“You!” Twilight firmly planted her hooves as she shoved Spike backwards. Earth Lyra instantly caught him in her hooves as Sunset stepped forward too.

“Yes me,” the unicorn commented coldly. She stood up and jumped over the table with a smile. “I see you even brought the friends you reacquainted yourself with back when I spied on you all in Canterlot at that restaurant. How sweet.” Starlight gazed at us all with the same cold expression.

“What do you want Starlight?” Twilight demanded. “Hopefully to make friends with me and the rest of the Elements.”

“Don’t get your hopes up,” Starlight scoffed. “I’m here for revenge. I had a good thing going in my little village and you destroyed it all. And for what? To be better than me?”

“You stole their cutie marks. You brainwashed a whole town,” Twilight said calmly. Me and Cheerilee made nervous eye contact. I didn’t know what the hell was going on here but I had a bad feeling about this.

“I created peace! I created harmony!” Starlight shouted.

“You lied to them and that’s not-” Twilight began.

“Quiet!” Starlight shouted with a furious expression. We all flinched as Twinkleshine took a nervous step back. “I’m going to take away what you took from me.”

“What the heck does that mean?” Sunset demanded. Starlight smirked as she rolled her eyes. Sunset formed a shield or something in front of us with her magic as a laser shot off it.

“That was so cool!” Earth Lyra grinned. The blue one glared at her.

“We just got shot at! Not cool! Not cool in the slightest!” Earth Lyra scoffed and looked away.

“We clearly have different definitions of fun.”

“You know, I’d be careful if I were you,” Starlight said casually as she levitated a jar in the air next to her as she focused on Sunset. “I’ll be borrowing that.”

“Argh!” Sunset grunted as she bit her lip. I watched with wide eyes as her cutie mark floated in the air as Starlight put it in the jar, screwing the lid on tight.

“What did you do?” Vinyl demanded as she tried to tackle Starlight. Starlight rolled her eyes and tossed Vinyl to the side.

“Ugh. Going to be feeling that in a few hours,” Vinyl groaned as she rubbed the back of her head.

“Sunset! Vinyl!” Cheerilee called out worriedly as she quickly went to her side. I glanced over with the same level of fear as a equal sign formed on Sunset’s flanks as she collapsed on the ground. Seeing how hard Spike started to fight Lyra, he was worried too or angry. Probably both really. Not that I blamed him.

“Good bye Twilight!” Starlight grinned as she blasted a scroll she had brought. “I have a new world to make.” A hole above her formed as we all gasped. She quickly leapt through it and waved as it disappeared just as quickly as it had formed.

“What the hell just happened?” Vinyl demanded.

“I-I don’t know!” Twilight said as she approached the table.

“Well she left this,” Spike finally got free from Earth Lyra’s grip and picked up the scroll.

“Don’t Spike!” Twilight tried to warn him as the same hole appeared above the two, sucking them both and the scroll into it.

“Twilight!” Lemon Hearts shouted.

“Spike!” Twinkleshine called out.

“What the hell is going on?” Earth Lyra demanded.

“Is Sunset okay?” I asked as I trotted over to her. She had her eyes closed and was breathing slowly.

“She’s fine. She’s asleep,” Cheerilee rubbed her head with a hoof as she curled up with her hooves wrapped around her. “That was a bit scary.”

“I know. I agree,” I admitted as I laid down on my legs and wrapped a wing over Cheerilee and Sunset. “What do we do?”

“We wait,” the blue unicorn spoke up as she stood over me. “Twilight will defeat her and come back soon.”

“And give Sunset her cutie mark back,” Lemon Hearts grimaced at saying her name. Earth Lyra approached and stared at the jar.

“Why don’t we just break the damn jar and see what happens? Maybe that could work?” Earth Lyra picked up the jar in a hoof.

“No!” The unicorn with the messy mane. “I’ve read plenty of books and I’ve never seen any magic like this. I didn’t even know you could remove a cutie mark! We might run the risk of destroying her cutie mark forever!” Earth Lyra’s eyes widened as she nervously swallowed and gently placed it back down on the table far away from the edge.

“Okay that’s not what we’re going to do.”

“Who are you if I may ask?” Octavia asked softly. She’s always the diplomat. Well, most of the time.

“I’m Moondancer. The blue one is Minuette. You already Lemon Hearts and Twinkleshines names. Same with Lyra,” Moondancer nodded at the green unicorn who was staring at Earth Lyra curiously.

“Well this is awkward without Twilight here to break the ice,” Bon Bon kicked the ground with a hoof. “I’m Bon Bon.”

“We know,” Lemon Hearts smirked. “We know you all. Octavia, Bon Bon, Vinyl Scratch, Derpy, Cheerilee, Lyra and Sunset Shimmer.”

“But how?” I asked. She smiled as she looked me over.

“We know your counterparts,” she said simply as she trotted to the table. “Huh. Figures the table is going to be massive. The whole freaking place is huge.”

“Well duh. It’s a castle,” Minuette rolled her eyes. “The royals always go big or go home. Have you seen Cadences castle?”

“It’s weird I know two Minuettes now,” Cheerilee commented. Minuette glanced back at her and tilted her head to the side curiously.

“You know my counterpart or whatever it’s called?”

“Yeah. She’s dating my sister Berry.” Minuette turned a bright shade of red and started trotting.

“My Spike does like it hot in the castle doesn’t he? I think I’m going to go outside and get some fresh air. Bye!” Minuette shot out the door. Lemon Hearts scoffed as she kept looking over the table.

“She’s weird.”

“Why aren’t we freaking out more about you know Twilight and Spike disappearing and Sunset losing her cutie mark?” Octavia demanded as she helped Vinyl up.

“Twilight is smart. Whatever is going on she can handle. We just need to her get back so she can do whatever Sunset needs.” Moondancer slowly approached the mare.

“She looks like she hasn’t aged a day. Who are you to her?” Moondancer pointed at Cheerilee.

“Uh family? Why?”

“Just curious,” Moondancer said casually.

“Uh okay?” Cheerilee looked around.

“Let’s go find a book. Maybe it can tell us what to do with Sunset. I still say we just break the jar, maybe it’ll go back on her,” Earth Lyra announced as she and Bon Bon trotted to the shelves.

“It isn’t that simple. It has to be more complicated than that!” Moondancer said as she and Equestrian Lyra joined the two. Both Lyra’s rolled their eyes.

“We will see.”

Author's Note

Originally I planned on just having Sunset get thrown aside like Vinyl but I figured her getting her mark taken would help with some world building I have planned and help derpy so yeah.