Few hours have passed, and it seems that these two foals haven’t let up just yet. King Sombra was basically having his hooves on his head; sweating, and thinking “how in the world do they have so much energy all of a sudden? This is not gonna end well for me.”

After what seems like five minutes, the two foals have stopped, and finally collapsed to the ground while panting from exhaustion. Sombra walked up to them, chuckled slightly, and asks “you two feeling alright? That was quite a marathon you two ran.” Starlight and Sunburst both gestured as if to give him a thumbs up, even though they don’t have hands. Sombra then gave them sippy cups full of water, and sat waiting for them to accept his offering. They obliged, and started drinking from their cups. Where’d the cups came from, who knows? Maybe by the foal’s magic, or by Sombra’s shadow form acting as a portable pocket of sorts, (like pinkie pie’s mane). Either way, it’s a mystery.

Five more minutes passed, and they both sighed in relief that they’re no longer exhausted. With that, Sombra asks “so, now that that’s over with, what do y’all wanna do next?” Before both of the infants can answer that question, both of their stomachs started growling, and rumbling. Sombra then knew what that meant, and picked them up. “So” he began, “what do y’all wanna eat?” Starlight said that she wants some pancakes for lunch, while Sunburst said that he just wants a sandwich. Sombra nodded, but then asks Starlight; “wait, didn’t you already have pancakes for breakfast?” Starlight nodded, but looks at him in surprise, shock, and confusion, and asks him nervously, “y-yeah. H-how did you know that?” Sombra simply says “because I’m a villain. I know almost everything there is to know about my enemies. Now then, let’s get y’all something to eat.”

After Sombra places the two foals in their respective booster seats (despite him not owning any booster seats himself, or just conjures/summons them somehow), he then decided to go and check for any ingredients for their meals. Sunburst struggles to escape from his booster seat, and succeeded. Starlight followed suit, and they both decided to escape from their chairs and went off to play whilst giggling; unbeknownst to Sombra, who was busy gathering up the ingredients. Once he turned back, he saw that the two infants were gone, and dropped all the ingredients he gathered onto the table so he can go and find the two infants.

Sombra searched high and low for the two foals, but couldn’t find them for some reason. So after he gave up, he decided to head back to the kitchen so he can prepare their meals for them in case they came back. However, right before he could do that, he found the two foals with their meals. Sombra; shocked, and confused, simply asks “h-how. W-what?” Both foals giggled, before Starlight simply stated “magic.” After that statement, Sombra blushed, and says “sure thing”, before leaving to go wait for them to finish their meals.

After the two finished their meals, they both started whining to prompt Sombra to carry them. Once that happened, Sombra then takes the two foals back into Flurry Heart’s room to figure out what to do with them next.

In Flurry Heart’s room, there’s a lot of toys strewn on the ground. Sombra, (knowing that it’s them obviously), asks them if they made that mess. Both foals looked ashamed of each other and nodded at him. Sombra sighed, and reassures them that it wasn’t too big of a deal, but to clean up next time. The babies agreed, and Sombra walked towards the center of the mess to get them to play with some toys.

Starlight and Sunburst were both busy playing with their own sets of toys, when suddenly Starlight frowned, and started walking towards King Sombra whilst holding a plushie in her hooves. Sombra was occupied with reading a random filly’s story because he was bored, and didn’t pay the foals no mind. Starlight tugged on his cape, and says “I’m bored. Let’s do something else.” Sombra closes the book, and asks “what do you wanna do then?” Starlight was about to answer, when suddenly she saw a very interesting book in Sombra’s shadowhand. She then asks him in her cute filly voice and eyes; “will you wead me dat stowy pwease?” Sombra sighs for a bit, and says “okay, but no funny business, got it?” Starlight nodded and waits for Sombra to respond. “Okay then” he says, “let’s get this story started.” He then picks up Starlight, sits her on his lap, and opens the book he was reading. “Once upon a time...” he began.

After five minutes, Starlight began to yawn and fall asleep. Sunburst followed suit, (as he was exhausted from playing with his plushie, and running around with it). Sombra smiles, and let’s the two sleep on his lap, while he too, falls asleep; leaning against the bed frame of Flurry Heart’s bed.

Little did he know that this’ll only get worse from here on out...