In the previous chapter; Phantasma was introduced to Twilight Sparkle's brother Shining Armor, and his wife Princess Cadence. The royal couple were surprised by Phantasma's sudden appearance and short speech as it implied hostility to the Princesses of Equestria. Phantasma then invited Twilight's siblings into her cave, where Cadence was shocked by the mess present in the otherwise grand cavern. When the rest of the mane six joined the small crowd they hastily bowed to the royal ponies after acknowledging their presence. Shining Armor explained how they had come to be here. Phantasma noticed Derpy Hooves wasn't around and questioned the mane six about where the grey pegasus had gone, at which the five ponies who were listening to Twilight's brother all said she mentioned something about going to sleep. Phantasma went into her bedroom to find Derpy asleep in her bed, with a half empty crate of muffins next to her. Phantasma leaned in to kiss Derpy on the cheek as Derpy turned her head. Derpy then opened her eyes and smiled.

Phantasma looked at Derpy in shock after what had just happened; Derpy on the other hand just looked at Phantasma smiling cheekily. The red mare started to freak out which confused Derpy as she thought the unicorn, who was so nice to her, loved her. Phantasma managed to bring herself round before asking Derpy why she did that.
Derpy smiled and said "I thought you loved me and I love you so I thought you would like that."
Phantasma smiled at Derpy and said "I did you just surprised me." Derpy smiled before getting out of Phantasma's bed grabbing her crate of muffins and following Phantasma into the main room where they met back up with the mane six Cadence and Shining Armor, who had just finished recounting how he and Cadence had come to be here.

Phantasma grabbed everypony's attention by banging her hoof on the central table. Everypony's head turned to face the red mare before the noise in the cave lessened to silence. Phantasma said "Ok everypony, we know as much about this as each other now. I think it is about time we turned this knowledge into a plan." At this everypony nodded muttering between themselves, besides Derpy who was too busy eating her muffins to talk.
Phantasma laid out a map of Equestria onto the table followed by a map of Ponyville, Canterlot, The Crystal Empire and the Everfree Forest. She then proceeded to mark the places that the being had caused chaos in, and the places that she suspected the being would target next. The other ponies in the room watched carefully occasionally adding notes of their own.

Phantasma then said "Ok we have numerous locations plotted on the map; now all we need is a plan... I have a few ideas but they may not work."
Twilight then interjected saying "Please elaborate Phantasma, we need to have some way to stop this thing"
Phantasma continued "Ok my first plan goes as follows; Me, Rainbow Dash, and Applejack will lead the being into the Crystal Palace, where Twilight Cadence and Shining Armor will be waiting to cast a magical entanglement which will trap the being. When the being is in the centre of the throne room I will teleport myself, RD and AJ out of the way and shoot a paralyzing spell at the creature. Cadence, Twilight and Shining will then begin casting the spell. Once the spell is complete Fluttershy will use her kindness to reform the 'thing' back into her dear friend Discord hopefully forcing out the evil personality of Sunset Shimmer, which we will then work to defeat."

Pinkie Pie, after hearing this plan jumped in shouting "That sounds like it could work let's do it, although I'm not sure where I come in."
Phantasma then added "You can help set up the Party for after and you can help lure the being into the trap" Pinkie notified Phantasma that she was happy with that and they got working on the plan adding points here and there to fine tune it, eventually they had finished all that needed to be done was mapping out the route that they would take to get to the crystal Empire. Cadence suggested that they started at the train station as that would provide a quick path to the palace.
Phantasma said "Yes that would help as the longer we lead it the sooner it will figure out it is being trapped. Here's the route I would take, starting at the Train Station: I would go past the spa through the market around and into the back of the Crystal Palace so the Crystal Heart isn't corrupted."

Everypony else nodded and thus the plan was set, now all that needed doing was to teach Twilight, and her brother and sister the spell needed to capture the beast, the plan needed to be set up, and then carried out. It didn't seem like a lot needed to be done to Phantasma but she was mistaken. Phantasma went to her library to find five books open, all of them relating to the being running rampage around Equestria. She then went to her spell-book collection and found that she didn’t have the book she needed. To hopefully disprove this she looked in the book she had pulled out when she was showing Twilight around her library. To her dismay she couldn’t find the spell-book. She asked Twilight if she had the spell-book in her library. Twilight sullenly shook her head.

“Gosh darn it” thought Phantasma as she hurried into the Crystal Empire to see if she could find the book she needed. She burst into the Crystal Library, panting heavily and asked the librarian if they had any spell books. The unicorn’s heart soared as the Librarian said that they did have a variety of spell-books, and directed her to them. Phantasma frantically searched the stacks of books until she found the book she was looking for ‘Spells for the Magically Adept’. She asked the Librarian if she could borrow it. The Librarian agreed to this but said have it back in 30 moons. As Phantasma was rushing home it began to rain.

Author's Note

Hi everypony,
I have come up with a total amount of Chapters, which does mean it will be finishing relatively soon, definitely by the end of the year.
I will be finishing this story completely, I may add a cliffhanger so i can make a sequel.
For now it will be continuing as normal, with a new Chapter coming out each week
Yours Derpily
Phantasma