"Fallingstar," Sweetie-bot said in shock as Starlight landed next to Rerun, Trixie immediately appeared next to them, "This is bad, Call reinforcements we can't beat them alone.

"It's Fallenstar now," Starlight corrected "And we don't wanna fight,"

"Bullshit," Mega Mac said angrily "My Grandmother died in that Tornado you caused several years ago..."

"I didn't do that," Starlight said angrily "You can't just blame every fucking natural disaster on me dammit,"

"Before you, Maretropolis never had any bad storms," He said angrily, "Then You show up and it's one major disaster after another, what do you think I'm fucking stupid or something,"

"Yes," Starlight replied bluntly as she summoned harsh winds, Iron Mane held up his hands and a shield appeared in front of him and his team.

"Rerun," Starlight said sternly "Express exit,"

"Train!" Rerun cheered, and the loud steam engine whistle filled the street as a Cartoony Train came barreling down the road from nowhere. Rerun's arms shot out and he grabbed his two friends. With them both, in his grasp, he jumped and perfectly nailed his landing so that they ended up on top of the engine as it barreled past.

"Chase them down," Sweetie yelled through the wind "I'll contact the Power Ponies for backup,"

"Rerun we need an express ticket to Maretropolises Western Bay," Starlight instructed "Illusionist..."

"I refuse to respond to that fucking name," Trixie said angrily "It's a power, not an illusion,"

"Trixie," Starlight amended "Don't let them slow us down, I've ordered sensor blockers and there being installed on the roof, in ten minutes we can teleport to and from home base with nary a care in the world,"

"You made a big ordeal about space ripples and shit," Trixie shot back irritably.

"Yeah," Rerun agreed "I feel like I wasted my time with that if there was a solution,"

"They're new," Starlight responded "I only just found out they're a thing, now focus on..." Their talk was cut short when Metal mac and Iron mane caught up to the train, Iron mane grabbed Trixie by the middle and pulled her a few meters into the air before she turned into bubbles.

"Ah so I can touch you,' Iron mane mused "Alright just gotta find the sweet spot and knock you out of the game,"

"Your welcome to try," Trixie replied curtly as Metal Mac swung at Rerun only for a bolt of Lighting to arc just close enough to him to make him back off.

"I have no desire to fight you," Starlight Warned Mac "But I will if you refuse to back off,"

"Sure," Metal Mac retorted "I'll just let you walk away and let you envelop Maretropolis in a blizzard, or maybe a Tsunami, or maybe another you'll pull off that Meteor Storm again"

"That last one wasn't even me," Starlight snapped "That was Rerun playing with a gun that shot out shrunken boulders that grew back to their normal size when shot,"

"It's true," Rerun agreed "It was a very convincing normal gun,"

"Don't care," Metal mac decided as his right arm shot out and grabbed Rerun by the face, Metal Mac swung to the side and used Rerun like a club to knock Starlight off her balance and sent the toon flying overboard.

No longer having a Toon keeping it in existence the Train they were on proceeded to cease to exist beneath them, Metal Mac hit the Road hard but rolled into the tumble and quickly regained his footing and gave chase as the other three all took flight, Iron Mane was still trying out his hundreds of tools on Trixie, trying to figure out if any of them might do the trick.

"Seems the tools are redundant," He decided as he shot out a swarm of tranquilizer darts that turned into a multitude of Hummingbird and flew away, "So far I've been able to deduce that your only real weakness is your reaction time,"

"So feel like giving up?" Trixie called back "Cause I'd be cool with you just going away and saying I died or something,"

"Not falling for that one again," Iron Mane noted calmly "But thanks for the offer," Iron Mane began sending out multiple attacks at once in an attempt to get a hit on Trixie faster than she could react to it. Starlight was busy trying to avoid hitting any pedestrians with the small twister she was using to fly when a metal fist came flying toward the back of her head, with a loud squeak she turned and found Rerun standing on a large inflatable duck that he had thrown between Metal Mac and Starlight, Metal Mac pulled the duck in and tossed it aside as Rerun landed and proceeded to have small wheels on his feet so as the skate after Starlight and keep his distance from Metal Mac.

"This is the grand Return of Fallingstar?" Metal mac called out to Starlight mockingly, "Running away from two guys without any real powers?"

"It's FallenStar now," Starlight informed Metal Mac calmly "And I don't want to fight, you idiots started it when you branded Trixie a criminal,"

"A move that was clearly correct," Metal Mac spat back "Seeing as the Illusionist is now playing Right hand to you of all ponies,"

"Dibs on being the left one," Rerun called back as he threw a pie at Metal Mac that would have missed had it not ignored the laws of Physics and jumped off the pavement and into the Metal Colt's face. Metal Mac ended up losing his balance over the thrown confectionary and was quickly lost to the foreground and the trio continued running at high speeds away from Iron Mane.

"I'm definitely out of my depth," Iron Mane decided "Oh well, the prospect of getting my ass handed to me has never stopped me before," Iron mane let out a flurry of missiles at the group, Trixie turned most of them into an assortment of lawn ornaments, Rerun stabbed one with a fork and ate it, and Starlight simply froze any that got to close to her.

"That all you-" Trixie was cut off in her own taunt when she realized Iron Mane was gone "Did he just run away?" Trixie received her answer in the form of a Fist to the face, Trixie tumbled to the ground where Rerun immediately caught her as Iron Mane became visible again.

"Yep," He said proudly "knew I had it in me"

"I see you've improved your Armor since I last saw you," Starlight noted as Rerun materialized a second set of arms that began throwing a seemingly infinite amount of Pies at Iron Mane.

"Not the stupid Pies," Iron Mane murmured irritably as he took evasive action "Spike I love you man but as your brother we really need to talk about this evil phase you've been going through, I think your new friends are a bad influence,"

"You're just mad I'm taller than you now," Rerun called back as he stopped throwing pies and instead used his new arms to grapple up to Starlight, riding on her piggyback style as a third set of arms continued the Pie Onslaught "Hey, Trixie, no pressure but Fallenstar can't teleport so your kind of our ride,"

"Rerun we can't go home until we get the all-clear on the sensor blockers being installed,"

"Still I don't wanna lug her around," Rerun grew yet another set of arms and put two fingers in his mouth before letting out a loud train whistle, earning himself a face punch from the now conscious Trixie.

"The hell man," Trixie said, before noticing where she was "Oh, shit," Trixie took flight and with her back on her feet Rerun loaded all four sets of arms and began throwing too many pies for Iron Mane to avoid.

"There heading towards the West bay," Iron Mane said loud enough for Starlight to hear, Iron Mane failed to give up anything more before he fell from the sky, his boosters now coated in the sticky sludge that filled the Inedible Pies Rerun had been throwing Iron Mane lost most of his mobility and fell to the ground and was lost to the horizon.

"That was easy," Rerun cheered as his extra arms all ceased to exist. "Can we go home now?"

"Nope," Starlight noted as she saw a group of 6 ponies standing in wait for them as they got closer to the Docs that called the Bay home "Trixie slow down, the Power Ponies aren't known to listen to reason when their enemy is flying at them at high speeds," The trio slowed to a stop and landed a few yards away from half of the Power Ponies, Zapp, FillySecond, and the Masked Matterhorn stood in wait for them.

"You must be the Illusionist," Matterhorn noted as she stepped in front of her two present teammates and looked towards Rerun and Fallenstar, "Are they even real?"

"Your mom's not real," Rerun countered instantly before frowning "Wait...she's my mom too, nevermind,"

"That's definitely Rerun," Zapp noted as she looked over to FillySecond, who nodded and disappeared for half a second before returning just as Fallenstar stepped forward.

"Hello," She greeted calmly "How long has it been? Four Years, or Maybe Five?"

"This doesn't have to end in a fight," Matterhorn said immediately. "If you just turn yourself in we can help you-"

"Have you ever been inside the Vault?" Fallenstar demanded with a burning rage in her eyes "The actual Vault? Not the theatrical art piece they have in the Bay,"

"I am the leader of the most successful Hero Team in all of Maretroplois, I have been to all eight levels of the Vault,"

"Only eight hu?" Fallenstar chuckled "Funny, I spend most of my life on the nineteenth level but you keep living your little lie,"

"Falling Star look around," Matterhorn waved her walk towards her friends "Were just the first ones to arrive, you have to understand that Rerun is a Dragon of interest, he knows the secret identity of almost every Superhero in Maretoplois, we're not gonna let you use him without a fight,"

"It's FallenStar now actual," Starlight corrected as she felt a light buzzing sensation in her back right pocket, "Is that all he is to you? A Liability you need to see gets tucked away in some far corner of the vault, or do you actually care about him?"

"Spike has done a lot of things, things I'm sure he's not proud of, but both he and the Illusionist can be put on the right path, they're going to have to pay the price for their crimes, and you'll have to pay to, but I can promise you that if you just surrender we can set you on the right path,"

"What the fuck did I do?" Trixie demanded, but instead of an answer, she was promptly ignored as Matterhorn stared at Starlight.

"No," Starlight said without hesitation "The Vault gives no second chances, the only ponies that leave that place are the ones who were paid to be Villians and turn over a new leaf for the sake of marketing the Vault as a Re-educational facility, but every Villian in this city knows the same truth, I'm the only one's who ever escaped that hell hole alive, Maniac put that theory to the test and everyone from the old days who survived that massacre you heroes called a war are either locked away in the vault or planning to stay in hiding until the day they die,"

"You know I'm not gonna just let you run away right?" Fillysecond asked as she held up a button and began clicking it "I checked out your old base and took your door opener, you don't really have an option here my dude,"

"In retrospect hiding out in the same Warehouse as before was stupid," Rerun noted casually "Good thing it was a diversion," Rerun pointed to Starlight with both hands and began rocking his hands back and forth as he rapidly pointed at her "right?"

"Dam straight it was a Diversion," Starlight agreed "Trixie, use your powers to read my mind and figure out where our new base is and teleport us there," Trixie willed herself to know what Starlight wanted her to do and put her Finger into a snapping motion as she made the road beneath the Power Ponies liquidy to avoid getting Ko'd by Fillysecond.

"For the record," Trixie noted "I only teamed up with these guys because you assholes arrested my parents for the crime of me accidentally getting supper powers, Fuck you it's not an Illusion," Trixie snapped and the three vanished.

"Dammit," Matterhorn groaned as Zapp helped her and Fillysecond get out of the liquified remnants of the street "That was your last warning FallenStar, next time I'm taking you down,"

Author's Note

The Warehouse base, it Twas a Decoy

Shout out to CaptainSmiley01 For Commisioning the continuation of this story.