"...and that's how we found the Crystal Heart, defeated King Sombra, and saved the Empire." the crystal ponies cheered as spike finished the story.

"We love you, Spike!"Cloudy spinel shouted.

"Yeah. Tell the one about the Equestria Games!" coral shores suggested.

Spike shook his head. "Well, as much as I love reliving my heroic deeds, Starlight and I have an important lesson to do, by order of the Princess of Friendship!"

The Foals "Awwww'd" and left.

Starlight Glimmer was again, trying to stall spike. "Aw, come on, Spike! I want to hear about the Games too!'

"I know you're nervous about seeing Sunburst, but it says right in step 3, to, uh, "Deal with your fears by facing them, not by putting it off." spike read from the scroll.

Soon enough, they arrived at sunburst's front door.

"Ugh. Let's go get this over with." starlight went to knock on the door, but spike stopped her. "Wait!"

Starlight Glimmer was certainly confused. "Huh? What?!"

"Knocking on the door isn't the next thing on the list!"

"Seriously?" starlight said.

"I know Twilight can be a little nitpicky, but this is your first lesson as her pupil, and it's important that we do it right!" spike defended.

Starlight Glimmer didn't see the point in arguing. "Fine. What's the next thing on the list?"

Spike cleared his throat before reading. "Before they see each other, be sure to highlight the importance of the meeting."

"I'm pretty sure we can skip that." starlight replied.

Spike began to worry. "I don't know... I mean if we skip it, the whole lesson could go south! And then you might end up taking a giant step backwards instead of forwards! Maybe you'll never be able to learn anything about friendship at all! It's almost like your whole future depends on this moment. "Highlight the importance of the meeting" – check! I can't believe you wanted to skip that!"

With that, starlight knocked on the door. For a few moments, nopony answered, but eventually, sunburst peaked his head out of the door. "Sunburst?"

"Yes? What can I do for you?" he asked.

"It's... It's me, Starlight. We used to be friends?" she replied.

Sunburst's eyes opened in realization. "Oh, of course! S-Starlight! My goodness, it-it's been a long time! What, uh, what have you been up to?"

"Me? Oh! You know, some of this, some of that, different... stuff. Right now, I'm sort of Twilight Sparkle's new pupil."

Sunburst looked at starlight in surprise. "The Princess of Friendship?"

Starlight Glimmer chuckled nervously. "Heh... yeah... that's actually kind of why I'm here. I mean, I know you're probably very busy."

"What do you mean?" he asked.

"Well, I figured after magic school, you'd go on to do important wizard work, but..."

Sunburst was starting to lose his composure. "Oh. No. Y-Yes! Uh, y-yes, that's me, yup. Important wizard! Really busy with lots of, uh, wi-wizarding... stuff. Right. Uh, well... good to see you." with that, he shut the door.

"Huh. Maybe we should have skipped highlighting the importance of the meeting after all." Spike remarked.

Starlight Glimmer was never happier to see the door shut. "Well, I guess that's that!"

"Starlight, come on! We have to at least explain what Twilight wants!" spike protested.

Starlight groaned in annoyance.

Princess Cadance, who was tired out before cyre gave her a senzu bean, was now adressing her subjects, wide awake and full of energy.

"Dearest citizens, I am sure you are all just as thrilled and ready for this Crystalling as myself and Shining Armor." The crowd cheered in response. Meanwhile, with the others, shining was freaking out, breathing heavily. "I'm not ready!"

Rainbow Dash was the first to try and calm his nerves. "Take it easy! Just pick whoever looks the most like honor guard material."
Surprisingly, it worked. "Right... right." He took the two helmets that rainbow had and chucked them at two of the guards, who ended up being hit by the helmets instead.
"I'm sorry. Fatherhood is way more stressful than I ever thought."

"I can only imagine." fluttershy said in agreement.

"Now, I know choosing the crystal of purity is a very important decision. So I have gone through the trouble of arranging them in order from incredibly pure to outrageously pure." rarity walked over with a box of crystals that looked exactly the same.

"Um, Rarity, don't they all sort of look the same?" fluttershy asked.

"Oh, well, to the untrained eye, perhaps. What do you think, Shining Armor?" rarity levitate the box over to shining armor, who began to incoherently stammer. "I don't know!"

"I hope Twilight, Cyre and Pinkie are having better luck with the baby!" rarity said in a hushed tone.

"Well... at least she's having... fun!"
Pinkie pie was holding onto flurry heart, while Cyre and twilight were shooting down flurry hearts bursts of magic.

"Pinkie, hold her still!" both twilight and cyre exclaimed.

"I'm tryiiiiiiing!"

"So... the Princess of Friendship wants you and I to be friends again?" sunburst had let starlight and spike in, due to the fact that spike insisted, and because twilight sent them here."Heh, I know. Weird, right?"

"Uh, I don't understand. Did something happen to you after I left for magic school?" sunburst inquired.

"What? No! I-I don't see what that has to do with anything. W-Why would you even ask that?" the teacup she was pouring was now starting to overflow and spill. "I mean, did something happen to you after you left for magic school?"

Now it was sunburst's turn to get nervous. "What? Um, no. L-Like you said, I'm a, [clears throat] i-important wizard."

"I'm sure there's something on Twilight's list that can help here."
Spike said while taking a look at it.

Shining Armor was breathing heavily as the princesses arrived. "Okay. I chose the honor guard, picked the purity crystal, and I know exactly who I want to be our crystaller. So, all we need is..."

"The baby?" Cadance finished.

"We're here!" twilight, cyre, pinkie pie and flurry heart were just arriving, with the latter two in a
magic bubble.

"She's a really strong flyer!" pinkie commented. As cadance separated the two, flurry began to cry. VERY abnormally loudly. With a cracking sound, the crystal heart stopped spinning, and soon after, it shattered completely. Everypony gasped.

"I'm guessin' that's gonna make it harder to do the Crystalline." Applejack replied warily.

"It's worse than that. Without the Heart, the Crystal Empire's about to be buried under a mountain of ice and snow!" Twilight noted as storm clouds began to quickly surround the empire.

how will cyre and his new friends handle this new elemental threat to
the empire? Will the crystal heart get repaired? Find out next time, on Ponyball z!

Author's Note

And that's part 2! Can crye stall them long enough to find a way to repair the crystal? I cant tell you that yet!