The news of the tragedy spread across Equestria, families of the lost ones joined at ground zero to mourn their loss, ponies left to tend to lifeless husks and Changelings left with but a memory of their loved ones.
The machine built by Mark ticked on and hummed indefinitely to remain untouchable for years to come.
A day later a promise was made.
A week later, species united.
A month later Changelings lived alongside Ponies, this time out in the open.
Life had returned to normal, Celestia continued her reign with the aid of Queen Chrysalis and Rose having seen the loved ones being stripped from Pacifica and Monty one by one, adopted them and took them in, having moved to ponyville where her beloved Mark had once lived.
As for Monty and Pacifica…
Pacifica had finally found her place in life and Monty had figured out what he wanted to write about... nopony knew anything about changelings and they needed something to help them with that, the book was going to be called "A thing or two about changelings and their habits" and it was to become one of the most important books ever written.

Into her own reflection she stared
Yearning for one whose reflection she shared
and solemnly sweared not to be scared
at the prospect of being doubly mirrored

Today was a good day for a trisport tournament, the sky was bright, the clouds had been dealt with and the wind was practically nonexistent.

“Come on! it’s going to be the Rumbling stampedes against the Thunderclaps!”
Monty had been waiting for Aunt Rose to bring him and Pacifica to the game for so long now.

“All right, all right…”

“You know Monty, when it comes to the trisport tournament, he won’t miss it for the world” said Pacifica, Rose noticed that she recently had managed to open up much more and be more talkative, she was now almost like a normal filly.

“Speaking of missing things, where is your uncle?”

“In the bathroom, he said he’ll catch up to us later”

“No, your other uncle”

“Uncle Dis couldn't make it today…”

Author's Notes:

Well... this is it guys, the end of this fanfic... but it's merely the beginning of what's going to happen later.
It was one hell of a ride especially near the end and I hope that you enjoyed it as much as I did.

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Thing: I intend on writing up the prelude to my next fanfic sometime this week, to those who don't know this yet, it will be posted here, so you will be notified when it comes out as this site will register it all as one single fanfic, that way none of you will lose track of all the incoming sequels and prequels... the title and synopsis will be added below the title and synopsis of this fanfic so keep an eye out for it!