the background as if Pinkie Pie was clicking her tongue in disappointment. {Now, Sunset, you should commit this to memory. There’s no stopping a Pinkie Slumber Party, or any party. Ever. If nothing else we can have it at Principal Celestia’s house, you wouldn’t mind, would you?}

Sunset couldn’t help but chuckle, she could see how her pony twin could fall for this girl, if she wasn’t already hot for Twilight, Sunset would’ve scooped up Pinkie for herself. “No, I wouldn’t mind. Thanks for looking out for her. Text me the address when you can so we can head over. I gotta head back to class, see you soon.”

{Okie-dokie-lokie!}

Sunset pressed “end” on her cellphone and looked back at her reflection in the mirror. You almost let someone who’s your family die and suffer…never again. With that resolved, Sunset headed back to the classroom and sat back down, she was already anxious to begin with, this was one of those days with one of those few classes that she and Twilight didn’t share. In fact, Twilight was halfway across the building, which meant that her girlfriend was fair game for any of Crystal Prep’s assholes to mess with. The point of her display a couple of days ago was to instill a sense of fear in the student body, make them believe that if in any way Sunset found out that they hurt Twilight Sparkle, she would rain down fire and brimstone upon them. That wasn’t a joke, she would literally rain down fire and brimstone. Still, there were at least five girls in the school who she knew might test her. Indigo, Sour, Sunny, Sugar, and Lemon, out of those five, the one that she worried about the most attempting something was Indigo Zap.

It still burned Sunset that the person she loved had been violated and abused for so long, psychologically, and physically, the worst of which could be attributed to Indigo Zap’s obsession with Twilight. Why did she target Twilight out of all the girls in the school? Okay, maybe that was a rhetorical question, Twilight wasn’t a confrontational girl, nor was she particularly athletic or physically strong like Sunset or Indigo, she was vastly intelligent and studious, and in high school, that was often grounds enough to get your ass picked on. But Crystal Prep was a place that made sure every student excelled in academics as well as sports, the real problem was that Twilight was showing them all up without even trying. However, Sunset believed that Indigo’s obsession with Twilight was more than just petty bullying like the rest of the school. Could it be that Indigo was in love with Twilight in a twisted way?

Whatever, I’ll deal with her later, I got other important things to deal with. For one, getting to Sparky as quickly as possible, and then heading over to see Shimmer.

Finally, after what felt like an eternity, the bell rang. Sunset collected her things into her backpack and made her way to the door, when she exited, she paused, and a scowl formed on her face. Right across from the door, leaning against some lockers, was Indigo Zap, the star athlete of Crystal Prep had her arms crossed over her chest and shot Sunset the biggest shit eating grin she had ever seen. A grin that made the hairs on the back of Sunset’s neck prickle with anger and edginess.

“Shimmer, fancy meeting you here,” said Indigo.

“Please, I knew you were a rapist, but now I’m definitely adding ‘stalker’ to that list. Whatever dumbass threats you’re about to spit out, you can save them, I have somewhere to be,” said Sunset as she turned to leave.

“I know, you’re heading to meet up with Twilight in the English Lit. class halfway across the building, am I right?” Indigo asked.

Sunset stopped mid step, whipped around, and flashed Indigo a suspicious glare. “And how the fuck do you know that?”

“Think you said it yourself, I’m a ‘stalker’. But the problem is, she never made it to that class.” Indigo pushed off the lockers and began walking towards Sunset. “It’s in your best interest – and Twilight’s – to follow me right now.”

Sunset shot her hand out and grabbed a handful of Indigo’s shirt and stared into her eyes. “Indigo I swear to god if you’ve done anything to Twilight, I’ll make you regret it for the rest of your life, both seconds of it!”

“Come with me, I’ll show you where she is,” said Indigo in a calm manner.

“Don’t fuck with me Indigo!”

“Look, either come with me or not, it’s up to you.”

Sunset growled angrily at Indigo, but in the end released her, the star athlete of Crystal Prep smoothed out the wrinkles in her clothes and began walking down the hall, with Sunset right behind her. Their walk eventually brought them to one of the gymnasiums, the inside was dark save for the strands of light that cut through the shadows from the windows up above. A single light kicked on, illuminating the center of the court, the sound of footfalls echoed loudly in the gym as someone stepped into the proverbial spotlight, Lemon Zest.

Indigo broke away from Sunset and joined her friend in the light, Sunset released her backpack, letting it hit the floor with a loud “thunk!” as she stomped towards them. “No more fucking games, Indigo! Where’s Twilight!”

“Don’t know,” she answered.

“What the fuck do you mean you don’t know?!”

“She means neither of us know where she is. Sour, Sunny, and Sugar have Sparkle somewhere on campus, but they didn’t tell us where they are just when they got Sparkle, which was, like, right before her class started,” said Lemon.

“So just to be clear, you could fight us and maybe beat us, but even if you did, you’d be running around the school like a decapitated chicken before you even came close to finding her,” said Indigo.

Sunset’s fists tightened up, micro embers exploded around her hands, but she managed to keep her flames under control, at least for now. “What do you want?”

Indigo stepped forward and said, “Simple, you’re going to stand there and you’re going let me kick the crap out of you. And after, you’re never going to hang around Twilight ever again. Now, either you do what I say, or the girls will do something much worse. Lemon?”

Lemon Zest took out her cellphone and switched to a video call, she flipped the phone around and, on the screen, appeared Sunny Flare.

{Sunset Shimmer, looks like you did show up. I’m sure Indigo told you what she wants but is leaving the consequences explanation to me. So, what will happen if you don’t do as she says? First, have a look at this setup.}

Sunny Flare pulled her face away and turned the camera around, and what Sunset saw nearly made her ignite into an inferno. Twilight had her hands tied up over her head with zip ties, which were looped through a rope that hung high above her. Duct tape pressed against her mouth, one lying horizontal and the other two on top of it formed an “X” pattern. The look of fear in Twilight’s eyes was evident, as well as the tear marks from her crying. The camera panned and showed Sour Sweet standing by something that looked like a table to Sunny’s left, and to her right was Sugarcoat, with a camera in hand.

{Every time you show us that you’re resisting or generally, not doing what Indigo says, we’re going to strip Sparkle and make her the star of her own porno, which we’ll then be uploaded to the internet for everyone to see. Good luck getting into any reputable college, or just in general walking around without wondering if the people you pass recognize you, or if the guys are fantasizing about what was done in the video. If you end up beating up Zest and Zap, we’ll just go full throttle on Sparkle in here, and since you don’t know where we are, good luck getting to us in time to stop this.}

“You MOTHERFUCKING BITCHES! I’m going to tear your heads off!” Sunset threatened.

{Oh, a threat? That’s a no-no. Sour, take off Sparkles panties to start.}

Sunset’s heart sank. On the screen, she watched as Sour Sweet walked up to Twilight, the bespectacled girl tried to move around and fight back as much as she could to keep Sour from her mission. But that’s when Sour’s left hand latched around Twilight’s throat and squeezed, making her stop her thrashing, the bipolar girl pulled out a pair of scissors from her skirt pocket and held them up to let Twilight see them.

{Either you stay still and let me take them off, or I’ll just cut them off and possibly cut you in the process! One way or the other, they are coming off, so what’s it going to be?!} Sour asked.

Twilight ceased her movements and lowered her head in defeat. Sour put the scissors away and removed her hand from Twilight’s throat, she reached under Twilight’s skirt, feeling around until she found the waistband and slowly pulled them down until they were at Twilight’s ankles. Once there, Sour lifted Twilight’s legs out of them one at a time until they were now in her hands.

{Thank you, sweetie.} Sour looked at the pair of cotton white panties and scoffed. {Ugh, trust a girl like Sparkle not to wear anything interesting, plain as fuck.}

The screen flipped and now Sunny Flare was on it. {That’s just to show how serious we are.}

Sunset was really starting to want to burn the school down right about now, but they were right, they had her by the metaphorical balls. Without knowing where Twilight was specifically, there was no way she was going to be able to save her in time before those three did all they wanted and left her. She took a quick glance at Indigo who was taking off her uniform, when she was done, she was in her sports bra and sports shorts.

“Didn’t want to get any blood on my uniform, hard to explain that away,” Indigo explained. “Plus, I can move more freely like this. Now that you know the score, let’s get to it.”

Indigo dashed towards Sunset and reared back her right fist for a haymaker. Without thinking, Sunset reached out and caught Indigo’s fist just before it landed, the thudding impact resounded in the cavernous-like architecture of the gym. Indigo went wide eyed, no one had ever caught her punches like that, she didn’t even react to the pain that she was sure that followed stopping a punch like hers. For a moment, Indigo flinched, she saw something orange and glowing in Sunset’s eyes that made her fall back.

{Well, that’s not good. You already resisted. Take off the jacket next?}

{What?! The jacket?! How about the SKIRT? Y’know, cause I just took off her panties?!} Sour argued.

{I think this is a rhetorical question, but have you ever watched a porn video before? It’s called ‘build up’ and ‘teasing’! Just get the blazer off!}

{Shoulda done that before we tied her ass up…} Sour grumbled.

The camera flipped and showed Sour Sweet walking up to Twilight, the latter of which flinched when she saw the pair of scissors coming out again. Thanks to Twilight’s current position, the only way to get the blazer off was to cut it off. Sour made quick work of cutting from the side of the blazer and working her way up the arm and to the cuff, she repeated this process on the opposite side and pulled the blazer off as if it were a poncho, letting it rest on the floor.

{The next time you resist, her shirt goes next, and well, we’re getting down to the good stuff after that.} Sunny Flare threatened.

“Fuck…” Sunset muttered.

Indigo took this time to rush in again and threw a left hook at Sunset’s rips. This time around the blow landed, Sunset grunted, feeling her rips crack from the sheer force of Indigo’s punch.

Dammit…she may look lithe, but she’s got power behind her punches!

Indigo smirked, realizing that Sunset wasn’t going to counterattack, she came in with an uppercut and clocked Sunset in the jaw. The power of Indigo’s punch lifted Sunset off the ground by about five inches before she fell backwards onto the unforgiving wood floor. Sunset could taste blood in her mouth, she rolled onto her side and spat, there was a clattering when she did that and realized she just spat out a few of her teeth as well. The Ember Stone could heal her, but if she healed too much, she would only make Indigo angry that there wasn’t any real damage being done.

Concentrate on the internal damage, anything serious on the inside needs to be healed, external injuries can be healed later, she thought.

As she thought this, the damage to her rips was mended. Sunset had two advantages to this situation, one was the Ember Stone, the second was the fact that Sunset had subjected herself to various forms of pain and injury in order to get a good idea about how strong the Ember Stone’s healing power was. Thankfully, this allowed her to gain a bit of a high pain tolerance, allowing her to think more clearly even when injured. However, that didn’t negate the fact that it still hurt, the Ember Stone could erase the pain, but if she did, Indigo would only get frustrated and maybe have Sour do something else. For now, she needed to–

Indigo swiftly kicked Sunset in the stomach, making the flame haired girl roll on the floor. “Get the hell up, Shimmer! NOW!”

Sunset got onto her knees, heaving as she spat out more blood. With shaky legs she got onto her feet and stared down Indigo defiantly. “T-Tell me something…w-why Twilight…? Why her…?!”

Indigo smiled a little as she walked towards her. “Because I like her, Shimmer. Nah, I guess you could say I love her. You can say what you want, but that girl’s hot to me, she’s smart, reserved, and she could give two shits about my athletic achievements.”

The star athlete of Crystal Prep grabbed Sunset by the collar of her shirt, with her right fist, Indigo began punching Sunset in the face, repeatedly. Blood splattered onto the gym floor and onto her face and body with each successive hit.

“Everybody wants to dick ride me in one way or another! Because I’m the best, because I can become their meal ticket! I’m fucking tired of it! If all I wanted was an easy lay, I could pick a random girl and just take her to the locker room! But Sparkle, she’s different!”

With a growl, Indigo tossed Sunset towards the light, letting her fall unceremoniously onto the floor again. The spikey haired girl walked into the light with Sunset and when she was close enough, lifted her foot and brought it down over Sunset’s right kneecap.

“AAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!” Sunset yelled, feeling her leg dislocate.

“I dropped a lot of hints, and she picked up on each one. I let her see me in the locker room, and touch me, and she responded back to my touch!”

Indigo placed her feet on either side of Sunset’s body and then let herself drop rear first onto Sunset’s stomach. The sudden impact and weight caused Sunset’s eyes to go wide as she coughed, throwing up a little to the point she had to turn her head to keep from choking on it.

Sunset took in raspy breaths and responded, “S-She…She did t-that b-because…because she was afraid of you…! T-This school…e-everyone…she doesn’t trust a-any of you…!” Concentrate Shimmer…find Twilight…

“I could’ve protected her! She just needed to finally say she was mine and I could’ve given her anything! Protection from everyone! Love, affection, all of it!”

“S-She never wanted you t-to touch her…y-you raped her…!”

“I didn’t! She wanted it! She never once told me to stop!”

Throughout this beating and conversation, what neither Indigo Zap nor Lemon Zest knew was that Sunset was trying to locate Twilight. The Ember Stone was forged from the fires of life, and because of that, it was able to breathe life into those who were near dying and sense the embers of life that existed in everyone. Everyone’s flame was unique, it had a feel and glow that was all their own. She didn’t need Indigo or Lemon to tell her where Twilight was, she just needed time.

In her mind, she saw dozens and dozens of flickering embers. Each one a different color and each one feeling different from the last. One of them was Twilight’s, and all she needed to do was find it. She was drawing closer, she could feel it, more than half the school was eliminated from her search, she just needed another moment to zero in on Twilight, but Indigo wouldn’t give her that moment, at least, not of her own free will.

I’m sorry Twilight, I promise this is the last piece of clothing you’ll lose!

Indigo leaned forward about to say or do something, but that’s when Sunset lurched forward and smashed her forehead into Indigo’s face. The blow sent the star athlete shooting up to her feet as she howled in pain. “FUCKING HELL, YOU BITCH!”

{You either just don’t care or you want to see her naked or something. Oh well, more fun for us. Sour, the shirt.}

On the screen Sour Sweet used her scissors to repeat the same process she used to cut off the blazer on Twilight’s shirt. Once it was pulled off, the only things left preserving Twilight’s dignity was her white bra, and her plaid violet skirt.

{One more time Shimmer, and we’ll get to the main event.} Sour threatened

“HEY, YOU DON’T TOUCH THAT UNLESS I SAY SO! SHIT THAT HURT!” Indigo swore.

Now that she was off, Sunset poured all her thoughts into searching for Twilight. An orange-red flame cut through the dozens of other flames in the school, moving like a heat seeking missile until it found its target, a lone magenta flame, a familiar feeling magenta flame. Sunset opened her eyes and gave a little smirk.

“Found you…”

The flame haired girl rolled onto her left side, grunting in pain with each action she took. On shaky arms she propped herself up and used her good knee to get herself up a little.

Indigo wiped the blood from her nose and glared daggers at Sunset. “I’m going to break your fucking arm next, and after that I’m going to – what the hell?”

Suddenly, small embers began to rise from Sunset’s body, and soon after, her entire right leg was engulfed in flames. Lemon and Indigo jumped back in shock from the spontaneous combustion, both looking at each other with fear and confusion.

“Dude, what the hell?! We never said we were going to set her on fire,” said Lemon Zest.

“Shut up! Do you see any fucking matches or gasoline on me?!”

More flames ignited on Sunset, some from within, and the rest around her face. Sunset began to stand up, her right leg stamped hard against the floor, making the flames scatter away into particles. With a wave of her hand, Sunset removed the flames that had surrounded her face, revealing to Indigo and Lemon that all the injuries she had sustained during the beating were gone, as if someone had gone back in time and stopped the beating from ever happening.

“Good news, bitches, I know where Twilight is now,” said Sunset. “Bad news, you lost your advantage.”

Indigo’s right-hand shook, she quickly balled it into a fist and rushed in to punch Sunset again. But Sunset bolted for Indigo, intercepting her at such a great speed that Indigo barely had time to react. Sunset ducked under the punch and delivered her own punch to Indigo’s stomach. The blow made Indigo bend at the middle as her mouth opened in a wordless cry of pain. When Sunset retracted her arm, Indigo fell to her knees and clutched at her stomach experiencing a pain that she hadn’t felt in a long time.

Sunset swiftly wrenched Indigo’s right arm from her midsection and held it up. Indigo looked up with one eye, still trying to recover from the pain in her stomach, Sunset had a tight grasp around her forearm, a grip that was steadily getting tighter and tighter by the second.

“You should thank Twilight right now, Indigo, she made me promise not to kill your sorry asses, so I’m just going to leave you with a reminder of how easily I can end your piece of shit existence!”

Sunset doubled the force of her grip, and in so doing, caused an audible crack to echo in the gym, and a scream of pain to come from Indigo. The flame haired girl released Indigo’s broken arm and let her collapse into a heap, she then turned her attention to Lemon Zest, the quickness of her head turning caused a streak of orange to appear in her wake from her eyes when she laid them on the party girl.

Lemon Zest’s legs were shaking, her arms having lost strength, letting them dangle to the sides and cutting off the visuals for Sunny Flare and her group. Sunset walked towards Lemon Zest, her hair instantly ignited into flames, lightning up the room with its glow. The party girl collapsed onto her rear as she watched Sunset approach her, now standing over her with a look of pure hatred and death, fear and terror was evident in Lemon’s eyes as she beheld the image of a girl who was pissed off beyond all reason, a girl who would and could kill her without a second thought and not lose a wink of sleep over it. Lemon Zest couldn’t help it, as embarrassing and humiliating as it was, she peed herself.

“I-I swear to god – on my life – I-I don’t know where she is, Sunset! Y-You gotta believe me! It was all Indigo’s plan! S-She told them not to tell us where they were taking Twilight so that way you couldn’t get it out of us even if you did beat us up! I SWEAR IT’S THE TRUTH!” Lemon Zest pleaded.

Sunset sneered at Lemon Zest and then held out her right hand. “Phone, now.” Lemon Zest did as instructed and handed over the phone and looked into the camera. On the other side, she saw a confused and slightly scared Sunny Flare. “You have a few seconds to get the hell away from her before I come there and bash your skulls in. Sparky, I’m on my way, just wait.”

With that, Sunset crushed the phone in her hand, and then set it on fire until it was nothing but ash. Sunset stared down Lemon Zest for a little bit longer before she made her hair flare up, this, as it turns out, was enough to make Lemon Zest pass out on the floor out of fear.

“Hang on, Sparky, I’m coming.”

Sunset crouched low and shot up straight through the ceiling, she hovered in the air for a second and turned her head in the direction of the track field, more specifically, the equipment shed.

Sunny Flare stared at her phone, Sour Sweet and Sugarcoat were stunned as well, having seen and heard Sunset’s message. “She’s…She’s bluffing, she doesn’t really know where we are!”

“Dammit! Alright, whatever, Shimmer broke the rules, so now we go all the way!” Sour stated as she glared at Twilight. “You’re fucking cunt of a girlfriend just fucked you over, Sparkle!”

Sour Sweet took a good look at Twilight, before she had a look of fear on her face, but something changed, there was…confidence in her eyes. This only served to enrage Sour Sweet, she grabbed a large object, black and riddled with large bumps, as she advanced on Twilight. She grabbed Twilight by the hair and waved the object in her face in a threatening manner.

“Indigo made us promise not to shove anything up your cunt, said she wanted your first time to be with her! But you know what, fuck her! This was originally going up your ass, but now, I have a better place to put it!” Sour stated.

Sugarcoat’s eyes widened when she heard that and warned, “W-Wait, you can’t do that! She’s a virgin! If you do that you could seriously hurt her!”

“Who cares!” Sour Sweet replied. “This isn’t a vanilla porno thing we’re shooting here! Or, y’know what, I just thought of something better!” Sour Sweet threw the object on the floor, reached into her pocket, and pulled out the scissors she had been using. “Maybe I use these instead!”

Sunny Flare seemed to snap out of her daze long enough to register what Sour Sweet just said. “What the hell – are you fucking crazy?! You’ll kill her, you idiot!”

“We’re holding her against her will, stripped her, and threatened her with sexual violence, and we’re filming it! At this point, we’re fucked if she talks! Might as well turn this into a snuff film!”

Sugarcoat looked to Sour Sweet, she had a manic look in her eyes. That’s when she realized what was happening, Sour Sweet forgot her meds. Sour Sweet was off-balanced, and so took some medicine to keep her from going too far off the deep end in her thinking, when she was on them, she’d just make snide remarks and maybe throw a punch. But when she was off them, Sour Sweet could get real…dark, under the right circumstances, and right now was the perfect circumstance. Sugarcoat may not have liked Twilight Sparkle, but neither did she dislike her, she just wanted to avoid winding up in the same situation as Twilight.

She was smart, but not as smart as Twilight, aside from Sunset Shimmer, no one was. So Sugarcoat decided to advance her popularity in other ways, providing “favors” to her fellow classmates, and excelling as best she could in her academics while also doing more in athletics to the best of her ability, compared to Twilight, she was practically an Olympic competitor. Sugarcoat’s “favors” managed to avoid the hazing and general vitriol of Crystal Prep by becoming an under-the-table-slut. All she was concerned with was getting through Crystal Prep and making it to college to get into an ivy league school to become a lawyer, but now…

“Sour, did you forget to take your meds today or something?!” Sunny Flare asked.

“I needed to think clearly and that shit will throw me off!”

Despite the addition of the scissors, Twilight’s confident gleam didn’t diminish in the slightest, she knew…she knew in heart and mind that Sunset didn’t say what she said just to keep her calm. Sunset knew where she was, and she’d be rescued.

“Hope it’s good for you, Sparkle,” said Sour Sweet as she readied her scissors.

“SOUR SWEET!”

“NO!” Sugarcoat yelled as she charged for Sour Sweet.

The tri-tailed girl slammed into Sour Sweet, rolled on the ground for a few seconds before hitting a shelf and making various baseballs, cones, and other things fall on top of them.

Sour Sweet groaned as she propped herself up and growled, “Sugarcoat, what the fuck are you…do…ing…? Oh shit…”

Twilight, Sunny Flare, and even Sour Sweet stared in stunned silence when they saw that the scissors had pierced Sugarcoat’s stomach. The normally stoic girl looked down at herself, her face morphing into one of sheer terror as she saw the scissors lodged deep into her abdomen, her sense of pain was dulled as her brain worked to process what she was seeing. Sour Sweet got off Sugarcoat and clasped her hands around her mouth as she shook her head back and forth, as if trying to deny what was right before her eyes but failing to do so.

“Sour Sweet, what did you do…?”

“I…I…”

Just then the door to the storage room was ripped off its hinges, everyone sans Sugarcoat turned their heads towards the entrance and saw Sunset Shimmer, her flame hair was gone, but really, she didn’t need fire power to deal with these three. However, when she looked inside, she spotted Sugarcoat on the floor, stabbed, and Sour Sweet with a bit of blood on her hands.

“S-S-Shimmer?! W-Wait, I can explain–!”

Before Sunny Flare could finish her sentence, Sunset decked her with a right hook across the face, knocking out Sunny Flare immediately. Sour Sweet out of pure instinct got up and readied herself to fight Sunset, but that was a futile effort as Sunset swiftly came in and kneed Sour in the gut, making the bipolar girl hunch over in pain, but then came a quick kick that sent Sour flying towards the wall, slamming against it and knocking her out as well.

Sunset hurried over to Twilight and carefully removed the duct tape from her mouth. “Sparky, I’m so sorry I couldn’t protect you! I promised I wouldn’t let anything happen to you…and I failed…”

Despite the situation, Twilight smiled, a happy relieved grin. “You came for me. You saved me; you didn’t fail Sunset…but I need you to save Sugarcoat.”

Sunset glanced down at Sugarcoat, who was passed out. “But, she…”

“She stopped Sour Sweet from using those on me, and in the struggle got stabbed!” Twilight explained. “She helped me, Sunset, please don’t let her die!”

Sunset looked back at Sugarcoat and then sighed, “I’ll let you down in a second, okay?”

“I’m fine, just help her.”

The bearer of the Ember Stone knelt next to Sugarcoat, examining the damage. The scissors had punctured right through her stomach, and more than likely cut through the intestines and was hemorrhaging blood internally and releasing stomach acid into her system. “You helped Sparky, I don’t know if you came to your senses or if you’re not as bad I thought you were. But I’ll pay it forward.”

Sunset used her blazer to grab the scissors, pulled them out, and chucked them to the far side of the storage shed. She moved her head closer to Sugarcoats and tilted her head back, summoning the Flames of Life from the Ember Stone, Sunset inhaled, opened Sugarcoat’s mouth, and breathed in the flames. Unlike with Twilight, she wasn’t shot in the heart and on the brink of death, the wound was serious, but she wasn’t going to die right away, which meant the healing power of the flames would work immediately. And just as she thought, fire erupted around the wound, and in a matter of seconds, it was closed, along with all the damage it had done inside.

Sunset released Sugarcoat’s head and let it lie gently against the floor. Once she was done, Sunset whipped her hand across the rope that held Twilight, using her flames to cut it. Twilight’s arms were released, she let them dangle in front of her, strained and tired from holding that uncomfortable position for so long. Sunset lit a small flame to cut the zip ties and release Twilight’s hands from their confinement, she looked around the room and blushed for a moment as she grabbed Twilight’s panties.

“H-Here, go ahead and put them on,” said Sunset as she turned her head to give Twilight privacy.

Twilight blushed and took her underwear back gratefully. “I…I wouldn’t mind if it was you looking…just so you know…”

Sunset blushed harder, she took off her blazer and handed it to Twilight. “Here, you don’t want to go out looking like that.”

Twilight took the blazer and put it on, she glanced down at Sugarcoat who was still unconscious. “Will she be alright?”

“Thankfully her injuries weren’t as bad as yours were that night, so it wasn’t a touch and go thing, but she’ll be alright,” said Sunset as she wrapped her left arm around Twilight. “C’mon, let’s get you out of here.”

As Sunset and Twilight made their way out of the door, they stopped, watching as someone approached them at a running speed. When they got closer, both girls froze, realizing that that person was Dean Cadence. She stopped a few feet in front of them, catching her breath and panting hard for a few seconds.

“D-Dean Cadence, what are you doing here?!” Sunset asked.

“I…I saw a streak of flames heading towards the storage shed, then stop right in front of the door and ripped it off,” Cadence explained. “I ran out here to see what was going on and…and now I need to know why you two are out here instead of in class, and…” Cadence took a moment to look over Twilight and Sunset, Sunset’s blazer was gone, and there was some blood splatter on her shirt, not only that, but Twilight was wearing a blazer instead of her usual vest, and…was that cleavage? “Twilight, what’s…why do you look like that? Are you even wearing a shirt under that?!”

Twilight hugged herself, she had been trying so hard to keep everything that had been happening to her at Crystal Prep over the years hidden from her family, now, with the unconscious bodies of three of her abusers in the shed, and possibly two more in the gym where Sunset fought them, and given her current state of dress, there was no way for her to spin this or brush it off. Now, it was as if fate had decreed that this was the moment the lying ended, no more hiding the pain, it was time to let it out.

“No…I’m not…” Twilight answered. “I…I’m sorry…I’m sorry…”

The strength in Twilight’s legs left and she began to collapse, thankfully Sunset managed to catch her and gently guide her down to the ground. Cadence rushed over and knelt before her soon to be sister-in-law, her heart ached when she saw Twilight crying, but it hurt more not knowing why her little “ladybug” was hurting.

Sunset glanced at Cadence and said, “There’s something you should know, Dean Cadence.”

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