Their Names Across The Multiverse

Spark opened her eyes, seeing she was back in her old prison within her rainbow element core. She could see her sisters, Blitz and Braver, standing across from another version of herself. She realized she was watching a memory of that day...

"Thank you, my dearest sisters. But I already knew this and will do it because it's right." Past Spark turned to them. "I want you two to have a wonderful life after what happened. You suffered enough, and you both deserve happiness."

"We're not letting you do this!" screamed Blitz, getting mad. "What about your damn happiness!? Why are you being so selfish?!"

"Yeah! Stop being selfish!" Braver yelled, rushing towards her and trying to pull her out of this place.

Past Spark forced Braver off, pissed that they weren't going to listen to her. "Haven't you listened to what I have been telling you!? You'll die!"

"And we'll find a way to solve it!" screamed Braver, refusing to listen.

"YEAH!" screamed Blitz.

Past Spark became fed up and tried teleporting them from her world.

"I'm going to do this for you two!"

She was going to cast them out but froze at what she saw them doing.

"Stop! Stop them from pulling you out!" begged the real Spark, as she knew what would happen next. But her past self said nothing, only watching.

In front of her, she could see Braver putting her hoof above her chest, slamming against it, and digging her hoof into it. Blitz put both her hands over her chest and slowly ripped open it, exposing her slime insides. She could see a colorful light shining out of their self-inflicted wounds and pulling out something from their chests, which she knew what it was.

"Braver, Blitz, no! STOP IT!" Cried Spark, wanting them to stop, but her body won't move. She looked at her past self, who was standing there, not saying or doing anything to stop them. "DO SOMETHING! DON'T LET THEM DO THIS! DON'T LET THEM THROW AWAY THEIR LIVES FOR US!" She started to sob. "...me...".

Her past self said nothing, only walked over to Blitz and Braver, grabbing their hand and hoof, making them stop and look at her with confusion. Spark herself was happy to see her past self listened.

"Please, you both need to stop. You'll die if you don't!" pleaded Spark, tears falling from her eyes.

Spark smiled, as she could see her past self smiling as well, only to become horrified to see her past self stabbing her hooves into Blitz and Braver's chest, smiling evil-like.

"...W-What..." whispered Spark, as she watched her past self tear out the rainbow core and the combined pieces of the broken Element of Harmony core, killing Blitz and Braver as they quickly became black slime and then melted into a large pool of puddles."...w-why..."

Her past self smiled as she turned to her, holding both cores in each hoof while the rainbow blanket that covered her body became dark.

Spark looked at her past self in terror and shock as her past self spoke.

"What do you mean why? This is how it happened! If those two wanted to die for us, for you, then who are we to say otherwise, right? Besides, don't you remember how we were born? We are not true Alicorn; we are only a clone of Nightfall and Rainbow Sky's DNA. We never had a life. We were created for one purpose. So, let's fulfill our purpose."

"You are lying!" cried the real Spark as her tears fell. "My sisters wanted me to-."

Spark couldn't finish as she found herself back in her Grandfather's underground lab and back in the cage she so despised.

"Ah, it seems you have come to your senses," said the mad colt, walking around her cage, looking very happy. "It looks like drugging you isn't an option. It seems your body will fight anything that enters your system."

Spark sat up, not even bothering to fight back. She was confused about what was happening. Even more so, she was back in her filly body, not her hybrid form.

"Grandfather...b-but you are de-"

Her Grandfather ignored her like she wasn't there. He went over to a pedestal; on top was a large glass, and a black stone core was inside.

"You might overcome everything I threw at you, but this time, my little weapon, I will use this."

He started typing on the computer, and with a button, a large Tesla-like rod came out of the wall and shocked the black stone core, making it start pulsing.

"Why do you even call them sisters?"

Spark quickly turned around, seeing her hybrid form standing there. Her rainbow jacket was dark.

"Why are you calling them your family when all they ever were was just a black slime of evil?"

Spark eyes became filled with rage as they glowed rainbows.

"What did you say!?"

"Don't play dumb," said the fake Spark, smiling evilly. "They are a monster, not even blood-related to you. Our so-called sisters are nothing to you, yet you act like they are. Why is that?"

Spark became furious, and her magical energy sparked around her cage, trying to attack her fake self.

"Shut up! You are nothing but a lie, an imposter! I will never think of my dear, sweet, cute sisters like that!" She fired her magic from her horn, hitting her fake, but it did nothing.

"Again, why are you playing dumb? You saw that creature past when he..."

Spark's ears twitched as she heard her Grandfather speaking to himself, making her look at him. She remembered what he said.

"This Chaos Slime, the last of its kind! Records from the old Kingdoms told how it ruined both the Kingdom of Night and Day! They were both destroyed, and the world was nearly destroyed with it if it wasn't for that Prototype that held the Element of Loyalty within it!" He explained as he placed his face closer to the glass box, watching the black stone orb pulsate faster.

Spark blinked, and she suddenly found herself in the throne room of the Princess of Night, Luna. She remembered seeing this before when she first fused with her sisters, seeing what they had done in the past.

"After hunting you down, try to give you a chance at a better life as long you aided us, and this is how you repay us!?" Said Luna in a cold tone as she sat on her throne, looking beyond Spark. Spark turned around and saw a slime creature held down by magic and swords by the guards. "Refusing to aid us in our hour of need!? Your long-dead race was a blight on the land, and I hoped to change that! We could have been friends, but it seems I was wrong!"

The black slime started to speak, but the Princess didn't even let it. She raised her sword and cut off its head, and the creature's head hit the ground, only for it to return to its body, reconnecting and fixing itself.

"Princess Luna, are you sure this is the best way? Shouldn't we try to-?" asked a batpony guard.

"No!" shouted Luna, as she started to attack the Slime creature nonstop with her magic and weapons inside the poor creature. "If she refuses to aid us, then I'll make her aid us by force! Her will isn't strong; she was on the edge of madness when we found her! She is a Chaos Slime, after all." Luna used magic to raise the slime creature and forcefully crush her. "I'll make her break! Break her into my puppet! Yes, a living weapon to counter my 'dear' sister Element of Harmony knights!" Luna's eyes became pure black as she started to laugh.

Spark's heart broke as she remembered this memory that her dear sisters seemed not to remember. They only remembered a part of it. What happened next is what they remembered...

As Luna laughed, the black slime creature started to freak out. Its body began to crack and change color from black to a deep void-like black.

"SISTERS!" cried Spark as she remembered what her sisters did.

Luna stopped laughing as she could see and felt her magic, unable to contain the mutated Slime creature. Horror filled Luna and her guard's eyes when the Slime creature broke free from Luna's magic and landed on the floor with a loud, wet squish sound.

"Retreat!" yelled a guard as they rushed out of the throne room.

Only Princess Luna didn't move. She couldn't take her eyes away from the Slime creature, which started to copy her body shape, perfectly mimicking her, without the features.

"You dare mock me by mim-WHAT!?"

Luna was suddenly grabbed by long, oozing tentacles from the black slime creature. Luna's body started to melt, and as it did, the slime released millions of tentacles from its body, bursting through the throne room walls and heading toward the city below.

Spark covered her ears, remembering hearing thousands of creatures screaming from the city as they were all absorbed into the slime, becoming a part of it.

Spark could hear the slime creature's voice speaking within her mind, but the words weren't clear, sounding like someone was speaking through an old radio.

"My Sisters! Aren't this!" cried Spark, not wanting to remember this awful memory of her sisters.

The slime creature's head slowly stretched out over Spark, its featureless head slowly becoming a twisted version of Luna's face.

"Or when that monster destroyed the Kingdom of Day?" said the fake Spark, forcing her real self to look at the new memory.

Celesti's Commanding Officer of the Pegasus knight unit, this universe's version of Spitfire, walked into the throne room. She bowed and ordered her men to bring the magical sealed crystal with a black slime orb inside.

"This was all we found at the ground zero of your sister's kingdom, my Princess!"

Celestia nodded. She got off her throne and got a better look at the slime orb. She kept looking at it as she spoke to Spitfire.
"And no signs of 'her'? The reports from the surviving ponies spoke of Sky unleashing her Final Harmony to destroy this..." Celestia could see the slime starting to react. She smiled. "Thing!"

Spitfire bowed and answered her.

"No, no signs of her could be found. Fear she might be..." Spitfire couldn't finish, as she and Sky were friends...close friends.

Celestia didn't move away from the crystal, raised her hoof, making a high mage bow, and ordered his underlings to bring in something. Spark could see them rolling in the Element of Magic, pulsing like it was calling out to something...or someone.

"She's alive. The Element of Magic has been calling for her," stated Celestia, smiling as she turned to Spitfire. "No, not her but the Element of Loyalty!" She returned to looking at the slime as it undid being an orb. "She thinks she can run away like that? She betrayed my gift to her by running away. Now, she is trying to hide. But it won't work. The Element of Magic will call out for her and tell us where she is. We will get her and force her to be our grand weapon again...huh?" She stopped as she saw the slime becoming a black slime Alicorn filly, and without warning, it rushed towards her, hitting the crystal walls. It was trying to eat Celestia, like what happened to her younger sister.

Celestia smiled as she got even closer to it. "No, we found our new grand weapon! A weapon that will never betray us. Something that can be controlled, something that can't die. Something that will destroy any and everything we want!"
Spark blasted Celestia, but only her beam passed through her.

"MY SISTERS AREN'T A WEAPON! THEY WERE NEVER A WEAPON! I WILL NEVER LET ANYONE BREAK THEM AGAIN! NONE OF THAT WAS THEIR FAULT! IT'S YOURS AND LUNA'S FAULT!"

Soon, the memory changed to when the day that Celestia unleashed the slime on her kingdom.

"..." Celestia said nothing as she sat alone in her throne room with the crystal. She just ordered away her High Mage, who disagreed with her on releasing the monster as it was too dangerous. "...Luna, sister..." Celestia looked at the slime. "You weren't strong enough to control this monster, but me?" She used her horn to pick up the crystal and bring it closer to her. "I was always more powerful to you!" With all her force, she slammed the crystal into the red carpet, watching the crystal scatter everywhere and the slime creature increase in size. "Become a part of me! I'll be your new master! You will become my weapon to protect mine...no." Corrected Celestia as the creature transformed into her sister's twisted version. "Our Kingdom! We will rule and be together for all eternity." The slime darted at her, and the same thing happened again while Celestia spoke her final words. "...Luna..."

The memory vanished, and Spark found herself on the day Blitz, controlled by Braver, was fighting Sky above the city. She could see all the burning destruction the city was in as Blitz unleashed powerful lasers and bombs at Sky, which only missed and hit the city instead.

"This was all your sisters' fault. Look how many innocent lives were lost because of them."

Sky tried to speak, but an enormous explosion of fire hit her, making her cry out.

"I ask you again, why do you call them sisters? They are just mindless monsters with no feelings and no reason. They are just a-"

Spark blasted her fake self away from her with a powerful laser beam from her horn.

"Sisters are the ones who love you, no matter what you are or where you came from!"

Spark blasted her fake self again, over and over again.

"So shut up! Stop talking bad about my sisters!"

The fake Spark laughed as she kept being hit repeatedly, making Spark angrier and her horn grow brighter.
"SHUT UP! STOP LAUGHING! SHUT UP!"

Spark fired her magic and hit the fake, sending her into the wall and shattering her form. Spark panted as her rage left her. She sat there, feeling tired.

"It's not going to stop, you know," said her fake, as her body reformed. "I will always be here to remind you the truth."

Spark blasted her again, filling even more rage as a rainbow halo appeared behind Spark's back.

"SHUT THE HELL UP! OR I'LL!"

"Or what?" asked the fake, smiling.

"I'LL BREAK YOU! BREAK YOU!" Spark kept blasting her, but the fake was still alive no matter how much she tried. "WHY WON'T YOU BREAK! I'M-"

"I'M A BREAKER OF WORLDS, A BREAKER OF STARS."

Spark quickly snapped out of her rage when she heard her sisters say that. She looked back, seeing Sky hugging Blitz as the two cried.

"Blitz!" shouted Sky as she saw tremendous rainbow energy from Blitz's little body.

"Our powers...what are our powers even for?" cried Blitz before laughing like crazy as the slime covering her made her face look twisted, crazed. "RIGHT! WE'RE NOT RAINBOW BLITZ! WE'RE STAR BREAKER! A WEAPON TO BREAK THIS WORLD!"

Spark remembered this! She tried to scream at her sisters to stop, but it was too late, as prism lights and a rainbow aura entirely covered them. Their little bodies were cracking, firing out powerful energy, forcing Sky to let them go.

"WE'LL BREAK IT ALL! THE WORLD! UNIVERSE! EVERYTHING! MOMMY!"

With a bright flicker of light, Spark watched as her sisters unleashed a world-ending bomb that destroyed the world in the blink of an eye.

A wall of burning rainbows quickly roared across the land, killing all life on the planet and leaving it all black and lifeless.

Spark was caught in the flames, feeling her body burning and falling to the ground. Her whole body was burned beyond recognition...until her body started to heal itself, overcoming the damage done.

"You should be proud."

Spark slowly looked up at her fake, who happily smiled at her.

"You killed the greatest threat within the Multiverse Tree! By allowing them to die for you, you saved the multiverse from them." she reached out to Spark, wanting her to take her hand. "Stop calling them your sisters when they aren't! They were monsters! The same monsters who destroyed their world. Just accept it! Accept who you are, a"

Spark grabbed her hand with her hoof, not to shake it but to twist and break it. The fake didn't react to the pain; she gave a creepy smile as she watched Spark stand up, her burned body becoming more black while her mane, which flowed like the twilight sky with a tiny bit of rainbow in it, became a dark void with red flashing stars.

"B-BREAKER!" shouted Spark, her eyes bleeding rainbow tears. "STAR BREAKER!"

Spark unleashed an endless wave of burning black flames, engulfing her smiling fake.

"Never mind, I see why you call them sisters. Because Spark, deep down. You. are." The fake faded into the darkness. "A monster. You are truly them, a clone trying to be a perfect copy!"

Spark woke up, looked around, and saw she was on the floor. She was in Braver's room after Twilight, and Dash forced her to sleep there rather than in the library lobby like she wanted. Even though Twilight fixed Braver's bed, Spark couldn't sleep in it.

"What happened?" muttered Spark, holding her head as she sat up. "Where is my book?" She searched around herself and found the old, faded brown book. She picked it up and opened it. She flipped a few pages and read them out loud to herself.

"To the other version of me who's reading this. If you are reading this, it means you had a bad dream or, in this case, a nightmare. If your story is anything like mine, it means it was the one where you remembered destroying your world as you became Star Breaker. It's a painful memory. I know because I still have nightmares, too." Spark started to cry as she kept reading. "But it's okay! You aren't a monster, and your mothers love you very much. So please, don't worry, and don't be afraid of who you are. Because no matter what, you aren't alone." Spark's tears fell on the pages. She remembered when her teacher gave her this book before they went after Fayth after Spark stopped her. The day her sisters died...

"Darn it! She got away again!" cursed Lauren, landing on one of the tree branches of the Prime FiM Tree. "How does she do it anyway?" She started to think but stopped, turning around and seeing Spark landing while reading the book she gave her.

"...w-what is this!?" asked Spark, looking up at her. Her hand shook as she held the book tighter. "It's the stories of pasts...me?"

Lauren gave her a small, sad smile. She hoped to explain to her what that book was about a little later, not right after what happened with Spark's sisters dying and stopping Fayth from using Rainbow Sun Dawn to open the path to the Tree of Elyndra. She was afraid it would be too much for the young girl.

"Spark...it's like you just said. That book contains the stories of past yous."

Spark sat down, covering her face with her hand while still looking at the book. She wasn't happy about the simple answer.

"I know that! But I'm asking is..." she closed it and looked at her. "How? Is this related to time travel or something?"

Lauren smiled and got closer to her, putting her hoof on top of Spark's head.

"I will explain. Fayth has been restarting the multiverse, not just the multiverse this Prime Tree creates." She used her wing to point to the rest of the other prime trees of different colors within the forest. "But all of them. She was a Watcher, a Watcher for Elyndra, the All Creator of us all. To read different multiverses and the tales that they all held." She sat down and sighed. "Fayth visited this multiverse, and Elyndra became the Creation Tree for whatever reason. She restarted everything using the powers from Elyndra's book; we, the Authors, quickly took notice and tried to stop her in her second attempt." Lauren looked at Spark. "It was the first time we met. She had the upper hand as she knew us, and we didn't know her. Ultimately, we failed, and all our creations were gone and rewritten. Rewritten imperfectly." She looked up at the white void sky. "This kept happening repeatedly until many authors slowly gave up hope of stopping her. Some even stopped caring and gave her a helping hand by allowing her to mess with their stories, making her more powerful. But I never did. I never stopped caring." Lauren looked back at Spark. "That's where you come in...well, a version of you who held that book."
Spark looked at the book and back at her, even more confused.

"Me?"

"Yes, you. I took notice of you in one of the restarts or, in other words, rewrites. Before we arrived to fight Fayth, I noticed that a group of mortals always lost to her. I don't know how they arrived there, but they died trying to stop Fayth. This is where we first met, standing over you as you were dying and handing me this book. Telling me never to give up and keep moving forward; you somehow knew I was on the edge of giving up like the other authors. And it worked." Lauren patted her on the head. "Even though we lost like always, I never stop giving up, and that's when I searched for you and found you. You come from a crossover universe of my and OJ's creations. FiM and Suguri universe combined."

Spark tipped her head, even more beyond confused. "Suguri?"

"She means me."

"HUH!?"

Spark saw a teenage girl in a black cat-like hoodie hovering there. She landed and smiled.

"The name is Suguri." She got closer to Spark, pulled her cheeks like a grandmother would do to their grandchildren, and pinched. "Yeah, I can see it alright! You have Sora and my will within you! But also..." Suguri's happy expression became a sad one. "...and hers." She let go and faced Lauren. "Sorry, I was late. Was dealing with..." she looked back at Spark, smiling. "Someone like her..." but she sighed and crossed her arms. "Just stronger headed in her beliefs."

Lauren was puzzled as she didn't know what Suguri was talking about.

"Anyway, I'll track Fayth down. Just fill in our little blue sky with what's going on!" With that said, Suguri took off as she passed through a rainbow circle she had emitted and disappeared.

Lauren wondered what Suguri was talking about but set it aside and returned to looking at Spark.

"Right, so you came from a crossover when two or more things come together and create something new. In your case, it was those two universes. As Suguri had said, you are her and her friend, Sora. I wanted to take you under my wing and become my student. I hope my teaching can help you fight against Fayth, as she always returns to your world after remembering when she opens her black book." She looks back at the faded brown book. "I couldn't open that book when you gave it to me, but the version of you I met could, and what she found was past written journals or messages to herself. It seems you found a way to keep a small part of yourself in your past lives so that you can remember Fayth's threat and help yourself if you need caring and helpful advice."

Spark momentarily thought, remembering all the messages she saw, but something bothered her.

"Why?" She looked at her, wanting to know the answer to her question. "Why me? Why do I end up fighting her?"

Lauren looked at her for a bit and shook her head as she had no honest answer.

"I'm sorry, but I don't know why. I'm just doing my job and teaching you the best I can. Teaching you better spells and skills."

"I...see."

Spark didn't look happy, but she didn't push the matter further, getting up and holding the book.

Spark looked at the pages of the book. Some were journal entries about herself and her final thoughts before facing Fayth, while others were messages of caring and loving words. She flipped the pages, but for some odd reason, the book wouldn't let her see any more pages and just shut itself. She tried opening it again, but it wouldn't budge.

"This book...what are you?"

She sighed, put down the book, and lay back on the wooden floor, but she couldn't go back to sleep no matter how hard she tried. She got up and started to pace around the room.

"I can't sleep...is it because of that nightmare? No, I can't get distracted in sleeping." She returned to the blanket but got tripped and fell face-first into the floor, making a loud sound. Even though she had fallen on her face, Spark looked up, still talking to herself. "I need to be focused. I need to sleep!" She closed her eyes and tried to go back to sleep...but she couldn't, as her thoughts were still eating away. "But it's hard to sleep when I can't understand who or what I am anymore. Am I a clone of my mothers? Or a past self? I'm not my sisters...right?" she asked herself, shaking a little as she felt tears running down her cheeks. "Right?"

Spark hid under her blanket, remembering how she always did this when she was scared or didn't want others, like her sisters, to see her sad face.

"Why can't I understand myself anymore!? What is happening to me? I know moving forward won't be easy, but..."

As she cried, she heard the door opening. Spark tried her best not to make a sound, hoping they'd leave her alone.

"Spark?" whispered Luster, entering the room with a floating candle thanks to her magic. "Are you awake?"

Spark didn't answer; she just covered her head more. Luster could quickly tell she was crying; her breathing was proof of it. She walked up to the bed Spark made on the floor and sat down.

"I was in my room, putting a blanket over Dashiell's sleeping body when I heard a loud noise coming from here." She put the candle down. "I expected it was you. You act like Br-" Luster quickly stopped herself and tried to change the subject. "So, I'm not here to scold you. I'm here because I heard you crying."

Spark still didn't answer.

Luster sighed, knowing how stubborn she was, but she wouldn't leave her alone until she felt better...the problem was, she didn't know how to make her feel better. She sighed; if it was Braver, she knew what to say, but this wasn't Braver; this was Spark, and Luster didn't want to make her feel bad like she did before. Speaking of, Luster gulped as she remembered what she needed to say to her.

"...I'm sorry."

Spark opened her eyes in surprise but still didn't look at her.

"For mistreating you. I shouldn't have done that. Saying you were Braver and no one else. It's just that...that you are acting a lot like her. And...and it scares me."

Spark slowly looked down at her.

"Scares you?"

Luster looked down and nodded.

"Yeah, I'm afraid...if you are like Braver, then it means I could lose you too, which scares me. So please, if anything bothers you, you can talk to me."

"I...I am scared," whispered Spark, hiding again. "I'm scared because I'm not me. I'm not Braver or Blitz...but I'm not a copy, am I?" She put her knees up and placed her face on them. "I act like them sometimes, don't I? Even now, you were going to say Braver and stop yourself. Because that's who I am, a clone trying to act like someone else. I'm not her...am I? Am I a lesser copy of someone else? My sisters or my mothers or even..." She curled up. "My true self?"

Luster's ears lowered. She was not prepared for this. She didn't know how to answer, as she didn't know who Spark was. But one thing she was sure of was that she wasn't a copy or clone in her eyes. Luster was sure Spark was herself, but how she acted now reminded her of Braver.

"Spark, you said you saw your sister's lives by watching it through their eyes, right?" She saw her nod, but she said not all the time. "Then do you remember watching Braver's first day living inside this library after the town and Sunset gave her the keys? For saving the town folks from that flood."

Spark moved a little as she thought, but she didn't have to think for long as she quickly remembered.

"I remember...she was excited and nervous at the same time. Twilight and Dash wanted to stay the night, but she refused, saying she was a big mare now and didn't need them to be here." She looked at Luster. "You stayed, if I remember right? You forced yourself to be the worker here." Spark laughed, seeing Luster blushing and saying she didn't force herself.

"Right, anyway, did you see what Braver did that night?"

"No."

"Then do you want to hear it?"

Spark slowly nodded, and Luster started to explain.

"It was nighttime, and I was going to bed when..."

Luster closed her book and yawned. She blew out the candle on the nightstand and went to bed, only to hear something above her. It sounded like hoof steps. She flipped around and tried to ignore it, but soon, a loud thud could be heard, making Luster sit up, looking mad.

"Braver? What are-" She couldn't finish as a piece of the ceiling smacked her in the face. Soon, Luster clutched the blanket in anger. "I'm gonna kill her!" She got up, opened the door, and started walking upstairs. "I don't care if she's my only friend. I'm going to give her a piece of my mind." As she approached the top, she could hear Braver crying, making her kick down the door, all worried. "What's wrong? Did you hurt yourself!?" She stopped, seeing her friend sitting on the floor and hiding under a blanket.

Braver quickly faced away from her, and with her crying voice, she said she was okay.

"Don't lie to me, Braver."

"I'm not! I'm just cold!"

Luster raised an eyebrow. She knew something was wrong. She slowly approached and gently removed the blanket, but it wasn't what she expected. Braver's slime body was melting and dripping all over the floor. When Braver was sad and crying, Luster had seen this before, but this was more advanced. She sat down, wiping the tears and slime away from Braver's eyes.

"What's wrong?"

Braver looked at her and started crying again.

"I'm sorry, Luster; I said I could do it but can't! I can't be on my own!" Braver started to melt even more. "I WANT MY MOM! I WANT MOMMY!"

Luster's heart broke as she couldn't stand to see Braver crying.

"Do you want me to get Dash or Princess Twilight? Or both?"

Braver grabbed her and fell on top of her, her slime getting over Luster's body.

"NO!"

"But you want your mothers, right?" said Luster, wholly covered in slime now.

"Yes, but no!" Braver got off of her. Looking at the moon, tears fell. "I want my mommies here...but I told them I didn't need them to stay with me. If I call them, they will come...they will see how weak and scared I am!"

Luster stood up and shook the slime off like a dog drying its fur. "Oh, Braver."

Luster hugged her friend and let her cry all she wanted.

"Braver grew up in the castle with her parents and was always with them unless it was on an adventure across Equestria. Even then, she couldn't ever sleep without them near...she felt lonely."

"So, what did you do?" asked Spark, looking at her.

Luster gave a tiny smile as she remembered what she said to Braver.

"Braver, no matter how far away your parents are from you, they will always be here." Luster placed her hoof over Braver's heart. Braver looks down at it. "In your heart. No matter what happens or where they are, your moms will always be here to comfort you." She hugged her again. "And don't forget I'll always be here for you. Your one and only true friend!"

Braver thought about it and eyed Luster as she hugged her back.

"And the others! Like Cozy!"

Luster sighed when she heard that name.

"...and them too...I guess..."

Spark removed her blanket from her head. "Is that why you wanted to say Braver? Because she did the..." Spark looked at the floor, realizing it. "...I done the same thing as her?" She became depressed again, laying her head on her knees. "Of course...I'm not me."

Luster panicked and waved her arms around, saying that wasn't what she meant.

"I was just saying..." She stopped and put her hooves on her face. "I shouldn't lie to you, Spark. Yes, you remind me of her." Spark hid her face even more. "But that shouldn't be bad."

"Huh?"

Spark looked up in surprise, and Luster smiled and held her hand.

"Even if you are like her, doesn't that just mean you have a lot of good things inside you?" Luster placed her hoof on Spark's chest, blushing as she never realized how soft it felt. She shook her head and continued. "Like how I told Braver, and now I'm telling you." She breathed in and then out. "Spark, no matter how far away your sisters are from you, they will always be here in your heart. No matter what happens or where they are, your sisters will always be here to comfort you. You carry a part of them with you. Like I told you before, you are your own person, so no matter how much you act like Braver, I'll always see you as Spark."

Spark looked at her and started to cry again, making Luster panic. She wasn't sure what to say. Spark smiled and hugged her, surprising Luster.

"Thanks, Luster...I needed that."

Spark let go, and Luster looked a bit flustered.

"N-no problem." She rubbed her head, looking down and unsure what to say.

They both sat in silence until Spark looked at her.

"Luster, I also need to say sorry. Sorry for taking Br-"

"Don't say it!" shouted Luster, the darkness covering eyes as Spark didn't see the tears. "Just don't. if you are going to apologize for something that wasn't your fault." She got up and went to the door, stopping as she had her back turned to Spark. "If you want to say sorry to someone, then apologize to yourself. I'm not the one that needs an apology." She finally turned around, her eyes filled with tears. "It's yourself! Stop hurting yourself like this! Stop pushing yourself down like this when it was never your fault! I don't want to hear another apology from you." She left the room and closed the door, leaving a shocked and sad Spark.

She lay down, staring at the ceiling.

"I'm so sorry, Luster..."

Spark closed her eyes, placing her hand over her heart. Seeing her sisters smiling at her as she slowly went back to sleep...

"...I carry a part of them..."

Spark dropped her head onto the kitchen table the next morning because she couldn't sleep. She kept having nightmares. Luster was worried as she ate her breakfast. As the two were in the kitchen, Twilight and Dash were looking side by side from the doorway.

"Oof, she looks awful!" stated Dash.

"...poor Spark," whispered Twilight, stepping away with Dash.

The two were heading to the front door, but Dash turned to Twilight.

"You sure this will work, Twi?"

Twilight smiled at her, delighted with her fail-proof idea. "Of course, Dash! Spark is our daughter, right?" Dash nodded at that. "Then we need to start doing that! She feels like she doesn't have a home here or even loved, right?" Twilight looked at Dash, who nodded again. "Then what's the best way to show her all the love in the world?" They stopped at the door, hearing a knock. "Then introducing her to her new family!"

Twilight opened the door, revealing her parents, brother, and Cadence with their daughter. Next to them were Dash's parents.

"Hey, sweetie." Smiled Night Light.

End of Chapter 14