"Do we know anything else? Tell me everything!" Aurora demanded as he fought to keep his emotions in check. Although there was the ever-present concern for his parents and the empire's inhabitants, there was also a spark of indignation within him at the news. Despite his speciality in tactics, Tantabus had completely outmanoeuvred him.

"The Crystal Castle has been the focus of the assault," Wind Whistler continued, never moving from her position. "Queen Cadance and King Armor were aware of the events in Ponyville and were able to respond quickly. They have established defences around the castle and are holding their position for now. The Crystal Guards have been isolated and are largely focusing their efforts on moving any remaining civilians out of the city."

Aurora instantly span round to face Celestia and Luna. Even with everything going on, there was no sign of conflicting interests in his eyes. Both princesses knew where he wanted to be and they both knew that there was little point stopping him. The Crystal Empire would need all the help it could get.

"Go." Celestia said simply. Aurora nodded and teleported away almost instantly, leaving the two sisters to decide how to proceed with this news.

"Much as I resent admitting it, Tantabus has limited our options," Luna mused, pacing slowly. "All our assets that were ready to move have already been sent to Ponyville."

"Well there has to be something we can do," Celestia commented as she came over, any tiredness paling against the mounting severity of the situation. "We can't just abandon Cadance to this threat."

"You've seen the reports from EDF command more recently than I. Is there anything else that could reach the empire quickly?"

"Okay, okay..." Celestia looked down and tapped her chin quickly, trying to remember that particular part of her day. The exhaustion in her mind made most of it a haze, but she could still clearly remember the map showing which units were where. Even though she hadn't needed to look that way that day, she had also checked who was closest to the empire's borders. "Squadron sixteen is in Whinnyapolis, maybe they could fly to provide support."

"Lightning Squadron?" Luna mused before nodding. "Even with extra time to prepare themselves they're fast enough to get there, could provide vital interference, and such a mission is Captain Dust's speciality. Officer, relay orders for SW sixteen to scramble and provide rapid support at Crystal City. No heroics."

Wind Whistler nodded and quickly left the throne room. Once she was out of sight, Luna sighed and sat back on her haunches, visibly drained. A rare moment of vulnerability from her. Celestia moved to her sister's side and draped a wing over her shoulders. A mere month ago, they would have both been moving to protect the empire they had unwittingly founded so long ago. In their current states though, all they could do for now was wait. And hope that those Cadance had with her the strength to withstand Tantabus.

Crystal City was bathed in pale pink light that reflected off every building, lighting the surrounding area for miles around. Occasionally the light would pulse with a mix of light blue and white to create a cascade of light, illuminating the skies even further. On any other occasion, the sight of a city lit up like this would be breath-taking.

Tonight, few ponies were in a position to see it.

Shining Armor grunted as his magic flared around his horn, sweat pouring down his face as he poured more of his strength into the forcefield before him. Tonight had gone badly enough already, waiting for any news from either his sister or his son. Then after word had reached the empire that Ponyville had been attacked, Tantabus had appeared within its borders with intent to fight. For once, the paranoia instilled in the crystal ponies by Sombra's rule had paid off, allowing them to either retreat to the castle or head for the city boundary within minutes of the warning being given. Many were still present in the area though. Crystal City's population was at least five times that of Ponyville and the castle had only been able to take in so many before he had been forced to seal it off with his protective magic.

Mercifully, Tantabus was proving less interested in collateral damage and more focused at striking the heart of the Crystal Empire. Her attacks had almost exclusively been directed toward the barrier surrounding the castle, fighting to penetrate it in some capacity. Cadance had initially been able to aid him with her own shield magic but had needed to shift priorities to keeping the ponies that had reached the castle calm. Much as he would have liked her help, he knew that what she was doing was every bit as important. If the crystal ponies negative emotions became strong enough to influence the Crystal Heart, the consequences would be felt across the whole continent. For now, he just had to stay strong and keep this battle of attrition going until an opportunity presented itself.

A small mercy then, that the fatigue that had plagued him for the past few years had cleared up within the last couple of days. If there was any time he needed to feel completely like himself again, it was now.

Even as the thought crossed his mind, another beam of Tantabus' magic crashed against the upper reaches of the shield, sparks of energy flaring in all directions as it absorbed the attack. Regular magic wasn't much of a concern against his shield, and this was just covering one tall but narrow castle. He had been able to keep an entire city covered while it was under constant siege, while only subconsciously maintaining the shield. On the other hoof, he could gauge the strength being put into each of Tantabus' attacks and knew that most of them were merely probing his defences. If...When, she got serious, he would be on the back hoof.

A quick glance back showed that Cadance was with roughly thirty ponies that were sticking close to the crystal heart. The majority were crystal ponies, although there were a few earth ponies and pegasi among them. Many more were hiding inside the castle itself, taking advantage of the study crystal structure for protection. Their voices were just about audible over his near constant magic use.

"What do we do...What do WE do?" An emerald crystal mare was fretting, pacing in front of the crystal heart.

"Why is this happening to us?" A quartz coloured stallion added, looking round as if there might be some means of escape he'd missed.

"I don't know why, but we have to stand strong and united," Cadance told them, her voice carrying that firm yet dulcet tone of a supportive leader. "You all have the strength of will to protect the Crystal Heart, the Crystal Empire, from any harm. If Sombra couldn't st-"

"Why isn't Equestria coming to help us?!?" An auburn pegasus stallion cried, his panic tinged with more than a little anger.

Before anypony could respond, the shield was struck by an attack strong enough to shake the ground beneath them. The barrier buckled under the sheer energy being unloaded into it but managed to hold. Shining Armor wasn't so lucky. Keeping his magic at work meant he felt the impact straight through his horn and into his mind, giving him the mother of all headaches in an instant. His vision burred as his whole head pounded, leaving what he could see beyond the shield reduced to little more than a maelstrom of energy. He gritted his teeth and tensed his legs, focusing on staying standing as his body trembled from the effort.

"Shining!" Cadance called as she dashed over to him, using some of her own magic to bolster him and reinforce the shield. "Are you okay?"

"Chrysalis was worse," He told her reassuringly, managing a smile even as he looked set to blow a vein in his forehead. "Though...Can't shake a sense of, déjà vu..."

Cadance's eyes widened as she realised what he meant. That night shortly after Aurora was born, the dream of an alicorn. On instinct she whirled around right before something flashed between them and the other ponies, magic primed to strike. It instantly faded as she realised the flash had come from a teleportation spell. One that quickly faded to reveal a familiar unicorn.

"Mom! Dad!" Aurora called as he span round frantically. On seeing them he relaxed slightly and rushed over, grabbing them both in an embrace. "Oh thank Celestia I made it in time! How bad is it?"

"Bad." Shining grunted, the hug not doing much to help his condition. Aurora quickly relaxed it and looked round before stepping toward the shield. A focused beam of his white magic shot out and connected with it, adding his strength and allowing Cadance to let hers go for now.

"It's still better than in Ponyville..." He told them quietly, bracing himself as a fresh shot from Tantabus hit the shield. With two powerful unicorns talented in shield magic fuelling it, the barrier shrugged it off with minimal difficulty. "At least the rest of the city is still intact."

"So it's as bad as we heard," Shining mused as he looked over at Cadance. She didn't look reassured by the news and now that his senses were coming back to him, he wasn't either. "Is Twily okay?"

"She got off lightly. A lot of ponies are badly hurt though, including Pinkie Pie. Pretty much everything Princess Luna had to spare was sent to Ponyville, it's that bad. Help is coming though."

"And between the three of us, I think we can make a stand against Tantabus," Cadance finished. "After this...I think we need-"

She was cut off as the ground shook again. Moments later an explosion from within the city became visible, almost drowned out by the sounds of mounting panic from the group behind them. All three of them could tell that the blast was roughly the size of a city block and, from their current position, it had been directed at the headquarters of the Crystal Guards. Hopefully nopony had remained there. Before they could even fully turn their heads toward it, there was another flash behind them and the panic reached a crescendo. All three spun round as one, magic primed yet again, before yet another blinding flash filled their vision. Although they had only had a split second to see what was there, the image had been burned into their minds.

Tantabus, all four hooves gripped around the Crystal Heart, shooting them a victorious smirk.

When the flash faded, they had both vanished.

"Aurora?" Cadance immediately asked as she turned to him. Aurora focused his magic and glanced around, trying to focus while Shining went and did his best to prevent a riot breaking out behind them.

"Nothing," He replied sadly, his eyes shifting between brown and pale white. "Even if I could feel more than a few hundred feet, there's just so much interference...So much sadness."

Cadance hesitated as she took in the situation. With Tantabus nowhere in sight, both Shining and Aurora had dropped the shield and put all their attention toward attempting to calm the panicked populace, with little success. The main light now came from lights inside the castle and the fire out in the city, but even that was enough to see the faintest hints of the frozen north starting its inexorable advance. Without the protective energy of the crystal heart, the city had roughly half an hour before being swallowed up by endless ice and snow. The ponies that had suffered through so much were about to lose everything again. Because of Tantabus. There was still a chance to fix this though. She just needed to think...

A spark of light blue ignited at the tip of her horn and wound its way down the grooves before coming to rest on her forehead, leaving glowing magic the colour of ice in its wake. She could feel all she needed to. All she had to do. She would just have to be quick.

"Attention everypony!" She bellowed, her magic carrying her voice across the entirety of Crystal City. Everypony immediately stopped what they were doing and turned her way, her voice the only sound in the city. "The city is no longer in immediate danger. The aggressor has fled and your safety is not at risk. I only leave now to ensure your safety, and that the one responsible realises what happens when you strike at the Crystal Empire!"

"Cadance, what're you...?" Shining started as he moved back toward her. He stopped as her wings shot out, her magic charging so intensely that there were traces of it on her feathers.

The seven pegasi of Sky Wing Squadron Sixteen tightened up their formation and flew faster as they crossed the Equestria-Crystal Empire border. From their elevation they had been able to see the glow of the shield covering the castle. Now it had faded back into darkness and they had to assume the worst, even if there were no signs of active fighting anywhere else in the empire.

"Fifteen minutes, Captain. Orders?" One of the squad called, a lilac stallion holding position at the back.

"Make it ten," The lead replied, a light turquoise mare with an amber and gold mane, before looking back at her team with a confident grin. "Fly fast, hit hard, make sure the castle and royals are secure. Where's lightning gonna strike?"

Before anypony could respond, the sound of an almighty blast drew their attention. A wave of light blue energy was spreading out from the location of Crystal City, illuminating a massive area as it passed harmlessly through everything in its way. A figure trailing the same energy shot skyward at the same time, leaving a heart shape that expanded in the center of the wave. It rose roughly two thousand feet before shooting off toward the mountains in the north-east, almost faster than they could follow.

"Errr...Captain?" Another member of the flight asked in confusion, a blue-gray mare.

"Wow. Even I couldn't keep up with that...Wings back team, we're getting there in eight!"

Aurora watched as the trail his mother had left faded into the night. He didn't need his magic to know that everypony in a fifty mile radius was doing the same thing, or that he wasn't the only one realising their jaw had dropped. He couldn't blame them either. All these years and even he still had no idea how much power she wielded. It hadn't felt any different to her usual magic either...Had she been subconsciously tapping into her lekli's strength in her drive to protect those she loved?

"Woah..." Shining Armor said quietly as he stared back at the rest of the ponies present. Their reactions mirrored his; stunned silence powerful enough to overcome the fear of imminent icy armageddon.

"Does...Does mom know what she's doing?" Aurora finally asked, drawing Shining's focus back to the situation.

"I'm sure of it. Cadance's magic has been attuned to the Crystal Heart ever since Sombra was defeated. With that much power built up, she can probably follow the heart straight to Tantabus."

"And between this and Ponyville, she has to have been worn down. Physically and magically." Aurora mused, looking back up at the skies. As much as he wanted to believe that she had used enough to make herself easy pickings, he knew now that Tantabus would always have a contingency plan or two. Shining was clearly thinking similarly as he stepped up to his son's side, concern evident in his eyes.

"But is it enough?"

Before he could answer, a glint of light in the direction Cadance had headed caught their attention. The faintest of twinkles amidst the stars. A slightly darker one followed straight after. They both knew what it meant, why they both stared with mounting fear in their hearts.

Cadance was fighting for her life out there. For everypony's.

She was further north than any pony in recorded history. Iced over coastline lay below her that stretched out into boundless ocean, freezing air gnawing at every inch of her body. Even with clear skies and Luna's light shining above her visibility was poor, yet she knew that few other living beings had ever seen the land she had been drawn to.

None of that mattered to Cadance.

Her left wing tucked up and she used the momentum of the right to twist her body into a curled roll, right around the beam of Tantabus' magic that had been aimed at her chest. Even before she straightened out her horn lit up again and she fired a bolt of her own to intercept the follow up strike. The two attacks collided in a blinding flash, momentarily making the area as bright as day. Cadance blinked the light away and pushed herself harder, bordering on the speed of sound as she closed the gap to Tantabus.

A small part of her knew that this had to have been a predetermined move. Teleportation required prior knowledge of the destination and Tantabus must have worked her way up to this area at some point since the battle at the vault. It was a well designed trap she had thrown herself into: Hostile environment, zero chance of help or rescue and an opponent carrying something she couldn't afford to damage, nor leave without. The only advantages she held were an overall higher magic reserve and her affinity with the heart. She could see Tantabus still had her hooves around it and was holding herself in her magic to keep evading. It was slowing her down though, and with the strength of the heart radiating through Cadance as her power surged further, she knew exactly where she needed to aim to avoid it.

As soon as she levelled out she fired again, aiming for her opponent's leg. Tantabus pushed herself sideways in response, almost being caught in the face by Cadance's wing as she shot past. The shockwave in the princesses' wake was far more effective against the unicorn, momentarily overpowering her magic. Tantabus was thrown tumbling backward and was forced to teleport in order to reorient herself, barely maintaining her grip on the heart. Cadance swung herself round as hard as she could, whole body tensing as she fought the g-forces, lining herself up against her target again. Normally the wind chill of flying at such speeds would make the cold unbearable, but her magic had lit a fire within her that spread throughout her body and burned away such troubles. She felt no hesitation, no inhibition, no restriction.

No mercy.

Cadance banked around Tantabus and threw herself into a tight spiral, firing magic back onto the path she had just flown. The combined effect created a whirlwind of energy that surrounded her foe. Even as she fought to maintain her circling she angled her horn and fired rapidly, aiming for Tantabus' legs and joints at a rate of six bolts of magic per second. Anything to weaken her grip on the heart. Tantabus was giving as good as she got though, utilising a mix of subtle shifts in her position and split-second shields to keep her defences raised. Enough to rend this kind of attack fruitless. Cadance gave a growl that was lost in the chaotic dim of wind and magic, steadily tightening her circling and ramping up her attacks. Her horn itself started to glow as her shot eight bolts of magic a second. Ten. Thirteen. At fifteen she finally overloaded Tantabus' defences, burning her right shoulder with a direct hit.

Tantabus yelped in pain at the hit and threw her body into a horizontal position, kicking her hind legs out. The sudden movement caught Cadance in a blind spot and a hoof struck her in the spine. Her whole body momentarily locked up from the pain, forcing her to abandon the attack and straighten herself out. It hurt to move at all but being so magically charged helped numb the pain. She couldn't let her focus wander for a moment, not until the job was done. She flipped herself round in time to see Tantabus teleporting out of sight. Upward, a good ten thousand feet or so. Cadance looked up in time to hear her foe building her strength, even from this distance, before a beam of pure magic bigger than she was shot toward her. It had to be most of what she had left, and that meant there was an opening.

Assuming the idea she'd had worked. Performing this anything less than flawlessly would either alert Tantabus to her intent or result in taking the full force of the attack.

Cadance charged straight toward the beam, firing one of her own as she closed the gap. Her magic was barely able to have any effect on the concentrated magic coming for her, but that was never the intent. Half a second before reaching it she ended the attack and poured all her magic into a shield around her front half. There wasn't even time to hope it would work before her entire world became a storm of teal and black, her ears knowing only the scream of magical energy colliding inches away from them. Her vision blurred as her entire body shook from the effort of flying against a stream of magic that could prove lethal if she stopped for so much as an instant. Even now she could feel her hind legs starting to burn from traces that flickered around the shield and licked against her fur. None of that mattered though, she was making headway.

As Tantabus kept pouring her energy into the attack, Cadance kept fighting through it. She was almost in sensory overload but she knew that she was closing the gap again. Just a few more seconds would be enough to be within reach. The timing for the final piece of this plan needed to be within milliseconds of perfect though. Her focus intensified to the point that the world around her vanished. Just her, her target, and the point she needed to reach. Roughly ten feet before colliding she collapsed her shield and poured every once of magic she could summon into pushing it away from her. The force amplified what would have been a firm push into an all-consuming blast, too close and too quick for the unicorn to evade.

Cadance allowed herself to take a breath as her attack hit dead on, throwing Tantabus backward in an uncontrolled spin, her screams echoing through the night. Despite everything, she was still managing to keep a grip on the Crystal Heart. Cadance didn't even slow down as she pursued, pushing through the mounting pain throughout her body. Her focus lay with the heart, to strike exactly where she needed to in order to get it back. As she closed in again she primed her hoof and pushed her wings harder, boosting forward at full speed right as her hoof struck Tantabus' damaged shoulder. The blow finally forced her to loosen her grip, bringing that hoof off the heart.

With three still to go and already being past her opponent, Cadance tucked her wings in and gripped herself in her magic, pushing her body to its limit as she used it to stop in a heartbeat and launch herself back at Tantabus. Her punch landed square on her target's left flank, weakening her hold but still not enough this time. So she did it again. And again. Each time pushing both of them as hard as she could, determined to keep the pain coming until Tantabus relented. After at least a dozen hits, she saw the hind left leg go limp. Two down. As she pushed herself into the next attack she saw Tantabus finally get her own levitation going again, levelling out and turning to face her.

Their eyes met mid-turn and Cadance realised that she was the one caught out this time, her speed working against her. Even as she opened her wings to try and evade, Tantabus' horn glowed brighter and she ducked her head down slightly. Cadance barely had time to realise it was aimed at her body before searing pain cut into her left side, just missing her legs and wing. As it spread further down, feeling like her entire side was being sliced open, something in the back of her mind came into clarity. A whisper.

Teleport. Suffer.

She didn't know why, but she understood exactly what it meant.

As she felt the blood starting to emerge from her wound, even before she'd fully passed her foe, Cadance's focus suddenly became clear enough to overcome the crippling pain flooding her. She teleported the instant she'd fully passed Tantabus and reappeared fifty feet back from where she had been. Tantabus barely had time to realise what had happened before Cadance slammed into her, wrapping a hoof around her horn to prevent any further sneak attacks. The other got under Tantabus' left foreleg and pried it backward. With three hooves off the Crystal Heart and nothing to hold it in place, it was easy enough to get a grip on it in her magic and pull it away, throwing it skyward. There was more than enough time to catch it and it was better if it was out the way for what she was going to do.

She could feel Tantabus struggling against her, completely outclassed in a physical confrontation yet still trying regardless. Not that it mattered anymore. Cadance tightened her grip and flipped over backward, dive bombing the two of them toward the ground fast enough to finally punch through the sound barrier. She barely heard the sonic boom behind her, her senses were still hazy from before and the latest magic charge she was building wasn't helping. It meant nothing though, the whisper kept repeating the last word over and over, something for her to focus on. They dropped nine and-a-half thousand feet in eight seconds before she let go of Tantabus and flared her wings out. Her foe dropped away quickly as she bled off speed and unleashed everything she had left from her horn.

Tantabus barely had time to see it coming before she was struck in the side and pinned against the ferocious torrent. She screamed in pain and fury before the magic smashed into the ground, kicking up a colossal plume of dust, snow and magical fire. It reached so high that Cadance was forced to fly out of its way and watch the blast reach several hundred feet further toward the heavens. She was tired, freezing, in pain all over and fairly certain she was losing a lot of blood, but she had won.

Kill.

The whisper forced its way to the front of her mind, like the tainted promise of a snake-oil salespony.

Finish it. Stop her. NOW!!!

Cadance looked down at where Tantabus had landed, the site still completely obscured by smoke and darkness. She couldn't see anything that indicated if her foe was still alive, but everything she had been told left her with the feeling it would take more than that to kill a lekli. She could also make out her own blood, running down the length of her left side from a shallow yet precise cut inflicted by magic. For all Tantabus had done, she deserved to be destroyed. It would be so easy...

"No..."

It took a moment to realise that that was her own voice, from her own mouth. She knew that she meant it instantly. Sunset Shimmer was still a prisoner of Tantabus, there still had to be a chance to save her. In the end, Cadance knew that it wasn't even a choice.

She was the princess of love and unity, she would not kill a helpless mare in cold blood.

The whisper faded from her mind, replaced by the familiar sensation of her connection to the Crystal Heart. In the heat of battle, she hadn't even realised she'd stopped feeling it. It was falling now though, very close to her position. As she pushed herself skyward to grab it, she heard a momentary flash of magic below her. A look backward confirmed nothing was coming her way. Tantabus had fled again, but right now her kingdom and her ponies mattered more. It was relatively easy to reach the heart and catch it in her magic. With what focus she could still maintain, she thought of home and teleported away. In an instant the freezing air was replaced by the warmth of the city, the nothingness by the resting place of the heart, the air by solid ground that three of her hooves were suddenly too weak for.

Cadance yelped as she collapsed onto her wound, just managing to keep the heart held aloft in her magic. For a brief moment her view became less hazy and she could see where she needed to aim. Then it was disrupted again as her ears were filled with a city's worth of ponies erupting into a mix of cheer for their queen's success and shock at her condition. She felt a hoof under her chin lifting her head, letting her see her husband's face again. She'd never seen Shining look so scared in her life, but right now she was simply too glad to see him at all.

"Place it." She panted, managing to smile even as she looked to the heart. Shining nodded and his horn glowed pink, taking the crystal heart in his telekinesis. Within moments it had been returned to its rightful place, the light returning to it as it picked up on the emotions of the ponies around it.

"Mom!" Aurora cried as he rushed over, checking her over. "Oh this, this looks really serious. Somepony get a doctor, now!"

"I'm all right," Cadance told him quietly, draping her good hoof over his back and hugging him gently. She'd managed to contain the fear she'd never see either of them again at the time, but now it was over, she couldn't stop the tears from coming. "I'm here son. We did it."

"We did," Shining commented as he came back over and kneeled down next to them, his gaze momentarily out beyond Crystal City before he flashed a smile. "You're amazing hun. And congratulations, Aurora. That's your first time helping to save the Crystal Empire."

"I got lucky. It was easier than I thought." Cadance admitted, managing a small chuckle. Normally she might have chastised her husband for a comment like that in such a serious situation, but right now it was much easier to simply lie there and enjoy the reminders that she was alive and successful.

As she heard other ponies approaching to give her medical attention, her gaze turned back to the heart as Shining and Aurora carefully took her in their magic to carry her out. In that moment, she was glad that they were too close to allow anypony in the crowd a good look, because there was no way she could hide the shock that was piercing her. Though the heart hadn't changed outwardly, she could feel the main emotions that were charging it. Princess Celestia had been very thorough when explaining to her how each emotion affected the balance, why love and joy needed to be so prevalent within the empire.

Now, fear had taken hold.

Not too far away, on a mountain ledge that provided a perfect view of the city, a lone unicorn watched and waited. Almost every patch of fur had been scuffed, torn or burned, her legs shaking from exertion, but a victorious grin on her face. It only grew as she saw the energy of the Crystal Heart rise up through the castle and launch from the main spire before blasting outward, clearing away the last storm clouds that had rolled in. Unlike the usual rainbow colours it usually sported, this one was a pale blue. The illumination it provided also showed several pegasi reaching the city from the south. The paltry help Equestria could provide when it was already too late.

"All as planned," Tantabus said to herself before her lip curled in contempt. "Almost. Now I have to track down the Tomb of the Gods again. Still, at least I have you to cheer me up before we truly get started.

As she took a breath to chuckle at the prospect of what came next, her whole body tensed and the sound died in her throat. Before she could even question it, her pupils rapidly dilated and she found she wasn't in control of the body anymore.

"You..." Sunset growled, head drooping as she fought to stay in her own body. "...Monster..."

It didn't last more than a few seconds before her eyes were clenched shut and Tantabus had taken control back.

"Oh please, if anything you should be grateful toward me. After all, I'm the only reason you're still alive," She commented flatly. "I shall deal with this...insubordination later. For now, we need somewhere nopony will think to look for us. Or want to...We're going home."

And with that, she was gone.

Author's Note

Well, the first chapter to come out after my third anniversary of starting to work on the Quickverse and it's one of my favourites of the whole saga. Some lucky timing on that one.

Fun factoid: Despite its position toward the end, this was the first actual set piece I came up once I'd settled on the idea of a whole AU. I got inspiration from this absolutely gorgeous piece by Dormin and it all snowballed from there. On the off chance you ever see this, my thanks for that inspiration once again!