Equestria Girls: The Witching Hour

"I won't see you soon." He called as he left.

Inside the house she was met by her mother. "Oh I'm glad you're safe. I heard the restaurant he was taking you to was bombed are you okay? Where is Storm? Is he hurt?" Asked Wavedancer.

"He is fine actually, although I think he is pretty pissed off actually. He seemed mad when he left. And the Steel Dragon wasn't bombed mom. It's hard to explain so I'll just show you the video when Storm sends it out." Aria replied as she put her curried chicken down on the table and opened the container.

"So other then the first choice to eat blowing up how was the date?" Asked Sonata peaking out from behind their mother.

Aria went to get a fork from the silverware drawer. "It was fine, until the dragon attacked, then it sucked. Oh and I transformed or something, we still don't really know what happened." Aria replied "Like I said Storm will be sending the video along soon so maybe our big brains can figure it out."

"Dragon attack? Transformed? What happened? And where was Storm? He doesn't seem the type to let you go head long in to danger." Said Adagio coming out from her hiding place seeming upset that Storm put her sister in danger.

"Actually he shot the stupid thing and the bullets just stopped in the dragon's body. I don't know how because he has a .50 caliber handgun, it's like it had a force field or something. It was really crazy, and weird. I also got the feeling that thing was after Storm so I got him down and took care of it." Aria replied going back over to her dinner. She was being very quiet and thoughtful after sitting down, like she was still processing what happened.

"Whoa." Sonata said "That's really crazy alright." She then turned and looked at her mother and sister. "What do I do about my little Marble? She could be in big trouble of something like this happens again."

"She's Pinkie's sister and from what I heard in school their older sisters like Limestone and Maud are not the type to let anything happen to family. And we have that scary scene thing like Pinkie dose. So I would not worry to much. And Since Aria would transformed into knowing her it was probably some kind of demon then you would become Marble's guardian angel." Said Adagio hugging Aria as she called her a demon obviously teasing her. "Also I think storm actual made a good impression on Aria she stood up to save him." Now she was being all huggy.

Sonata squeed and smiled at being called a guardian angel. She really like the idea.

"Adagio stop teasing Aria and let her eat." Said their mother. "And you're getting a check up tomorrow Aria."

"Yeah okay mom. It's a good idea anyway." Aria replied absent mindedly causing their jaws to drop.

"Okay who are you? And what have you done with my little Ari?" Wavedancer replied

"Nothing mom, I'm just concerned by what happened." Aria said as she ate.

Adagio put one hand on Aria's forehead and the other on her own. "No fever... I think maybe she might have actually fallen in love with Storm. Such a massive behavior change like this can only mean she's in love. So how many times you punch him?" said Adagio

"A few times, but that was for being stupid. Anyway I'm not in love with him. I am worried about the shrimp though, he seemed like he'd been knocked off of his pillar. Which is weird because he wasn't really on one. So I don't know what's going on. I don't think he'll be at school on Monday though. I think he is up to something." Aria replied

Sonata scratched her head. "What could Stormy be up to I wonder?"

"I dunno." Aria said

"I have an idea. You said he had a handgun, a 50 cal? And that it did nothing. He may try to build something to replace it after his only defense failed especially because it put you in danger cause of that failure. And you told us about the laser pistol he had his brothers made he actually brought to motocross club because you team had no starter's pistol. So he might be going to build something to protect you. Or go to his brothers for a design to build." Said Adagio pointing out a possibility.

"Maybe," Aria said "all I know is that the pipsqueak seemed pretty pissed, or maybe he felt depressed. I'm not sure really."

"Oh, that's not good. I wonder if there is a way we can cheer Storm up. Nobody should be left feeling depressed." Sonata whimpered

"I could think of one but I doubt Aria would go for it." Said Adagio before walking away.

"He should be fine dear but you should message him tomorrow." Said their mom, almost a moment later the groups text on Sonata's, Aria's and Adagio's phones all went off.

Everyone I'm sure you heard the about um, incident at the dragon Aria and I are safe, I'm getting gas in the truck right now. But the event has me worried Sunset, Twilight I'll need you two to meet at my place to discuss ramifications of the included video. And yes I have a permit for the DE though as shown the 50 caliber bullets seemed to failed to even scratch the statue, which I know to be made of sheet metal. Adagio Sonata look after Aria as we don't know what actually happened to her at the time and please notify me if there are side effects or if the doctors find something it might help. Also Megan, Brianna watch yourselves. Aria said it was targeting me, if that's true it can only be because of my vision power like Brianna's. So you might be the next target. Said Storm's text attached was the video going from him looking in to Aria's eyes to shooting the transformation and up to the point with Twilight's brother showing up.

There was no immediate response as the group tried to process the events. finally there was one rather worried text from Twilight.
I'm glad you two are okay Storm. I'm going to spend some of tomorrow analyzing this video with Sunset to see what we can determine. I'm particularly interested in Aria's transformation. We'll tell you what we come up up with as soon as we can. Take care everyone.

"Wow." Wavedancer said "My little Aria kicking tail like some kind of superhero. That's really awesome!"

Sonata turned thoughtful. "I'd say it was more like a magical girl really, but it is really awesome mommy."

Adagio stood in the hallway entrance quietly thinking about what had happened.

Right I'm going to tinker with some of those directed energy weapons my brothers cooked up tomorrow. I have decided in need a bigger gun. Got drive now talk to you girls latter, also Rainbow did your mom get a hold of Octavia for the motocross team the race is next week?. texted Storm

Yeah. Came Rainbow's one worded reply.

With that the night wound down the adrenaline wearing off leaving those involved drained and tired. And Megan spent the rest of that night comforting Brianna who was understandably scared by the news.

The next day Twilight was taking Spike to the animal shelter where Fluttershy volunteered to have the C.T. scan done. Naturally the little guy was very nervous about the appointment.

"Twilight do we really have to this?" Spike said from inside his pet carrier.

"Don't be such a baby Spike. Fluttershy is here and you love Fluttershy. It won't hurt I promise." Twilight sighed, she wished Sunset was here with her right now, but Sunset was doing some online research to try and figure out what had happened. Twilight walked into the shelter and saw Adagio sitting in a chair. "Hi Adagio. What are you doing here?"

Adagio looked up from the magazine she'd been reading and replied. "Looking after Fluttershy in case something like what happened last night happens here. I don't like how conveniently our group was targeted Twilight. So I'm here just in case, and besides Fluttershy asked me to be here. What was I supposed to do? Say no?"

Twilight giggled. "Fluttershy is hard to say no to." She said bending down and putting the pet carrier on the floor and letting Spike out.

"Well hello there aren't you a cute little puppy." Said Adagio scratching Spike's ear.

"Oh yeah, that's the spot." Spike panted "It's nice to finally meet you Adagio. Twilight and Sunset have told me a lot about you."

Twilight giggled again, Spike was a silly dog at times and it made her happy that he was making a new friend.

Adagio froze. "You actually talk, talk? You mean that wasn't an exaggeration?"

"I'm going to get that a lot, aren't I?" Spike said flatly.

Twilight giggled again. "Well to be fair, it is pretty hard to believe Spike. But no Adagio it wasn't an exaggeration."

"Okay Storm is right things are beyond weird, a talking dog, living statue tried to attack him and Aria, and a shared dream. It's official our world is ending." Adagio said falling back in to the chair.

"I don't think so Adagio." Spike replied "I mean things are getting really strange and all, but between you Sunset, Twilight and Storm I'm betting you're all smart enough to figure it out. You see the four of you are like the brains of the group, and I bet you all work together you can fix things. Or at least make the better, and maybe I can find a way to help out too." Spike said wagging his tail.

"Wow Spike when did you get so wise?" Twilight replied

It was then that they heard something drop and turned to see Fluttershy who had just come into the room carrying an empty bucket marked dog food. "Oh my gosh! Spike you really are talking! That is just so amazingly wonderful!" She said dashing over to him and picking him up.

"Hi Fluttershy." Spike replied

"Hi Spike, it's just so amazing to hear talking like a person.How are you little guy?" Fluttershy cooed sweetly.

"I'm a little nervous about the whole scan thing, but with you here I know I'll be fine." said Spike

"Of course she would not even bat a eye at what amounts to a miracle, or a sign that Twilight is a witch. Depending on who sees it." Said Adagio with a chuckle.

"I am not a witch." Twilight deadpanned "Now let's see if anything is different with our little friend shall we?"

"Oh sure, right this way." Fluttershy said carrying Spike in her arms.

"Twilight, I didn't mean it and you know it but that doesn't mean others won't think it. Or worse that your a mad scientist that experimented on a helpless animal." Said Adagio as she followed along.

"As if Twilight would ever do that. She'd freak out way too hard." Spike said teasing Twilight.

Twilight just stuck her tongue out at Spike. "I'm not the only one who freaks out Spike. Remember the last thunderstorm?" Twilight shot back.

"Oh, are you really still having trouble with that Spike." Fluttershy asked sounding worried.

"Oh? Is the big brave doggy woggy sacred of thunderstorms?" Said Adagio unable to resist a small amount of teasing towards Spike.

"Hey! It's really loud Adagio. And if you had ears as good as mine you wouldn't like it much either." Spike shot back.

"Oh don't mind them Spike, a lot of dogs have that problem. Cats too." Fluttershy soothed as they walked into the room with the C.T. scanner.

The technician looked up as the girls entered the room. "Oh hey Fluttershy." He responded "So this is the little guy huh?" He said walking up to Fluttershy and Spike. "So what's wrong with our little friend anyway?" he asked

"It's more of a precaution really. We don't know that anything is wrong and want to make sure, and going to the vet would be too expensive if nothing proved to be wrong." Fluttershy replied

"Okay, put him in the machine and we'll see what's what." The man said.

Fluttershy nodded and walked Spike over to the scanner. "Okay Spike I'll be right here the whole time." She said after placing him in the scanner as the test began.

Adagio whispers to Twilight. "What if something dose show up? I mean like blindingly obvious?"

Twilight whispered back. "Nobody know what we'd be looking for let alone at Adagio. We don't even know if the C.T. scanner can even detect whatever is responsible for this."

The technician having completed the scan came back into the room. "Well there is nothing out of the ordinary that we found miss Twilight. I can see why you didn't want to go to the vet on this one. That would have been a lot of money just to find out that nothing is wrong with out little friend here. Just in case I'll show these to Dr. Goodall when she gets in though. I may have missed something. For now it seems that Spike is perfectly healthy and normal though.

Adagio seemed to look more worried now but hid it with a smile. "That's great news right Twilight."

Twilight looked at Adagio skeptically as the tech left the room. "No it just mean that whatever caused this can't be detected by normal means. If we had some kind of spectrometer... No that wouldn't work because we don't know what energy wavelengths to tune it to."

"So it's some kind of magic then?" Asked Fluttershy as walked in carrying Spike.

"For all we know yes." Twilight concluded "And if that is the case figuring out what's going on and finding any countermeasures will be very difficult, maybe even impossible. Perhaps if we delved into Quantum Physics, no, that won't work we don't know anyone with that kind of high level scientific knowledge." Twilight groaned "I'm at a loss here girls, we're way out of our league with this."

"Well we could go to Storm for his brother's help. But I wouldn't trust either alone with Spike based on reputation." said Adagio

Fluttershy hugged Spike defensively. "There has got to be a better way."

Twilight nodded "Agreed, we simply can't take any risks with a scientist who has been know to skirt the law and ethics like that. It just isn't safe. We'll just have to see what we can do for right now. I know it's not the best solution, but it's all we've got at the moment." Twilight turned to Fluttershy. "Fluttershy I need you to watch Spike for a little while, I'm going take our findings to Sunset and we'll try and get a hold of Storm and see what he thinks. He may be more of an engineer but he can still help us, I hope."

"How was Storm after last night anyway?" Fluttershy asked Adagio.

"He didn't come in, but Aria thinks it upset him some. Though that's not surprising given the size of that cannon he carried did nothing then his date had to save him... I wonder how Aria is at the doctor's." said Adagio

"Oh, that's not good then." Fluttershy said quietly.

"I'll be back in a little while. Take care of Spike for me Fluttershy." Twilight said as she left.

Across town at the doctor's office Aria was not sitting too still for the doctor's examination. "Please sit still miss Blaze, we can't do our job with you fidgeting like that." The doctor said with an irritated tone.

"Yeah well, I don't like being poked and prodded." said Aria

"Ari, please sit still so the doctors can finish." Wavedancer said

"Whatever." She grumbled as she sat there.

"That's better." The doctor said. "We're also going to run some tests as well. The incident last night was very serious and we need to be thorough." The doctor said.

"What you want me to run a treadmill or something?" Said Aria. She may have agreed to this but she doesn't have to like it.

"We'll need to run a C.T. scan to make sure there is no hidden brain trauma, some x-rays, and maybe some blood test just in case." The doctor replied.

"Great so how long am I stuck here?" asked Aria

"We'll need no more than three hours at the most. And the blood test results typically take a few days so you should try to slow down and take it easy miss Blaze." The doctor said.

"So I won't know till next week, great." She said sounding annoyed.

"The tests take time miss Blaze, and also you might want to check in with your ear, nose, and throat doctor if you have one. It sounds to me like you might have strained your voice a little during the incident." The doctor replied. "Now if you'll follow me please we can get the testing underway so you can be one your way." He said as he opened the door.

She compiled, but maintained her bored and grumpy demeanor.

The blood samples were taken first, then the x-rays were conducted followed by the cat scan. Both the x-rays and C.T. scans showed nothing abnormal and no injuries. The blood tests would have to wait but the doctors already suspected that they wouldn't find anything.

"Well miss Blaze, there is nothing wrong that we can find and although we won't know the blood test results for a few days yet, I don't think they will tell us anything we don't already know. You just have to sign some paperwork and you can be on your way." The doctor said.

"Finally!" said Aria

"Okay Ari let's get this done and go home." Wavedancer said with a squee. She has happy that her daughter was unhurt, but still worried about the larger implications of what had happened.

"So dose the whole turn into a demon thing mean I can cut class Monday? Because it has no medical reason." Asked Aria in a whisper.

"No Ari, you are going to school on Monday. You do have a race to get ready for, remember sweetheart?" Wavedancer said as sweetly as possible.

"I know, I just hope Twilight won't have to ride that day." said Aria

Wavedancer giggled "Yeah that is definitely not her thing." She said finishing the paperwork and handing it back to the nurse. "Well let's get home shall we? I know you're hungry and I'm betting Sonata will be as well."

"Oh please, Sonata is always hungry. If she's not careful her ass well be as fat as her head." Said Aria slipping in to her habit of teasing her sisters but quickly clamped her hands on her mouth as she remembers who she was talking to.

Wavedancer smiles "Sonata isn't the big headed girl of all my daughters sweetheart, and with that metabolism of hers she is in no danger of having that little problem." Wavedancer said slyly as she opened her car door.

Aria rolled her eyes. "Whatever."

Wavedancer giggled again as she drove Aria home. Across town back at the animal shelter Fluttershy was busy helping with all of the animals while she and Adagio talked.

"So Adagio didn't you say you had a date tonight? Won't you be running late if you don't go home and get ready?" asked Fluttershy

"I canceled it." Adagio replied as she filled cat's water dishes. "After what happened with Aria and Storm I didn't want to take any risks. There is no guarantee that I would transform and be able to save my date."

"I see." Fluttershy replied before turning around. "Spike don't chase the cat! It's not nice!" She said scolding the little dog.

"Adagio laughed "You're quiet and sweet even when you yell Fluttershy. How does a girl like you not have a boyfriend or girlfriend already?"

"Oh, um... I guess I'm just always busy. I mean there is the work at the shelter, school, helping Applejack when some of her family's farm animals are sick plus my own pets." Said Fluttershy blushing.

"Also your so shy around anyone that's not furry, winged or has scales." Spike points out.

Adagio laughed and picked up a curious little orange rabbit that had started sniffing around her feet. "True," She said petting the rabbit. "But you also sell yourself a little short too Fluttershy. You're a wonderful caring person and anyone would be lucky to have you." said Adagio "Still it is best to pace yourself when it comes to dating. Otherwise you'll end up with a lot of bad dates under your belt. Trust me I've had a few, so have Aria and Sonata."

"Sonata having a bad date? I find that hard to imagine." said Spike

"Oh she did, and mom and I had to hold Aria back from hitting the girl because she made Sonata cry." Adagio chuckled "Aria may act like a pain but she really cares about us. Just don't let her know I let that slip, she'll get mad. And you guys can guess what that means I'm sure."

"She will get scary. Or maybe turn in to a butterfly again like in Storm's video?" said Fluttershy

"She'll get really mad for sure." Adagio replied "As for what exactly Aria turned into we'll have to wait for the analysis by Storm, Sunset, and Twilight. Speaking of, I wonder how long Twilight will be on that?"

Knowing her it'll be at least three hours." Said Spike as he was nuzzled by a kitten as it purred. "Well hey there little guy, it seems you're really friendly." He said nuzzling the kitten back.

The little cat mewed and Fluttershy giggled at the sight.

Over at Sunset's house Twilight was looking over the video with Sunset. "So what do you think Sunset?"

"I think we need Storm to help us figure this out." She replied while texting Storm.

The response was ping of the Skype call with Storm's icon.

Sunset turned on her laptop and answered. "Hey Storm I've got Sparky here what's on your mind?"

"Hi Storm." Twilight said appearing on the camera next to Sunset.

"Well for starters any word from your brother on how the cops took the footage? And I am adding a gun box to the truck to keep some larger bore weapons my brothers made if we are attacked again. On that note after analysis of all the data my eye piece recorded, copies in e-mail in rout. I've sent a copy to my brothers telling them no they can't examine Aria in lab. Other then some complaints and Blast having a fit of how the law of physics broke during the incident they pointed out something I missed and are sending a device to upgrade my monocle to record data on it. There is a slight shine slash aura around both the dragon and Aria. They hypothesized that it's a side effect of the energy they are emitting or in the dragon's case manipulating the subjects. At least that's their two bits on the matter and they wanted five minutes with the ones responsible for the attempt on my life. They may be sticks in the mud and set in there views but they still are family." Explained Storm the whole time the sound of a welding could be heard in background.

"Well, Shiny is not very happy with how the whole thing turned out Storm. The official line right now is that they don't know what happened and that it might have been a minor explosion caused by a small gas leak or something like that. He has the footage shot by others with their phones that night, but everyone is dismissing it as a hoax even his bosses. Gleaming Shield and his senior partner, I uh forget his name right now are some of the only ones listening to him. He is not happy at all." Twilight replied

"So Shining sees a serious threat and wants to do something about it, and his bosses are convinced it's a hoax?" Sunset said "Sparky do you know how crazy that is?"

"I know Sunset, but our hands are tied right now." Twilight said shaking her head.

"It's not crazy really. When people see what they can't accept they deny its real. Sometimes they can see the worst things in the world and pretend it doesn't happen. For example when we have a murderer whose guilt is proven beyond a reasonable doubt and their family still say that they are innocent even after having seen and heard the evidence of their guilt like everyone else." said Storm

Twilight looked downcast. "I see your point Storm."

"Granted it's a much darker example, but if we look at it from the view of the police there is no evidence other then smashed and flattened bullets that should have gone through the statue and are to damaged to trace. As well as video of a statue coming to life, a girl growing wings singing to talk and destroying said living statue with said voice. What could or should they tell the people? An event we can't explain would have been unable to stop happened with no know cause and no way to know if, when or where it could happen again. No that would likely cause mass panic and people fleeing the area in droves and looting. Yes that's worst possible public reaction but it's the one they have to act on as most likely. In the name of safety. So they to our benefit will cover it up as long as they can."

"That means our backs are against the wall then and we don't exactly have backup to help us out." said Sunset

The welding stopped. "Exactly, tell Shining that as the one that knows the truth he needs to keep copies of everything along with everyone he works with that believe it. That way if and when it can't be hidden or doesn't need to be the facts can be remembered. It's his duty to the future." From the way Storm talked it sounds like he was expecting it to get a lot worse.

"I already did that Storm, this is too important to later generations as well as our own to be forgotten or written off as some kind of strange fluke. Can you imagine the damage that would cause?" Twilight replied

"The worst case scenarios we are the only thing between the ones responsible and them causing the end of the world. A prospect that is frightening to me." said Storm

"Storm we are not facing an apocalypse, that's just way too dramatic to be real." Sunset deadpanned "It is a bad situation to be sure, but not that bad."

"None of that changes the disadvantage we're at though. We need to figure out a way to get ahead of of this somehow." said Twilight

"Sunset, Twilight in the last twenty-four hours I witnessed the three laws of physics shatter. So I'm not ruling out that we could be dealing with a force out to destroy the world. So until is see otherwise I will not rule it out as a goal of our attackers." said Storm

"Well I am ruling it out." Sunset said firmly. "Until we have evidence that is the intent we can't know that, besides it's impossible to destroy a planet anyway. Only the sun has that kind of power."

"And black holes, gamma ray bursts, planetary collisions, galaxies colliding, and..." Twilight said before Sunset placed her hand over her mouth.

"The point is we can't go and assume something so outlandish." said Sunset "So far we're being targeted specifically and don't know why. We can't just fly off the handle and assume it's for something so major, that's just bad fan fiction writing most of the time when it's not some stupid movie or video game plot. We need to restrain our expectations and keep level heads. Storm you can't just leap to the extreme conclusion and call it good. So let's keep ourselves grounded and be realistic."

"Based on that logic you and the others are safe as until Aria attacked it. The statue was only after me. So as of now the enemy's only confirmed goal is my death or capture." said Storm

"That is the way it looks so far, but we can't assume that much either. The truth is we don't know what's really going on here and can't risk that kind of speculation. We need to take stock of what actually happens and see what the evidence tells us from there. For all we know at current the attack on you was a case of mistaken identity Storm." Sunset replied before taking her hand away from Twilight's mouth. "Sorry Sparky, but you were starting a tangent there."

Twilight stuck her tongue out at Sunset and then turned to Storm. "Sunset is right Storm, we don't know enough yet to draw a firm conclusion. We need to be careful. Oh and I got a text from Megan on the way over here. She says that she is trying get and keep Brianna calmed down but she doubts that we'll see her on Monday. This really shook up her very badly."

Sunset facepalmed "Great that's all she needs, more trauma."

"It might be best for her. If something attacks her or or Megan then they would have each other and Megan is very level headed. Do you think I need to keep the grenade launcher in the truck gun box or the r.p.g my brothers made? They left a lot of their old work here. But at the same time my D-eagle was useless..." Said Storm himself going of on a tangent.

"No Storm! No high explosives! That will just make things worse." Twilight and Sunset replied simultaneously. The pair then turned and looked at each other for a moment.

Sunset cleared her throat after a brief uncomfortable silence. "Anyway we need to be careful and not do anything too rash Storm. We don't want anyone else getting hurt if we can avoid it."

"They are not first use choices the projected energy gun my brothers made is well the bigger of the two. Think of the starter's pistol, only bigger and it needs a battery pack. Well that and shotgun gatling. And are you girls' eyes are twitching?" Hinting that Storm was distracted and not even looked at the screen once till now.

"Storm! Those things are extremely illegal and you'll get thrown in prison for trying to carry them around!" Sunset and Twilight said in unison.

"Storm listen to me really carefully." Twilight said "When you were attacked Aria transformed and harnessed some kind of power to save you. It's only logical that we have some kind latent ability to counter this."

"Sparky is right Storm, and besides you said you had a handgun that didn't work right? Well if it didn't then these weapons won't be any more effective and you'll hurt a lot of other people in the process. What we need to do is figure out how to measure and track this kind of energy. Twilight thinks that if we could use some kind of spectrometer we might be able to do that." said Sunset

"Maybe, but we'd need to talk to someone that knows about Quantum Physics to have any chance I think." Twilight sighed "I think our only real chance right now is to use the herbal concoction Storm found in the one journal and combine it with Brianna's meditation techniques to try and get a hold of what's going on. This situation is too abstract for normal means to work."

"I'll need some one to monitor me while I'm under its effects. The book did say there was a chance of possession. Though we can't rule out that Aria might be the only one of us that can transform. Or that an outside force was at work. It makes me wonder." Said Storm as the sound of metal latching was heard.

"Actually Storm, we can't use you." Sunset replied "You lack the experience with the meditation techniques that Brianna has. And there is no chance of getting possessed. That is just an old superstition with no evidence to back it up."

"And if there was some kind attack while she was in that state Brianna can already defend herself if she has to. You can't do that Storm. From what Brianna told me it takes years before someone can actually manage it, you'd just be unable to help this way." Twilight affirmed

Sunset chewed her bottom lip. "I'm sorry Storm, but you're going to have to get used to the fact that some of this is out your control."

My girlfriend transcended humanity and saved me. I have not been in control since. Also if a inanimate statue can come alive and be immune to bullets that should go through it, in short we don't know what there limit is. Maybe even taking over one of you to attack the other. By the way I did pack a tranquilizer gun and some sleep gas grenades in case one of us is used against the others. But I would still need to get their in time." Said Storm sending picture of the nonlethals.

Sunset sighed "Storm mind control and possession are impossible. You just can't force someone to act against their character no matter what kind of power you have. What we do need to watch for is one or more of us being taken hostage and used against the others that way. Remember we need to stay level headed and not give into fear."

"I'm not giving into fear. I'm being prepared for any possibility believe it on not I was a colt scout for three years." said Storm

Sunset slammed her hands on her desk. "Damn it Storm! Yes you are and you just don't want to admit it! Why can't you see you're not alone in this!" Shouted Sunset as she broke down into tears.

"Hey, hey, hey. Take it easy Sunset." Twilight said softly. "Sunset is right Storm, you're not being prepared you're trying to shoulder everything for yourself when you don't have to. You're forgetting that you have us now and don't have to face this alone." Twilight sighed "When I was at the shelter I talked with Adagio and from the sounds of it Aria is really worried about you. She won't come right out and say it of course, it's not like her to do that. But something Adagio told me about Aria tells me that it's true. You need to stop thinking about this like you're the only one involved because you're not."

It was quiet for a long moment. "It was after me and Aria had to save me. I don't want her in danger because of me." Something sounded off in his voice, it was nothing the girls had heard before. Then the channel was shut off.

"Let's give Storm some time now Sunset, he needs it. Come on let's go downstairs and I'll make us some tea okay?" Said Twilight softly.

Sunset sniffled "Sorry for losing it like that Twilight, it was just too much to take is all."

Twilight reached out and shut off Sunset's laptop. "It's okay Sunset, we all have our limits. Let's go and get you calmed down now." The pair went downstairs to have some tea and get Sunset settled. While waiting Twilight texted Fluttershy that would need Fluttershy to take Spike back to her place and that Sunset was having some troubles.

"Oh dear, it seems things are worse then we thought. Twilight is asking me to take Spike home." Said Fluttershy to Adagio who had decided to spend the day helping her.

Adagio sighed "I was afraid of this. Okay let's get the guy home and then we'll need to have talk with the rest of the girls on how to help Storm out. Aria is too stubborn to admit that she's actually worried about him so it's up to the rest of us Fluttershy."

Spike whimpered "Is everything going to be okay Fluttershy?"

"Don't worry. After all we have all our friends to help us through. I'm sure that the dragon thing was just a one off thing." said Fluttershy

Adagio came back into the room carrying Spike's pet carrier. "Let's get Spike back home then. And after that we can try to figure how to address our current crisis with Storm. I imagine Brianna isn't taking this very well either." Adagio said placing the carrier on the floor and opening it.

"Aww, do I have to go back in there?" asked Spike

"Yes Spike." Adagio said "It is safer for you that way."

"But it's worse then riding in Twilight's backpack." Complained Spike as he was put in without a fight.

Adagio closed the carrier and looked at Fluttershy. "Do I want to know?"

Fluttershy smiled. "Lets just say that Twilight and I have a hard time leaving our pets at home." Shy opens her pack showing cuddle fest of cute critters sleeping.

Adagio gave a warm smile. "You really are something else Fluttershy. Now let's get our little friend home so we can try to unravel this mess we've got." Adagio picked up Spike's carrier and headed outside to her car. "Come On Fluttershy I'll give you a ride home." She said opening the passenger side door.

"Thanks, I usually walk home through the park but with what happened, I was a little scared to go alone." said Fluttershy

"No problem." Adagio replied "In fact it's a good idea for us to not go anywhere on our own for a while. We don't know what will happen if one of the others isn't around and I don't want to take unnecessary chances." Adagio said as she got into her car and close the door. "We need to pass that along to the others." Adagio was thoughtful as she started the car. "I don't know if we can get through to Storm though, he is as stubborn as Aria I swear."

Adagio drove to Twilight's house following Fluttershy's instructions and then drove Fluttershy home and made sure to walk her to her door just in case. "I'll get in touch with everyone else when I get home." Adagio had said before walking quickly back to her car and returning home as quickly and safely as she could.

The rest of that evening was filled with unrest as the group braced itself for what would happen next.