Author's Note

No the dead matter is not a pokeball. It was an idea that just popped into my head and I incorporated it into the story. Just wanted to clarify. Enjoy!

The fight heard around Equestria

Sunny couldn't believe what she had just seen. Izzy had kicked her own mother. Not only kicked, but she had dislocated her jaw. Izzy's mom stopped and her horn glowed a brilliant blue. Her jaw fixed itself. Healing magic is truly incredible, Sunny thought.

"Isabelle Moonbow! How bucking dare you! I dealt with you for so long! I allowed your rude language! I even allowed you to run away for some absurd dream of going on a trip to Maretime Bay! And this is how you repay me?"

"Allowed me? No way!" Izzy snapped back. "I left because you all were horrible to me!"

The mare looked back at Izzy. "You watch your next words young mare! I have your friend in there and magic can easily be undone!" She hissed.

Izzy kicked the mare again. This time right to the top of her head. The mare fell down and was knocked out. Blood began pooling around her head. Sunny looked towards Izzy. Izzy was completely unfazed. "That's what you deserve," Izzy said. "Making me study herbs for eight hours a day and kicking me out of the house. All of it lead up to this."

"Is she gonna be okay?" Sunny asked.

Izzy nodded. "Yeah she'll be fine but that wound will leave her with serious headaches for the next few days. She used to make me study wounds and cures I know all about head injuries. Now of course, unicorns have magic so all of the knowledge I gained has gone to waste."

The two of the walked towards the house to get their friends when the red stallion walked out of it. "What's all the commo-"

He gasped when he saw the mare laying on the ground. He looked up at Izzy and glared. "You did this didn't you?" He yelled. "How could you do this to your own mother?" Izzy nodded again with no remorse in her eyes.

"Just let me take our friends and you will never see me again." Sunny had never seen Izzy be so horrible to anypony but this was beyond horrible. This was cruel.

The red stallion walked inside and escorted Hitch and Pipp out with Zipp in his magical grasp. Izzy threw about twenty bits at him and started to walk away. As they all were walking away, they heard the stallion shout, "Nopony ever loved you Isabelle! And nopony ever will!" They all heard the sound of the door slamming as Izzy stopped dead in her tracks. She turned around and rushed back towards the door. She began pounding on it with her forehoof.

"Open the door you bucking coward!" She screamed right before Sunny walked up behind her and began dragging her away.

"Come on." Sunny said. "We don't want to get into trouble. we should just go."

Hitch stepped forwards towards the rest of the group. "Go where? Mrs. Moonbow said that Zipp would be asleep for the next couple of days as a result of the spell. We also aren't quite safe here. If the changelings found Maretime Bay, they could easily find Bridlewood.

Sunny shook her head. "My dad used to have an old spell book used by Princess Celestia. In the book, there was a spell that they used to make the Crystal Empire invisible to outsiders. I think I studied it enough times where I could pull it off." Sunny concentrated for a long time. Suddenly, there was a small explosion of glitter as the orange earth pony sprouted wings and a horn. She kicked off the ground and beat her wings until she was high above the forest. She had never really done anything outside of a little levitation magic but she knew that for Izzy's sake, she had to do this. She concentrated and after a while, the entirety of Bridlewood was encased in an orange bubble before the town became invisible.

Sunny flew back down towards the town and it came back into view as she crossed the threshold of the town's bubble. She turned to the rest of the group while looking stunned. She breathed a sigh of relief as she said, "I can't believe that actually worked. Anyways, let's head back to La Villa Izzy. We can rest there until Zipp recovers fully."

They walked in almost complete silence towards the unicorn's house. Sunny's wings and horn had disappeared by now. She could only wear them for a short time before she ran out of magic energy. The horn and wings were a beautiful translucent orange. She wished she could have them forever.

When they reached the house, Izzy unlocked the door and they all stepped inside. "I'm sorry everypony," Izzy started. "I only have three beds so some ponies will have to share. I also wouldn't quite recommend the couch, It's made of wood and thin pillows so it isn't very comfortable."

Pipp raised a hoof. "I can take a bed and lay Zipp down on the floor next to me. That way if she wakes up in the middle of the night, I will be right there." Hitch, Sunny, and Izzy nodded and Pipp hauled Zipp onto her back. She began walking up the stairs of the house towards the first guest bedroom.

Sunny looked at the Hitch and Izzy. "Izzy can take the bed in her own bedroom. Hitch can take the second guest bedroom. I'll sleep on the floor in Izzy room." They both nodded and went off to their rooms. Izzy and Sunny walked into Izzy's bedroom and Sunny laid her sleeping bag from the night before out onto the ground. Everypony had silently agreed that it was time for bed at this point. Sunny was sure that Pipp was already asleep. Izzy walked into the bathroom and levitated a toothbrush with her magic towards her.

Sunny looked around Izzy's room. A piece of paper on the table caught her eye. She walked over to it and grabbed it with a forehoof. "Is this really the same letter I made with my father?" Sunny asked as the memories all came rushing back into her head.

Izzy walked out of the bathroom while saying. "I think so. I don't know how many lanterns with hoof made letters come floating by in Bridlewood." A smile spread itself across Sunny's face.

"I could do just fine without the sarcasm Izzy."

Izzy shrugged and flopped down on the bed. Sunny had brought both of their suitcases upstairs but she was rummaging through Izzy's. Izzy jumped up with a start. She yelled, "Hey what are you doing!" She ran over and shut the suitcase but not before Sunny found what she was looking for. Sunny turned the dead matter around in her hooves.

"Where did you find this thing? Where did it come from? How many things can it hold at a time?" Sunny questions spilled forth from her mouth with no end in sight. Izzy snatched the orb back from her and set it on her bedside table.

"Don't touch it Sunny. It could be really dangerous." Izzy said.

"Why not? You touched it?" Sunny said laughing.

Izzy cracked a smile. "You know you really act like a foal sometimes."

Sunny opened the suitcase again. "What are you looking for now?" Izzy said.

Sunny laughed. "I just wanted to see what other things you packed." Sunny's eyes widened and she stopped laughing. Izzy stopped laughing realizing what Sunny just saw. Inside the suitcase, there was a piece of paper with six words messily written on it.

Good Luck In Maretime Bay!

- Geode

"What's this?" Sunny asked. "I thought you left Bridlewood without him knowing? Why would you have this?"

Izzy sighed and took a step towards Sunny. She took the piece of paper and stared at it for a while. " After he realized that I had gone, he sent me a messenger bird with a letter on it. There was a letter that came with this. But I never wanted to see it again because it made me look back on the past. It made me think of things that could never be." Izzy dug around under her bed and pulled out a longer piece of paper. It read...

My dearest Izzy,
I see you have left town. I don't know if
it was because of me but if it was, I want
you to know. The time that I spent with
you was the best time I ever spent. If I'm
being completely honest, My relationship
with Lucky Star has been falling off lately.
I wanted you to know that I think I still love
you. When or if you come back, I hope we
could maybe give it another chance. If you
do not wish to continue a romantic
relationship with me, then I will leave it at
rest. I will probably marry Lucky Star and
that will be that. But please think about it
okay? With this letter, I enclosed a little
extra message for you. I hope all is going
well with the earth ponies.

Best wishes, Geode.

As Sunny finished reading, she could hear Izzy sniffling over her shoulder. Izzy took the paper back and put it back under her bed. "What I don't understand is why." Sunny said as Izzy turned back towards her.

"Why what?"

"Why wouldn't you go for it? He said in his letter that he would break off everything with Lucky Star if you came back. If he really was the stallion of your dreams, then why didn't you come back for him?"

Izzy sighed and said, "By the time I received this letter, I had already fallen for somepony else."

Sunny eyes widened as a smile spread across her face. "You love Hitch don't you?" She yelled while snickering a little bit.

Izzy sighed again. "Yes I do. Why is that so bucking funny to you?"

Sunny stopped laughing and turned to Izzy with a serious look on her face. "Let me just say Izzy, You won't want to wait too long to tell him. He has a lot of mares who would go after him in Maretime Bay. Just make sure not to miss your chance."

Izzy sighed and walked to her bed. Zipp gave me the same advice, she thought as she climbed into the bed. Maybe they have a point.

* * *

The next few days went by perfectly fine. Hitch and Pipp didn't say anything to her so Izzy figured Sunny had kept her word and hadn't told anypony about how she felt. Although Sunny making sure that Hitch was sitting next to Izzy at every meal was not going unnoticed. "Real subtle," Izzy hissed as Sunny grinned.

After a few days, Zipp woke up. She was able to walk around perfectly fine now. They all went down to the crime scene together. The officer there told them that only two can go down at once and that they would be heavily supervised to make sure they didn't tamper with the crime scene at all. Sunny and Zipp decided to go down and look around.

"Find anything big?" Sunny asked while picking around some debris that looked as though it could have come from the statue.

"No. Keep looking."

Zipp was more interested in examining the body of Geode when she suddenly asked, "What do you think made this stab mark?"

Sunny walked over to take a look at the body. "I'm not quite sure."

"Do you think it could have been Queens Chrysalis's horn?"

"Impossible she would have had to turn her head completely upside down for that to work. There's no way she would have been able to get underneath him to make a stab this clean."

"Can changelings do that?"

Sunny thought back to her research on the monsters of ancient Equestria. "I think it could be possible."

The two of them left the crime scene and told the others their theory.

"You know," Pipp started. "There is a huge library in Zephyr Heights. If we could get there, maybe we could find some news on what's going on."

They decided that they would leave tomorrow morning. Just then, They heard a crash and they looked behind them. Three figures stood before them. A minotaur, A changling.

And a pink filly...