Next thing Abby knew after that, was the arms of spike grabbed her from behind and moved her face, rotated her palm and looked everywere for bruises or would be damage. Behind him were Fluttershy who went with Rarity and Whis who went towards Abbym

Spike exhaled "you seem to be ok, just a nasty bruise on your arm though." He then took out a small handkerchief in his pocket and dried her bloody nose. While Rarity observed him work dilligently as Abby giggled, Fluttershy placed a cold water compress on her arm and cleaned the first decree burns with soap, a water bucket and a clean cloth.

Did he...s-seriously went towards her first...?, she thought.

Then as if coming from his trance, his eyes widened and looked at Rarity. "Oh right!, Rarity how are you feeling?"

Feeling the wet cold compress tied to her by flutterahy, on her sore first first degree spots, she exhaled

"Fine enough, I did felt a number done on me, thankfully I have some good dresses to hide this for work." She answered.

"I see...say rares, did you-" Spike was interrupted then by Twilight who gave him a nod that conveyed "let me talk to her" to which he nodded.

Once all her spots covered, fluttershy nodded and went back to tend to Rainbow while Whis tended to Abby.

"...what was that back there?" Twilight chastised.

"I beg your Pardon?" Questioned Rarity

"Back there, the whole....show. I thought the nightmare forces...or rather nightmare itself...tantabus... was gone back then." She mumbled

Rarity's eyes widened. Looking at herself she noticed the traces of her altered form, only now her slightly floating hair falling down her nape and one of her eyes.

"What do you....Oh....this is...oh...oh!...i..." she mummbled

"This didnt happen until now?" Twilight asked.

"Ye-yeah. Darling, I....never... since I overcame my insecurity, several years ago as you, spike and the girls brought me back with the elements strenght ive never.... " Rarity was worried.

"So we didn't erradicate it....i see....you could subdue it anyway so there is that...." Twilight thought to herself.

"...we will need to keep an eye on you, from now on until we sort it out, you know that. Right?" Twilight asked with a Smile.

Rarity huffed "as long as i am not interrupted in from my life, sure."

Nodding to each other and promising to be precacious, Twilight was walking Rarity back to the others, until she saw Dawn walking to them.

"...So, Tell me, twilight. You mentioned that in your Reality the parasite didnt appear, thats correct, not even....posession's"? Dawn asked cryptically.

"...yes, I did" she answered.

"Hmmm" she eyed Rarity intensely

"Are you implying something?" Twilight placed herself in front of Rarity protectively.

"No, I just notice things." She looked at Twilight's eyes " Anyway, besides you needing to tell us your version of this worlds events, SHE did win against Abby after being overwhelmed...very...strangely I may add..." Dawn instigated while Twilight Teleported Rarity to a small bed made of Flowers a dozen meters away, near her friends.

Twilight frowned.

"Yes, she won" she said.

"...you know what that means, don't you?" Dawn declared.

"...I do." Twilight accepted as she brought her hands to her hips. Underneath them was a somewhat tight cowl type shirt of lavander and pink colour, that made her Moderate yet quirky breast stay hidden under it, with the cover of a red ornamentated Bra. Her stomach seemed slightly pudgy, making a small bump on the mid of her shirt. While for her bottom was covered by a Ornamentated Red panties, and in top of them were Pink Knee long shorts with lavander book logos on them.

"Are you sure you want to face a Alicorn?" Twilight said as she took some steps back.

"You seem to assume, I havent before. Grave mistake" Dawn stepped back too, her eyes never leaving Twilights movements.

Dawn's shoulders Tensed and relaxed as she rotated her joints them, to "heat up". Her movements emphasizing slightly muscle underneath her Fashionable Military vest, since unlike her alter who was slightly pudgy she was more lean and toned.

"I would say that's a bluff, But its likely very true" Twilight tensed "Still, the fact remains I ascended, I have more magic to spare, Wings to fly without additional spells or tactics and a sturdier and stronger body because of it" Twilight said.

"So you think... just because you have the gifts of the 3 races (Strenght + resistance, connection to the earth and its magic -Earth pony; Speed, flight, elemental affinity and weather control-Pegasi; Abstract Magic-Unicorn) at the same time, plus a way larger pool of mana you are gonna beat me huh?" Dawn asked

"Yes, altough not only that. But, yes." Twilight answered.

"..."Dawn giggled. "You are the princess of Friendship, was it?" Dawn asked.

"Yes, you remembered it" she snarked, but kept her defenses up, conjurin a layer of over skin several millimiters deep shield, and one on a small radious around her, with a varely perceptible with lavander glow.

"...Its weird, you are both arrogant and Cautious. Is that how I am too?...I digress, Alright then, let me show you...why me and whis, could contain the horde back then...but most importantly....why I am the the princes of Unity" said Dawn.

As she did, she opened the zip of her vest to reveal that under it, carved on the inside of the clothes were magic circles and simbols carved with textile to make them permanent, a whole wide of inside pockets that were filled with cards and finally as her jacket fully opened, revealing that the back part of her jacket, once opened turned into what resembled to wings.

Dawn's under shirt was white, with a puffed sleeve and high neck with lavander stars painted on it. Under it could be seen barely the trace of a Pink full cup bra.

As for her bottom Dawns her Black pants with lavander flower's hid a high leg brief high waist type of pink panties. Just like with her jacket and shirt, the inside of her pants was filled with hidden patterns of spell circles and symbols, made with textile.

As for her boot's, the sole's dented the dirt as she put more pressure on her feet, and the sole's of her sole glowed underneath her weight.

Music for the the battle start of the battle:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD_BO-z8f7U

"I assume Stella talked about my obsession with magical artifacts....like the charges correct?" Dawn asked, as she took a series of cards from her inner jacket pockets. With the symbols of her friend's neck cutie marks on them.

"Something about it yeah, like the object transportation cards..." she whispered,eyeing the cards on her hand as both walked slowly circling each other as they thought.

"Only...objetcs?" Dawn asked with a poker face.

none of them said another word.

"I see..." Dawn then nodded to Stella who went to the sky for some reason.

"Hey!, what is sh-" Twilight complained but was interrupted

"Don't worry, she wont interfere with Our fight" Said Dawn cryptically

the tension of the two worsened in a pregna silence.

but then Breaking the silence, one of Dawn's hands pointed to the ground and shot a energy beam, which in collision made a dirt cloud appear for a moment , surrounding them both while the other threw a card to the air, while putting some of her magic to the inner workings of hit, specifically one with Stella's cutie mark drawn on it.

In doing so, her own Cutie mark which was a lotus flower with the correspondent petal, got empty golden hexagonal shapes on each direction of her lottus petals, 6 in total.

"One for all: Devotion" she thought, as in the sea of the dirt cloud the "charge" artifact blinked out of existence, as one of the Six hexanogal shapes on her neo cutie mark was filled with Stella's cutie mark.

And in a blink she zoomed, to Twilight''s outer shield, at Speeds one could compare to Stella's own or Rainbow dash, before coliding another card was thrown and dissapearing before Dawn's fist collided with the shield. "One for all: Perseverance" Now instead of just Stella's cutie mark, one of the shapes was filled With Amber's cutie mark.

As her fist collided with The perimeter , the strength and energy shocwave dispersed the dirt cloud radially as the perimieter shield broke and she was now on a collision course towards Twilight.

to imagine Dawn's move imagine it as Seeing a Detroit smash from Deku, something like this clip from second 17 to 27, but instead Dawn fist colliding with the shield, destroying it and making a wave of air and energy around her :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg5H3fX33jU

Then before she could collide Directly with Twilights thick body protecting shield, Twilight opened her wings , and flew high barely dodging the blow that made a trail of radial air distortion, after not landing.

Both Dawn and Twilight were getting more and more info about their opponents skills and movement sets slowly.

But then she noticed something as she ascended, she, didn't saw her shadow on the floor.

So, Quickly looking up , she noticed the sky was now full of Storm clouds.

"Stella did this?! but-" she thought to herself in alarm, but her thinking was cut shut as a concentrated series of lighting bolts went pass her her right and left side, and went directly towards Dawn stretched open hand.

Down below, a new card dissapeared in a puff of magic, "One for all: Salvation" now this time with Serene Whispers cutie mark on it this time, adding another shape on her own mutileveled looking cutie mark.

The bolts all went through Dawn's body, without any pain, concentrating on her palms as now were turned into pure energy and directing them in a form of a Purple lightning attack towards the floating Twilight. The latter instantly made a bubble shield around her in response, which on impact got big cracks almost to breaking point, while still mantaining her body shield just in case

All as her veins pulsed in tension and a irritation, she definately underestimated herself because of lack of ascencion. This was worse than when she fought Starlight back then.

"She interfered, Dawn!" Yelled Twilight

"No, she didn't do anything directly, all she did was change the climate!" Dawn declared

Stunning All present save Dawn and the elements of Victory. She was technically correct. All Dawn did was use her surrounding to her advantage, even if one of her friends did change said surronding, it was never specified that was not allowed, now was it?

Twilight had no time to fully digest the implications of Dawn's words, as the latters Jacket turned into Artificial wings, her boot sole's symbols sparkles and the ground below her turned into a rubber, followed with a strong jump making her fly directly towards Twilight, as Dawn's jackets opened fully giving her aerodynamic textile wings propelled with magic.

Next thing Twilight knew, Dawn had breached her perimeter shield and was about to collide with her body, so Twilight charged her fist with magic and making her body barrier sturdier, she stroke back.

As both fist's collided a ghust of air around them appeared, then both were thrown back a couple of meters on the oposite direction.

All the while, without they knowing, a certain train filled with guests arrived at poniville station....

Author's Note

Friendship or Unity? make your bets!