At the infinity's lab, a portal opens and Fred comes through alongside an engineer.

“Close the darn portal!!” Shouts Fred to Richtofen, who tried as fast as he could, but before closing it some Necromorphs crossed the portal.

“Oh Scheiße.” Said Richtofen while hiding behind his desk.

Fred shoots at them, but they're fast and attacked in group, sorrounding Fred and before one of them tried to stab him, its limbs and head got cut off by a weapon.

“Take that motherfucker.” Said the engineer, after killing one of them, then forced to drop his gun due to the lack of ammo.

Fred takes the chance and unsheathes his knives to kill them.

"Let's dance." Said Fred while slashing the necromorphs' limbs with ease, then he encrusts a grenade in the last one's torso, making it blow up and covering Fred in blood and guts.

“Isaac! Was that the last Necromorph?!” Asked Fred while turning around, sheathing his knife, picking up his gun and removing the guts from his armor.

“Let's make sure this one's truly dead.” Said Isaac while heading to the necromorph he killed with his weapon.

A stomp on the creature's body was enough to tear it apart and cover Isaac in blood.

“It's always so damn gross, but it's the only way to be certain they're death.” Said Isaac while shaking his leg to remove the blood on it.

Richtofen came up from his desk and asked.

“Gentlemen, before I start cleaning this mess, please tell me you got the anomaly.” Asked Richtofen while seeing the amount of blood spilled in the floor.

Fred takes a capsule that contains some kind of energy from the back part of his waist and shows it to Richtofen, who only agrees with his head and says. “Good, Tesla might give a good use to that sample. And please tell him that Stark and I checked his little project, und it needs a much more powerful energy source if he wants to be accurate with his schematics.” Then Richtofen takes a floor mop and a strange liquid for cleaning purposes.

Fred and Isaac proceed to Tesla's lab, on his way there, Fred says.

“Hey Isaac, thanks for lending me a hand out there, I don't think I could've made it on my own.”

“Don't worry Fred, I might be a simple engineer but when John said that involved killing Necromorphs, I had to help you out, but this time, you owe a cold beer.” Replied Isaac with a friendly voice, he and Fred proceed to shake hands and part their own ways.

Fred enters Tesla's lab and the first thing he sees is a huge amount of chalk remnants on the floor and many but many papers on his desk. While Tesla was writing so many equations on his chalkboard, that seemed he was about to write on the walls.

“Hey, Mr. Tesla, I brought you a gift.” Said Fred while placing the capsule in the table.

“It's the best sample we've brought this far, maybe you can work something with it.” Said Fred. Tesla stops writing and analyzes the capsule, he can be heard muttering “Good.”, then Fred asks Tesla.

“Any progress you wanna share, sir?” Tesla looks at his chalkboard for a bit, then he replies. “Actually yes, thanks to a conversation I had with Twilight recently I managed to have better idea of how does this energy work. And I can say as a hypothesis that Equestrian energy fluctuates in its very own frequency, so every anomaly has its unique frequency, that's what makes it hard to track down. Also, I have some hypothetical conclusions about those girls' powers, but I need to witness it in practice. Hmmm, when did John say he would've returned?” Asked Tesla.

“I don't know, but knowing that Chief was the one assigned to the mission, he won't return until he's done.” Replied Fred while taking his helmet off.

Tesla then agrees with the head, and then he receives a weird smell, after figuring out that the smell comes from Fred, he asks, “What did you kill that makes you smell so awfully bad?” Fred remains serious for a bit, then he replies. “Necromorphs...” Fred makes a pause and then adds, “… They're gross.”

Fred remembers what Richtofen said and gives the message to Tesla. “Oh Tesla, Richtofen said that he and Stark checked your project, and they concluded that you're gonna need a much more powerful energy source if you want it to match your expectations.”

Tesla reflects on what he said and then says, “Yeah, I was expecting that...” Tesla looks at the capsule Fred brought and says. “...But probably if I understand how does the anomalies' energy works, I won't need to look far for another power source.”

"Ok, I'll be leaving now." Said Fred while leaving the room and putting his helmet on, Tesla didn't even notice it, so there were no goodbyes.

Once out of the lab, Fred heads to the barracks to take a shower but before leaving the science division, someone calls his name.

"Fred!!" Said the voice behind him, Fred turns back and sees John who has returned from his mission carrying shopping bags but Fred doesn't notice it. They both salute each other and Fred asks, "Chief, how the mission went?" Chief sighs a bit, then he replies. "Not as good as I thought, but I need to give the report to captain Lasky, mind to join me?" Asked Chief but Fred replies, "I'd be glad to but, my mission really made a mess of my armor, so I need to go to the barracks and...." Fred sees all the bags that Kelly bought and asks with a curious voice, "....what are those?"

Chief gives him the bags and while doing that, he replies, "These are the things Kelly bought, she said that there are clothes, a cake and much other stuff I don't recall right now."

"Ah cake? Sweet! I'll bring them to our barrack and ask Linda to lend me a hand with all of this. By the way, where's Kelly?" Asked Fred, wondering if she isn't behind Chief.

"She said she wanted to stay a bit longer to check other things, I wanted to stay with her, but she told me this was more important." Replied Chief.

"What did you find that is so important?" Asked Fred, Chief replied with a tired voice, "I tracked some footprints for hours and found nothing, then I found a cave that emitted a frequency of an anomaly, there were just crystals and signs that someone was there. And that's the only thing that I have to report, anyway, Kelly's right, any finding had to be reported."

Chief and Fred part their own ways, meanwhile back at the CHS dimension, Sunset Shimmer and Flash are at the observatory's lookout.

"So.." Said Flash while giving Sunset a soda. "...How was your meeting with Kelly?" Asked Flashy while leaning on the railing.

Sunset opens the can and says, "Pretty good actually, we even sang together." Sunset takes a drink of her soda and remains quiet, her face shows discomfort, Flash can't help but to ask.

"But...?" Asked Flash with a gentle voice. Sunset can't hold her thoughts any longer and replies.

"After everything I've done to fix the damage I did to the people of this world, and witnessing the threats that lie beyond my understanding, I think it's time I fix the biggest mistake of my past." Said Sunset with a slight sign of fear in her voice.

"What is it?" Asked Flash, concerned about her.

Sunset takes some courage, a deep breath and after placing her soda on the railing, she explains.

"I'll go straight to the point, when I arrived to this world, I met my counterpart and as you might think, I was really mean to her, she even got scared, ran way and never came back. I didn't care much about it but, once I began to fix my mistakes at Canterlot High, that guilt has been haunting every day."

"That's why you were so focused on become a better person." Replied Flash.

"Yeah..." Said Sunset while looking at the city scenery, "...I wanted to be better, so the day when I manage find her, I can finally come into terms with her, but I'm also scared of that day." Said Sunset while taking her hand to her head, the wave of thoughts that flood her mind is beginning to stress her, but she continues. "...I don't know how she'll take it or if she's even going to listen to me. I really harmed her and I don't know how can I fix it... A sorry won't be enough and so wouldn't be all the progress I made to be better." The stress and guilt overwhelmed her, forcing Sunset to take both of her hands to her face and

Flash remains silent, reflective of what Sunset just said, amidst the silence, Sunset tells Flash.

"Sorry Flash, I rambled a lot, it's ok if..." Sunset was saying while turning to Flash, who is also seeing the scenery, but before completing her sentence, Flash interrupts her.

"I can't imagine the pressure that puts on you. I can't give you a full advice because I haven't been through the same as you did, but I can tell you something John told me a time ago." Flash makes a pause and turns towards Sunset and adds with a determined voice. "Mistakes will be made, ones will be worse than others, and that's normal, they won't define you, but what you do regarding them is what will define your future." Flash makes a pause and continued with a compassive voice.

"Yeah, you weren't the best person in the past, but now you're someone new, and all the effort you put on starting over, only shows that you truly wanted to change, if you explain it to her, she most probably understand it." Flash slightly takes Sunset's hand and says. "If you ask me, that's more than enough to be proud of yourself."

Sunset gives a thankful smile and blushes before hugging Flash, briefly after that, both were hugging each other.

"Thanks Flash." Said Sunset moved by Flash's words.

"Don't worry, I'll always be at your side when you need it." Said Flash with a gentle smile.

The moment was brief but for them was long enough to share their feelings, once they stop hugging, Flash asks her.

"So.....do you know where she is?"

"I think I have an idea, but I need to go on my own." Replied Sunset, who's now determined about her decision.

Flash agreeded on not interfering with Sunset's plan, hours passed and as night falls and the city lights up, Sunset can be seen exploring the city wearing a disguise which is no other than her black jacket with her hood on. She is looking for any clue that can lead her towards her counterpart. Finally, after finding nothing she gives up for the day and goes to a cafeteria. Where she sits at the furthest part to make up her mind.

"(Maybe she doesn't want to be found and has been erasing every track she leaves.)" Said Sunset in her thoughts, then she takes her phone and opens a list of possible places where her counterpart could be, but before eliminating cafeterias from the list, an awfully familiar voice speaks.

"Sorry for the wait, now this is a song I heard time ago from a band, it's named Northern Downpour, I hope you like it."

It was her counterpart, she was on a small stage setup with a chair and a small tabled right beside her. She was wearing a dark brown leather jacket, a black t-shirt, fingerless gloves, dark blue jeans and black boots with red curved lines on the sides. Her guitar was color black with red flame shapes on it.

Sunset couldn't believe it, she was right there, but to make things faster, she stayed hidden during the perfomance, her counterpart's voice was melodious and her skills with her guitar showed that she's in total synchrony with her instrument.

The show continues and after a couple of English and Spanish songs, the human Sunset finished her perfomance, the public gave their applauses, but after she thanked the public, she buckled up her guitar strap to her back, picked a bottle from the table next to her and went with the manager who was at the bar and received her pay. Without delay, she left the cafeteria from the back door, Sunset followed her silently, leaving through the main exit and going to the alley where her counterpart was.

Sunset sees her walking down the sidewalk and follows her discreetly, suddenly her counterpart turns right and enters an alley, Sunset speeds up to not loose track of her, but when she peeks at the alley, there was no one there, just a trash can therefore she went deeper into the alley, but her counterpart was hiding behind the trash can, and tells Sunset.

"Y'know? I saw you back at the cafeteria, if you wanted to remain unnoticed, you should have at least ordered a drink." Said the human Sunset with a confident voice before taking a drink from her bottle.

Sunset turns around quickly as she hears her counterpart talk and before she can say something, the human Sunset asked with a serious and angry voice.

"Who the hell are you? And why are you following me?"

"I know we get angry easily but, there's no need to be agressive towards each other." Said Sunset, trying to calm her counterpart while taking off her hood revealing her face. The human Sunset remained silent while showing extreme surprise and confusion on her face.

"I just want to talk. I know I screw it up but now I want to fix it." Add Sunset with a gentle but nervous voice.

"Oh yeah?!" Asks the human Sunset, her voice became a bit angrier and then she added. "How can you fix my situation, huh?!"

"Hey, I've fixed most of my past's mistakes, I'll find a way, I swear but..." Said Sunset while looking around the alley, she turned back to her counterpart and asked. "... We can't discuss it in a place like this, can't we?"

The human Sunset struggled but at the end, she agreed with her statement, after a deep sigh to calm herself, she said.

"Fine, then, my place or yours?" Asked the human Sunset to her equestrian counterpart.

"Mine is really far from here, so..." Replied Sunset to her counterpart's question, but before finishing her sentence, the human Sunset interrupted her by saying.

"Ok, my place will be then." After that, both go to the human Sunset's apartment, thanfully, it wasn't far from the cafeteria so the walk wasn't awkward at all. Once they arrive, the human Sunset places her guitar on a couch at the living room, then she asks to her counterpart.

"So....Sunset, do you want a drink? I have water, soda, beer, apple cider and.... milk." Asked the human Sunset while searching in her fridge.

"Well, if you insist I'll.... wait, beer?" Asked Sunset shocked by what her counterpart just said.

The human Sunset closes the fridge and replies. "Yeah, sometimes the bars where I work give me beers to drink while I'm singing, but it's not like a I'm big fan of it, actually, I drink them hardly ever, that's why I keep them in the fridge." She said with a friendly voice.

"An apple cider will be fine." Replied Sunset also with a friendly smile.

The human Sunset hands her counterpart an apple cider bottle, then both take a drink from their bottles at the same time, after that, Sunset asks her counterpart.

"Y'know? I really wasn't expecting that you could sing in Spanish." Asked Sunset with curious voice.

"Oh, yeah, since I had plenty of time to practice my musical skills, I chose to learn another language in order to expand my musical vision." Replied the human Sunset with a calmed voice, which made the situation a bit awkward acknowledging that's beacuse of Sunset that her counterpart couldn't go to school anymore.

"I'm sorry, back then when we talked in the school backyard, I wasn't aware of everything I said and now...." Said Sunset to her counterpart, the guilt along regret can be heard in her voice, but she's interrupted by her counterpart.

"Well, fortunately..." Said the human Sunset with a serious voice. "...I found my ways to thrive, which included on spending several hours in the public library reading practically everything." Added the human Sunset with a more friendly voice.

"But it's because of me that you're in this situation, I can't imagine the suffering you had to go through because of my actions." Said Sunset with a regretful voice.

The human Sunset remaint silent for a bit, then she said. "Yeah, it's been a hell, the sleepless nights, the friends I could've had if I was in Canterlot High, the sleepovers, birthday parties, science fairs, musical festivals I could've gone and the days where I wanted to be with my family, although I know my parents weren't the best in anything, I had a bit of affection towards them, and everything happened because of another me who thought that it was a good idea to screw with her counterpart's life, right?!!" The angriness takes lead in the human Sunset's voice, she then takes her counterpart by the shoulders and said with an even angrier voice.

"Tell me Sunset, what took you fucking so long to start looking out for me, HUH?!!" Sunset feels a bit intimidated by her counterpart's agressive reaction, but she takes courage and replies.

"You weren't the only person I hurt, therefore, I had to be a better person, fix the damage I caused to the people around me, to at least be worthy of standing here right in front you." Said Sunset while gently taking her counterpart's hands off her shoulders, but the human Sunset takes her hands off in a more rude way.

"What is your plan anyway?" Asked the human Sunset with a rejecting voice and attitude.

"I know I can't return you your life, but..." Sunset thinks of a plan for a bit, then she says. "...We can create something new, we can start by introducing you to my friends and then you won't be alone anymore, everything will be easier then, I'm sure of it." Replied Sunset with confident voice, her determination is noticeable, she truly wants to help her counterpart.

The human Sunset seems interested in her counterpart's plan, it doesn't seem like a bad idea to begin with, but a sudden headache comes to her, she puts her hand on his head and seems confused about why is she suffering that.

Sunset worries about what just happened and concerns on her counterpart's health, therefore, she asks her.

"Hey..." Said Sunset, but after seeing her counterpart's face of pain, she asks worried. "...Are you okay?"

Human Sunset manages to cope with the pain long enough for it to disappear, then she looks at her counterpart and replies.

"Yeah, I'm fine, nothing medicine can't cure." Said the human Sunset with a fake smile that tried to relieve her counterpart's worriness.

"If there's a problem, feel free to tell me, I want to help you Sunset." Said Sunset to her human counterpart, who then takes her bottle and looks at it with a reflective face, then she says with a thoughtful voice.

"Y'know? Now that I think of it, maybe that plan of yours isn't that bad, I think I'll give it a try."

"Really?!! That's great..." Said Sunset with excitement, "...I have things to do tomorrow but it won't take too much, so... would you give me your number?" Asked Sunset while pulling out her phone with a smile on her face, the human Sunset notices that what she's saying is serious, so she accepts and takes her phone and adds her contact number with a small smile on her face.

"Thanks, I know it's already late so I'll let you get some rest." Said Sunset while taking her phone and heading towards the door, but before she leaves, she says.

"See you tomorrow Sunset." Said Sunset as she left the apartment, her counterpart waves at her as a sign of goodbye, she's optimistic but at the same time corcerned about the headache she suffered moments ago,after waiting until no one can see nor listen to her, she went to her bedroom and opened a drawer of her bureau. She took a metal box hidden inside it and by opening it, she reveals a necklace similar to Sunset's, but this one is dark purple with black outlines, and the sun in the middle has a more violent shape.

"You almost screw it up back there." Said Sunset to her geode, which glows in response to what she said. Then, Sunset with determination and a serious voice, says. "I have to learn how to control you before you control me." Said Sunset, who nows puts her necklace on, unleashing a magical spiral around her that resembles the color of her geode, with a serious voice, she adds. "With this power, I will fnially be able to have my revenge, but that can wait, I've waited years for this moment, what would be to wait a few more couple days."

The day ended, and a new one begins. At the Infinity's training room, Chief seems to lecture the girls who seem tired, about something.

"Ok, we've fought for 5 rounds already, so I'll give you my observations to each one of you." Chief takes a deep breath, then he says.

"Rainbow Dash..." Said Chief whille looking towards her, "...You're fast and have a bit of technique, but you lack the strength enough to land a good blow on your opponent." Rainbow Dash makes a tired face, then Chief makes a pause and looks at Applejack, "On the other hand, Applejack, your strength is enough to defeat most of enemies, but you're also slow and lack technique, which makes you an easy target." Applejack only reacts with a bit of shame.

Chief makes another pause and continues, "Pinkie Pie, the strength of your explosion stuns your enemy and creates a window where your team can retreat or push the enemy, but that window is extremely short, I suggest you focus on making them more powerful so that you can at least have a chance to fight." Pinkie makes a gesture of noted.

"Rarity..." Said Chief while looking at her, she seems to be the most tired out of them all. "...Your diamonds are a good tool that protect your team from any danger, the problem comes when your enemy can destroy them easily, so if you want to attack, you better use multiple but small diamonds rather than a single large diamond." Rarity listens but she's so tired, that almost didn't pay attention to Chief's advice.

"Twilight, your ability to make things and people float is good to seize the enemy's mobility, but only use it on people when you think you have a clear advantage." Said Chief, Twilight couldn't remain silent despite feeling tired, so she couldn't resist to ask.

"What,,, do you... mean with that?" Said Twilight while catching her breath.

"It means that if you use on the enemy, they're gonna be aware there's something or someone making them float, which means that they'll probably start looking for the source of the problem and eliminate it." Replied Chief, Twilight only answered with a "Ok.." before falling to the ground due to exhaustion, Fluttershy and Sunset help her to be back on her feet, but whilst doing that, Chief continued.

"Fluttershy..." Chief makes a pause and seems really dubious about what to say, "...I don't what to say, you aren't into fighting but you're gonna need to fight eventually, maybe Fred can teach you something to at least defend yourself." Fluttershy remaint silent with, and her expression was shouting I'm sorry which Chief noticed and added.

"Oh but don't be sorry, everyone can learn something from this, don't take my words as reprimendal, but as an advice to improve yourselves." Chief makes a pause, and says his final observation. "In general, you were all good, managed to adapt to the situation and thought of many strategies, but there was a constant problem." Said Chief while looking towards Sunset, who seems surprised by that.

"Wait...how am I the problem?" Asked Sunset confused and offended at the same time.

"Your Daydream form makes you one of the strongest members of your group, but you lost every fight we had until now because of one particular reason." Chief makes a pause and says, "You're holding back. And that's why you've failed to defeat me until now, I know is a big responsibility but I must be sure that when the moment comes, you'll be able to finish your enemy instead of neutralizing it."

"Chief, our powers aren't meant to harm people but to help them. What you're asking us is too much. Kill our enemies? We're not soldiers." Replied Sunset, who became a little angry after what Chief said.

"Do you think The First Order cares about that? They don't, are you going to let them kill your friends just because none of you can't cross a line?" Asked Chief with a serious voice.

"Of course we won't!! Is just that..." Said Sunset with a higher voice tone, but she's interrupted by Chief abruptly.

"Then show me that at least you have the will to do what it has to be done." Said Chief, he's really going serious now, Sunset notices this is a duel, but she can't decline it.

"Fine, let's do this!!" Said Sunset aloud while transforming into her Daydream form and pushing Chief back with a shockwave, the duel started.

Sunset makes the first move by shooting light beams, but Chief blocks them with a hardlight shield while approaching her, Sunset notices that and charges her punch with energy and flies towards Chief at high speed, leaving Chief a small chance for him to dodge her attack, he noticed Sunset's angry and won't give up easily.

Sunset then elevates in the air and charges towards Chief with both her fists imbued with energy. Chief waits for the right moment and before Sunset hits him, he crouches and punches her right into the stomach, then Chief takes her arm and smacks her into the ground, Sunset's stunned by the impact, but she won't give up, before Chief lands another blow she charges a much more powerful beam and shoots it at the ceiling, hoping to hit Chief, the moment was so quick that Chief dodged it by almost pure luck, but then he takes Sunset's arm again and lifts her, in a brief moment Chief kicks her while taking her necklace off, Sunset got blown away and lost her Daydream form.

The duel ended and the girls go and aid Sunset, while Chief looks at the ceiling and sees a hole big enough that showed that the beam Sunset shot was powerful enough to have calcinated him. Only by looking at that, Chief got his answer, he approaches to Sunset who's sorrounded by her friends asking her to react, fortunately she does and sits on the floor.

"Ouch!!" Said Sunset while sitting and placing her hand on her back as a sign of pain.

"Easy now, don't push yourself too hard." Said Applejack while helping Sunset to stand up.

Chief approaches towards them and Twilight who was upset towards Chief, asks.

"Are you satisfied now?" Asked Twilight while grabbing Chief by the arm, he then takes off her hand and replies.

"Actually yes, although you had to pushed to the limit, I can rest assured that you will make the right decision when the moment comes." Said Chief towards Sunset, giving back her necklace, but when Sunset grabbed it, its power got activated and Sunset sees Chief's mind, witnessing every moment of his life, from the moment when he was kidnapped at the age of 6 to be part of a supersoldier program, until the moment when Chief met Kylo for the first time.

"Sunset, Sunset!!" Were screaming her friends, trying to make her react, but when she returns to her senses, she's on a bed at the infirmary with her friends, Chief and Tesla around her.

Sunset was shocked for what she saw at Chief's mind, Sunset asked with confusion, "What happened? Why am I at the infirmary?" Fluttershy is the first one to say.

"Uhmm, when you grabbed your necklace from Chief's hand, you were having a vision but it lasted for minutes, we began to worry when you started crying and screaming, we shouted your name but you didn't listen, then you collapsed and Chief took you in his arms and we came running towards here."

"What did you saw?" Asked Rainbow worried about her friend

Sunset starts remembering what she saw. "Well, there was Chief as a kid playing with his friends, then..." Sunset makes a pause and relives those memories, "...he's kidnapped... forced to train every day... his friends...dead... the augmentations..." Sunset starts panicking but continues her explanation. "...They died, the Covenant... Reach... the Halos... The Flood, they're everywhere!!" Sunset starts grabbing her face as a sign of panic, suddenly, Chief takes Sunset by the shoulder in a gentle way, then he says.

"Sunset, calm down, they can't hurt you." Sunset calms down, but she looks toward Chief and says with a saddened voice.

"Chief... I'm sorry, about Sam... and Parisa, I can't..." She's then interrupted by Chief, who said, "It's...fine, Sunset..." Said Chief with a saddened voice, "...There's nothing we can do for them... thanks to their sacrifice we managed to win the war against the covenant. We... we must honor their memory by moving forward and keep fighting." Chief sounded deeply moved by those names, but after showing a bit of his emotions, he returned to being serious again.

Then the doctor comes into the room, and says.

"Sorry to keep you waiting, but I have good news. Sunset Shimmer, your neural activity is stable right now, so you are clear to leave the infirmary, but I recommend that you don't use that power of mind reading for the rest of the day and you'll be completely fine by tomorrow."

"Thanks doctor, sorry to give you trouble." Replied Sunset

"Thanks Dr. Ziegler, we'll be more cautious next time." Said Chief while looking at Dr. Ziegler.

"John, we've fought together side by side, you can call me Angela, also please don't be extremely cautious, I like having new visitors from now and then." Replied Dr. Ziegler

"Noted." Replied Chief, who now looks towards the group and says, "Girls, your training's over for today, let's head back to the lab so that you can return home."

Twilight helps Sunset to get up from the bed she was on, Tesla remains silent while analyzing information at his datapad. The trip to the lab was full of chit-chatting and once they arrive at the portal room, Tesla finally talks.

"Aright people, thanks to my apprentice's research and today's training, I now have enough data to finally understand your powers." Said Tesla with an over confident voice.

"What do you have?" Asks Chief.

Tesla then brings a holo table, loads the information of his datapad and begins his explanation.

"Girls, your powers are indeed unique, they emit their own frequency, but they also follow laws of physic, therefore I managed to comprehend their nature." Tesla displays graphics for each member of the mane 7, the firt one is Rainbow Dash. "Rainbow Dash, you manage to accelerate to ultra high speeds, therefore, you can access a dimension where everything moves slower except you, the kinetic energy you create seems to be focused on your legs, but if we manage to refocus it, probably you can built up power to land a powerful blow."

The next one is Applejack, "Applejack, your super strength is caused to an exponential increase in the mass of your hands, but the energy that sorrounds them is basically light, that's why you can move them so easily, I'm sure we can create a tool that manages to use that energy to make you even stronger." Said Tesla, who now goes to the next graph, which is Rarity.

"Rarity, you capability to create solid diamonds its amazing, but you're using them with a defensive focus, you can alter their size at will, then maybe if you focus it on creating weapons, just imagine the usefulness of a shield or a blade made of pure diamond, but that's just thinking at short term." Tesla's now speeding up a bit.

"Fluttershy, you can talk to animals, which means that your ability lets you hear really low frequences, maybe if we expand its reach, you might be able of not only talking to animals, but detecting low frequences nearby, seems hard to achieve but I'll think of something." Tesla goes now at Pinkie's graph and says.

"Pinkie Pie, you can create explosions with sprinkles, but your power seems to give the detonation ability to the sprinkles, so instead of only using sprinkles, you can try using more substances, and maybe you can create much more diversal explosions."

"Sunset Shimmer.." Said Tesla while displaying Sunset's graph. "...you read minds, which in short words, is you establishing a neural link by electric impulses, but you're able to witness the memories of only one individual, but..." Tesla then changes the graph to a new one where insted of Sunset's normal image, is Daydream Shimmer. "...Your transformation, allows you to use focused light to attack and to revert anomalies, such as the portals that appeared at the Friendship Games my apprentice mentioned in her report. Also you can change their energy output at will, which is useful, but if you can create light from your body and manipulate it, maybe you can do much more than simply shooting beams, creating weapons would be a possibility, but it requires further analyzing."

Tesla then moves to the last graph, which is Twilight's, and this one is a bit weird because instead of using 2D graphics, uses 3D holograms.

"Twilight, your power is the one that called my attention the most, you create electromagenetic fields around objects that allow you to change the gravitational force inside it, but I have to test something to be sure..." Tesla then looks for something beneath the holo table.

"What is it?" Asks Twilight with a curious and also axcited voice.

Tesla then takes an empty metal box, "Catch!" said Tesla while throwing the box at Twilight, who grabs it with her power midair. "What should I do with it?" Asks Twilight confused about what Tesla just did, but he seems excited for what's coming next.

"Ok, I want you to crush it using your powers." Said Tesla, Twilight then focuses on the box, and after a small struggle, she managed to crush the box, but then she drops it, Tesla then takes the box and continues his explanation.

"Now, you can't only change the gravitational force inside the fields making whatever's inside it float, but also put gravitational pressure inside the fields to crush what's inside, but now I have a theory." Tesla makes a pause, makes some adjustments to the holo table and it displays only Twilight's graph and it shows many metrics, Tesla then adds. "If we manage to develop your abilities even more, maybe you can create controllable Black Holes." Said Tesla, and the holo table shows the model of a Black Hole, alongside a green description that said "Simulation successful."

The group remains shocked by Tesla's conclusions, he managed to comprehend and even develop factible theories about Equestrian magic, something neither Sunset nor Twilight could certainly determine. Tesla notices that, and says with excitement.

"All this time we've been craving to understand this energy, but now thanks to your help Twilight, we finally understand it. And it's not magic as you know it, it's SCIENCE!!!"

Tesla laughs from excitement, Twilight also shares a bit of it, but Chief interrupts the moment.

"Good job you both.." Chief said while looking at both Tesla and Twilight, then he adds. "...but I think the girls want to rest instead of listening to all this information, right girls?" Asked Chief while looking at the girls, although they couldn't see his face, his question made obvious that he doesn't want to hear long explanations anymore, Sunset notices it and makes a discrete sign towards the girls to follow along.

"Yeah, we also have actually important to do back home and it can't wait any longer." Replied Sunset, the girls agree with her, everyone is tired at this point, the portal to their home opens and Tesla says while the girls head to the portal.

"Ok, you have to leave and I have so much work to do, Twilight..." Twilight turns around and asks him, "What happened?" Tesla replies with a smile. "...Stay close to your phone, we might need to work together here instead of remote collaboration."

Twilight agrees with her head and says, "I will." then, everyone takes the portal and arrives at Canterlot High, the girls take this chance to stretch and take a deep breath of fresh air, after that, Applejack asks.

"Uhm, Sunset.. back there you said we have something important to do, would you mind explaining what is?"

"Oh, it's something I've been excited since I woke up, actually, I was wondering if you can help me with it."

"Sure thing Sunset, what is it?" Asked a confident Rainbow Dash.

Sunset then says with a smile in her face.

"There's someone I wanted to introduce you and we arranged to hang out today, so... we better not keep her waiting."

The girls head now to The Sweet Shoppe, once there, they take their seat and Rarity asks Sunset.

"So Sunset, would mind to tell us who is the person you wanted to introduce us?"

"You'll meet her soon..." Said Sunset while looking at her phone, "...but please, don't make it awkward, I want to treat her as best as I can." Added Sunset, she seems worried about making things right.

The group agrees and after waiting for a bit, someone enters the cafeteria and after taking off her hood, she reveals her face, it's the human Sunset but with a new hairstyle.

"Sunset!!" Said her equestrian counterpart while waving at her with excitement. The human Sunset sees her and replies the waving with awkwardness, then she approaches at the group and asks.

"Hey there, am I late?"

The girls are shocked by what they're seeing, there are two Sunsets now, fortunately Pinkie Pie is the one to greet her with excitement.

"Hi Sunset!!" Said Pinkie and then hugs the human Sunset and says. "Pleasure to be meeting you, you are Sunset's counterpart that's native of this world, am I right? But don't worry we can also be friends, my name is Pinkie Pie, the girls here are, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Applejack, Fluttershy, Twilight Sparkle and as you already now, Sunset Shimmer. Actually, how should we call you? Shimmer? Sunshimmer? Sunset 1? Sunset 2? Human Sunset?"

Twilight then interrupts Pinkie Pie. "Ahem! Pinkie, don't you think you're overwhelming her?" Asked Twilight with a slightly mad voice.

"Nah, don't worry, but, is she always this energetic?" Asked the human Sunset while being hugged by Pinkie, who slowly takes her arms off her in a shamed way.

"Most of the time yes, she is, and sometimes even more." Replied Applejack with funny intentions, afterwards, Sunset says to her human counterpart while she's taking a seat.

"Hey! I like what you did to your hair, it suits you." Said Sunset while looking at her counterpart, whom replies with awkwardness.

"Oh, really? Thanks! it's just that...if I was going to hang out with you, there might be confusions if we share hairstyles, so I decided to cut it short because that way it won't hinder my training." She replied, it's obvious she doesn't receive compliments very often.

Rainbow Dash got interested by what the human Sunset just said, she couldn't help but to say with excitement. "Training? Are you in a sports team? Because if so, I wouldn't mind to test out your skills."

"It's martial arts, I've been training since I was a kid, but I decided to train different discplines in order to find my own." Replied the human Sunset while making a gesture of denial towards Rainbow's proposal, but then she says. "But if what you want is a challenge, what about a musical duel?"

"Oh, and what instrument do you play darling?" Asked Rarity to human Sunset, whom replies with a confident voice.

"I've played guitar since I at elementary school, I perfected my technique with both acoustic and electric guitar, and now I play almost every instrument, except for the harp because I haven't found a good one that I can buy. But nowadays, I main play at bars and cafeterias with my guitars."

"That's true, I've witnessed her perfomance and she's really good." Added Sunset with a positive voice.

"It's settled then, let's go and find out who's the best guitarist!" Said Rainbow with enthusiasm and passion, as always, she takes this seriously.

Sunset seems happy about how things are going, the duel is arranged at Applejack's garage. The afternoon arrives and everyone's now at applejack's garage, Rainbow Dash explains the rules.

"Ok, the rules are the following, we're gonna play different songs that are graded by difficulty, the first one that fails to keep up with the song, looses, any doubts?"

The human Sunset takes her electric guitar from its case, this one's red with black flames shapes on it, and plugs it on a speaker next to where Rainbow Dash's standing. "Got it." She replies with confidence, Rainbow Dash gives the sign to Fluttershy to turn on a music player, the screen shows the name of the song which is "AC/DC - Back In Black" and then the music starts. Both Rainbow and the human Sunset have the same rythm, you can say they are at the same level, the song ends and both did it great, then the song changes to the next one, "Guns n' Roses - Welcome to The Jungle".

Same result as the previous song, but this time, human Sunset seemed more passionate while playing it, both look at each other acknowledging each other's ability. After another couple songs, the result didn't change, then Applejack says, "Uhmm girls, I can surely say both of you have the same skill, why don't we leave as a tie?" Asked Applejack.

"Well... maybe we can, what do you think Sun...?" Rainbow was about to ask but she's suddenly interrupted by the human Sunset.

"No way! there has to be a tie breaker." said the human Sunset, now she's even more determined to win than Rainbow Dash.

"But you've played every song in the list. What are you going to do?" Replied Rarity.

"There's one song we haven't played yet." Replied the human Sunset while raising a finger.

"Which one is it?" Asks Twilight with confusion.

"Through Fire and Flames." Said the human Sunset with a dramatic voice, none of the girls seem to know that song except for Sunset and Rainbow Dash, who got a bit shocked what the human Sunset said.

"Fine, if that's is going to be the tie breaker, let's rock with everything we have!" Said Rainbow Dash who now is excited again for the challenge.

Rainbow and the human Sunset get ready for the final round, the song starts and both are at the same level, but as the song continues, Rainbow seems to struggle to keep up with her rival, the solo part comes in and although both manage to keep a good rythm, the human Sunset plays with passion and determination, creating the feeling of confidence which made Rainbow got a bit nervous, making her commit a single mistake in a chord, messing up the song, leaving the human Sunset as the winner of the competition.

"Ah c'mon!! I was so close." Said Rainbow Dash which frustation, after all, she was taking the competition as serious as the human Sunset, but after her victory, she tells Rainbow who seems a bit down.

"Hey don't be angry..." Said the human Sunset while putting her guitar on the ground, "... being honest,you're of the best guitarists I've ever met, you might even beat me next time..."

"Awww thank you, but I won't stop practicing until I surpass you. Promise there'll be a next time?" Said Rainbow Dash, she seems fine now, both shake hands as a sign of sportmanship, "Promise." Replied the human Sunset.

It's already late and the girls say goodbye to the human Sunset, not before arranging many other plans to hang out with her, Sunset seems happy and relieved after this day.

The next day, the human Sunset and Fluttershy seem to have a chat at the park.

"Thanks for coming Sunset, I wasn't sure you wanted to come with to feed the ducks." Said Fluttershy while giving her a bag of duck food, both start throwing the food at the pond, and the human Sunset replies.

"Don't worry Fluttershy, I'm giving myself some time to process things, and I thought that a visit to the park would suit best for it."

"Oh...do you... wanna talk about it?" Asked Fluttershy, but a silence remains, "...Sometimes, talking about your problems can help your relief a bit of that burden." Added Fluttershy, she wants to help the human Sunset, although they barely know each other.

The human Sunset looks at Fluttershy, then closes her eyes and takes a deep sigh, then she sees with a reflective voice.

"Time ago, I had a conflict with my counterpart because she stole my life and practically banished me from having a normal life, and I've grown bitter since then, a part of me hates her, and when I saw he changed and started living with a smile on her face everyday... it sickened me... why's the Sunset from another world living in the place of the Sunset native of this world? That question tormented me for years, but then when we met again, she was willing to help me, she feels guilty for what she did and... I... thought that this is a good idea, to build a new life, but... I don't think I can be called Sunset Shimmer, I mean, it's my name and all but, whenever I look at my counterpart..." Sunset then look at the pond and sees her reflection. "I don't feel like that's the same person I'm seeing here."

"Well... that's because the other Sunset lived through different things than you, don't feel bad because of not being like your counterpart, you two are Sunsets but you can choose how do you want to be. And about hating her, I know she was really mean back then, but just as you said, she's a different person now, and the fact that you gave her a chance means that you're also willing to change your life for the better." Said Fluttershy, but when she says that, Sunset rubs her neck as a sign that shows she feels bad about something, but then she says.

"The thing is that I can't forgive her, yeah I can change my life, but at the end the damage is done, and that's something I can't forget easily, but... AHH!!" Sunset then grabs her head with pain due to headache, even stronger than the one she had when she was with her counterpart.

"Sunset... are you ok?!" Asked Fluttershy worried about her, then she notices a purple glow from a pocket inside her jacket, but she acts like it wasn't there.

"I'm... fine... Fluttershy, I... just need to... go home, sorry for leaving but... thanks for the chat Fluttershy!" Said Sunset with pain while running away, leaving Fluttershy alone at the park, confused about what just happened, she can't ignore that purple glow, after some time, she meets with Twilight at her house to tell her what she saw.

"So, in short words, you saw a mysterious purple glow in the other Sunset's jacket while she was in pain due to a sudden headache?" Asked Twilight, she can't believe what Fluttershy's saying.

"Yes, and then she ran away, but she said she had to go home, do you think she's related to those crystals Chief showed us yesterday?" Asked Fluttershy with a worried voice, at this point, she doesn't know what to do.

"It's a possibility, but for the moment, we have to tell Sunset, she must be aware of this." Replied Twilight while taking her phone, she's going to call Sunset.

"What about Chief?" Asks Fluttershy, Twilight turns around and replies. "We can tell him later, this is a matter Sunset must solve first, after all, it's her counterpart the one we're talking about."

The next day, Applejack and the human Sunset are at Sweet Apple Acres, cutting down some trees for wood.

"Whew!" Said Applejack before the last tree's down, "You're pretty good at this Sunset, thanks for lending me a hand."

"Don't worry Applejack, I want to ease my mind, cutting down trees seemed like a good therapy." Said Sunset while cutting the logs into smaller pieces with an axe, Applejack sees how she cuts with enough strength to make the axe stick to the trunk she's using as base to cut the rest of the logs.

"You're quite strong too, that explains why you seem robuster than our Sunset. I bet you can even beat Big Mac at arm wrestling with your eyes closed" Said Applejack while Sunset was cutting the last log, then se throws a towel to Sunset.

"Is this the last one?" Asked Sunset while catching the towel and then cleaning the sweat from her face.

"That's right, now what about if we go inside? I bet Granny Smith made some fresh lemonade." Said Applejack with a happy face.

"Sure, why not? Let me take my jacket." Said Sunset, she sticks the axe to the trunk, and then she crouches to pick up her jacket from the ground, she puts it on, but then, they're interrupted by an unexpected visit.

"Applejack, are you here?!!" Asked Rainbow Dash, followed along by Sunset and Twilight.

"There they are." Said Twilight while pointing at where AJ and the human Sunset are standing. The girls approach and then Applejack says.

"What's the matter Twilight? Did something bad happen?" Asked Applejack, confused of her friends' sudden visit.

"Not yet, but there's something we need to know." Said Sunset while approaching to her counterpart, they're standing one in front of the other, then Sunset asks. "Tell me Sunset, did you go to the cave?"

The human Sunset doesn't react by her counterpart's question, she remains serious, and replies with another question, "What if I did go there?"

"Please Sunset, if you have the stolen fragment of the crystal, hand it over, it will only cause more damage instead of helping you, no matter what purpose you have for them." Replied Sunset, she doesn't want to hurt her counterpart.

"What if I don't?" Asked the human Sunset with an agressive voice.

Rainbow Dash then uses her super speed to search the human Sunset for the stolen fragment, "Hey!" Said aloud the human Sunset while Rainbow Dash shows the girls, the geode she's been hiding.

Sunset can't believe it, that crystal, looks exactly like hers but she feels it overflowing with dark magic, in a brief moment, the human Sunset punches Rainbow on the face, forcing her to let go the dark crystal, then, the human Sunset takes it but she's brought to the ground by Twilight's power and Applejack took a lasso to tie her up, but the human Sunset manages to put on her necklace and the energy wave frees her from Twilight's grasp, while pushing everyone away.

A dark aura envelops the human Sunset and, the dark magic now flows through her, dyeing her hair black in the red sections and dark purple in the yellow sections of her hair, her jacket shows red stripes that create the shape of a skull on her back, her iris looses its green color to be replaced by a dark purple color, her forearms and legs got covered with armor created by the crystal's magic, the aura disipates revealing her transformation to the girls, who remain shocked for what they're seeing.

In a brief moment, the human Sunset thrusts herself at high speed and takes Twilight by the head and slams her to the ground, knocking her out of the fight. Then, Rainbow Dash uses her super speed to land a few blows, but the human Sunset blocks all of them while predicting Rainbow's erratic movement, with a swift poke, she stops Rainbow Dash, but the strength of the hit makes her spill some blood from her nose while falling to the ground.

"Enough of this!" Applejack said with anger while transforming, she throws a punch at the human Sunset, but she dodges it with ease and counters it with a storm of quick jabs and knocks her out with an uppercut.

"Sunset! Please STOP!!!" Said Sunset aloud with a restrained anger, but she wants to solve things peacefully, she said with the intention to make her counterpart to come to her senses. "You don't want to this, whatever Kylo Ren told you to do..."

"It's because of Kylo Ren that I was peaceful at the beginning, I could've finished you off SO damn easy!!! All I've ever wanted since that day at the school backyard, was to beat you, to make you pay for what you took from me!!" Said the human Sunset with a violent voice, interrupting her counterpart, who transforms into her Daydream form and said with a compassive voice.

"Sunset, I know that you're angry, and you think that crystal can help you achieve your revenge, but its dark magic will corrupt you, trust me, I know how it feels to..."

"Shut UP!!!" Said the human Sunset aloud with the same agressive voice as before, "There's nothing you have to say, that I want to hear!! Now, are you going to run away looking for help, or are you going to stand forth and face the consequences of your actions ONCE AND FOR ALL?!!!" Yelled the human Sunset towards her counterpart, who after giving an expression of lamentation, she's now determined to stop her counterpart's madness, both stand in front of each other, looking at each other with determination.

The light that ressembles the sun and can illuminate even the deepest of darkness, against the hatred that swallows even the brightest of lights with its darkness, their battle is inminent, what outcome would this battle bring?

END OF CHAPTER.

Author's Note

Hi everyone, here's another chapter, which I think will be the cornerstone of this story, I'm very excited of how things are going, and I hope you also are. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed reading this chapter as much as I enjoyed writing it.

See you next time