Adventures of Equestria

Chapter 7: Diamond's Dark Dilemma

A midnight blue black oval portal appears at the center of the low light four way intersection. From the gateway, Luna walks out wearing an all-black outfit with a silver plate branded with her cutie mark over her chest and an open waist skirt. Once Luna is away from the portal, it closes behind her; she looks around the lowlight intersections at the buildings with black-out windows. She raises her hand as it glows light blue and a list appears. She glances at the list then back at her surroundings, "Hum… I don't detect any negative energy in here, but why is this dream setting like this?"

Luna makes the list disappear, and she starts walking down the empty sidewalk. She continues to look around and finds that the power in the area is failing thanks to the flicking streetlights. "Very strange I don't see anyone else nor the dreamer in the area. What is going on here?"

Luna then hears low hover humming sound come up for the right of her. Luna faces in the direction and sees a machine coming up from the shadow. In a robot like voice it commands to the princess, "Identify yourself!"

"What?" Luna questions looking at the four foot tall robot.

"Identify yourself!" the robot repeats looking at the princess with its single blue light eye.

Luna brings her left hand under her chin looking closely at the unknown machine while saying, "This strange machine is something that I have never seen before, yet…"

The robot cuts her off and orders, "You will identify yourself, or you will be exterminated! You will obey now!"

Luna looks at the annoying machine and says, "Alright that's enough from you. How dare you try and order me around!" Luna points at the machine, "A mere dream like you has not power over me!"

"Hostile intent detected! You will be exterminated!" The machine replies pointing the silver colored looking weapon at the princess.

Luna stands there looking at the robot as her horn and hand start to glow with magical power. From a distant, Luna hears someone shout out, "No Princess Luna! You have to get away from that thing!" Luna looks around to see where the voice is coming from; then she hears the voice call out again, "Your highness, you have to run quickly, or it will kill you! It's not a dream character it's real!" Luna looks up to see a grey Pegasus wearing purple night clothes flying in the air. "PRINCESS LUNA GET OUT OF THERE! NOW!"

Luna looks back at the machine and hears the sound of its weapon charging. Something in the back of Luna's head tells her to run. She quickly takes off into the air and flies up next to the pegasus. The robot fires a searing white beam, but it misses the two women. Luna says, "Derpy, what in Equestria is that thing, and why am I sensing such strange energy from it? That's not magic!"

"Its called a Dalek, but we don't have time to talk about it! We need to run! Watch out!" Derpy shouts as they see the Dalek take off into the air after them. Luna and Derpy fly off together dodging and weaving around the shots of searing light. Derpy pulls out her cell phone while dodging another shot, "Doctor, I found it! Now what?" Derpy listens to the voice on the other end of the line; then says, "Ok, I trust you Doctor." Derpy hangs up the phone and looks over at Luna, "Your highness, I hate to be harsh, but we need to get out of here now!"

Luna quickly dodges another shot from the raging machine by doing a cork-screw spin to the left, "I'm not going anywhere! This thing is not a dream character, but we are in the dream realm. On top of that, it seems that this machine is trying to kill us! Ahh!" Luna shouts as she quickly dives down to avoid another shot. She turns around to see the Dalek still chasing after Derpy. Luna tightens her fist and grits her teeth as her eyes glow bright white. Her magic aura wraps around her fists and horn and in her powerful commanding voice; she says, "I'M THE PRINCESS OF DREAMS!" Luna flies into the path of the chasing Dalek staring down the raging robot. "I WILL NOT ALLOW ANYONE TO HARM THE ONES UNDER MY PROTECTION!" The Dalek fire several shots at the midnight blue princess, but the shots are deflected by a growing transparent blue bubble.

The Dalek comes to a stop in front of the shield and fires once more, but the shots are deflected or absorbed by the shield. "What is this! Explain! Explain!"

Derpy stops and looks back at the alicorn princess with her shield up. "Princess Luna!"

The magical aura around her right fist grows out into the shape of a 'C' curved sword, and the energy in her left hand widens into the form of a shield. "YOU! CREATURE WHO DARES HARM THE WORLD OF DREAMS YOU WILL PAY FOR YOUR FOUL DEEDS! NOW DIE!" Luna shouts charging the ruthless machine.

Derpy takes off after Luna shouting, "PRINCESS LUNA NOOOO! YOU'LL DIEEEE!"

Luna gives out a warrior's cry as she gets closer to the Dalek, but just as she gets into striking distant a glowing white cage quickly forms around the enemy. Once the cage is complete, the Dalek starts to fade out in and out as strange noise rings out. The robot grows more transparent by the second then completely fades away. Luna and Derpy quickly land afterwards, and they are soon joined by a brown earth pony with a dark brown messy mane. He sports a slim three piece blue suit with a white long sleeve shirt and a red tie. On his feet, he wears a pair of rough wore looking burgundy white tip all-star tennis shoes. Lastly, he wears a long brown open trench coat flapping over his brown colored tail as he makes his way over to the women. His hands are in his pants pockets and he has a big smile painted on his face while he walks. Once he is close enough to Luna and Derpy, he greets them with a British accent, "Hello, hello."

Luna observes the brown pony then replies, "You are not a dream character." She raises her sword at the pony making him stop in his tracks while putting his hands up. "You are just like the creature from earlier. Who are you, and how did you get into this world?"

The man still has his hands in the air and a smile on his face. Derpy jumps in front of Luna's sword while saying, "Please your majesty, he is a friend." Luna's eyes narrow waiting to hear more from the grey pegasus. "Please, Princess Luna hear him out. He's the one that helped save us from the Dalek," Derpy states motioning in his direction.

Luna retracts her sword; then makes it vanish a second later. "Very well Derpy, for you I will listen. Now explain yourself stranger."

He puts his arms down then with a big smile on his face. He says as he extends his hand out, "It's a pleasure to finally meet you Princess Luna, I'm the Doctor."

Luna gets a closer look at the earth pony's face and says, "Have we met before?"

"We have in a roundabout way, but never you mind," the Doctor replies.

Luna shakes her head then says, "Anyway Doctor, will that thing come back?"

"Ohh no, I made sure that the Daleks will never come back," he ensures while putting his hands into his pants pocket.

Luna folds her arms then says, "Very well Doctor, I will take your word for it, but I must also ask the same from you." Derpy prepares to interject, but Luna continues, "I know what you are going to say Derpy, but the dream world is a place where everypony can come for rest and peace. I'm sorry, but the Doctor must never come here again unless he is dreaming." Luna looks at the strange man standing next to her and asks, "Doctor, will I have your promise that you will adhere to my ruling and not enter the dream realm in your physical form?"

The Doctor smiles and says, "Why your majesty, I wouldn't never dream of breaking my promise."

Luna nods; then she holds out her hand to shake the Doctor's hand. A couple of seconds later, she opens another portal behind her and then looks at the Doctor standing in front of a blue police box talking with Derpy. Luna calls out, "Doctor, you look to be a good man. Will I ever see you again?"

"Oh yes your majesty! They haven't seen the last of me!" he exclaims then starts laughing.

The midnight blue-black portal opens again, and Luna walks out of the portal into a long torch-lit hallway. Luna looks up to see torches aligning both walls. "Not again, what is with these ponies and the dark places," Luna complains while walking. A couple of minutes pass and Luna reaches the end of the hallway. She looks at a finely styled oval shaped wooden door; she opens the door and is shocked at the sight in front of her.

Luna stands at the gateway into a large stoned warehouse. The room's walls are lined with glass incased torches burning bright enough to light the whole room. The alicorn princess looks up at the twenty candle lite chandeliers hanging from a gothic style ceiling. A soft mixture of music with low sounding drums, electric guitars, and other string instruments echoes throughout the room.

The floor is flat even cobblestone with white cement in between the different colored stones. Luna sees some ponies talking and mixing drinks at the twenty foot long bar with a dull red light glowing under the lip of the bar counter. There are forty standing and sitting tables with an even spacing around a large circle elevated stage. At the center of the stage, a circular pink color blanket covered bed. Luna watches as all types of ponies wearing different types of outfits ranging from full dress suits to very sexy lingerie with a cape; however, everyone wears different shaped and colored masks.

Luna has a puzzled expression on her face looking around at everypony in the room. A black unicorn spots the bewildered princess; then he makes his way over to Luna. The midnight blue alicorn does another look around to see several more ponies dressed in similar outfits serving drinks, bringing food, and aiding in other things. Once the green colored mane and tail stallion reaches her, he gives a quick bow then says, "Welcome friend, how may I serve you?" Luna is caught off guard. She see looks at the unicorn dressed in a butler suit with a blue and black oval mask over his face. The unicorn continues with, "Ma`am if you please follow me, I will be glad to answer any and all questions you have." Luna shrugs her shoulders then motions for him to lead on.

They make their way towards two sets of wooden double doors. The doors are labeled Stallions and Mares in green lights. "Please go inside and choose an outfit to your liking."

"Before I do that, I want to know what this place is?" Luna demands.

"Of course please forgive me, normally first timers come with a friend or partner. This is a place of friendship and bonding. Our hostess will be doing a formal welcoming to our guests and members fairly soon, so if you are willing to wait and listen she will explain everything. Until then, please feel free to freshen up and change into something more comfortable," the butler comments before walking away.

Luna starts to reach out to stop him, but she holds off and walks in. Inside the oval shaped room, electric light shine down from the ceiling and from under the square shaped couch with a box placed in the center; the walls on each side are divided into three sections with different types of clothes in each section. At the back of the room, there are two opened hallways. Luna can see sinks and bathroom stalls down one path. The other path have doors lining each side of the hallway with a final door at the end. The midnight blue alicorn looks at all the different outfits while saying, "Well, this pony doesn't seem to be in any kind of danger or having a deadly dream, so I have no need to stay here, but…" Luna takes down a leather one piece styled swimsuit. She holds it in front of her, and giggles a bit to herself, "I don't see the harm of spending a little time here to unwind. Besides it's just a dream after all, this could be fun."

Luna walks out of the dressing room wearing a mask in the shape of an upturned blue crescent moon and a black wrap around cape with black sandals. After leaving the room, another butler walks up to her and gives a quick bow and says, "Honored guest, please forgive our rudeness, but I have been instructed by my mistress to ask if you will please come join her for the opening welcome. Since you didn't come with a member, she would like to be by your side so you are not alone."

The moon princess gives a questioning glance, but her expression chances to a smile. "Please lead the way," Luna replies allowing the butler to pass by.

He leads her towards the center of the stage. Once they reach their destination, he says, "Please wait here our mistress will be out in a second." The butler offers her a seat close to the stage. As Luna sits down, the butler snaps his fingers and a full wine glass appears in his hand. He offers the glass to the moon princess then bows and walks off.

Luna takes a sip of the red wine and notes the sweet and rich taste. "For a dream, the dreamer has excellent taste in wine.

A minute later the people start to gather around the stage and the lights dim down low. At the center of the stage, a single spotlight shines down as a woman with yellow wings floats down from the ceiling. The woman is dressed in a pink body hugging one piece that covers her chest, over her shoulders, and feeds into a black mini-skirt. The center part of the body suit is cut in the shape of a diamond with the tips reaching near the bottom between her breast and the top of the mini skirt. She also sports calf high pink boots and elbow high white gloves. The yellow pegasus wears a pink butterfly shaped mask with matching butterfly shaped hair pins. Luna is amazed at the stunning beauty of the woman and her voice encapsulates the alicorn princess even more as she says while giving a quick bow, "Welcome to you all." Everyone starts to clap for a brief minute until she holds up her hand making the applause fade out. "I am Mistress Butterfly, your hostess, welcome to our sanctuary and community. In this place, no one can be, will be, or ever be judge for what we do here. Here we are all equal, respected, and most importantly safe from judgment. To our new guests, I personally welcome you to our community. Know that, we wish to welcome you with open arms and minds. We hope that you are willing to try some of the activities we have here tonight. With that said, we ask that you follow all the rules and remember the golden rule: To respect, honor, and don't pressure each other. Thank you and once more welcome to our community."

The hostess gives another bow as everypony claps; she walks off the stage as people starts to walk off in different directions. A butler greets the yellow pegasus holding a tray with a full wine glass. She grabs the glass and takes a quick sip while listening to the butler. Once he is finished with his report, she places the glass back on the tray and turns to look at Luna still in her chair drinking more of the wine. The hostess walks over to the costume wearing alicorn. Once she is close enough, the pegasus gives a quick bow; then holds out her hand with a smile. "Hello," she greets.

Luna stands up accepting the hand shake. "Thank you for such a warm and grateful welcome."

"May I ask your name?" Mistress Butterfly questions with a soft tone.

"My name? My name is umm…," Luna stumbles trying to figure out what to say. Her mind races over and over in attempt to come up with a name. After a couple of seconds, Luna says, "My name is Tsuki Lux."

"It is my honor to meet you Ms. Lux," the yellow pegasus replies.

"Besides Mistress Butterfly, what is your name?" Luna questions.

The hostess signals to the butler holding her wine glass to come over to where they are standing. After he arrives, she grabs the glass and takes another brief drink of the sweet fluid; then she places the glass back on the tray and smiles at Luna, "Mistress Butterfly, is the only name that I go by here in our community."

"Why do you only go by an alias? I gave you my true name, so it is only fair that you do the same," Luna fires back.

"Since you are not fully aware of the rules, I will allow this unwarranted push to pass," Mistress Butterfly quickly retorts.

Luna is surprised by her counter, and she can only follow up with, "And what rule are you referring to if you don't mind informing me."

"Oh course I will be happy to bestow the knowledge upon you. When it comes to names, you are free to give either an alias, cover name, or your real name to anyone that you meet while here. However the other part of the rule states, you must only use the name that you are given permission to use."

Luna folds her arms with an uneasy expression on her face, "And that means?"

"I only give you permission to use the name Mistress Butterfly when addressing me. As for the name you game me earlier, until you give me permission to call you otherwise. I will call you Crescent," Mistress Butterfly replies.

"Fine," Luna replies with a snappy tone. As she unfolds her arms, Luna adds, "But I still want to know what your real name is."

The yellow pegasus finishes her glass of wine then sets it back on the tray as she replies with, "You will have to earn the right to know my real name. Is that understood?"

Luna gets ready to fight back, but against her will Luna says in a humble tone, "Yes my mistress."

"Good. Now if there is nothing else, come with me and I will escort you around as my personal guest," Mistress Butterfly states directing Luna to follow her.

As the two walk away from the main stage, Luna thinks to herself, ~What the hell just happened? How could I just roll over like that? Could this dream be effecting my thinking in a unknown fashion… or… or…~ Luna looks at Mistress Butterfly's tails swaying from side to side; then she looks at her miniskirt. Luna looks closer noticing that every time her hostess takes a step the skirt would flap up revealing something yellow.

Luna keeps staring down. "Like what you see Crescent?" The midnight blue alicorn looks up with a surprise look in her face. Before Luna can even answer, she lifts up her skirt showing her firm yellow G-string covered behind. Mistress Butterfly smirks at Luna's reaction, and she says, "If you want more; you will have to earn it. Anyway we're here." Luna looks around to see a hallway of doors. Some doors have view screens while others have small peepholes. "Each of these doors leads to a unique fantasy and experience within our community. All you need to do, is pick out which fantasy you want to experience."

Luna takes the lead walking down the hallway; she can hear sounds of people moaning, laughing, muffled voices, and the sounds of smacks echo from the rooms. Luna walks up to one windows to and sees a group of ponies inside a circle shaped room. In the center, she sees a mare sitting in a lacked armchair. The gray earth pony in the chair wears a two piece green bikini. She is blindfolded while a stallion and mare in matching color swimsuits walk around the woman holding black rods. One at a time, the pair touch the mare with the rod making her body flex while releasing a passionate moan. Luna watches as they touch the woman five more times with the rods, and she moans out louder as her body starts to spaz and shake. Luna's body starts to react by heating up with a slight tingling feeling in her womanhood. She shakes her head regaining control of her body. "What are they doing to her?" Luna questions.

Mistress Butterfly walks up to the window and looks inside, "Its called electro play. The two walking around her are using electro rods to deliver a select amount of electric shock to the part of the body that is touched. It feels amazing every time you are touched with the rod. Plus it feels wonderful on sore muscles. Come along, we have more to see my dear Crescent." Luna watches as she walks down the hall to another door. Luna catches up with the mistress, and she says, "Crescent, look in here."

Luna walks up to the door and looks into the peephole. Inside the room, the alicorn princess sees a male pegasus and a female unicorn both dressed in school uniforms. The young man sits on a table while talking with the young woman. After a couple of minutes, the mare rubs her partner's cheek then slaps his face. A second later, she grabs hold of his collar then forcibly kisses him. The stallion goes to grab her hips, but she pulls away slaps him again. Standing about two feet from her, she says something to him, and he leans over the table with his butt facing her. She picks up a leather flogging rod. Luna continues to watch in suspense as the woman walks up behind the stallion and rips his pants and boxers down. She uses the flogger to whip his behind with three quick slaps. As a result, he moans out in pleasure all the while his manhood starts to harden. Luna keeps watching in with growing anxiously until she catches herself reaching for her inner thigh. Luna steps back from the door then looks at Mistress Butterfly with a questionable expression on her face.

The yellow woman smiles then starts to snicker looking at the expression on Crescent's face. "Its called spanking," she states. The female pegasus walks up to her guest and places her hand on Crescent's shoulder. "This is only the beginning, there is so much more I want to show you."

After her statement, another butler comes walking up to the two. She gives a quick bow then says, "Mistress, its coming close to that time, and you must get prepared."

"I understand," Mistress Butterfly replies. She turns to face Luna and orders, "Crescent, go with my butler. She will show you to your seat for the show." Luna's eyes narrow hearing her hostess' command, but before she responds, Mistress Butterfly states, "Crescent before you say anything, I want you to know there is a unique class within our community, and I think you will especially enjoy it. For now, do as I command. Head with her, I will meet you later." Luna thinks about what Mistress Butterfly said and only nods in response.

Luna follows behind the butler as they make their way down the hallway while Mistress Butterfly watches the women from behind. "Yes, she will make a fine brat to play with."

From behind, another pony walks up and wraps her arms around Mistress Butterfly. She gives her a quick kiss on the neck then looks at the two women walking off. "No fair, I'm supposed to be your only brat."

Mistress Butterfly snickers and rubs her hand on the cheek of her playmate, "Now! Now! Don't be a bad girl, or I will punish you." The other pony puffs out her cheeks then sticks out her tongue. As a result, Butterfly uses her tail to smack the side of her playmate's leg. This makes her yip and moan almost at the same time then Butterfly says in a sultry voice, "Bad girl. Now come on, we don't want to keep our guest waiting."

"Yes ma`am," the other pony replies after giving her mistress another kiss on the neck.

The butler escorts Luna back into the main open room. The center stage is now sitting three feet below the surface plane, and the chairs have been formed into a bowl with a five tier rows. The butler takes Luna to the lowest tier of the stadium bowl. "My lady, is there anything I can bring you before the scene starts?"

"I would like some more of the wine if you please," Luna requests. The butler bows then quickly makes her way out of the stadium to fill Luna's order. Once she is gone, Luna looks around at the vacant seats as others members file into the stadium. Three minutes later, the butler returns with a full wine glass and a plate of assorted fruits and nuts. Luna thanks her server as she sets the plates and glass on the table. Luna takes a quick sip; then she puts the glass down before eating a couple of pieces of fruit.

Another ten minutes pass by and the indoor stadium is full of people waiting to see the show. A unicorn butler walks into the center with his horn glowing green. As he walks in, a red fluffy chair, an oak chest, and vertical rack float in with a yellow aura wrapped around the items. He points his hand in the direction where he wants the furniture to go. At very center of the circle stage, he positions the maple colored rectangle frame with a flat solid maple colored slab floor. Inside the frame of the rack, Luna can see a total of nine silver rings. On the left and right side of the frame three of the rings are equally space from the top, and the forth silver ring is on the bottom close to the floor. The last silver ring hangs down from the top part of the frame. Once he finishes setting everything up, he walks back through the door without a care in the world.

Luna eats more fruit while scanning over the strange furniture the butler brought in. Her thoughts and imagination run wild in her mind trying to figure out the purpose of the furniture. Luna drinks more of her wine then looks around at the nearly full stadium, but her sight and thinking go back to the furniture. To Luna's left, a voice says, "Excuse me darling is this seat taken?"

Luna turns to face the owner of the voice and is surprise to see a white female unicorn wearing a black leather two piece bikini set with matching black boots, a white cape, and a choker. The unicorn's purple mane is braided along with her tail and her face is covered with a blue diamond shaped mask. Luna smiles and offers the seat next to her. The familiar looking unicorn sits down, but she is quickly joined by a man with green hair and purple green wings wearing a fancy suit and tie. The man has a mask that matches the unicorn and carries two wine glasses. Luna is quickly able to recognize the couple, but she remains quiet as the mare greets her partner with a kiss on the lips. The purple dragon sits down in the comfortable single armed chair; then the mare sits down in his lap wrapping her arms her lover. Luna watches them make out with other for minute then says, "Hello," the couple looks at her with a welcoming expression, and she continues with, "My name is Ts… Crescent. My name is Crescent."

The purple dragon smiles then says, "Hello, Crescent it's a pleasure to meet you. My name is Dragon and this is my Treasure."

"It's an honor to meet you," Luna replies back holding up her glass to them.

Treasure looks at Dragon and requests, "Sir, may I talk." Dragon nods yes, and Treasure turns to look at Luna and asks, "Is this your first time here?"

"Yes. How did you know?"

Dragon replies with, "Mistress Butterfly and I are co-owners here, and I was told that we had a first time guest here tonight. Mistress Butterfly introduced herself already, and we felt that it would only be right that we welcome you as well."

"Thank you," Luna replies.

A moment later, the lights start to fade, and the light over the rack brightens up. The viewers fall quiet as they turn their attention to the center stage. A voice over the sound system says, "Fillies and Gentlecolts please welcome our hostess Mistress Butterfly." The people applaud as Butterfly comes out wearing a red corset with black panties, a pink waist cape, and black heels. "Welcome everyone to our main scene for the evening. My playmate and I hope you enjoy the show, "Butterfly states. Then her voice turns sensual as she says, "And remember you naughty boys and girls, play nicely."

At the end of her statement, the song Sadness starts playing as someone wearing a fully hooded cloak comes walking onto the stage. A soft round of claps ring out from the audience. Butterfly walks over to the mysterious partner and gives her shadowed face a kiss while hugging her. The hooded mare reaches out from her cloak revealing a midnight blue female bare arm embracing Butterfly. The woman's wrist have matching black leather bans with lose silver rings. She also has another pair of matching bans around her ankles. After a couple more quick kisses, Butterfly breaks away from the hug then takes the woman by the hand leading her over to the vertical rack. The woman steps into the frame, and Butterfly guides her playmate's hand up. The yellow pegasus locks the silver ring into the top silver hook on the left side; next she grabs the woman's other hand then hooks it into the top right side hook.

Luna intensely watches the women as Butterfly positions her legs open then locks the silver rings into lower hooks. As a result, the woman's cape body is revealed. Her midnight blue body is in black and white corset and midnight blue panties. Luna eyes widen seeing that woman has a crescent moon cutie mark. Her heart begins to pound faster when she see that the hooded woman has the same tail, body frame, and wings as her. The final shock hits her when Butterfly unties the string around the woman's neck making the cloak fall down behind her. Luna flops back into her chair in shock and amazement seeing herself down on the stage wearing a crown shaped mask. ~How can this be possible? I know it's a dream, but who would?~ Luna holds her two finger up getting ready to pull up the name of person who is in control of the dream, but she finds herself hesitating. ~What's the matter with me? I could end this dream in a second, but...~ Luna thinks to herself, but her attention is drawn away when she looks back down at the stage.

Butterfly walks behind the dream Luna and kicks away the discarded hooded cloak. She unties her playmate's corset and lets it fall to floor exposing her C-cup breasts. Butterfly walks over to the chest and pulls out a black blindfold; then she walks back over to her partner. Standing in front of her, Butterfly removes dream Luna's mask and quickly puts on the blindfold. Once tied, Butterfly kisses her playmate on the mouth while running her fingers gently up and down Luna's well-toned body. From her seat, the real Luna feels a slightly strange but pleasurable sensitive running over her body. The alicorn princess watches as Butterfly gently kisses the lips of the dream Luna, and the real Luna slow brings her left hand up to her lips and softly rubs over them. As if by magic, Luna can feel Butterfly's soft warm lips pressing against her own and feel the warm breath flow from Butterfly's mouth into hers.

Butterfly continues to smoothly run her hand over her playmate's body while occasionally scraping her nails over select areas. Dream Luna gives off a muffled moan when her mistress circles around her lower back. Butterfly breaks the kiss when she feels her partner begin to slightly tremble as the yellow mare softly scratches the underside of her tail. Both Lunas start to feel a pleasurable feeling welling up within in them while feeling her mistress' hand over her flat muscular abdomen. Her fingers feel like they are leaving a heated trail as they continue to move. The pegasus closely watches the reactions on dream Luna's face. Seeing her heated expression grow, Butterfly moves the hand that was playing with dream Luna's stomach to her left side as Butterfly gets closer to her partner's ear. The yellow mistress blows a quick puff of warm air in; then slowly and softly whispers, "Are you having fun my naughty little girl?"

The connection between the two Luna holds strong; the real Luna hears Butterfly's question, and, at the same time, they both reply with heated breath, "Yes `my mistress." The yellow mare smiles hearing her answer; then moves her hand up. Luna's breath gets caught in her throat; when Butterfly pinches down on dream Luna's harden nipple while rubbing harder under the tail. Both Lunas feel their womanhood becoming moister every second that Butterfly plays with their body. Another two minutes pass, and the moon princess begins to demand, "I'm so close keep going! Don't stop!"

Butterfly immediately stops then steps away with a frown on her face. She walks over to the chest and reaches inside to pull out a black flogger. The yellow mistress makes her way behind her playmate, and she gives dream Luna's butt a quick smack with the toy. The midnight blue alicorn moans out as the feeling of sight pain and pleasure flows throughout her being. She struggles to catch her breath. "You are not to tell me what to do! Is that clear?!" Butterfly questions in a commanding voice. Dream Luna remains silent making Butterfly whip her again with the flogger. "You will answer when I speak to you!"

"Yes my mistress, please forgive me!" dream Luna answers.

"Good girl," Butterfly replies with a smile. She walks up behind the moaning alicorn, and wraps her arms around her playmate. Her covered breast push up against Luna's wings, and Butterfly uses the flogger rod to trace lines up and down her body. The pegasus uses her other hand to pinch the rock hard dark blue nipple. Both Lunas moan out louder as Butterfly uses the flogger rod to rub just above her panty line. "Oh you like that don't you!"

"Yes ma`am," Luna replies.

Butterfly continues to play with dream Luna's nipple by running her index finger around it. After a couple more pinches, Butterfly brings her fingers to her mouth and sucks on them. Once her fingers are good and wet, she moves her hand back over to Luna's nipple. The moment she places her now cold finger on Luna's heated body, the ice cold fingertip sends a cold strike right through the midnight blue playmate.

Meanwhile in the stands, the real Luna struggles with all her might not to moan to loudly. Her eyes remain trained on the scene between the two women unfolding on the stage. Luna thinks to herself, ~It feels so good. I don't know how much longer I can keep quiet. Please don't go any lower or I'll…~ As if reading her thoughts, Butterfly looks in her direction with a sinister smile on her face. Luna's eyes fill with fear and want. Her body goes motionless as if her arms and legs are bounded. Butterfly moves the rod over dream Luna's panties. She starts to rub up and down with the rod making both Lunas feel their womanhood becoming wetter by the second. Luna bites her lip doing her best to muffle the moans, but she unwilling says in a very low voice, "More… more… please mistress MORE!"

Butterfly feels dream Luna's body start to shake again as she gets closer to climaxing. She hears Luna's breathing grow heavier and faster. Butterfly gets close to her playmate's ear and whispers for both Luna's to hear, "We don't have much time left, and you been such a good girl. I'm going to give you a reward, but I want everyone to hear how happy you are for getting it. Is that understood?"

In unison, both Lunas say, "Yes my mistress!"

"Good girl," Butterfly replies moving the rod close to the entrance of dream Luna's temple. "By the way, this little toy of mine is more than just a flogger. It has a hidden feature," the yellow dominatrix concludes by sliding her finger down on the shaft. Suddenly, the black shaft start humming and vibrating in between her lips making both alicorns moan louder and louder; then the yellow mare slides the rod back and forth allowing dream Luna's silk panties to become soaked. "Your nectar smell so sweet, but if you wish for me to drink from your flower I want to hear you…"

At the top of her lungs, both Lunas scream out, "I'M CUMMMING! MISTRESS! AHHHH!"

Diamond gives Silver Spoon a strange glance to see the big smile on her face; then she asks, "What are you talking about? What makes you think that a deal will get me what I want?"

Silver fully turns around and walks over back to the bed. After she sits down, Silver tells Diamond, "I might have a way for you to get the power that you want to take your revenge. Would you be interested?"

Diamond looks at her friend with suspicious eyes, but then she flops back down the bed looking up at the ceiling and says, "Come on Silver stop playing with me. I think… no I know, there is no way for me to gain that type of power."

Silver turns around to look at Diamond lying down and replies with, "I do have a way I can promise you that, but the question is do you want it?" Diamond looks at her friend with an untrustworthy expression; she watches as Silver Spoon stands up and slowly walk away from the bed. The silver grey earth pony then says, "Well from the look on your face, I guess that you don't want the power, so I'll…"

"I didn't say that!" Diamond counters with a frown on her face. She sits up using her elbows to support her body while adding, "Are you telling the truth Silver? Do you really have something that will give me the power to change the world and destroy my enemies?"

Silver stops in her tracks and looks back at the powder pink preteen mare with a smirk on her face, "So I guess, you're interested in what I have to offer."

"Cut the bullshit!" Diamond orders. "Just tell me, do you have the goods to back up your words?"

Silver reaches into her pocket and pulls out a red stone in the shape of a tear drop. It sits in the center of a black stone slab in the shape of a circle. A simple black hemp necklace loops into a bass ring on the top of the black stone circle. The jewel gives off a bright red glow that fills the low lighted room. "This," Silver holds up the necklace in front of Diamond. "This little jewel here might hold the power you want."

Diamond looks unimpressed by the item then says, "Ok so how will that thing give me the power I want and where did you get it?"

Silver hands the necklace to Diamond then says, "My dad found it while on his latest expedition to the Lost Swamps. He sent it home to be studied by our scientists, but I decided to run it through some tests of my own." Silver sits on the bed and continues with, "According to dad's research notes, the jewel is a fragment from an ancient talisman. It's believed that only the chosen wielder are able to access its great and limitless power."

"And let me guess, as part of your deal, I'm going to have to be your guinea pig for this," Diamond states with a smirk on her face.

Silver smiles back at her friend and replies, "Sounds like a pretty good deal to me. You gain all the power that you have ever dreamed of; in turn, I will become famous by solving one of the greatest mysteries of our time." Silver stands back up and turns around to face Diamond Tiara. She holds out her hand, "Do we have a deal? You gain power, I gain fame, and we both are able to show our parents their place in the world."

Diamond gets up off the bed then shakes Silver's hand with a smile on her face. "Let's makes some history," Diamond gloats.

As they continue to shake, Silver Spoon's eyes flash green once more; then she says, "This is going to be fun!"

Zecora's eyes spring open and her breathing is uneven as she stares up at the dark ceiling. The wave of panic coursing through her body quickly fades away when she feels Big Mac's muscular arms continue to strongly embrace her. The earth sage turns over to face her red stallion as he peacefully sleeps; she runs her hand along the side of his face making him slightly stir and wake up. Big Mac asks in a sleepy tone of voice, "Is it time to get up?"

Zecora shakes her head and says, "No, I just had a bad dream that's all. Big Mac, I want to ask you something?"

He uses his arms to pull her nude body closer to his, "You can ask me anything moon of my life."

Zecora snickers for a second and replies, "I think that's more well suited for Princess Luna than me, but I will always be the earth of your life."

Big Mac giggles and gives her a quick kiss on the forehead, "So what's on your mind?"

Zecora turns her glaze down to look at his big red chest; she starts to traces the pattern of her cutie mark on his left pec. "Big Mac, my sun and stars, if I had a secret about me that one day I needed to reveal, would you forgive me for hiding it?"

Big Mac rubs up and down the small of her back, "Well that depends, are you married to somepony else?" She shakes her head no. "Are you a twin? And are you two switching out with each other to sleep with me?" She snickers and replies no. "Damn, here I thought I would get double the fun. Ok, are you on your period and you never told me?" She slaps his chest in a playful manner, and they both laugh in response, and he finally asks, "Zecora are you pregnant?"

"My Big Mac, I would never keep something like that to myself," Zecora replies back.

"Then nothing else matters, I love you earth of my life. If you still love me, I will always be happy," Big Mac says. "So what brought on this line of questioning? Does it have something to do with your dream?"

"Somewhat, but it's hard to explained," the zebra replies.

"Did you do the whole glowing eyes thing?" he inquires.

Zecora snickers once more and says, "No, but I have…" She stops in midsentence as her eyes glow green as she enters a trance like state. A second later, her eyes go back to normal. She works her way out of Big Mac's arms, then she walks over to the window. Zecora looks out at the early morning night sky with her arms folded in front of her chest; she sweeps her tail left then right with a serious expression on her face.

The red stallion sits on the edge of the bed looking at his mate, and with a worried tone in his voice he asked, "Zecora, what's wrong? What did you see?"

"I don't know," she replies with a worried tone. "I felt some dark negative energy, but it only lasted for a couple of seconds. I couldn't pinpoint it in time."

"Um… could it be that amulet, AJ and the girls are searching for?" He questions as he gets up.

"It's possible, but the energy didn't match up. It was far more deadly and cold to be related to the Alicorn Amulet. If I didn't know better, I would say that it was the same dark essence from when Garble transformed," she replies.

Big Mac walks up behind her then wraps her back in his embrace. "So what's the plan? Are we going to have to go back into the shelter?"

"No," Zecora replies. "I have a better idea, but Apple Bloom and her friends are going to have to take the leading role in this."

Big Mac steps back with a confused look on his face. "What are you talking about Zecora? We can't put those girls in harm's way. If anything were to happen to them…"

"Big Mac, I wouldn't dream of putting them in danger, but this might be something they can't avoid."

"Zecora please don't tell me that this is their destiny," Big Mac fires back.

Zecora turns around to face her mate with her back leaning against the window, "I don't know Big Mac, but what I felt was pure and undiluted hate. For some unknown reason, the girls are the target."

"So what do we do? Isn't there some way that you can lead us to the pony giving off these negative emotions?"

Zecora closes her eyes and folds her arms remaining silent for a time being. After what Big Mac would describe as an hour, the earth sage's eyes spring open, and she looks at the green digital clock on the wall. "Three fifteen am. Hummm…" Zecora mumbles out. "I got an idea, and we might be able to knock out two birds with one punch. First, I have to ruin someone's morning." Zecora leans up off the window and goes over the bedside table. She grabs her cell phone and quickly goes through her contacts. She puts the call on speaker as the call rings outs.

After three more rings, Spike picks up the phone and says in a sleepy tone of voice, "Hello…"

"My student," Zecora states.

"Master… master its three in the morning," Spike replies.

Zecora smiles hearing her pupil's response, "Spike it is time for you to continue your training, and you will start to help Garble with training as well."

"Master can't it wait until…"

"NO SPIKE! It can't nor will not wait! I will expect you here in fifty minutes!" Zecora orders with a fierce look on her face.

Spike sounds like he shot up out of bed standing at attention before saying, "Yes my master, I will be there soon. Goodbye."

They hear a series of beeps ending the call; then Zecora looks at Big Mac, "Alright, part one of my plan is underway. From here on out, timing is going to be the key to everything, but you should know Big Mac nobody can change one's destiny. We only aid and support them, yet in the end they must be the ones to determine whether or not they wish to face their destiny."

Big Mac walks back over to the bed; he sits down on the edge with his ears flopped down. A sad and worried expression is painted on his face. "Zecora, I still can remember the last words mom and dad told us before they left. Dad told me, 'Mac you take good care of your sisters, and don't let them fight while we're gone.' Apple Bloom was only a year old at the time, with the attack on Ponyville, the growing threat of another possible attack, and knowing AJ is right in the middle of it all was stressful enough. Now you tell me that Apple Bloom is going to be getting involved just is too much for me. First, it was mom and dad, and now Apple Jack and Apple Bloom are next on deck. I just don't know if I can handle this?"

Zecora can see tears forming in her mate's eyes. She walks over to him and allows her flat abdomen to touch his forehead. Next, she brings him into her loving embrace while bending over. She runs her fingers through his lax silky mane. "My sun and stars, I promise you that I will do everything in my power to protect my little sister and her friends, but we have no place to interfere with their destiny. I know it is going to be hard for you to sit and watch, so…" She pulls back from him as they lock eyes with each other. "I will offer you a way to be by our side in the future battles. Will you accept my offer?"

Big Mac pulls her into the straddle position with his arms around her, "Yes Earth of my life, not only to protect my family and friends, but you most of all." She kisses him making the flames of passions well up inside his body. After a couple more minutes of toe curling kissing, they break away from each other short of breath. The red stallion's face grows even redder and he says while rubbing the back of his head, "Um Zecora, I know that you are supposed to meet with Spike soon, but do you think…"

Zecora can only smile and giggle at his embarrassment as she feels his throbbing manhood pulsing in between her butt cheeks. She looks at the clock, "Three twenty-two, I think we have enough time for one bull ride, but if you don't please me, the next time you will not stop until even I can't move. Deal?"

In one swift move, Zecora finds her back on the bed with Big Mac looking down on her with a sinter grin on his face. "So those are the rules, I think I'm going to like this game. Win or lose, you still come out on top and I have no problem with that."

"Then let the game start," Zecora snickers as she makes the same circle symbol over her mate's stomach. She turns the hand symbol counterclockwise while saying, "Come into me, my Sun and Stars."

Apple Jack sits in the kitchen slowly drinking a cup of coffee while reading over witness statements and the deployment recommendations from the police and local guard units. A minute later, Zecora comes walking into the kitchen wearing a brown sports bra and loincloth. The zebra warrior grabs a cup and pours coffee for herself before sitting down at the table. "Good morning AJ, how are you doing?"

The orange earth pony drinks some more of her coffee then says, "I'm doing well thank ya'll. How about you, and why are you up so early?"

"I'm doing well, but I could ask you the same thing my sister," Zecora replies back with a smile pouring creamer into her cup

"Sorry sis, I asked you first," AJ counters with a smirk while setting down the paperwork.

Zecora finishes drinking more of her coffee; then she says with a giggle, "Fair enough, I am going to be meeting with Spike for his next training session. Also, I will be taking Garble with me as well."

AJ gives the earth sage an inquisitive expression then asks, "Why are you taking Garble?"

"For training," Zecora quickly replies. "Since the seal bounding his powers has weaken, I believe if we can train him to use his abilities the correct way, Garble will become a powerful ally. Plus, he looks up to Spike as an older brother and an elder. Not to mention, a certain earth pony he called pretty." Apple Jack nearly chokes on her coffee hearing Zecora's last sentence. "Haha, just think you have your own Spike to deal with."

*Knock* *knock* comes from the kitchen door and AJ says with a puff look on her face, "Come In!" then she turns back to face Zecora, "That's real funny Zecora!"

Spike walks into the room yawning then says, "Morning, *yawn* Zecora do really think Garble is going through the same thing as me?"

Zecora shrugs her shoulders with a smile on her face, "I don't know, but I'm one to believe that if your heart tells you follow a certain path you are bond to meet the one you love down that path."

"So basically, you're grasping at straws. Unless, you have a hidden agenda that you don't want one else to know about," AJ replies.

"That's for me to know and for you to keep guessing," Zecora counters. They both shake their heads in hopelessness. "Spike please go and wake up Garble, we must begin our training session soon."

"Yes my master," Spike says while bowing before her.

As the purple dragon walks out of the kitchen, Apple Bloom comes rushing in and almost crashes into the dragon, but she uses a quick evasion move to avoid the collision. Zecora and AJ are amazed at her quick reaction time. The yellow pre-teen runs to the fridge and grabs a banana and an orange juice bottle; then she starts to make a b-line for the door.

"Hold on there Apple Bloom!" Apple Jack calls out. She notices that her sister is wearing her gym clothes carrying a brown duffle bag and backpack. "Where are you off to, so early in the morning?"

"I'm meeting with the girls and Rainbow Dash," she replies.

The three of them are confused by her statement, and AJ continues with, "Why in the world are you meeting with Rainbow this early in the morning? Besides knowing her, she wouldn't be up this early unless they're doing an early release for the next Daring Do book, or the Wonderbolts are in town."

"Scootaloo convince Rainbow to be our trainer, and we have to be at the training field at four-thirty. I don't want to be late, so can I go now?" Apple Bloom requests looking that the clock and sees it display 4:09.

Zecora can see the gears turning in AJ's mind as she tries to understand what her little sister is up to. The earth sage then looks to where Spike is standing, and in the blacken hallway, she can sense her mate standing at the bottom of the stairwell listening to the conversation. She looks back to her sisters-in-law and sees the antsy motions of the yellow earth pony. "Apple Bloom, why do you want Rainbow Dash to train you?"

Apple Bloom looks at Zecora with a queer expression, but then her face turns hard as she says, "I don't want to be dead weight. None of us want to be dead weight, Scootaloo, Sweetie Bell, and I don't want to just sit back and watch our sisters put their lives on the line for everyone again. AJ you and the others have fought some crazy bad guys. From Nightmare Moon to the dragons that destroyed Ponyville."

AJ says with a worried tone, "Apple Bloom, you can't be serious about this. You got to be joking?"

"No!" the preteen quickly fires back, "Look at Spike! When your backs were against the wall, he jumped in head first, made is body change somehow, and came back to kick some major ass! He saved your life! All of our lives, but heaven forbid if something were to happen to you and the girls…" She stops speaking for a second fighting the urge to cry. She shakes her head while regaining control back over her emotions, "No, we won't let that happen. Believe or not sis, we have all become stronger, faster, and more in tune with ourselves thanks to you girls. I even learned a couple awesome moves by watching Zecora in the morning, but it's not enough. We need to take it to the next level!"

Zecora folds her arms and looks at Spike, "I see. Please go and get Garble, my student." He gives a pick bow then walks off. She turns back to look at Apple Bloom, "Apple Bloom, is this the path you wish to follow?"

She nods yes; Apple Jack gets ready to object, but Big Mac walks into the kitchen and says, "AJ, we have to let her live her life."

"But…"

"AJ, how do you think Granny and I felt when you went off to fight?" Big Mac counters. "Look, it's better that we support her than stop her. A wise pony told me that we can't interfere with someone else's destiny, so since its four fifteen, I'll drive you to your training session," the red stallion concludes after walking over to the counter and grabbing his keys.

"Thanks Big Mac! AJ, I promise that we aren't going to go out looking for a fight. We are doing this, so if an enemy tries to use us as hostage or leverage against you, their underlings will learn the hard way not to mess with us and our friends," Apple Bloom states with a determine expression on her face.

Zecora replies with, "Excellent answer Apple Bloom, and based on the time you two better get going or you'll be late."

"Right," she responds while opening the door for her older brother, but she suddenly stops and looks back at the zebra. She notices a gold ring looped through a brown necklace. "Zecora what's with the gold ring? You normally wear gold chockers."

Zecora looks down at her ring, "Oh! Since I'm about to go train Spike and Garble, my chockers would restrict my breathing, and I didn't want to leave my wedding ring in the room."

Apple Bloom eyes widen hearing Zecora's statement, "Wait Zecora, you're married to who?"

Big Mac sticks his head back inside and says, "Apple Bloom we need to get going or you'll be late."

The yellow earth pony sees a similar necklace and ring hanging down from her brother's neck. She looks back at Zecora's ring then back at Big Mac's. Within seconds, Apple Bloom points to the zebra and tries to say, "Zecora… you… you… are…"

Zecora smiles and says, "Yes Apple Bloom, I am…"

She stops in mid-sentence when she is suddenly being hugged by the young girl. Zecora can only smile and hug Apple Bloom back. "Big sis! Thank you! I was so worried for Big Mac after Ms. Cheerilee got back with Principal Rule, but now… how did you two meet?"

"That will be a tale for another time. Now get going you have a training session to get to," Zecora replies while rubbing her on the head. Apple Bloom steps back then nods with a smile; she waves bye to her sisters and closes the door behind her. "Well Apple Jack, what do you think?"

AJ slightly shakes her head with a smile, "Looks like our baby sister is growing up fast."

They both smile then laugh until Spike walks into the room with a worried expression. He looks at Zecora and says, "Master, I think we have a little problem or should I say…" He pauses as the 4'9" foot red dragon walks into the kitchen revealing his newly three foot long wings.

AJ gasps in shock racing over to examine Garble's wings, "What in tarnation? How this happen Spike what's going on with him?"

Spike shrugs his shoulders in response making AJ ask question after question to the clueless purple dragon. Zecora remains where she stands with her hand covering her mouth in a thinking pose. ~Hum… his growth progression is right on schedule, but I wasn't expecting him to regrow wings overnight. Poor kid, he must have been in pain all night, yet I cannot take pity on him. Spike and Garble are going to have to be up and ready to fight on a moment's notice,~ Zecora thinks to herself. She moves her hand down then says, "Well Spike, looks like we are going to have to include a flying lesson in today's training."

Big Mac and Apple Bloom reach the outskirts of the city, but he pulls off the main road to drive down a paved service road. Half a mile down the road, they come to a stop at a guard post with the guard rails down. A black mare unicorn wearing army green forest fatigues with a M6 rifle strapped over her left shoulder walks up to Big Mac's truck. He rolls down the window, and she says, "Sorry sir, this is a restricted area. No one is allowed in without proper ID or permission."

Apple Bloom calls over from the passenger's seat, "I'm here to meet with Lt. Dash. My name is Apple Bloom Apple and this is my big brother Big Macintosh Apple."

"I'll need your IDs." the guard orders. They hand her the required pictured ID. "One moment," she walks back into her post a grabs the clipboard; she does a quick check then goes back over to the truck. The guard hands Big Mac a sheet of paper and their IDs back. "Alright you're going to be heading to training ground seven. This will give the directions and base policy. Have a good day," the guard states as she steps away from the truck and uses a remote to open the gate.

Big Mac drives forward listening to his sister give the directions to the field. The red stallion takes note of tha all buildings lit up with construction lights. A minute later, they reach the football size field with nine bright light poles flooding the field with light. After they park and get out, Apple Bloom races ahead to the other girls and Rainbow Dash sitting on the benches. While the girls talk with each other, Big Mac walks over to Rainbow surprised to see her in blue digital camo with a matching hat, black combat boots, and a black rank bar. On the left sleeve, she sports the patch symbol for the Wonderbolts and her cutie mark. "Hey Mac, how's it hanging?" Rainbow calls out waving at him.

"Morning," he replies back. "Thanks for agreeing to train the girls."

"It's nothing at all! Scootaloo is my little sister, and how could I turn down her request to work on becoming as cool and awesome as me," Rainbow says while laughing with her hands on her hips.

A sweat drop appears on Mac's forehead while listening to the sky-blue pegasus, "Well, it's good to know that being in the Wonderbolts hasn't changed you. I'll let you guys get right to it." He looks over to where Apple Bloom and her friends are standing and calls out, "Have a good day, and see you tonight."

Apple Bloom waves back at him as he get into his truck then drives off. Rainbow walks up in front of the girls and says in a commanding voice, "Line up cadets!" The girls look at Rainbow then quickly file into a single line side by side. Rainbow folds her arms behind her back walking left to right then right to left looking at the three Cutie Mark Crusaders. "So you want to be as cool as me. Well, I can tell you that it's easier said than done. It's going to take lots of work to reach my level of coolness, but I think you three have what it takes to do it. Am I right in assuming that?" Rainbow questions.

In unison the girls reply, "Maam! Yes maam!"

Rainbow stops her back and forth pacing. She stands in the center. "I'm glad to hear that," the Wonderbolt lieutenant states; then she turns around and walks over to her green camo duffle bag on the ground. She reaches in the bag and tosses Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Belle black short sleeve spandex suits. "Alright there is a bathroom on the other side of the field. Change into that gear then hurry back, and don't worry your clothes can be worn over the training suits."

The girls nod then run to the bathroom. In their individual stalls, they examine the black with white circuit board design over the heart area, "I'm glad we can wear this under our clothes because Rarity would lose it if she saw this," Sweetie Belle jokes.

"I don't know, its possible that your sister designed these suits," Scootaloo replies walking out of the stall wearing her new suit under her school gym uniform.

"Yeah right!" The white unicorn fires back. "I know my sister, Rarity would go crazy if she had to do that."

Apple Bloom is the last to walk out of the stall, and she adds, "Scootaloo might be right. Sweetie Belle, these suits fit perfectly, as if they were tailor made for each of us."

Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo fold their arms thinking; until they hear from outside, "COME ON CADETS! HURRY UP! TIME'S A-WASTING!" They rush out the door to meet back up with Rainbow Dash who is tapping her foot impatiently. The three friends quickly line back up and Rainbow complains, "Geez what took so long? Were you three having a fashion show in there or something? Anyway what do you think about your training suits? Rarity designed each one of them especially for you." Apple Bloom and Scootaloo cover their mouths trying not to laugh out; while Sweetie Belle hangs her head down. "Now these aren't your ordinary spandex outfit, they were designed to help increase your stamina, strength, and speed. Plus each suit has an extra feature made for you. Apple Bloom, your suit is designed to focus on increasing your strength. Sweetie Belle, your gear is designed to increase and strengthen your magic. Don't ask me to explain the finer points because it goes over my head, but Twilight should be able to tell you. Lastly, Scootaloo, your outfit is designed to help strengthen your wings, and we hope give you the ability to fly." Rainbow walks back to her bag and pulls out six blue wristbands and six black leg wraps. "Ok, grab a pair of each." The girls do as ordered then put on the last items.

"Hey Rainbow, you said these outfits were designed to help train us, but I don't see how," Scootaloo comments looking at the blue bands.

"Just wait," Rainbow replies watching as Sweetie Belle puts on her last leg wrap. "Alright you might want to brace yourselves. Ready?" The CMC members give the sky blue pegasus a questionable look; then Rainbow looks at two black wrist watches. She gives a slight twist of the ring on the second watch then presses down on the face. Suddenly, Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle, and Apple Bloom grunt out loud as they struggle with all their might to keep standing up. Rainbow folds her arms with a smirk on her face watching her three trainees use all their might to keep standing, but a minute later Sweetie Belle is the first forced to take a knee with her breathing labored and sweat flowing down the sides of her face. "Not bad she lasted six minutes, I was for sure she would only hold up for about a minute. Add to that, the other two are still going," Rainbow softly comments to herself. Five more minutes pass, and Scootaloo is next to fall to her knees breathing hard. Another three minutes go by, Apple Bloom finally drops to her knees then falls to her side. All three girls continue breathing hard trying to catch their breath. "Not bad Apple Bloom, you held up for fourteen minutes, but I wouldn't expect anything least from AJ's sister. You did well to Scootaloo, and I'm impress with your strength as well Sweetie Belle. You all surpassed my expectations."

Sweetie Belle is able to regain control of her breathing, but she asks in between shallow breaths, "What did you do to us? My body feels like it's made of iron."

Rainbow holds up her wrist with the two watches then says, "I told you that those suits you are wearing were specially made. I put a load factor on your suits in order to see how much you could withstand before hitting the ground." Rainbow looks back her watch and does a quick twist then push. "Try standing up now."

Apple Bloom looks at Rainbow with rage in her eyes, "Are you kidding me?! I can barely feel my arms let alone stand up."

"Just do it!" Rainbow orders. "I adjusted the load factors on your suits, so you'll be fine. Now get up cadets! That's an order!"

The three girls hesitate for a second then attempt to stand up. They are surprise it only takes a little effort for them stand back up. They look at each other then look at Rainbow to see a smile on her face. Apple Bloom is the first to ask, "Rainbow, what did you mean by load factor?"

"To put it simply, your suits have a built in gravity generator," she states. Rainbow points to the second watch and says, "I use this watch to control how much of a load factor you are put under. As of right now, I have it set for five percent, so your suit is adding about twenty to twenty-five pounds to your body weight." Rainbow unbuttons her collar then unzips her camo jacket. She reveals the same type of spandex as the girls, but over her left breast she has her cutie mark. She throws her jacket over her duffle bag then says to the girls, "Here's the policy for wearing your training gear. Unless you are in the bathroom or going to bed, that suit will remain on you is that clear!"

They snap to attention say in unison, "Yes ma`am!"

"Good, now with all that out of the way, we'll warm up with a quick two mile jog. Ready, let's go!" Rainbow calls out as she jogs off with the girls following behind her.

Two and a half hours later, the dawning sun begins to fill the starry night sky. Rainbow looks at her watch to see 6:12. She looks at her heavy breathing cadets laying on the grassy field then says, "That's it for today girls, I'll see you tomorrow morning."

A green unicorn dressed in army green fatigues comes running up to group. He salutes Rainbow and says, "Ma`am, Sergeant Umbriel reporting as ordered for escort duty."

"Excellent," Rainbow salutes back, "You're to drive these three girls to Ponyville Junior High School."

"Roger that ma`am, and I also have some intel from General Spitfire. She wants you to go over these plans with Princess Twilight and the other ladies of her court," he states handing her a large envelope.

"Thanks Joey, take good care of my cadets, and I'll meet you at Twilight's place," Rainbow replies back.

The three pre-teen mares walk over a tan military Humvee. Before getting in Scootaloo calls out, "See you later big sis!" Rainbow waves back; then Sgt. Umbriel gets into the vehicle and drives off.

Forty-five minutes later, the girls are in the gym shower room cleaning off their morning sweat and musk. Scootaloo starts to shampoo her mane when Sweetie Belle calls over, "Hey Scootaloo, I forgot to ask yesterday, but how did your test in English go?"

The orange pegasus washes the suds out of her mane and replies with, "It went pretty well thanks to the notes you gave me, but you never told me what happened in the principal's office. Did Diamond blow her top or something?"

Apple Bloom lets the water run over her face while saying, "No more than usual. Why?"

"There was a crazy rumor going around about her."

Sweetie Belle finishes washing off then turns off the water. While walking over to grab a towel, she states, "Don't just stand there; tell us what the rumor is about."

The young pegasus is the next to finish showering; she goes for her towel and explains, "I heard Kerry tell some of the cheerleaders during practice that Diamond wasn't going to be there. Not to say they weren't happy, but Kerry told them that Diamond got sent home early for some reason."

Apple Bloom whips her head left and right along with her tail flinging the excess water off. She grabs her towel; then leads the girls to the lockers while saying, "You know I heard, the same thing when I was sweeping pass the drama club room. I didn't pay it no mind, yet I did hear them talking about who they were going to cast as Princess Celestia in the school musical." The three sit in front of their lockers using extra towels to dry out their mane and tail. "Word is, it might be you, Sweetie Belle."

"Yeah right, Diamond would bite the head off of the casting director; then she go crying to her parents to get them to pull their funding if she wasn't cast as the lead." Sweetie Belle opens her locker and pulls out her underwear and the training spandex. She gives the outfit a quick sniff then says, "Damn! Rainbow wasn't lying about Rarity making these outfits. She uses a special odor canceling material in all her workout designs."

Appel Bloom finishes putting on her training suit and rebuts, "Don't change the subject, do you think it might be true?"

"Come on Apple Bloom, remember what happens every time we jump to conclusions?! It somehow backfires, and we end up with egg on our face. Putting that matter aside, tell us more about Big Mac and Zecora," Scootaloo replies while buttoning up her school uniform shirt.

Apple Bloom tucks her shirt into her pants then starts to tie her tie, "I don't have any more to tell than they are mated. I am going to pump them for details when I get back home."

Scootaloo puts on her jacket and stuffs her duffle bag in the locker, "Who would have thought that Big Mac and Zecora would become a thing. Makes you wonder…," She gives a sly look over to Sweetie Belle, "Who's the next couple that will be getting married? I wonder, what it's like to have a dragon for a big brother."

Sweetie Belle laughs and says, "Alright, I get the message, but it's going to be hard to get her to sit still and spill the beans."

"Enough chit-chat girls, we need to head to homeroom, or Ms. Cheerilee will give us detention," Apple Bloom orders grabbing her backpack before heading to the door.

As they walk down the now growing full hallway, a brown fourteen colt earth pony comes running up to the trio while calling out Sweetie Belle's name. They all stop allowing him to catch up. "Thank goodness, I found you. We need your help."

"Sure Steve, what do you need?" Sweetie Belle questions.

"We need you to play Princess Celestia in the spring festival play," Steve explains.

"What?! I taught Diamond was playing the role," Sweetie Belle replies.

Steve motions for them to follow him out of the main hallway into a less crowded side hallway. He then explains, "You didn't hear this from me, but I was called into Principal Rule's office along with the captain of the cheerleading squad, the choir president, and dance leader. He told us effective immediately Diamond Tiara Rich was banned from all school clubs and activities."

Sweetie Belle chimes in with, "So it was true."

"What was?" Apple Bloom inquires.

Sweetie Belle quickly glances at her friends and says, "Apple Bloom remember who we met after leaving the office?"

"Yeah, we ran into Sharon. What does… no you don't think…" Apple Bloom comments with a shocked expression.

Sweetie Belle nods yes then expresses, "Just after the last bell, I heard Cam telling the other football players that he saw Sharon escorting Diamond to her patrol car then drove off."

"Woah! This is news to me," Steve comments. "Still Sweetie Belle, will you please take the part in the play. You're our only hope! Please!"

The trio sees the pleading look in his eyes, and the white unicorn exhales and says, "Ok we'll do it."

"What the what!" Scootaloo fires out. "What's this we stuff?!"

"You owe me one Scootaloo," she retorts; then she turns to face her earth pony friend and asks, "Apple Bloom would you please?"

Apple Bloom remains silent for a minute; then she shrugs her shoulders, "What the hell! Count me in."

"Excellent!" Steve replies with a giant smile on his face. "You three just saved the drama club; we are in your debt. I have the perfect role for you and Scootaloo. You're going to be the guards for Princess Celestia. Meet me in the drama room afterschool, and I'll explain the whole play to you along with getting your costumes." Steve starts to run off while shouting back, "You girls are lifesavers! Thanks again!"

"Looks like we done it again. Sweetie Belle I have just one question for you?" Scootaloo inquires. The young unicorn gives her a puzzled look. She says in a growing angry tone, "If we are supposed to run our class events, how the fuck are we going to be in two places at the same damn time?"

"Relax Scootaloo," Apple Bloom replies. "I'm sure if we tell Ms. Cheerilee the whole story; she'll be willing to get some help."

Scootaloo starts walking back to the main hallway followed by the others, "I hope you're right, or we're going to be the ones paying for it."

"I'm sure it will all work out," Sweetie Belle says with a grin.

Just as the girls get close to the main hallway, a familiar voice calls out, "What do you think you're doing?" The girls stop for a brief moment and roll their eyes knowing that Diamond is coming up behind them. Instead of acknowledging her, they start back walking making her follow up with, "Don't you walk away from me when I'm talking you damn blank flanks!"

They keep walking, and Sweetie Belle says, "You know that blank flank thing is getting old. Get some new material. Let's pick up the pace girls; we need to talk with Ms. Cheerilee before homeroom starts."

Diamond grits her teeth and yells out while holding out her hand, "I SAID STOP!" Suddenly, Diamond's hand is wrapped in a red aura that shoots out to hit the girls' head. They come to a fast stop then Diamond orders, "Now turn around and face me." Once more, the girls do as instructed. As they turn to face her, Diamond can see that their eyes are glazed over with the same red color emanating from her hand. Diamond smiles as she gives the next command, "Now, you will kneel to me." The powder pink filly sees the girls start to struggle; then Diamond growls in anger and forcibly shouts, "I SAID KNEEL!" The red aura around her hand glows darker making the energy over their eyes glow in response as they fight against their body to stop from kneeling. Once on the ground, Diamond starts to laugh looking down at the CMC members. "Now this where you, blank flanks, belong kneeling before superior ponies like me. This power is…"

As Diamond continues to brag, Scootaloo and Apple Bloom seem to fall unconscious, but Sweetie Belle fights to remain aware of her surroundings. ~What's happening?! Scootaloo! Apple Bloom!~ She shouts in her head as her will begins to fade.

A voice deep within her that sounds like a matured version of Sweetie Belle calls out, ~I will not let this happen to my vessel or my sisters.~ The voice helps the young unicorn to refocus her mind, and makes her horn glow. Diamond continues to glut and fails to notice the energy building up; then her horn shoots out beams hitting the other girls' forehead. The beams cause the red energy over their eyes to shatter.

"This is perfect! What should I have them do now?" Diamond questions while tapping her chin. "I got it!" She turns to face the girls then demands, "You will give me all your money!"

"What the hell are you talking about?! There's no way in hell, I'm giving you a single fucking bit!" Diamond eyes widen hearing Scootaloo's response her command.

Diamond's shock grows when she hears Apple Bloom say while the three of them stand up, "Why were we on the ground like that?!"

Sweetie Belle quickly replies while rubbing her head, "I don't know. The last thing I remember was hearing Diamond telling us to stop. Before I felt like I passed out."

"Now that you mention it," Scootaloo states as she shakes her head to refocus her vision. "I remember hearing Diamond's voice saying she wanted us to hand over our money. Mind explaining yourself… Diamond." They're surprise that Diamond is nowhere to be found. "Dammit where did that shithead go?"

"Don't let it get to you, Scootaloo," Apple Bloom expresses. "We don't know if it was her, or our imagination." She looks at her watch, then says, "Besides, we don't have time to waste. We need to get to homeroom and talk with Ms. Cheerilee."

Diamond hides behind a set of lockers watching the girls walk away. She hits the locker while gritting her teeth, and then she growls out, "Dammit what happened?! I had them in my grasp." She exhales calming her anger then says, "I have to remember, my power is controlled by my emotions, and if I lost control then my power fades. Once I am able unlock the full power of this jewel, you blank flanks better watch out."

After the morning homeroom, the students head for their first period class. The Cutie Mark Crusaders walk into their math class smiling and chatting with each other. "Boy, it was sure right kind of Ms. Cheerilee to allow our class to keep the same events for the school festival," Apple Bloom states as she pulls out her math book and supplies.

Scootaloo flops down in her chair and adds, "Yeah, but it sucks that she had to remove us from the leader role. Who knows we might have got our cutie mark in leadership."

"She didn't remove us completely," Sweetie Belle comments. "We still can advise the new team leaders about how we wanted the event put together." Scootaloo huffs in her response.

The classroom fills up with other students and chatter, but everyone starts to whisper when Diamond walks into the classroom. No one talks to her, but they give her questionable looks while she makes her way to her seat. After she sits down, all the students go back to talking with each other, but the CMC members continue to give her a low key eye on her. "Girls, call me crazy, but I still think that Diamond did something to us earlier," Apple Bloom softly says to her friends.

Scootaloo adds, "Yeah I'm with you on that Apple Bloom, but everything seems so…"

"Hazy," Sweetie Belle finishes. The orange pegasus and yellow earth pony nod in approval, and the young unicorn continues with, "Yeah was pretty weird. Add to that, I honestly thought I heard someone with my voice talking to me. She said something about her vessel and her sisters."

"Wow, that's does sound weird," Scootaloo replies.

The room falls silent when a red unicorn walks in. He wears a gray button up shirt with blue white striped tie, black dress pants, and brown oxford shoes. His grey mane is cut short his glasses sitting on his forehead. The student closest to the door calls out to the rest of the class for them to stand.

Everyone stands up as the teacher walks over to the desk. He sets down his books then turns to look at the class. He says in a deep voice, "Good morning everypony, please be seated." The students sit down; then he walks over to the board to start the math lesson for the day. Thirty minutes pass, the teacher finishes the last problem on the board. He turns back to face the class asks, "Are there any questions?" The students remain quiet; he looks up at the clock to see that there is twenty minutes left in the period. "Alright, instead of assigning homework, I am going to give you a quiz." The students give a uniformed whine, but the teacher counters with a smile on his face, "Come on you guys. It's not going to kill you to do a two question quiz."

As he goes to get the quiz off his desk a female voice calls out, "Then why don't you take it!"

The teacher quickly turns to face the class with a sour look on his face, "Who said that?!" He sees all the students' faces full of shock. "I won't ask again," the teacher states. Another minute passes, and the all the students remain quiet. "Alright! Since no one wants to…"

Sweetie Belle interjects, "Mr. Digit, it was Diamond Tiara who made that crack."

"You bitch!" Diamond counters.

"That's enough!" Mr. Digit orders. He looks at the powder pink filly and asks, "Ms. Rich, was it you who said it? Yes or No!"

She folds her arms with an annoyed look on her face, "Yeah, I said it."

"Why?" he inquires standing near her desk.

Diamond rolls her eyes then says, "If the quiz is so easy, then we shouldn't have to take it."

Mr. Digit exhales and replies, "Ok, everyone put your books and notes away." Everyone looks at the teacher with a questionable expression. "Well, since Ms. Rich says that the quiz will be too easy, you won't be needing any study aid. Also, I have decided to make this quiz count as a test. Everyone get your pencils and get ready to start."

He starts to pass out the quiz and just as the paper is put on Diamond's desk she says while pushing the quiz off her desk, "I am not taking your damn quiz!"

Mr. Digit looks at Diamond and says, "Fine you don't have to take it. I'll just give you an F on it."

"What! This isn't fair!" Diamond cries out.

"Cry me a river! Either take the quiz or be quiet!" Mr. Digit fires back.

Diamond squeezes her hands into fists giving the death stare to the red unicorn. She starts to grit her teeth while saying under her breath, "You no good piece of…."

Suddenly, the overhead sprinklers open up and start to spray water all over the room. The fire sirens and alarm bells sound off through the school. Mr. Digit orders the students, "Everyone line up and leave in an orderly fashion." The first student out the door sees the hallway being flooded by the sprinklers.

Five minutes later, the school is emptied out with fire fighters and their trucks surrounding the building. After ten minutes, the police cars arrive on the scene. The clock starts to reach ten AM, when the fire captain, fire marshal, and the police sergeant meet up with Principal Rule. The four men talk among themselves for a couple of minutes; then Jay exhales and says to them, "Alright please keep me informed." He walks over to his two vice principals and tells them, "Call the bus yard, and tell them to get here ASAP!" They nod in response then get on their cell phones to make the needed calls. Jay calls over to Sharon to walk with him.

The student body and teachers are gathered in the stands at the football field. Everyone there is chatting coming up with possible reasons for why the fire system went off. The chatter lowers when Jay steps in the front of the stands with a wireless microphone. "Stow the chatter and listen up!" He says to the crowd. The students' talking goes silence as he goes on, "Alright, I just finished talking with the Fire Marshal and the fire captain. Good news, they wanted to congratulate you all for evacuating in such an orderly and calm fashion. No one was injured during this crisis. Bad news, well sorta good news, the fire fighters didn't find any signs of a fire that would set off the fire system. Here's the bad news, since there was no fire, we can only assume that someone intently did this." The student body remains quiet as the black pegasus continues, "Judging from your silence, you can tell how serious this is. Now, I will the person or persons responsible for this has one chance to come clean. If you do, I promise that you won't be expelled or arrested. You will however have to explain your actions to the school board. If I am forced to find the culprits, I will show no mercy, and I will have criminal charges brought up. I want an answer now! This is your only chance."

Some of the students talk with each other about what Principal Rule has stated. They keep talking of about ten minutes and Jay calls out, "Will the guilty party please come forward." No one moves. "Look if you know that a friend of yours is responsible for this, telling on them will save their life. Don't just sit there and say nothing." Jay looks across the stands for any signs of a student trying to confess or point out a possible suspect. With no sight of either, he rises the mic up his mouth, "Right then, from here on when I find the person responsible, you're done. Just remember, I gave you this chance." One of the vice principals comes flying in; she talks with Jay for a couple of seconds then flies off. "Alright listen up, I just got word that the school buses have arrived to take you home. According to the fire marshal, the school will be closed for an extended amount of time. Your teachers will be emailing your assignments. You will be allowed to enter to grab the contents from your lockers. Once done, if you are walking or flying home are free to go. Those taking the buses go to your assigned bus. With that said, please make sure to keep up with your assignments and have a good day."

Jay walks into his office and gathers some needed paperwork along with his backup portable hard drive. He grabs his briefcase from under his desk and starts to put them into the case.

*Knock* *knock*

Jay looks up then smiles seeing Cheerilee standing in the doorway. They smile at each other as she walks in; he walks around his desk then brings her into his embrace after giving a quick kiss on the lips. "Hey there beautiful," Jay greets. "Everything ok? Did you lose anything important?"

"No, but remember we were going to see the doctor after lunch," Cheerilee states.

"Yeah, sweetheart I…,"

She puts her finger over his lips stopping his statement and says, "You don't need to explain. I know you got a lot on your plate, and I hate to say it but finding who did this takes priority."

He moves her hand and replies, "No, you and our baby take priority over anything else. Cheerilee, I have no problem handing this investigation over to someone else. All you have to do say the word and it's done."

Cheerilee gives her future husband a quick kiss on the cheek, "Jay, you worry about getting to the bottom of this, and I will tell you everything the doctor says. Besides, you have been to every appointment. I think I can let one slide."

He gives her a passion filled kiss and says, "You are the best."

"I know, now go get them," Cheerilee smiles leaving his embrace.

Jay watches her rear and tail sway as she walks out, and the black stallion feels his manhood start to grow. His arousal is quickly killed when he sees Sharon and Fire Marshal William Burns walk into his office. Jay quickly sits down in his soggy chair. They hear the squish and give Jay a queer look. He tries to keep his composer by coughing to clear his throat. "Would you like a seat?"

The two look at each other then back at Jay. They both laugh then shake their head no; Sharon says, "Principal Rule, I talked with headquarters about your request and they are sending over two detectives to head up the investigation."

Jay stands up doing his best prevent anyone from seeing his wet pants. "Good, what are their names?"

*Knock* *Knock*

Everyone turns to face the door to see two earth ponies standing at the entrance way. The brown stallion wears a black suit with a white button up shirt and a blue tie. His black mane is finely trimmed along with his tail. The older white stallion wears a brown suit with a white shirt and brown tie. His light brown-gray mane is cut short with most of his tail hair trimmed off. Both men wear gold police shields with the word detective engraved in the lower part of the circle.

The brown stallion says, "Hello, I'm Detective Ed Green and this is my partner Detective Lenny Briscoe from PVPD. We are here to see Jay Rule."

"Eddie? Lenny?" Sharon calls, "What are you guys doing here? You're in homicide."

"Short story Sharon, we're shorthanded at the PD. Lieu will explain everything when you get back to the house," Ed replies.

"Right. Jay, I'll get an update from you later about the situation," Sharon says heading towards the door.

"Hey, Sharon how do you know Lenny and Ed?" Jay questions.

She pauses for a second in front of Ed; she grabs him by his shirt and pulls him in for a quick kiss on the lips. Once finished, she looks back at Jay with a smirk then says, "He's my boyfriend. Later boys!"

"She speaks volume with her lips," Jay jokes.

Ed quickly adds, "Yup, in more ways than one."

Lenny and William shake their heads doing their best not to laugh. William then says, "Principal Rule, we have set up a command center in the front parking lot. When you're ready come and join us, I believe the station captain has a preliminary report ready."

"Thanks," Jay replies as the men walk out of his office. "Good thing Cheerilee didn't see that," Jay says flopping in his desk chair. "Dammit!"

The command center is a large size RV with an expandable side. Inside the command center there are several computer stations, head cam monitors, a com station, and other equipment used for surveying fire scene. The two detectives, the fire marshal, and station captain are in the back room of the RV sitting at the table talking with each other and a set of papers on the table.

Jay joins them a couple minutes later wearing his red jogging outfit. He sits down at the table with other men and asks, "What do we know so far?"

Station captain explains, "Well, this is what we like to call a perfect successful failure."

"A perfect successful failure? Sorry captain, but in my line of work we call that an oxymoron," Jay fires back.

William replies with, "You would be right Jay, but in our line of work it makes perfect sense. Captain if you would please?"

"Right," the captain starts by showing a map of the school. "Principal Rule, the term 'perfect successful failure' means that the fire suppression system did its job perfectly. It soaked anything and everything that can be used to fuel for a fire, but according to our teams inside, they didn't find any sign of a fire or the remains of a heat source strong enough trip the system. That's where the failure part comes in, without any evidence or sign of a fire, we can only assume that the system malfunctioned in a perfect manner."

"Which leads us to a much bigger problem," William adds with a despairing tone of voice. "When Ponyville was rebuilt, all the schools and some critical government agency offices in the area were outfitted with the same system."

Ed jumps in with, "That's the other reason, why we were sent. Lenny and I might be homicide, but we are also skilled in the field of terrorism."

"Ok, I think I understand, but isn't possible that student could pull the fire alarm and caused this?" Jay inquires.

The station captain shakes his head no and says, "The system doesn't function that way. If the alarm was pulled, only the lights, siren, and bells would go off. The sprinklers wouldn't activate. A sprinkler head would have to be exposed to an active heat source."

"Ok, I believe you when you say it needs a direct heat source to set the system off, so all we need to do is to find which sprinkler head was tampered with," Jay adds.

Fire Marshal Burns leans back in his chair and says, "We were able to figure that part out real easy. According to the fire log, the signal came from room L013."

"L013?" Jay questions.

Ed adds, "Principal Rule do you know what room that is?"

Jay pulls out his work iPhone then types in the room number. "Yeah, it's Cal Digit's math class."

"Well looks like we got our first lead," Lenny states.

Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Belle walk down the road to the Apple Family Farm carrying their school and duffle bags. The bright noon sun warms their still slightly damp school uniforms. The girls carry on a conversation with each other as they pass under the wood carved sign.

"Man, this is awesome. No school for the rest of the day or possibly for the rest of week," Scootaloo proudly says.

Sweetie Belle jumps in with, "Don't get to excited Scootaloo, or have you forgotten that we are still grounded."

"Come on Sweetie Belle lighten up, I'm sure if we talk with our parents and explain everything that they will reconsider. Right?" Scootaloo replies, but she only gets silence from her friends. "Come on Apple Bloom, don't you think it will work?"

"Well…"

Scootaloo interrupts Apple Bloom's response by jumping in front of them and says with an excited tone, "Better yet; maybe we try and solve this mystery and get our cutie marks as detectives."

Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom both raise an eyebrow looking at the orange tan pegasus. Apple Bloom quickly retorts with, "Um didn't we try that in the fourth grade? When we tried to solve who was the one always stealing Mrs. Hardt's flower pen."

"Yeah. Yeah. I know we ended up covered from head to toe in poison ivy, but the rash only lasted about two weeks," Scootaloo counters.

"Scootaloo, we couldn't sit down for a week, and it wasn't a day later that we found out Mrs. Hardt was the one taking her own pen and leaving it in her car," Apple Bloom fires back.

"Girls think about it, if we solve this we can be heroes," Scootaloo tries to convince them.

Sweetie Belle motions her head no, "Scootaloo, we have enough to deal with, adding the school play, our training with Rainbow Dash, and worrying about the fact we need to convince out parents to un-ground us. I think we need to leave this one to the professionals."

*BOOOOOM*

The girls look to see a giant dust cloud erupting from the northwest side of the farm.

"What the hell!" Scootaloo comments just as another explosive blast goes off higher up in the air. Then what looks like a figure rocketing down to the ground unleashing another powerful boom.

"Not again!" Apple Bloom yells dropping her bags and running towards the blast zone. Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo follow behind the yellow filly calling for her to wait up.

Apple Jack sits down on the soft grass under one of the trees enjoying the cool shade and breeze rolling over the hill a little ways outside of the blast zone. She watches a figure comes speeding out of the dust cloud towards the minimum clothed earth sage.

Zecora is at ease as the fast moving figure comes rocketing towards her. She twirls her brown oak staff over her head then brings its horizontal in front of her body; she holds her strong defensive stance and holds her ground when Spike's fist comes in contact with her solid staff. Zecora parries Spike's fist attack; then she follows up by moving in close freeing one hand from her staff. With an open palm hit, Zecora strikes Spike's solar plexus with unbelievable power and force knocking the wind out of his lungs. The zebra pony uses her right leg to kick the purple dragon into the air. In the blink of an eye, Zecora appears above him. Like holding a sledge hammer, Zecora grasp the bottom of her staff with both hands; then she swings down making the dragon do a full speed header downward face first into the ground. The earth shakes and rattles as Spike's body cracks through the ground leaving a medium size crater in the earth with a powerful boom to follow.

Within a second, Spike comes speeding out the ground. AJ holds up a water bottle and says just her little sister and her friends come racing up to her, "At a boy! That's the spirit!"

"Apple Jack!" Apple Bloom calls out.

The orange mare turns her head to see the girls come to a stop next to her. They look up in the sky to see Spike starts fighting with Zecora in hand to hand combat. "Hey what are you three doing here? Why aren't you in school?"

Sweetie Belle looks at AJ while her friends' eyes are glued to the intense battle going on in the sky. "School was closed because the fire system soaked everything."

Spike and Zecora's fist clash into each other with a powerful resonating boom and echoing shockwave. Spike quickly follows up with a left kick, but Zecora uses her free hand to quickly grasp her staff and block the attack. She then hooks Spike's ankle and twists it around the dragon making him yell in pain; then the earth sage flings her student out the sky and rocketing towards earth.

"Ah snap! This one is going to hurt!" Scootaloo calls out watching Spike's rapid descent.

Apple Bloom's eyes widen seeing the purple dragon's crash direction. "OH SHIT! HE'S HEADING RIGHT AT US! HIT THE DIRT!" The yellow mare shouts diving for the ground along with her two friends while covering their heads.

"APPLE BLOOM! WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE!" Apple Jack shouts out looking down at the three girls. She quickly adds looking back up, "Besides look…" The girls peek up from their hunker position to see Spike still falling, but he does a powerful back flip and extends his wings fully to stop his descent.

He flaps his powerful wings to hover in the air. He looks up then his gaze moves down to see his master standing on the ground. Spike directs his wings to give him a strong push forward charging right for Zecora. Once they meet, the two start to quickly exchanging blows one after another. AJ looks back at her little sister and friends as they get up off the ground with a shocked looks on their faces with their mouth wide open. "Now you said that school was closed because the fire alarm went off?" Three nod their heads in unison while watching Zecora and Spike continue to fight with each other at blinding speeds. "Alright, go check with Granny and… girls…" AJ sees that the three are hardly paying any attention to her, but their eyes are focused on the fast pace fight happening ahead. "GIRLS!" AJ shouts gathering their attention.

They look at the orange mare with the same shocked expression, and Apple Bloom ask, "Sis, can we…"

"No Apple Bloom, you three already have a trainer; besides, those two are on a whole different level. I'm sure Rainbow will get you up to that speed someday. Now, as I was saying, go back to the house and help Granny fix lunch; we'll talk later." AJ orders. The three girls nod in disappointment being told to head back away from the action. AJ sees the look on their faces; she calls out to the fading trio, "Big Mac is in the house with Granny. Let him know that his wife is safe and sound; he was a little worried about Spike, Garble, and her mixing it up."

Apple Bloom's face lights up while saying, "That's right Big Mac was going to tell me about how he and Zecora got together. Come on girls, we can't miss this!" The girls cheer in joy and race off towards the farm house.

AJ smirks seeing the girls run off; she looks back at the ongoing fight between the dragon and earth sage. Spike does a quick fall back then dashes at Zecora from the left side. At full speed, he cocks his right fist back ready to strike, but before his punch hits, he disappears then reappears on the right side. He catches Zecora off guard as the punch connects, and sends her flying in the other direction. Not giving her a second to recover, Spike charges after her, but to his surprise, Zecora was able to block the majority of the damage from the attack. She gets a foot on the ground then pivots on the heel to evade the charging dragon.

Once more the two stare down at each other waiting for the other to make the first move. AJ sits back down to continue watching the show unfold. From the air the orange mare hears someone call out, "Apple Jack!"

She turns around to see Sylvia and another dragon come flying in. AJ stands up to greet the new comers. The ice dragon sports a white polo shirt with blue jeans, black boots, and a purple over shirt with Spike's cutie mark on the back and Sylvia's name tag over the left breast pocket. "Hey, do you know where Spike is?"

*Boom*

A rush of air sweeps past them making AJ's hat fly off her head. Once the wind calms down, AJ smirks and says while pointing behind her, "Yeah, he's over there training with Zecora. Now, where did my hat fly off to?"

AJ looks around and a deep voice says, "Lady Apple, I believe this is your hat." AJ looks to her left and is surprise to see a seven and a half foot tall dull silver skinned dragon with mixed silver and copper brown wings. He wears pure white heavy armor with a matching full helmet and on his hip is a giant sheathed great sword. On his chest plate, he sports a painted blue flame. Once AJ takes the hat from him, he takes off his helmet to reveal his military cut brown hair and copper colored eyes. He holds his helmet under his left arm then gives a quick bow to AJ. "Lady Apple, it is an honor to meet you."

"Uh… nice to meet you. Uh how do you know me?" AJ questions.

"Many of my people know the great Lady Apple Jack Apple, the wielder of the Element of Honesty, and one of Princess Sparkles' most trusted advisors."

"Thank you kindly; please call me Apple Jack or AJ, and what's your name?" AJ replies.

"I am Ornedar the Guardian of the royal family," he replies.

"Oh and you're here for…"

"I have an important message for his majesty Prince Spike son of Ashkore," Ornedar explains.

AJ then says, "Well, you're more than welcome to go over and talk with him, but I would be careful. From the looks of that fight, Zecora is trying to push Spike to his limit."

The dragons nod and walk closer to the battleground. To their left, they see the young newly winged red dragon wearing a black spandex training suit that matches the CMC members and Spike's. Garble watches the match between two intently doing his best to study the moves of the two fighting warriors. Spike and Zecora rapidly exchange blows with each other at blinding speed until their fists connect with each other with a powerful boom. They back away from each other breathing heavy with their guard up. Sylvia calls out, "Spike!"

The purple dragon looks over in their direction, and Zecora shouts, "SPIKE! FOCUS!" Spike looks back at Zecora, but to his wide eyed amazement Zecora appears in front of him. In a swift motion, Zecora slams her open palm into Spike's chest, and sends him flying backwards.

"AAAAHHHHHH!" the dragon screams as he rockets back and slams into a giant oak tree. Once Spike's back makes contact with the tree, a sickening crack echoes from the tree as it splits open and falls down on his body.

Sylvia, AJ, and Garble call out, "SPIKE!"

"Your majesty!" Ornedar shouts running to the fallen tree followed by the others.

A second later, the tree rises up, and Spike easily tosses the broken tree to the side. Zecora walks over to the group and looks at her student then says, "Letting your attention fade away, will make you lose the day. Remember this lesson well Spike, or you will lose the fight."

Spike rubs his neck doing his best to work out the soreness. He looks at the zebra pony with a smirk on his face, "Yes master, I will remember that lesson. Do you mind if we take a break?"

"Go ahead, Garble and I will go over the basics," Zecora states motioning for Garble to follow her. The eager red dragon quickly runs behind his zebra master.

Spike walks over to his duffle bag and grabs a towel and a bottle of water. After wiping the sweat off his face, he opens the bottle flops to the ground then says after a quick drink, "What's going on Sylvia? And who are you?"

"Spike, the knights have finished all preparations with the local police and military," Sylvia explains; then she points to Ornedar, "Oh and he's here to see you."

Spike looks at the heavy armored dragon and says, "And you are?"

Ornedar kneels down before Spike and bows his head, "Your majesty Prince Spike son of Ashkore of the Blue Flame, I am Ornedar the Guardian from the Royal Guard Core."

Spike gives the kneeling dragon an odd look then says, "Nice to meet you. Umm… you can get up now please." Ornedar stands back up at attention looking at Spike with a stern expression on his face. "So, what can I do for you? If you're here to see my sister, she's away at the moment in Canterlot."

"No, your majesty, I'm here to see you on behalf of the Confederation Council of Dragonicion," Ornedar explains.

"I see, so are you here to kill me?" Spike questions while standing up and looking up at the half foot taller dragon.

Ornedar's face goes sour as he rebuts with a defensive tone of voice, "No! Your highness, what makes you think I would do such a thing?"

"Well, the last dragon that came looking for me burnt down the city, and we had to have an all-out fight. Alright, so what's your story? Why did you need to see me?" Spike replies folding his arms.

"I have a message from the council," Ornedar starts off, but his glaze lowers as he continues, "Your majesty, I understand your distrust of people from our homeland, and please know that the council had nothing to do with that attack on Equestria. After they had heard about the battle, they denounce all those who were involved."

"Its all good now, so was that the message from the council?" Spike retorts.

Ornedar looks back up at Spike with a fierce look in his eyes, "No sire that was not the message from the council. I must apologize for this, but in accordance with the code of the royal guards. I must test you to see if you are worthy." AJ and Spike give him a confused look, and without warning, Ornedar thrusts his metal scaled armored fist into Spike's face. The attack sends Spike flying backwards into another tree.

"SPIKE!" the orange mare screams getting ready to jump the dragon.

Before AJ can rush Ornedar, Sylvia grabs hold of her arm and explains, "AJ, please you can't get involved! This is a matter of honor between the two of them."

Apple Jack grits her teeth getting ready to snatch her arm out of Sylvia's grasp, but Zecora calls out from behind, "Sister, do as Sylvia commands. Do not get involved instead, watch and wait. And see this dragon's fate."

AJ exhales calming herself and watches the honor battle. Ornedar walks over to the now fallen tree and Spike. The purple dragon stands up wiping his right hand alongside his face as he spits to the left. "That was fucked up man, hitting me with your metal covered hand wasn't bad enough, but what makes it worst is that you sucker punched me in front of my master. Now, I have to kick your ass or master will kick mine." Spike cracks his knuckles getting into a fighter stance. Ornedar uses his wings to speed up his approach towards Spike. Once they are in range of each other, Ornedar throws a straight punch at Spike, but using his greater speed, Spike dodges to the left and says while punching his opponent, "You're too slow!"

Ornedar is sent flying to the right into a small grove of trees. The silver dragon's body clashes through four trees, but he shows no sign of injury as he rebounds off the fifth tree in his path and comes flying in at Spike.

Spike's intuition tells him to wait. Once Ornedar gets close enough, Spike jumps up getting ready to pound his opponent into the ground, but to his surprise, Ornedar out maneuvers him by flying up to come face to face with him. Ornedar throws another powerful punch at Spike hitting his stomach. The purple dragon is sent crashing to the ground, yet Spike does a flip and lands perfectly on his feet. Spike rubs his stomach while raising an eyebrow. He looks back at Ornedar still flying in the air and gets ready to say something, but Ornedar charges straight at the purple dragon once again. Spike exhales and stands his ground.

AJ and the others watch as Ornedar dive bombs the still dragon. AJ shouts out, "SPIKE DO SOMETHING!"

Ornedar gets within arm's reach and throws another forward punch. The silver dragon's eyes bug out in shock to see nothing standing in front of him. In a split second, Spike reappears on the right and delivers an armor ringing spin kick. Ornedar is sent end over end twisting clashing into the crater from earlier on.

AJ cheers out, "YEE HAAA AT ABOY SPIKE! THAT'S SHOWING HIM WHO'S TOP DRAGON!"

Ornedar forces himself out of the dirt breathing heavily. He rubs is right side and is amazed to see a big dent in his armor. The sound of Spike's landing draws Ornedar's attention. Spike arms are folded, and he wears a stern expression on his face. "Are you taking this fight seriously?"

Ornedar replies with, "I'm taking this serious!"

"Horse shit!" Spike screams out, "That last punch of yours didn't faze me at all! Hell it barely hurt! All it did was send me flying."

Ornedar snickers while glancing downward, "I could say the same for you, your majesty."

"What you talkin bout?!" Spike retorts.

Ornedar works himself out of the dirt hole; then points to his side and says, "You're holding back as well. Judging by the dent in my armor here if you really wanted, you could have busted through my armor, sent me flying even faster, and really done some serious damage to me."

Spike huffs out a laugh, "Alright, I'll admit it; I'm holding back as well. Now with that out of the way, how bout we finish this I have other things to do than to sit around here and play with you."

"As you wish your highness, let's finish this," Ornedar says. He reaches and pulls out his shining silver great sword.

AJ shouts out, "HEY YOU JERK! THAT'S NOT FAIR! SPIKE'S NOT EVEN ARMED!"

Spike calls out with a smirk on his face, "AJ, it's cool." Spike's hands glow purple for a second; then they are engulf in a flash of blue flames. The second the flames vanish his hands have become sharp purple scaled claws. "I'll be just fine."

Ornedar places both hands on his sword pointing it Spike, "Now let's finish this, Prince Spike!"

Spike replies with his claws wide open, "My thoughts exactly!"

Ornedar tightens the grip on the sword and charges right at Spike. He swings the five foot long and sword over his head leaving a sweeping air trail in his wake. "AHHHH!" Ornedar shouts as he charges towards straight at Spike. The purple dragon stands his ground readying his hands for some type of counter. Ornedar can see that Spike is not scared or worried about getting hit with his sword. ~Please, ~ he pleads with himself as he gets into the attack range. He brings the sword screaming down on the half foot shorter dragon prince.

*CHING* rings outs in all directs.

AJ, Garble, and Sylvia gasp in amazement at the sight of Spike catching the sword with his right claw. Ornedar flaps his wings increasing the force down on the sword, but Spike continues to hold back the force of the attack with great ease. The silver dragon grunts and growls struggling to force the sword down on to Spike.

"Not too bad," Spike praises with a gleeful tone, "You got strength behind you."

Ornedar replies with a struggling tone, "Thank you, your highness but I'm not through yet!"

Spike smiles, "Ok, give me your all, and don't hold back."

"As you wish! AAAHHHHH!" Ornedar shouts as a dull silver and copper color aura emits from his body. The aura streams down the sword making it glow with the same color and making the air around heat up.

The contact between Spike's claw and Ornedar's sword start to send out sparks in all directions. Once the sparks hit the grassy ground, little spot fires start and threaten to grow bigger. Spike sees this in the corner of his eye and says, "This is all well and fun, but I need to end this before AJ's land gets burnt down for the third time. AHHHHH!" Spike's purple aura starts to emit from his body and flow into his claw; he tightens his claw around the blade making a cracking sound start.

A couple of seconds later, Ornedar sees the blade of his sword start to crack in Spike's claw. Another second later, the silver dragon is in shock as his sword breaks into pieces in Spike's claw. Ornedar backs away from Spike with eyes full of fear and wonderment while looking at his now broken blade. Spike throws the other piece to the ground with a stern look on his face; he cracks his knuckles while walking over to the shocked dragon. "Time to finish this," Spike coldly says.

Before he can throw a punch, Ornedar drops to one knee driving the remaining part of his sword into the dirt as he bows his head, "I yield your majesty. You have proven that you are more than worthy sire."

Spike stops in his tracks with a confused look on his face. "Ok, so you give up right? You're not going to attack me when I let my guard down. Are you?"

Sylvia calls out as her and AJ rush to their sides, "No Spike!" Once they are standing next to the men the ice blue dragon continues with, "He is a member of the royal guard, and his honor would never allow him to attack you without reason."

Spike exhales allowing his hands to return to normal. Ornedar looks up at the purple dragon with pride in his eyes, "Sire, you have proven to me and the council that you are the true heir to the throne."

"Thanks, I guess," Spike says in confused tone of voice.

AJ then adds, "Alright, Spike beat ya'll, so what's this message that you talked about earlier?"

"With your permission sire," Ornedar pleads. Spike nods and the silver dragon stands to his feet and explains, "Prince Spike, the Confederation Council have deem you worthy and strong enough to fill your destined role to be crowned as the Dragon Lord of Dragonicion."

Spike walks over to his duffle bag and swings it over his shoulder, "Tell the council thanks, but no thanks. I'm not interested."

"But your highness," Ornedar cries out.

Spike turns to face the silver dragon, "Look, I have a life here, so I don't see the reason why I should leave. Now, if we're done, I have to get cleaned up. I hope you have a safe trip back home. Later!" Spike turns back around and flaps his wings taking off into the air.

Ornedar shouts out, "YOUR MAJESTY!"

AJ steps in with, "Sorry, I hope things work out for you when you get back home."

Ornedar lowers his head in shame and expresses in a remorseful voice, "It won't without Prince Spike, our people and nation are doomed."

"Now hold on just a minute, what do ya'll mean by your people and nation are doomed?" Apple Jack questions.

"AJ, you remember how I told you that a great deal of us wanted to stay in Equestria to help rebuild Ponyville," Sylvia starts off. AJ nods yes; then Sylvia continues with, "Well the real reason, we wanted to stay in Ponyville is because our homeland is nothing more than another warzone waiting to happen."

Apple Jack walks back over to the tree that she was sitting under earlier. She glances at Zecora teaching Garble basic fighting stances and moves; then she looks back at Sylvia then asks, "What do you mean by, a warzone waiting to happen?"

Ornedar answers for the ice dragon by saying, "Our country is broken up into the multiple independent states that are always on the brink of war with one another in order to gain more power, resources, slaves, and other things. The only uniting factor in our country is the council, and they have little to no power to regulate the affairs between the other states."

AJ then says, "Alright, so what does this have to do with Spike?"

Ornedar looks at AJ then huffs at the orange mare and says, "Lady Apple, in truth, this matter doesn't really involve you. I must convince his majesty to return with me."

AJ's face goes sour as she folds her arms and fires back with, "Look here! With an attitude like that, there's no way in Appleloosa that Spike will go with you!"

Sylvia quickly jumps in by adding, "Ornedar, maybe if you explain what's going on; then AJ could help us to get Spike to change his mind."

Apple Jack follows up with, "Look here! You said it yourself, I am one of Twilight's most trusted advisors, and if you tell me the whole story I can tell it to Twilight and Rarity. That way, you can have some backup in the hope of solving this here problem."

"Ornedar, this could be our only hope," Sylvia comments. Ornedar looks at AJ then at Sylvia thinking for a moment about their words. A minute passes, and Ornedar nods in agreement. Both dragons look at AJ, and Sylvia explains the situation about the dragon homeland.

Twenty minutes pass, AJ is shocked hearing all the horrors, deaths, and the losses of entire generations as a result of the ongoing wars. Lastly, Sylvia's tragic life story hits close to home for the orange mare. "Well, I'll be damned! I would have never realize or imagine a life like that in Dragonicion." AJ expresses. "But, I have to tell you. Ya'll going to have a hell of a time convincing Spike to leave. Not saying, I want him to go, but ya'll are going have your work cut for you. Still once Twilight gets back, I'll talk with Rarity and her, but you're going to have to talk with Spike. Sylvia, you need to talk with him first one on one; before anything else, that way he will be a willing to listen to Ornedar's full story." Sylvia and Ornedar nod in unison hearing AJ's advice. She continues with, "Ok, my guess he's heading back to his place. Good luck and…"

"AAAHHHHH!" Garble screams as he goes flying through the air.

His screams of terror; draws Apple Jack's attention, and she sees him struggling to stay in the air. "Ah damn it! Look just go! GARBLE SPREAD YOUR WINGS!" She screams out running to get under him.

Sylvia taps on the silver dragon saying, "Come on lets go. I'm sure AJ and Zecora have everything under control."

"Very well, lead on," Ornedar replies as they both take to the sky.

Fifteen minutes later, the two dragons arrive drawing the attention of some people walking around. "Wait here, I'll call you when its time. Until then, be one the look out," Sylvia commands opening the door and walking inside. After the door closes behind her, Ornedar stands at attention in front of the door looking outward.

"Spike! Spike! Are you here?" Sylvia calls out.

She hears running water as a door opens and the purple dragon calls out, "Yeah Sylvia, I'm on the second floor come on up."

The ice dragon walks up to the second floor and sees a door open down the hallway with steam racing out. She makes her way to the open door just as she hears the sound of the shower curtain being pulled shut. Sylvia sees a muscular figure outline washing in the steam emitting area. "Spike I am sorry, if you're busy it can…"

"No! No! Its cool unless you plan on manhandling me. Are you going to manhandle me?" Spike replies in humorous tone.

Sylvia says with distaste, "Of course not, what type of woman do you think I am?"

"Sorry, I'm sorry. Please don't be mad," Spike pleads.

"Look, maybe this should wait until you are out the shower," the she-dragon fires back.

"No! Please don't go, I'll behave besides Rarity would kill me if she ever knew that I was fooling around. Mindful, I would never do that to the most beautiful mare around. Ok with all the jokes a side what's up?" Spike questions while rubbing shampoo into his green hair.

Sylvia sits on the sink table interlacing her fingers as she starts off, "Spike, how much do you really know about our homeland?"

"Sylvia, you of all people know, that I hardly know anything about my dad's birthplace," Spike replies while letting the water run over his head washing out the suds in his mane.

Sylvia gives a low snicker then says, "Be glad."

Spike stops washing; then he replies with a questionable tone, "What is that supposed to mean?" The purple dragon's ears pick up a strange sound and he says, "Sylvia are you… crying?"

She wipes away her tears while sniffing, "Spike, did you know when I was younger that I was once a slave?"

Spike's eyes widen hearing the shocking information, "What? I… I… I am sorry. I didn't know that…"

"It's alright," the snow white dragon replies.

"If you don't mind me asking, but how… why?" Spike questions with a confused tone.

Sylvia exhales doing her best to control her emotions as she explains, "When I was ten both of my parents were killed in one of the many wars between the rival dragon states. The aristocrat dragon that controlled our land ordered that all able body persons were to head to the frontline. This meant both of my parents were drafted into his army, and I was forced to go into foster care. It was two years later, I got word that they were both killed in a surprised attack from the enemy. Four months later, the state I lived in was taken over by the opposing army. The so called noble that conquer my home ordered that all children of the upper class be killed, and the lower class children would be put into forced labor. Strange enough, the foster home I was staying at was that of a high ranked military officer that traded secrets and spied for the enemy. She was personally visited by the noble that oversaw the invasion, and was thanked with a knife in the gut."

Spike shakes his head in disbelief hearing the horror story from his second in command, but his shock is compounded as she continues with her story, "One of the noble's bodyguards found me hiding the hallway and dragged me kicking and screaming in front of him. I looked into his eyes; they were so cold. For just a moment I thought, 'kill me and put me out of my grief'. To my surprise thinking that I was my foster mother's true daughter, he commanded his men to bring me along."

Spike leads up against the shower wall and says, "Then what happened?"

Sylvia takes a deep breath then exhales, "I became an assassin."

"What?"

"An assassin?! Spike, you know someone who kills for a living."

"I know what an assassin is, but you are an…"

"Yes," Sylvia replies. "I was taken to his base, and his mate, the military general of his forces, was convince that I could be trained into the perfect killing machine. Dammit!" She cries slamming her fist on the counter with more tears running down her face. "She was right. That fucking general trained me day and night; if I failed a lesson or hesitated in the slightest, I was beaten harshly. Five years went by and in the end they got what they wanted the perfect assassin that would kill without remorse or pity. My first mission was to kill an upper class family that was out spoken about my master. I was sent to their house for a dinner party. I easily poison their food; I sat there and watch him, his wife, and the five kids choked right in front of me while I ate."

"Sylvia," Spike says with a sadness and grief in his voice.

She continues with, "I don't remember how many people I killed while in was trapped in that mad man's house. Then it was only after my twenty-one birthday that things changed, I was introduce as their adopted daughter to the council members. HA! What a joke that was! But the joke was all on me; that night, my master was drunk, and he came to my bedroom."

Spike leans up off the wall, "He didn't…"

"He came hella close. When that monster climbed into my bed, he put his stinking hand over my mouth and tried to force himself into me. Ironically, I acted on the pure instinct they drilled into me over the years. I broke his wrist; I turned around then I broke his neck. Hearing that pop, I was so happy. I knew that when they found his dead body in my room; they would kill me on the spot. I was ready to lay there and just die, but something in me said, 'Run! You're not meant to die here! NOW GET UP AND RUN!' After hearing that, I opened up my window and flew into the night."

"What did you do after you escaped?" Spike questions still letting the hot water fall over him.

Sylvia gets off the sink counter and turns to face the mirror, "I flew…"

Outside the treehouse library, Ornedar dutifully stands guard watching everyone that passes on the sideway and street. A minute later, Rainbow Dash comes flying in to the walkway leading to the door. She makes a quick and easy landing wearing her Wonderbolt digital blue camo uniform with her multicolor mane tied up into a pony tail. She walks up to the door giving the guard dragon a queer look before trying walk around him. He quickly blocks her path by spreading out his wing, and she quickly jumps back calling out, "Hey what's the big idea! Get out the way!"

"State your business," Ornedar replies back.

"My business! That's none of your business! Why are you standing in front of Twilight's door? She is not even home." Rainbow fires.

"I'm not here for Princess Sparkle. I'm waiting to meet with his Royal Highness Prince Spike son of Ashkore," he replies back.

"Spike, I'm here to see him to, so if you be so kind," Rainbow states making for the door once more. She is blocked again by the armor covered dragon. "Hey, that was a hint for you to get out of the way."

"No one is allowed in until his majesty deems otherwise!"

Rainbow flaps her wings slightly lifting her off the ground with a smirk on her face. Ornedar keeps his eyes trained on the sky-blue Pegasus. Rainbow mocks, "Oh! Do you think that you can keep up with me? Man that was your first mistake!" She quickly takes off for the balcony, but is shocked to see the silver dragon easily blocking her once more. She hovers in the air for a second then makes a dash for the front door again only to be blocked once more by the armored sentinel. Rainbow Dash continues to hover with a gleeful expression on her face, "Ok, the game is to see who's faster and the winner is whoever gets inside first." Ornedar reminds silence hovering the in air front of the pegasus. "This is going to be good. Alright, you ready? Set and GOOOO!" Rainbow calls out flying straight up into the sky followed by Ornedar.

"I kept flying day and night. I never knew if I was being followed or hunted or whatever," Sylvia explains. "I just kept going until one day I was so tired that I couldn't keep myself up. I landed in a wooded area and stayed hidden there a couple of days until I got sick. Either I ate some bad berries or all the days of flying caught up with me. I had no choice but to go into the nearest city. Most people ignored me and with only my dirty sleeping clothes on my back; I went looking around for a hospital or something. It was there, I met Garble and his gang, they were complaining about how some little dragon ruined the ancestral migration for them. It was my luck that they saw me and decided to take their anger out on."

"You're not going to tell me that they?" Spike questions.

He hears Sylvia snicker and says, "Please, even in my half-starved and sicken state, I broke two of their faces and had one begging for mercy."

Spike exhales in relief, "What did you make them do?"

"They took me to a doctor, and I got better. After that, I joined Garble's gang. When he suggested that we come to Ponyville to get revenge, I saw it as a new chance at life, and I made the right choice. Of course it started off hard, but after being in Ponyville with you and the others. I found out what it is like to have real friends and people who really care for you. A place where I can call home." Sylvia explains with tears in her eyes.

"I'm glad that you found a place that you can call home," Spike smiles.

*BBBOOOOMMMMM* Rings out making everything inside shake and rattle.

"What the hell was that?!" Sylvia shouts out.

Not thinking Spike jumps out the shower and runs to the closest window. He looks outside to see Rainbow being chased by Ornedar as they make another close pass near the treehouse. "What the fuck is Ornedar doing he's chasing after Rainbow! I'm going to beat his motherfucking ass!"

Spike turns around getting ready to run out the bathroom, but Sylvia stands in the front of the door with her back facing away from Spike. Her face is flush red while saying, "I'll handle it Spike! You need to get some clothes on first!"

Spike looks down at his nude body then covers his manhood with his hands with a shock goofy expression, but he still says in a commanding voice, "Sylvia hurry! You got to stop them!"

"Roger that commander!" Sylvia replies running out the bathroom.

Sylvia rushes out to see Rainbow laughing as she flies through the air followed by Ornedar.

Rainbow looks behind her to see the stone face dragon closing in. "Hey, maybe you should lose the armor. Looks like its slowing you down!" Ornedar gives a slight grin then starts to speed up even more. As he gets closer, Rainbow eyes widen as she starts laughing, "Well! Well! Looks like you got some speed after all, but I'm faster!"

Sylvia sees Ornedar catching up with Rainbow just as Spike comes running out wearing a purple jogging suit; he calls out, "ORNEDAR! RAINBOW! STOP!"

"Alright get a taste of this!" Rainbow states as she pulls ahead then turns around to charge at him.

Spike recognizes what the sky blue pegasus is planning, "Shit!" He grabs Sylvia and shouts at the forming crowd watching the aerial chase, "GET DOWN NOW!" He jumps to the ground pulling Sylvia with him. The people watching do the same and hit the dirt.

Rainbow speeds up even more then shouts, "SONIC RAINBOOMMMMM!" The fast flying pegasus blasts off creating her signature rainbow colored disk and wake trail. Seconds after Rainbow enters the mach speed state, the shockwave and air force pushes sends Ornedar spinning end over end. The air sweeps over the ground making windows rattle and some car alarms go off.

Once things settle down and Rainbow stops to hover over the treehouse library, Spike gets up off the ground and yells out, "GET YOUR ASSES INSIDE NOW!" Rainbow and Ornedar see a little puff of smoke come out his nose after his statement, and they quickly fly towards the tree house. Spike looks down at the people and quickly says, "Thanks for watching! The Dragon Knights and Wonderbolts aerial practice!"

Once inside, Ornedar watches as Rainbow flops down on the couch. The silver dragon stares intensely at the mare until Rainbow's eyes meet his, and she says, "Take a picture, it will last longer."

"Multicolor mane, superfast flyer, and creator of the famous Sonic Rainboom," Ornedar lists still looking at her.

"Yeah, you got a problem with that?" Rainbow fires back.

Ornedar walks up closer to her making the sitting pegasus get ready to fly away. To her surprise, Ornedar bows before and says, "Lady Dash it is a great honor to meet you, and to have an aerial match with the wielder of the Element of Loyalty is even a greater honor."

Rainbow relaxes folds her arms behind her back and says with an ego filled tone, "So you have heard of me?"

Ornedar leads back up, "Yes, Lady Dash! Your reputation is well known throughout of Dragonicion."

"Really, what do they say about me?" Rainbow inquires.

"You are known to have the heart and power that would rival our greatest knights; your flying abilities and speed are nothing short of legendarily," Ornedar answers.

"Hehe! I knew I was awesome, but I would have never thought I would be legendary," Rainbow gloats.

Spike walks inside behind Sylvia and says, "Better stop while you're ahead Ornedar, or Rainbow's head is going to pop from how big it's getting!"

Rainbow looks at Spike with a smirk on her face and retorts with, "What Spike, are you jealous?"

"No, but Zecora and Twi had taught me to never to be so full of myself," Spike states as he stands in front of them. "Anyway, what was that shit all about? Why were you two fighting?!"

"We weren't fighting! We just wanted to see who was faster?" Rainbow states; then she looks at Ornedar with a smile on her face, "I have to admit, Ornedar is your name. You're one kick ass flyer!"

"Rainbow come on really?" Spike huffs out.

"It's the truth, we were not fighting," Rainbow counters.

Sylvia chimes in with, "Spike, I think this might have been my fault." Spike gives a questioning expression as she continues with, "I told Ornedar to stay outside and keep watch while I was talking with you. I guess he just misunderstood my instructions."

Spike looks at Ornedar with an inquisitive face and asks, "Is that true?" The silver dragon nods yes, and Spike exhales in relief and says, "Alright, but next time ask before jumping the gun. Things are different here in Equestria, and if ponies see a dragon chasing someone like that, they might get the wrong idea."

"Yes your majesty, I will be more careful in the future," Ornedar replies standing at attention.

Spike nods then looks at his pegasus friend, "And Rainbow, don't pull off a Sonic Rainboom so close to the ground."

"Yeah! Yeah! I hear you mom," Rainbow replies.

The purple dragon rolls his eyes then asks, "Did you need something?"

"Yeah, I just left the base, and everything is set up there, but we still don't know what the hell we are looking for. Has Twilight found anything?" Rainbow questions.

"Unfortunately no," he replies with a sadden tone.

Rainbow displays a worried look as she asks, "What about that logbook Princess Luna got from the cult member?"

"According to Twi, the book was in the castle of the Two Sisters," Spike replies.

Rainbow perks up as she says, "Why are we wasting time here? Let's get to the castle and find that book."

Spike shakes his head no, "Twilight and I have been all over that place, and Rarity and I turned that library upside down the moment after our meeting. We think during the battle between Princess Celestia and Nightmare Moon; the logbook was destroyed."

"Dammit!" Rainbow curses. She interlaces her fingers then leans forward into her folded hands while saying, "My people are place, but we don't know where to look for until it's too late. When is Twilight coming back?"

"Next week, she is going to the Moon Kingdom to check out their library. She hopes she can find another way to remove the amulet. Just in case, we can't trick the next person wearing the damn thing," Spike explains.

Rainbow stands up and starts towards the door, "Alright, I'll tell the General to double the air patrols and have more unicorns try and sense out strange magical signals."

Spike nods and says, "Good luck Rainbow."

As the sky blue pegasus shuts the door behind her, Ornedar looks to Spike, and the purple dragon states, "Sylvia convinced me to hear your story, but it's going to have to wait until my sister gets back, and we recapture the Alicorn Amulet."

"The Alicorn Amulet?" Ornedar says in a questioning fashion.

"Yeah, have you heard of it?" Spike questions.

"I have read something about it, but it wasn't an amulet. Do you know the name of the people who created it?" Ornedar asks.

"They were called the Cult of the Horn," Sylvia replies.

"Sire, I remember during my history lessons that a group from Equestria came to our homeland to find information about some ancient magic. It was said that some of our magic wielders worked with ponies and created several magical items. One of the items was called Chalice of the Alicorn," the silver dragon says.

Spike eyes widen in shock hearing the news, "What! Are you serious?!"

Ornedar nods yes, and Sylvia follows up with, "How do you know about that?"

"The Royal Guards have a vast amount of ancient books and tomes about different things," Ornedar says.

"Ornedar, how fast can you contact the guard who runs the library?" Spike questions.

Two weeks later Saturday morning at 7:15 am, PVPD squad 7 room is quiet. Lenny walks into the squad room and sees Ed watching a security video on his computer screen. "Hey buddy, couldn't this have waited until Monday?"

Ed pauses the video and turns to face Lenny, "Sorry Lenny, but we got the final report from Fire Marshal Burns."

Lenny flops down in his chair in the desk facing Ed's desk. "Ok, so why the early call?"

"According to the report, he says that system was triggered by a magical force," Ed explains.

"Alright that means our two prime suspects are the only two unicorns in that classroom," Lenny replies.

Ed pockets his notebook and pen, "Lets go and talk with them."

About ten-thirty, Rarity walks into her parents' house and sees her dad putting away the dishes from breakfast while her mom sits at the table writing notes down in a spiral notebook. Cookie sees her older daughter walking up and greets her with, "Oh Rarity good morning! Your timing is perfect." The pink unicorn gets up and walks over to her older daughter just as she is setting her purse on the den couch.

Rarity gives her mother a quick kiss on the cheek and says in a low tone of voice, "Are you working on Sweetie Belle's birthday party?"

From behind the sink, Rarity's father says, "Nah, we finished planning that weeks ago, but Sweetie Belle wanted that." Hando nods his head to the left to a magazine sitting on the counter. The fashion magazine is opened to a picture of Sapphire Shores wearing a long bright red with reflective red surface strips running in an upward spiral to the sleeveless top.

Rarity looks at the dress and smirks while saying, "She has good taste."

"Sweetheart, do you where we can get a dress like?" Hando inquires.

"Oh yes, in fact, I know the designer and she would be more than happy to make her this for my sweet sister," Rarity boasts with pride.

Cookie walks to the other side of the counter and starts to dry the dishes and pull them away, "Oh before I forget, Rarity, Sweetie Belle wanted to talk with you one on one about something."

"Ok," Rarity replies and makes her way for the stairs. Once the white unicorn gets upstairs and reaches her sister's room. She can hear Sweetie Belle humming a tune. Rarity knocks on the door and her sister says for her to come in. When she opens the door, Rarity sees Sweetie Belle slowly pacing around her room while writing words in her note book. "Sweetie Belle, what are you doing?"

She looks at her older sister, "I'm writing a song for the school festival play."

"The school festival? I would think with the school still under reconstruction that they were going to cancel the festival," Rarity replies as she sits at Sweetie Belle's desk.

"Same here, but Principal Rule emailed everyone and said the funds from the festival will help with the repair cost," Sweetie Belle explains.

"So what part are you going to play in the show?"

Sweetie Belle smirks, "Princess Celestia crazy enough. Tell me what you think of what I have written so far." Rarity nods, and Sweetie Belle starts to sing.

"So what do you think sis?" She questions.

Rarity's eyes are widen with pride hearing her sister's song, "Sweetie Belle that is amazing! Where did you?"

"I don't know," she holds her hand over her chest with a smile on her face. "I can feel the song coming from in here. It's as if I have sang this song once before, but I just can't remember when. All the words and melody are here."

"Wow," Rarity smiles, "Just look at you its feel like only yesterday, I was helping changing your diapers. Tomorrow, my baby sister will be thirteen years old, and I just know that you will get you cutie mark very soon."

"Thanks sis, but I wanted to ask you something," Sweetie Belle requests while sitting down on her bed.

Rarity quickly replies with, "Let me guess your birthday present?" The pre-teen unicorn nods yes, and Rarity continues with, "Well consider it done. Mom and dad showed me the dress that you wanted, and I'll have it ready before you know it."

"Thanks Rarity, but I want to wear that dress to a wedding."

"A wedding? Darling, who's wedding… Oh you mean for your teacher's wedding."

"Not exactly," Sweetie Belle counters.

"Then who's…"

"Your wedding, Rarity!"

Rarity goes red in the face hearing her sister statement and rebuts with, "My wedding?! Sweetie Belle what… I… who?!"

"You and Spike."

Rarity exhales and looks at her sister with confessing eyes, "Sweetie Belle, I think we are getting a little ahead of ourselves darling."

"I know, but I can tell that you really like-like Spike," Sweetie Belle states.

"Well I do love him, but…"

"Do mom and dad know that?" Sweetie Belle questions. Rarity remains speechless for a minute trying to figure out where her little sister is going with this. "Look Rarity, everyone in Ponyville including our parents know that you and Spike are a thing, but I have overheard dad question why you haven't formally introduced him to them."

Rarity finally gets out, "Sweetie Belle where are you going with this?"

Sweetie Belle walks over to her window and looks outside for a minute; then turns around with a giant smile on her face, "For my birthday present, I want to go out to dinner with mom, dad, you, and Spike."

Rarity leans back in her chair with an amazed expression on her face, and it soon turns into a smile, "You came up with all this on your own." She exhales as she lowers her head for a second; then looks back at Sweetie Belle, "Officially, we have only been dating for about two months, but unofficially… Ah who cares, I'll invite Spike to dinner, but let us take point with mom and dad. Don't come up with any hair brain schemes to make us do something."

"Oh of course not, I wouldn't dream of it," Sweetie replies with a sweet innocent smile. "Besides I can't wait to have a big brother."

"Slow your roll Sweetie Belle," Rarity states as she gets up to go talk with your her parents.

"Hey Rarity, you know what I want for my fourteenth birthday?" She stops and looks at her sister with a questioning expression. "A little niece or nephew. AHHH!" Sweetie Belle screams as she runs to get away from her sister. "Come on sis think about it, a baby to bounce on your knee and… HAHAHA!" She laughs out as Rarity catches her, and starts to tickle.

"You have some nerve you will little brat! HEHE!" Rarity laughs as she is tickled back.

*Knock* *Knock* sound comes from the front door. Cookie looks through the peephole and asks, "Who is it?"

Lenny pulls out his badge and holds it out in front of him as he replies back, "Ponyville Police Department, we would like to talk to your daughter about the incident that happened at her school."

Cookie unlocks then opens the door, "I'm Sweetie Belle's mother, Cookie Crumbles Swan, is she in some kind of trouble?"

Ed answers with, "Well ma`am, we can't answer at this second, but we need to question her about the events that happen that day."

"Please come in," Cookie replies motioning the men inside. She then shouts upstairs for her daughters to join them in the living room. Just as the detectives are sitting down, Hando, Rarity, and Sweetie Belle come into the living room. "Sweetie Belle these men are here to see you; they are detectives."

Sweetie Belle remains standing as she looks at the officers and says, "You are here about what went down at the school?"

Lenny starts off, "Yes, Sweetie Belle what do you remember about that day?"

"Well," Sweetie Belle starts off as she sits down, "math class was almost finished when Mr. Digit told us that we were going to take a surprise quiz."

Ed writes down notes on his pad then asks, "How did you feel about taking that quiz? Do you think you were ready for it or would you have any reason to want the quiz to be delayed?"

"No, I think I would have pass the quiz with no problem," Sweetie Belle replies.

Lenny then asks, "What about your teacher were you mad at him for any reason or were you doing poorly in the class?"

Sweetie Belle shakes her head no then says, "No, I think Mr. Digit is a great teacher. One time I bombed a quiz, and he told me everything I did wrong and tutored me. After that, he let me retake the quiz and replaced the grade."

Ed makes another note then asks, "Did he only offer you the chance to retake the quiz?"

"No, it's a class rule he told us about. If you fail a test or quiz, you get tutoring by him or a peer; then you are allowed to retake it for a higher grade," the unicorn explains.

"So you don't know of anyone who would hate your teacher or classmates?" Ed questions.

Hando chimes in with, "Detectives what are you getting at? Is my daughter accused of setting off the sprinklers in her school?"

Lenny looks at Ed for a second then says, "Mr. Swan, as of right now, she is a prime suspect."

"What!?" Sweetie Belle calls out, "Why would I be suspected of this? I don't have any reason to pull off something like that!"

Rarity quickly asks, "Detectives, do you have any evidence to back these accusations against my sister?"

Lenny replies as he pulls out his note pad, "According to Fire Marshal Burns, he's got concrete evidence that magic was used to cause the breakdown in the system."

Ed follows up with, "At the time of the incident, there were only two unicorns present on that day, and Cal Digit had no reason to flood out his room or the school, so…"

"That leaves me," Sweetie Belle finishes. "Sirs, I promise you that I wouldn't do something like this even if I could. I only know a limited number of spells. To pull off something like that, you would have to be extremely powerful, and I haven't discovered my magical catalyst yet."

Ed adds, "How do you know that?"

"Twilight has been teaching how to control and hone my magic," Sweetie Belle answers.

Lenny then says, "Alright, we'll check that out with Princess Sparkle, but going back to my partner's previous question, who else would have reason to do this?"

Sweetie Belle thinks for a minute then says, "Diamond Tiara."

"The Rich's daughter?" Ed questions. Sweetie Belle nods yes; then Ed pulls out a picture of Diamond and shows it to Sweetie Belle. "Is this the girl?" Sweetie answers yes, and Ed replies, "Thank you for all your help. We'll be in contact soon."

The two detectives rush out the house and into their patrol car. Lenny then says, "Ed what was that all about?"

Ed starts up the car then says, "Lets get back to the house, and I'll show you something I found off the security tapes."

Sunday night has rolled around, and Spike sits on the couch in Rarity's bedroom. He watches her as she finishes putting on the last touches of her make up. "Rarity are you sure that this is a good idea? What if Twilight and Ornedar find some type of clue about the Alicorn Amulet."

"I'm sure that Twilight will call us if it's that important," Rarity counters.

"I know, but if they need my help or something? I would feel horrible if anyone gets hurt because I wasn't pulling my weight, and…"

Rarity jumps in with, "Spike. Fluttershy, Apple Jack, and Zecora are all helping with the research. Besides, I need you with me tonight. Sweetie Belle, in her own evil way, made it a big deal that you come along with me tonight for this dinner, and according to my sweet little sister, mom and dad have been talking about 'when they are going to meet the man that won my heart.'"

"And that worries me even more, I don't know what to say to your parents! Will they even accept me? Will they think I'm good enough to be with you? And… and…"

Rarity rolls her eyes as she finishes her lip stick and turns around to look at Spike. The sight of his girlfriend makes the young dragon fall silent as he is blown away by her beauty and looks. She smiles seeing the nervousness fade away, "Spike, you have been knighted by Princess Celestia, saved Ponyville from utter destruction, you're a prince from a distant land, and you are my special somepony. What's not to like about you." She sultrily walks up to her boyfriend gives him a quick peak on the cheek with her ruby red covered lips. She can see Spike's tension melt way and she finishes up with, "That's better dear, you look some much more handsome when you're relax. Just keep calm, be yourself, and you'll do fine."

Spike holds her hands and says with a smile, "Well, I'll be cool as ice, so I can make you look good, but…" He does a quick up and down scan of his date, "You take beauty to a whole new level."

Rarity reddens a little bit then says, "Come on you silver tongue dragon, we don't want to keep my parents waiting." Rarity's cellphone beeps showing a text message with an address. "Ah, Sweetie Belle just sent me the address to the restaurant. Ok should we drive or fly?"

"I think it would be better if we drive; I don't know how your dad is going to react to seeing you be flown in by me," Spike states. Rarity giggles and nods in agreement; then Spike says, "I'll drive."

Rarity is shocked hearing Spike's statement, "Wait Spike, you can drive?"

"Yup, Twi wanted me to learn as soon as I became big enough. Besides," Spike continues as they head out the door, and Rarity is surprise to see a purple 2017 Ford Mustang in the driveway. He walks over to the passenger door and opens it up for the white unicorn, "How do you think I got over here tonight?" Rarity laughs as she gets into the car.

The two drive off listening to the onboard GPS. Fifteen minutes later, Spike pulls up in front of a building with spotlights swaying back and forth on both sides of the front door. Spike and Rarity look at the name of the building with a surprised expression until Spike asks, "Um Rare… are you sure this is that address Sweetie Belle sent you?"

Rarity rechecks her phone then texts her sister; she gets a quick reply and tells Spike, "Yeah, she said her and everyone else are waiting at the front door for us, but this can't be right."

Spike focuses his eyes on the line of the people outside the front door, and shakes his head, "Nope this is the right spot, I saw Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, and Apple Bloom standing in line with who must be your parents."

They unbuckle their seat belts and exit the car; the couple walks up to everyone with a confused look on their face. Sweetie Belle is first to spot them and call out, "Rarity! Spike! Over Here!" Other teens and pre-teens give small snickers seeing Spike in a black suit with matching shoes and a green tie, and Rarity sports a blue evening gown with a white sash. "WOW! You two look amazing, but how do you plan to dance while wearing that?!" Sweetie Belle giggles.

Rarity's face turns red with little puffs of smoke coming out of her ears as she walks up to her sister, "Sweetttttieeee Beeellllleeeee, why didn't you tell us that we were coming here! We were supposed to go to a fancy restaurant for your birthday not a night club!"

"I did tell you. I was rushing off to rehearsal and ask dad to text you that I changed my mine," Sweetie Belle counters making both of the girls look at their father.

Hando whistles while looking off the distance. He glances over to Spike and greets him while extending his hand, "Ah you must be Rarity's boyfriend."

Spike holds out his hand, "Yes sir Mr. Swan, my name is Spike it's an honor to meet you and Mrs. Swan."

The purple dragon then shakes Cookie's hand and she says, "Oh you have such good manners, it's nice to meet you as well."

"Mom, it's our turn to go inside." Sweetie Belle calls out.

The bouncer at the door lifts up his shades, and says, "Woo! You're that awesome dragon that saved Ponyville. Yo man can I get your autograph!" Spike shrugs his shoulders and signs his name on the bouncer's clipboard. "Cool bro! Hey man I have to thank you. If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't have met my boss's kicking girlfriends. Hey bro check it out, these are on the house. Just follow the gold star path to the VIP section. Welcome to the Wild Pony."

On the other side of town, Lenny and Ed are driving into the Rich Estate. The men pull up to the front door. They are greeted by head butler Walter. The detectives walk up to the elderly pony and Ed says, "Good Evening, I'm detective Ed Green, and is this my partner Lenny Briscoe. We're from Ponyville Police Department. We need to speak with the parents of Diamond Tiara Rich."

Walter escorts the officers in, and they follow him to one of the main sitting rooms. Richard and Ruby are waiting for the men in the room, and Ruby asks, "Welcome, would either of you gentlemen like some refreshments or coffee?" They welcome the offer, and Rudy continues, "Walter, would you kindly. Now gentlemen, you told us that you need to question our daughter about something that happened at her school?"

"Yes ma`am," Lenny replies.

Diamond sits in her room as she meditates letting a red aura wrap around her. Her eyes spring open; then the three hovering books catch fire and burns away within seconds.

Silver Spoon sits on the bed watching Diamond with an evil grin. "Excellent job Diamond, your control over your new powers has grown exponentially."

Diamond extinguishes the fires with a smile and says, "This is perfect once I have enough control, those little bitches will know their true place in my world." *Knock* *Knock* "What!"

Walter says on the other side of the door, "Ms. Diamond, your parents want you down stairs. They said that it's gravely important."

Diamond rolls her eyes then says, "Whatever! Tell them I'm busy!"

"Ms. Diamond, your parents said if don't come down now, they are going to let the police officers take you away."

Diamond's face grows sour, "Fine! I'll be down in a minute!"

Silver Spoon's smile grows darker, "Diamond, this is your chance. Use your anger and hate to tap into a greater power from the stone. If you do it right, you'll reach a new level."

Diamond makes her way downstairs into the sitting room with Ed, Lenny, and her parents. "What do you want?! I was busy doing something in my room!"

Richard's expression grows angry as he says, "Diamond sit down! These men are from the police department and have some questions for you, and you have better tell the truth, or we are shipping you off to reform school. Detective, please go ahead."

Lenny asks while playing the video on the laptop screen, "Would you mind explaining how you are doing this."

Sweetie Belle and the girls are on the dancefloor getting their groove on with other preteens. They dance to the dubstep song Lookas- Genesis; Rarity and others are sitting in the viewing area drinking and eating snack foods. Hando watches as Spike feeds Rarity some jello, and they laugh as some whip cream gets onto her nose. Rarity play hits him when Spike licks the cream off. Hando whispers something to Cookie, and she gets up tells Rarity, "Oh sweetie, you have something on your dress." The white unicorn looks down at her dress then back up at her mother with a confused expression, and Cookie motions Rarity to get up, "Come on, club soda will get it out."

Rarity gets the hint and gets up to walk off with her mother. Once they are gone, Hando looks a Spike with a serious expression, "Spike, I don't say this often, but I'm speechless, you're a prince, you were knighted by the princesses, you are a part of Princess Sparkle's court, leader of the Dragon Knights, and you fought to end the battle with the dragons while saving Ponyville. I have to say that is a pretty good résumé, but I want to know what your intentions with my daughter are."

Spike takes a quick drink and looks back at Hando with a calm confident expression. "Well sir, the short story is, I love your daughter. For some time now, Sylvia and Zecora have been teach me about my dragon heritage. They have given me lessons on everything from our history to our fighting styles and much more. My most recent lessons covered ancient dragon behaviors. For instance, when a dragon finds a treasure, something in our inherent nature tells us to claim it, protect it, and cherish it. The same can be said about our mating practice, and Rarity is the greatest treasure in my life that I want to keep, hold, protect, and honor."

Hando leans back in his seat interlacing his fingers, "Spike, are you planning on asking Rarity to marry you?"

"Yes sir. I will ask her in the near future, but for now I just want Rarity to love me for who I am. I want both Mrs. Swan and your approval for to us be together," Spike replies back.

"Hum… Spike, I can respect how direct you are with me, but I can only speak for myself. If you want Cookie's approval, you are going to have to talk with…"

Hando is interrupted when Cookie and Rarity come back into the sitting area. "Hando that won't necessary, we heard everything Spike said. You have my thumbs up son," Cookie states sitting down next to her husband.

Rarity sits back down with her boyfriend, and Hando continue with, "Well, you have both of our blessings."

"Thank you," Spike replies then kisses Rarity on the cheek.

*BOOOMMMMM*

Suddenly, all the lights go out in the club and is followed up with powerful ground shake. Anyone who is standing is knocked off their feet. Only the emergency lights illuminate the inside club. Spike holds on to Rarity looking around. "Was that an explosion?!"

"If it was, that was one hell of a blast!" Spike replies rushing towards the exit door followed by Rarity and her parents.

Once they are outside; Spike flaps his wings and goes airborne. To his surprise, the purple dragon sees all the lights in the city blacked out and the sky is redden with smoke and burning fire. "Spike! What do your dragon eyes see?!" Rarity shouts out to the flying dragon.

"The whole city is dark, and looks like a giant fire raging in the distance," Spike replies flying back down to the ground. "From the look of things, the explosion must have caused the blackout."

"Is it an attack?" Hando questions.

"I don't know sir," Spike pulls out his car keys and gives them to Rarity while saying, "Rare, take my car and watch after your parents."

"Spike, if it's the one who stole the Alicorn Amulet, you're going to need my help as well," Rarity states.

"You're right sweetheart, but you and I left our elements back at home," Spike quickly counters making Rarity bop herself on the forehead.

She lets out a quick exhale then says, "Fine, just don't do anything stupid. I don't want to lose you." Spike gives her a kiss on the lips then takes off into the night sky. After a second, she turns around to look at her parents, "Mom. Dad. Head home Spike and I will handle this." Rarity runs to the car and drives off.

As Spike gets close to the source of the fire, he is joined by Sylvia, Ornedar, Rainbow, other pegasi, and dragons. Once they land, they are greeted with the smoking remains of the Rich mansion and small fires. "Break up into four teams, Sylvia take the east side, Ornedar take the west side, Rainbow, find a way to put these fires out. All teams move out!"

Everyone breaks off into their teams doing their best find anyone alive. Several rescue vehicles, choppers, and police cars come speeding onto the site with new trucks close behind. Spike starts to walkthrough the remains of the main floor when he hears someone gasping out air. He looks to the left and sees two hands reaching out. At the top of his lungs he shouts out while rushing over to help, "I NEED A MEDICAL TEAM OVER HERE NOW!" He lifts the burnt debris saying to the injured man, "Don't worry man, I got help coming! Hold on!"

The Friday of the following week rolls around, and the mane six along with hundreds of people are gathered at the center of Ponyville's covered pavilion for Ponyville Junior High Spring Culture Festival. All the students are dressed in either cosplay or their school uniforms, so they can help direct the festival attendees. The mane six along with Ornedar are all together walking around to the different booths. Spike and Rainbow stuff their faces while listening to Twilight say, "This is amazing! Spike and I have been to a few festivals in Canterlot, but nothing like this! This is so much fun!"

Rainbow finishes swallowing down a waffle cone. She points at Sylvia and the other dragons dashing from booth to booth buying huge amounts of food, "Yeah, same goes for our dragon friends. They are eating more than Pinkie. Hey! Save some of those chilidogs for me!" She rushes over to the booth.

AJ shakes her head watching her friend and adds, "All the money goes to help fix their school after that crazy malfunction."

Spike stuffs a churro into his mouth then looks at Ornedar intensely scanning the around. He swallows the food and says, "Ornedar relax it's a festival. Go have some fun! The first churros are on me."

"Prince Spike," the silver dragon starts, but he sees the annoyed look on his face. "I mean Spike, one of the members of the royal family was attack at a festival, and all royal guards are trained to watch out anything that is not right."

Twilight says, "Well do you see anything?"

"No," Ornedar states coldly.

Spike comments, "There you go everything is good. Now here try a churro."

"Spike," Rarity calls out seeing the silver dragon take the fried snack, "Have you found anything else about that explosion?"

"Yeah, it happened at the Rich estate," he answers.

"Ya'll got be to kidding, the Rich family," Apple Jack comments. "What happened to the family?"

Spike replies after taking another bite of the waffle cone, "There were only a few survivors. Five maids and butlers, the chef, and two cops that were there for some reason. The only thing that got was that one of the detectives said, 'it was her' before he passed out. Since then everyone who survived have been in a coma."

Fluttershy nervously says with a soft voice, "Do you think that it's related?"

"It's possible but we won't know until someone wakes up," Spike states. "Until then, we have to chalk it up to a random event."

The group pass by a hooded woman with a grin on her face after hearing the whole conversation. She starts walking the opposite direction while giving a low evil laugh.

A large group of pony start moving into in the center pavilion. The ushers at door hand out programs with the title of the play. Twilight and her friends takes their programs and sit down in the enter row of the seats. Rainbow looks at the program and says, "The Fall and Rise of the Two Sisters does someone mind filling me in."

"Well darling, from what Sweetie Belle told me, the story is about what happened after Princess Celestia beat Nightmare Moon. The play goes up to when we changed Nightmare back into Princess Luna," Rarity answers.

"Oh I wonder, who is going to play as us? I just can wait to see," Fluttershy says happily while softly clapping her hands.

The last parts of the theatre fill up and the lights start to dim. Twilight says, "We'll know soon the show is starting."

Once the lights are at their lowest, a voice says over the speakers, "Mares and Gentlecolts, PVJH Theatre Club in association with The Ponyville Playwrights presents The Fall and Rise of the Two Sisters."

The play starts off with, Sweetie Belle dressed as Princess Celestia in her battle armor facing off with another student dressed as Nightmare Moon. The two face each other and start to fight. After a couple of minutes, the play fight comes to a head and using the Elements of Harmony, and Celestia defeats Nightmare Moon. The crowd applauses at the victory as the curtain closes on act one. The curtain rises depicting a new scene in with Canterlot in the background. Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, and Apple Bloom comes center stage in their costumes. As Sweetie Belle starts her line, someone starts rudely clapping while saying loud, "WONDERFUL! OH THIS IS SIMPLY HILARIOUS! LOOK AT HOW WELL THE BLANK FLANKS PLAY OUT PONIES WITH POWER AND CUTIE MARKS!"

The lights go back up a bit and everyone can see the grown woman in the black hood and cape making all the noise and rude comments. Two ushers walk up to the woman and ask her come with them, but she only laughs out loud in response. One of the ushers puts her hand on the woman's shoulder saying, "Ma`am, if you don't leave now, we will have the police come take you out by force."

"GET YOUR HANDS OFF ME, YOU LOWLIFE!" She commands holding out her hand coated in a red aura. Both ushers are wrapped in the aura and sent flying off into the opposite wall. Everyone's eyes widen seeing the violent exchange; then everypony looks back at the hooded woman as she raises her hand up. The eight people and chairs in next to the hooded mare glow with the same crimson red color. She flicks her hand sending the ponies screaming and flying off into multiple directions. She laughs out loud to everyone's shock and horror as she makes her to the stage.

Spike is followed by Ornedar, Sylvia, and some other dragons as he flies in front of her. "Hey that's enough! You need to leave before this gets ugly!" Spike orders.

The hooded woman continues to snicker as if the whole situation in front of her is a big joke. She looks pass Spike and the other dragons at the stage with the CMC members watching with nervous suspense. "Tell me, do you know who I am?" No one is able to answer her question, and the hooded woman states, "I'm talking to you three blank flanks on the stage! Do you know who I am?!" The girls stare at the hooded woman with a confused look. "Maybe this will help," the woman states. She pulls down her hood to reveal a young mature beautiful woman with flawless powder pink skin, long flowing lite purple-white mane, and sky blue eyes.

The girls' eyes widen seeing the grown woman and say in unison, "Diamond Tiara!"

Diamond smiles hearing the girls say her name, "THAT'S RIGHT YOU FUCKING ASSHOLES! HOW DARE YOU PLAY AS THE STAR IN A PLAY THAT I BOUGHT AND PAID FOR! I'M THE ONE WHO SHOULD BE ON THAT STAGE! I AM SUPPOSE TO BE THE STAR OF THIS SHOW, BUT NO! YOU FUCKING PIECES OF SHITS HAD TO TAKE IT AWAY FROM ME!"

Apple Bloom steps forward drawing all of Diamond's attention on her while AJ and the others work to clear out the innocent bystanders, "Diamond, what are you talking about? How could we have done that?"

"BECAUSE OF YOU I HAD TO GO TO THAT BASTARD RULE'S OFFICE, AND HE ACCUSED ME OF CHEATING!" Diamond yells out.

Scootaloo is the next to say, "Look Diamond, we all know that you went through some crazy stuff in the past couple of weeks, but you shouldn't take it out on innocent ponies!"

"SHUT UP!" Diamond screams back as her hooded cape quickly catches on fire and burns up. It reveals, the body of a mature twenty-one year old mare. She has a flat smooth stomach, a set of ample D cup breasts, long lushness legs, smooth hips, a flowing tail, and a round soft bottom. Her breasts and womanhood are covered with burnt underwear and around her neck is a glowing red stone on a necklace. The stoned glows brighter and pulses with every word that she says, "I DON'T GET A FUCK ABOUT THESE DAMN PEOPLE!"

Twilight closely looks at the stone and feels a strange yet familiar energy emitting from it. The energy grows stronger when Sweetie Belle says, "Think about what you're doing. What will your parents think?!"

Diamond's anger boils over as she balls her fist and yells back, "DO YOU THINK I REALLY CARE ABOUT WHAT THOSE TWO CORPSES THINK!"

Spike says in a shocked voice, "You caused the explosion but how?!"

Twilight calls out, "It's because of that stone around her neck!"

Diamond quickly replies back, "That's right! Thanks to this stone, I have gained unbelievable power, and with it I will get revenge on everypony!" The stone grows brighter as she begins to hover off the ground into the air. The red aura coats Diamond's body, and her eyes glow blood red.

Twilight cries out, "Diamond, you have to listen to me! You have to take off that stone!"

Diamond focuses her demonic glaze at the purple alicorn, "Why should I?"

"That stone is from the Alicorn Amulet and its power is corrupting your mind. Look at what it has done to you already!" Twilight exclaims. Diamond's eyes turn back to normal as she looks at her grown body; then Twilight pleads to her, "Diamond it's not too late, we still can help you!"

Diamond starts to shed a tear thinking about the horrible way she killed her parents and the overwhelming pleads from them to spare their lives. The red aura starts to fade away as the waves of guilt and shame wash over her. She looks at everyone still there watching her. She begins to feel the shame of nearly being naked in front of so many strangers. Suddenly, an unimaginable pain crashes through her head as all the images of her slaughtering her family, blasting the detectives with energy shots, then unleashing a massive wave of power destroying everything around. The red stone starts to pulse like a heartbeat while is burning itself into her chest. She grabs hold of her head screaming as the pain increases and her right eye goes jet black with a red iris and energy string. Diamond hears someone in her voice say, "Don't be fooled by these weak peasants! They want to take away your power! Remember what they did to you! They stole your show, your pride, and they destroyed your family. It's their fault that you lost everything don't be stupid! Make them pay! MAKE THEM ALL PAY!"

Diamond says as the pain in her head fades away, "It is too late for me, and it's too late you as WEELLLLL!" The red aura explodes around her and circle around at blurring speeds creating a sphere around her body. Everyone watches in terror as Diamond's body begins to undergo an amazing transformation. Her back starts glowing red in two places and bones jet out from the area then are covered skin and feathers. Another red spot starts to glow in the center of her forehead; some of the swirling red energy pools around the spot as a horn starts to form. The red stone in the center of her chest fully fuses with her body making a black silhouette tattoo of the amulet. Diamond's silver tiara shaped cutie mark turns jet black with a gold star on each tip. Finally, Diamond opens her white colored eyes with its new red tinted iris.

After the energy is absorbed into her horn, she gives an evil grin towards everyone. Rainbow says, "Someone please tell me that I am seeing things!"

Apple Jack says in a shocked tone, "I am afraid not Rainbow because we're all seeing the same thing."

Twilight tightens her fist looking at the new dark alicorn as she moves her hand around, "Dammit! GET DOWN EVERYPONY!"

Everyone dives for the floor just before Diamond unleashes a massive wave of energy blowing up the pavilion. A second after the explosion those remaining inside run out the front door. The festival goers are shocked by the blast and are amazed when the bright blue sky goes black with storm clouds and the sound of thunder.

Diamond uses her powers to direct the lightning to hit and destroy one of the surrounding buildings. The lightning strike makes the building split in half and fall down towards the sidewalks below. Ponies in all directions panic while trying to escape the falling debris. Spike and others fly under the largest falling debris and do what they can to slow it. Diamond laughs watching the struggling rescuers as she fires another lightning bolt at a passing gas truck making it explode in a fantastic fireball. Shards of flaming metal flying through the air and into the crowd. She continues to laugh watching everything unfold below. Diamond is soon joined by Silver Spoon, but she notices that her so-called friend has transparent moth wings with holes. "You can drop the camouflage, Queen Chrysalis."

Chrysalis gives an evil laugh letting her true form become unveiled. The changeling leader has a jet black toned body with a flowing algae green tail and mane. She wears a body tight green short cocktail dress. "I'm impress Princess Diamond Tiara Rich that you know who I am. When did you figure me out?"

"That's a tale for another time, but for now let me enjoy the festival," Diamond replies.

Chrysalis can only smile and laugh hearing Diamond's response. From the ground the two dark alicorns hear, "CHRYSALIS! DIAMOND! STOP THIS AT ONCE!"

They look down to see Twilight and the five other Element of Harmony wielders with their magical items on them. "Why if isn't Shining Armor's dopey little sister. Say do you have your brother's number, I would so love to feed off his delicious love for his family and that sad excuse for a wife." Twilight grits her teeth and tightens her fist while spreading her wings. "Why lookie there, the egghead know-it-all has a new pair of wings. What, you want to do something about it? BITCH!" Twilight fires a magic beam at Chrysalis, but the Changeling Queen and Diamond dive out of the way before the shot hits. "You need to work on your aim! Diamond, I'll handle her, you go after her little friends!"

Twilight tells the others as she summons her energy swords, "Spike! Girls! You have to pin down Diamond while I deal with this brother tricking hoe!"

Twilight quickly takes off flying towards Chrysalis. Fluttershy is shocked when she sees Diamond throw another lightning bolt that hits the festival petting zoo. The strike scares and kills some of the defenseless animals making the gentle yellow pegasus' eyes burn with anger. In a split second, Fluttershy's hands and legs glow with a pink aura as she blasts off into the sky straight at Diamond. The second the two are face to face with each other; Fluttershy punches Diamond square in the face sending her fumbling backwards through the air. The yellow pegasus shocks everyone when she once again launches herself at speeds that would rival Rainbow to appear behind the still moving alicorn. Fluttershy screams out while kicking Diamond in the back, "WHO THE FUCK!" Diamond is sent flying upward to only once more be greeted with another powerful hit as she punches her in the face downward, "DO YOU THINK!" Diamond goes crashing downward, but Fluttershy forcible changes her opponent direction by kicking her to the left, "YOU ARE!" Diamond is struck back upwards, but this time with Fluttershy reappears in front of Diamond, she unleashes a furious barrage of punches and kicks while screaming, "HOW DARE YOU ATTACK THOSE INNOCENT DEFENDLESS ANIMALS! YOU PSYHOPATHIC BITCH!" The number and speed of the blows increases until it looks like only pink blurs hitting the stunned alicorn. The strikes reach a peak when Fluttershy appears overhead with both hands clasped together, and Fluttershy shouts, "YOU'LL PAY FOR THEIR DEATHS!" She strikes Diamond on the head with such force, she is sent rocketing down like a pink meteorite. Diamond hits the ground with an earth rattling slam.

Spike and the others can only stare in amazement, and Spike simply says, "Damn!"

Fluttershy lands standing in front of the newly formed crater with a sour look on her face when Diamond slowly rises up from the crater with a smirk. Diamond says, "From everything I heard about you, I would have never guess that you are able to fight like that. Here, maybe this will make you feel better, I'll help your little friends." Diamond shoots a beam of dark red energy to the burning remains of the petting zoo.

The dark aura is absorbed into the dead animals making their bodies float up and in a sickening chorus cracking bones, stretching muscles, tearing, and reforming skin the animals grow into a rot smelling undead army. Diamond flies overhead of them and says, "Look their all better now. Why don't you give them a loving hug or better yet they can hug you. GO!" Apple Jack and Rainbow lead a counter charge with local police officers and Dragon Knights.

Tears start to form in Fluttershy's eyes seeing Diamond's dark magic at work, but her anger is soon replace with fear and terror when one of the undead creatures comes charging at her. She can only fly away saying in a frighten voice, "I'm sorry, I can't fight them!"

Rarity jumps in the path of the chasing monster as her hands glow with a lite-blue aura, "No need of apologies darling; you did an excellent job." Rarity fires a bolt of magic sending the undead creature flying backwards. "Diamond ruin the girls play, and all the hard Sweetie Belle put into her costume. This girl is going to pay!" Rarity continues to fire off bolt after bolt knocking down her enemies. The unicorn's magical attacks hit the undead monsters blasting holes through its body. To no one's surprise, the monsters continue their frenzy charge at Rarity and Fluttershy. "Shit this might be a problem! RUN FLUTTERSHY!" Rarity orders.

Spike sees the fleeing girls; he makes a mad dash to intercept the monsters. He takes a deep breath and blows a cone of green fire. Within seconds, the zombie monster is engulf in green and red flames and screaming in horror before it falls down to the ground. "EVERYONE, USE FIRE TO STOP THEM!" Spike orders. The dragons in the area nod and start to blow fire burning up the zombies animals.

Twilight and Chrysalis break away from each other both breathing heavy after their swift exchange of blades and punches. "Twilight, when did you get so good with a sword?"

Twilight smirks and replies with, "You can thank Shining for teaching me. You know after that bullshit you pulled in Canterlot to ruin his wedding; Shining wanted me to know more about offensive and defensive magic. That way if I ever came face to face with you again, I would be able to kick your ass!"

"How cute! The goodie-good alicorn knows how to throw down!" Chrysalis mocks. She twirls her green energy swords with a sinister smile, "Let's put your fighting skills to the test!" Their swords ring out after connecting with each other, but it is quickly followed up thirty more clings back to back.

Twilight puts some distant between to the two and fires a purple energy beam from the tip of her sword at her opponent. Chrysalis dodges the shots and returns fire missing Twilight. From the ground it looks like to two beams going back and forth across the sky. Twilight does a 720 flip to avoid the last attack and fires another beam while dashing straight at Chrysalis. The changeling queen answers the attack by firing an opposing beam. The purple and green beams clash into each other and pulse back and forth for superiority.

The CMC members help direct their school mates away from the fighting. "This shit is getting out of control!" Apple Bloom states.

Scootaloo watches as Rainbow uses her martial arts skills to fight the zombie animals while Ornedar burns then cuts the zombies in half, "This is awesome! Rainbow is kicking some serious ass!"

"Scootaloo, be serious about this! We need to the get out of here!" Sweetie Belle shouts as she keeps an eye out for the enemy.

"Come on Sweetie Belle, this is what we have been training for," Scootaloo counters.

Apple Bloom quickly fires back, "Yeah, we have been training for this Scootaloo, but this is a little out of our league. LOOK OUT!"

Scootaloo turns back around, to see one of Diamond's monsters heading straight for them. The zombie grabs hold of the preteen pegasus and throws her at the friends. The girls go crashing to down to the ground in a painful fall. Apple Bloom is able to turn over just in time to see the mutated undead bear rush up to them. It unleashes a soul shaking scream as it gets ready to attack, but it suddenly falls to the ground. From behind it, the yellow earth pony sees their homeroom teacher with a steel pipe in her hands. The other girls shake their heads getting their senses back under control. Apple Bloom calls out, "Miss Cheerilee!"

"Come on girls get up! We need to get out of here NOW!" she states helping Scootaloo to her feet.

From above, they hear, "You're not going anyway!" They look up to see Diamond hovering overhead. A second later, the four mares are surrounded by Diamond's undead forces. The dark alicorn laughs as she holds out her red glowing hand.

Twilight continues to struggle in the beam lock with Chrysalis, the purple alicorn starts to lose the battle when a sun yellow and midnight blue energy beam fire from behind Twilight hitting Chrysalis. She is sent flying end over end until she regains control and stabilizes herself; she looks back towards Twilight to see Celestia and Luna in their battle armor, "Damnit! Who invited you bitches?!"

"Chrysalis stop this at once!" Celestia orders.

"Surrender or Die!" Luna shouts.

Chrysalis laughs, "Are you kidding me?! Why should we surrender?!"

From below someone shouts, "YOU BETTER BE THE ONES TO SURRENDER!" Everyone looks in the direction of the voice; they see Diamond standing on the ground holding hostages. Cheerilee is suspended by Diamond's magic, and the CMC members are tied to a post behind her. "OR, THEY ARE GOING TO BE THE ONES TO DIE! NOW DROP YOUR WEAPONS AND YOUR ELEMENTS!" Diamond orders. Everyone gives Diamond an intense glare, and she says, "So, you want to see if I'm serious! FINE!" Diamond sends out a wave of crimson red lightning from her hand and hits all of her prisoners. The air is filled with screams from the girls and Cheerilee.

"STOP! YOU FUCKING MONSTERS! LEAVE THEM ALONE!" Jay shouts as he comes flying in at full speed. He is covered in blood wielding a blood stained metal pipe. Diamond sees the enrage principal heading her direction, so she stops shocking her prisoners and directs the lightning at him. She fires waves of lightning at the flying pegasus. He displays his Wonderbolt training and skills as he easily evades the attacks without slowing down. Just as Jay closes in on Diamond, he gets ready to swing his weapon at her head, but Chrysalis interferes by firing a magical bolt. The attack hits his wing staggering the pegasus' flight control.

Diamond seizes the chance and fires another wave of lightning. Jay's eyes widen seeing the attack, but he can feel his wounded wing is not able to adjust his course. Thinking quickly, he jams the metal pipe into the ground while still holding on to it. He hits the ground sliding letting the lightning be attracted to the grounded metal. He does a sliding spin-a-roundly near Diamond. Once his face to face with the dark alicorn, he uses the military defensive tactics to delivery seven swift punches to the solar plexus then a strong upper to her chin. She is knocked for a daze for a second, but he continues his quick assault by grabbing her left arm brings it over his right shoulder then snaps the arm. He finishes his attack by kicking Diamond in the chest knocking her to the ground. Cheerilee falls to the ground free from Diamond's hold. Jay turns around to help his mate up, but they hear, "LOOK OUT!"

Before Jay can turn around, Diamond throws a lightning bolt at the couple. The black pegasus pushes his mate away at the last second letting himself get hit with the attack. He screams in relentless pain until he passes out with smoke rising from his body. Cheerilee and others watch in horror as Jay's lifeless body falls to the ground. Cheerilee reaches out for him, but her body is surrounded by the red aura and lifted over to Diamond. The magenta earth pony cries as she is pulled away from her fiancé. When she is close enough to Diamond and Chrysalis, her face harden looking at the two women leading the attack.

Chrysalis looks at Twilight's forces, "I would give up now unless you want others like him to get hurt."

"What's that face for Miss Cheerilee?" Diamond looks over at Jay, then says, "Ah! Did I break your fuck toy? Well, look at this way, you know that he was a one mare stallion. Goes to show that he couldn't keep up with a mare like me." In response, Cheerilee spits in Diamond's face. She wipes her face with an annoyed expression, "Now that was just plain RUDEEDDDD!" Diamond screams while shooting lightning out of her hands hitting the captured teacher. The earth pony cries in pain making others look as they get ready to charge to help Cheerilee. "DON'T MOVE!" Diamond orders as her prisoner's screams echo in all directions, "I can kill her if I chose to or if you push my hand. I'm just teaching this bitch to respect those who are better than her!" Diamond enjoys Cheerilee's display of pain and torture until she sees that the others have lowered their guard, then, in a swift move, Diamond fires a giant bolt of lightning followed up with a several magic blasts from Chrysalis. Fluttershy and her friends along with all their allies are wounded and knocked down.

Diamond, Chrysalis, and Cheerilee float higher into the air looking down at the defeated forces. Diamond wields her undead mutated army to grab hold of everyone and force them to look up at her. "Now this is how life should be. Everyone looking up to me with respect and fear. These low lives have angered a powerful enemy, and they will all pay the ultimate price." Diamond is surprised to see the ebony pegasus trying to get up. "Well, look at that, he's not dead after all."

Cheerilee sees Jay crawling on the ground while trying too will his wings to get him airborne. "Let Cheerilee go!"

"JAY! GET OUT OF HERE! DON'T WORRY ABOUT ME!" Cheerilee cries out.

"If you want to be together so badly, then let me help…" Diamond says as she thrusts her electric charged hand through Cheerilee's chest.

Cheerilee's eyes bug out and she coughs up blood, but a second later, the life starts to drain from her eyes as her vision blurs focusing on Jay's sicken and sad filled expression. Diamond pulls her hand out of the bloody mare and lets her fall to the ground; her body hits the ground with a bone cracking thud. Jay summons all his strength to rush over to his dying mate. Everyone's attention is drawn to the screams and cries from Jay while holding Cheerilee's body.

Diamond flies higher into the air saying, "I have had enough of this place! I'm going to destroy everything and everyone here!" The dark alicorn starts to morph and increase the thunder storms clouds.

Sweetie Belle is the first to wake up and see the growing storm clouds being controlled by Diamond. She struggles to get free of her bonds while saying, "Apple Bloom! Scootaloo! We need to get out of here. Come on help me out. Girls come on! We don't have time to waste who knows what that crazy mare is cooking up! We need to the go! Girls! Girls!" She glances to her left to see Apple Bloom out cold then to the right to see Scootaloo out like a light. "Dammit girls! Wake up! Come on! WAKE UP!" Her efforts are in vain seeing her friends not moving at all. "Rarity! Apple Jack! Rainbow! Anyone HELP!"

Tears start to build in Sweetie Belle's eyes seeing that everyone is either captured, knocked out, or dead. She lower her head and closes her eyes with the tears flowing out. Saying to herself, "Please someone anyone…"

"Our story will not end here," a familiar soft mature voice says.

Sweetie Belle opens her eyes to see the bright transparent adult version of herself. "Who are… you're me!"

"Yes, but I am you from over a thousand years ago."

"How?" the young unicorn questions.

"Now is not the time for questions, everyone here needs our help, our sisters need your help, my first true love needs our help!" the adult Sweetie Belle says.

"How?"

The glowing figure smiles and says, "You already know how. Bring out the catalyst from within."

"How do I…"

"Close your eyes open your heart and listen. You can hear it, can't you?"

(A/N 1000 words instrumental in the background)

Sweetie Belle does as her older self says, "I can hear it again. The music…"

"Yes, let it fill you up and flow through your soul! You know the words just let them flow out!"

Sweetie Belle starts to sing very softly.

Luna and everybody around hears the music and words to the song. The young unicorn is singing as their bodies start to glow brighter with every passing second. Luna watches the girls closely thinking to herself, ~That song! Is it possible?~

The girls start to float in the air as Apple Bloom and Scootaloo open their eyes to see the ghostly forms of their mature selves with smiles on their faces.

The three older versions of the Cutie Mark Crusaders walk into the bodies of their younger selves. The rope binding them glows brightly then burns away.

The girls are surrounded by an orb of radiant moonlight with only their silhouettes being shown to the outside world.

Everybody watches in amazement while the music plays as their shadows start to grow into mature young women.

The orb light begins to fade away to reveal that the girls have transformed from young teenage fillies to mature young adult full body mares.

Sweetie Belle's mane is short on the sides with one long braided ponytail going down her back. Her tail is styled with the same single braid while the rest of her body shining bright white.

Apple Bloom's red color mane is cut short with three veins coming over her forehead. The rest of her mane is slick back falling down towards the top of her shoulders. The orange tan pegasus' tail flows down to the upper part of her ankles; while the rest of her body is painted in a radiant ebony light.

Scootaloo's mane flows over her forehead and comes up a point at the end. The back part of her mane is split down the middle into two parts. Scootaloo's hair free flows all the way past her full-grown wings, and her tail is short only coming up to the back part of her knees. The rest of her body is painted in a bright yellow light.

Everybody watches in amazement as the bright white aura hiding her body starts to shatter into small shards revealing her new outfit. Her chest is covered with a white open blouse that covers her breast but in the center has a V cut with the crescent moon in the center connecting the two ends. The area below her belly button shatters into shards of light replace by blue short shorts. Her legs are outfitted with black knee-high boots. The swirling shards of white crystals swirl around her lower part of her body and create a cut in half purple and white dress with a pink belt.

Apple Bloom's ebony aura starts to shatter into shards of black crystal lights to unveil her new clothes. Two red strips running parallel down her body appear with the mid part of her body covered with a black and silver studs sash with a crescent moon holding the two ends together. The black light over her arms turns into elbow high black gloves. Apple Bloom's lower half is covered with a pair of black shorts and leggings with a full length plus sign split on the outside and red buckles along the sides. Apple Bloom's outfit is completed with a pair of matching black boots.

Scootaloo's orange-yellow color aura bursts all at once with her wings fully extended. She wears a sun yellow bikini top and a white arm length sleeves and black gloves. Around her forehead and under her mane a blue wrap with a crescent moon on the side appears. Her lower half is covered by a black mini skirt, and her feet gain a new pair of red running shoes.

Lastly, a hole appears on each side of the girls' pants. The black, white, and yellow light shards from each girl swirls around their flanks. In a dazzling explosion of light, the three mares' flank has a shield shaped cutie mark with a red-orange, dirty white, and lite-violet color all in line with each other. Below the shield, an upturn crescent moon appears with a black patch under it and three stars under the moon. In the center of each is dark purple and pink symbol, Sweetie Belle has a star with a musical note, Scootaloo has a wing with a lightning bolt, and Apple Bloom has an apple with a heart.

Chrysalis is shocked along with others to see the transformation, "NO IT CAN'T BE THOSE THREE! DIAMOND HURRY DESTORY THEM!"

Diamond rebuts with, "Why who are they?!"

Luna shouts from the ground, "THE MOONLIGHT WARRIORS!"

The girls hold out their hands making a white orb appear in front of them. Each of the orbs burst into a shower of lights leaving behind a unique weapon. Scootaloo gets two orange bladed long swords, Sweetie Belle gets two lite purple colored Desert Eagle guns, and Apple Bloom receives a pair of red open fingered punching gloves. Each of their weapons has their cutie mark on display for everyone to see.

In a display of super speed, the girls split up from each other going after the undead army.

Sweetie Belle unleashes a hail of bullets bringing down a zombie enemy with each hit.

Apple Bloom cracks a smile after popping her knuckles. She swiftly moves from target to target releasing a barrage of punches and kicks. The force from the attack is so strong, the attacks blow holes through the enemy.

Scootaloo flies above her targets slashing her new swords taking off the heads of each zombie as she flies by.

The girls meet back together looking up at Diamond Tiara. In an instance, all of Diamond's forces explode at the same time releasing all of their captives.

Diamond grits her teeth while squeezing her fist tighter as she says, "Those damn blank flanks! They just don't know when to quit! They just keep testing my patience over and over! AND I HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF THEIR SHIT! THIS WILL END HERE AND NOW!" Diamond directs the energy flow into a stream orbiting her body. She holds her hands above her head creating a dark crimson red orb; she lowers her arms to in front of her. The energy and glow from the orb grows more menacing as Diamond shouts, "DIE!" A powerful red lightning beam fires from the orb at the girls.

At the time, Apple Bloom fires a black beam from her hands; Scootaloo fires a two sun yellow beams from the tips of her swords; and Sweetie Belle fires two white beams from her guns. Their beams swirl around each other and combine together to a multicolor energy beam.

The beams rocket through the air and clash then lock together in a bright light show.

Diamond struggles with all her might to fight off the Moonlight Warriors' attack.

Celestia calls out seeing the flow of the energy, "They're doing it!"

Rainbow and Apple Jack shout out, "THAT'S IT GIRLS SHOW HER WHO'S BOSS!"

Spike and Rarity watch in silence as the white unicorn prays, ~Please don't let us down!~

Diamond feels her power fading, and her beam starts to weaken then gets pushed back.

The girls summon all their power and thrust it into the beam.

The beam blasts through Diamond's attack beam and rockets right into her. As the attack connects, the dark alicorn unleashes an earth rattling scream in pain; then the beam eclipses over her body.

The music fades away and the girls' beams shoot a hole through the dark clouds allowing the sun to shine down. To everyone surprise, Diamond remains in the air with her arms folded over her face and smoke flowing up from her. She lowers her arms while gritting her teeth; then she shouts, "THIS ISN'T OVER!"

Before Diamond can attack again, Chrysalis places her hand on Diamond's shoulder and says, "Diamond, we must pull back for now. You have done enough, and your powers need time to recharge. Don't worry, you will return and they will know the error of their ways."

Diamond eyes Chrysalis for a second then says, "Fine, but I'm not leaving alone." Diamond holds out her hand as it glows red with her dark magic. Suddenly, Diamond's closest friends appear up in the air with her.

Sweetie Belle calls out, "Silver Spoon!"

Scootaloo then says, "Zipporwhill!"

Apple Bloom is the last to say, "Diamond, what are you going to do to them?!"

"Well like Twilight always says, 'Friendship is magic!' And we are going to make some wonderful magic together!" Diamond exclaims then the four of them disappear in a flash of green light.

The skies start to clear up with a light sprinkling of rain from above. Everyone makes their way over to the newly formed Moonlight Warriors. They look at the girls and just as they are about to say something to them Jay screams out, "CHEERILEEEE!" They all rush over to the crying stallion to see him coated in the blood of his fallen mate. Jay looks up at them and begs, "Please do something. You have to save her! Please!"

Celestia leans down to talk with the crying pegasus. On the wind, the Moonlight Warriors hear, "To save the ones that have been lost, a price must be paid to cover the cost."

Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, and Apple Bloom look at each other and nod their heads in agreement. They walk over to Cheerilee's body and hold out their hands.

Celestia pulls Jay back as they watch the girls flood Cheerilee's body with their black, white, and yellow energy aura. The combined energy colors start to make the mare's body glow a bright gold. The girls continue to flood their energy into Cheerilee. Her body glows so bright that everyone is forced to shield their eyes. A couple of seconds pass, and the radiant light starts to fade away. Everyone sees the girls have returned back to their teenage forms, and their cutie marks have faded away. Once the golden light is gone, Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle, and Apple Bloom fall to the ground fast asleep. Jay and the others walk closer to them, and in a strong gasp of air, Cheerilee inhales deeply. Jay rushes over to her with tears in his eyes seeing her wound is completely healed. He runs his trembling hand over her face, "Please… please… don't let this be a dream. Cheerilee are you…"

She smiles back at him and wipes away a couple of tears from his face, "Don't cry Jay, I'm fine and so is our baby thanks to them." Cheerilee looks at the three sleeping Moonlight Warriors.

Apple Jack, Rarity, and Rainbow each pick up their little sisters and Jay calls over to them thanking them for their sacrifice. AJ and the others nod in response; then they follow Twilight back to her home.

A week passes and the girls' families are gathered in the dining room of the library talking with each other when Spike comes in with Sylvia. Twilight looks up from one of her magic books and says, "Spike do you have any news?"

The purple dragon shakes his head, "None, I've ordered the knights to check in all directions ranging from here to Los Pegasus and up pass the Crystal Empire. There has been no sign of Chrysalis, Diamond, or her changeling forces. My guess along with the rest of the Equestrian military leaders is that they have gone underground." Spike sits down and glances upstairs, "So, how are they?"

Twilight looks over at their parents and family then back at Spike, "No change. The doctors cleared them, but they're still sleeping. Zecora has been keeping watch over them."

Sylvia chimes in with, "Man that must have been one hell of a battle for them to be still out."

"Twi, any idea what happened to them?" Spike questions.

"I have been pouring over every book I can get my hands on, but the only thing I was able to find was that the Moonlight Warriors worked with…"

"Me!" they all turn to see Luna and Celestia walking through the front door. "May we come in?" No one objects to her request and they continue onward. "Twilight, please ask the families of the Moonlight Warriors to join us. I must ask them something concerning their daughters." A minute later, everyone is gathered in the main sitting room as Luna starts to talk, "First, Tia and I want to extend our thanks to your daughters for the service they have given, but I must ask for your permission in a matter that surrounds them."

"Princess Luna," Zecora calls out from the stair way, "I believe if this matter concerning the girls' future; they may want to be a part of the conversation."

From behind her, Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Belle walk down the stairs yawning and stretching. Apple Bloom is the first to say, "Morning everyone!"

Scootaloo then says, "Man, I'm hungry what's for breakfast?!"

Sweetie Belle follows up with, "Yeah, I could eat a whole apple cart."

Within a second, the girls are mobbed by their families with hugs, kisses, and tears of joy. After eating their fill, everyone returns back to the main sitting room to listen to Luna, "Girls do you remember what happened during the battle?"

"Yeah," Apple Bloom states.

"We kicked Diamond's ass, stopped her undead army, and saved Miss Cheerilee and her baby's life," Scootaloo boast.

"But, we had to give up our cutie marks to do so," Sweetie Belle finishes with a frown.

"A price must be paid, to cover the cost; but look at your flanks, for not all is lost," Zecora states. The girls look and are surprised to see that their cutie marks have returned. They cheer and hug each other; then they look at Zecora with a smile on her face, "The price that was paid was the experience from your past lives to wield your powers, so…"

Luna jumps in with, "I want to be the one to train and teach you to regain control of your powers. Along with teaching about what your destiny is. Scootaloo Pacer, Apple Bloom Apple, and Sweetie Belle Swan will you three become my personal students?"

They look at each other with a shocked expression on their faces, but it is soon replaced with determined smiles and expressions. They stand at attention and say in unison, "Yes your majesty!"

The name is Pie, Pinkie Pie!

Author's Note

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