"Bring him back, you asshole!" was the first thing Shimmer heard as she was transferred back to the room, followed by the sound of Nolan kicking BB. "I know he's still alive, now stop stalling and bring Norman back. Bring! Norman! Back!"

He turned around when he felt a hand touching his shoulder, which belonged the Flash Sentry. The guitar player shook his head. Nolan North wanted to punch him for that, but he was too angry at the ball to be angry at anything or anyone else.

TIME TO SHARE THE POINTS
00:00:00

"No, no, no. No! NO! He's not dead, your hear me? He's not dead!" using the power of the suit, Nolan focused all his strength on his right arm and punched the dark sphere, but it didn't budge. He kneeled in front of it. "Give me back my friend..."

SAINTS BRO
25 PTS / TOTAL 109 PTS
PLEASE CHOOSE FROM THE 100 POINTS MENU

He looked at it in disbelief, an expression that slowly shifted into a smile. He stood up, repeated his wish and turned around to watch as Normal Norman was brought back to life. Adagio looked at Shimmer, already expecting an outburst, but all she did was sigh.

"I just don't give a shit anymore..." she muttered. "When the necksuckers ambush you and you don't have the equipment to fight back all I ask of you is that you use your last breath to apologize to me, alright?"

"So, what did I miss?" was all Norman was able to say before Nolan's fist blocked his vision. The impact sent him flying, but didn't cause any damage due to the suit he was still wearing. "Hey, what's the big idea?"

"That's for getting yourself killed, shit-for-brains."

"Huh? Killed?" Norman looked at the ball.

BACKGROUND BOY
0 PTS / TOTAL 0 PTS

"YOU FUCKED ME!" Norman yelled while pointing at the screen. "I WAS FIVE POINTS AWAY FROM VICTORY AND YOU FUCKED ME!"

"Well, maybe if you weren't such a loser both of us would have new weapons now. Instead I had to waste my points to bring your sorry ass back! You owe me 100 points, bitch."

"I really can't understand that guy." Adagio whispered. "Just a moment ago he was on the verge of tears, but as soon as he brings the other guy back the first thing he does is give him shit. What gives?"

Nolan had crossed his arms and turned around. Sunset smiled when she saw a faint hint of a smile on the corner of Nolan's mouth. "It's just the way he is, don't worry about it."

"I wasn't worried. Just curious, is all!"

MOMMA SUNNY
28 PTS / TOTAL 86 PTS
ONLY 14 MORE AND YOU'RE DONE

TOOL
33 PTS / TOTAL 33 PTS
ONLY 67 MORE AND YOU'RE DONE

Flash sighed. "I wouldn't complain if I could at least remember what happened during the time I was free. It's so unfair!"

MERBITCH
48 PTS / TOTAL 50 PTS
ONLY 50 MORE AND YOU'RE DONE

KILLER QUEEN
51 PTS / TOTAL 89 PTS
ONLY 11 MORE AND YOU'RE DONE

"Good!" Shimmer said as she crossed her arms. "So next mission I'll probably have enough WHAT THE FUCK?!"

HOSTESS SAMURAI
101 PTS / TOTAL 101 PTS
PLEASE CHOOSE FROM THE 100 POINTS MENU

They all turned around to look at the girl standing behind all of them: Twilight Sparkle.

"I have fulfilled your request." Twilight said while looking at Shimmer. "When can we have another conversation about trust issues?"

"She beat your record." Adagio said with a cocky smirk. "100 points in three missions? You're so slow!"

"SHUT UP!" she then stared at Twilight for a few moments. "You're cheating, aren't you? How did you do that?"

"If my memory is trustworthy - and believe me, it is - you were also accused of cheating when you bested someone. What words did you say back then? 'Don't accuse others of cheating just because you're not as good as them' or something like that, correct?"

Shimmer glared at Adagio while grinding her teeth.

"SHE'S A VAMPIRE!"

"And you are a racist."

"I wish to see the humans contained in your memory." everyone was too busy watching Shimmer and Adagio to realize that Twilight walked past all of them and was now crouching in front of BB. "I can see that just the score was not enough to change your friend's mind so, as an apology gift, I shall use my points to bring back to life the one I killed."

"That's... Very noble of you!" Sunset said.

"Tweedledum, correct? I don't know why, but I can't seem too forget her face. Black Ball, I wish you to bring--" she suddenly stopped speaking.

"Her real name is Black Pearl, though." Normal Norman pointed out. He waited for a moment, but she did not finish the sentence she started. "Hey, are you listening?"

The vampire slowly raised her hand and touched the screen. At first they were a little confused, but Sunset noticed her index finger was touching one particular mughsot: the one of the girl she abandoned so long ago, and the same girl who died right in front of her just a few missions prior; the girl whose nickname given by the dark sphere was "Third Wheel".

"You... You know her?" she asked.

Twilight nodded. "We went to school together when we were little, then my family moved to Crystalline City and I lost contact with her. Neither of us were very sociable people, so we eventually got close to each other. Our conversations were always related to school, assignments or homework, but..." she placed her hand on her chest. "...I never thought about it before but I guess she was the closest thing to a friend I ever had."

The room fell silent as the people within it looked at each other, not sure of what do do or say next. Twilight turned her head and looked at each of them before turning back to look at the ball.

"Forgive me." she said. "I know I said I would bring Tweedledum back but... I just... I'm sorry! Black Ball, I want you to bring her back to life. Bring back... Moondancer!"

Twilight Sparkle closed her eyes, listening to the sound of a person being transferred back to the room by the Black Ball. When the sound stopped, she stood up and slowly turned around; Moondancer was standing there, looking at her in both confusion and awe.

"Tw... Twilight... Sparkle?" she asked.

"It's been so long, Moondancer."

THIRD WHEEL (subjected to change)
0 PTS / TOTAL 0 PTS

Moondancer was about to open her arms and hug the person she admired so much and hadn't seen in years, but she suddenly stopped, turned around and crossed them.

"Who are these people? I don't recognize any of--" she noticed Sunset standing just a few feet away and Shimmer not too far from her. "There's two now?! Oh, fuck no." she walked toward the front door of the apartment and left the room. Naturally, Twilight followed her.

"Is something wrong, Moondancer?"

"No, everything is just peachy."

"Then why are you walking away?"

"Oh, I don't know? Maybe because the person I hate the most somehow cloned herself? That's a good reason to walk away, right?"

"But that's not everything, I can tell. We haven't seen each other in so long, I expected you to..."

"To what? Hug you, shower you in kisses then cry while telling you how much I missed you? I don't have time for this buffoonery."

"Moondancer, I--"

"You walked away on me all those years ago, didn't you? Now it's my turn to walk away on you, it's only fair."

"I didn't have a choice. My parents suddenly told me we were moving and we were so caught in packing things up that we had little to no time to do anything else. We were so distracted that they almost forgot to transfer me and my brother to Crystal Prep!"

"You don't need to come up with an explanation, I came to terms with that a long time ago. I'm going to walk that way, you're going to walk the other way, and you'll leave me alone for the rest of my life. Deal?"

Twilight's instincts were screaming at her to not bother with explanations, kill that person, drink her blood and appease her thirst, but she didn't want to hurt anyone else, especially this person who she shared so many years with, when she was still human. She wanted to care about her. She wanted to be forgiven by her. She wanted to be human again - or, at least, the closest to being human a vampire could get. But now was not the time; she decided to give Moondancer time to think so she pulled one of the pens and the small notepad she kept in her pocket at all times and wrote an address on it. She removed the page from the notepad, folded it and gave it to the other girl.

"In case you change your mind. Just come after sundown, alright? I'll explain to you later."

Moondancer huffed and crumpled the piece of paper, but did not threw it away. She tried to put it inside her pocket when she finally realized the black suit was the only thing she was wearing.

"Crap, my clothes! If someone sees me wearing this shameful thing outside..." using her hands to cover herself as if she were butt naked, Moondancer ran off.

* * *

Moondancer knocked on the door. It was 3 in the morning, but she figured it was never too late to come home. After over 20 minutes knocking on the door at regular intervals, someone finally answered: a green-haired woman wearing a bathrobe who looked sleepy and grumpy.

"Do you know what time it is? What the fuck do you want?" she asked.

Moondancer raised an eyebrow; she expected her sister to answer the door, not a complete stranger. Maybe this was one of her sister's friends who was spending the night there? After all, her sister was always the social butterfly of the family.

"Is my sister awake?" Moondancer asked while trying to look past the woman. "I need to talk to her."

She sighed in annoyance. "You knocked on the wrong door, I live here by myself!"

"Wh-What?" she looked at the house number; it was 95, the correct number. "No, that can't be right. This is the right street and the right number, this is my sister's house."

"Well, I moved here recently, so I guess your sister is the previous owner."

"Previous? She moved away? No, that... That can't be right!"

"Look, all I know is that someone lived here before me, and now they don't. Talk to one of the neighbors if you want to know what happened, now get off my porch and don't bother me ever again."

"I-I'm sorry for--"

"Yeah, whatever, four-eyes. Just get out." she slammed the door on Moondancer's face. Who walked away and sat on the sidewalk. She had no idea what to do, when she finally remembered the crumbled piece of paper in her closed hand. She recognized the street name, it was not too far from the school where she and Twilight met. After a 40 minutes walk to school, she finally reached her destination.

"What the...? This can't be the place." she looked at the paper, the street name and the house number again; a perfect match. "Why would Twilight Sparkle be hanging out in an abandoned house?" still unsure if Twilight gave her the right address, Moondancer knocked on the door. To her surprise, her childhood classmate did answer the door. "H-Hello..."

"I didn't expect to see you back so soon." Twilight said.

"Can... Can I spend the night here?"

Twilight stepped aside and motioned for her to come in, then closed the door as soon as Moondancer entered the building. From the outside, the house looked like it was about to collapse, but the inside was surprisingly tidy and cozy. There was no electricity, so there were lit candles placed in key areas of the house. The windows were boarded from the outside, so Moondancer imagined that the candles were the primary light source of the entire place at all times. The vampire led the visitor to the bedroom, where a little girl was sleeping in one of the two beds.

"Who is that?" she whispered

"That's Hopewell. Though she prefers to be called Hope. I'm her protector."

"What do you mean?"

"We can talk about that tomorrow. You need to sleep now."

"On the bed? But where are you going to sleep?"

"I don't. Again, I'll explain tomorrow." she opened one of the drawers and tossed her a nightgown. "You can wear this. That suit doesn't look like a very comfortable pajama. Good night, Moondancer."

"Good night, I guess."

"It's good to see you again." Twilight said as she closed the bedroom door.

* * *

"Norman and Nolan, you two need to work on your aim. I know you're both more efficient with the Katanas, but relying on a single weapon most of the time will eventually be your demise." Shimmer explained. "And Adagio, you are very skilled with the Dual Guns, but you need to be prepared in case the fight gets too close to you. The three of you should try a few training sessions together, you have a lot to learn from each other. And Sunset, you're with me. I want to try some tag team strategies with you. Are you up for it?"

Sunset nodded. They were walking together to a more secluded area of the abandoned werehouse they used as training ground when Flash Sentry blocked their path with a big smile on his face.

"What about me? What do you think I can do to be a better alien killer?"

"Shit, you're still here?" she cleared her throat. "Well, I mean, you can... Uh..." the sound of someone knocking on the metal door of the warehouse echoed throughout the mostly empty building. "You can answer the door! If it's the church or the govenment, shoot on sight." she blinked. "Wait, did someone really just knock on the door?"

The place went quiet as Shimmer quietly approached the door. With a Gib Gun in hand, she slowly opened the metal door, only to find a little girl standing there. She was relieved, but did not drop her guard or holstered her weapon.

"Sorry, kid, we don't have money here. Go sell your cookies somewhere else!"

"I have a message from Twilight Sparkle." she said.

If Sunset was still a pony, her ear would have twitched. "That voice..." she approached the door and looked over Shimmer's shoulder, almost gasping when she recognized the girl with black pigtails. She wanted to call out her name, hug her, cover her in kisses, but she felt Shimmer's hand pushing her away.

"Can you give us a second?" Shimmer didn't wait for a reply before closing the door.

"Shimmer, she--"

"I know who she is." Shimmer interrupted her. "And that is exactly why I want you to behave. If you suddenly jump on her out of the blue she might get spooked and never approach you again. And since she's no longer a player, if you explain to her where you know her from BB will permaban you from life. Do you want that?" Sunset shook her head. "That's what I thought. Now take a step back and let me do the talking. If you want to we can talk to Sparkle about that later." Sunset nodded and moved away from the door. Shimmer opened it again. "Sorry about that. Now, what message do you have?"

Hope gave her a small envelope. "This is our address. She wants to talk about your enemy in common and how to deal with them. You can go anytime, but preferably after sundown."

Shimmer picked up the envelope. Sunset pushed her aside and kneeled in front of Hope.

"Did you come here on your own?" she asked, very concerned. "That's dangerous!"

"I didn't, actually." she turned around to look at the girl with rosy hair and glasses peeking from behind a crate, who hid behind it as soon as she was spotted. "Miss Moondancer brought me here, but she doesn't want to get too close and she won't tell me why!"

Shimmer pulled Sunset back inside by the collar of her suit and opened the envelope. After inspecting the address and pondering for a moment, she passed the paper to Flash Sentry.

"Alright, tell her I'll be there tonight." she turned around to address her teammates. "Anyone else feel like visiting Twilight Sparkle?"

"Why not? I want to know what we're getting ourselves into." Adagio said with crossed arms.

"See you there." Nolan said.

"I expect tea and cookies!" Norman demanded.

"You bet I'm going." Sunset said while glancing at the little girl.

"I--" Flash started.

"Then tell her we'll all be there tonight." Shimmer said. Hope nodded and left.

"Don't forget the tea and cookies!" Norman yelled as Hope skipped away and Shimmer closed the door.

"I found her..." Sunset whispered with tears in her eyes and a smile on her face. "I finally found her..."

Author's Note

I WISH I COULD WRITE FASTER BECAUSE THERE ARE THREE MORE MISSIONS BEFORE MY FAVORITE ONE, AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!
My editor (a.k.a. yours truly) says I should cut this short, but there's too much plot to be lost there, and I don't want to lose plot! It just wouldn't be fair.

And a bit of trivia: TBBR and TMMDW take place in different universes, but the layout of both Canterlot Towns are the same, meaning that the abandoned warehouse where the Hunters train is also the same abandoned warehouse where the Maidens were taken to after being kidnapped. What a coincidence, non?

Anyway, now that all the OCs are dead or out of the game, things are going to get interesting. Until I bring more OCs into the mix, that is!