My Little Pony: Harmonic Nine

Chapters

Chapter 1: The Cutie Map
Chapter 2: Special: Return to Earth
Chapter 4: Sarah's Hearths Warming Eve
Chapter 5: Having boyfriends but keep Your Fathers
Chapter 6: Trade Ya
Chapter 3: Boyfriend for Sarah

Chapter 1: The Cutie Map

Ren's POV

It's been three weeks since Twilight gained her Castle of Friendship and since Sarah became the Queen of Harmony. Twilight had moved into her new castle along with Spike. The castle was absolutely gorgeous in the inside. It had many, many rooms like the Princesses palace.

Speaking of which we were entering the throne room now, “Let’s go through this one more time.” Twilight began as she rubbed her hoof under her chin causing Rainbow Dash to groan to aggravation as apparently Twilight has talked about this multiple times now.

“We've been over it like a million times, Twilight! We unlock the chest, defeated Tirek and Sarah defeated Void and you got this sweet castle! End of story!” Rainbow Dash quickly told Twilight of what had just happened in a quickly summed up fashion.

“Yeah, bookworm, there’s not much to it.” Jack said as he sat on his throne.

“Yes, but why?” Twilight acknowledged but can’t help but question why she isn’t getting all of this so sudden after turning herself around.

“We don’t know why. I said.

“I dunno, sugarcube. Maybe it's just your new house and there ain't nothin' more to it than that.” Applejack answered as she moved to sit in her chair. As soon as she did the cutie mark on her chair glowed.

The others and I sat in their thrones and we our cutie marks started to glow as well. Hmm... wonder what's going on with the chairs. Probably nothing.

“I must say, speaking strictly on aesthetics, there really doesn't need to be more to it. It's all simply divine!” Rarity added as she sat down on her chair causing the cutie mark on her chair to glow too while saying all that’s important is that the Twilight they all know and loved is back.

“I agree with Twilight. And Rarity. And Applejack. And Rainbow Dash. And Pinkie Pie.” Fluttershy chimed in as she sat down on her chair with her cutie mark on her chair glowing too. “Oh, and probably Spike.” Fluttershy added as if she almost forgot to include as she turned to him who is still sleeping and snoring on his chair.

“As princess, I’ve been chosen to spread the magic of friendship across Equestria and Sarah has been chosen to spread harmony across Equestria as well as the Queen.” Twilight continued to speak her mind as she paces around the center of the room.

"Twilight, stop worrying about it." Sarah said to her

"But Sarah, the Tree, aka your surrogate mother, obviously sees you as some kind of student to it, so why would it want us to sit in a castle in Ponyville? It doesn't make any sense.” She concluded as she sat down on her chair causing her cutie mark to glow along with the mark on her chair.

Everypony takes notice when the cutie marks on the chair glow as the beams of light they produced all shined onto the star in the center of the room causing crystal rocks to form as a crystal table starts to appear from the center of the room causing Spike to awaken from hearing this who then looks surprised at the sight that had just formed in the middle of the room.

“Is that new? I like it.” Spike commented just as surprised as everypony in the room.

“HOLY HELL!” I yelled.

“The chairs made a friggin map!” Jack added in shock.

It’s beautiful..” Kaede said.

Nicole and Rantaro looked at the map with their calm expressions.

Spike walked on the table and looked around it as what they are seeing is a map of all of Equestria. “This is incredible! It's got all of Equestria!” Spike commented in amazement.

“Hi, Mom and Dad!” Pinkie happily commented as she looked at her parent’s rock farm house.

Spike at that moment would end up stepping on the model house causing Pinkie’s eyes to water up as if she thought her parents were killed.

Suddenly, our cutie marks and the Mane Six’s cutie marks on their flanks and they glow as projected images of them circling around Twilight’s cutie mark and they hovered above the map from where Ponyville is to some town near the mountains.

Twilight, wanting a better look, used her magic to drag Spike off the table so she can examine this.

“But if this is Ponyville, why are our cutie marks over there?” Fluttershy commented wondering what this meant.

“I don't know.” Twilight honestly answered. “But it seems like the map wants us to find out. The Tree, Sarah, this castle, and now the map. How can we not follow it?” She questioned her friends.

“We must investigate that unmarked area.” I suggested.

“Y'know what?” Rainbow Dash flew in close examining some places on the map. “There's a ton of room for dangerous adventure along that route. Count me in!” She quickly put her hoof forward to join Twilight on this trip.

“Me too!” Jack exclaimed, rubbing his gut.

“Aw, shoot, I reckon you're right.” Applejack responded in agreement.

“Fine, I’ll come along to for protection.” Mason added.

“Well, I was planning on organizing my baking sheets, but okay!” Pinkie answered sounding reluctant at first before happily agreeing too.

“Very well.” Rarity reluctantly agreed too with a smile as she and Pinkie turn to Fluttershy expecting her answer wanting her to come along to with Rainbow Dash joining them as well.

“Um, maybe I'll just stay here with Spike.” Fluttershy nervously responded not wanting to come.

“Awesome!” Spike happily responded as he wore a drinking hat and a foam finger. “Me and Big Mac have a huge weekend ahead of us talkin' hoofball, and... and trading hoofball cards, and arguing about hoofball stats...”

Hearing all this causing Fluttershy to make weirded out expressions as she sees is signing herself up for activates that only guy and stallions would like.

“O-o-on second thought, m-m-maybe I'd better go with them. In case they need me.” Fluttershy quickly answered to show that she has changed her mind as she turns to Rainbow Dash who smiles in response to her answer.

“Eh, seems like a waste of time to me.” Rantaro stated, but Sarah hovered a bag of coins in front of him which he happily took. “Nevermind!” Nicole just sighed at his behavior.

Soon, we were all on our way to the unmarked area. We all exited the train as it backs away to depart from the dead end stop as Twilight looks the map she made herself for a moment before rolling it up and walking ahead in the direction of the nearby town with us right behind her. We crossed a wooden bridge and then reached our destination, a small village down below the mountains.

“That's it! That's the place on the map!” Twilight pointed out as Rarity fumbled with the dust in her hair.

“Looks like a small village.” I stated, seeing how small the village looked.

“Right. Let's get down there and find the spa.” Rarity spoke prepared to head on down before being stopped by Twilight who magically teleports in front of her.

“Wait.” Twilight stopped Rarity in her tracks with a hoof on her chest. “We don't know why the map sent us here. We shouldn't just walk right in. It could be dangerous.”

“Yes!” Rainbow Dash exclaimed in excitement at the mention of danger she thrives of engaging in it.

“Stay behind me, everypony! I'm on it!” Pinkie spoke as she stood on her rear hoof while placing her front hoofs in front of Twilight and Rarity with a serious expression.

“Careful, Pinkie!” Applejack called out to Pinkie as she rolled down the mountain and ducked to a nearby rock as she peeks from the corner who motions the others to follow her lead as she stealthily makes her way to town by ducking under nearby rocks while the others walk up behind her as she scoots herself under a huge rock before she and the others peeked at the village as they now got a closer look.

“This is where the map sent us? It looks like the most boring place in Equestria.” Rainbow Dash commented as they watch every pony chatting and walking around.

“It's just an ordinary village full of ordinary pony folk.” Applejack voiced her thoughts.

“It could certainly use a few more architectural flourishes. Or any architectural flourishes.” Rarity commented seeing that the village could use some more fashionable taste of decoration.

“I think it's lovely.” Fluttershy responded seeing there is no problem with what she is seeing.

“I don't like it. I don't like it one bit. I know smiles. And those smiles? They're just not right.” Pinkie suspiciously commented at the sight of the continuously smiling ponies.

“I agree.” Twilight shared the same suspicion as she eyed the marks on everypony’s flanks. “Look at the cutie marks.” She pointed out that everypony had equal signs on their flanks.

“Okay, that's weird.” Rainbow Dash commented in agreement with Twilight.

“Equal sign cutie marks?” Kaede said with confusion.

“An entire village with the same cutie mark? How can that be?” Twilight questioned the very possibility of that.

“I bet there's some sort of horrific monster behind it.” Rainbow Dash suggested as she watched the village from afar.

“What makes you say that?” Twilight asked.

“'Cause fighting a horrific monster would be super-awesome!” Rainbow Dash excitedly dreamed of.

“I reckon we just ought to head into town and talk to some locals, find out what's goin' on.” Applejack suggested.

“Great idea, AJ. Let's go!” Rainbow Dash said and raced off.

Pinkie Pie was still frowning. “Those smiles are bad news.”

We started walking into the strange village. Boy, this just gives me bad memories when my home country was part of the USSR.

All of the ponies still keep up their friendly smiles as they approach us.

“Welcome.” A gray earth stallion with brown eyes greeted.

“Welcome.” A female Pegasus mother with two fillies by her side greeted.

“Welcome.” A blue unicorn pony with green eyes greeted.

“Welcome.” A pink unicorn with pink eyes and pigtails greeted.

“Welcome.” A blue pony with gray eyes and mane greeted.

“Welcome.” A brown pony with a blonde mane and pigtails greeted as her children walked with her.

“Welcome.” The fillies walking with their mother greeted.

“This must be the most pleasant place in Equestria!” Fluttershy positively commented as she flew by as another peagsus with gray fur and a white mane flew up to greet her.

“Welcome!”

Fluttershy giggled at the friendly greeting.

“Ugh. Thanks a lot, map.” Rainbow Dash groaned in boredom.

“Welcome! Pardon my forwardness, but are you an Alicorn?” A light blue furred unicorn greeted as he approached the group and questioned Twilight and Sarah who grinned humbly.

“That there's the Princess of Friendship and the Queen of Harmony!” Applejack introduced them to him.

“Well, you've certainly come to the right place for friendship.” He further greeted the alicorn.

“What brings you to town?” A white pony with a matching mane and blue eyes questioned Moonshine.

“We're not entirely sure.” Twilight honestly answered.

“I see. Well, all are welcome here in our little village.” The white stallion further welcomed the six before introducing themselves as he directs a hoof towards himself and at the pony next to him. “My name is Double Diamond, and this is Party Favor.

“Howdy, Double Diamond. I'm Applejack, and this here's Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Twilight Sparkle, Sarah Gem, Ren, Kaede, Jamie, Jack, Rantaro, Nicole, Carrie, Mason and Skye." Applejack introduced the whole group by pointing her hoof at each pony around her. Double Diamond them looked down at Twilight's cutie mark.

“And you all have your own unique cutie marks.” Double Diamond observed her and Pinkie’s cutie marks.

“If you don't mind, has there been any sort of... trouble here, lately?” Twilight quickly questioned.

“Trouble? Why, I don't think we've ever had trouble in our little village.” Double Diamond answered while still smiling.

“It's true. You'll see. Hm.” Party Favor added in agreement.

“Perhaps you'd care to speak to our founder Starlight Glimmer.” Double Diamond offered as they lead her in her direction.

“I wish everypony in Equestria was as friendly as these ponies are.” Fluttershy hopefully wished as she faced her friends.

“I've got my eye on them. Something's rotten in... whatever the name of this village is that we're.” Pinkie suspiciously told her as she saw the smiling ponies following them.

“Agreed.” Twilight agreed with Pinkie in the same tone. “Something is definitely suspicious around here and I think this pony we are about to meet is behind this.”

“Yes, those ponies eyes were filled with unhappiness.” Nicole said. “Like they've been brainwashed.”

Double Diamond and Party Favor approached a door and both knock on it at the same time.

“Starlight, we have some new visitors.” Double Diamond told the pony inside as all eight ponies walk inside.

“Be ready to fight. We don't know what's gonna come through that door.” Rainbow Dash warned Applejack in a whispered tone as the pony opened the door in front of them and out from the room is a pink unicorn with a purple mane with light blue streaks and blue eyes.

“Welcome! I'm so pleased to have you here.” Starlight happily greeted the Mane Seven.

Rainbow Dash groaned in disappointment as if she was expecting somepony more dangerous.

“This is Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Twilight Sparkle, Sarah Gem, Ren, Skye, Jack, Jamie, Rantaro, Nicole, Kaede, Carrie and Mason.” Double Diamond introduced the Mane Seven to Starlight as she inspects Twilight and Sarah closely.

“Forgive my bluntness, but I'm assuming its Princess Twilight and Sarah ? We don't get many Alicorns around here.” Starlight questioned Moonshine, who still grins nervously.

"Ha! Sarah’s not just an alicorn. She's the Queen of Harmony." Rainbow bragged, earning a hard nudge from Applejack. "Ow!"

"A Princess and a Queen what an honor." Starlight stated.

“Yes, but "Twilight and Sarah" are fine.” Twilight humbly and nervously responded.

“So! How did you hear of our little village?” Starlight eagerly questioned while still smiling a little creepier this time.

“It's kind of a long story. Let's just say we found it on a map.” Twilight explained the short and straight to the point way.

“Technically, it's a Tree-chest-castle-map!” Pinkie Pie happily added before her face turned back to her suspicious face as she moved away from Starlight.

“Well, however you found us, we're happy to have you! We're happy to have any pony who wants to experience true friendship for the first time.” Starlight spoke with pleasure in her voice as the group eyed each other in confusion by what she meant.

“Say what?” Applejack questioned out of confusion.

“Oh, indeed. Starlight said. “That's what's so unique about our village, you see. Around here, we don't flaunt our special talents because we don't have any special talents to flaunt.”

“Is that why you all have those cutie marks?” Twilight asked, pointing to her Equal Sign on her flank.

“Perhaps it would be easier to understand if I gave you a tour of the village!” Starlight said, grinning just like the ponies outside.

She stepped forward towards the door as she addresses everypony in town.

“Heads high, ponies! Marching proud! All together now! Every one of you! No pony left behind!” Starlight Glimmer marched throughout town wanting everypony still smiling to follow her lead as she begins to sing.

"Life is so grand in Our Town

We're always filled with cheer

We never have to look around

To know that we're all here.”

Starlight sang as she marched forward and then turned towards all of us as the town ponies circle around us.

“In Our Town, in Our Town

We don't have to wait

To find out that our destiny

Is just to emulate.”

The towns ponies sang as they marched around us.

Sarah watched this and she felt something was definitely wrong here.. but she couldn't place her hoof on it.

“Let's see those big, happy smiles!” Starlight instructed everypony to continue keeping up their wide smiles.

“Life is a smile in Our Town

Our cutie mark's the same

Because we do not separate

Ourselves by more than name.”

Starlight sang as the town ponies marched into single file formation.

“In Our Town, in Our Town

We dare not compete

Winning only breeds the worst

Ego-filled conceit.”

The town ponies sang as two Pegasus ponies flew up to Rainbow Dash to lower her back down to the ground leaving her exasperated and insulted that these ponies see competition for ponies with overinflated egos and that it brings out the worst in ponies win or lose.

“You see? Now everypony wins!” Starlight told Rainbow to encourage her that her approach to friendship is better this way leaving Rainbow uncomfortable with that idea.

“Life is a joy in Our Town

We're all equal here

No one is superior

And no one shakes in fear.”

Starlight sang as she marched upfront and used her magic to make sure one of the mares has her mane tied up pig-tail style which Twilight took notice of.

“In Our Town, in Our Town

We work as a team

You can't have a nightmare

If you never dream.”

The town ponies sang they marched in rows of four in front of the Mane Seven.

“Other ponies argue

Do you ever wonder why?”

Starlight sang as she trots around Pinkie and Fluttershy as the former is more warm-welcoming while the latter is still frowning very suspicious at their smiles.

“When you think your talent's special

You don't see eye-to-eye.”

“There's just too many differences

That lead to disarray

But when you learn to act as one

It's like a holiday.”

Starlight sang as the town ponies danced around.

“In Our Town, in Our Town

We don't complicate

When you learn to simplify

Life is oh, so great.”

The town ponies sang as Fluttershy started dancing to the tune to which Pinkie which frowns at her to get her stop to which Fluttershy recoils in submission.

“Join in our utopia

Come out of the dark

Banded by equality

By our cutie mark!”

The town ponies sang as they formed up in single file and row and row formation with the peagsus ponies flying through with an equal sign banner.

“You're kidding, right? Give up our cutie marks? No way!” Rainbow Dash laughed off the very idea.

“Rainbow Dash, don't be so rude.” Fluttershy scolded her. “I don't think we should judge them. They all seem perfectly happy with their choice.”

“Don't believe their smiles, Fluttershy.” Pinkie quickly warned Fluttershy against trusting them.

“I'm sorry, I guess we're just a little confused by all of this.” Twilight politely told Starlight.

“We have no judgments here in our village. Each of us was confused once as well, blinded by the false promise of our cutie marks.” Starlight assured Twilight nopony holds any judgement on them.

“Whoa, whoa, whoa. Is she for real?” Rainbow Dash questioned as if all of this is a huge joke which earned her a glare from Twilight.

“When we were sent to this village, we assumed it was to help in some way. But, well, it doesn't seem like you need any help.” Twilight explained her reasons for visiting while still politely smiling.

“Have you considered perhaps that you might have been sent here so we could help you?” Starlight suggested as she placed a hoof on Twilight's chest. “After all, nopony has ever come to our village and wanted to leave. Why should you be any different?” She questioned the Mane Seven who look at each other in confusion.

“But that is entirely your choice. Please enjoy our little corner of Equestria. We're all quite fond of it. No doubt you will be as well. Double Diamond, please help our guests with whatever they might need.” Starlight instructed him to help them feel accommodated for their visit.

“Of course.” Double Diamond obliged to Starlight’s request who continues grinning at the Mane Seven who all look uneasy by this gesture as Starlight trotted off

As we walked forward with Double Diamond right behind us, more town ponies greeted them while still sporting the same smiles.

“A cutie mark is a representation of a pony's unique talents and skills. How is it possible to—“ Twilight questioned the very possibility of all of this before being interrupted by Rarity’s gasping.

“What in the name of Equestria is that?!” Rarity exclaimed as she pointed a hoof at ragged brown cloaks.

“Welcome! Care to sample some local fashion? We've got cloaks this month!” The brown stallion offered to which Rarity resisted the urge to throw up.

“Wha— Ooh, er, perhaps another time, good sir, thank you.” Rarity awkwardly and politely told him as she nervously backed away as the group proceeded to sit on a nearby table “No wonder nopony's wearing anything!” She whispered to her friends.

“Really, girls!” Fluttershy scolded the girls in a hushed tone. “They may do things a bit differently than we're used to, but that's no reason to be rude.”

“No, the reason to be rude is that they all keep staring at us!” Rainbow Dash commented feeling the need to correct Fluttershy.

“Need something?” Double Diamond asked the Mane Seven from a table.

“Uh, no! We're good!” Moonshine politely told him before turning back to the girls in a hushed tone. “Fluttershy's right. If we're going to get to the bottom of why the map sent us here, we'll need the help of these ponies.”

“I think we ran off to the end of Equestria before we even knew what that map was!” Applejack complained that this is all a waste of time.

“If we were at the end of Equestria, we'd be sitting on a big 'A'!“ Pinkie Pie giggling joked as she raised her hooves up. “Get it?”

"Girls, the my surrogate mother is a whole lot smarter than it looks. It made my Element and saved my, Ren and the others lives by teleporting us to Equestria. Do you really think it would send us here for no reason?" Sarah pointed out. The girls looked at each other and they had to agree. The Tree of Harmony has done so much for Sarah and all of us. We shouldn't really doubt its ability.

"Sarah’s right. There's something definitely wrong here." Twilight agreed.

“Is this a bad time?” The waitress pony who had been listening to their conversation politely chimed in.

“We shouldn't be bickering like this in front of our new friends. Really, Applejack, you're almost as bad as Rainbow Dash!” Fluttershy continued to defend the villagers while scolding Applejack.

“Don't drag me into this!” Rainbow Dash objected to Fluttershy’s comment.

“Is your friendship ending?” The waitress questioned as she faced Rarity.

“What the hell does that mean?” Jack asked.

“Are you crazy?! We'd never let a disagreement get in the way of food!” Pinkie Pie energetically exclaimed.

“O-kay, well, my name is Sugar Belle.” The waitress introduced herself and used her magic to lift up a notepad ready to take their order. “What can I bring you? We have: muffins... “

The group expected more items off the menu to be offered but her awkward silence clues them in that muffins are the only thing she can offer.

“Then I guess we'll take six muffins!” Twilight told her.

“Make that twelve!” Pinkie Pie eagerly exclaimed as her friends gave her weird looks. “What? I'm hungry!” She defended herself.

“Come on, girls. We've got to stick together. It doesn't matter what happened before, we're here now.” Twilight spoke to her friends in a hushed tone to ensure nopony else is eavesdropping on their conversation.

“I guess you're right.” Applejack accepted. “And the sooner we figure out why, the sooner we can go home.”

At that moment Sugar Belle came back with a plate of muffins she placed in the center of the table.

“Forgive me for overhearing” Sugar Belle mentioned. “But just a moment ago you were disagreeing, and now it sounds like you're... agreeing.”

“Uh-huh...” Applejack responded with crossed hooves.

“Well, you had such differing opinions – and cutie marks.” Sugar Belle continued to speak with confusion.

“We have differing opinions all the time, darling.” Rarity answered as if it is no surprise to them.

“But you look like you're friends.” Sugar Belle pointed out.

“We are friends. A simple disagreement wouldn't change that.” Twilight positively responded which led to Sugar Belle smiling nervously at that statement before frowning as she again speaks her mind.

“I'm sorry, I'm just having a hard time understanding. Different talents lead to different opinions, which lead to bitterness and misery.” She explained before turning her frown back into a smile. “So... why aren't you bitter and...?”

Sugar Belle is quickly interrupted when Pinkie Pie chokes and spits out a muffin she had just ate “Blech!” She quickly corrects herself by faking a smile to feign politeness. “Mmmm... good...”

“It's all right.” Sugar Belle assured Pinkie she holds nothing against her for not liking her muffins. “I know I'm not a very good baker.” She admitted. “At least, I know I'm not any better than anypony else in the village.” She took a glance behind her directed at Double Diamond and quickly darted back with a sense of anxiety. “Well, I... hope you enjoy our little village!”

She began walking inside the shop as Pinkie loudly scraped the bits and pieces of muffin off her tongue. Sugar Belle quickly stopped between Twilight and Pinkie to address before.

“Come inside before you go! Meet me downstairs!” Sugar Belle told them in distress before sporting a grin before heading inside.

“Okay, that was weird too.” Rainbow Dash commented as she stretched out her hoof across the table.

“Let's all sit here and eat these muffins and act normal.” Twilight instructed the others in a hushed tone as she eyed everypony around them suspiciously. “I think we're being watched.” She points out to everypony still wide smiling at them while doing their daily business.

“You think?” Rainbow Dash sarcastically replied.

“No, not like that!” Twilight corrected. ”I mean somepony here doesn't want us talking to Sugar Belle.” She added as she pointed her eyes at Double Diamond who is watching them while biting into a muffin.

“I got an idea.” Applejack offered an idea. “But you gotta eat all of them muffins, Pinkie.”

“Me?! Why me?!” Pinkie protested.

“You got a stronger stomach than any of us, and that filly in there might be our best chance at findin' out what the hay is goin' on round here.” Applejack reasoned with her who reluctantly sees her point as she proceeds to bite into and eat all of the muffins and by the time she finally manages to eat them all her face is now sickly green.

“I can't believe you ate all our muffins, Pinkie Pie!” Applejack announced as the others look at everypony with forced smiles. “We'd best go inside and get some more!”

The group immediately head downstairs per Sugar Belle’s instructions.

“Nice work, Pinkie.” Twilight commended Pinkie as they headed downstairs as Pinkie Pie bounced downstairs with a balloon belly.

“I've accidentally eaten cardboard tastier than that...” Pinkie sadly commented over being forced to literally stomach in all of those muffins.

“Hello? Sugar Belle?” Twilight called out.

“Thank you for coming!” Sugar Belle spoke up as she emerged from the dark and sported another wide smile.

“Why did you want us to come down here?” Twilight asked.

“So nopony could see what's about to happen.” Sugar Belle answered with a smirk as some of the ponies gathered around them ominously causing Twilight to ready her horn to attack in self-defense until Party Favor leaned in like a fan pony.

“Are you really the Princess of Friendship?” Party Favor questioned.

“Do you know Princess Celestia?” Night Glider questioned as she leaned in towards Twilight.

“I love your cutie mark!” Sugar Belle commented as she touched Pinkie’s flank.

Night Glider looked at Ren and the other’s cutie marks. “Wow, how did you nine humans get those cutie marks like that. I thought only ponies could.”

“How can you be friends with different cutie marks? Don't you end up hating each other?” Night Glider questioned as she flew in front of Rarity and Fluttershy.

“Oh, look at this one! This one's great too!” Sugar Belle commented on Fluttershy’s cutie mark as she touched her flank. “I'd love to have my special talent back even just for a day! Make something besides those disgusting muffins...” She added sounding depressed.

“So what's stopping you? Go get your cutie marks back.” Rainbow Dash responded wondering why it’s so hard to do so.

“Daydreaming is one thing, but you mean actually having it put back on? That seems extreme.” Party Favor answered as he spoke. "I was still afraid to go near them.

“I'm not sure Starlight would like that. She wants us all to be happy in our sameness.” Sugar Belle mentioned.

“How do you take somepony's cutie mark anyway?” Twilight asked.

“The cutie unmarking is a beautiful experience!” Night Glider answered and recalled. “Starlight uses the Staff of Sameness to magically take them away and replace them with these.” She explained as she pointed towards the equal sign marks on her and the other’s flanks.

“But nopony should keep you from your cutie mark. It represents such an essential part of who you are.” Twilight spoke from experience.

“Yeah, it like taking away what made you special.” Jamie added.

“No one should keep you from that.” Kaede added.

“Oh, we're not kept from them.” Night Glider quickly responded. “They're in the vault up in the caves. We can visit them any time we like to remind us of the heartache of a life with special talents.”

"Wait... how come you don't have a cutie mark?" Double Diamond asked, pointing to Sarah’s blank flank.

"Oh, I don't know. I guess I didn't figure out my special talent yet." Sarah replied honestly.

"But don't you friends hate you cause you don't have a cutie mark?" Night Glider asked.

"Of course not! Just because she doesn't have a cutie mark doesn't mean we'd stop being friends with her." Rainbow stated.

“Yeah, Skittles it right. So Newbie does have cutie-patootie mark, we’re still friends with her.” Jack added.

"Yeah, Sarah is just as special as the rest of us, even if she doesn't have a cutie mark." Pinkie added. The three ponies looked at each other, confused.

After a moment of thinking Twilight asked them. “Can we visit this cave?"

Soon, we were lead into a mountain cave behind the village and down a tunnel. Once they got to the end of it, they all gasped seeing a large vault with multiple cutie marks locked inside of it. "Behold! Our cutie mark vault!"

"I've never seen anything like it!" Twilight exclaimed in shock.

"And here is the Staff of Sameness. It was one of the great Mage Meadowbrook's nine enchanted items. We are incredibly fortunate to have it here. This is the tool that allows us to free ourselves from our marks! I'm curious – how did the subject of the vault come up?" Starlight asked.

"Oh, I was just wondering why everypony had the same cutie mark. Ponies can still be friends with different cutie marks like my friends." Sarah stated.

"Well, w-we certainly didn't intend to cause any disruptions to your charming little—" Rarity said nervously.

"Good. Let's just make sure of that, shall we?" Starlight Glimmer questioned as some ponies came out of the shadows. "It's a trap!" Twilight exclaimed.

I took out my Hacking Gun at the ponies while Mason and Jack readied their fists. She teleported out of the circle and readied her magic but Starlight used her Staff and blasted Twilight, holding her in place and forcefully removing her cutie mark! "Twilight!" Sarah cried in horror as she fell to the ground.

The Starlight did the same with her friends! Removing their cutie marks by force and locking them in the vault!

“Aw. I don't blame you for what you tried to do here today. You've spent your whole lives thinking those marks are a good thing.” Starlight gloated still trying to make the whole situation still sound positive.

“You can’t do that, you maggot!" Skye exclaimed.

“Give them back!” Twilight demanded.

“Well, now you can spend the rest of your lives here with us! And we'll teach you just how much better life can be without your cutie marks!” Starlight responded as she put her staff away as the ponies who gathered inside of the cave gather around them.

"Not I have anything to say about it..!" Sarah growled as she readied her magic. Starlight blasted her with the Staff of Sameness too.. However Sarah’s Element of Hope activated and created a shield around her!

"What?!" Starlight growled.

Sarah then unleashed a shockwave, knocking Starlight and the other ponies back.

Sarah quickly flew over and blasted the pieces of glass with her friends cutie marks and they returned to their owners, returning their abilities and talents to them. Starlight got up and snarled in anger at what Sarah did. Sarah then took off her Element of Hope and threw at Twilight who caught it in her magic,

"Guys! Get out of here!" Sarah called.

"What?! But Sarah..!" Twilight exclaimed but Sarah yelled, "GOOO!" before Starlight struck her with magic, freezing her in place. Twilight knew she had no choice and she teleported all of us out of the cave.

"I've done a lot to give these ponies friendship and you're not going to ruin it!" Starlight yelled at her before she took out a jar. Suddenly, Sarah felt a strong and painful tug in her horn and she grunted and groaned in pain as Starlight removed her magic and placed it in the jar!

Whens she was done, Starlight dropped her on the floor. Sarah felt so weak that she could barely keep her eyes open. "You may not have a cutie mark, but you will be valuable to my cause..." Starlight said with an evil smirk before everything went black for Moonshine.

Starlight Glimmer carried an unconscious Sarah into one of her buildings and just dropped her on the floor. Starlight smiled evilly at her as she gazed at the jar filled with her stolen magic. "Foolish Alicorn, challenging my philosophy? Hehehe... big mistake."

Starlight used her magic to create a chain and tied it around Sarah’s left back hoof and attached it to a stack in the house. "Hehe... still.. I'm sure those 'strangers' will come and rescue you, but they won't get far, cause I'll be ready for them.. and once I have their cutie marks all of Equestria will know what I'm trying to accomplish."

Starlight then walked out of the building and slammed the door shut and ordered two ponies at the door to guard it. "Perfect... now..." Starlight looks at the jaw with Moonshine's magic inside of it. "Let's see just how powerful her magic is..."

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We were hiding outside of the village, over looking it from a hilltop. "Alright girls, I think that made it pretty clear about why the map sent us here.." Twilight said to her friends.

“That was friggin obvious!” Jack yelled. “That brat took our cutie marks and tried to force us to join her village!”

"Yeah, Starlight Glimmer is forcing everypony to give up their cutie marks so they can have her version of 'friendship'." Applejack stated. "If it weren't for Sarah steppin' in like that, we would have been in the same situation."

"Oh... I hope she's alright." Fluttershy cooed with worry.

“I’m sure she’s fine..” Rantaro dismissed.

“Rantaro, Sarah gave her Element to Twilight, that was her only protection against Starlight. Without it, who knows what she did to her.”

"Yeah, let's go get her back!" Rainbow exclaimed, but before she could fly into town, Twilight caught her by the tail. "Rainbow! You can't just barge into town like that. Starlight might have some kind of trap waiting for us." Twilight scolded.

"Twilight's right. We need a way to figure out if Sarah is alright." Applejack stated. "But how..?"

Suddenly Discord appeared, "Oh for Scorpan's sake, why didn't you call me when you found a pony causing her own kind of chaos?" he whined.

“What the-?!” Ren exclaimed.

"Discord? What are you doing here?!" Twilight exclaimed, shocked to see the Spirit of Chaos.

"Oh isn't eavesdropping not the way you figure out what your dear friends and daughter are doing?" Discord questioned with an innocent look earning a 'No!" from Twilight and the others.

"Oh well." Discord shrugged. "If you want to see from all the way out here, then.." Discord snapped his fingers and he made some binoculars appear. "These should help..."

Twilight took the binoculars in her magic and looked through them. "Woah... these have X-Ray vision, I can see right through the buildings.." she said in awe. She looked into the building that was guarded by two ponies and gasped, "Sarah..!"

"Twilight, what's wrong?" Applejack asked.

"Sarah’s unconscious in one of the buildings and..." Twilight then looked at the building at the end of the village and saw Starlight Glimmer holding a jar with magic inside. "Now let's see just what this Queens magic can do. With such power, I'll be able to remove the cutie marks of everypony all over Equestria and everypony will understand my version of harmony.. hahaha...!" Starlight laughed evily, making Twilight gasped in utter shock.

"What is it?" Rainbow asked.

"Starlight Glimmer stole Sarah’s magic! And she's going to use to so she can take the cutie marks of everyone in Equestria!" Twilight exclaimed and the rest of us gasped in horror.

“Oh dear..” Discord said in worry.

“Discord, what’s wrong?” I asked.

“Well since Sarah’s magic is taken that also means that the power we used to create her is stolen as well. The meteorites’ power is like her life force. If the power is out of her for too long well... “ Discord moved a finger across his neck.

“Wait, wait… you mean… Sarah will die if she doesn’t get her magic and power back!” I exclaimed in horror.

Discord nodded and the group was horrified and knew this was more serious than ever.

"We gotta stop her!" Rainbow exclaimed, knocking her hooves together.

"But how? That pony probably got a hole bunch of ponies on the lookout for us." Applejack reminded me. "We need a sneaky way to get in, save Sarah and get out, while showing everypony that what Starlight is doing is wrong..."

Sarah’s POV

Uhh.... w-what...?

I began to come to and I felt a major headache. "Ugh...." I tried to move my legs but they felt like jelly. I weakly lifted my head. W-Where am I...? All I remember is... the Cutie Mark Cave and.... just then I heard the door opened and I saw Starlight Glimmer with a tray on it with an apple and some water.

Her....

"Hello Queen Sarah... I decided to bring you some food.." Starlight stated in a nice voice, but Sarah didn't buy it.

"G-Give me... back my.. magic..." I growled as she weakly staggered to her feet.

"Hello Princess... I decided to bring you some food.." Starlight stated in a nice voice, but I didn't buy it.

"G-Give me... back my.. magic..." I growled as I weakly staggered to her hooves.

"I'm afraid you're in no shape to make demands." Starlight smiled wickedly and I turned and saw the chain on her my hoof. "You... can't keep.. me here... forever..." I stammered, trying to sound as serious as I could.

"Oh.. I think I can.." Starlight smirked. "Without your magic, my guards at the door, there's no way you're leaving.."

"My... friends will.. come for me..." I replied.

"Ah yes those strangers. All different ponies and those... other creatures who believe that they were something special with their cutie marks." Starlight growled with an angry expression. "They don't have any real friendships. They are just blinded by their cutie marks."

"Their friendship.... is real... and their cutie marks and differences make their friendships stronger." I replied, gaining a little strength back.

"This coming from the pony who doesn't have a cutie mark! Let alone a Alicorn Queen! Your friends would be ashamed that you don't have a cutie mark and yet you stand up for those who do!" Starlight yelled at me.

"My friends would never be ashamed of me. They would be proud that I'm standing up for what I believe in even if it means going against what you have to say.." I growled at Starlight. Starlight had enough and blasted me sending me slamming into the back wall. "Ugh..!" the impact made the glass of water spill onto Starlight's flank.. revealing her actual cutie mark! It was a stream of blue magic that was attached to a purple star!

"You still have your cutie mark..." I narrowed her eyes at her.

Starlight gasped,"Oh shoot."

"If you say everypony is supposed to be equal in this town? Why do you still have your cutie mark?"

Starlight sighed and shook her head. "I'm sorry. That was my fault. I should have been more careful." She neatly folded the towel and placed it on top of a flat surface. "It looks like I'll have to find some sort of spell in one of my books that'll wipe your memory of what just happened here. Maybe it'll wipe your whole memory. Who knows."

"Wha…what?" I stammered.

"Forgive me. But if you're to stay, I must do it for the sake of the village." She brought out some makeup and covered her cutie mark. Then, she brought out a stencil and used the makeup to brush back on her fake cutie mark. Afterwards, she prepared to continue leaving.

"Don't worry. I'll wait until our little mess is over and done with." She opened the door and walked out. However, she peeked in before completely leaving. "Remember, don't try anything dumb, okay? I'd really hate to end up having to take some drastic measures." She shut the door and locked it.

I knew for sure now! It wasn't the staff that took away the ponies cutie marks. It was her magic! "I.. have to get this info to Twilight and my friends... but how...?" I pondered before I spotted a piece of paper and a pencil.

I was able to reach it, despite being chained up and I wrote down a message on the paper before I folded it into a paper airplane. "How can I get this to Twilight and my friends...?" I wondered before... a small mailbox came floating over to me that said 'Please place inside for Twilight Sparkle'.

I blinked at it, confused as to how this managed to get in here, but seeing that it may be my only chance, I placed the letter inside and the mailbox vanished in a bright flash, and I hoped that it would get to her friends.

Ren's POV

Meanwhile, the mailbox poofed up in front of Twilight and her friends. "I can't believe that actually worked, Discord." Twilight said, taking the letter out of the box.

"Well of course it worked. I made it.." Discord bragged. The girls, save for Fluttershy and Pinkie, rolled their eyes as Twilight read the letter out loud.

"Guys, Starlight Glimmer's cutie mark is fake! She covered it up with makeup. It was her magic that was used to removed your cutie marks before I stepped it. It was never the staff. You have to get the townsponies to realize this. Use Water, it'll wiped off the make up easily."

“That lying bastard!” Jack said.

“She deceived everyone.” Nicole narrowed her eyes.

"I knew something was wrong with her!" Twilight exclaimed.

"That mare was nothing but a faker!" Applejack added.

"Yeah, and now she has our friend and her magic captive. We've gotta do something now before we lose our friend forever!" Rainbow added.

"Hmm... I think I know what we can do..." Twilight smirked while looking at Discord.

Sarah's POV

Soon, I was being lead out of the building by Starlight with all of the townsponies watching. "I trust that you've made your decision, Princess?" Starlight asked with a smirk. But I just narrowed my eyes and looked away. "No? Hmm.. maybe another day will help change your mind.."

"Stop!" a voice came and everypony saw the all my friends walking into the village. "Ah.. so the strangers have returned, huh?" Starlight smirked.

"Yeah, we're here for our Queen and her magic.." Rainbow growled, "So give 'em up!"

"Yeah, you can't force anypony to give up their cutie marks or what makes them special. It doesn't work like that." Applejack added with a glare.

"What are you talking about, we're all equal here." Starlight stated innocently. "Well except for you six. Those cutie marks have blinded you of real friendship."

"No they don't, Starlight." Twilight stated. "Cutie marks make our friendship stronger. It doesn't matter if we're different what matters is that we're all friends which is what really matters."

Starlight laughed mockingly, "My village is a place of equality and friendship. Friendship that is stronger than whatever you six have."

"Equality, you say...?" a voice came before a small dark cloud came above Starlight. "Well what do you have to say about this..?" and then it started to rain on Starlight. "Hey!" she exclaimed as she got soaked.

Then the cloud stopped its small downpour and Starlight shook herself clean and everypony in the village gasped, seeing her real cutie mark!

Starlight noticed then and widened her eyes extremely in shock as she covered her flank with her tail. "Wha... What are you looking at?! They're the problem, not me!" She said pointed towards the Twilight, Ren and the others and laughed nervously.

"You lied to us…?" Party Favor questioned with an expression of devastated shock.

"How could you?" Night Glider asked.

"You said cutie marks were evil!" Double Diamond joined in. "You said special talents led to pain and heartache!"

"They do! Don't you see?! Look at them!" She was clearly desperate now. "Look at what they're doing to us! We were perfectly fine and happy before they came to town!"

"Then why?" Sugar Belle grew the confidence to confront Starlight. "Why did you take ours and not give up your own?"

"I..." Starlight Glimmer was sweating now. "I-I-I…" Her eyes clenched shut and her eyebrows furrowed. Tension squeezed out from her face before she reopened her eyes. "I had to, you fools! How could I collect your cutie marks without my magic?!"

"But the staff has all the magic we need!" Night Glider retorted.

"The staff is a piece of wood I found in the desert!" Starlight Glimmer finally confessed. "It's my magic that makes all this possible! You'd all still be living your miserable lives thinking you're better than everypony else if it weren't for my magical abilities! I brought you friendship! I brought you equality! I created harmony!"

"The only thing you created was your own version of Communism." Nicole said with her eyes narrowed.

"You lied to us!" Party Favor answered back.

"So what? E-Everything else I said is true! The only way to be happy is if we're all equal!" She stated that last part with confidence as if everything would go back the way it was.

"Except for you." Sugar Belle pointed out.

Starlight was prepared to shoot a fiery glare back at this pony before Moonshine stepped forward and spoke up.

"Everypony has unique talents and gifts, and when we share them with each other, that's how rea—"

"QUIET!" Starlight Glimmer bellowed out, only to receive a tackle from me!

I kicked Starlight away from my friends and she skidded across the ground. "You can't have a cutie mark, Starlight! Either we're all equal, or none of us are!" Sugar Belle asserted.

Everypony slowly began surrounding Starlight, leading her to anxiously turn her head around to see her becoming cornered.

Starlight Glimmer's eyes began shooting daggers at me. Uh oh! Her eyes closed shut and a bubble began to form around her. Her horn glowed with magic, and we were soon pushed aside, giving her space to run through.

Starlight then shot another ray of magic at me and everything went black for me!

Ren's POV

Holy cow! Starlight blasted Sarah with her magic and knocked her unconscious before she carried her in her magic and ran in the direction of the building she had been keeping her. "Sarah!" I exclaimed in horror.

“Newbie!” Jack exclaimed in horror.

"You ponies get your cutie marks! We'll handle this!" Twilight directed the others and followed behind.

As soon as the ponies reached the door, Jack, Mason, Applejack and Rainbow began banging the sturdy wood loudly, "Open the door, Starlight!" Applejack exclaimed.

We could hear things being moved around and shuffled inside. "You think you can come to my village and take everything I worked so hard for and destroy it just like that?!" Starlight's voice angrily sounded through. "Let's see how you like it when I take something from you!"

"Not if we have anything to say about it.." Rainbow Dash flew backwards and she used her speed to kick down the door. the girls immediately galloped inside and searched for any sign of Starlight.

"Where are they?!" Fluttershy asked with worry

"Look! Up here!" Twilight called from up the stairs. We all came upstairs and entered a bedroom. However, the bed had been merely thrown to the side and revealed some kind of secret escape in the floor. "Come on.." Twilight said and we all rushed through the escape door and they came out on the other side of the tunnel, outside of the village near a path towards snowy mountaintops.

"Look!" Rainbow Dash pointed out in midair.

"She's headed for the pass!" Twilight added. "If she gets into those mountains, we'll never see her and Sarah!"

Rainbow spread out her wings. "We need to stop her!"

We all familiar roar and saw a Light Fury flying over head with two pokemon on her back. "Snowflake..!" The girls cried happily. The Light Fury cooed at us before we saw her flying over to where Starlight was running.

"Come on..." Twilight called.

"Wait for us..!" the girls turned and saw Party Favor, Sugar Belle, Double Diamond and Night Glider running and flying towards them, joining the chase, now with their cutie marks and colors restored.

Starlight ran down the path and saw Snowflake flying towards her, "Back off Dragon!" she growled and fired a blast of magic but Pikachu countered with Thunderbolt.

Starlight growled and Snowflake fired a plasma blast in front of her, causing her to fly back and she fell on the ground. Snowflake blocked her path and snarled at her as we all blocked the backway.

"All of you! Nopony move! One step and I'm sending this little filly down this cliff, and I can promise you she'll never be found again!" Starlight Glimmer aggressively threatened, holding Sarah off of the path along with the jar of her stolen magic. "Don't try any magic either." She added, eyeing especially at the ones with horns. "I can promise you won't have enough time to help the Queen before she disappears never to be seen again."

"Think about what you're doing, Starlight!" I exclaimed. "What are you getting out from doing this? You do anything to her, you'll surely find yourself being banished from Equestria! Is that what you want?"

She scoffed loudly. "You think I care about banishment? You want to know how hard I worked to raise that village you all so easily destroyed in a matter of minutes?! I had to go through so much! I had to lose so much to get to where I was, and you all took that away from me! If anypony should be banished, it's you all! I won't be satisfied until I see the look on your faces when you lose something so dearly like I did!" and then she let Sarah and her jar of magic fall!

"Sarah!" Twilight gasped in horror but Snowflake and Rainbow dove down at great speed and Snowflake grabbed Sarah in her claws while Rainbow caught the jar with her magic.

"Gotcha!" Rainbow smiled as she and Snowflake flew back up to us and placed Sarah and her magic on the ground.

"Is that how you treat somepony who gave you a loving and unjudging home?!" Starlight angrily asked Double Diamond, Party Favor, Sugar Belle and Night Glider who stood at the front of the group.

"You always said we had to be equal." Double Diamond answered back. "But what I realized is that we had to be equal on your terms. Not something that everypony agreed on!"

"Yeah!" Night Glider added in. "We were always scared of thinking of something and being punished by you for it! If you ask me, that's not equal at all! Just like Queen Sarah said."

Aggressively tightening and scrunching her eyes, Starlight proceeded to fire a spell towards these four ponies. However, Twilight immediately jumped in front them and protected them all with a strong steady magical barrier.

"Wh– I studied that spell for years!" Starlight argued to this surprise. "How can you—?"

"I studied magic for years too!" Twilight countered. "But what I didn't know then was that studying could only take me so far. Each of my friends has taught me something different about myself! It was their unique gifts and passions and personalities that helped bring out the magic inside of me! I never would have learned that I represent the element of magic without these guys! And I certainly wouldn't be here to stop you now!"

Starlight blocked out the lecture coming from Twilight's mouth and rolled her eyes. "Spare me your sentimental nonsense! I gave these ponies real friendships they never could've had otherwise!"

“What you gave them was a false life to live under, Starlight Glimmer.” Nicole said with a narrowed look. “You forced them into your own version of Communism, where everyone was the same under your rule. But you failed at that.”

"How do you know that?!" Double Diamond exclaimed. "You never even gave us a chance!" Completely outraged by this, Starlight fired up a shield-looking aura around her, making everypony back away. But with a snap of his fingers, Discord made Starlight disappear? What the-?

"Discord, what did you do?" I asked him.

"I simply put her in Tartarus. Hehehe. In a magic proof cage if I may add.." Discord smirked.

"We just have to hope that when she's had a chance to think it over, she realizes that you all have taught her something." Twilight stated.

"It's you who have taught us something." Party Favor said as he approached Twilight. "We all came to this village because we were searching for something missing from our lives. We thought Starlight had given it to us, but now... now it seems it was in front of us all along. It's us!" He regrouped with the other three and they all shared a group hug.

"Does that mean you'll stay in the village?" Twilight asked.

"It's our home. I'm not going anywhere." Night Glider responded both firmly and proudly.

"This is a chance for all of us to get to know each other again for the very first time!" Double Diamond smiled.

"And I finally have a chance to bake something besides terrible muffins!" Sugar Belle exchanged gleefully. Everypony laughed aloud before Snowflake cooed, nudging her unconscious friend.

"Okay girl.." Twilight smiled and Rainbow nodded before she smashed the jaw holding Sarah's magic and it flowed back into her horn. Sarah stirred as she opened her eyes, "W-What…?”

“Easy Newbie..” Jack said as he helped her up.

“How are you feeling?” I asked.

“I.. I think I’m okay…” Sarah said, rubbing her head. Snowflake, Pikachu and Zoura came over to her and nuzzled her.

Twilight chuckled, "She's just fine."

Back in the village, the group saw all the villagers, smiling and enjoying the small party they put together in celebration.

"Now those are real smiles." Pinkie Pie described as the villagers enjoyed the party.

Soon enough, a sound emerged from everyone and they saw their cutie marks glowing and shimmered as well.

"I'll never get used to that…" Applejack admitted.

“I don’t think any of us will..” Mason said.

"I think it's divine." Rarity sweetly objected.

"Does that mean that the map is calling us somewhere else?" Fluttershy questioned Twilight.

"I have a feeling it means our work here is done." Twilight settled with.

"Looks like you were right, Twilight. The map did have a reason for sendin' us here." Applejack brought up. "We brought real friendship to these here ponies. Guess that's why you're the Princess of Friendship." She ended with a wink.

"But the map didn't send me. It sent us." Twilight humbly included. "You're a part of me, all of you. And there's no doubt you're a part of my mission to spread friendship too."

The rest of them squealed and giggled as she shared a group hug.

"We don't have to go home right away, do we?" Pinkie Pie asked. "That Sugar Belle can bake!"

Discord then popped up, “Oh goodie! Some quality time with my dear old daughter, how about that.” he smiled. The group sighed at his presence.

"I don't see any harm in staying for a little while longer." Twilight mentioned. The girls cheered as they all entered the town to enjoy the festival.

To Be Continued...

Chapter 2: Special: Return to Earth

Ren’s POV

Huh...where am I? What is this place…? I found myself in a sparkling void with a blue background and white stars all around the place. “Hello…?” I called out.

“Ren?”

“Corporeal Loodan?”

Huh? I turned around and I saw Mason, Carrie, Jack, Jamie, Skye, Rantaro, Nicole, Kaede, Flutters, Twilight, Rainbow, Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie, Celeste and Lulu.

“Woah…. What are you all doing here?” I asked them all.

“We don’t really know..” Jamie said nervously.

“I was patrolling the dream realm when I saw you and the other humans having a shared dream. I figured something was up so I gathered my sister, Twilight and her friends and entered your shared dream.” Luna explained to us. Shared dream..?

“A shared dream?” I repeated. Luna nodded and explained, “All of you are having the same dream together. This could be a sign of great importance.” But what could be that important that all of us were needed here. Suddenly, we heard footsteps and we saw Astral Twilight…!

Kodiak’s POV

Woah... what's Astral Twilight doing here?

"What's going on Ren?" I asked my best friend.

"I'm not sure..." Ren replied.

“Good, you have all answered my summonce.” she said. Oh…. so she must have caused the shared dream.

“Your summonce? For what?” Mason asked the Tree of Harmony.

“I have something very important to tell all of you..” Astral Twilight said. “.... It is time for Ren and the others to return back to Earth….”

We gasped in shock…. Okay… that was not expected. “R-Return… you mean…” Mason stammered.

“Yes, it is time for you all to return to Earth and stop the Dusk-7 virus once and for all.” Astral Twilight said.

“B-But how the hell are we supposed to get back home?” Jack questioned.

“Come to the Cave of Harmony, everypony and I shall do the rest…” Astral Twilight said before she stomped her hoof and sent out a beam of magic at the nine of us and then everything turned white…

Ren's POV

….

…..

Gah! I shot up in bed with a small cry, shocking Kodiak awake. “Huh? Ren? What is it….?” he asked me. I caught my breath after a minute before I answered him…. “W-We’re going home, boy…” I said to him and his eyes widened in shock and surprise. “R-Really?” he asked me.

“Y-Yeah. The Tree of Harmony said it was time for us to return and stop Void and his virus once and for all…” I replied. “..... I just…. Wonder what we’ll find when we get back…” Jonas, Lillie, mom, dad…. Would they still be okay…?

Either way, I quickly got my clothes on and packed my Hacking Gun and hoverboard and I met with the others in the living room where they all held grim expressions. “So…. we’re… going back home for the first time, huh..?” Kaede said grimly.

“Y-Yeah…. Wonder if any of our family are still alive…” Jamie said, clutching his notebook tightly.

“Yeah… I mean… our home is probably in ruins…” Kaede added. “Wonder if anyone survived… I mean, we were asleep for 1,000 years like Sarah. God knows what could have happened.”

Yeah… who knows what could have happened on Earth.

“Well…. I guess.. We better get to the Tree, right…?” I asked everyone and they reluctantly nodded.

Knock Knock

Huh? Who could that be? I opened the door and found Twilight, the Mane 5, Celeste, Lulu, Cadence and Shining Armor at the door all with saddlebags on them! “What the-? Twilight, girls, Princesses, Shining Armor, what are you all doing here?” I asked them all in shock.

“You think we’re really gonna let you all go home and face down Void and his virus without us?” Applejack smirked.

“Yeah! If you’re going, we’re goin’ with you! Right girls?” Rainbow added.

“Oooh! I’m nervouscited!” Pinkie squealed.

“You do know that’s not a real word, right?” Applejack questioned her. Oh girls….. They’ve been with us through everything so far… and now they’re gonna help us save our home…

“You’ve done so much for Equestria. Now it's’ time for us to return the favor.” Cadence added with a caring smile.

“Yeah, I’m not gonna let one of my own go into battle without me.” Shining Armor smirked, looking at Mason.

“D-Do you all have your pets with you?” Fluttershy asked everyone. We all nodded and Snow came beside Nicole, who rubbed him happily. “Great…”

“Alright everypony, let’s go to the Tree of Harmony.” Celeste said and we all nodded. Wonder what we’ll find once we return home… those shadow creatures that we saw in our dreams before… if our families are even alive after all this time… there are just so many questions… and I hope some of them have happy answers.

Finally, we arrived at the Castle of the Two Sisters and we entered the Cave of Harmony where we found Sarah and surprisingly Discord in front of the Tree of Harmony! “Sarah! Discord!”

Sarah and Discord turned around, “Hello everypony.” Sarah greeted.

“We were wondering when you would show up.” Discord added.

“What are you two doing here?” Rainbow asked the two.

“Uh hello? Who do you think has the power to get all of you back to Earth?” Discord asked, shocking us.

“You two are gonna get us back home?!” I exclaimed to them. Sarah and Discord nodded.

“We can combine our powers and open a portal back to our homeland.. Earth. When you’re ready just give the word…” Sarah said.

We all looked at each other with a mixture of nervousness, excitement and worry. Who knows what will be on the other side of that portal when we enter it… but… we have to.. For our families.

“We’re ready…” the nine of us said together and Sarah and Discord nodded. They joined hands and hoof and Sarah horn glowed very brightly as did the Tree of Harmony. Discord’s eyes glowed white as well and the two blasted two strong beams of magic at the center of the Tree of Harmony where a gigantic portal opened up! Wow…..

Sarah and Discord stopped, “Come along now…” Sarah said before she walked through the portal along with Discord. I was still worried… would we ever be able to come back to Equestria again? Can Twilight and the others return once this is all over? What will happen… guess we have to go in to find out. “You heard Sarah, let’s go everypony..” I called them all and they all nodded and we all walked into the portal and were blinded by the bright light.

….

When we opened our eyes…. Oh….my…. God….. the area around us… was almost barren…! We were all on a city street and there were meteors large and small honeycombed all over the streets and area nearby. Houses were completely destroyed, cars were burned down… and there was no sign of life.

“Oh my stars..!” Rarity exclaimed. “How horrid!”

“Horrid doesn’t even come close to describing this catastrophe..” Luna said, looking grimly at the destruction.

“Alright, first we have to find Ren and the others family, so they’ll know they’re alright. Ren. do you know where your family lives?” Twilight asked, looking at Ren.

“Oh uh… actually…” I looked around at the area and at the damaged buildings… “I lived right on this street…! MOM! DAD! JONAS! LILLIE!” I immediately bolted towards my house which was a few blocks down.

“Wait up, Coral Loodan!” Skye exclaimed from behind. Oh please, tell me they’re still alive. Please, please, please…

Ha.. Ha.. Ha.. finally.. My house… Oh… god…

About half of the house was destroyed on one side in the front door looking to be busted in. Twilight and the others caught up and followed me inside. “Mom! Dad! Lillie! Jonas!”I called inside of the house, which was ransacked. Probably by the angry mob. The couches in the living room were flipped over, the TV was broken beyond repair where there was a small burning flame in the kitchen which was also destroyed with food all over, the refrigerator flipped on its side and the table smashed to pieces. “I can’t believe your own people would do this..” Applejack said, looking grimly at the destruction.

Me either…. “Hey everypony, up here..!” Huh? Sarah? We all heard her voice upstairs and raced up and found her in the hallway where our bedrooms were. I checked all of their bedrooms…. But no sign of them.. “No…” I whispered, fearing the worst.

“Newbie what did you find?” Jack asked and Sarah levitated us a small business card. It said.

“Davenport Industry…”

The rest of the card was burnt so we couldn't read anything else. “Davenport… isn’t that the last names of your two papas, Newbie?” Jack asked. Sarah nodded, “Yeah.. my two papas must have been here.. Too…”

“So what does that mean?” Shining Armor asked.

“It probably means that either her two papas came and took Ren's family to safety or something else..” Celestia stated.

“Okay so where should we go next?” Rainbow asked us all.

“I wanna find my gang, Skittles.” Jack stated.

“Alright, then, to Austin, Texas, Discord..!” Sarah called.

“As you wish, honey.” and with one snap of his fingers, Discord teleported us to Austin, Texas. Jack gasped in shock, seeing his hometown in ruins..! The buildings were barely standing, some were completely gone while others had about half of them destroyed. The meteors were also honeycombed across the entire area. “Dad.. Mom..” he said before he bolted down the road. “Wait up, fatty!” Rainbow called as she flew after him and we all followed.

We made it to Jack’s house… or what was left of it. It was in a similar condition to my house. Jack grunted as we all went in search of any sign of his mom or dad. “Mom! Dad!” Jack called but he didn’t get a reply.

“Dammit.. Where are they..?” Jack grumbled to himself.

“Is there any other place your gang would hang out, Jack?” I asked him.

“Y-Yeah, our hideout in the desert..” Jack replied.

“One desert teleport, coming up.” Discord said and he snapped his fingers and we were in the desert. “Which way, Jack?” Sarah asked him.

“This way…” Jack said and we followed him for about thirty minutes until we came to his gang’s hideout… we saw meteors around the hideout and the Boys! Dad! Mom!” Jack called again, scanning the ground for any sign of where his gang could have gone. “Ugh… there’s nothing here!” he yelled in annoyance and hurt.

“Hey! Another card..!” Pinkie Pie called, showing us another card that said ‘Davenport Industry..”

“You folks again, Newbie?” Jack questioned.

“Indeed.. I remember, one of my papas always made business cards for promotion..” Sarah said looking at the card.

“So you think your papas gathered Jack’s parents and gang too?” Twilight inquired.

“It’s a possibility..” Sarah said. “But we have to check on their other families too.”

“C-Can we c-check on mine.. Please…?” Jamie asked nervously. Sarah nodded, “Of course, Discord..?”

“Oooh.. I’m on it..” Discord said and we soon reappeared in Beverly Hills, California. The entire city looked totally desolate and abandoned. Buildings were condemned and cars were in the street either on fire or crushed. Meteors were also honeycombed all over. “So where’s your mansion, Jamie..?” I asked him.

“O-Over there..” Jamie pointed to a large building a couple blocks away. We all raced over and Jamie was the first to enter his mansion. “I-I remember.. One of my sisters Molly, saying something about a emergency bunker..” Jamie said.

Emergency Bunker? Hmmm….

“I think I found it…!” Applejack called, pointing to a small hatch in the floor. I opened it and Celestia and Luna lit their horns and we followed them inside. The bunker looked like any other bunker I’ve seen; having some food and water… but.. There was dust everywhere, meaning someone hasn't been in here for years.

Rarity coughed at the dust, “Goodness… whoever used to be in here, isn’t not here anymore..”

“Oh….” Jamie said with worry.

“Hey.. another one of Sarah’s fathers’ business cards. They must have been here too, Jamie.” Twilight said, showing us another business card. Jamie sighed in relief, hoping his big family was alright.

“Kaede… what about you…?” Sarah asked, earning a surprised look from Kaede, “Do you wanna see your family..?”

“Eh… no thanks… they never really cared about me in the first place so… they probably won’t now..” Kaede said sadly. Oh Kaede….

“Um.. Discord.. Can we go see if Elena and our family is okay?” Mason questioned Discord.

“Rightio..!” and he suddenly teleported us to England in front of a large castle like-home. “That’s where we lived with Elena and the Ortega Family..” Carrie said. Mason nodded and we carefully walked through the destroyed gates, seeing the other meteors around the area. Mason carefully opened the door, which fell off of its hinges and onto the ground. “Woah….” Mason said with grief, seeing the extensive damage done to the inside of the castle. It was totally ransacked. “Elena! Cartar! Isla!” Mason called out but he didn’t get any response.

“Let’s get searching there must be something here..” Twilight said and we all agreed and searched every inch of the castle… but we didn’t find anything as to where the Ortega family could have gone too. “Find anything..?” I called as we all regrouped.

“Nothing..” Twilight said sadly.

“I just found another one of my papas business cards..” Sarah said. “This can’t be just a coincidence…”

“You think you're papas took all of our families to safety, Sarah?” Kaede asked.

“Hmm… they were both geniuses, so they would probably have been prepared for an apocalypse like situation. There is a high chance, but the question is where exactly did they take everyone who managed to survive all of this…?”

“It would have to be someplace where few people would know about.” Luna said.

“Indeed sister. The hiding place would have to be hidden extremely well for them to survive this long..” Celestia said. “The question is where..?”

Suddenly, a bright glow came and we saw Astral Twilight once more. “The Tree of Harmony?” Twilight gasped in awe.

“Hello everyone….” she greeted.

“What are you doing here?” I asked it.

“I am here to guide you to where your families are located..” she said. What?!

“Y-You know where my papas took them to?” Sarah asked her mentor. Astral Twilight nodded, “Yes Sarah. I can teleport you all there so you can reunite with them..” she stomped her hoof and she teleported us all to an extremely large, barren field.

There were no sign of plant or animal life anywhere! “Oh my goodness…!” Fluttershy gasped in horror, seeing no animals or plants near and far. Astral Twilight started to walk away from us and she turned to us, “Follow me…”

We all looked at each other but we trusted the Tree of Harmony through the barren land for almost an hour..

“Does anypony else notice that we haven’t ran into those shadow creatures?” Rainbow asked.

“That’s the only good thing about this, Skittles.” Jack claimed.

“I must agree with Jack.” Nicole said. “This is the only upside to our.. Destroyed world…”

I have to agree with Nicole… no shadow creatures, that’s the only thing good about this.. I mean.. All our homes are gone and our families are… God knows where…

Then, Astral Twilight stopped at something…a small hatch? “What the hell..?” Jack asked. Then, she turned to us… “What you seek.. lies beneath you all…” Astral Twilight said.

Lies beneath us..? “The rest is up to you all now… keep hope and light in your hearts and you will succeed in restoring you home.” Astral Twilight then stomped her hoof and sent a beam at Sarah and made her glow…. And turn into her real form.. A human.

As a human, Sarah was 18 years old with long, black, shoulder length hair with a rainbow stripe in the center of it, just like her mane did. She wore a white shirt with an alicorn on it and she wore jeans and a pair of black sneakers. All in all… she looked… hot.

“Wow…. nice look, Newbie…” Jack stated.

Sarah nodded at him. “Thanks..” She then bent down and knocked on the hatch. We waited for a minute before it moved and opened a little and pair of eyes appeared and asked, “Who are you…?”

Sarah grinned at the voice, “.... Dad…” The pair of eyes widened and the hatch opened some more… revealing Donald Davenport..!

“S-Sarah….” he said in shock. Sarah smiled and tears started to come out, “Daddy…” Donald teared up and the two of them hugged each other with such joy and relief. “I-I thought you were gone forever…” Donald said to her.

“It’s okay dad…. We’re home…” Sarah said. Donald then wiped his tears and saw the rest of us.

“Ren, Jack, Rantaro, Nicole, Jamie, Skye, Carrie, Mason, Kaede and…. Several… ponies..?” Donald stated.

“They’re a long story…” I said to him, pointing at Twilight and the others. “So… can we come in…?”

“Of course… your families have been waiting for all of you…” Donald said and she climbed back down the hatch, “Come on..” he called.

Sarah was the first one to climb down while Twilight and the others either flew or were carried down into the hatch as we all followed Donald.

When we made it to the ground we all saw a gigantic metal cave that looked like some kind of lab.. Kinda. There was a cyber desk and some screens on one side while the other side contained some beds. There were about five more tunnels that extended from the center. “What the hell is this place?” Rantaro asked.

“This… is where the ones who survive now live until we can find a way to end this crisis.” Donald said. I was amazed by this. Donald and his brother created this entire… underground world?

"Amazing..." Shining Armor gasped in awe.

"Yeah." Twilight added.

"Uh... Donny....?" Huh? Is that? We turned and we saw his brother, Douglas Davenport coming into the main room, "Who are the ponies?"

Sarah smiled and walked over to her second father, "Hi daddy..." Sarah grinned.

"Sarah.... is that you...? You're a pony too..?" Douglas asked in awe. Sarah nodded and Douglas smiled and bend down and the two shared a hug with each other. Awww.... finally... Sarah's reunited with her family again.

"H-How did you get here?" Douglas asked.

"We started searching for our families at our houses which were completely or almost destroyed by the meteors and we found your business cards at each house, so we figured you guys took them somewhere safe." I explained to them.

"Ha! And you said that was a stupid thing to do." Donald bragged, earning a sigh from his brother.

"Anyway, we were all lead here to this... underground sanctuary.." I finished and asked the dreaded question.. "So.... are our families... here?"

Donald and Douglas looked at each other and nodded, "Follow us.." Donald said and he and his brother went down the first tunnel to the far right.

Me and the others looked at each other with worry as we followed the duo down the metal hallway. We all came out to a fork that held three large doors on the far side. Donald went over to the first large door, "Your families are in here..." Donald said before he cracked the door open.

"Everyone.... I have something for you all..." Donald called out.

I held my breath as a large group of about 50 people came out of the room and when they laid their eyes at us, their eyes widened as well as our own...

J-Jonas... Lillie... Mom... Dad....!

T-They were all here....

Our families... we here....!

I...I couldn't believe it.... t..they were all here...

"Mom... Dad... Jonas... Lillie..." I gently called.

Third Person POV

"R-Ren...." Ren's father gaped in utter shock while his mother started shedding tears, "Y-You're alive...!"

Ren, himself shed tears at that moment, "I-I am..." he said. Ren's father, mother, Jonas and Lillie all rushed towards him and he rushed towards them and they came into one heartwarming group hug, shedding tears of joy. Fluttershy couldn't help but shed tears of her own at her boyfriends reunion with his family after all this time.

Jamie's 30 sisters bombarded him with hugs, kisses and look overs while Jamie tried to calm them all down. "Girls, girls, I'm alright.. r-really..?" Jamie stammered to make them back off a little.

"Jamie, what happened to you.." one of his elder sisters, Karli, asked him.

"It's a very, very long story..." Twilight said as she came up to him, much to the girls surprise.

"Whose the purple pony, Jamie?" one of his younger sisters, Lilly, asked him.

"T-This is Princess Twilight Sparkle... she's my... girlfriend.." Jamie replied with a blush.

"Girlfriend?!" His 30 sisters squealed with joy before they bombared him and Twilight with congratulations and hugs.

Jack, meanwhile, reunited with his father, Ryutaro Yamaki, and his mother, Midori Yamaki. "Oh honey, we're so happy you're back.." Midori said with tears in her eyes. Ryutaro patted him on the back, "Now where did you get off to all this time?" he asked.

"It's a long story... dad...." Jack stated as Rainbow Dash came over, "Relax, I've been keeping an eye on, fatty."

"I'm not fat! I'm husky, Skittles!" Jack exclaimed at the rainbow haired pegasus but before the two could get into another argument.

"Uh... whose the floating horse?" one of Jack's gang members said.

"HEY! I'm no horse! I'm a pony! A pegasus pony, bub!" Rainbow exclaimed at him.

"I see you picked a spirited one, my boy.." Ryutaro smirked at his son.

"We are not dating.." Jack and Rainbow deadpanned at him but Midori squealed, "Aww... my son finally found himself someone to love..."

"MOOOOOM!" Jack whined with a blush on his face.

Mason and Carrie, on the other hand, were reunited with the Olena Royal Family. "Elena...." Mason smiled with joy.

"Oh Mason, Carrie, thank goodness you're alright..." Elena said with joy as she hugged the two of them. Carter and Isla cme up to the siblings with tears in their eyes, "We were heartbroken when we thought the worst had happened to you, but now you both are alive and safe and sound."

Hugo, Mason's rival just sighed irritably, "Great, he's back.."

"Excuse me, young man but you should be grateful Mason and Carrie are well and safe." Rarity scolded him.

"And what are you suppose to be?" Hugo questioned.

"I am a unicorn, by the name of Rarity and I would apperciate it if you would treat my Mason with respect..!" she exclaimed at him, shocking Carter and Isla.

"Mason... whose is that...?" Carter asked.

"That is Lady Rarity, she's a very good friend of mine along with the others. And she's.... my girlfriend now.." Mason explained with a blush.

"Girlfriend?" Elena questioned and Rarity came over, "Afraid so, darling. Mason loved you deeply when he was in this world but when a horrible creature named Void said that he unleashed his Virus on Earth, he thought the worse had happened to you." she explained. "When Void turned me into an evil creature, Mason's love helped me break away from his control..."

Elena smiled at the pair as Rarity nuzzled Mason and Mason rubbed her mane happily.

Kaede was approached by her two step-sisters and step-mother. Kaede glared at the three humans who treated her like servant when she was here, but... it softened seeing remorse and guilty faces. "H-Hey... Kaede.... you're.... well..." her Step mother stated.

"Uh... yeah..." Kaede said before the three of them just walked away from her, much to her confusion.

Skye was approached by her parents who were about 6'1. Her mother had red hair that went down to her shoulders and she wore an army green camo shirt with army patterned pants and shoes. Her father had short hair, like Donald and he was wearing army jeans with a lime green shirt as well.

"Skye, our dear daughter." "You're safe." they both smiled as they hugged their daughter, who hugged them back.

Rantaro.... was approached by an adult man who wore a fedora like he did and he had a small beard as well. He wore a white shirt underneath his black jacket and he wore black jeans and shoes as well. He matched the photo that Rantaro had in his phone.

"...... Hi dad...." Rantaro stated.

Rantaro's father, Carl, looked at his son, "H-Hi son.....you've grown up...." Rantaro just nodded.

After that, everyone gathered around and Sarah explained to them, the new arrivals, "These ponies are from Equestria, where Ren and all the others, including myself were teleported to. The four alicorns are Princesses Celestia, Luna, Cadence and Twilight. Celestia and Luna are the Rulers of Equestria while Cadence is the Ruler of the Crystal Empire along with her husband, Shining Armor. Twilight is the Princess of Friendship and these are her friends; Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Rarity and Pinkie Pie. And this is Discord, one of the three fathers who created me."

Ren and the others families were amazed to see the ponies and Discord in the flesh.

"Unbelievable.." Ren's father replied in awe.

"So.... what happened to you... all of you were presumed dead after that explosion at the lab..?" Donald questioned.

"I can explain..." A familiar voice came and appeared Astral Twilight.

"WOAH! Whose the sparkling...?" Ryutaro questioned.

"That is Astral Twilight.. otherwise known as the Tree of Harmony, a powerful tree that keeps control of the Everfree forest in our world. It is also Sarah's surrogate mother.." Luna explained, much to her papas, save for Discords', shock.

"Indeed. After the explosion I teleported all of them here where they all rested for 1,000 years, through to you all it might have been two or three years since then. During that time, I sent Sarah on her journey to spread light and hope to defeat her brother Void and guide Ren and the other humans in the right direction.

Sarah's final battle with Void came and in the end, Sarah destroyed him, making sure his evil powers would never set forth in the world again and Ren and the others, save for Skye, Rantaro and Nicole, had unlocked their hidden powers that the meteorites and Sarah gave to them all.

Together, they all shall finish Void's Dusk-7 Virus once and for all. So that you all can live in peace once more."

"But.. how...?" Douglas asked. "We've tried everything but nothing works against those Dusk-7 monsters. They're too strong."

"Only because they feed off of hopelessness and despair; emotions of dark. Only when countered by the emotions of light; hope and love, can they all be defeated once and for all and your planet shall be free once more...." And with that Astral Twilight disappeared.

"Hope and love...?" Donald asked.

"Two very powerful emotions that can make great good happen." Princess Celestia said. "I've seen the Magic of Love and the Magic of Hope first hoof cause of my niece and Sarah. They both defeated great enemies using their magic and I believe that together with the Elements of Harmony, we can all free your land from this Dusk-7 Virus."

Ren and the others families looked at each other with hope in their eyes now.

"So... how can we spread out that much magic across the entire planet?" Douglas asked.

"Alicorn Magic is extremely powerful, able to accomplish things Unicorn Magic cannot do. Combined with the Elements of Harmony, Twilight and her friends along with Ren and the others shall rid your planet of the virus that has plagued it for so long." Celestia said before she opened her saddlebag and revealed all of the Elements of Harmony.

Jamie's 30 sisters cooed in awe at the magical artifacts as Celestia placed them on their respective wielders.

Donald and Douglas went to the computers and did a scan of the whole planet. "Alright... the entire planet is suffering from the virus, except for our little patch of land.." Donald said. "You'll have the expel a whole lot of magic for it to reach the entire planet."

"Count on it.." Rainbow exclaimed. Twilight and the others nodded.

"Alright then.... let's do it.." Donald smiled.

Sarah peeked out of the hatch door and saw nothing for miles. No Dusk-7 creatures. "It's clear.." she said and she levitated herself out of the hatch and Twilight and all of the others followed, including Ren and the others families and all the other people who had managed to survive the disaster which was about 100 people, excluding the families.

Twilight, Rainbow, Rarity, Fluttershy, Pinkie, Applejack, Cadence, Ren, Jamie, Jack, Mason, Carrie and Kaede stood in a large circle with Sarah in the center.

Sarah closed her eyes and her Element of Faith glowed brightly and she levitated into the air. Her Element sent out magical lines that attached themselves to Twilight and the others hearts. Twilight and the others levitated into the air as well with their Elements of Harmony glowing, Cadence activated her magic and Ren and the others activated their power.

They formed a large circle in the air around Sarah and they shined very brightly as they were consumed in a giant bubble filled with the Magic of Love and Hope. The large amount of magic spread and touched every part of the world, destorying any Dusk-7 virus infected monsters from the world, restoring the world to when humans didn't arrive on the planet.

Vast fields, forest, rainforest, savannahs, arctic lands, swamps, marshes, everglades. It was all restored to it former glory and all of the animals were brought back to life as well, having unfortunately perished in the disaster. Finally, the crushed and demolished buildings and cars disappeared and the destroyed city was replaced with vast fields and forests.

Ren and the others families as well as the people were gawked at the restoration of their homeworld and the Princesses and Discord smiled proudly as the group levitated down and took a look at the aftermath of their powers.

The people cheered proudly as the blue skies were finally back and their world was finally free.

Sarah and the Mane Six powered down their Elements and Cadence and the others stopped their magic. "Holy crap baskets...." Ren gasped.

"It's like we were never here.... the wide open fields... the forests... we restored it to a time when humans didn't arrive... when the world belonged to the animals.." Kaede gasped, seeing the vast number of wild animals roaming the fields and forests.

"Incredible...." Ren's mother gasped in awe.

"Looks like... we all to start rebuilding civilization..." Donald gasped in awe.

Ren and the others were happy that their world was fully restored to it former glory and beauty.

"So... Ren... everyone.... are you... gonna stay here..?" Twilight popped the question to all of them.

Ren and the others looked at each other.

They finally had their family back and their former home was restored... but... they had another family in Equestria... with Twilight and the others.. there was so much to explore in Equestria.

"How about I just give you nine these...?" Discord smiled and he snapped his fingers and gave Ren and the others special bracelets.

"What are these for..?" Ren asked Discord.

"One touch and they'll allow you to return here so you can be with your families whenever you want to." Discord smiled and Ren and the others smiled. "Thank you Discord..!" Ren exclaimed and Discord smiled. "Of course.." Discord smiled.

"So.... everyone wanna start over...?" Donald asked everyone and they all cheered happily.

Epilogue....

Chapter 4: Sarah's Hearths Warming Eve

Well today was Christmas time again in Equestria and we were all at Twilight’s castle, where everything was decorated for Christmas; holiday lights, a large Christmas Tree, and all other Christmas decorations and all the ponies in Ponyville were present as well. Our families came to Equestria as well to celebrate with us, thanks to Discord teleporting then here.

This was going to be the best day ever!

It was the day before Hearth’s Warming Eve or Christmas, as I call it and my friends and I were looking over the party from upstairs when Sarah and Snowflake came in.

“Hey Sarah, ready to celebrate your first Hearths’ Warming Eve here in Ponyville?” Twilight asked.

“Eh.. I was thinking I might just skip it.” Sarah stated bluntly. We all gasped, surprised. “Skip Hearth’s Warming Eve?!” Spike exclaimed.

“Why in the world would you want to do that?” I asked.

“Yeah, Private Gem, Christmas is the best holiday.” Skye added.

“I just don’t feel like celebrating.” Sarah stated. She began to walk away, but I stopped her, “Wait, Sarah, why don’t you want to celebrate Christmas?”

Sarah’s face turned a bit sad. “It’s a… sensitive subject.” she replied before saying. “I’m gonna go to the library.” then she trotted away to the library.

“Well that was… unexpected.” Spike said.

“Yeah, she looked kinda sad when you wanted to know why she doesn’t want to celebrate.” Kodi stated.

“She did. Didn’t she. Wonder why?” Rainbow added.

“Well why don’t we try asking her again?” Pinkie suggested.

“Pinkie, she said it was a sensitive topic so maybe we should just let her tell us when she’s ready?” Twilight suggested.

“I think Twilight’s right. Askin her now is only gonna make her not tell us anything else. We should lay off of her until the time is right.” Applejack added.

“Alright.” I said. Wonder what could make Sarah not want to celebrate Christmas Kinda of a dejavu moment when Jamie didn’t want to celebrate Christmas with us. Anyway, we decided to go down and start to enjoy the party.

Meanwhile, in the library Sarah was reading by herself with Snowflake by her side. “Oooh, what do we have here?” a familiar voice came. Sarah sighed playfully. “Yes Discord?”

Discord appeared next to her, “Why are you here in this large lonely library all alone when everypony else is enjoying Hearth’s Warming Eve?”

“Christmas… sigh.. Is not my holiday or any other holiday for that matter.” Sarah said.

“Well maybe talking to your friends would help with this lonely feeling, hmm?” Discord suggested. “You do always say tell your friends when something is wrong.”

Sarah sighed, “I did say that… Alright, I’ll tell them.” Sarah closed the book and exited the library while Discord disappeared with a snap of his fingers. She entered the party but she it was too crowded so she went upstairs. She entered a room and sat on a couch. “Sarah?”

She turned and saw the Mane 6, Ren and the others. “Are you alright?” Twilight asked.

Sarah sighed, “Well… I know you all are probably wondering why I don’t want to celebrate Christmas with all of you.”

“Yeah. Did your family not celebrate Christmas or something?” Ren asked.

“No.” Sarah said.

“Did your father not come home for Christmas like Jamies’?” Pinkie asked.

“No.”

“Then what is the reason?” Twilight asked.

“Why celebrate a holiday dedicated to family… when you never had actually celebrated Christmas?” Sarah said.

The group all gasped in horror and shock.

Ren’s POV

Unbelievable! Sarah never had celebrated Christmas?!

“You never celebrated Christmas?! Why?!” Kaede cried.

“Well my papas, mamas and other scientists were all too busy studying me to celebrate. Besides the only present I got was a book, from my papas, so not a big deal.” Sarah added and then got up, “I’m gonna go back to the home-ship. Have fun at the party guys.” and she walked out of the room with her head held low.

I can’t believe it… Sarah never knew what it was like to celebrate Christmas, a holiday where people spread hope and love, through she spreads it everywhere.

“Damn, Newbie’s had a sad life.” Jack gasped.

“Poor sugarcube.” Applejack said. “No wonder she seemed so blue.”

“Yeah, who knows how many Christmas’ she’s missed.” I added. “We have to cheer her up somehow.”

“Yeah, we can’t have her all sad and gloomy on the happiest day of the year.” Pinkie stated.

“But what can we do?” Rainbow asked. “It’s kinda obvious she doesn’t wanna celebrate.”

“We can’t just leave her alone either.” Mason said. I fully agreed with Mason, no one should be alone on Christmas, especially someone as great as Sarah.

“So what should we do?” Kaede asked.

“Well… Sarah never knew what it was like to be loved, right..?” Twilight started.

“Yeah.. and?” I asked.

“That was in your world, but what if we show her how much she’s loved in Equestria!”

Show her how much she’s loved in Equestria…? That could work!

“That’s a great plan.” Jamie meekly smiled.

“Hell yeah! For Newbie, I’m in.” Jack added.

Rantaro sighed, “Normally, I would say no, but since its’ for Sarah, I guess I have to join.”

“I must agree with Rantaro.” Nicole said, adjusting her glasses, “If it will help Sarah then I’ll help too.”

“Yeah! We’ll throw the biggest Hearth’s Warming Eve Party Ever! WAHOOO!” Pinkie cheered happily.

“Alright gang, let’s do it!” I exclaimed.

“Yeah!” Everyone cheered.

Third Person POV

Sarah walked back to the home-ship with her head hanging low. Ponies saw her and chattered about, not knowing the reason why she was so sad on a beautiful holiday.

Nevertheless, Sarah made it the home-ship and opened the door and just walked into the elevator and pressed the button. It took her to her room where she simply laid down on her bed and sighed sadly, “At least my friends will have a happy Christmas… unlike me.” She covered her face with her hoof and sighed heavily.

Ren’s POV

Meanwhile, we informed everypony in Ponyville and our families of our plan to help Sarah and they all immediately wanted to help her, knowing how much she’s helped them and Equestria. Pinkie, Applejack, the Ortega Family and the Earth Ponies would be in charge of the food.

We decided to do a Christmas show for Sarah. Twilight, Rarity, Kaede and Jamie’s families and the unicorns will be in charge of the show and decorations for the party.

Rainbow and Flutters along with my family and Jacks’ the other pegasi will be in charge of keeping the light snow so we would be able to have the party. My friends and I watched as the ponies got to work.

“This will be awesome.” I said happily.

“Yeah, Sarah deserves it.” Mason added.

“You bet. Newbie’s been one big help to us.” Jack added.

“Yeah, she’s so sweet and kind.” Carrie added. “This party will definitely cheer her up.”

I hoped Carrie was right. “We’d better go and check on Sarah, to see how she’s doing.” I suggested.

“You guys are going to see Sarah?” We tuned and saw Twilight and Spike coming over.

“Yeah.”

“Can we come?” Spike asked. “We want to check on her too.”

“Sure you guys.” I stated with a smile.

We lead Twilight and Spike to the home-ship where we found Snowflake on laying on the couch with Sarah by her side. “Hey Sarah… are you alright…?” I asked gently.

All that came out of her was a sad sigh.

“Oh man, she’s really glum.” Twilight said.

“Yeah. Maybe I should talk to her.” Spike said, but Kaede stopped him, “I don’t think so, Spike. She doesn’t seem like she’s in the mood to talk. We should try tomorrow, she might feel better by tomorrow?”

Spike saw, how sad Sarah looked and nodded in agreement. “Come on, let’s give her some space… again.” Kaede said and we all left to give our friend some space.

Sarah… I promise you.. You are loved here in Equestia and we’ll prove it to you.

The Next Day…

It was Christmas Day and I leaped out of bed, ready for the party for Sarah.

https://m.

(Me)
Hey hey hey, today's the day
The Christmas Party for Sarah Gem
We'll show her that she means a lot to us
I feel so happy that I've got to say
Hey hey hey, today is the day

(Pinkie)
Yep yep yep, the time is near
The big Christmas party will soon be here
We will help our friend with her Christmas Blues
And hopefully that will get her back to be happy
Hey hey hey, today is the day

(Rainbow)
Hey guys!

(Me)
Hey Rainbow

(Rainbow)
The weather's clear perfect for the party
I made some awesome snowfall
With me up in the air to keep watch

Then Jack hit her with a snowball. “Hey!” and she fell out of the sky.

“Grr.. you’ll pay for that fatty!” Rainbow growled playfully.

“Bring it Skittles.” Jack said, but Mason got in between them. “Guys, today is not the day for fight.” Then we saw Twilight coming towards us.

(Twilight)
Hey hey hey, today's the day
When I'm gonna do my Christmas spell
I’ll light up the tree it will be so clear
You'll be amazed at what I can do
Hey hey hey
Okay, get ready.

Twilight lit her horn and blasted the Christmas Tree and when the light dimmed down the tree was lit! “Woah…” We all gasped.

(Twilight)
What'd I tell you?
I did the spell

(Carrie)
We are very very glad

(Rainbow)
The sky is clear

(Me)
This thing will be a blast

(Mason)
Sarah’s specialist

(Kaede)
Cheeriest

(Me)
Happiest

(Twilight)
Loveliest

(All)
Day
For Sarah Gem

(Kaede)
Today is her the day

(All)
For Sarah Gem

(Rainbow)
Today’s her day

(All)
For Sarah Gem

Sarah's POV

Zzz....Zzzz.....

Knock Knock

"Pikapi?"

Huh? PIkachu? What's he doing outside the door to my room? Yawn.... might as well see what he wants. I got out of bed and opened the door to find my little buddy, smiling widely. "Pikapi."

"Hi Pikachu, what is it?" I asked the little pokemon. Pikachu smiled and he leaped behind my right front leg and nudged it, "Pikachu Pika Pika.." I think he wants to me to go with him somewhere. "Okay... so where do you want to take me?"

Pikachu smiled and he guided me outside where I saw snow all along the ground. Pikachu and I entered Ponyville and just before we came to Town Hall, everyone, humans and ponies, appeared and said "SURPRISE!" and confetti came falling down, which I knew had to come from Pinkie Pie.

"W-What's this...?" I asked, confused and surprised by the party.

Pinkie Pie and the others came up to me, "This is your Christmas Party, silly billy." Pinkie Pie cooed.

My papas and Tasha came up as well, "We wanted to make up for studying you instead of spending the holidays with you, sweetie. So your pony friends, Ren and the others told us about putting on this Christmas party for you." Donald grinned.

"Y-You.. did that for me..?" I asked Ren and the others.

"Of course Sarah." Twilight smiled.

"You've done so much for Equestria. We figured it was time for us to return the favor and show you how much you mean to Equestria." Rainbow added and I was touched by their actions.

"I-I don't know what to say..." I smiled at them.

"I know... PARTY!" Pinkie Pie screamed and the others cheered happily at her attitude.

(Twilight Sparkle)
Each one of us has something special
That makes us different, that makes us rare

(Fluttershy)
We have a light that shines within us
That we were always meant to share

(All)
And when we come together
Combine the light that shines within
There is nothing we can't do
There is no battle we can't win
When we come together
There'll be a star to guide the way
It's inside us every day
See it now! See it now!
Let the rainbow remind you
That together we will always shine
Let the rainbow remind you
That forever this will be our time

(Me)
Each one of us will sometimes falter
We may stumble
We may fall

But we still have a kind of magic
One that will see us
Though it all

(Twilight Sparkle)
Let the rainbow remind you
That together we will always shine

Chapter 5: Having boyfriends but keep Your Fathers

In Sarah's Room at the Home-Ship, Sarah was having a nice dinner with Donald, Douglas, Nicole, Tasha and Discord all together in her room. "I can't believe you put all of this together, Sarah." Tasha praised, seeing Sarah's homemade dinner, which consisted of homemade turkey, mashed potatoes, corn and lemonade.

"Hehe, well I learned from you Mamas." Sarah grinned.

Tasha and Nicole grinned at her. "So Sarah, we heard there's this.. Grand Galloping Gala event going on in Canterlot. Heard all your friends are going." Douglas said. "Are you going?"

"Actually... I am going..." Sarah replied with a small smile.

"That's great honey." Tasha grinned.

"Yeah, that means your need for social interaction is growing." "And that your brain is able to compel with social interactions." Nicole and Donald stated.

"Donny, Nicole, stop treating her like she's a subject of science." Douglas stated.

"Technically, she still is even thought she's in a new world." Donald replied, earning a glare from his wife. "What?"

Tasha and Douglas sighed, "I also heard that you can bring at least one guest with you to this... Gala. So who are you going to bring?" Douglas asked Sarah.

"Actually... I was kinda... thinking I would bring Aura..." Sarah said with a slight blush.

"Aura?" Discord questioned.

"Werepony boyfriend." Douglas explained, bluntly.

"Boyfriend! Aren't you a bit young to have a boyfriend?" Discord asked.

"I'm 16!" Sarah stated.

"Fine...." Discord grumbled.

"Aura's actually very nice. Donny, Jack and I were suspicious about him before, but we found out that he was half wolf and that in his pack it was illegal to date a pony, but since Sarah is human-turned-pony she's like a loophole in that law, so she can date him. Which didn't go to well with this wolf pack." Donald explained.

"Hmmm... well... I guess if he's chill with you all then, I guess he'll be cool with me as well." Discord smiled and Sarah grinned at her father, "Thanks dad."

Discord smiled, "Of course."

What no one noticed was the three wereponies that confronted Aura and Sarah during their first date, were eavesdropping on the conversation. "So... Aura is taking this pony to the Grand Galloping Gala, huh? Well.. I'd say we make an appearance of our own..." the leader smirked and the two followers grinned as well.

Ren's POV

At the Canterlot Castle's Hall Lobby; noble and rich ponies from far and wide were invited and come to Grand Galloping Gala. Princess Celestia dressed in her crimson dress with sun patterns was standing on the top of first staircase level, along with Twilight dressed in her cyan dress with orange ribbon and her mane tied up in round. The gang and I were dressed in our tuxedos and dresses as well. The ones that we wore at the Wedding and Sarah's Coronation.

Princess Celestia smiled, "I must say, it's been very nice having you take over some of the planning responsibilities for this year's Gala."

"Anything I can do to make it easier on you," Twilight said calmly.

"Thank you, Twilight. I am quite looking forward to just enjoying the Gala for once." Princess Celestia thanked happily.

I nodded, "Glad to hear it. We'll do anything to make you easy, Celestia."

Princess Celestia giggled in amusement, "Thank you Ren. So I heard Sarah actually found a boyfriend?"

"She sure did." Twilight grinned. "And I believe she's bringing him to the Gala tonight."

"Seriously? Aura doesn't seem like the 'fancy' type. Especially the part wolf thing." Kaede said.

"Oh hush Private Ross. Private Moon will be just fine." Skye said with faith in Aura.

"Well see..." Jamie stated.

Suddenly, the fanfare sounded. Everyone turned to the front entrance. Who was it now?

"Announcing the spirit of chaos, Discord, and his guest, the, uh..." Announcer announced firmly but stopped as he doesn't know the name of creature. Discord whispered to the Announcer's ear. Announcer sighed, "The Smooze!"

Everyone turned to the front as they found Discord dressed in his orange suit and top hat and the greenish slimy ooze-like creature dressed in his blue top hat and red bow-tie marched into hall. Everyone gasped in shock and concern. "What... is... that thing?!" I exclaimed in a mixture of disgust and shock.

"That's a green blob... of snot..." Jack stated.

"Good evening, everypony! What a glorious affair!" Discord said happily. The Smooze turned to the second announcer. It took the golden shiny fanfare honk into its mouth. He smiled as he gave it a hug, "He does have a yearn for shiny things, the rascal."

As Discord departed, he found his paw was covered by slim. He turned and dry it off on the announcer's white scarf.

Twilight sighed, "I'll take care of this."and she flew off at once and away from Princess Celestia for the moment. "Us too." I said and the gang and I followed Twilight towards Discord to have a discussion while the Smooze wandered off happily.

"What are you doing here with..." Twilight demanded in concern while pointed at the Smooze, "that?!"

Discord smiled as he waved it off, "Now, now, now. The Smooze may be an "it", but it's an it with a heart of, well, blob."

"It's a blob alright." Skye grumbled.

"Please tell me you're not trying to spoil Sarah's date with Aura, by bringing that thing." Kaede pleaded with Discord while looking at him with a raised eyebrow.

"How? Me! Of course not." Discord scoffed, feeling a bit hurt. "I would never do such a thing to my daughter."

Twilight turned and glared at Discord, "This night is extremely important to me, Discord." She smiled uneasily to her former mentor. She gritted her teeth before glaring at him, "Keep it under control!"

Discord grunted a bit, "Yes, yes, yes, of course."

Then more fanfare sounded. Whose coming now?

"Presenting the Queen of Harmony, Sarah Gem and her family!" the announcer pony called and in came Sarah, Aura, Donald, Douglas, Tasha and Nicole.

Donald and Douglas were wearing matching tuxedos, but Douglas had four bracelets on his right wrist for some reason. Tasha was wearing a black and white dress with a v-shape in the middle of the chest. She also were white heels and a white braclet on her left wrist.

Sarah was wearing the rainbow dress she bought in Manehattan with silver shoes that went with it.

Aura.... dare I say... looked fancy as well. His mane was combed back, giving a smooth texture and he was wearing a tuxedo with a red rose on the right side on his chest.

Nicole... er... well... she was just wearing a plain yellow dress. Guess I should have expected that... knowing her personality.

The ponies bowed to Sarah as she and her family walked over to us. "Hey everypony." Aura greeted.

"Hey Aura, you look all dressed up. I'm impressed." Discord smiled.

"Thanks, I'm not much of a fan of fancy parties, but Sarah convinced me to go despite that." Aura said.

"You'll be just fine, Aura. And Don't worry about any of these high class punks judging you." Jack said, cracking his knuckles.

"No starting a fight, Jack." Mason scolded at him and Jack huffed, "Grr... fine...."

Then we suddenly heard a screaming noise and turned to the back door entrance. Someone was screaming while knocking the door in getting in. But the door was locked! "Who could that be?" Mason wondered.

"LET ME IN!"

"RARITY?!" Mason exclaimed and he rushed and opened the door. Rarity rammed through it. She was covered by some sticky and dirty greenish slime. "What the-? Ewww... Rarity, what are you covered in?" Kaede questioned in disgust.

Rarity breathed heavily, "That creature took my jewels!"

We all looked outside as they spotted the Smooze was swallowing all the shining and brightening crystals, jewels and diamonds from some rich ponies. They quickly ran away from it. As it ate the jewels, its body glowed brightly and bigger. "That thing eats jewelry!" I exclaimed in shock. "And it makes it bigger?!

Twilight groaned in annoyance as she turned and glared at Discord, "Discord! I thought I told you to keep your friend under control!"

"Oh, please. I have better things to do than to watch that thing all night." Discord huffed. Discord approached to Rarity as he magically summoned the vacuum. He sucked all of the greenish slimes off her but unfortunately that included her dress. She yelped in shock as she covered herself of her body like she was naked. Ironically...

Shorty Thinking came to her as he prepared the set of her emergency backup dress. Rarity took and dressed it up. She sighed in relief. She turned and glared at Discord for the moment. She huffed angrily as she trotted off"Like spending time with my daughter and her boyfriend. Let's go!" Discord then grabbed Sarah and Aura by their hooves and they zoomed off, "Woah! Hey!"

Meanwhile, Aura's three ex-wolf pack members snuck into the Gala undetected and looked around. "So Claw, what do you suppose we should do to ruin this gala and get revenge on Aura?"

"I'm working on it, Slash." Claw replied.

"Hey Claw, how about we give that thing some shiny objects and make it grow bigger and bigger?" the third member questioned, seeing Smooze wanting some more jewelry to eat. "As always Eclipse, you're intelligence is second to none..." Claw smirked evily.

So the three of them gathered as much jewelry as they could and feed it to Smooze, making him grow bigger and bigger until he grew into a greenish slimy tsunami.

Everyone turned and found the greenish slimy tsunami poured on them. They all screamed in fear and panicked as they all quickly ran away before they could get caught by it. But unfortunately, they are now!

Some Pegasi tried to fly out but their hooves got stuck, like Rainbow Dash. Some Unicorns fired their magical blasts at the greenish slime but nothing happen. "None of my magic works on this ooze." Twilight said, before tuning to Celestia. "Can you stop it?" Celestia tried her magic, but the ooze got onto her horn, rendering it useless. "I'm afraid not."

Ren and the others got stuck in the ooze as well, "Great now what?!" Jack exclaimed, trying to get out, but he only got more stuck in the ooze.

"He was small before! How'd he get so big?!" Carrie exclaimed, holding on Mason. "I don't know, but we have to get him back down to size." Mason stated.

"We don't even know anything about this... thing! Who could possibly help us?" Donald growled.

"Why don't you ask the one who brought him here." Tasha grumbled, while batting away a part of the Smooze that was trying to get her jewelry.

"We have to get Discord or Sarah, they should know what's going on with Smooze." Ren stated.

"But they're off who knows where and we're stuck in here? How can we possibly get to them?" Kaede pointed.

"Pikapi!" "En En!"

Suddenly, window broke in flew a group familiar dragons that were a happy sight for Ren and the others.

"Snowflake! "Eclipse!"

"Torch!"

"Inferno."

"Skystorm!"

"Dusk and Dawn!"

"Comet!"

"Striker!"

"Slice!"

Indeed, it was Snowflake and the dragons Sarah gave Ren and the others at the Rainbow Falls Traders Exchange. The nine dragons cooed and hovered above their owners. "Thank goodness you guys came. We need you to go get Sarah and Discord, hurry." Ren pleaded and the nine dragons nodded and flew off to get Sarah, Aura and Discord.

Sarah, Aura and Discord were in the gardens, having a relaxing time together. "So I see you're being a good boyfriend to my daughter." Discord smiled.

"Dad.... Jack and the others had already intimidated him into treating me well." Sarah warned.

"I'm not intimidating him, honey." Discord said. "I'm just congratulating him and treating you with respect."

"Alright..." Sarah said. Then Aura's ears perked up and Snowflake along with the others landed in front of the others. "Snowflake? Eclipse? Everyone? What's wrong?" Sarah asked, seeing the worry on their faces.

Snowflake warbled at Sarah and she gasped, "Smooze is out of control?!"

"Huh?" Aura questioned.

"They said that Smooze turned into a green tsunami and trapped everyone in his ooze in the ballroom. Come on!" Sarah hopped onto Snowflake and the group flew back to the ballroom where they saw the carnage. "WOAH!" Aura exclaimed.

"Sarah, Aura, Discord!" Ren called and the group flew down to him.

"Guys, what happened?" Sarah asked.

"We thought Discord would know." Kaede said.

"He must have gotten a lot of jewelry somehow, but he was outside? How'd he get jewelry?" Discord questioned.

"That would be our doing..." Claw smirked as he and his small pack appeared, walking on the ooze.

"You three again." Aura growled and the dragons snarled at them as well.

"How'd you get in here?" Jack stated.

"We're half wolves, we're sneaky and we decided to show up and get our revenge." Eclipse snarled.

"Not if I can help it!" Sarah exclaimed and she fired her magic at them but they dodged and Claw tackled her into the ooze, "Sarah! Newbie!" Donald and Jack exclaimed in horror.

However, Sarah burst from the ooze as a large phoenix and cried out majestically. She had Claw in her talon and threw him onto the windows. Sarah cried out and fired a beam of rainbow light, similar to her Elements' magic and blasted the Smooze, causing him to shrink down and freeing Ren and everypony else from the ooze. The ponies and the others cheered happily as Sarah landed and cried furiously at Claw and his pack of two.

"Now... you can leave the easy way.. or the hard way..." Aura snarled at Claw and his pack of two.

"Hmph.. you may have won this round Aura, but we shall have our revenge for breaking Pack Law!" Claw exclaimed as he and his wolves ran off.

Sarah turned back into her pony form and smiled. "Excellent work as always honey." praised Tasha. Sarah smiled at one of her mothers, "Thanks."

"I know. I'm a genius." Donald and Douglas said in unsion and looked at each other.

"I'm the genius!" Donald exclaimed.

"I still helped make her." Douglas retorted back.

"Yes, helped and acutally created her."

"Oh, you wanna do there?"

"Yes I do."

"OW!" Luckily Snowflake and Eclipse landed on the bickering brothers with amusing smiles. "Thank you." Sarah and Ren said and they both smiled.

Twilight sighed, "I'm sorry, Princess Celestia. I thought I could give you a break tonight, but it turns out I was in over my head."

"You have nothing to apologize for." Princess Celestia shook her head gently while smiling, "This has been the most fun Gala in years!"

"I know, it was a—What?!" Twilight asked in shock and surprise.

"Most fun?!" Ren and the others exclaimed in the same tone. "But a pack of wolves, nearly ruined everything!" "But there was ooze all over the place! And one of the guests threatened to send somepony to another dimension!" Ren and Twilight exclaimed.

Princess Celestia giggled in amusement, "I know! Can you imagine how dull it would have been if I hadn't invited Sarah's family and boyfriend?" Twilight was just shocked as Celestia used her wing to push her frozen student out onto the dance floor. "Come on! Whoo! The night is still young!"

Twilight facehooved at Celestia attitude. "Well, at least we know she actually... planned for it...?" Ren questioned awkwardly.

"Eh." the others went.

"Yeah, that figures.."

"Can you two have them let us up!" Douglas and Donald exclaimed in annoyance. Tasha and Nicole chuckled at the sight of the two.

Chapter 6: Trade Ya

Sarah's POV

As we were just arriving at Rainbow Falls, Pinkie couldn't help but squeal out loud from the window in excitement. "Ahhhh! Yes! Best day ever!" She pulled herself away from the window and looked at us. "We're all going to the Rainbow Falls Traders Exchange!"

At that moment, the train came to a stop and began letting ponies out. Applejack was the first one to walk out so she could get her cart out of the way.

Outside, she began making sure everything that belonged to the others was inside of the cart. As for the others, they were able to stretch their legs on the platform next to the train while Pinkie Pie continued to jubilantly talk. "And not just going – we're accompanying a Queen and Princess on an official royal duty!" She mentioned us as Twilight was retrieving her box of books.

"Please, it's not that big of a deal." Twilight brushed off lightly, as well as hinting back at her dislike of being treated more than any other pony. "There always has to be a princess at the Exchange." She explained as we began walking towards the main part of Rainbow Falls. "Last year was Princess Cadence. This year it's Sarah and Me. It's just a formality. I'm sure none of the other ponies will even notice we're here."

We suddenly heard a large cheer of a crowd. On the other side of the tunnel, a banner unfurled before us as confetti immensely dropped from above. "Wow, look over there! It's the prince and princess!" One of the ponies from the crowd shouted out.

"Oh, this is amazing!" Another exclaimed.

The unexpected festivities left mostly Twilight paralyzed in surprise. While I was pretty startled as well, it didn't affect me as much.

"Could be wrong…but…" Applejack began to say. "I think it's still pretty new to them." She mentioned with a teasing and slightly smug grin.

Twilight laughed nervously as she forced herself to place on a welcoming and thankful grin for the crowd.

After managing to share the endurance of all that attention, Twilight and I were able to have a breather once we pulled out of that mess. It was more of a mental mess, not a physical mess, to clarify.

"Hold on a second." Applejack brought up. "You said there always has to be a princess at the Exchange. Why does it have to be the both of you this year?" She questioned. "I thought it would be something like you being this year and Sarah being next year."

"Yeah and Sarah is a Queen so that would mean only you have to be at the exchange." Ren pointed out as well, he was holding some mint comic books in his hands.

"Well, Sarah and I both agreed that we are a team." Twilight almost proudly recalled. "Whatever we're tasked with, we both talk over and make a choice together. The both of us are just as important as each other." She clarified, glancing over to me.

"Ooh." Applejack understood.

"Oh, my goodness!" Fluttershy exclaimed at the sight of what appeared to be a cupid bunny that was coincidentally pointing a heart arrow at both Fluttershy and me.

"You said it!" Rarity exchanged, observing herself wear an elegant hat in a mirror. "The Rainbow Falls Traders Exchange is simply divine. You can get anything you want here!"

"I can see.." Kaede said, looking at a beautiful flora hat.

"If'n you got the goods to trade for it." Applejack made an almost doubting point. Nevertheless, Rarity completed her trade for another hat and joined us back in the group.

Ren and the others had some stuff to trade for the exchange as well and I had my saddlebag with me with some things that I would want to trade. Snowflake, Pikachu and Zoura joined me for the exchange today.

After a few seconds, we heard something small trip and fall, causing us to look back.

"Nooo!" Spike cried out at the sight of something in front of him beginning to make its way to a small muddy puddle. However, Twilight quickly grabbed ahold of it with her magic and returned it back to Spike. "Thanks, Twilight. Whew. One ding, nick or dent, and this Power Ponies comic book wouldn't be in perfect mint condition anymore." He explained his reaction. "And if you want to trade for a mint comic, you gotta have a mint comic."

"That's a fact." Ren smiled.

"That's nice…" I was only able to comment before ponies caught sight of us and began murmuring in excitement, giving us unneeded attention once again.

Twilight quickly trotted to my side, placed a hoof on me, and gestured me with her head that we should get going. Then, she walked in a fast pace while I followed calmly behind.

"I guess a pony who's here on official princess business has to expect a little fussin'." Applejack mentioned.

"I don't really see why." Twilight wondered as she reached her stand and began preparing her books. "I know we're royalty and all, but all we're supposed to do is settle disagreements over whether a trade is fair or not. And since the rule is that a trade is fair as long as both ponies get what they want, there's never been a disagreement. So there's really no reason for anypony to treat us as anything special." Twilight noticed a small little filly that appeared before us excitedly. "Hi!" She warmly greeted. "Can I help you?" The filly grinned brightly and turned to surprisingly pull out a couple of photos of Twilight and me, appearing to want our autographs. This led Twilight to sigh, pull out a quill, and sign the pictures.

"There's a pony here who's got a signed first edition of Daring Do and the Quest for the Sapphire Statue, and I'm gonna get it!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed out loud as Twilight did her signing. "I've been able to get first editions of all of the Daring Do books, except this one!"

Once Twilight finished, she lent me her quill so I could autograph my signature as well. "Nopony's ever put together a whole set, and I'm gonna be the first! If it hasn't been traded yet... It's the only one in all of Equestria!" The filly couldn't help but hug us both before she hopped off in joy.

"So Flutters, what do you have to trade?" Ren asked his girlfriend.

"I did want to trade this bear call I've got for a bird whistle…" She pulled out a small wooden whistle from beneath her wing.

"Then I'll help you get your bear call whistle." Ren smiled.

"Oh, thank you Ren." Fluttershy smiled.

"Meanwhile, I'll help Skittles get her puny book." Jack stated.

"Great! Let's go!" Rainbow Dash quickly grabbed ahold of Jack dashed out of the area.

"Well, I'm off to take a gander at some of the vintage stalls." Applejack mentioned next after pulling her bag out of the cart holding the others' stuff.

"Did you say vintage?" Rarity asked in piqued interest and grabbed ahold of her saddlebag to join Applejack on her trot. "Why, old and rare items are so in style right now! I'm hoping to get a vintage item as well…" Her voice trailed off as she grew further away from us.

"I'm also off to find a nice piece of minty-ness to exchange for this bad boy." Spike held up his comic before walking off happily.

As Twilight removed the last of her books from the box to place on the stand, Pinkie stood behind in a confused state. "Um, shouldn't your Queen and Princessness be headed to the royal box seats?" She asked and pointed towards the other side of the Exchange.

"We may be the Queen and Princess on duty, but I don't think that means we have to sit up there all alone doing nothing." Twilight responded. "Ever since I became a princess, Celestia's been sending me more books to read than ever. The library's overflowing, so I figured while we're here, I might as well trade away some books I don't need anymore!" She presented a reasonable point while placing away the cardboard neatly.

"Mm-hm!" Pinkie happily agreed. "I guess I should go take a look around too! Bye!" She waved swiftly and bounced off.

As Twilight continued carefully angling and perfecting the sight of her books, she turned to me as she still noticed me standing behind her. "If you want, you can go check out the area too. You don't have to stay by me the whole time."

"Well... if you're sure." I said.

"Yes, Sarah, now go.. this'll be nice for you.." Twilight smiled and I nodded.

Snowflake, Pikachu, Zoura and I went off through the exchange to find something that would catch our eyes to trade for. "See anything, you three?" I asked my friends. Pikachu and Zoura looked over the stalls, but didn't see anything that they would like.

However, Snowflake suddenly perked up as we approached the Rare Creatures tent. "What is it Snowflake?" I asked and Snowflake walked inside of the tent. It had some lights in it, showing what was inside of the cages. Snowflake came to nine cages specififcally and what was inside made us all gasp.

Inside the cages..... were dragons like Snowflake...!

The first one was about 30 feet long and bipedal but this one had an overbite, nasal horn, a break like upper beak and a tail covered in spines. It had a crown of spikes on its head as well. This dragon was a teal with tints of pink, purple and yellow on its wings and body and it had a pale underbelly. This dragon was known as a Deadly Nadder.

The second one was also 30 feet long but it had three tails with stingers on them as well as a set of pincers which made it resemble a scorpion. It also had two ear appendages on its head. This dragon was brownish with orange stripes on its wings and a yellow underbelly. One tail was brown, one was yellow and the other was light yellow. This one was called a Triple Stryke.

The third one was about 61 feet long with two pairs of long horns along with double clawed wings, a snake-like neck and a snake-like tail with frills on it. This dragon was a mixture of purple, yellow and magenta and it was known as a Monstrous Nightmare.

The fourth dragon was 31 feet long and had two pairs of wings! It’s face had two long spines that branch off their brow to the side and it had a "smashed" face, kind of like an owl. It also had a three-finned tail and also had many spines down their back and a large "crown" on its head. This dragon was blue with dark blue spots. It has shades of lavender and white on its wings, tail and head and it was known as a Stormcutter.

The fifth dragon was 20 feet long and a bipedal dinosaur-like dragon with small arms and two claws at the end of each limb. It had a short thick neck and a small head. Its upper jaw resembles a beak of a parrot, while the lower jaw is more round and full of small teeth. It had three spikes on its head, which are asymmetrically placed. It’s wings had a claw on each of them. It had only a few sharp spikes on its back, and it has a long tail that ends with a large fin. This dragon was a darker blue color with red patterns on its back, wings, and tail. Its spikes are also dark blue and it is known as a Titan Wing Dramillion.

The sixth dragon was about 66 feet long and had two heads and a split tail. This one was the strangest looking out of all of them. It looked almost like Zweilous only much bigger. This one was a blue-hued green base color with darker splotches over its body and wings. It had a yellow nasal horn and blue leaf-like spines on its necks and back and it was larger compared to the other dragons. This dragon was called a Titan Wing Hideous Zippleback.

The seventh dragon was 60 feet long with purple eyes, a horn on snout, sharp spines and spikes on the edge of wings. It also a long, slender neck, as well as metal-like, reflective scales. It has a long ledge on the top of its snout and a short, stumpy one on the bottom. Its body is covered in metal armor with two talons on each foot. The dragon is completely silver and it was called a Razorwhip.

The eighth dragon was the most surprising. This dragon looked a lot like Winter, but it was jet black with lighter spots and it had two sets of tail fins; one on the tail and the other near the base of the tail. It looked like the mixture of a cat, dog and gecko. It also appeared to have a rougher texture than Winter. This dragon was known as a Night Fury.

"Woah...." All of the nine dragons perked up at the sight of me and warbled happily, "Hey... it's okay you nine, I'll get you out of here.." I vowed to them.

"Ah, interested in those nine huh?" a pony running the tent, who was a big earth pony who was brown with an eyepath over his right eye and he wore a bracelet with spikes on its on his front, left hoof said as he came over to me.

"I found these nine all trapped in nets. They were injured, but nothing serious, so I brought them here to see if anypony would know where they came from or give them a home." the pony stated.

"Well, I would like to trade for these nine, please?" I asked the pony.

"Seeing that you have a dragon yourself, I would say yes, but you'll have to give me something very valuable." the pony bargained and I opened my saddlebag and I levitated a large silver diamond out of it. "Like this..?" I asked with a small smile.

"Woah...." the pony's eyes sparkled at the big gem. "Exactly like that. It's a trade, Miss..."

"Sarah Gem..."

"Miss Sarah Gem. These nine are all yours." the pony smiled before he unlocked the cages and let the dragons out. "Looks like you nine found a home afterall."

The nine dragons cooed and nuzzled the pony in thanks for caring for them after all this time. They came over to me and Snowflake warbled at us. "It's alright, you nine. I know nine people who would love to have you." I smiled at them and they smiled back.

Hehehe.... they're gonna freak when I show them these guys.

The Traders exchange was a great experience for me, cause I got some more things. I got a silver sword with a golden handle, a large heart shaped shield and some silver shoes, like Princess Luna's. Many hours passed until it was time for us to go back to Ponyville.

We all met at the train station where the group saw what I got. "Awesome, shoes, Newbie." Jack smirked.

"Yeah, they look just like Princess Luna's." Twilight added. "And nice sword and shield."

"Thanks, but I got a lot more than them." I smirked.

"Huh?" Ren asked before I whistled and the eight dragons I got came soaring over the train station and landed in front of all of us. Twilight and the girls gasped in awe and shock while Ren and the others gaped, "No... WAY!" Ren exclaimed, "A Night Fury, Deadly Nadder, Razorwhip, Titan Wing Hideous Zippleback, Monstrous Nightmare, Stormcutter, Triple Stryke and a Titan Wing Dramillion!"

"Sarah... where did you get them from?!" Rainbow exclaimed.

"At the rare beast tent. I told them I have the perfect home for them." I smiled.

"With whom?" Twilight asked and I looked at Ren and the Human Nine whose eyes widened. "No way, Newbie.." Jack breathed.

"Yep... these guys are yours..." I presented and Ren cheered, "Awesome! Thanks Sarah!!"

"Now based on your personalities I decided that Ren, you get the Night Fury. Mason and Carrie, you get the Stormcutter. Rantaro and Nicole you get the Hideous Zippleback. Jack, you get the Monstrous Nightmare. Skye, you get the Razorwhip, Kaede, you get the Deadly Nadder and Jamie, you get the Triple Stryke." I explained as the respective dragons went to the new riders.

"Incredbile...!" Kaede gasped, feeling the Nadders snout. The Nadder squawked gently at her.

"This is the best gift ever, Newbie." Jack smiled, rubbing his Monstrous Nightmares' snout.

"Your welcome. It's... just my way of saying thanks.... for being my friends... through all of this.." I said to them.

"Of course, Sarah. You've risked your life many times for us. It's the least we can do." Ren smiled at me and the others nodded.

"So.... are you guys gonna take the senic route back to Ponyville?" Rainbow smirked, looking at the dragons.

Ren and the others looked at each other and smiled. I know the answer to that.

"WOOOOOOO-HOOOOOO!" Ren exclaimed as he and his Night Fury divebombed below and shot back up at the speed of light.

"R-Ren.. c-careful..!" Fluttershy exclaimed holding onto Ren tightly.

Ren giggled, "Relax Flutters, this is fun!"

"Hell yeah!" Jack exclaimed on his Monstrous Nightmare as it lit himself on fire and breathed out a stream of it.

"Hahah! This is awesome, you maggots! Now I really am the General!" Skye exclaimed from her Razorwhip who roared happily for its new rider.

"This is... different.." Nicole said, holding on to the left Zippleback's horns as Rantaro held onto the right horns. "Yeah...." Rantaro stated.

"T-This is great...!" Jamie and Twilight smiled as they rode on the Triple Stryke.

"This dragon is simply divine, just like my Spikey Wikey and Mason." Rarity smiled as she and Kaede rode on her Deadly Nadder.

"Aww... thanks..." Mason blushed as he, Carrie, Pinkie and Applejack rode on the Stormcutter dragon happily.

"Hahaha, who wants to race back to the home-ship?" I called, from Snowflake's back and everyone cheered, accepting the challenge and we all raced back to Ponyville, with our new dragon friends in tow.

To Be Continued...

Chapter 3: Boyfriend for Sarah

Ren's POV

"Okay, just hold still Kodiak..." Just one more spot and it's finally complete. We spent all morning to noon time at the pool before drying off and began doing other activities, and this is one of them which I suggested. Painting, obviously. I was busy painting a portrait of Kodiak and I was nearly done. The others in the meantime were in the living room minding their own business. Kaede and Rarity talking about fashion while Mason stood next to them with his eyes closed in deep thought.

Jack, Applejack and Rainbow Dash were having an arm wrestling competition with either showing off their brute strength, Twilight and Jamie were taking notes with each other on facts between their two worlds, Fluttershy was near me watching me paint which I didn't mind while Rantaro and Nicole were busy minding their own business sitting down on the couches with bored looks, well I don't know about Nicole because she just has that neutral look on that face like she isn't showing any fear at all.

But I was almost done with Kodiak's portrait. Just need the final touch of it and...boo-yeah! "Done!"

"About time!" Kodi sighed in relief as he gotten out of his pose and walked over to the portrait, seeing it him with a bright smile with his tongue out as he looked at the sky upwards. "Ooh, I look good!"

The others, except Rantaro and Nicole, stopped what they were doing and came over to see my portrait, impressing them with my artwork while they felt amazed by its designs.

"You can say that again!" Kaede complimented. "You know Ren, your art skills are really improving."

"You think so?" I asked, rubbing the back of my head.

"It looks so peaceful." Fluttershy smiled before asking "So have you been selling any artwork lately?"

"Not much, but I know that one day that a bunch of ponies are gonna come in and admired by artwork." I assured with a grin.

"You sure have a lot of confidence there partner." Applejack smiled, admiring a bit of my confidence.

"Well I wouldn't say 'confidence', I would say 'optimistic'." I shrugged before hearing loud knocking on the door.

"Huh, now what?" Jack asked irritably as we walked over to the door, only to be met by no one. "Huh?" Jack looked down and saw a bouquet of flowers with a note attached to it. He picked them up and brought them in. "What's with the flowers?" I asked.

"I don't know, they were just left on the doorstep." Jack stated.

"Hey, what's with the note?" Kaede asked. She went over and read the note

To the one who shines above all the rest,

Sarah

"Sarah?!" Everyone exclaimed.

"Me?" Sarah exclaimed. "Someone sent the flowers for me?"

"Now that you mention it, flowers and chocolates have been addressed to you for the past week." I said. "Wonder why?"

"Yeah, why would someone do that?" Rainbow asked. Kaede and Rarity started squealing in delight, causing us all to cover our ears in pain.

"Yeah, don't ever do that again." Rantaro said with a slightly annoyed look on his face. "What?" Sarah asked.

"Isn't it obvious? Sarah's got a secret admirer~" Rarity sang.

"Huh?" Sarah exclaimed.

"A secret admirer?" I added. Okay... that's something I'd never thought I'd hear with Sarah. I mean, last Hearts and Hooves Day she said that she didn't want a boyfriend. But someone isn't getting the message... at least... I don't think they did. "Now who could be your secret admirer?" Applejack asked.

"I don't know, the note doesn't have a name on it." Kaede stated.

"So how are we gonna find out whose Sarah's secret admirer?" Rainbow questioned.

"We'll just have to wait until he sends something else." Mason said.

"Yeah, so I can tell him to back off!" Jack exclaimed.

"Jack!" Kaede scolded.

"Hey, I'm her father. That's my job!" Donald stated.

"Big D!" Kaede scolded again.

Oh boy, Jack and Big D are in their 'protect Sarah' modes and that can't be good.. for the admirer.

I forgot to tell you Donald and Douglas decided to come back with us after we freed Earth from the Dusk-7 Virus along with Tasha. They decided that it was time they spent some more time with Sarah to make up for the years of absence.

"Donny, let the girl have some first love." Douglas said, coming to his side. "It'll be good for her."

"But what if he's bad news?" Donald questioned.

"Now, now you two, we don't know exactly what kind of boy this admirer is. We should wait to see what kind of boy is Sarah's admirer before you two go and knock him into next week." I explained. Jack and Big D sighed and agreed with me.

"Fine."

"Good." I said. "Now we wait."

The Next Day

I was walking with Sarah through with Kodiak and Pikachu by our side. "So whose this secret admirer I've been hearing about?" Kodi teased.

Sarah rolled her eyes with a small blush. "Kodi, I told you we don't know who he is."

"All that we know is that he likes Sarah." I pointed out.

That's when Sarah turned around, "Oh, hello." We all turned to see a male stallion. A quite handsome stallion at that. He was a unicorn and he had light golden fur and a slick black mane and tail and his cutie mark was a picture of a wolf. He was blushing while holding another bouquet of flowers in his magic.

"Umm.. hello.. Queen Sarah. Hehehe." he greeted nervously.

"Hi, I'm guessing you're my secret admirer?" Sarah asked. The stallion nodded and levitated the flowers to her. "T-These are for you."

Sarah smiled, "Thank you."

"So.. um.. Queen Sarah... i-if you h-have some free time... um... would you.. um... go out with me?" the stallion asked, rubbing his leg.

Sarah grinned at the stallion. "Yes, I'll go on a date with you... um.. I didn't get your name."

"M-My name! I-It's Aura Moon."

"Aura Moon." The stallion smiled happily. "I-I'll come by at six."

"I'll be waiting." Sarah said and the stallion walked away happily. "Looks like someone has a date tonight." I teased.

Sarah smiled. "I guess I do."

Then Kodi's ears perked up, "What is it boy?" I asked. He walked over to a rather large bush. Wait. That bush was not here before. I pulled apart the bush to reveal. "Girls, Jack, Douglas, Big D! What are you doing in there?" It was true. The girls, Jack, Douglas and Big D were wearing bush hats while crouching in the bush.

"Umm... nothing." Twilight said.

"Spying on Sarah to see her admirer." Applejack admitted.

"Applejack!" Rarity scolded.

"Hey, I'm the Element of Honesty. I never tell a lie!" Applejack defended.

"We just wanted to make sure the stallion is right for newbie." Jack said.

"Yeah, pretty boys like him either want her for her money or popularity." Big D added.

"Guys, he was stammering when he was asking her out on a date.." Kodi pointed out. "He stammered more than Jamie and acts as shy as Fluttershy. I don't think he's the kind of guy to deceive Sarah."

"He asked you out?!" Douglas exclaimed.

"Yes, she's going out at six tonight." Kodiak smiled.

Rarity and Kaede squealed again. "Oh, we must get you ready for your big day!" Rarity levitated Sarah in her magic. "To my boutique!" and the girls rushed off with a bewildered Sarah in Rarity's magical grasp. "Hey! Wait!"

We all sweat dropped as they left. "What the fudge was that about?" Jack asked.

"Just girls getting her ready for her date." Douglas said.

"Hmm... I don't know there's something about that stallion that I don't like. I just feel it." Big D said.

"Donny, relax. If Sarah wants to go out on a date then let her."

"Oh look whose talking you never dated anyone beside a computer program!"

"Hey Data Stream was the love of my life."

"You were in love with a computer program?" Kodi asked in a deadpan voice.

"That's sad. And I don't even have a date." Jack stated.

"Oh gee, I wonder why?" Rantaro said. "Maybe it's because you fat and aggressive." A tick mark appeared on Jack's head. "Hey! Watch it! Before I beat you down!" he exclaimed.

"Boys, calm down." Mason scolded. "Fighting is not gonna solve anything."

Jack growled and turned away from Rantaro. "So what do we do now?" he asked.

"What else? Go see how the girls are doing with Sarah." Douglas stated. We all looked at each other and shrugged. We went to Carousal Boutique and I knocked on the door. "Come in!" Rarity's singing voice came. We entered the boutique.

"Hey Girls, where's Sarah?" I asked.

Rarity and Kaede snickered. "Come on out darling." Rarity called and out came Sarah wearing a gorgeous dress. It was hot pink and yellow with curles on the ends and near her waist. She had a hot pink belt around her waist and she was wearing golden shoes as well. As Rarity would say, she looked smashing.

We were all jaw dropped at her. She had her hair in a bun and she was wearing a golden star pink behind her ear and was still wearing her crown. "So.. how do I look?" She asked nervously.

"You look..... Awesome!" Rainbow exclaimed.

"You look fine, sugarcube." Applejack stated. "You're gonna knock his hooves off when he sees you."

Sarah blushed a little. "Hehehe." Big D and Jack approached her, "You'll be careful tonight, honey?" Big D asked.

"Yes dad. I'll be fine."

"Are you sure, newbie?" Jack inquired. Sarah giggled, "Yes, how about this, I bring Pikachu and Zoura with me. They can watched over me and Aura Moon."

Big D and Jack looked at each other and nodded, then they turned back to Sarah. "Alright.. they can go." Sarah smiled and hugged her dad and Jack. "Thank you."

"Now let's take this dress off, Sarah. You have four hours till your date." Kaede said. Sarah nodded and she and Kaede went in the back. Big D and Jack sighed. "She'll be fine, you two." Mason said.

"I know, I know, it's just .... sigh." Big D said. "She's growing up so fast."

"I know and she'll be fine on her own." I reassured. Big D and Jack still looked unsure about this. Even with their confident looks I could feel something was bothering at them from within.

POV Ends

Four hours had passed and it was time for my date. Rarity dropped off my dress at my castle and six o'clock and at 5:30pm I got ready for my date. Ren and the everyone else came to see me off. After I got my dress on it was five minutes to six o'clock. "So where is he taking you for your date?" Pinkie asked.

"It's nothing too big, we're just gonna go to Sugarcube Corner." I answered. Rarity gasped happily, "Awww.... that's so sweet."

Jack scoffed. "Cheap bastard."

"Jack, we don't know if he's wealthy or not. Don't make assumptions." Mason scolded. Jack growled and crossed his arms across his chest. "Still."

Knock Knock Knock

"Eeeeeee! He's here!" Pinkie squealed. Ren opened the door and Aura Moon walked in wearing a tuxedo with golden ampules and black shoes on. "H-Hello P-Princess... r-ready to go?" Aura asked nervously.

I nodded, "I'm ready. Pikachu, Zoura, come on!" Pikachu and Zoura leaped onto my shoulders. Aura Moon didn't mind them at all. In fact, he found them kinda cute. Either way, we both headed out and we walked to Sugarcube Corner. Aura opened the door and let me go in first, like a gentlemen. After that, Aura went to the counter where Ms. Cake was present. "Hello, what can I get you?" she asked.

"Two p-pieces of cake and a m-milkshake please." Aura said, stammering a little bit.

"Coming right up." We went over to our seats and sat down. Pikachu and Zoura leaped onto the table. "So Aura Moon, how long have you been living in Ponyville?" I asked him.

"Actually I don't live in Ponyville." Aura replied.

"Then where do you live?"

Aura rubbed his hooves nervously, "It's complicated."

That's when Ms. Cake came up with our order. "Here you go." I noticed the milkshake had two straws in it. I saw Ms. cake giving me a wink as she walked away, making her blush a little. I picked up my fork and I started eating the cake. "So Aura, what kind of spells do you know?"

"Umm... only basic spells like levitation and transfiguration, things like that." Aura replied. We both stared at the milkshake wanting a drink but...

"... Y-You can drink first." Aura stammered.

"N-No you go first." I replied.

"No you."

"How about we do it... together?"

"O-Okay." We both slowly moved towards the straws and we closed our eyes and took a sip out of the milkshake. When we were done we removed our lips from the straws and opened out eyes. We looked at each other blushing and giggled. Out of the corner of my eye, I could see three bruly looking stallions. They were all wearing biker outfits like Jacks. One stallion had a Mohawk and a scar over his left eye. The second one had a short hair and scratches on his face and the last one was wearing jewelry on his ear and he also had a scare on his eye but it was his right eye and not his left.

The three of them came over to our table, making Aura flinch a little. "Hey there little lady?" the leader stallion started. "You wanna go out with me?" I could smell his bad breath and it almost made me throw up but I held it in.

"Sorry. uh.. boys, but I already have a date." I replied.

Aura then stood up and gently grabbed my hand. Pikachu and Zoura leaped onto my shoulders again. He took me outside and the three stallions followed, "Come on S-Sarah, let's g-go back to the home-ship."

The three stallions' eyes widened at the word 'castle'. "Sarah? As in Queen Sarah?!" the second stallion exclaimed.

"Umm.. yes." I said nervously. I saw the boys smiling at each other and then they turned to me with devious smirks. Aura came in front of me. "Stay away from her!" Aura exclaimed. The two following stallions laughed. "No can do, whimp. This Queen is coming with us." The leader stallion stated. All three of the ponies suddenly changed into large black wolves! Holy! I did not see that coming at all! Okay... now I'm scared.

"And there's nothing you can do about it." the leader wolf said. Hmm... reminds me of the telepathy ability from pokemon. Aura stared at the wolves intensely as they circles us. I whimpered a little and I heard Aura suddenly growling like a dog and his eyes turned red. "Aura?"

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Just then, he instantly turned into a large wolf with light brown fur. He was growled and he roared at the three stallions as he stood in front of me. This was so unexpected. I did not expect my date to turn into a wolf to defend me! Aura pounced onto the leader wolf which was twice the size as the other two wolves. The two wolves bit each other and slashed each other with their claws ferociously. The other two wolves came charging in. "Aura!" I cried. Aura saw them coming and launched himself at them, knocking them both to the ground. Grass flung into the air as the three wolves fought viciously. Finally, Aura clawed the two wolves in the face, nearly scratching their eyes, making them blind. The wolves backed off as the lead wolf approached. "Stay away from the Princess." Aura demanded with a snarl.

The lead wolf snarled. "This isn't over." he declared and he and his followers ran away into the night. Aura changed back into his pony self and walked up to me. "Are you okay Sarah?" he asked.

"Y-Yeah, I'm good." I replied.

"Holy...!" Me and Aura turned around to see Ren, the others, the Mane 6 and my dads staring at us with shocked, surprised and amused expressions. "... Looks like the cat's out of the bag now." Arua said nervously. "Hehehe."

Ren's POV

Holy cow! What did we just see?! Aura literally changed into a wolf! This so reminds me of Twilight: New Moon! Aura is Jacob! Oh my God! Okay.. okay.. sigh... calm down Ren. Let's just ask him a few questions so we can find out more about him."

"Alright you little... changing.. bastard. Why didn't you tell us you could change into a wolf?" Jack interrogated. Aura flinched a little under Jack, Douglas and Big D's stares. "Because if I told you then I feared my pack would hear about this."

"Your pack?" I asked.

"Yes. I live in a clan of ponies who are... like me. And it's against our pack law to date a human." Aura explained.

"But why are you dating Sarah?" Carrie asked.

"Since Sarah was an artificial human, its technically a loophole in dating an artificial human, so I can date her." Aura added.

"Okay but who were those other ponies?" Mason questioned.

"They're... part of my pack. They think since they're bigger and stronger they can date the better female, which in this case is Sarah."

"So you fought them to keep her to yourself?" I inquired. Aura nodded. Jack crossed his arms over his chest as did Douglas and Big D. Aura looked at them nervously.

"... Well..." Douglas started. "Since it's clear you're not a dirty bastard I guess you're okay in my book." Jack claimed.

"Really?" Aura asked.

"Yeah. You did protect Sarah which is what we always try to do when something happens. Now we know she'll have someone to protect her when we can't be there." Big D said. Aura and Sarah smiled. He hugged her father and Jack. "Thank you, thank you, thank you." she said. The three boys laughed. "Your welcome, honey." Douglas said.

The rest of us smiled at the loving scene. "So what do we do now?" Ren asked.

"Your date was ruined by those three stallions." Kaede added.

Rarity suddenly came up to Sarah. "I have just the thing." and she dragged her out of the home-ship. "Woah!"

"Hey!" Aura cried. All of us followed the two females to Rarity's boutique where we saw a small round table with a blue cloth and two lit candles on it. There were two plates with a simple steak and mashed potatoes dinner.

"Uhhh, what's going on here?" I asked. Rarity levitated Aura over and placed him in one of the chairs and Sarah in the other.

"Consider this a date do-over." Rarity said.

Sarah and Aura were speechless but they did blush at one another. "Now, now, everyone let's give these two some privacy." Rarity said as she shooed us out of the shop and let Sarah and Aura have their date do-over in peace.