Chapter 7- Unexpected Turn

"You dreamed about YONEKO?" Rekka whispered.

"Yeah. And the Q-hybrids who helped us." Koto replied. She and Rekka were in the kitchen. The others were sleeping still.

"Where were they in the dream?" Rekka asked.

"In the forest called Everfree, and.... they came here." Koto replied again.

"Here?" Rekka asked again, a look of bewilderment in his eyes.

"Yeah." Koto answered. They could see it was well past morning now. Sunlight was the only light in the room. It illuminated the table they sat at.

Someone knocked on the door. Koto hobbled over to answer it. Standing before her was YONEKO and the hybrids! Except YONEKO, like Koto and her friends, was also equine. The hybrids remained unaffected.

"Before you speak, my name is now Misaki." The cyborg said. Koto merely nodded, and hobbled her way back to Rekka.

"I am starting to think you saw the future!" Rekka remarked.

"You think?" Koto sneered. The cyborg followed her to the table. The vending lady snickered. She'd laugh out loud if nobody was asleep.

"I have due reason to believe this world is in danger." Misaki said.

"I can see why." Rekka chimed. "Misaki, what of the Quartet?"

"They are here as well. I fear the worst since they most likely have horns." Misaki replied.

"Horns? What for?" Rekka asked.

"They can use magic to craft more hybrids from thin air." Misaki answered.

"But you have a horn! Could you not counter that the way we did?!" Koto remarked.

Misaki could not counter that. Koto was right. A faint smile crept on her lips. Suddenly, they saw Yuuki walk into the room with the batteryman on her back. He could not stop laughing.

"You look funny!" He remarked.

"Can it," Yuuki replied. She looked like she was ticked.

Misaki saw Nagare and Tenmei in the living room jabber on about things. Jabber,jabber,jabber. Rarity, Twilight and Rainbow gawked at the vending lady, who gawked right back. Spike and the TV-girl jabbered much like Tenmei and Nagare. The water-bottle boy was petting a white cat. The clay person hid in a fish bowl. He watched it all. Thankfully, the fish bowl was empty before he crawled in it. Rekka and Koto were busy trying to readjust the wooden stick that the leg now consisted of.

"Sire, I've gathered intel on the enemy."

"What is is, Saki?" Baki said.

"One of the brats has a broken foreleg. Another lost half of his hind leg, rendering his laser gun useless." Saki reported.

"Excellent!" Baki replied, a wicked smile scrawled across his face.

"But there's some bad news as well, sire." Saki stated.

"Hurry up and say it already!" Baki barked, getting irritated.

"YONEKO is here as well. She is a unicorn cyborg and.... she joined the side of the brats."

Baki slowly turned around.  His eyes dilated and his jaw went wide.

"WWWWWWHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!" Baki said. He looked like he needed to scream, more or less. Saki could've sworn he began foaming at the mouth.

"B-B-BUT THAT IS NOT POSSIBLE?!" Maki shrieked.

"It very well is, I am afraid." Saki replied.

"H-HOW?!" Baki barked once more. Sweat formed on his face at a terrific rate.

"I am not sure. But it's most likely the same force that dragged us here." Saki stated.