Multiversal Crisis: A Equestria Girls Story

by DReep

Chapter 20: If It Can Get Worse...

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After opening her eyes, Sunset finds herself under a tree, contemplating a beautiful landscape, it's such a calmed place, but... why is she seeing this? It doesn't matter, this peaceful place grants Sunset of the calm she needs to reflect over everything, it's been two days since Sunlight was chased by O.N.I, she has tried to contact her but... Sunlight hasn't responded to any of her calls or messages, probably something bad happened to her.

"(I... have to... find her.)" Thought Sunset as she kept her sight in the wonderful blue sky above her, but as she tried to cover her eyes from the sun, she sees a crystal in her hand, it's not her necklace, it's something else, it's color begins to turn golden as Sunset looks at it while holding it in her hands.

"W-What?" Asked Sunset slowly as she tries to understand what the crystal is, it has a name, and she knows it but, it hurts... to remember. Sunset places her hand on her head, the pain is much more than before, a ringing sound floods her ears, increasing the pain.

"Sunset... Sunset... Sunset..." There's someone calling her, but... the pain, it's too much. Sunset closes her eyes to cope with the pain, but she hears her name again in the distance. "SUNSET!!" Said a voice, it's Twilight. When Sunset opens her eyes again, the sight shocks her.

She indeed was under a tree, but there isn't any beautiful landscape, it's a forest, but not her home world's. Twilight is shaking her by the shoulders, calling Sunset, she's wearing her battle suit, "(T-Twilight...? What's...going on?)" Thought Sunset, her ears still buzz, suddenly, many blaster shots come from behind her, Linda comes in and pushes Twilight away and brings Sunset to the ground to take cover, Linda and Twilight get up and go back to fight. Sunset tries to stand up, but as she bows her head of effort, a drop of blood falls on her hand, she then realizes she's also wearing her battle suit, and she's bleeding from her forehead. Sunset turns around and sees what's going on.

Master Chief and Fred are shooting their weapons to give covering fire against... Red Armored Troopers? the helmet's look like the ones of the First Order, but different.

Kelly is bandaging Fluttershy's abdomen, she's bleeding, and her face shows extreme pain, Sunset looks to the other side and she sees Rainbow Dash and Applejack fighting against these Red Troopers, but Applejack received a blaster shot on her shoulder, Rarity creates a diamond to protect hem, whilst she and Pinkie Pie provide cover and explosives to spread the enemy, she then manages to stand up and sees how Chief takes off his helmet and begins to shout something, but Sunset can't understand what he's saying, her ears still buzz. But when she walks towards him, she feels something bumping her right foot, Sunset looks down and sees the object that bumped into her.

"That's... not good." Says Sunset as she widens her eyes, the last thing she would want to see will be Flash or at least her pet Ray, not... that thing. Before she realizes and in a fraction of seconds, she feels something wrapping around her and pulling her away, the object explodes and the shockwave thrusts her even more. Chief saved her with her grappling hook, but he leaves her right away and puts on his helmet, he stands up and says. "The crystal! Use it!" Sunset finally heared him, the buzzing of her ears was fading away, she looks at her hand and sees the crystal, which only lies on her hand. "How I'm going to use this?" Said Sunset to herself, but the first thought that comes to her mind is. "(How did we end up like this?)"


A day ago

Sunset has tried to contact with Sunlight since yesterday, but there's no response, she heads to Sunlight's apartment to check on her, but when she knocks the door, Adagio is the one that received her.

"Oh! Sunset, I wasn't expecting your visit." Says Adagio with a surprised expression. "Adagio? Where's Sunlight?" Asks Sunset with a concerned expression, right now, both seem worried about the same person, so there's no need to argue between them. "I-I don't know... maybe you can help us find her." Says Adagio as she opens the door for Sunset, who comes in and sees the hole made by Spider-Man, Sonata is putting all the bricks back in the hole as Aria is checking Sunlight's laptop. "What... happened?" Asks Sunset, surprised and confused about the scene she's watching right now.

"We were attacked by some weirdo wearing a blue and red suit, he was coming after Sunlight, she ran away from here, but that man chased her down, and we've tried to contact her, but she hasn't responded to any of our calls!" Says Adagio with frustration, since she's worried of what could that man have done to Sunlight, the mere thought of something bad happening to her is just... unbearable. "We're in the same situation then, the police hasn't come here yet, right?" Asks Sunset as she sees the hole in the wall, it's big enough to not be seen by anyone.

"Nope, although we heard some patrols like half an hour ago, the landlord came and asked for what exactly happened and we had to lie to him, so we better cover this up before anyone realizes something happened." Says Sonata with a serious expression as she keeps placing brick over brick to cover the hole. "I told you that if you want to fix it, you need something to glue it, and there's nothing we can use for it." Says Aria with frustration as she turns to Sonata, Sunset then manages to see Sunlight's laptop screen and sees many recordings, with curiosity, she asks. "What's that?"

"I've been checking the recording of the security camera Sunlight has, it's illegal to do have a security camera here without authorization, yes... but it's the best way to see who was her attacker." Replies Aria as she looks again at the computer, Sunset joins her and after tweeking the image, they finally see their attacker clearly.

"Who's that guy?" Asks Adagio as she sees Spider-Man's image, Sunset then takes a photo of him and says. "I don't know, but I think I know someone who does." Says Sunset as she heads to the door. "Where are you going?" Asks Adagio with a serious expression, Sunset sighs and looks at her as she says. "I'm going to get as much information as I can, if that man captured Sunlight, then she's in danger. I wish that I could help you more right now, but we have to be fast in this matter, I won't ask you to involve in this mess, since it can be more dangerous for you, and Sunlight would kill me if something bad happens to any of you."

Adagio's expression changes to a more emotional one, she then clenches her chest with her hand and says. "Sunset... please, bring her back... and if we... I can help you with anything, let me know... I won't let her suffer alone, not anymore." Her expression shows sadness and sorrow, like something was stripped from her heart, Sunset understands this and with a kind expression, she says. "Don't worry, we will find her." Says Sunset as she leaves and closes the door.

After notifying her friends about this situation, Sunset heads to Flash's house to ask Chief who's the man that attacked Sunlight, she tried to contact Flash first, but he's not responding.


Meanwhile, in the lab at his house, Flash and Chief are training. "You've become stronger, may I know the reason?" Asks Chief as he spins his blades, Flash on the other hand seems a bit exhausted, his shirt covered in sweat and his blade emitting orange flames thanks to his Flame Breathing. "After the previous fights, I learned that the Flame Breathing is focused on decapitating demons with heavy or multiple slashes, but I've done a few changes to the sword technique, making it more suitable for fights against people like Sith Lords, or any other being."

"But you're frustrated right now, aren't you?" Asks Chief as he rests his blades on his shoulders. "Is it obvious? Argh, this thing is getting in the way!" Says Flash as he takes off his shirt and throws it away, revealing his toned body along with a scar on his belly and right shoulder, right where he was stabbed by Starkiller a time ago. "I'm just frustrated by my own weakness, that's why I want to become stronger!" Said Flash as he charged forward, clashing blades with Chief. "That's not something to be frustrated for, with discipline, you can overcome that weakness of yours." Replies Chief as he swings his blades away, making space between them.

"Yeah?! And when will I get to the point where I can recover from death wounds in 18 hours, like you?!" Asks Flash as he spins his blade and takes an offensive position. "That's different, my augmentations give me outstanding capabilities compared to a normal human." Replies Chief as he and Flash begin to walk in circles around each other. "Then why can't I receive those augmentations, I'd be able to protect my mother and Sunset more efficiently." Says Flash as he lowers his blade, Chief sighs and replies with a calmed voice. "Flash, the upgrades I was subject to, have more than 70% of chances of going wrong, resulting in your death. Right now... I don't think you need them, I mean... look at you... your physical condition matches the one of a professional athlete, and is highly above it thanks to your breathing technique."

"But... what can I do? I think my current strength is not enought to protect those whom I love." Says Flash with slight traces of frustration, but Chief approaches him and says with a fatherly voice. "That's normal, I feel like that most of the time, but something that helps me is to never stop training, neither your body nor your mind."

"Why both?" Asks Flash confused, everything he's learned focused on dominating his body's capabilites. "A strong body is useless with a weak mind in it, and the same happens with a strong mind in a weak body, you can't allow yourself to train only one, if you wish to be stronger, you need to dominate both body and mind." Said John with a voice that ressembles one of an old wise teacher, Flash then smiles and says. "Well... maybe some meditation can work, but there's a sparring session we need to conclude." Says Flash as he takes his blade with both of his hands, after using his breathing, his blade emits its characteristical orange flames. "Agreed." Says Chief as he spins his blades and focuses on his breathing, it appears he now decided to use his breathing technique wether than using the blades' power so oftenly.

When both were about to engage combat again, the door of the training room begins to knock, snapping both out of their concentration. "Who might be?" Asks Chief as he lowers his blades. "I dunno, I'll go and check." Replies Flash as he leaves his blade on a bench and heads to the door, it didn't open since it was locked by Chief due to their training session, the moment the door opens, Flash and Sunset meet their eyes. "Oh! Sunset, what brings you here?!" Asks Flash with a cheerful smile as he leans on the door, nut he doesn't realizes the situation he has put Sunset in, who blushes and says stuttering.


"H-hey Flash, I-I-I called you b-but y-you didn't a-answer... I-I am... l-looking f-for J-John... (Damn! Since when he's so hot?!)" Said Sunset in her mind, her hand moves on its own towards Flash's chest, but before touching it, she managed to stop herself, Flash notices her behavior and realizes the spot where he's in, shirtless... in front of his girlfriend, and his father is behind him, it's kinda awkward when you think of it. "Oh, shoot! Hahaha, sorry, please come in..." Says Flash as he blushes and steps backwards, both can't stop to look at each other, but the moment is interrupted when a flying t-shirt hits Flash's face.

"Always wear something clean after training, plus... if you're going to do anything you would do, wait until I'm gone." Says Chief as he turned off the gravitational increaser, the panel displayed 1.2 G on it, they were training under that gravity. "Tell me Sunset, what happened?" Asks Chief with a calmed voice as he walks towards them, Flash and Sunset were smiling at each other, but Sunset then changes her expression to a more serious one and replies. "It's... Sunlight, she hasn't responded any of my messages, I went to her apartment and I found The Dazzlings, and they said that they were attacked by someone yesterday's night, and I need to know who this person is." Says Sunset with a serious expression as she takes her phone and shows them the photo she took from Sunlight's computer.

"I need a bigger image... Cortana, are you here?!" Says Chief aloud, as far as he knows, Cortana is with Fred, but for his surprise, Cortana appears standing right next to him.


"Yup, I am here, Fred said that you'd be a danger if there isn't anyone to watch your back, so I stayed here." Says Cortana with a humoristic voice, as she's mocking of Chief causing a chaos whenever he's alone. "Really funny, can you help us, here?" Asks Chief with a serious expression pointing at Sunset's phone, Cortana then touches the screen and takes the image, she then zooms it making it much more easier to see, but it only took Chief a few seconds to realize who was Sunlight's attacker.

"Crap." Said Chief with a serious voice, he knows who's that man, confused about who he refers, Flash asks. "Why crap? Is he with The Final Order?" Chief looks at him and replies with a serious voice. "Fortunately, no. But he's with the Hunters, a special group The Resistance made to deal with anomalies, a few of the best are in their ranks, they're more effective than a strike team. But this guy, he's Hunter-002, Miguel O'Hara AKA Spider-Man."

"And who's this Spider-Man?" Asks Sunset with a serious voice, if he captured Sunlight, she needs to know who she's dealing with. "He's the second top Hunter in the ranks, he's efficient, serious and has a strong commitment to preserve estability throughout the Multiverse, if he was sent to hunt down Sunlight, it's highly probable that he captured her."

"And what do you think happened to her?" Asks Sunset now more worried about Sunlight, Chief looks at her and replies with a serious expression. "Captain Lasky told me about the situation and that you along with the Blue Team carried on Protocol: Ares. If O.N.I wants Sunlight, they'll need her alive... Cortana, contact Miguel."

After a short while, Cortana uses the holo projector in the training room to contact Spider-Man, it only took a few seconds of waiting for him to answer the call. "Master Chief? This is not the best moment." Asks Spider-Man with a serious expression, he seems tired. "Miguel, how was your last hunt, I was told that it was interesting." Says Chief, discretely trying to hide his intentions, Miguel sighs and replies. "It was indeed, I almost got her... but she escaped... O.N.I wasn't very pleased, but everything turned out much difficult when your team and Galen helped the anomaly escape."

"She's a girl, not an anomaly, and my team was only doing the right thing, if you have a problem with it, we can discuss it face to face." Replies Chief with a serious voice, he seems mad by Miguel's statement. "I don't want any unnecessary quarrel, Master Chief. But we know she's dangerous, she murdered dozens of members of The Resistance, we can't let her run freely. Specially when she got help to escape me." Replies Miguel with a serious voice, but something he said comes to Chief's mind "...help to escape..." Chief can't help but to ask. "What do you mean by help?"

"I had her already in custody, but then, a dark cloud begin to surround her, I tried to stop her but I was unable to. The dark cloud had taken her away, and I don't know where she went." Says Miguel with a frustrated voice, he still can't accept the fact she escape right in front of him. "It was Kylo Ren, he's the one that uses that technique to escape whenever he's losing." Replies Chief with a serious voice, if Kylo got Sunlight out, then it means either she contact him for help, or he contacted her first, whichever is the case, there was an implication in this matter from Kylo's behalf.

"Then things are much more complicated now. Listen... I'd love to keep chatting with you, but we have to track Eclipse Sunlight down, wherever she might be, I'd be in stand by if you find anything else, let me know.... Miguel out." Said Miguel as he ended the call, leaving them only with their thoughts and theories, Chief remains silent, but Sunset then says. "If Sunlight's with Kylo, probably she's trying to figure out something useful about The Final Order, don't you think?" Chief then changes his reflective expression to a more calmed one, but some guilt remains in him, if he had woke up earlier, he could've helped Sunlight, but since he woke up, he was sent here without a clue of what happened, only Cortana was the one who brought him up to date, Chief then said with a calmed voice.

"It's possible, but we have to... " John is then interrupted by Sunset's phone, which is ringing, she takes it and sees that Sunlight is calling her, relief flooded her body after seeing Sunlight is alive, Sunset takes the call and says. "Sunlight! How you've been, we're worried about you! Is it safe to talk?"

"Yes, sorry for not calling back, but I've been busy. I need all of you to come to this coordinates, they're on another universe, Kylo's planning something and you need to come ASAP, this might be the perfect chance to take him down." Said Sunlight through the phone's speaker, but there's something weird, her voice... is much more serious than before, like if it's... emotionless, but Sunset assumes it's because Sunlight's tired or something else, a message pops on Sunset's phone, those are only coordinates to the place Sunlight mentioned.

"We'll be there, just hang on, got it?" Asks Sunset with a confident voice, waiting for an answer, but Sunlight then replies with a serious voice. "I'll be waiting." The call ends right after that. "What did she say?" Asks Chief with a concerned expression, Sunset looks at him and replies. "She's fine... I guess, but there was something off, she sounded much more serious, I don't know if she's busy or anything, it was really weird. But she said that we might have a chance to strike Kylo down once and for all, but we need to go to these coordinates." Says Sunset as she shows Chief the coordinates, Cortana peeks and easily determines where that is. "Hmmm, that's weird. That's a remote universe, there's only two registered anomalies and the most recent one is already under surveillance, how was Sunlight able to contact us if there's no phone signal there?." Says Cortana concerned of this, luckily for them, those coordinates led to a world where a Hunter lives, so she proceeds to make contact with her.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the phone, Sunlight was using a communicator from the holotable, she turns it off and turns around, revealing her now corrupted self, only a serious expression remains as she walks out of that tent, as she looks at the beautiful landscape in front of her.

"Did they believe you?" Asks Kylo who approaches Sunlight, he seems quite calmed, they're in a camp made with dozens of Sith Troopers, scatterd in a radius of 4 kilometers. "Yeah, they did." Replies Sunlight with an emotionless expression, showing that right now, she's only a puppet under Kylo's command. "Then we'll only have to wait for them to arrive... why don't you take a look at this place? It has its own charm to be honest, but don't get too close to those... metal birds... we've already lost a scout party trying to deal with them, we'll remain undiscovered if we keep our distance though." Says Kylo with a confident voice as he looks at the scenery, Sunlight looks at him and with a serious expression she asks. "Why are we here?"

"Didn't I tell you? We detected Equestrian magic in this world, its in cave not too far from here, our objective its to carry out a little experiment I have in mind... I'd like to see if with my current power, I'm able to absorb magic." Replies Kylo with a serious expression, his ambition is now driving him to get even more power out of Equestrian magic.

"If you succeed, would I be also able to do that?" Asks Sunlight, following her master's desire for power. "I'm afraid I don't know, I'd be combining ancient Sith techniques with the dark magic of my necklace to carry this out, but... your anger and hatred are enough to boost your power, so I don't see why would you require to absorb magic." Says Kylo, as he's trying to get that idea out of Sunlight's head because deep inside, he knows that if she learns ways to become much more powerful, she'd result in a threat rather than an ally and that's something Kylo doesn't want to deal with.

From the distance, a woman observes how The Final Order prepares to dig a hole on her world.

"Who are these people and what do they want here?" Asks the woman to herself, then, one of the metal birds Kylo mentioned lands next to her, as it drops a Sith Trooper helmet.


"Let's see what the Glinthawks recolected." The woman grabs the helmet and examines it as she says to herself. "This helmet is made of materials out of this lands, and the design doesn't match any kind of helm I've seen before... probably I should make some calls." Says the woman as she takes out of her pocket a communicator, she activates it and begins to call for someone, then... a hologram appears in the communicator, it's Spider-Man.


"Miguel, you said you were looking for some people, right?" Asks the woman as she shows the helmet the glinthawk recovered. "It's someone Aloy but yes... woah! that's... bad news actually, where did you find it?" Asks Miguel as seems confused of how does a Sith Trooper helmet is in another world without them noticing, the woman's name is Aloy, member of the Hunters, but most of the time she stays on her world to keep peace in it, but she helps The Resistance whenever she can.

"I found a big bunch of men dressed in armors wearing this helmet, but they're two people that stand out from the rest, one of them is a cloaked guy who wears a mask, but his costume is completely black, which is... silly... considering that it seems they want to keep a low profile. And the other person is a girl, she seems young, and also... both of them seem to be scheming something, probably related to the recent anomaly that appeared days ago." Says Aloy with a calmed voice as she began to describe Kylo and Sunlight, it appears the Equestrian magic The Final Order detected was already under Aloy's supervision, but she can't risk to engage directly as she doesn't know what the enemy is capable of.

"Have they detected you?" Asks Miguel with a serious voice, if Aloy's position is compromised, probably everything will go south, and as Sunlight is also there, he can't let Aloy be detected, but she replies with a confident smile. "Nope, despite bringing a lot of troops, these guys have never been here, they don't know that the high ground exists and only check what's below them... quite the rookies if you ask me."

"Alright, stay sharp, we'll be there as soon as possible." Replies Miguel as he cuts the call, Aloy was about to take a better position, but she receives another incoming transmission, she takes it as she moves cautiously backwards and tells the glinthawk to fly away. "Huntress - 005 here, what's the situation?" Asks Aloy with a serious voice as she keeps an eye on Kylo's camp, but she doesn't look at the communicator. "Aloy! everything's fine?" Asks Cortana with a friendly and cheerful voice.

"Cortana?! Hey!" Says Aloy with a smile, it's been quite the time since she talked to Cortana, despite being an AI and a human, both get along pretty well, but Aloy remembers the problem she's dealing with now and says with a serious voice. "Uhmm... actually, there's a problem here, I found some weird guys making an... excavation site? I think... on the cave where I found the anomaly, but they're a lot and there are two creepy guys that I better not engage if I want to stay alive." Says Aloy as she uses the device on her ear to broadcast the images of what she's seeing.

"That's... The Final Order... which means trouble, but don't worry, we're going to head to your position. Just... don't get caught, please." Says Cortana with a friendly voice. "Yeah, I already told Miguel about this, so probably it'll be a mess with these guys and Hunters all over the place." Replies Aloy with a serious expression, but Cortana seems a bit concerned about that, Aloy notices her expression and asks. "Why the long face? Did I miss something?"

"Why did you told Miguel?" Asks Cortana confused, Aloy peeks from the cliff to see that the Final Order hasn't moved, they seem to remain at the same spots. "Because he sent a message through the Hunters' channel that he's looking for someone, and lucky me! I found that person." Replies Aloy with a calmed voice, Cortana now gets it, Sunlight is there and Aloy found her. They have to be quick to not lose this chance. "Alright, hang in there, keep an eye on them and notify us any change, got it?" Replies Cortana with a serious voice, Aloy quickly agrees and the call ends, leaving Aloy alone, who took her bow and was a about to change her location, but suddenly from her blind spot, a deep voice says.

"You! Stop right there!" Aloy turns around and sees a small patrol of Sith Troopers.


"This is great." Says Aloy as she sighs looks at the Sith Troopers, but little did they know, that Aloy isn't fool enough to leave her blind spot uncovered, an electric trap detonates stunning the squad, giving Aloy a chance to run, in this cases, it's much better to run than risk a direct combat. As Aloy was running towards a cliff, the Sith Troopers recovered quickly and began to chase her as they begin to shoot her.

Aloy grabbed tightly a rope from a improvised pulley that she made by tighting up a heavy rock to one of the ends of the rope and the other end was tethered to another heavy rock, the pulley was hanging from the wall of the mountain, she then cuts it with a small knife, she then thrusts herself upward and deploys a glider.


By doing evasive maneuvers, Aloy evaded all the shots from her chasers, without looking she knows that all of The Final Order in her world have noticed her presence, so she needs to hide herself. After landing, she takes her bow and aims it to a hidden explosive barrel.


Aloy lets go a breath before shooting a fire arrow to detonate the barrel, blowing the Sith Troopers off and giving her a chance to run away, but right when she was already to leave, a purple light descends right in front of her, making her fall due to the shockwave created by the impact.

"What now?" Asks Aloy as she stands up and changes her arrows to tearblast arrows, which aren't lethal, but use a highly compressed blast of air to strip armor and parts from machines. From the smoke created by the impact, a female figure emerges, Aloy doesn't hesitate and shoots a tearblas arrow, but the figure grabs it, revealing it's Eclipse Sunlight the one who is chasing her now, but her expression reveals nothing but anger, what Sunlight doesn't know, it's that the arrow she just grabbed, exploded, shattering her armor and her dark bracers, stunning her with the explosion of the compressed air.

As Sunlight falls to the ground, Aloy prepares an electric arrow and shoots it, hitting Sunlight directly in the chest, shocking her in place. Aloy then takes out a weapon called Ropecaster from her back.


Aloy shoots a single shot, piercing Sunlight's side with a harpoon and anchoring her to the ground, making her unable to stand as she's not only immobilized but also is being stunned by the electric arrow. "Sorry girl, we'll sort this out later." Says Aloy as she jumps from the cliff and lands on a glinthawk's spine, leaving the area and heading to a more safe place, unfortunately, The Final Order knows someonw was there, so probably they'll have a much more difficult time trying to break their defenses.

As Aloy leaves, Kylo walks calmly towards Sunlight, who's grunting from pain, she took of the arrow, but the harpoon remains clinged to her. "Take it off." Says Kylo with a serious voice as he watches Sunlight struggle. "It... hurst..." Says Sunlight as she tries to take off the harpoon, but the pain is too much for her too handle, as blood begins to run down from the hole it pierced through her armor. "You're going against your fear and losing, allow me." Says Kylo as he uses the Force to strip the harpoon away rudely, making Sunlight scream of pain. "Now heal yourself and stand up, if there was someone here, we don't know if they're with The Resistance, we must be prepared." Said Kylo as with a serious expression as he turned away and head to the camp, leaving Sunlight alone, who struggles to stand up as she places her hand on her wound, and after a bit of effort, she managed to use her magic to heal herself.

Meanwhile, back at the headquearters. Chief exits the training room and heads to another part of the lab, where a Brokkr Armor Mechanism lies.

Chief stands in the middle of it, and the mechanism proceeds to suit him up. Finally wearing his Mjolnir Armor after so long, after putting his helmet, his HUD displays on his visor, there's one new message, Chief reads it and it's Sunlight's files regarding everything she managed to collect from The Final Order. "What... is... this?" Asks Chief as he reads the files' titles, Cortana appears next to him and asks. "What do you mean? Did you find something new?"

"Take a look." Says Chief as he extends his hand, Cortana reaches it and goes back to Chief's neural link, she then begins to examinate all the files. "This... is a goldmine, tactics, secret bases, even the blueprints of a ship named The Eclipse, all of this files have important information of The Final Order, we might actually have a chance to fight them and win." Says Cortana astonished by the amoun of intel the files hold inside them.

"That's good to know, but we have to bring this information to the Infinity, maybe this might help to stop the chase for Sunlight." Says Chief with an optimistic voice, he was heading out of the room but an incoming call appears on Chief's HUD, it's from Aura, Chief quickly answers it and asks. "Hey Aura, we're in the middle of something so if you..."

He's then interrupted by Aura who replies with a tired voice. "John, whatever you're doing is related to damaging private and public property near midnight?!" Chief's confused as he doesn't know what she means. "What? What happened?" Asks Chief with a concerned voice, as he wants to know what Aura's referring to, she sighs and replies with a calmed voice.

"Some weirdos began what appears to be a fighting scene through many places around the city, there are damaged walls from apartment blocks, infrastructural damage in an abandoned factory, along with damage in the train racks, which means dozens if not hundreds of people were late to their jobs and schools..." Aura makes a pause and her voice sounds more stressed as she now continues. "... And Mayor Mare wants results, which means she wants the culprit in jail or anyone who was responsible paying not only the fines but also the indemnizations to the owners of the damaged buildings before this becomes a public scandal!"

Chief notices she's stressed, probably its due to her recent promotion to Captain due to her efforts during the Flood Outbreak, but Aura's being putting a lot of pressure on herself thanks to that, with a calmed voice, Chief asks. "Hey hey, calm down, it was one of the Hunters that was chasing Eclipse Sunlight and they had a fight, but both of them are gone."

"And HOW am I supposed to explain that? 'Mayor Mare, the culprit was an agent from an elite strike force that was chasing a teenager with magical powers from another world, but don't worry! Since both of them are in another universe! Case CLOSED!' Do you actually think anyone will believe that?" Asks Aura with a more desperate voice, she hasn't had a good day for what it seems, but Chief tries to help her. "Ok, let's do this... breathe..." Says Chief with a calmed voice, Aura follows his instructions. "And now what?" Asks Aura with a serious voice. "There's something troubling you, do you want to talk about it?" Asks Chief, he only hears a sigh, but from the other side, Aura is inside her patrol with the doors closed, fortunately, she's out of sight, she leans her head back wards on her seat and says. "I... I'm not fine John, it's been a hard week to be honest, there's been a huge mess around the city by the recent events, I've been coordinating all the efforts to make this as fast and efficient as possible, and we've succeeded, but now I have THIS thing to deal with. And then Flash's birthday is in three days and I haven't prepared anything for him... *sigh* I'm failing as a mother right now."

Chief replies with a determined but also serious voice. "Hey, don't you say that! You're a great mother! Everyone has their bad streaks, listen... tell the Major that it was a filming of a scene for an upcoming summer movie for next year, contact Captain Lasky and tell him about this situation, we have protocols to deal with this kind of problems. Regarding Flash's birthday, don't worry, we can find something for him, together... plus, you need a rest, what about if we all go for some dinner once your shift is over?"

Aura chuckles and then replies with a calmed voice. "Ok, I'll do it. And the idea of going out for some dinner sounds amazing, by the way, what are you doing right now?" Chief hesitates for a few seconds if he should tell her the truth or not, but after 2 seconds of intense arguing with himself, Chief replies. "We're about to head to another world, we need to go to some coordinates, we might have a chance to strike down Kylo Ren once and for all, the girls and I will go there as one of their friends is there. But don't worry, Flash will stay here, I'll make sure of it."

"*Sigh* John... you better take care of them, you got it?" Asks Aura with a calmed voice, she knows that the Rainbooms are teenagers in a dangerous situation, but she rests easy as they're in John's hands. "I will... I promise that they'll return home safe." Replies Chief, after a short goodbye, both ended the call, Chief now exists the room and heads to the training room, where Sunset and Flash seem to be chatting about something.

"Do you think Sunlight's fine?" Asks Flash with a concerned looks as he sees Sunset's worried expression. "I hope so, she's been struggling, and there's people beside from us that worry about her, I promised that I'd bring her back, and that's what I'll do." Says Sunset with a determined expression, but she also seems worried as she doesn't know what happened to Sunlight during the time she's been out. Flash then hugs her gently and says. "I'm glad to hear it, I'll be there to help you when you need it. *Chuckles* you know? Whenever I see you like this, caring for your friends, doing almost the impossible to help them... it only make me fall more and more in love with you." Said Flash as he blushes while looking at Sunset, who blushes and replies.

"Thanks, I learned it from you, it was thanks to you that I knew how to begin to become a better person... it was one of the reasons I fell in love with you the first time... and also because you're cute as hell." Said Sunset with a smile as she holds Flash's face, both got carried away by the moment and after a few seconds of looking at each other with a smile, they kissed passionately and slowly, Flash lifts Sunset with his arms easily and holds her by her thighs, Flash then heads to the table where the type of training is selected and places Sunset on it, who wraps her arms around Flash's neck, before they get on it, Chief interrupts them by knocking the door.

"What did I just say? At least wait until you're alone." Says Chief with a serious voice as he looks at them, fortunately, his helmet hides his expression which shows extreme confusion since he was very clear on that regard. "Sorry! Sorry... we... got carried away." Said Flash with an ashamed expression as he pulled down his t-shirt and Sunset gets off the table also ashamed. "Yeah... I noticed. I talked with your mother, and we both agreed that you're staying here... no... discussion." Said Chief with a serious voice, Flash only agrees with his head. "...Sunset, we're going to the Infinity, tell your friends to meet us there and to not be late, each second counts."

Now at the Infinity, Chief and Sunset head to the science division, since The Rainbooms' battle suits were under maintenance, when they arrive to the maintenance room, someone greets them by their arrival.


"Well now this is a surprise, the Master Chief himself and Sunset Shimmer visit the nerd division. I feel flattered." Says Stark with a humoristic voice, he seems to be checking some diagnostics from Twilight's battle suit.

"Wait, you know me?!" Asks Sunset confused, she's never seen Tony Stark before then how does he know her? Thought Sunset, but Stark replied with a confident expression. "Of course, your first show at the testing room put the eyes of all the science division on you and your friends, after that... you all have had much more encounters with Kylo Ren and Starkiller than anyone else, also... your counterpart has created quite the mess in the hallways, there's people that support her thanks to the Blue Team's efforts and there are also people that say that it's better to keep her into custody, me included. I mean, no offense Sunset but Eclipse Sunlight it's really dangerous right now, we need to keep her under surveillance while we try to find a way to help her, but... not everyone thinks the same as I do." Says Stark with a serious expression, he seems to disagree with O.N.I's directive regarding Sunlight, but Chief now jumps into the conversation.

"Tony Stark, long time no see. How's been the job lately?" Asks Chief with a calmed voice, Stark then slides the holo display with the diagnosis away and replies. "Well I'm finished fixing the battle suits Tesla made, but now I got to leave. Miguel requested my assistance in a mission, which is weird because despite both of us being Hunters, he never asks for help."

"Where are you going?" Asks Sunset concerned about this, probably it's related to Sunlight's case, but the answer she got from Stark didn't help very much. "We're taking separate paths, out of three worlds, he's checking one, I'll check another one and another Hunter is checking the third one. This gotta be an important target since there are three Hunters involved." Says Stark as he heads to a pod in the middle of the room, a mechanism similar to the Brokkr mechanism and begins to suit him up.


"Sorry for being rude, but I have to leave, business calls. Oh, by the way! Your friend, Twilight is at Tesla's lab, probably you should check on them, I haven't seen them out for a couple hours." Says Stark as he leaves, leaving Chief and Sunset alone. "Pick your suit, I've already told the team to prepare a portal to our destination, let's check on Twilight." Said Chief as he and Sunset leave the room and head to Tesla's lab, once they entered, they got shocked for what they saw.


The mess on the desk was only the beggining, documents with formulas spreaded across the whole room, the chalkboard is filled with formulas and drawings, Twilight lies on the ground as she looks at the ceiling, her expression shows nothing but fatigue, on the other side of the desk, Tesla is picking up papers from the floor, unlike Twilight, he doesn't seem to be tired at all.

"What's... going on?" Asks Sunset as she looks around trying to understand the formulas around her, she understands a few of them, but there are also formulas she can't understand. "Sunset?! Hey! Why are you here?" Asks Twilight as she quickly gets up after hearing her friend's voice, her expression suddenly changes, like if she was never tired, Twilight hugs Sunset and then replies to her question.


"Tesla requested my help in some research related to stability in space and time continuity, but we've been here discussing the answer for hours but we're not very sure about our conclusion." Replies Twilight as she picks up a paper and places it on the desk.

"Uuhmm... what do you mean?" Asks Chief confused, not by the research topic, but about the fact that these two are researching about this topic in particular, then Tesla stands from behind the desk and replies. "Because time ago, I detected fluctuations in the continuity of space and time, we didn't fell it because we were in another universe, but Sunset's world was about to crumble upon itself, this happened during her first encounter with Eclipse Sunlight. According to the quantic model, it should've collapsed, but... it didn't, and now we're trying to find the definite answer to this."

"And what have you found until now?" Asks Sunset worried, how was something so bad as the destruction of her world almost happen without her noticing? Luckily, Tesla got the answer. "The fight between you and your counterpart was a paradoxical event, Sunset Shimmer literally fighting against Sunset Shimmer, that's.... physically impossible, the timeline was trying to fix itself by killing one of you, but thanks to Chief's fight with Sunlight and the fact that you left to the Infinity when Galen rescued you, helped to bring stability to the timeline, in addition to this, the fact that Eclipse Sunlight doesn't identify herself as Sunset Shimmer and that her choices are really apart from the path you took to become a better person, shows that in fact, Eclipse Sunlight was once Sunset Shimmer, but not anymore, she's her own version of... herself and that's... the only thing we've got until now, sorry... I hope we could be more useful but 16 hours is a very short period of time to prove any theory." Replies Tesla as he places the many papers he picked up on the desk.

"Anyway, what brings you here? Did something bad happened?" Asks Twilight as she takes a seat and drinks from a cup of coffee next to her. "We received a call from Sunlight, she gaves some coordinates to another world which according to Sunlight, this might be a chance to bring Kylo Ren down once and for all, but we're also trying to figure out a way to bring her back, she wants to make things right, a proof of that is the valuable data she provide us with, we have plans, tactics, and even a blueprint of one of their ships..." Said Chief with a serious voice, but he's then interrupted by Cortana who appears on his hand and says.

"We've already sent that intel to Captain Lasky, but we need to act quickly to at least have a chance of winning against The Final Order." Tesla and Twilight seem surprised, but Twilight is the most shocked, with determination she asks. "Sunset, are you sure this isn't a trap? What if Sunlight plotted something with Kylo Ren to make us believe that we can defeat Kylo Ren or any of the Sith Lords, only to then reveal that WE are the ones who will pay the price for believing her." Twilight tries to be rational, they've survived two ambushes thanks to Chief and Flash's intervention, if this is another trap, they might lose someone, which is something Twilight won't allow, but Sunset seems a bit blinded by the motivation to help Sunlight, and with a serious expression, she replies.

"I know you have your doubts, but if it's true we can't let this chance slip from our hands, just think of it. She's only suffered more and more, we're of the only people that she trusts, we can't turn our back on her!"

"But you know she's a danger, your first fight, the battle at the observatory, she helped bring Darth Vader from the dead, she's also killed many people, have you seen the recordings? Her necklace is turning her into a killing monster, who knows how far she is from the turning into it completely!" Says Twilight with a higher tone of voice, she tries to make Sunset realize how weird and flawd that plan is, but Sunset remains firm to her belief. "Then we find a way to help her, those recordings only show what the dark magic has done to her, but it doesn't mean that the person in those images is actually Eclipse Sunlight, we can't give up on her!" Claims Sunset with a more serious voice, the conversation is heating up a bit and as Chief was about to stop it, Twilight interrupts him by replying with the same voice volume.

"Sunset why can't you see it?! I'm only trying to state that we might not find what we're expecting on that world! Probably Sunlight has turned to Kylo's side, I heard what happened, Tesla told me a Hunter chased down Sunlight and when she was captured, a dark magic cloud surrounded her and teleported her somewhere else. And YOU know that the ONLY people capable of doing that are Kylo, Starkiller and probably Darth Vader! If we're bringing her back, we must let The Resistance keep her into custody while they find out fi she's suitable to be on our side!" Said Twilight, Sunset then realizes her friend is in the group of people that want to capture Sunlight, with traces of anger, Sunset replies.

"And what's different from her that was different from YOU or ME? We both were corrupted by magic and we turned into evil beings with a thirst for power, if we weren't helped by our friends, we wouldn't be in this situation right now, and most probably, we'd be in the same situation Sunlight is right now!" Replied Sunset with anger, finally Chief gets in their way before this conversation becomes a quarrel.

"Listen up you two!!!" Said Chief with authority, seizing the argue and finally getting Sunset and Twilight's attention. "We're going to go there to see what Sunlight meant, and also we're going to get her out of The Final Order, if it's a trap, we're going to make a plan to counter whatever their plan is! And if it's not, we're going to finish Kylo Ren once and for all! You can argue all that you want later, GOT IT?!!" Asked Chief with a serious voice, intimidating everyone except Tesla, who only remains shocked by the sudden situation, Sunset and Twilight only agree with their head as they think that anything they say, will make Chief even angrier.

The three of them leave Tesla's lab, Sunset and Twilight didn't shared a word for the whole journey, once they've arrived to the portal room, the Blue Team already waits for them along with the rest of The Rainbooms, who are wearing their battle suits. "Are we ready?" Asks Linda with a calmed voice as she hammers her sniper rifle and attaches it on her back, and Fred hands Chief his blades and attaches them to his back, he then looks at Linda and replies. "Yeah, we gotta move, everyone! Follow me." Says Chief as he crosses the portal first, he's then followed by his team and the girls, but before crossing, Twilight says. "Sunset!" Shouted Twilight, stopping Sunset, who turns around with a serious expression, Twilight then takes a deep breath and says.

"I'm sorry... I know Sunlight is important to you because she was the first person that you hurt. And I know I have my opinions, but this is something you're the one who has to fix it..." Twilight then places her hand on Sunset shoulder and says. "... I only want to apologize and say, that regardless of your decision, I'll support you." Sunset smiles as a way of showing thanks, she then places her hand on Twilight's shoulder and says with a smile. "Thanks Twi! Now let's go and save Sunlight!"

"Yeah, let's go!!" Said Twilight as now both of them cross the portal, jumping into the unknown.

Meanwhile, deep in one of the Multiverse's wildest realms, Hell, Lucifer is walking throught the hallways of his prison for the darkest and most evil beings in the Multiverse, the Tartarus. Everything seems normal, all prisoners are in their jails and as Lucifer goes to the lowest levels of Tartarus, where the biggest killers, psycopaths and dreadful beings that have ever existed dwell and Lucifer checks on them to make sure they never escape.

Lucifer visits a particular cell, he only peeks but he looks closely as he sees the cell empty, with a movement of his hand, he opens the door and gets into the cell, he sees the inscription of the damned that was imprisoned here. Darth Vader.


"Now THIS is a true pain in the ass, GUARDS!" Said Lucifer aloud, two demon guards appear behind him and kneel before him. "When did the prisoner escaped?" Asked Lucifer without turning around, he only crouches and inspects a strange inscription in the ground, glowing with purple magic. "We're sorry sir, when we realized he escaped, we thought that he was somewhere around Tarturus but we haven't found him... agh!" Said one of the guards as he grabbed by a demonic tentacle summoned by Lucifer, who replies with a serious voice.

"That's not what I ASKED!" Said Lucife with anger as he snaps the guard's neck, killing it instantly, the other guard quickly replies. "He's gone for 5 hours until now your highness! But we don't know where he is!"

"5 hours? That's much worse! This inscription is a summoning pentagram, someone brought him back to the mortal realm and I know who's related, this filthy magic...*sigh* my good friend Sunlight, what have you done?" Said Lucifer to himself, then he stands up and says to the guard. "You! Tell my wife I'll go to the Mortal Realm due to an emergency at Tarturus." Said Lucifer with a serious voice, the guard then asks. "What are you going to do, you highness?"

Lucifer then sighs and changes his serious expression to his common cheerful smile, he then uses his staff to draw a pentagram on the ground and replies.


"I'd be paying a visit to some old friends." Said Lucifer as he vanishes and teleports to the mortal realm, in his search for Sunlight, he tracked her magic to its source and arrives in a beautiful and peaceful world.


"Ah! But what a wonderful sight! Alright, I better get off the skies before some mortal sees me." Said Lucifer as he descended in the deep forest and hid his wings, then he began to walk all around the city to find any clue that leads him to Eclipse Sunlight, but what he doesn't know, it's that Sunlight lies on another world, organizing the troops and the Death Squad for when Sunset and the others arrive, despite not having neither Starkiller nor Vader with them right now, Kylo said that if everything goes as planned, none of them will make it out of this one alive.

END OF CHAPTER


Author's Note

Hello everybody! I know, I know, this chapter really took its time, but as I mentioned before, I've had a lot of things to do from college, but since I'm already on vacations, I'd have more time to write and draw. This chapter and the next one comprehend a whole narrative by themselves, that's why a few things were left unsolved in this chapter, but in the next one those questions I left in the air will be answered, but as for now. Thanks for reading the chapter! I hope you liked it, lemme know your thoughts and questions of it in the comments, and I'll be seeing you next chapter, peace!

-DReep

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