After the previous events, the reason behind the sudden abnormal glow and the vision Twilight and her friends had while on their mission is now revealed, but returning to Axios' mission, we find the team sailing the seas on a familiar ship. The Alcor, which is heading towards the port of Liyue, a beautiful sky and the vast of the sea can only be accompanied by a cheerful melody, which can be heard across the wide empty sea.

The whole crew seems to be singing with joy, followed by The Rainbooms, Twilight, Applejack and Rainbow Dash seem to have a fun time singing, as the main performer is Sunlight playing the piano, all their wounds seemed to have healed and the seals around her necklace were replenished. Whilst everyone is having a good time upstairs, that melody reach the ears of an unconscious Spartan, those lyrics woke up an old memory that came to his mind, making him finally come to himself and get up from bed, Cortana then tells him.

"You're finally awake! It's been a whole day, your injuries were quite worse than we thought." John looks at her companion and asks with confusion. "W-Where are we?" Cortana then replies with a calmed voice. "In the Alcor, remember? The ship that brought us here? Well, the Shogunate hired them to return us to Liyue, since it's the closest city and they're the only crew capable of sailing through Inazuman waters."

John then nods with agreement, he sees the Pyro Vision next to his pillow, with uncertainty, he takes it and attaches it to his belt. He then follows the sound of the melody and reaches the door that leads to deck, the rays of light annoy his eyes only for a brief moment, before he can see what's happening, he mumbled. "R-Roger...?" His eyes finally adapted to the light and saw the full scene, everyone partying and singing at the top of their lungs. John seems a bit surprised, but everyone seems to ignore his presence, except for one person.

"Yer finally on your feet, sleepyhead?" Asked Beidou, like him, she seems to be watching the scene from the distance, but her face can't hide the joy of seeing the whole crew having fun. Ignoring the question, John asked her. "Where did you learn that melody?" Beidou crosses her arms and replies with a happy face. "Bink's Brew? Every pirate knows it, it's an ancient tradition, nobody knows where it comes from, but everyone agrees that a good pirate must know."

John moves her eyes towards the girls, they seem to have fun, he feels it'll be cruel to spoil the moment, so he just gives a hint of a smile as nostalgia floods his mind. But his thoughts are quickly cut by the fact that all of them are singing the same song, with curiosity, Chief asks. "How did they learn that song in the first place?" Beidou walks forward and stands next to him as she says. "I don't know, when we planned on singing, they wanted to join us, but when they heard the name of the song, they went inside and returned with the whole song memorized, crazy, don't cha think?"

John connects the dots, it had to be Cortana, but it's still odd that a song can exist in other universes. As Chief looks at the cheerful crowd, he looks at Beidou, who seems to be sharing that same excitement as her crew, she follows the rhythm by tapping with the sole of her boot, but for some reason, she chooses to remain at the distance. With curiosity, Chief asks. "Why don't you join them, Captain?" Beidou crosses her arms as she replies with a smile.

"As a Captain, one must be always vigilant, specially when the crew is so full of joy. But that doesn't mean I don't share their excitement..." She then moves her hand towards her waist and brings up a canteen, she opens the bottle and the smell of rum gets to Chief's nose, as Beidou takes a good sip, she cleans the liqueur off her mouth as she exhales with relief and asks. "Y'know, not long ago, the girl with freckles had to throw up, HAHA! But fortunately, we had some nausea medication, and the other three seemed somehow inexperienced about how turbulent a pirate ship is, they fell on their knees many times, but they finally managed to stand firmly, it was fun while it lasted, though."

Chief only smirks and says. "Well, they're young, and have a lot to learn, a trip on a pirate ship would be a fine addition to their anecdotes, am I right?" Beidou seems to agree with that, she then hangs the canteen back on her waist and asks. "But you seem to be doing pretty well, the Alcor is quite the rough ship, y'know? Have you ever been on a pirate ship before?" Said Beidou as she looks at the calm Spartan, who changes his face with a nostalgic expression and a smile as the song comes to an end, but he looks at the distance as he says. "To keep it simple, yes, I have."

As he said that, Beidou began to reach for his crew, leaving Chief alone, not before saying. "Well, there are still some hours left to arrive at Liyue, so feel free to hang out with the crew, everyone must be excited of seeing a bunch of new faces." After saying that, Beidou left, Chief then wanted to meet the girls, so he walks forward and upon them noticing him, the four of them said aloud. "JOHN!!" Rainbow Dash and Applejack were the first ones to hug him, followed by Twilight and Sunlight at last. Resulting in a bulge of four people wrapped around the Spartan, who only managed to say. "K...Kids... it... hurts." After that, the four of them released him, Twilight then said with shame. "S-Sorry, we forgot your wounds haven't completely healed." Chief grabs gently the wound of his chest, as he recovers from it, Applejack says. "We were worried about ya', since everyone woke up after a few hours, but you were the only one still knocked out, but later a medic came into the room and said that it's expected since you were the one who took the most of the wounds."

John then remembers everything that happened back in the fight, he then looks at girls and said. "I appreciate the gesture, but I'm more worried about you, are your wounds hurting? Sunlight, are you feeling anything weird?" Sunlight only looks at him with a friendly grin and replies. "Nope, Lady Yae visited us while recovering and replenished the seals around my necklace, right now, I'm protected from the influence of Kylo or anyone else. As long as I have these seals, of course." Chief then sighs of relief, that's one problem solved, but the other one remains. "Where's Starkiller?" Asked Chief with a serious expression, but when he expected an answer from the girls, he got it from Captain Beidou. "The creepy guy? He was handed to us with some sort of special handcuffs, and we were told not to remove them, right now, he's been held captive in the lowest part of the ship, where the jails are. One thing's for sure, he won't be leaving this ship on his own."

After this, Chief seemed even more relaxed, everything is going smoothly, but that's no reason to let his guard down, after all, nobody might know what will happen. In his mind, he began to scheme the current situation, once they arrive at Liyue, it's imperative to take Starkiller to a seperate place and then, contact the Eternity to open a portal and take them there, where he can be interrogated. Though the thought of keeping him alive goes against his wishes, but orders are orders. After that brief moment, a crew member asked them. "Oi, travelers! C'mere, it's story hour!" Sunlight was the first one to head towards the currently forming circle on the deck, taking boxes, crates, barrels, or anything suitable for sitting. Followed by the rest of the girls and Chief at last, Twilight asked as soon as she took a bucket and sat next to Applejack. "Story hour?..." After that, a female crewmate replied. "Yeah, since the waters are calm, only the Helmsman, surveillance, and Captain Beidou are busy, the rest of the crew gathers, and we raffle turns and the one who gets chosen, must come up with a good story to share."

"And what about those who are busy?" Asked Applejack to the crewmate, who replied. "Don't you worry, sweetheart, they have good ears, specially Captain Beidou." Rainbow Dash then asks. "And how do you make the raffle? Is there some papers where we write our names or something?" Asked the Rainbow-haired girl as she scratches her head, but a robust crewmate came in and placed a bottle in the middle of the small of crate that lied in the center of the circle, with a proud voice, he says. "We don't make any of those fancy things, young one... we use the classic, one of us spins the bottle and the one whom the bottle mouth points, gets to tell the story, easy, right?"

Rainbow Dash then gets excited and says with cheer. "Then what are we waiting? Let's do this!" After this, in her proactivity, she made the bottle spin, catching everyone off guard, but no one complained, as the bottle spins, some are mumbling their desire not to be the one chosen, others seem to be craving to be chosen. But as the bottle slows down, the result seems nigh, when the bottle finally stops, it's pointing towards Master Chief, who only widens his eyes, but Rainbow Dash felt that he might now want to be selected, so with a bit of shame, she said. "S-sorry, I got ahead of everyone, if you want I can spin it again." But the crewmate that placed the bottle said. "Nah, don't apologize, kiddo, we had already explained the rules, so it's up to him to tell the story." After that, everyone looked at Chief, others with craving eyes for what he had to tell, others with doubt, and the girls were looking at him with uncertainty, since nobody would know what he'd tell.

Chief seemed more than open to share a story, after all, that's something he'd never run out of, with a gentle smile, he leans forward and says. "Well, I have a good one, about how I met a peculiar group of pirates..." John then looks at the bottle, there's still some rum in it, as he sees how the rum waves from one side to another, he says with a serious but calmed voice. "It all happened a long time ago, it was on an island far far away from here, beyond the sight of even the bravest of sailers. This island, known for being special, as if it was a miracle, the island had an abundant amount of natural resources, animals, plants, minerals, you name it... such a paradise island was bestowed with a singular name..." It seemed that Chief enjoys telling stories, adding drama in such a way wasn't expected from someone like him, but it seems intriguing, with a serious voice, he said.

"What I am going to tell you, is what happened back in the land known as God Valley."

"It was meant to be a simple mission, actually, it was part of the first missions we had when we began travelling, but the three of us didn't know what we were about to experience..."

Though that story is indeed interesting, there is something much more important happening, during the temporal displacement, Equestria and its counterpart were disconnected, in both technological and magical ways, there was no way of learning what was happening back in Equestria, resulting, in the perfect smoke screen for a certain somebody. But luckily for now, it seams there's nothing disturbing this peaceful night at Canterlot and Ponyville.

After the defeat of the Knights of Order, Equestria began its restoration and Twilight's kingdom is now on its peak, but her former apprentice, who currently is making new plans to teach the young ones at the Magical School of Friendship.

"Ahh... well done Starlight! I hope these new academic plans work, I've spent quite the time planning them..." Said Starlight to herself as she orders her scrolls around her office, as she finishes ordering the last scroll, she can't help but to yawn from exhaustion. "Oh! It's already that late? Hehehe... time to sleep!" After realizing that and reacting suspisciously, Starlight heads to the Castle of Friendship, once arriving, she heads to her bedroom with a smile on her face. It didn't take her long to get into bed and after a few minutes, she was able to enter a deep sleep.

As she begins dreaming, she finds herself outside a cabin.

After realizing she's where she wanted to be, she heads to the door and opens it, revealing a comfy living room, a set of armchairs, but those are different, one ressembles those in her office, and the other one, seems to be suitable for... human, use. After a short while, a calmed male voice said.

"Oh... you're back, how was your day, Starlight?" Asked Kylo Ren with a serious expression, as if he's being overwhelmed by some thoughts, Starlight approaches as she says. "It was great! Being the headmare of the School of Friendship is complicated, but fortunately, there are great ponies helping me out when I need it." Starlight then sits and a cup of coffe comes floating towards her, she then uses her magic to hold it, but before even drinking, she asks Kylo. "Are you alright, Ben?"

Kylo then looks at Starlight with a friendly smile as he says. "Yeah... it's just... I think that my partner got captured, I haven't been able to contact him for quite a while." Starlight then changed her expression with concern, with doubt, she asked. "Oh... probably, I should give you some space then..." Said Starlight before starting to move slowly backwards, but Kylo replied with a gentle voice. "Please... don't worry, he'd be fine, after all, it was expected something like this would happen. Our chasers have gotten more and more stubborn lately. I'd only wait for him to contact me back, so... what do you think if we continue with one of our lessons?" Asked Kylo with a smile, one that makes someone believe in his words, but for those who know him, could tell not to trust 90% of the words he said.

The lessons he mentions are the conversations they've had since Kylo stablished contact with Starlight through the dream realm, first, Kylo could only manifest himself as a voice or a dark mist. But as time went on, and the Displace happened, Kylo has been learning how to dominate his ethereal form and manifests his consciousness into the realm where Starlight got to when she began dreaming, Kylo teaches her about the Multiverse, and the curious pony teaches him about her world.

Starlight seemed slightly excited, with curiosity, she asked. "Well... if you insist, what's next on the list?" Kylo gets up from the couch and asks calmly. "What have been our lessons until now?" Starlight sits as she begins to say aloud. "Hmmm... first, the existence of the Multiverse, then, we talked about the Equestria being at the center of everything. You then taught me how Equestrian magic is extremely unstable, creating... anomalies, yeah, anomalies. After that, we discussed how magic works in our universes, and from that point, we've only talked about normal stuff."

Kylo then walks towards a kitchen, created with the knowledge Kylo has and some ideas Starlight added to his design, and brews some tea to serve.

"You seem to have payed attention, this lesson in particular, will be the most important, the true reason we're talking in the first place..." As Starlight heard those words, she remembered the first thing Kylo said to her time ago. With surprise she asked back. "Wait, NOW you're going to tell me why my world is in danger?! Why not telling me before?!" Kylo then looked at her as he places the kettle on the stove, he widens his eyes and replies with calm. "Hey, calm down. I couldn't tell you any sooner if you weren't even able to comprehend most of the things that are at stake. Don't blame me, blame them."

As the water begins to boil, Kylo snaps his fingers and bunch of crackers appear on the counter, after a few more seconds, the kettle was already boiled enough and vapor was leaving it with pressure, Kylo turns off the stove and serves cups of tea while taking the crackers with him towards the living room using the Force. Kylo sits on his couch and places the tea cups on a small table in front of him and Starlight, as he takes a sip of his tea, his expression suddenly changed and asked with a serious voice. "Tell me, Starlight, have you and your people experienced any encounters with people beyond your universe?"

"Starlight grabs a cracker with her magic as she replies. "Well, not me, but Princess Twilight told me that a few months ago, Sunset Shimmer came accompanied with unknown... people, and they even went to Canterlot and had a talk with other ponies, but why the question?" Said Starlight as she ate her cracker, Kylo then puts the cup back on the table and proceeded to say. "I'm afraid that its highly likely that all of you have been fooled." Starlight looks at him with confusion and after swallowing the last bit of the cracket, she asks. "What.. do you mean?"

Kylo then sighs with tension, as he looks at Starlight with a serious face, he said. "First, its possible that Princess Twilight and some others are aware of my existence and probably target me as a threat as a result of a bunch of lies, if only they'd know the truth..." Kylo then looks at the bonfire and with his hand, he begins to twist it, transforming it into his canvas for the storytelling, as he begins to display in it, the events he's about to tell. "When I first learned about the existence of the Multiverse and Equestria, I wanted to learn what makes your world so special. Thus, I began my journeys, it was only a matter of time before encountering anomalies, aberrations caused by the excessive leak of Equestrian magic, a group of people rised, with the objective of protecting the multiverse from these anomalies, but all their efforts will be pointless, the anomalies will keep appearing, and all thanks to the Entropy."

Starlight seems confused, Entropy... is the first time she hears about that, so without delay, she asks. "What is that Entropy?" Kylo then looks at her with a concerned look and says. "In research, entropy is a way of measure disorder, but what I'm meaning, it's the natural state of the cosmos, constantly heading to chaos, planets and stars are created in such a violent way, with destruction and death in the process. But still, we live in order, planets follow an orbit, and everything seems to work fine, but in the end, stars burn their fuel and explode, and planets may clash with each other or be turned to ash by their star. What I mean, is that as we've spoken, Equestrian magic connects every single universe, but also, these links create the leaks that produce anomalies, since nobody controls the flow of magic from Equestria to another universe, magic will keep pouring into every universe and at the end, everyone will end up facing a chaos created by the non-stopping magic that keeps leaking. And as magic still grows in your world, I'm afraid that if nothing is done agains it, your whole universe might be doomed and when that happens, it'll be too late."

Starlight seems shocked, Kylo has told her quite a few things about the dangers of Equestrian magic, and since its her world he's talking about, she can't help but to feel she must do something, with concern, the mare asks her companion. "A-And... what can we do about it? There must be something that can stop that future from happening?" Kylo then looks at Starlight and he grabs some fire from the bonfire and begins to mold it as he says. "I have a strong theory, which leads to only two possible solutions. First, by controlling all the magic from its main source one might be able to regulate the amount of magic that flows through the multiverse, keeping the levels at minimum, and safety at maximum. Second, sealing all the existing magic, cutting all connections between universes, thus, isolating every world and ending the Multiverse by doing so."

With despair, Starlight seems to be between a rock and a hard place, but, her determination drives her to find solutions to this problem, with courage, she said. "Then, what are we waiting for? We must tell everyone! Princess Twilight must have an idea of how to deal with this, after all, everything that has happened in Equestria must pay off somehow, what we need to do first is get this information to everypony and then..." Starlight is then interrupted by Kylo, who asks calmly. "And how do you expect them to believe us? Probably they already have the concept of the Resistance as the only truth and won't hear anything else, or worse, think of you as a liar."

Starlight suddenly stopped and began thinking, after a short while, she said. "I know! You said you and your people are able to travel from one universe to another, right? Then, why don't you come here?" Kylo seemed genuinely shocked, but deep down, its going just as planned. "I don't think that'd be possible, Starlight..." Said Kylo but he was then interrupted by the mare who asked again. "Why? Is there something wrong?" Kylo then scratched the back of his neck as he began to say. "We can only travel to worlds to which we get its coordinates. And your world, is yet unknown to us of its location, we could track it if there's a surge in magic that reveals its position, but light years are a problem and the Displacement is quite nuisance, unless there is a gateway directly to Equestria..."

Starlight then began to think, as the idea of the portal crossed her mind, an idea came to be, with excitement, the mare said. "Technically, there is, but I don't know how can I get you there? Probably I'd have to ask Sunset for help." That last sentence, made Kylo widen his eyes, though he quickly changed his expression to not appear to be surprised, with a fake confusion, he asked. "Who is that, Sunset Shimmer?"

Starlight then replies with a confident smile. "She's a friend of mine, she used to live here in Equestria but after some disagreements, she went to another world and lives there since then, if we want to look for a portal, it's probably that one." After Starlight said such things, Kylo couldn't believe it, all this time, Equestria was right under his nose, frustation floods his mind, but can't lose it, not now that he's so close to achieving what he wants.

"I don't think she'd be as open-minded as you are, Starlight, after all, we lack physical evidence that proves Entropy exists." Kylo and Starlight now begin to think, as one grabs his chin and the other one does the same with her hoove, suddenly, as their eyes widened, both said at the same time. "Then let's make it!!" The two of them look at each other with a smile, Kylo grinned as he asked. "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Starlight then says with irony. "It depends, does your plan include writing down your theory in my language so that Princess Twilight learns the truth and we finally take action against this problem?" Kylo then crosses his arms and says with a friendly expression.

"Ehmmm... kinda... but your plan is more specific, so we're sticking to it." Kylo then sits down on the couch, Starlight does the same and asked calmly. "One questions remains, how are we supposed to write anything in this dream?" Kylo then looks up to the ceiling, thinking of an answer, as his mind is reaching its goal, his mouth began moving, saying. "Technically, we're not in a dream. This place can be accessed through dreams but its more like, a non-physical space where minds can connect, yes, you are sleeping back in your home, but also, everything we're saying and thinking here works just as when we're awake. You haven't forgotten anything we've talked about in these last few days, have you?"

Starlight then shakes her head as she says. "N-No! I haven't, actually, I remember with clarity everything we've discussed whenever I wake up." After hearing this, Kylo leans his head on his hand as he thinks, though the answer is not too complicated, it might be quite rustic. "*Sighs* Well, we'd have to use the old-fashioned method, I tell you the whole theory and you make sure to write it down when you wake up. But don't worry, I won't abrupt you with all that information, I'd share it with you in fragments, it might take us two or three days, but the job will be done."

Starlight then looks at her recently-made friend and says with determination. "Great! Let's do this!" After this words, both began to work together, what could the possible outcome be? Since Nikola Tesla is already aware of this concept, why hasn't he revealed this truth yet? What can the reason be behind this mistery?"

As we return to the Alcor, it appears Chief's story is over, since everyone around have an expression that could only describe the story as jaw-dropping, a strong silence is present in the Alcor, only to be broken by the euphoric voice of Rainbow Dash, who said aloud. "ARE YOU SERIOUS?!! DID ALL OF THAT REALLY HAPPENED?!!" Chief then takes the bottle and drinks the remaining rum, not before saying with a serious voice. "Yeah, it really did, that's how I got the scar on my jaw."

Beidou seems to have heard everything from the distance, with a smirk on her face, she said to herself. "So that's how he learned Bink's Brew, huh? Quite interesting." After that, Chief gets up from his seat as he says. "Well, it appears we're getting closer to Liyue, so I better get our stuff ready." As Chief leaves the deck, he only hears a cheerful crowd excited, and eager to share their opinions on his story.

Chief opens the door and heads below deck, as he closed the door behind him, Beidou's voice came from behind, unnoticed by the Spartan. "Are you visiting the prisoner?" Asked Beidou, Chief turned around slowly and sees Captain Beiodu leaning on the wall behind him, as he assumes she isn't a threat, he says. "Is there be a problem, Captain?"

"Not at all, it's just that my contract said that I'm suppossed to keep an eye on the prisoner, that includes any visit, don't take it personal, but it's my job." Replied Beidou with a calm voice, Chief only agrees to her terms, after all, he has no grudge against those who follow orders, or at least, he tries his best to keep a balance between following orders and not doing so, that's the lesson this war has left him. "Would you guide me to the prisoner then, Captain?" Asked Chief politely, Beidou only smirks and replies. "This way." Beidou then walks forward, passing Chief, who began to follow her as they began going downstairs, once they reach the jails, Chief sees a hall with up 6 small jails and a big one at the end of the hall, where Starkiller is held captive.

Starkiller, who is shackled to the floor and with cannonballs hanging from his handcuffs, along with the paper seals granted by Yae Miko, have put the Sith Lord into total captivity, he's only capable of looking at his visitors, the lack of light inside the cell only allows Chief and Beidou to see the contour of the prisoner along with those piercing yellow eyes glowing in the dark.

"Where's his weapon?" Asked Chief with a serious voice, Beidou then moves her hand behind her waist, where she usually attaches her water bottle and takes a small bag, she opens it and shows Chief Starkiller's lightsaber, with a serious gaze, Chief looked at the weapon and asked Beidou as he opens his hand. "May I see it?" Beidou then reluctantly agrees as she slowly places it in Chief's hand.

Chief looks at it with disgust, this weapon has caused too much damage to everyone. He ignites it, revealing its crimson blade, as Chief slowly swings it in front of him, not removing his sight from the device. "What would happen if I crush it right now?" Asked Chief to its owner, looking only at his yellow eyes, not even the red glow of his blade reaches the dark cell.

"Good luck trying, you'd destroy the mechanism, but the crystal will remain intact. After that, I don't think you have the will to hold a bleeding Kyber crystal directly." Said Starkiller in the dark with an ominous voice. Chief only turns off the blade and attaches it to his belt as he approaches the cell as Starkiller says. "But don't worry, once I get out of here you won't need to think of what to do with my lightsaber, in fact, you'd be the first one to experience what I'll do with it once its back in my hands." Chief bends on his knees, directly looking at Starkiller's eye, unfazed by his words, with a deep voice, Chief replies.

"Oh, please do, I only need ONE excuse to kill you, and both you and I know what you've done, so don't expect any kind of mercy, I don't care what people have to say, I'm only keeping you alive because you're somehow useful to us, but guess what, when the heart stops, it takes up to six minutes for the brain to die. Which means, if you get out of this jail by your own and try something funny, I can gouge your heart out and still extract all the information needed from your brain, so you should be thankful to those who wanted you alive because if it was left to me to decide, you wouldn't even be aboard of this ship." Said Chief to Starkiller, both looked at each other with hatred, the silence became even stronger until Starkiller broke it by saying.

"Then those people are extremely stupid because I'll break free eventually and when that happens, I'll go and finish the job with that kid and his mother, so that the whole family can be together." Chief seemed extremely angered, he was willing to finish him right here and now, but his duty stopped him from doing so, he stands up and proceeds to leave along with Beidou, who didn't say a word during the whole conversation, without looking at her, Chief handed back Starkiller's lightsaber to Beidou, who grabs and puts it back on the bag. "I'll get our stuff ready to leave the ship once we reach Liyue." Said Chief with a serious voice, as Beidou only looked with confusion towards what just happened, but after thinking it twice, she refrained from asking, after all, it's not in her contract to get into other people's business.

Meanwhile on the deck upstairs, the girls are having a conversation thanks to the free time they have now. "So Twilight, would you care to explain why aren't you wearing your glasses?" Asked Sunlight as she watched Twilight, who was drinking some water and stopped after hearing the question. "Yeah, when we woke up, I thought that ye' weren't wearin' them 'cuz of your wound, but it's been a while. Can you even see properly?" Asked Applejack with confusion, followed by Rainbow Dash who asked. "Don't you have any replacements or something?"

Twilight then replied with a calmed voice. "Well, I can see quite well, as if I'm wearing my glasses right now, but to be honest with you, I don't know why it happens. During the battle with Raiden Shogun, I received a slash from her blade that damaged my armor and broke my visor, and when I couldn't see anything, I thought I was done for, but for some reason, I began to see clearly short after being hit, I don't know why was caused in the first place or why am I still able to see without them now."

Sunlight crosses her arms and says. "Well, as long as it doesn't affect you more, I think it's fine." After this, Rainbow Dash changes the conversation topic, quickly asking Sunlight. "Oh! By the way, those were some awesome moves the ones you pulled back then Sunlight, you're truly an expert at fighting!" Sunlight then began to scratch the back of her head with shyness, followed by her reply. "Uhmm... t-thanks... Rainbow, it's not the big deal, honestly, I just need to extremely focus whenever I fight..." As she was speaking, her mind travelled back in time and remembered some words.

"You get angry quickly, flooding your head with unnecessary heat, which stops you from making choices in a fight. Learn from her for example, if you use her method, you'd be able to last longer in a fight, while also being able to adapt the most you can to your foe's fighting style."

"Sunlight... is everythin' fine?" Asked Applejack after noticing Sunlight spacing out, who quickly reacted and shaked her head to focus on the question. "What do you mean?" Replied Sunlight with confusion, not knowing what Applejack meant. "Well, you were talkin' fine and suddenly stopped and began to look at... nothin'." Sunlight then understood what AJ meant, she shrugs with shame as she says. "S-Sorry, my mind remembered something." Sunlight can't understand why all these memories are coming to her, probably, the time for her to face her past has finally come, just as it happened to Sunset Shimmer.

"Oh look! We're approaching the port." Said Rainbow Dash and headed quickly to the front part of the deck to see Liyue much closer as a navigator shouted Land Ho!, Twilight and Applejack followed her friend at their own pace, leaving Sunlight alone, who's hand reached for her forehead as she said to herself. "(What should I do? Would... they hate me if I show up just like that? I'll ask Sunset for advice...)"

Sunlight was about to join the girls when she spotted Captain Beidou coming outside, later followed by Chief, without hesitation, she approached to talk to the Spartan. "John! Hey! How was it?" Chief looks at her and asks. "About...?" Sunlight then followed by saying. "You... uhmm... checked on him didn't you?" Asked Sunlight referring to Starkiller, Chief only looks away as he replies with a serious voice. "The least I think of him, the more I can tolerate his presence." After saying this, Chief sighs, uncertain if it was of frustration or mental fatigue. "Anyways, how you've been Sunlight? Excluding all the, being-used-as-a-tool-for-a-Sith-Lord stuff." Asked Chief with a calmed voice, Sunlight smiled back at him as she replied. "Hahaha! Well, having control over my body for now is quite the relief, but I hope we can find a definitive solution."

Chief then remembered Sunset's blessed lightsaber and Sunlight's pistol, with a calmed voice he said. "There might be, but first, we must return home, don't you think?" Asked Chief as he crosses his arms and contemplates the sea, Sunlight looked at the same place as Chief did as she replied with a hopeful voice. "Yeah, I want to see my girls again, specially Adagio, I wonder how has she been since I left." Said Sunlight as she stretched her arms as the incoming breeze hit her body, feeling such freedom was quite relieving, Chief looked at her and slightly smirked as he then asked with curiosity. "And your family? I mean, I know you left everything behind and all of it since Sunset took your place, but have you ever thought of how are they doing?"

After hearing the question, Sunlight began scratching the back of her head with an expression of disgust, as if she's not willing to talk about it, but since Chief is of the people she's known for the longest, she sighs as she says. "It's not that simple, at least, with my parents... but, with my sisters is a whole different thing, but still complicated." Chief widen his eyes after hearing that, he asked with geniune shock. "Sisters? You've never told me about them."

Sunlight's expression changes, as in her mind she thinks that it would've been better if she hadn't say that. With a shame on her voice, she said. "Y-Y-yeah... it's not that easy, y'know? I mean, it's not that I hate them or else, actually, I really appreciate them, it's just... erhm... how can I say it? I... screwed up... I think, and now... I don't talk to them, I haven't in quite a while." Chief seemed reflective, as he thinks of a way to adress Sunlight's situation, he comes up with a question. "And what are the doing now? Do you know where they live, how are they or anything?" Sunlight again scratches the back of her head as she says.

"Well... the last thing I knew about one of them was that she was working at the Town Hall, and the other one... well she... uhmm... let's just say that she's a security guard." Chief looked at her with doubt, picking what she said with a grain of salt, in case she is hiding her sister's real job, it must be for something, but for now, he lets it slide. "And haven't you ever thought of talking to them again? After all, they are your sisters, aren't they?"

Sunlight sighed of frustration as she said to the seemingly confused Spartan. "I know! And I haven't! Not because I don't want to, but because there's just been a lot going on and well, I wouldn't know how to approach them. After all, it's been 2 years since we lost contact..." Chief approached Sunlight and said with a calmed but supportive voice. "Don't feel sad about it, first, we'll deal with all the darkness-within-you thing and then, you can pay them a visit, I don't say it'll be difficult, but it's important you take the step." Sunlight smiled back with thankfulness, as a voice from the top said aloud. "We've arrived!" Chief and Sunlight turned around and saw the Port of Liyue, where their ship is now docking. "I guess this is our stop." Said Sunlight with a calmed voice, she then then headed with the Rainbooms, leaving Chief alone with his thoughts, only for Cortana to ask him. "Y'know? Excluding everything that has happened up until now, I've been wondering something lately." Chief then was about to head to Starkiller's prison when he heard Cortana's question. "Didn't Flash's report say that the Rainbooms had a weekly streak of dealing with magical anomalies? And if so, why did that streak stopped? I mean, the readings from the lab's scanning system haven't detected anything since we landed on their world, excluding, of course, the Flood Outbreak."

Chief then changed his expression, showing concern but he did his best to hide it as he asked back at her friend. "What are you insinuating?" Cortana then made a short pause and replied. "I need a bit more of time to structure it, but once I'm done, I'll arrange a meeting with Tesla, Captain Lasky and Lady Morgana." After stating this, Chief closes his eyes and sighs as he says. "Whatever, let's just get this over w...." He's then interrupted by some sudden coughing, as he covered his mouth and as he takes it away, he sees some blood on his palm.

"That's.... not good, you need to be checked once we get to the Infinity." John then grunts as he says. "I'm fine, Cortana, it's probably due to the blades, I'll just stop using them for a while and problem solved." Cortana reluctantly agreed to John's statement.

"Let's get this over with, I just want to get home." Said Chief as he looks for Captain Beidou, in order to tell her his plan to extract Starkiller safely.

END OF CHAPTER

Author's Note

Hi everyone, it's been some rough days lately, college has got even harder these days and I've done my best to write this chapter while also dealing with my student life. I hope y'all enjoy this chapter and for anyone out there having a rough time for college, let's give our best shots, we're almost done. Please take care, and I hope to see you all again in the next chapter.

-DReep