Twilight and the gang cleaned up their mess, then met back with Princess Celestia at the end of the day to discuss the discovery they had made in the archives.

"Very interesting. A pocket dimension that has quite possibly trapped you and your friends, then gave everyone else an alternate mindset but you. This is quite the clawful, I must say," the elder said.

"I know, right? And I still haven't seen hide nor tail of where Starlight and Tempest are," Twilight stated.

"It's quite possibly that whoever designed this gave them an alternate mindset as well, and considering the past those two had..." Sunset said.

"WHAT?! Starlight and Tempest are good now. Why would this thing turn them back to evil?"

"Maybe it believes that you didn't defeat them properly and wanted to give you a second chance at doing things the right way," Sunset concluded.

"I guess, but why?"

Meanwhile, in the Dragalia outskirts.

"Uh. Why you do dat?" a random dragon asked, waving their chubby little arms in protest to the offenders. It realized how awkward it's language was after the regression. "Why I sounds like dis?!"

"Well, because it's fun to get back at the ones who torture you, silly," Tempest answered. The hatchling then proceeded to throw a tantrum at its captors, balling its claws into fists and swinging at them.

"My, my. You're a fussy little one, aren't ya? Perhaps the right motivation will set you straight," Starlight said as her horns and eyes glowed. The drake watched her eyes swirl around, causing him to cease his small attack at the pair.

"Good boy. We'll give you a treat if you promise to behave,"

The small drake then put his claws out and begged her to give him a treat. Starlight grabbed a small bottle out from her backpack and handed it to him. He happily sucked away, no longer caring about the regression that had transpired.

"Too easy. At this rate, we'll take over Dragalia by days end, dear sister," came Tempest.

"Ooh, I can't wait!"

"Oh, no. I have to warn the Princess," a guard said to himself.

Back at the castle, Twilight and the others were having a nice dinner with Celestia and Sunset. A few fruits and gems were passed around as they got their fill. Twilight thought that now was a good a time as any to think about where her next move should be. The others gave her a few glances every now and then to see if she was cool. She gave them nods to assure them that everything was fine.

"So Twilight," Sunset asked.

"Yeah?"

"How is it that you came into this world to begin with?"

"Well..."

It all started back when I was about to meet up with my friends at a picnic. There was nothing special happening at the time for any of us, so I figured there was a good a time as any to have all my closest friends meet up to see each other. Me and Starlight had seen a book that I didn't even include in my library. I looked at it to see a white dragon on it with very little detail. My friends observed it one by one, then we all saw a blinding light,and it pulled us in.

"Wow. So, how have you been able to cope with things so far?" Shimmer asks as a look of pity came upon her face.

"Not that well. I found out that a friend of mine, a close one, was turned into a girl,"

"Wait. You mean to tell me that one of us here is a guy? That's rough..."

Just as Twilight was about to continue, a guard came bursting through the dining room doors panting for breath.

"Sorry to interrupt, princess, but we've got trouble out in the Dragalia outskirts, dragons everywhere are being magically regressed!" the guard announced bef plopping on his padded butt.

"Oh, no. That has to be Starlight and Tempest," Sunset said sadly.

"I thought they had learned. What would cause them to do this?" Twilight sighed.

The team made their way outside to where the trouble was taking place, and there they were.

The tag team of troublemakers were doing business left, right and center as hundreds of dragons were regressed. Starlight took a look at the party that was approaching the two and put on her most innocent smile she could muster.

"Why, hello ladies. Didn't expect to see you here. What's the occasion?"

"Kicking your padded butts, obviously,"Sunset hissed behind clenched teeth.

The periwinkle dragoness turned around and shaked her diapered rear at the offense.

"Ooh, Sunset and the others are gonna spank us for being such naughty hatchlings. I'm so scared,"

The taunt did it's job and made the amber dragoness even hotter. It had even gotten to Twilight as she now bore a face of frustration.

"What's gotten into you two? I had hoped you would be the first pony, er, dragon I saw when I first got sucked into this wacky world, but no; and now, you two are totally acting weirder than anyone else here!"

"Does it really matter?" Tempest asked.

"Yes, it does?" Twilight answered, now wondering why her latest 'friends' were acting so hostile. Is it because of the things that they tried to do to her and her real friends? She was now so wrapped up in locating an answer, she didn't realize that a beam of magic was heading straight for her. Luckily, Sunset saw the oncoming attack and decided to take action.

"Twilight, look out!" she screamed, tackling the lavender dragoness in the process and taking the blast instead. She let out a scream as the magic regressed her into an actual hatchling.

Twilight looked down at her friend to see she was happily babbling away her cares, however Twilight herself was anything but.

"Turn her back right now,"

"Why don't you make us?" Starlight asked as she and Tempest bumped their padded rumps together at a successful mission.

"They might not, but I can!" Celestia roared in fury.

Author's Note

I apologize if this chapter took longer to get out there, but I really didn't want to go through the trouble explaining why Starlight and Tempest are evil in this story. Anyways, as always, constructive criticism is always welcome here.