Twinkle and the others reentered their hotel and crashed.

“Whew! That was quite the walk,” Spike said.

“I do apologize but I needed to be thorough,” Charity said, locking the door behind her a laying down on the bed, kicking off her high horseshoes.

“Can we head back yet?” Zap asked.

“No, we still have until tomorrow before our hotel visitation is over,” Charity said.

“Darn it…” Zap said.

“Do be patient Zap dear,” Charity said before using her powers to conjure a manebrush and she began combing herself.

“Can I have that afterward?” Twinkle said sounding a little weary.

“Sure… why do you sound so down Twinkle?” Charity asked.

“It’s that Twinkle sense from earlier… I can’t shake that something bad will happen soon…” Twinkle said.

“You can probably sleep it off, ah’m sure it’s nothin,” Zap said.

“I don’t know,” Twinkle said.

“Let’s all get an early rest, ah wanna fly home tomorrow, no if ands or buts,” Zap said.

“Ok ok,’ Charity sighed having hoped Zap had gained something from this venture.

“Ok,” Twinkle and Spike said.

The CMC were deposited in cells within the warehouse and the cells were shut before Apple Bloom could get out.

“Hey! Let us out!” AB demanded.

“Oh don’t worry, I’ll let you three out soon,” Storm said.

“Why are you doing this? I wanna go home!” Sweetie cried.

“Don’t we all…” Storm said quietly.

“Huh?” AB said noticing his mood shift.

“But unfortunately some of us don’t have homes anymore, that too will change in the new Equestria I will bring about,” Storm said.

“New Equestria?” Scootaloo said confusedly.

“Who are ya? Really?” AB said.

“Just call me Storm, it’s not my real name but it’s a good placeholder,” He sat on a chair and looked at them.

After a few awkward moments Scootaloo spoke up “Take a picture, it’ll last longer,” Scootaloo said.

“I intend to, after I’m done,” Storm said.

“I’m sorry, done?... with what?...” Sweetie said.

“A unicorn, an earth pony and a pegasus… small wings, but I know a spell that can help with that,” Storm said examining the three.

“Hey!” Scoots barked at him.

“Quiet! I need to study my materials,” Storm said.

“Materials?” AB parroted.

“Hmm… a little young, but I can make it work,” Storm said before getting out a clipboard and scribbling on it.

“Wh-what is he going to do with us?” Sweetie asked “I knew this was all a bad idea, now we’re kidnapped like I said!” Sweetie was hyperventilating.

“Calm yerself Sweetie, Our sisters are in town and they can-” AB was cut off by Storm.

“They won’t find you, nopony outside the warehouse even knows about this place, but if your sisters start snooping like you did, then I’ll just add them to my subject list as well,” Storm said.

“Alright, enough bein vague, tell us straight. What’ll ya do with us?” Apple Bloom demanded.

“Well, getting an alicorn on my side is quite the treat, despite your age, I’m sure the magic of the merge mirror will improve your skills enough, havn’t tried three at once yet, but hey that’s the scientific process, examination of options,” Storm said with a smile.

“What? Merge Mirror…. Twinkle did mention an object that made her and her new friends… so that means… oh no,” AB said scaredly.

“What? What does it mean?” Scootaloo asked.

“Girls… he’s going to do to us what happened to our sisters…” AB said in fear.

“WHAT?!” Sweetie and Scootaloo cried.

“Your smart, ponies really don’t know what their talking about when they say country ponies are simple, I’ll chalk it up to spoiled nobles,” Storm said not looking up from his clipboard, even as the three began to panic.

“SISTER, CELESTIA, LUNA, ANYPONY! HELP US!” Sweetie screamed.

Twinkle’s eyes opened up and she found herself on the sidewalk, earlier in the day.

“Huh? What? Where am I?” Twinkle asked before noticing four figures running past her.

“Huh?” Twinkle could see it was the CMC and an unknown colt.

“Huh? What are they doing here?... and how did I… Wait up!” Twinkle ran after the four and then she witnessed the scene where the CMC were captured.

“Huh?!” Twinkle exclaimed.

She watched as they were dragged away and AB smartly dropped her bow at the scene.

…

Twinkle opened her eyes and found herself at the site of the bow on the edge of town.

“Huh?! How did I get out here?” Twinkle looked around and saw the bow “Wait… if I am here, and the bow is there, then is what I witnessed… what my enhanced Twinkle sense is showing me? Then that means… Oh no… I need to tell the others!” Twinkle grabbed the bow and teleported.

Outside of Manehatten…

“Darn it! Need to work on that!” Twinkle said before teleporting again.

Twinkle finally made it to the hotel and ran to her friends room.

“GUYS! You need to see this!” Twinkle said barging into the room and alerting everypony there.

“HUH?!” Spike shot up in bed.

“The hay?! Twinkle don’t ya know what time it is?!” Zap said angrily.

“You need to see this,” Twinkle said.

“Ah swear if it is another trigonomerchy whatever….” Zap mumbled.

“Look what I found on the sidewalk on the edge of town…” Twinkle said holding out the bow and everypony looked at it.

“You found a bow… good for you,” Spike sighed.

“Wait a minute…. That’s… Apple Bloom’s bow?” Zap got out of bed and took it, looking at it carefully.

“How can you tell?” Spike said.

“AB… her names on the inside of it…” Zap said looking pale.

“But what is her bow doing in Manehatten?” Charity asked.

“If it’s here then… Twinkle, where did ya find this? What do ya know?” Zap questioned.

“I had a dream where the CMC were following a colt into the edge of town and then they were… kidnapped… then I woke up and I was there… I must have either sleepwalked or sleep teleported…” Twinkle said unsurely.

“Twinkle… tell me straight, where is mah sister?!” Zap demanded.

“Zap Apple calm yourself! She’d tell us if she knew,” Charity said.

“Zap… they must of followed us here and gotten kidnapped!” Twinkle exclaimed.

“B-but why? Why did they follow us here?! What’ll happen to them!?” Zap said as she was beginning to panic.

“I don’t know!” Twinkle said panicking as well.

“GIRLS!” Charity said in a surprisingly loud tone getting their attention.

“We won’t find anything out staying here, we need to move!” Charity said.

“Right,’ Zap said taking a breath.

“Should I send word to the princesses?” Spike said getting out of bed.

“Yes, they need to know we’re on the lookout for kidnappers, we’ll need the help,” Charity said.

“Ok, give me a sec.” Spike said before running off to a desk with paper on it and writing a note before sending it.

“Let’s move! The longer we stand around the sooner something bad could happen to mah sister!” Zap said as she marched out of the room.

“Wait! I need to show you where I found the bow!” Twinkle said.

‘Right, lead the way,” Zap said with a serious expression.

“Ok,” Twinkle said before she hurried ahead of the others.

The four left the hotel as one and hurried alongside Twinkle.

“Ok, this way! Come on!” Twinkle and the others ran and though it took awhile they made it to the location.

“You sure this is the place?” Zap asked.

“There’s hardly anypony here,” Charity said before noticing something down an alleyway and walking down there.

“I’m positive! I remember the sign,” Twinkle pointed to a sign with the street name Horseshoe lane on it.

“This place is quite dingy,” Spike said looking at the rundown part of the neighborhood.

“Where did you see the bow?” Zap demanded.

“Over there,” Twinkle said pointing at the spot she saw the bow lying.

Zap looked around but didn’t see anything noteworthy.

“What do we do now?” Zap asked.

“I dunno, maybe me and Chares can get high up in the air and look around while you dart around and look for clues-”

“AAAAHHHH!” Charity’s cry caught their attention and they went on alert.

“CHARITY!” Spike cried as he ran to where her screaming was coming from along with the others.

A gagged and blindfolded Charity was thrown against the wall.

“That’ll stop her from screaming,” the earth pony thug said with a satisfied smile before getting close up and lifting her face up.

“What’s a pretty thing like you doing around these parts? Don’t bother answering, what matters is what we’re going to do.” The gangster snickered.

“Leeft mef go youth heafens!” Charity tried to say through her gag.

“Oh I bet this’ll be the best night of our lives boys,” The lead gangster chuckled before moving to start undressing her.

Before a rock hit him in the head.

“OW!” The gangster looked to see who threw that and saw an irate dragon and two others mares.

“Let her go… or else…” Spike growled.

“The hell?” One gangster muttered.

“That a dragon?” Another muttered as well.

“Ah believe ya heard him,” Zap said as she walked around Spike and approached.

“Whoa…” The gangsters looked scared of her clear muscle power, so the leader did the only thing scumbags like them did and pulled a knife and held it to Charity’s neck.

“S-stay back! I’ll kill her!” The gangster threatened.

“DON’T!” Spike yelled.

“Don’t worry Spike… They won’t” Zap said.

“How do you know Spike asked warily.

“Because they may be fiends, but they ain’t stupid enough to kill our friend,” Zap said continuing her approach.

“I said stay back! I’ll do it!” The lead gangster threatened.

“You won’t,” Zap said.

“Why’s that?” a gangster said smugly.

“Because then you all die…” Zap said.

“What do you mean?” One said.

“Think of it, yer facing down a well-built pegasus, an alicorn, and a dragon who could go awol on ya any second, tell me, are those favorable odds? The moment you slit her throat ah will beat ya so senseless you’ll be drinkin yer next meal through a straw, out the wrong end” Zap said stomping her hoof and the gangsters flinched “And don’t think about runnin, ah’m alot faster than ah look, you’ll be caught before you get to the edge of the alley,” Zap said cracking her knuckles.

“W-well… that doesn’t change that I have your friend! Get out of here and when we finish up you can have her-” A hand grabbed his knife arm and twisted it on backwards “AAAH!” The gangster cried out in pain and he looked to see Twinkle behind him.

“Hold on wasn’t she just-” One gangster questioned before seeing a fake Twinkle where she was standing a second ago fading away.

“Teleporting is awesome right? Finally got it down pat,” Twinkle said before spinning and tossing the lead gangster at another.

“You little-” One moved to stab Twinkle but she simply moved her head and a green fist flew past her head and impacted his face and he fell down.

“Leave them to me,” Zap said getting in front of Twinkle as the other gangsters ran in to attack.

Zap wiped the blood off her knuckles and held the beaten gangster leader by his collar, the other gangsters either fled or are on the ground beaten.

“Mercy!” He cried.

“Give me one reason to spare the punk who nearly off’d mah friend…” Zap asked.

“I’m sorry!” He cried.

“Sorry’s not good enough!” Spike said approaching looking ready to give him a piece of his mind until Charity stopped him.

“I’ve seen enough senseless violence for one day, please,” Charity pleaded.

“Count yerself lucky,” Zap dropped him.

The cowardly gang leader tried to crawl away but Charity got in front of him.

“Wait! I have a question,” She asked.

“Just let me go…” The lead gangster pleaded.

“Not until we hear this, did you or any of your friends see three fillies being kidnapped around here? A unicorn a pegasus and an earth pony? One had a bow,” Charity asked.

“That depends, got money?” The lead gangster said with some sick humor.

“I was being serious…” Charity said.

“So was I,” he said.

“...Tell us, now,” Charity’s eyes went into the stare and the gangster eeped and fell on his butt.

“Wh-what is that!? Stop it!” he cried.

“Tell me!” Charity’s voice began to take a darker tone, even her friends looked nervously at those eyes, that stare was far more potent than Fluttershy’s stare.

The gangster literally pee’d himself as he curled up in a ball.

“I SAW THEM I SAW THEM! THEY WERE TAKEN BY THIS FREAKY DUDE WITH GLOWING HANDS OK!?” He screamed.

The aura of menace and destruction vanished around Charity and she took a deep breath.

“Where?” She demanded.

“I didn’t stick around I swear, I heard rumors that ponies everywhere were vanishing, we were going to take our leave until this happened…” The gangster whimpered.

“Which direction?” She demanded.

“I saw him go in the direction of the old warehouse yard, b-but that place was abandoned a long time ago, it’s easy to miss if you don’t know where it is!” He said.

“Where is this shipping yard?” Charity demanded.

“Just head down the street, all the way, it’s hidden behind a treeline, you can see a river from it, now please let me go!” The gangster pleaded.

“Very well, go be a good pony, or we’ll come back,” Charity said.

“O-ok… I hated the thug life anyways!” He said getting up and running away.

Afterwards Charity turned towards her friends.

“Good work Charity,” Twinkle said.

“I swear I’ll never get used to that stare,” Spike said.

“We need to get moving,” Charity said getting to the point.

“Right!” Zap said and they ran off.

The cell door opened and the three fillies looked up fearfully at Storm.

“It is time girls,” He said with glee, clearly excited to run the experiment.

“N-no! You can’t do this to us! We’re only pre-teens!” Sweetie pleaded.

“So what? I fused two colts, what’s a few more?” He said as the burly red pony from before entered.

“This is murder!” AB shouted trying to run around him but he scooped her up and Sweetie too when she tried to speed around him.

Scootaloo ran out of the cage only for another burly grey pony grabbed her and held her aloft.

“Murder? Oh no, you’ll live on… as a new pony,” He said as he led the two burly ponies to the middle of the warehouse.

“Think of it, you’ll be an alicorn if this goes right, isn’t that every fillies dream?” He said.

“NOT LIKE THIS!” Scootaloo cried.

“Well think of it like this, you’ll help contribute to a new Equestria, you’ll be among the stronger in this new world, a leader, not vulnerable anymore, we can work together to make Equestria great again, by making the ponies greater!” He laughed.

“Your insane!” Sweetie said.

“Perhaps, but I’m a madman with a purpose, and that purpose is to build an Equestria better than those failed princesses ever could,” Storm said.

“What do you-” AB started but he interrupted.

“We’re getting off track here, get them into the magic barrier field,” Storm said.

“Yes boss,” the stallions said as they deposited the fillies into the field, they tried to run but the field stopped them from escaping.

‘And besides, I need an alicorn for phase three to begin…” Storm said.

“Pl-please,” Apple Bloom pleaded.

“...Sorry, but this is for the good of Equestria I do this,” He said before lighting up his fusion magic.

And then the door to the warehouse broke down…

“Hmm?” Storm looked over to see Zap Apple, Charity, Spike and Twinkle.

“AB! Scoots! Sweetie!” Zap called out loudly.

“Oh great…” Storm sighed seeing the Mane Three and a dragon.

[Ten minutes earlier]

The group made it through the tree line and saw what looked like what was once a warehouse but was now some kind of hideout.

“Girls get down!” Twinkle said and they did, as they looked out at the patrolling ponies, all of them looked tough.

“We need to find a way inside, I’d bet my bits their in there,” Spike said.

“How? There’s guards everywhere,” Charity said.

“We need a plan of attack,” Spike said.

“I got one,” Twinkle said.

“What?” Zap asked.

“I worked on it while you were all chatting,” Twinkle said conjuring a chalkboard.

“Alright, now listen up,” Twinkle said.

Zap Apple walked out with Spike and they both entered the grounds in plain sight.

“Huh? Hey who goes there?” A tall and lanky earth pony demanded approaching them.

“Hi, don’t mind us, we’re just passing through,” Spike said.

“No can do, get out of here, this is private property,” The stallion said.

“Yeah, get lost, our boss doesn’t need any visitors today, he’s got… important work he’s doing…” A brown mare with a green mane said as she approached.

“Look, we just moved into the area and we’re having a look around,” Spike said carefully.

Meanwhile all the ponies on the upper shipping containers were being systematically taken out by Charity and Twinkle.

“I said move it!” The lanky pony said poking a guard baton at them.

“Is that a guard baton? How did you get one, are you a guard?” Zap asked.

“None of your beeswax,” He said “Now for the final time get lost, or else me and my buds up there will toss you out,” He said confidently.

“What buds?” Zap said with a smirk.

“Right over… huh?” He looked around and saw all his buddies were knocked out.

Zap then punched him and the mare tried to strike at Zap with a baton but Zap blocked and punched her lights out as well.

“Good work!” Spike said.

“Thanks,” Twinkle said as she and Charity arrived back beside them, before they could continue they saw a greenish glow coming from the windows.

“Somethins happening, we need to get moving,” Zap said and they hurried to the door and Zap without waiting or being cautious she kicked the door in.

[Present]

“SIS!” AB called.

“Help us!” Sweetie cried.

“LET THEM GO!” Zap yelled.

“And why should I do that? How will it benefit me?” Storm asked.

“Ah won’t kick yer flank as hard, that’s how,” Zap threatened.

“Everypony, take care of them, I have an alicorn to make,” Storm said turning back to the three fillies as the ponies around the warehouse stopped what they were doing and approached.

“Ah’ll take those two big guys, Twinkle go after the guy in the robe, he’s probably the leader,” Zap said.

“Ok!” Twinkle said as she teleported.

“Redirect,” The stallion's horn flashed and Twinkle found herself on the far side of the warehouse.

“Huh?!” Twinkle exclaimed.

“Teleportation redirection learned it by magical kindergarten,” Storm chuckled.

“Oh you!” Twinkle said as she ran at him.

Meanwhile Zap cracked her knuckles as the two taller stallions approached her.

“Bring it on,” Zap said before dodging a punch by the grey one and striking him in the face sending him stumbling back with a bloody nose.

The other one swung a kick at her but Zap defended and grabbed his leg and spin tossed him into a box.

“Ooof!” He grunted.

“That all ya got?” Zap said before the other stallion caught her with a hit to the face, she stumbled and wiped her lip before the red stallion threw another punch and she caught it and defended from a punch from the other hand and struck him in the gut.

“UGH!” He grunted.

“Ah’m too strong fer ya!” Zap said before the grey stallion charged at her and she took to the air to avoid him.

Charity meanwhile was firing magic blasts and Spike was breathing fire at the fused ponies trying to close in on them with weapons.

“I can’t hold forever,” Charity said.

“I know!” Spike said. “Charity! Try your stare!” Spike said.

“Ok!” Charity activated her stare and the ponies gasped and backed off, Spike took the opportunity to breath more fire to force the ponies to move back.

And Twinkle ran around several ponies trying to grab her with her unpredictable movements, her Twinkle sense warning her everytime she was about to be jumped.

Twinkle ran up the platform and reached Storm, when a pony tried to jump her Twinkle used a barrier and expanded it rapidly to send the pony flying.

“Your an interesting specimen, but I already sense the Merge Mirrors power radiating from you, therefore your not useful to me other than a minion,” Storm said turning to her.

“Yeah, wait… how do you know about the mirror?” Twinkle asked.

“A silly question for the guy who has access to that very magic now,” Storm said lighting his hands up.

“How did you get that magic?” Twinkle demanded.

“I snuck into Canterlot and stole it, along with something else, or has your Princess kept you in the dark about what’s going on? Wouldn’t be the first time she’s done so,” Storm said bitterly.

“Don’t insult Celestia!” Twinkle said before firing a beam at Storm who simply raised a barrier and stopped it.

“I was like you once, bright eyed and naive, but I have evolved from that stupid little colt I once was,” Storm said before firing a counter beam that he somehow weaved around hers.

“Huh?!” Twinkle said and her Twinkle sense formed a barrier in front of and behind her.

As the blast was about to hit her it moved over her and u-turned into the barrier behind her.

“Facinating, you have a sixth sense that your magic reacts too, I imagine that’s a gift from the Merge Mirror,” Storm said before lashing his tendrils out.

Twinkle teleported to avoid them and reappeared in midair before firing a series of blasts at Storm.

“Yeah Twinkle! Get ‘em!” AB and the other CMC cheered.

Twinkle flew around and fired several shots at him but Storm teleported ten feet to the left and then levitated himself.

“Huh?” Twinkle said.

“Did you think only pegasi could fly?” Storm chuckled before charging a large magical blast up and firing it.

“Not good!” Twinkle said before putting up a barrier and stopping the blast, it then split into two separate blasts and tried to pincer her, they split again and tried to nail her from above and below, Twinkle just surrounded herself in a barrier and the blast just continued to split.

“A personal invention of my own,” Storm said before firing a large blast that hit her barrier and pushed her against a wall.

“How is he so strong?!” Twinkle grunted.

“Years of practice, longer than you original halves were alive, Twilight and Pinkie Pie,” Storm said floating up to the cornered Twinkle.

“What? How do you-”

“Aren’t you getting tired of asking questions?” He then charged an indigo beam and fired it and it hit her barrier before opening a hole in it.

“What?!” Twinkle exclaimed before he blasted her directly.

“Barrier buster, another invention of mine,” Storm said before firing yellow beams at Twinkle who tried to get up and she was bound to the ground.

“No!” Twinkle tried to get up but she couldn’t break the bindings she lit her horn in an attempt to do so.

“For insurance,” He then sped up to her and placed a ring on her horn.

“Wha?” Twinkle found her magic fizzling out.

“Fun fact, I always have a few on hand,” Storm said with a chuckle.

“NO!” Twinkle thrashed.

“Twinkle!” Zap exclaimed as several other ponies joined the two burly ponies surrounding Zap, overwhelming her.

And Charity and Spike were also struggling to keep the ponies back.

“Now that that is settled I have a fusion experiment to perform,” Storm said before teleporting back to the field.

“NO!” Charity without thinking used her magic to form wings and she took off towards Storm.

“Charity!” Spike exclaimed before he was tackled.

“Release them!” Charity yelled as she landed in front of Storm.

“Move aside, or I will go through you,” Storm said.

Charity broke out her stare with all her effort and Storm’s eyes widened a little.

“Let them go!” Charity said angrily.

“....Heh,” Storm just chuckled surprising Charity.

“What?” Charity said.

“Is your disapproving look supposed to intimidate me?” Storm asked.

“How did-”

“When you’ve seen the horrors I have… you get used to it,” Storm said before lighting his hands.

Charity used her magic projection to form a wall but the tendrils he launched breached it easily and grabbed her before throwing her.

“AAAAAH!” Charity cried as she hit the ground.

“Charity!” Spike cried as two ponies held him down, meanwhile Zap was being held down by several ponies and was struggling.

“He’s got the Merge Mirror magic! He’s going to fuse them!” Twinkle called out.

Zap’s eyes widened as she knew firsthand what the implications are “STOP! DON’T TOUCH MAH SISTER!” Zap cried.

“Oh stop being melodramatic, and enjoy the show,” Storm said before firing yellow magic bindings and trapping Scootaloo to the ground.

“NO!” Scootaloo cried.

He then sent his tendrils and snatched Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom before they could dodge and lifted them up.

“AH SWEAR AH’LL DO ANYTHING, JUST PLEASE! NOT MAH SISTER!” Zap cried.

“NO!” Twinkle cried.

“SWEETIE!” Charity cried out.

“CHARITY! HELP ME!” Sweetie Belle cried.

“NOOO!” Apple Bloom screamed.

“Help!” Scootaloo shouted.

He then slammed the three fillies together and a bright flash of light overcomes the area.

“No…” Zap said with tears in her eyes.

“Sweetie…” Charity sobs.

“We… failed…” Twinkle said tearfully.

“I’m sorry girls,” Spike said.

As the light died down what stood where Scootaloo once was was an alicorn with a multi-colored mane and tail, having streaks of red, pink and purple.

Her fur was cream-colored like Apple Bloom’s.

Her wings were larger than Scootaloo’s and orange-tipped and her horn was white-tipped.

Her eyes when they opened seemed the most beautiful thing about the young alicorn.

They had varying shades of yellow, green and purple.

The alicorn looked around looking a little dazed.

“Hello, new puppet,” Storm said lowering the barrier.

“....” The alicorn stood up on shaky hooves and looked herself over, when her attention turned back to Storm and she was about to say something he flashed her in the eyes with the lantern of subjugation.

“Who do you serve now alicorn?” He said.

“........What….Zap….Help…. I…..” She said with a twitch and varying tones.

“Huh?” Storm raised a brow as she began to twitch repeatedly and she cried out and fell to her knees.

“What’s happening?” Storm said reviewing his notes.

“S-sister… Zap… Charity… I need…. Save…” The alicorn spoke like a broken record.

“...Something went wrong,” Storm said.

“Apple Bloom?” Zap asked worriedly.

“I… can’t… speak… normal… mind…pain….confused…help…” The alicorn got up and wobbled toward her sisters and Spike.

“Where do you think your going?” Storm grabbed her by her arm, she immediately spun to him and her eyes glowed before her horn fired a magic blast so strong it flung the surprised Storm into a wall denting it.

“Gah!” Storm grunted.

“Boss!” Several of the fused ponies ran to his side.

“It seems she’s a failure… unfortunate, I suppose making a pony out of a triple fusion has… unintended mental effects, we need to rectify this, come, we’re leaving now that we’re compromised anyways,” Storm opened a portal.

All of the fused minions released the others and ran into the portal.

“HEY! WAIT!” Spike ran after him.

“We’ll meet again, and hopefully, you’ll knock a little lighter next time,” Storm said before entering the portal, but not before using his magic to press a button on the wall nearby.

Spike leaped at him but he vanished through the portal and the portal closed and Spike grabbed air.

“Darn it! He got away!” Spike said.

“Apple Bloom! Scootaloo! Sweetie!” Zap cried as she ran up to the stumbling alicorn.

“Sis…you….help….unfuse….” She said in different tones.

“Ah’ll get you help! We’ll fix this somehow, ah may be willin ta give up on diffusing mahself, but not you!” Zap said with tears in her eyes.

“Sweetie Belle…” Charity sobbed.

“Uh, guys?” Twinkle called.

“Twinkle! I’ll help,” Spike said before running over to her and when he got to her he saw the magic bindings went away.

“No! We need to run!” Twinkle exclaimed and as she said that the whole warehouse shook and fires started popping out everywhere.

“He wired this place!” Twinkle said.

“Let’s get out of here!” Zap called and she picked up the disoriented alicorn and Charity.

“Ah!” Charity cried as she was held over her shoulder and Zap ran for the exit.

“Come on!” Spike said as he helped Twinkle up and they ran as well, Twinkle paused and saw papers on a desk and she teleported them to her before running to the exit of the warehouse.

“Twinkle! Come on!” Spike called and they got out just as the warehouse collapsed.

As they all lay there looking dazed Spike got up and walked over to Twinkle.

“Twinkle, you ok?” Spike coughed.

“Yeah, send a note to Celestia, she needs to hear this,” Twinkle said as she quickly wrote out a message on a blank paper.

“Ok,” Spike said.

The group recuperated and it seemed that the alicorn passed out.

Zap was incredibly depressed as she held the alicorn, knowing that what was done to her will be near impossible to find a way to undo…

After an hour of waiting around guards began to show up on the scene and they found the group and began taking statements as well as setting up an investigation.

Pretty soon the whole place was covered in guards and the group was taking in for medical examinations.

It was around this time a chariot arrived.

“Celestia?” Twinkle said as she saw Celestia and Luna exit the carriage and approach the group.

“Celestia!” Twinkle ran up to her and hugged her.

“Twinkle my dear student, I got moving as soon as I received the message,” Celestia hugged back.

“Good evening Princesses,” Charity gave a bow.

“And to you as well,” Luna said.

“Your letter was urgent, but it didn’t say much about the situation,” Celestia said as they entered a medical tent that was set up for the element bearers.

“It’s kinda hard to explain, we don’t even get it,” Twinkle said.

“Very well then, start from the top of-” Celestia trailed off as she entered and saw something she didn’t expect, an alicorn filly laying in a bed, with Zap Apple being there holding her hand.

“....Who is that?” Celestia said honestly surprised to see another new alicorn.

“...That’s kinda why we need to explain everything first…” Twinkle said her mane deflating.

“Very well, tell us everything,” Luna said.

Twinkle left nothing out, they were enjoying a night in Manehatten, when Twinkle found Apple Bloom’s bow and they went on an investigation that led her to the warehouse where they found Storm and tried to rescue the CMC… only to fail and now they were merged into the alicorn sleeping on that cot over there.

Celestia and Luna looked more and more concerned as they listened. When they heard the part where the three fillies were fused they looked stunned.

“And then you showed up and we’re having this conversation,” Twinkle took a breath and looked to the princesses for a reaction.

“Celestia, how did he get the same powers as the Merge Mirror? What’s goin on?” Zap demanded.

“Zap, we are-” Luna was about to say something but Celestia cut her off.

“No, no more investigations… we have confirmation now,” Celestia sighed.

“Confirmation of what?” Twinkle asked.

“...Leave,” Celestia told the guards at the opening in the tent and they nodded and left.

“Celestia, what is going on?” Twinkle asked.

“...It seems the past has come to haunt us once more… Twinkle, what I say doesn’t leave this tent, same with you two,” Celestia told Charity and Zap Apple and they nodded, Celestia looked conflicted on how to start this so she just went from the beginning.

“...I had an old student long before Sunset,” Celestia said.

“I am sure you did,” Charity said.

“Not just any ordinary pupil, a pupil I admired for his skill and affinity for magic,” Celestia said.

“Like me?” Twinkle asked.

“Yes, quite like you, he even had a sense of humor like yours, his name was Dusk Heart,” Celestia said.

“But the colt that lured Appel Bloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo away called him Stormy, I saw it in my vision,” Twinkle said.

“Then that name must be fake, his real name is Dusk Heart, or just Dusk,” Celestia said “Anyways, he was a prodigy, and he came from such humble beginnings, but one day, everything went oh so horribly wrong,” Celestia said.

“What do you mean?” Charity asked.

“I hadn’t heard of it until much later, but griffon raiders invaded his hometown, killed most of the ponies there and stole their belongings, they kept the town under their claw until one pony managed to escape, Dusk,” Celestia said.

“Goodness,” Zap said looking upset at hearing that.

“He traveled for days on hoof until he made it to Canterlot, and he informed me and my sister of what happened, we came with a fighting force to liberate that town, when we got there however we found we had been expected,” Luna added.

“The griffons had killed off all but a handful of ponies and threatened to do the same to them if we didn’t let them leave with what they took, not wanting anymore bloodshed I conceded and they left,” Celestia said with regret in her voice “I had prayed that I would find Dusk’s family among them, but they were among the slain instead, save for his sister, who was traumatized and catatonic,” Celestia said.

“No…” Charity said in shock.

“How could someone do that,” Spike asked.

“I informed Dusk of what happened and he was understandably inconsolable, but at least took comfort in the idea that I at least punished the invaders for their actions…” Celestia looked down.

“Oh dear…” Charity said knowing what she was going to say.

“When I told him what went down at his hometown… he was livid and demanded why I didn’t end those who took everything from him… I tried to tell him that I did it to protect what remained, but he was beyond caring at that point and attacked me, yelling I was the reason his loved ones were unavenged, he left afterwards swearing he’d get them back, one way or another,” Celestia said “I wish I had stopped him, I figured he just needed time to cope, to calm… Oh how I was wrong,” Celestia looked hesitant to proceed.

“Ya can stop if ya want Princess,” Zap said.

“Thank you, I will tell you all another time, but for now, I wish to aid this filly,” Celestia said getting up and walking over to the filly alicorn who looked like she was struggling to speak.

“What’s wrong with her?” Spike asked.

“Based on what you told me, Dusk must have somehow assimilated the power of the Merge Mirror, I fear it is through a magic item called a bonding jade,” Celestia said.

“Bonding jade?” Zap asked.

“A forbidden item that can infuse a pony with the magic of a magical item, giving them powers based on it, he must have used one and gained the merge mirrors power, however, he didn’t fully understand it and fused three beings at once,” Celestia said.

“What happens then?” Twinkle asked.

“When three or more ponies are forcibly fused their souls and minds are unable to compress into one as easily, leaving a pony with three sets of souls, the result can be a pony with multiple personalities forcibly battling for control,” Celestia said.

“That would explain why every time she tries to talk it sounds like three different ponies are struggling to talk over one another, I wonder if there’s a way to fix that…” Twinkle tried to access her vast knowledge but nothing came up.

“I know a way, but I will give you all a decision on how I proceed,” Celestia said.

“What do you mean?” Twinkle asked.

“...You may not like it but I can use my magic to aid the process along and finish the bonding process, completing the pony here, it is a process only I thankfully know,” Celestia said.

“And the other option?” Spike hesitantly asked.

“I leave them as they are and she deals with three minds in one body from now on,” Celestia said.

“Celestia, ah want mah sister back, and Sweetie an Scoots, please tell me you can fix a triple fusion,” Zap said.

“...A double fusion is impossible to separate, but triple fusions may be even more dangerous,” Celestia said.

“Why?” Zap demanded.

“Because there is only one surrogate body now, where are the minds to go if there is no other body to put them in?” Celestia responded.

“Well…” Luna said out loud.

“No Luna, that is not an option for fillies,” Celestia said firmly.

“What? What is?” Zap said.

“We could put their minds in custom bodies made of crystal, golems so to speak,” Luna offered.

“That’s a punishment more than anything Luna, the body of a golem is incapable of feeling and hard to adapt to, it would be a miserable existence,” Celestia said.

“Do you have other options?” Luna said back.

“No, but-”

“Princesses!” Twinkle called and they paused and looked at Twinkle.

“We should let their sisters choose,” She said gesturing to Charity and Zap.

“...Indeed,” Luna said “What does thou choose?”

“I…” Zap said thinking hard on her choice.

Author's Note

Info is learned and the situation grows ever more dire, what will they do?

I leave that to you guys, which option should they go with?

1. finish the fusion

2. leave as is

3. surrogate bodies.

Comment down below and let me know what you think about my stories progress.