As Twilight followed the Rainbooms and Fragment Hunter, she started to hide and saw them all gathered around the Canterlot Wondercolt Statue to talk with each other. "Well, we're going to get something to eat before the next round starts. You want to join us," Silver asked the Rainbooms.

"Go ahead without me," Fluttershy said as she adjusted the backpack she wore. "I have something to take care of."

"Alright, Shy. See you in a little bit," Rainbow Dash said as she and the others left with Fragment Hunter.

Twilight saw that Fluttershy was heading toward the bushes near the front of Canterlot High and looked around to make sure nobody saw her. "Aw man, I think I dropped Gladion near the statue," Azalea said before seeing Sci-Twi carefully approach the bushes. Seeing her baton on the ground next to Fluttershy, the young Cow Faunus picked it up before she noticed a kitten emerge from Fluttershy's backpack and nuzzle the girl. "Aww, who's a pretty kitty," Azalea said as she gently scratched the purring kitten's chin.

Fluttershy saw Azalea next to her and Twilight peeking through the bushes before inviting them to join her. "Want to give her a treat," she asked Twilight.

Sci-Twi looked at her amulet and thought it over for a second before joining the two girls. "Guess I'm not the only one to smuggle their pet into school," Sci-Twi commented as she sat down.

"Not just one," Fluttershy giggled as she opened up her backpack fully and several more animals came out of it. A bird flew next to Fluttershy as a hamster and rabbit left the bag with the cat. Fluttershy started to pet her rabbit as Azalea and Twilight were surprised by the number of animals in Fluttershy's bag.

"Oh, wow. All I have is Spike," Sci-Twi said as Spike poked his head out of her backpack.

"Well, now I feel like the odd one out. All my pets are back home on the farm," Azalea said as she smiled at Spike and scratched his ear.

"What kind of pets do you have, Azalea," Fluttershy asked as she picked up Spike.

"A Collie to help with some chores around the farm, a Corgi that was born in the same litter as my friend's dog, and my dad's hunting dog, Dante," Azalea said as she listed her pets. "We also have a few cats around the farm to deal with mice, but my dogs are much more friendly and would've loved meeting you, Flutters."

"I'm sure they would," Fluttershy giggled as she played with the animals before turning her attention to Twilight. "Congratulations on winning, by the way. Though, it didn't seem like anyone on your team was very excited about it," Fluttershy mentioned.

"Yeah, what's their deal," Azalea asked as she pet the kitten on her lap.

"No one at my school gets excited about anything they didn't do themselves," Twilight told them with a sad look on her face.

"That's dumb," Azalea laconically stated.

"That sounds awful," Fluttershy said as Twilight looked depressed about her school. Think of what to do, Fluttershy saw her rabbit, Angel Bunny, sitting next to her and picked him up. "Here. Hold this," Fluttershy told Sci-Twi as she handed Angel to her. Twilight nervously took the rabbit in her hands and questioned why she should. "Holding a bunny always makes me feel better," Fluttershy said.

"Well, that's ridiculous," Twilight dismissed before Angel began to nuzzle her. Twilight smiled as she soon began to hold Angel Bunny warmly. "Ooh. It actually kind of works. I'm on the other team and you both just lost. Why are you two being so nice to me," she asked Fluttershy and Azalea.

"You looked like you needed it," Fluttershy explained before she began to glow and pony up. With pony ears, yellow wings, and her hair growing longer, Fluttershy began to float above the ground as Twilight and Azalea were awestruck by the transformation.

"Whoa," Twilight exclaimed before her amulet began to beep and act up. As the amulet began to drain Fluttershy's magic, purple rifts opened up all around the three girls and Spike. They were shocked and confused as they saw the rifts, but Spike saw something jump out of one of them. A rabbit with antlers caught the dog's attention and Spike growled at it as it hopped back through the rift it came from. Chasing after the jackalope, Spike and the rabbit began to go through each rift that showed up like they were linked to each other. "Spike," Twilight called out as she and Azalea saw the two animals go in and out of each rift they saw.

As they were distracted, they didn't see a few different looking rifts appear behind the statue. The first three were the same colors as the ones that brought the Geists to CHS, but a fourth one was a silvery color with a slight rainbow border. Three monsters emerged from the red, black, and white rifts before they vanished and the creatures waited for a chance to attack.

Back with Spike and the girls, the jackalope went through one more purple rift before Spike went through the stream of Fluttershy's magic. Spike yowled in surprise as he floated in the air and magic flowed through him before it reached Twilight's amulet. "Spike," Twilight called out in surprise before Azalea quickly closed the amulet for her. With the purple rifts gone when the amulet was shut, Fluttershy and Spike fell to the ground while they were respectively caught by Azalea and Twilight.

As Fluttershy shuddered from her magic being taken and Twilight was scared for her beloved dog, Azalea heard a growling sound that was familiar to every Huntsman and Huntress in Remnant as she placed Fluttershy down on the ground. Turning to the statue, she and the others saw a living version of Silver's wood shop project. The black wolf not only had the same kind of bony white spines, but black smoke seemed to emanate from its body and its glowing red eyes left a trail of light as it moved its head. "Beowolf," Azalea muttered as Fluttershy and Twilight were scared to see the werewolf-like creature.

A large black boar with white armor plating on its thighs and back also walked forward to see what prey it could kill. Its mask-like face had four glowing red eyes and had two extra sets of tusks compared to a regular boar. One set resembling fangs and two large curving tusks. Its face, snout, and tusks all had red markings that made the beast look even more intimidating. It snorted at Azalea as the Beowolf roared to scare its potential victims. "And a Boarbatusk. This might be challenge," Azalea said as she pulled out Gladion and extended it to its full length. "Stay back. I'll handle this," she told Fluttershy and Twilight.

Adjusting the Dust setting on Gladion, Azalea prepared to counter as the Beowolf leapt forward to slash at the Huntress. With a quick swing of her baton, a strong gust of wind pushed the Beowolf away and it sprawled onto the street. Fluttershy and Twilight were amazed at what just happened, but the Boarbatusk began to charge at Azalea. The Creature of Grimm tried to hit Azalea with its tusks, but she countered by grabbing them and lifting the monster off the ground a bit. With a strong kick and a pull forward, Azalea managed to both break off the beast's tusks and flip it onto its back. With its unarmored belly exposed, Azalea impaled the boar with its own natural weapons.

Fluttershy and Twilight gulped at Azalea's strength as the Boarbatusk's body began to vanish. Seeing the Beowolf charging at her again, Azalea changed Gladion's Dust setting to ice and twirled her weapon around. As she did, ice formed along the weapon to effectively turn it into a short sword. "Come here, boy," Azalea taunted the Beowolf before it got within her reach. With a swift swing of her makeshift blade, Azalea hit the Beowolf's chest and cut through half of the monster's body. "Play dead," she said as the Beowolf began to disappear like the Boarbatusk did.

"W-w-what was that," Fluttershy asked.

"Grimm. Not a hard challenge like I thought. But then again, I did get training for handling Boarbatusks," Azalea said.

"M-m-monsters," Twilight stuttered in shock at what she saw.

"Yeah. At least it was only those two and I was here to help out," Azalea stated. "Good thing that it wasn't something like a Death Stalker... or... a...," she mentioned before she heard a buzzing sound just above the Wondercolt Statue. Slowly turning around, Azalea's eyes widened in fear as she saw a third Grimm flying above them.

This Grimm resembled a giant wasp with red wings and an armored body. It had sharp claws and jagged pincers that looked like they could cut through metal with ease. Not only that, but its stinger looked very sharp and it attacked immediately as Azalea took one step backward. The stinger shot forward on a tether connected to the Grimm's body, similar to a harpoon, to try and pierce Azalea. The wasp monster missed and its stinger only hit the ground before returning to the creature. "What. Is. That," Sci-Twi asked in fear.

Azalea was trembling as she looked up at the Grimm. "Lancer. Why did it have to be a Lancer," Azalea said with a shaky voice. The Grimm shot its stinger at the girls again and they had to dodge. Falling into each other, the girls were scared as the Lancer prepared to fly at them and attack with its claws. "NOOOOOO," Azalea screamed in fear as the Lancer came closer. Just as the Grimm came near them, it hit something green that appeared in front of the girls and bounced off of it. As they registered what happened, Azalea, Fluttershy, and Twilight saw something facing against the Lancer.

It was a large Great Dane/Wolfhound mixed breed with a reddish coat, brown eyes, and wore a green collar with a tag that had a dog's head on a shield. He was growling viciously at the giant wasp and the Grimm noticed the animal's anger directed at it. The dog kept its eyes on the Lancer and began to circle around the insect-like monster. The Lancer attacked first by trying to ram into the dog, but it missed as the hound jumped out of the way. As the Grimm returned to the air, it fired its harpoon stinger at the dog. As it stared down the stinger heading right for it, the dog's eyes flashed a bright green and a bubble of the same color appeared around itself to block the attack.

"What's going on here," Twilight asked as she just witnessed a dog create a force field while fighting a giant demonic wasp.

The Lancer's stinger bounced off the barrier and the dog howled in response. With the sound of its battle cry, spikes appeared from the bubble and the canine leapt at the Grimm. The Lancer was hit by the spikes and was damaged, but it could still fight against its opponent. Swiping its claws at the dog, the Grimm struck at the bubble and pushed it into the Wondercolt Statue before the barrier fell. With the dog open to attack again, the Lancer fired its stinger one more time to try and pierce the animal. Unfortunately for it, the dog's eyes flashed green again as it created a barrier that managed to trap the Lancer's stinger by the tether.

With the Lancer trying to pull away and retrieve its stinger, the dog jumped onto the Wondercolt Statue and kicked off of it to get at the Grimm's body again. As it was leaping directly at the wasp, the dog's muzzle was surrounded in a green glow that took the form of a something similar to a beak or a drill. As the dog hit the Lancer, the glowing 'weapon' managed to strike at the Lancer's torso and stabbed right through the monster. After the Grimm recoiled in pain, the dog chomped down on the wasp's neck and began to shake the creature around like a chew toy when it landed on the ground. After a few seconds of shaking the Grimm, the dog bit down hard to decapitate the wasp and kill it.

While the Grimm's body faded away like the other two, the girls were still shocked by what they just saw. Soon, the dog turned to the girls and stalked toward them. While Twilight started to back away in fear and Fluttershy was carefully observing the hound, Azalea began to approach the dog until it barked. "Azalea, get back," Twilight warned as the dog leapt at the Huntress.

Before Twilight could say anything else, the Great Dane/Wolfhound mix started to lick Azalea's face happily. "Hahahaha! Dante, down boy! I'm glad to see you, too," Azalea laughed as the dog kept licking her affectionately. Twilight's jaw dropped at what she was seeing and had to adjust her askew glasses.

"This is Dante," Fluttershy asked as she approached the dog. Dante looked at Fluttershy before jumping on top of her and licked her face as well. Fluttershy giggled as she fell to the floor with an affectionate dog licking her. "He's certainly a friendly little guy," she said as she started to scratch Dante behind his ears.

"I wouldn't call that dog 'little'," Twilight mentioned before she remembered something important. "Spike! Are you alright," she asked her puppy.

Luckily for Twilight, Spike wasn't hurt during the Grimm attack and was apparently asleep for the whole thing. "Um, I think so," Spike replied as he woke up. Everyone was relieved to know Spike was okay before they just realized what the puppy did. Twilight and Spike both screamed as they heard the latter speak perfect English like a human being. Falling to the ground and dropping Spike in a panic, Twilight began to crawl backwards before getting up and running back inside the school. "Twilight, wait," Spike called out as he chased after his friend.

Fluttershy, Azalea, and Dante were caught off guard by the talking dog as much as Twilight was. "I... better go after them," Azalea said as she started to follow Twilight and Spike. "Look after Dante until the others get here," Azalea told Fluttershy as she messaged the rest of Fragment Hunter to meet at the Wondercolt Statue again.

"Bye," Fluttershy said from the ground as she saw Azalea run off. Dante lied down next to her and nuzzled the girl. Fluttershy just smiled and started to pet Dante to pass the time.

In the halls of Canterlot High, Twilight was still in a panic from everything that happened just minutes ago. "Twilight, come on! Wait for me," Spike called out. Twilight kept running while she covered her ears because she couldn't believe that her pet was actually talking to her. As she kept running, she eventually ended up at a dead end and saw Spike approach her. "Why did you run away like that," Spike asked when Twilight turned to him, but kept away.

"Um, oh, I don't know. Maybe it had something to do with the glowing girl, or the holes in space, or the black monsters, or the girl and her pet that fought them. Or my talking dog," Twilight listed as she felt like she was losing her mind.

"Yeah. Weird, right," Spike commented as he scratched himself and acted like everything else was perfectly normal.

Seeing that Spike was apparently fine aside from his new ability to speak, Twilight got closer to him and started to get a closer look at him. "Are you okay? How do you feel? What happened? Where did you go," she asked her dog before he licked her face.

"Hey, one question at a time! This is pretty new to me, too," Spike reminded. After Twilight apologized, Spike explained he did before he could talk. "All I know is I chased that pointy rabbit through the glowy thing and then I was somewhere else. Next thing I knew, it felt like was back in that nice girl's arms and I fell asleep for a little bit When I woke up, I could talk," Spike explained. "I don't really understand why I couldn't before. I mean, it's so easy."

Before Twilight could ask anything else, she heard Principal Cinch call out for her. Scared of having Spike discovered, Twilight looked for an empty locker to hide Spike. However, Azalea appeared and grabbed the puppy before the two of them vanished before Twilight's eyes. Before Twilight could ask about what just happened, Principal Cinch walked up to her. "There you are, Twilight. It's quite a coincidence that those reprobate newcomers and those same nice girls who were so interested in you are continuing to the second event, don't you think," she noted.

"I'm not sure," Twilight replied as she rubbed her arm and looked away from Cinch.

"Perhaps you should get to know them after all," Cinch suggested.

This news confused Twilight and she faced her Principal to question her. "I thought you didn't want me to talk with them."

"Let's just say that I'm covering my bases," Cinch replied. "Who knows? Maybe the girls from Canterlot High will reveal the secret of their school's newfound success."

"I dunno," Twilight said. "Spying feels kind of... wrong."

Cinch scowled in disapproval of Twilight's reluctance. "Well, it's your decision, Twilight," she told the girl. "It's not as if your application hangs in the balance. On second thought, yes, it does," the principal reminded as she left.

When Cinch was out of sight, something bright was shining next to Twilight. Turning to the source and shielding her eyes, she saw Azalea was glowing like a flashlight as she glared at the direction Principal Cinch left. "She's awful," Azalea and Spike both said.

"How are you doing that? How did you vanish like you did? What was with those monsters? That baton of yours? Your dog," Twilight began to question.

"If you want answers, you'll have to follow me," Azalea explained before placing Spike on the ground and pulling out her Scroll. Bringing up the contact info of one of her friends, Azalea called Fragment Hunter. "Hey, change of plans. We're telling Twilight everything. Meet us at the gym since nobody's there now and bring the Rainbooms," Azalea said. After hanging up, she turned to Twilight. "You want answers to what's going on around CHS? You're going to get them," Azalea said as she reached for her bandanna. Twilight's eyes widened as Azalea removed the cloth to reveal her horns. "Same thing about me and my friends."

Author's Note

Now we'll have a major change from the plot of the movie. Sci-Twi is going to learn everything she needs to about Remnant and everyone will understand what she's doing with her amulet. That doesn't mean that it still won't drain the magic from the other girls for plot purposes.

Also, hope you liked this fight scene. If you're wondering about why Azalea reacted the way she did to the Lancer, I'll explain that in the next chapter when everyone's talking what what happened.