The Good, the Bad and the Unfriendly

It was still the dead of night in the Appleloosan saloon and Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Indigo Zap, and Celestia were all playing cards with each other while a fast asleep Diamond Tiara lied sprawled over on top of their table. Most other people of Appleloosa had left the saloon at this point, with just the bartender and his family around to clean up and help out the heroes with whatever they needed right now. Despite how busy the day had been, none of the other girls wanted to sleep just yet, since tomorrow would be the time for goodbyes.

“How in the hell do you win almost every single hand?” Rainbow Dash frowned and threw down her cards in annoyance as Celestia smiled back at her.

“Beginner’s luck?” The tall lady replied.

“I’ll say,” Applejack grinned, her own hands had been terrible ever since they started playing.

“Ugh, we need to get Starlight and Trixie here, get some fresh blood in the game,” Rainbow Dash said.

“Why? You want to start losing to two more people?” Indigo smirked.

“You can shut up,” Rainbow Dash glared at her.

As Applejack gathered the cards to begin dealing again, Celestia raised her mug to her lips and sighed in contentment. She had always been moving through town with the breeze and never stayed around to do something like this before. It didn’t make her forget her purpose but it was a pleasant way to spend an evening. Pleasant just wasn’t what she was used to lately.

The doors to the saloon opened up.

All the girls at the table looked to see who would be coming in here this late at night.

And the mug dropped from Celestia’s hand, falling to the floor and shattering. The loud sound startled the others at the table and surprised the barkeep, who looked over to see what was wrong. Applejack, Rainbow, and Indigo too looked at Celestia to see why she had dropped her mug, Diamond Tiara was still passed out. What they saw was a frozen, expressionless face that was staring hard at the figure in the doorway.

Applejack glanced between Celestia and the newcomer. “Uh, Celestia?”

“Luna...” the whisper that came from Celestia’s lips was almost inaudible but Applejack still heard it.

The former farmer’s head whipped to the entrance of the saloon and she realized immediately who she was looking at. “She’s your-”

“Hello, Celestia,” Luna said with a wide smile on her face as she walked into the saloon, the doors closing shut behind her. “You came just like I asked you to.” The smile on her face turned more malicious. “Course I would have preferred never having to see your damn face again. You couldn’t just get over it? Or even better, roll over and die?”

Celestia stood up from the table and her right hand went down to the pistol on her hip almost reflexively. Looking down, she saw her fingers twitching.

“Well, well, well, so you really do just want to kill me, don’t you?” Luna said, the sneer on her face mocking Celestia.

Celestia’s eyes snapped up at her. “You already know. You know why I’ve been traveling all over Equestria for you.”

“I hope you don’t want an apology to then. Or for me to ask for forgiveness,” Luna raised an eyebrow.

“No. I know you wouldn’t ever do that. I know you don’t regret a single thing you’ve done,” Celestia grabbed her right hand to stop it from twitching. “The only reason I came here was to kill you, sister. I’m going to kill you like you deserve and make you pay for what you’ve done.”

“What I’ve done? What are you so upset over?” Luna chuckled and reached up to the neck of her shirt, putting her hand down the front of it and pulling out a necklace with a medallion on it. A crescent moon medallion. “To think this was going to be the only thing out of all that money that our parents were going to give me. I think I reacted appropriately when I learned about the new will they were writing up.”

“You know very well why they were writing you out of the will. You didn’t deserve that inheritance,” Celestia narrowed her eyes at her.

“So they decided to give it all to you,” Luna’s smile left her face for the first time as her expression darkened. “I’m glad that neither of us ended up with anything. That estate going down in flames was a better prize than any money.”

“You killed... you killed-” Celestia bit her lip so hard she started to bleed.

“Celestia!” Applejack stood up and put her arms on the taller woman’s shoulders. “Calm down!”

“Listen to your friend, sis. Oh, but I bet it’s just killing you to talk to me like this. You want to pull that gun out and shoot me so badly, don’t you?” Luna taunted.

“If you have such a death wish then I’m happy to oblige it!” Celestia reached for her pistol but Applejack grabbed her hand, stopping her.

“Don’t, Celestia!” Applejack held her hand in a tight grip.

Celestia looked at her with fury in her eyes. “Let me go, Applejack! This doesn’t concern you!”

Applejack was going to respond when Luna cut back in.

“Listen to your friend, Celestia. I don’t have a death wish but I didn’t know you had so many friends with you in here,” Luna said, her smirking eyes traveling over Applejack, Indigo, and Rainbow Dash. “So you won’t see me pulling out a gun right now. And I don’t think you’d want to gun down someone totally defenseless, now would you? Even if it’s me. I don’t think your friends would like that either. You don’t want to become a cold-blooded murderer like me, killing your own baby sister who’s just trying to have a word with you.”

Celestia ground her teeth together as she glared at Luna. “So what then? You asked me to come here to finish things with me, I know that. You didn’t want me chasing you for the rest of your life.”

“That’s right,” Luna nodded. “So we’re going to do things right. Tomorrow, at noon, the two of us will square off alone. That’s it.” Luna looked at Applejack. “None of your friends will be there to get in our way. One of us will die, and the other will keep on living.”

“A duel,” Celestia said.

“Simple as can be,” Luna smiled. “There’s an abandoned ranch slightly south of town, we can do it there right behind the farmhouse.”

Celestia took a few deep breaths as she tried to calm herself down, glaring at Luna the entire time. “I’ll be there.”

Luna chuckled briefly before tipping her hat to Celestia. “Nice seeing you again, sis.” And she turned to leave, stepping out the doors and into the night, practically disappearing into the darkness.

Celestia tore her hand from Applejack’s relaxed grip and grabbed the blonde by the collar. “Why did you do that?! I could’ve killed her! You don’t know anything god damn it!” She yelled loudly enough that it caused Diamond to stir on the table and both Rainbow Dash and Indigo Zap to look on in concern. “I’ve been traveling all this time to find and kill her and you think you can just get in my way like that?!” Celestia was red in the face as she yelled. “I don’t care about becoming a murderer, I never did, I just wanted her to die!”

Applejack took it all with a look of dismay and sympathy on her face. “It’s wrong. She’s your sister...”

Diamond Tiara had fully woken up now, she rubbed her eyes and yawned. “What’s going on...”

“I don’t care! Her being my sister doesn’t change anything, Applejack!” Celestia roared. “You don’t know, you don’t know!”

“You’re right, I don’t!” Applejack frowned and grabbed Celestia’s wrists, freeing herself from the other woman’s grip. “But that still doesn’t change the fact that I couldn’t just sit there and let you murder your little sister.”

“She deserves it,” Celestia spat out.

“Maybe. But do you really want to be the one to kill her? Do you really? You can’t ever take that back, Celestia. From the sound of it, she’s the only family you have left. Do you really want to kill your own little sister? Can you live with that?” Applejack asked her.

“It’s... I need to,” Celestia said but for the first time she looked uncertain. “All this time, revenge has been the only thing I cared about. I have to be the one to do it, I need to make things right. I don’t care what I feel afterwards.”

“You may think that but while I don’t know exactly what happened with you I know a thing or two about loss. And little sisters,” Applejack’s eyes flickered over to Diamond Tiara. “Both of mine.” She looked back at Celestia. “If you could’ve killed her so easily tonight, then frankly I wouldn’t want to have anything to do with you. You wanted to gun her down and you almost did it without hesitation. That just aint right. Sisters shouldn’t kill each other.”

As Celestia looked down at her hands she slowly curled them into fists and shut her eyes.

“I’m not going to stop you from your duel tomorrow. But I think you need to think long and hard tonight about what you’re about to do. And what it means,” Applejack told her.

Celestia realized she was shaking, she opened her eyes and tried to say something to Applejack but couldn’t find the words. Resigning herself, she stalked out of the saloon.

“Applejack...” Diamond Tiara said as soon as the older woman was gone.

Applejack stepped over and put a calming hand on her head. “Shh, you should go back to sleep, I’ll carry you over to the hotel.”

“But Celestia... what’s going on? Is she in danger?” Diamond asked.

“Should’ve just let Celestia shoot her sister,” Rainbow said to Applejack. “You shouldn’t get involved in family squabbles like that, it’s not your business.”

“Yeah, yeah...” Applejack muttered.

“You at least shouldn’t have said that other stuff. You destroyed her nerves,” Indigo said. “She’s not going to be mentally prepared for that duel tomorrow.”

“It’s good that she’s going to be thinking about it. Considering what she’s going to be doing, she should be a mess,” Applejack said. It was obvious from Rainbow Dash’s look that she didn’t agree but Applejack ignored her. She patted Diamond’s head. “And you don’t worry none either. This is just... something that needs to be done.”

That night, Celestia’s dreams were a mixture of fire and phantoms dancing in her mind. She saw her parents, she saw her home burning, and she saw her little sister slowly walking away into the distance even as Celestia’s hands reached out to stop her. It was only a little past dawn that she woke up with a fright and covered in sweat. The room around her was unfamiliar before she remembered that Cranky Doodle had made sure she was given a room in The Grand Appleloosan. A pang of guilt went through her as she remembered that she needed to help clean his home. But unfortunately too much had come up.

Celestia sat in the middle of her bed, hands rubbing her forehead as the sun medallion dangled over her chest.

She had to get up. She had to forget everything else and finish things between herself and Luna. A shower would clean her head and after that she could get dressed, get her guns, and head out to the ranch. Then it would all be over.

Outside she heard a bird chirping at the window but by the time she looked over to the sill it was already gone.

Celestia threw the bed’s blanket off her legs and stood up, momentarily breathing in and out to try and calm herself down after the dream. She didn’t understand why she was feeling this way after being cold for so long. Calm and in-control, unwavering in her desire to find Luna and get her revenge. To kill her. So why were the words of Applejack hurting her so much? She had killed many on her travels already... but that was always self-defense or to save the lives of others. And she never went out of her way to kill someone she didn’t need to or she didn’t think deserved to die.

She had been so detached from it all until now.

None of them had any relation to her. None of them were her little sister. Her hated, evil, little sister. But still her little sister. No one else in the world could make that claim. Celestia thought now that she may have just been avoiding thinking about it. As much as she wanted revenge, as much as Luna deserved to die, could Celestia pull the trigger?

She wasn’t sure anymore. It had been so easy before. So easy all the times it didn’t matter and wasn’t when she wanted to do it.

Celestia stepped into the bathroom and into the shower, she couldn’t keep going like this. She had to focus on the duel or she’d just end up dead.

But she couldn’t. Even as she showered, even as she got dressed, even as she tied her gun belt around her waist, she couldn’t get those thoughts and doubts out of her head. The unease she was feeling now was so foreign to her after ages of calm certainty.

By the time she was totally ready for the duel it was still only early in the morning. She had a long time to go and only her thoughts to keep her company, not something she was looking forward to. The thought of searching for Applejack and the others crossed her mind but she quashed. No more distractions were needed and she didn’t want to get in another argument.

Celestia sat at the edge of her bed, absentmindedly thumbing the butt of one of her pistols. Before long she stood up and left the room, a walk would at least be better than just staying here.

Opposed to yesterday there were plenty of people around Appleloosa now. Mostly people cleaning up their homes or businesses but she saw some children out playing too. Closer to the west side of the city there was a group of prospectors getting ready to pan for gold in the river again. Seeing them, Celestia was reminded of the truth of Appleloosa and she silently wished them the best of luck. Her feet then carried her down the same street Rainbow Dash had mentioned fighting Lightning Dust on, Celestia could see the dried up blood in the dirt, not cleaned by the locals yet. Seemed crazy that that was all only yesterday. So much had happened in one day.

And yet the town lived on. The people were already picking up the pieces. It did bring a small measure of joy to Celestia, or at least it would if her mind wasn’t occupied with other things. But it did feel good to do something like this. Every other act of good she had done while out and about on her journey was only incidental, this was the first time she really felt like she had gone out of her way to help others.

Slowly but surely she found herself standing in front of Cranky’s home.

She wanted to go inside but in the end chose not too. Cranky might have been asleep for all she knew and she didn’t want to get caught up in helping and talking to him before her duel.

A crow landed on the roof of his house and cawed once before flying away, Celestia watching it until it disappeared in the distance.

She felt off. That sixth sense of hers, that feeling of invincibility and her near-supernatural abilities with a gun weren’t speaking to her. She didn’t know why she was so good with a gun in the first place but she always considered it a gift. Or a blessing. To give her the ability to do what she needed to do.

Maybe the uncertainty that Applejack had filled her with was affecting her in more ways than one...

For the first time since she had started this journey across Equestria to find and kill her sister, Celestia was worried.

The sun had almost reached the apex of its climb in the skies above Appleloosa. Shadows were beginning to disappear as high noon approached. The citizens of the town had no idea what was going to be happening just a little bit south of their homes, a good thing, they didn’t need anymore stress. It was a hot day, hot and dry with not even enough wind to blow a tumbleweed around.

Celestia walked to the abandoned ranch with its broken fence and dilapidated farmhouse. It stood like a gravestone in the hot plains just south of Appleloosa. Her long coat and hat protected her from the hot rays of the sun, but for once she felt uncomfortable after walking for so long today. Her feet ached and the weight of her heavy clothes and the hat on her head made her feel sluggish.

This kind of thing had never bothered her before, she never got tired on her travels so far.

When she got closer to the ranch she spotted a horse tied up to an old fencepost outside the farmhouse. Black with a well-maintained saddle on its back, Luna’s horse no doubt. Celestia didn’t recognize the animal so Luna must’ve picked it up somewhere else while she made it through Equestria, doing whatever it is she had been doing since sending their family’s home up in flames.

As soon as she passed by the farmhouse she looked over to see Luna leaning up against its southern wall, staring off into the distance with a smile on her face. Luna then looked over at Celestia and winked.

“Glad you made it,” Luna said.

Celestia had the urge to pull out her gun and shoot Luna right then, but something stopped her. Some twitch in her hand, some hesitation. Whatever it was she only stood there with a stony expression on her face as she stared down her little sister. All the things Applejack had said were swimming about in her head, muddying her thoughts and filling her with doubts. If she really killed Luna here... if she really killed her little sister.

She was sure she wanted to. She was sure it needed to be done. She was sure it was the right thing to do. But could she live for the rest of her life knowing she had killed Luna?

The sun was directly above them. It was time.

Celestia’s eyes glanced down to the gun belt Luna wore. “You got yourself a second gun.”

“I like having two,” Luna said as she walked away from the farmhouse towards the open ground out back. “Seems you feel the same way.”

Celestia’s fingers danced around the handles of her guns before she started walking out to join Luna. They both carried twin revolvers but Luna wore hers in the standard fashion, not the way Celestia did. Either way only one would be used by both of them now. And a single bullet as well.

If it wasn’t for the sounds of their boots on the loose dirt and dying grass there would be silence across the ranch. They both took their time, taking simple steady steps out until they were on even ground with the farmhouse to the side of them. Neither was in a hurry. Neither had anything else to do today. The two sisters turned to face each other at the same time without another word. Twenty feet away from each other. Already Luna’s right hand was hanging right next to her revolver and Celestia’s soon dropped to swing by hers.

Silently they stood facing each other. The first sound that broke the silence was of Luna cracking her knuckles one by one on her right hand. Celestia followed with a slow exhale and lightly licked her dry lips.

“Ten count?” Luna said. “I’ll start it.”

Celestia nodded, but as she did so a spike of terror erupted in her chest. It was happening. It was happening now, she was either going to kill her little sister or die. The words of Applejack and all the doubts that had been planted in her mind were coming out again.

Luna wasn’t dragged down by these thoughts, Celestia could tell. Her sister only had a small smile on her face as she began the ten count.

“One.”

She wanted to kill Luna but now the thought, the vision she was having of her pulling out her gun and shooting her sister dead, was making her blood run cold. A cold sweat had broken out on her forehead and she felt her heart beating faster and faster.

She wasn’t even paying attention to the number Luna was on. Each breath she took now made her whole body shudder.

It was strange, she had never felt anything but total calm during a duel and now she was a wreck.

As Luna kept counting, Celestia tried to focus on all the reasons she needed to kill her. She pictured their dead parents. She pictured their burning home. The dead servants, the stolen or destroyed heirlooms, the uncaring figure leaving it all behind.

She pictured herself playing in the yard with her little sister when they were just children.

She couldn’t do it. She knew it now. There was no way that Celestia would be able to draw her gun like this. Her nerves were shot. She was going to die here and everything she had done would end up pointless. Her sun medallion pilfered, her guns left to rust, her body to rot. Even now her hands were cold and clammy and her lip quivered, tears were already gathering at her eyes as she knew she had failed.

“Nine,”

Luna’s smirk was confident and her hand floated closer to her gun, ready to pull it out and shoot her sister dead.

Celestia’s face was one of sorrow as her body froze up and waited for it.

“Ten.”

Luna’s draw was quick as lightning, the ebony-handled revolver was pulled from its holster and aimed directly at Celestia’s heart. Her finger squeezed the trigger and-

Bang!

Celestia flinched. But she didn’t die, she hadn’t been shot. Instead Luna gasped in shock as the gun had been shot out of her hand before she could fire.

Both sisters looked over to the farmhouse where the shot had come from

A young blond woman was standing there, smoking gun held up by her head while a younger girl in a white dress stood behind her.

“That time-” Applejack said as she blew the smoke away from the gun’s barrel and glanced down at Diamond Tiara. “It was on purpose.”

“Applejack...” Celestia muttered.

“You! You bitch!” Luna yelled at her. “How dare you get in the way of our duel!” She reached with her left hand for her other pistol-

Applejack clicked the hammer on her gun back and leveled it at Luna. “I’d put your hand down if I were you.”

Luna glared at her but did as ordered, not a fan of getting shot.

“And duel?” Applejack’s eyes narrowed as she stared Luna down. “That wasn’t a duel. Celestia was never going to pull her gun out. You on the other hand.” Applejack spat on the ground. “You didn’t hesitate at all. You were going to kill your sister without a second thought, even if she wasn’t going to motion for her gun.”

Applejack started walking towards Celestia while keeping her eye on Luna. “So sorry for interfering right then, I won’t next time. You might want to put that gun into your other holster now.”

Luna was practically trembling in anger as she pulled the gun from her left holster and reholstered it in her right one. Her right hand now hovered right next to the gun again, but her smile was replaced with a hard frown and a furrowed brow.

Meanwhile, Applejack turned to Celestia with an easy grin on her face.

Celestia after a moment managed to smile back at her, her nervousness and fear evaporating. “But you said...”

“I know what I said,” Applejack patted her on the shoulder. “Now you do what you have to do.”

Applejack stepped back away from her and rejoined Diamond Tiara by the farmhouse, putting her arm around her little sister and making sure this duel now went off without a hitch. Celestia steeled herself and looked hard at Luna, tearing off her long duster and letting it fall the ground, grabbing her hat and tossing it to the side, and pulling out her left revolver and throwing it to the dirt. Lastly she reached into her shirt and pulled out the sun medallion to let it hang freely in the sunlight. Like that she was ready to draw this time.

Luna seemed to notice the change in Celestia’s attitude and appearance as well, she swallowed a lump in her throat and her right hand twitched towards her gun. There was no count this time, they would draw when the moment was right.

It was still high noon but the sun was just barely starting to move out of position, giving them the smallest possible growth in the shadows beneath their feet. Celestia faced the west. Luna faced the east. They were like a mirror image of each other almost with their steady hands hanging by their guns.

Their eyes locked. Unblinking eyes staring hard at each other.

Off to the side, Applejack watched with a steady, emotionless gaze while a worried Diamond Tiara had her hands clasped together in front of her chest. She was looking back and forth and praying for Celestia’s safety.

The sisters’ staredown continued and Luna’s hand moved closer to her pistol.

Closer. Closer.

Luna grit her teeth hard enough to crack them while Celestia was now an unwavering pillar.

A bead of sweat rolled down Luna’s face. Celestia was just staring at her, not making any movements or signs herself.

The bead of sweat crawled all the way down her cheek, past her lips, and rested at her chin. Hanging there and waiting for gravity to finish the job and make it drop to the hot dirt below.

The moment it finally dripped off her chin Luna reached for her gun.

Celestia’s draw was faster and a single gunshot rang out loudly in the emptiness just south of Appleloosa.

Luna was spun around and fell to the ground—shot straight through the heart. Dead before she hit the dirt.

Celestia stood there with her revolver in hand, silently looking at her fallen sister. She wasn’t sure what she felt now but it wasn’t crushing guilt or regret. It had to be done. After a moment longer of looking upon Luna, she spun the gun around in her hand and put it back in its holster, taking a deep, shuddering, breath and staring up at the sky. It was over. Her little sister was dead and her journey was over. In truth, Celestia didn’t know what to do now. But she figured that maybe she could at least bury her sister. Do one last act of decency for her sister, even if she hadn’t felt any feelings of love for her for a long time.

“Do you need a drink?” Applejack asked her, the farm girl had a solemn look on her face, but there was no judgment on it either.

“I… I think that would be nice,” Celestia said. “But I’ll need to come back here later. With a shovel.”

Applejack nodded. “Fair enough. Only right after all.” She tilted her head at Celestia. “You okay?”

Celestia shrugged and walked over to the two other girls. “I’ll live with it. I think I’m just going to need to do a lot of thinking now. For a long time I’ve just… not had anything else on my mind.”

“I’m glad you’re okay,” Diamond said before wincing. “Um… I’m sorry you had to kill your sister… but I’m glad you’re alright.”

“Thank you,” Celestia smiled and patted her on the head. “You’re a sweet girl.”

“Let’s walk back into town now, you can say goodbye to Rainbow Dash too, she hasn’t left yet,” Applejack said.

“Good, I was hoping I’d get the chance to,” Celestia said as the three of them now together began the short walk back into Appleloosa proper.

Applejack nodded and glanced at Celestia. “You know if you need the time thinking and all… you might as well just stay in Appleloosa. With us.”

Diamond Tiara fervently agreed. “Yeah! You shouldn’t have to go out alone again or anything, you’ve made some friends so why not hang out here?”

“I-” Celestia paused, realizing she didn’t have any excuse or reason to say no. “You know? That actually doesn’t sound so bad. I didn’t have any plans for after finishing things with Luna. I really have no idea what I’d do in town either but… with friends like the two of you still here I think maybe I’ll be able to enjoy my life again.”

Diamond Tiara hugged her briefly. “I’m really, really glad you’ll stay. And Starlight and Trixie are staying too, can you believe how lucky it is that we all just met up like that?”

“Don’t crowd her too much, Diamond,” Applejack said and pulled the young girl away. “She still needs her space right now.”

Celestia chuckled slightly and smiled. “It’s alright. After today, and yesterday, I think everything’s going to be alright.”

The town of Appleloosa had given more than enough provisions and money for Rainbow Dash and Indigo Zap to make their journey to Canterlot. After waving goodbye to the brief friends she had made in town, Rainbow Dash left with her ward for the capitol. Indigo Zap was solemn as she left, but calm and accepting as well.

After a week had passed, things were mostly normal in Appleloosa. Though they would never be the same thanks to the lives lost during the Shadowbolts brief reign of terror. While casualties had been kept surprisingly low, the mayor was one of those lost. And unfortunately a memorial for him was put on hold when Cranky came clean to the rest of the town (and those who had come south for the supposed gold rush) about the nugget and the amount of gold Appleloosa was seeing. That had caused quite a panic and made quite a few people angry, but cooler heads prevailed and a lack of wanting things to get violent so quickly again stopped any sort of riot.

Celestia was now temporarily living with Cranky after she had helped him clean his home just like she promised. And Applejack had come by to help with his broken windows.

After that, Applejack and Diamond Tiara decided to move into the old farmhouse and ranch out south. It was a familiar kind of place to Applejack and she wasn’t going to pass it up even if it needed some work. Already she was planning on planting some apple trees and teaching her little sister the tools of the trade.

Starlight Glimmer was still healing but had already gotten started on inserting herself into the local law enforcement scene. With a load of signatures from important people all around town, she had also written up a pardon for Trixie she planned to send to Canterlot. Being the one who personally killed Sunset Shimmer should go a long ways to helping a bank robber that had never hurt anyone before get her name cleared. Trixie herself was still tossing and turning at night, but it caused her to throw herself even further into her magic tricks and performances. Already she was a hit with the children of Appleloosa.

Every night the five of them met in the same saloon it had all started in. Just to talk, drink, and have a good time together.

Elsewhere in Equestria a town started by a group of homesteaders from Canterlot was becoming a hot new spot on the map.

The famous gunslinger, Spitfire, was becoming even more famous for her new left-handed draw.

Fancy Pants personally visited Lady Rarity and Fluttershy after tracking down the family of a one Zephyr Breeze, his sizable donation to her estate reportedly caused Lady Rarity to faint on the spot.

Governor Mare won reelection in a landslide after the well-publicized trial of “The Last Shadowbolt”.

Rainbow Dash continued to travel after leaving Canterlot.

The Flim Flam brothers continued to grow richer.

A young girl by the name of Twist moved on and lived her life.

Criminals continued to rob banks, duels continued to be fought, vigilantes and officers of the law did what they did. And the stories of Equestria continued to be told.