Their Names Across The Multiverse

Both groups stared down the two monsters. Amelia took Shiko and Soraya's hands and led them to the giant door, which stopped opening. Soon, Violet joined them as she held Nono, and behind them was Hakari, who had Elly on her back. Both women left the ones without powers and headed back to the group as the fighting started.

"Damn..." whispered Soraya, feeling so useless right now. She turned to the newcomers and quickly explained her powers. "Got it? So if they lose here, someone here needs to kill me! Don't hesitate!"

Shiko didn't like the idea of killing her friend, and from the looks of the new girls, neither did they, as they had never experienced Soraya's powers firsthand.

Nono suddenly scared everyone as she started to hover off the ground. She turned to everyone, looking brave for them. "Don't worry! I'll protect you all!"

They all turned back to the groups, seeing the battle finally starting.

"FLY!" screamed the machine, which blasted off toward them quickly. Before it could reach Snake and Brigitte, who aimed at them, Haze and T2 protected them by blocking the machine's fists with their swords. Both sword fighters narrowed their eyes at the machine, which glared back at them with its glowing red eyes.

"Tsk, damn machines!" grunted T2, feeling the powerful force behind the machine's fist.

Haze also grunted as she felt the force as well. She eyed T2, which reminded her of Zara. "Hey, don't let up, or we will die."

"I got it! Jeez, no need to lecture me," replied T2, rolling her eyes, annoyed by her.

The machine jumped back, only to reveal a black laser beam heading their way now. Both sword fighters couldn't react in time to save themselves or their leaders.

"IT'S GAME TIME!" Tanya shouted, running past them and using her beam sword to block the beam. She wasn't being pushed back; instead, she did the pushing, forcing the beam back.

Miro ran up behind Tanya, used her as a stepping stone, and jumped over the beam. She took out her sword and gun, ready to attack the mist monster.

"LET'S DO THIS!"

She was about to attack, but the machine rocketed into her and away to the ceiling, crushing her and damaging the ceiling as rubble was falling.

"FLY!" screamed the machine.

Miro smirked as she transformed into her Devil Trigger, demon-like form with wings. She teleported away and reappeared behind the machine, where she grabbed it. She spun it around and tossed it toward the mist monster, who took action by stopping her beam and dodging as her teammate crashed into the floor where she once stood.

Mist monster landed but only to be stabbed through the back by Tanya's beam sword. It grunted as it looked back at Tanya.

"Naughty little pony! Didn't your mother ever tell you not to leave your back open to the enemy?"

Tanya felt the beam going more profound, but the mist creature's horn started to glow before she could finish off the monster. She jumped back and used her beam sword as a shield from the black energy beams that shot out of its horn. She blocked one, but the others landed near her, blasting her back. She screamed like Tom from Tom and Jerry as she flew over the group and crashed behind them.

Amelia aimed her shotgun and fired at the mist monster, which turned into mist and darted toward them. She kept firing but stopped as the beast pushed everyone away and wanted to strike her down.

"Shit!"

Before the mist monster could finish her off, stone pillars slammed into each other, swatting the beast between them.

Amelia turned and saw AJ, who had used her powers to create the stone pillars. As her helmet went into her collar, Amelia revealed her face to AJ, who was surprised to see a version of herself.

"Thanks for the save...me?" Amelia chucked.

AJ chuckled back and helped her up. "You're welcome...me."

Amelia nodded and looked at her shotgun, which was empty now. "Got any extra shells? I'm out."

AJ clapped her hands and was about to touch the ground when the machine suddenly grabbed her and carried her off.

"FLY!"

AJ touched her automail and created a blade. She stabbed the machine in the chest. It didn't enter it but did damage the chest plate.

"Sorry, but I'm not a bird, you trash can!" AJ yelled.

It grabbed her arm to stop her from stabbing it, but AJ kicked its chest, making it drop her. She landed but too hard as her automail leg scattered, leaving her with one leg. She couldn't dodge the machine's kick, sending her away.

As Violet ran past AJ, who was sent flying, Violet raised her battle axe and tried to cut the machine in two when it tried to attack her, but it was too quick for her. She tried, unaware that mist was leaking out of the stone pillars and reforming into the mist monster behind her. It raised its shadow claws and swung, but Violet sensed its attack and leaped away. She landed and could see the machine rocketing her way, but Miro stopped it as she stabbed her sword into it and crashed into the floor far away from Violet. Violet returned her attention to the mist monster as it rushed toward her, its horn glowing.
Violet didn't know what the monster was going to do. Was it going to fire off another beam attack or something new? She just raised her aze in a defense position. She could hear the girls yelling at her, telling her to move, but she didn't know why because the monster was far from her...

...until it was too late. She felt her right adamantine silver prosthesis arm being slashed and destroyed. She looked and could see a portal where the shadow claw came from. She looked back at the monster, seeing it had cast a portal for both arms as it was still running at her.

"Where's the other arm!?" thought Violet, worried about what was happening. She turned and saw another portal appearing behind her. "Can't react in time!"

The shadow claw burst out of the portal and was going to crush Violet's head, but waves of crows appeared, along with web bullets hitting the mist monster. The crows started to attack the claw, allowing Violet to escape, only losing one arm. She backed away and stood near Raina, whose hand was covered in black feathers. She could also see Petra on the ceiling and gave her a thumbs up.

"You okay? Can you still use your axe with just one hand?" Raina asked.

Violet nodded and looked down at her axe, still in her hand. "Yes."

"Good, let's finish this."

The mist monster was surrounded by the crows, which pecked at its body, causing the creature to screech in pain. Soon, they felt like bullets were being fired at them. Rina used her gun to give Violet a covering fire, and Violet ran toward it. The mist monster turned and was about to rush the gun-wielding woman but was suddenly blasted by ice magic from Haze, who joined Violet's side as they ran toward the mist monster. Haze jumped over while Violet ran under it and slashed it. Both attacks connected, causing the beast to grunt in pain, and both women could see its shadowy body leaking out of the wound.

The mist monster raised its claw, but Haze used her sword and sliced off the monster's arms. It screamed in agony as it backed away.

"FLY!"

Before Haze could finish it, Miro crashed into her, who was still mid-air, and both crashed into the wall. Miro was bleeding and bruised but still had enough energy to get off the woman.

"Sorry, dude, damn thing tougher than it looked."

Haze got up and grunted in annoyance, not caring about the machine. She needed to finish the mist creature, but the machine was now in their way.

Violet was alone now but still ready to fight the armless mist monster.

"FRIENDS!"

Violet could see it charging its beam attack again. She rushed forward, hoping to strike it down before the attack could be released, but she wasn't fast enough as the beam fired. She couldn't entirely dodge as the beam destroyed her left arm, making her armless, too. Both glared at each other down.

"Friends..."

Violet was shocked to see the monster's arm reformed as they had never been slashed off.

"You...can regenerate?"

The mist monster grinned. "...friends..."

It rushed and tried to slice her with its claws. She jumped back, trying to keep her distance. She knew this wasn't good. She couldn't risk fighting it with her kicks, as she might lose her legs to it. She needed to fall back.

"We got ya!"

Violet was saved as T2 landed between them and used her berserk mode, blasting red steam. She yelled as she blocked the claws and kicked them away. She charged forward with her sword, ready to kill it, but the machine was there all of a sudden and attacked her.

"FLY!"

T2 didn't care as its fist burst through her shoulder; she kept going and stabbed her sword through the machine's chest. She could see something glowing inside of it. She let go of the sword, and with all her might, she punched through the machine's chest plate and ripped it off. It was revealing a glowing rainbow thunderbolt. The machine screamed as bullets hit it.

"Huh?" T2 said, looking back to see Snake and Brigitte firing their guns at the exposed weak spot.

"FRIEND!"

Everyone turned and could see the mist monster pull the machine away and slash T2, causing slash marks over her torso and ripping off the android's breastplate covering, exposing her wires and gears under the armor.

"Oh, fuck!" T2 groaned, feeling the pain. Her systems were showing critical damage.

The mist monster was going to kill the downed T2, but Miro and Haze jumped on its back, stabbing it with their swords and forcing it to the floor with their combined force. They lifted it and tossed it toward Petra, who fired off her web-shooters, wrapped up the mist monster, and slammed it into the floor. Her spider sense went off and turned to fire a considerable web ball, covering the face of the machine, which was heading her way. She shot her webbing at the ceiling and pulled herself up in time as the machine missed her and crashed into the mist monster. Both crashed into the wall near Nono and the girls she was protecting.

The machine stood up and turned to the Nono and the others, scaring them.

"...F-Fly..." said the machine, struggling to speak as its eyes flashed blue for a few seconds.

Its eye returned to normal and was about to attack Nono, but before it could harm them, Perta fired her webbing at it and pulled it toward her.

"Hey now, no touching the cute girls! Leave them alone!"

It was being dragged away, but as that was happening, the mist monster stood up and quickly darted toward Nono. Luckily, Nono's vectors stopped it in its place, holding the mist creature's head, arms, and legs in place, preventing it from moving.

"No, you don't! I won't allow you to hurt anyone here!" shouted Nono, trying to lift the monster. She was caught off guard as she watched the monster's shadow claws enter the portal it cast. She looked behind to see the claws heading toward Shiko. "NO!"

Shiko closed her eyes as she screamed. She was still cringing, waiting for the claws to hurt her, but nothing happened. She opened her eyes to see an octagonal wave of energy blocking the claws. She had seen that kind of force field before.

"What!? Is that an A.T. Field!?" thought Shiko.

The claws dug deeper into the A.T. field, trying to rip it open, but Shiko could hear a roar within her mind. She didn't know why, but she raised her arm, and within the A.T. field, a vast yellow robot arm came bursting out, destroying the claws, grabbing the mist monster, and tossing it away from Nono. Soon, another A.T. field appeared above Shiko, who looked up and smiled.

"...mother?"

Another yellow robot arm appeared, and a vast robot face soon appeared. It opened its mouth, roaring.

"Holy shit, Shiko!? You have powers, too!?" asked Soraya, amazed and scared of the mecha that hovered above them.

Shiko shook her head but was still smiling. "No, I don't, but my mother will always protect me."

Everyone was amazed at what they saw, but since Petra wasn't paying attention, she didn't know the machine's eye was turning blue. It ripped the webbing off. The machine screamed at them.

"KILL ME!"

It dropped to its knees, exposing the weak spot in its chest to them. Half of its eye turned red, trying to fight back control.

"Please! KILL ME NOW!"

The group was unsure of what to do. The machine seemed to want to die, but they didn't understand why. Brigitte lowered her gun and got closer, against what the others were yelling at her not to do.

"What do you mean? Why do you want us to kill you?"

"I...can't...keep it...contained...anymore..." it struggled. "This body...corrupted by negative energy by Fayth...using those kids' dark and negative emotions..." It closed its eyes, remembering how it had become like this.

"You can still fly! Even without wings!" said Dash, smiling at Rozelle and a younger version of herself. She stepped closer, hearing her younger self crying.

"I CAN'T! WHY CAN'T YOU AND SPARK UNDERSTAND THAT!? AT LEAST YOU CAN STILL FLY!" cried out her younger self, angry and sad at her.

Dash's eyes were closed, but she smiled at her younger self. Then, she could hear Rozelle's voice, which made her move her head toward the girl.

"You won't and never will understand our pain in what we lost!" Rozelle's voice was full of hate and rage. "You and Spark will never understand us!"

Dash couldn't believe what she heard. She looked down at her hooves and could feel her wings on her back. She could still fly, but she sat down. She smirked at them.

"I lost something too, you know." Dash opened her eyes, revealing that they were grey out. The two could tell she was blind. Dash could hear the two girls reacting to her blindness, but she kept smirking. "I've lost my ability to see. I can still fly, but not like before."

Rozelle stood up, letting the younger Dash go, and approached the blind Dash. She placed her hand over Dash's blind eyes.

"How? How did you lose your eyesight?"

Dash frowned. "When I was a filly, pulling off a Sonic Rainboom for the first time, I opened my eyes as the rainbow cone broke. I saw so many colors, but it was the last time I ever saw the colors and the world." Dash closed her eyes and petted Rozelle. "But even going blind, that didn't stop me. I kept going, living with my blindness. It hurt not to see, but I learned I can still see without sight. I can hear the colors. I can feel the air brushing my fur. I can taste the rain and smell the grass. Thanks to somepony." She opened her wings, feeling proud.

She could hear her younger self getting closer now. Whispering something that Dash could easily listen to, thanks to her sharp hearing.

"How? How aren't you not scared? Are you scared of crashing and burning, not knowing where you're going?" she held her bandaged wrap body, scared of her fears. Fears of burning if she ever flies again. "Aren't you afraid of being blind and only seeing darkness? Don't you hate the world?"

Dash turned and shook her head. "Yes, I was scared, afraid of what would happen to me, but I'm still going to live life to the fullest." She placed her wings over the two, bringing them close. "It's okay to be scared and afraid, but you must know that the world is full of colors, not just one. Life isn't just black and white, no matter what anyone says, but life is beautiful in so many ways. Like I said, even without wings, you two can still fly. Fly with-"

"Are you going to buy into that crap?"

Dash's ears twitch as she doesn't realize someone is above them. As Spark told her before bringing her here, she looked up and knew who this was.

"Fayth!"

Fayth smiled, holding a black energy orb. She landed before the three. She stared at Rozelle and the younger Dash, and both girls' eyes suddenly went lifeless.

"She's lying to you two; you know that, right?" smirked Fayth, walking around the three. "Without wings, you can't never truly fly again, no matter what."

"Shut up, Fayth!" growled Dash, standing between her and the girls. "Spark told me about you! You are using these poor girls, but I won't let you! You're not going to win, Fayth!"

Fayth didn't seem scared of her or angry at what she said. She kept smirking and walked back to where she landed, her hand glowing with the orb. Dash backed up and covered the girls with her wings.

"Using? I'm not using them..." she tipped her head, having a twisted smile. "Right?"

Dash suddenly felt the girls pushing her away. She looked at them, hearing their emotionless voices.

"She's right. Fayth isn't using us. She's been telling us the truth." Rozelle said, walking back to Fayth. "I lost my legs, and my dream is dead. There is no way I can run, even if I have a new pair of fake legs. Those legs aren't a part of me."

"And I can never fly again. There's no way I can fly and perform stunts again, no matter how hard I try," said younger Dash, joining Rozelle's side as they stood alongside a laughing Fayth. "My fears will always be there! I fear the blue skies as I remember my body burning up! I'm a shadow of my former self!"

Dash felt her heartache but didn't give up, rushing at them.

"No! Stop this, please! That isn't true! You're both young and full of hope! Your wings aren't truly gone! You just-AH!" Dash felt something blasting her. To her, it felt like black smoke.

Dash couldn't see it, but her younger self and Rozelle were giving off dark, negative emotions, which Fayth was gathering into the dark orb. Fayth used part of the orb to blast Dash with.

"That cow! Bringing others here when this battle is between me and her only. This should teach her not to bring others here!" thought Fayth.

Dash fell on her stomach, and she could feel pain growing inside of her like something was trying to burst out of her. Soon, something did burst a bit: wires and metal. Within her mind, she could hear the two girls talking about the pain that they felt.

"W-What did you do to me!?" cried out Dash, feeling her body. Her body felt odd, and she could hear Fayth walking toward her.

"I simply gave you a little gift." Fayth laughed.

Before Dash could say anything more, her ears picked up someone, landing between her and Fayth. She knew who it was.
"S-Spark?"

Spark turned to Dash and could see that she arrived too late. Her rage built as she faced Fayth again. "FAYTH!" unleashing her magical aura. "You are going to pay for this!"

Fayth glared at Spark. "You won't stop me this time, cow!" She slowly hovered off the ground and fired off the dark orb above the tree into the giant black orb of darkness, increasing in size. Soon, it created a wave of dark energy, making the slightly dark rainbow tree black. Spark bunked down as the wave hit her, but she remembered Dash and turned to see her blasting away.

"MOTHER!"

Spark flew off the top of the tree and raced to grab Dash. She was close, but Fayth blasted her away, making her crash into a tree surface. Spark blasted from the hole and ignored Fayth as her sights were on saving Dash.

"Ignoring me? I can't allow that!" Fayth raised her hands and unleashed a rain of beams at Spark.

Spark turned and dodged the beams, which ended up exploding on the ground ahead of her. Fayth fired several more beams at Spark, but she continued to dodge each blast, almost reaching Dash. As her hand reached out to grab Dash's hoof, Spark was shocked to see Dash smack her hand away.

"Don't get close to me! She did something to me! I can feel it..." Dash's hooves started to burst out more wires and metal, turning her flesh into robotic legs. "Forget me! Save them!"

"Mother, I can't let you die!" Spark said, ignoring her.

"You must! I'll be fine! Get others to help them." Dash smirks as she opens her wings. She then opens her red eyes for a split second before becoming blue as a cutie mark appears on her chest. "Saving those kids is more important right now. Not me." With that said, Dash flew toward the tree and burst through, disappearing as the tree's surface healed.

"MOTHER!" screamed Spark, trying to reach out to her, but she pulled back her arm and turned back to the top of the tree. She could see Fayth was back up there, smiling down at her. "I'll be back," she said in a low growl, turning around and creating a rift into a universe. "And I'll bring more like those two. Those that can help those four! I won't allow you to hurt those kids, Fayth!".

Spark flew into the rift, disappearing as it closed shut.

Dash burst through the tree's inner bark and felt her body giving out. She closed her eyes as she fell toward the bottom area of the tree and crashed into a lake area...

The machine started to cry. "Please, you need to end me and save those kids! I don't want to hurt any of you anymore!" She lowered her head, seeing how her body became.

She suddenly felt a hand touch her head. Looking up, she saw Brigitte smiling at her, filled with determination.

"Yeah, I'm not wasting a good life. You need to fight it! We can save those kids and you. Just stay strong. Don't give up." Brigitte said, smiling and looking at the others.

They all nodded, agreeing with her. They could tell the machine was looking confused. She could see Haze walking up to her.

"You can't give up. Keep fighting it! You are the only one who can control this body, not that thing inside you."

The machine shook her head, but Brigitte held her hand, making her look at the smiling woman.

"You can. Even now, you are in control of your body. Keep fighting it together; we can save those kids and end this nightmare." pleaded Haze.

The machine wanted to say something, but she could hear the negative entity inside her. The kids were repeating the things they always said.

"I'm scared; I remember the burning pain as I fell! I became so scared to look at the sky that I became a shut-in! I can't sleep without having nightmares and wake up crying."

"How can I take those steps when the only thing that keeps me going, the one thing that made me, ME, are gone!?"
The machine shut its eyes, trying to stop the voices.

"I lost my legs...I lost Reginn... what's the point when I lost the things that made me keep going? I want to end it..."

"I'm just a shadow of my former self. How can I go on? How can I look myself in the mirror and not cry?"

The machine started to feel its control slipping, and the group could tell this, not knowing what to do. Brigitte and Haze looked at each other, unsure what to do, but Snake and T2 walked past them. Snake offered the machine a sugar stick.

"Remember why you are here. It seems Spark asked for your help, but something happened. It would help if you stayed strong, even with this monster inside you," Snake said.

T2 nodded. "So stop being a little bitch and beat this thing already!" she pointed at the machine's chest.

The machine looked down, seeing its glowing cutie mark. She placed a hand over her chest, feeling her heart pounding.

"You are still in control; don't let this monster take over," said T2.

The machine felt the voices were going away, but the pain was growing stronger, making her scream. Brigitte held her hand tight, refusing to let go.

"Hang in there! You're doing good!" said Brigitte.

Snake and T2 watched the machine's body glow bright blue, creating a flash of rainbow light. Everyone was blinded. Petra couldn't see, but spider-sense warned her and ducked in time as a shadow claw almost cut her head off.

"What the hell?!" Petra said, flipping away and hardly seeing the mist monster was free from the webbing. It started to charge toward the others, blinded by the rainbow light. "GUYS! ITS COMING TOWARDS YOU!"

Everyone couldn't see and didn't know where to look or do. Snake took out her solid eye and put it on. She used it to see through the light and saw the mist monster almost upon her.

"Damn!" she said, aiming her pistol. She fired but missed, and it was just a few inches from her.

Soon, something rocketed out of the rainbow light and tackled the mist creature away. The machine was normal again; she was Rainbow Dash again and slammed the mist monster into the door, damaging it as cracks appeared.

Rainbow Dash opened her eyes, which were still greyed out, and her blindness returned.

"TWI!" screamed Dash, pushing it all to keep the mist monster from escaping. "Twi! Remember who you are! I know you are still in there!" pleaded Dash.

The mist monster tried to fight off Dash, but its chest started to glow. It was revealing Twilight's cutie mark, beaming with such light.

"Twi! You need to fight it! Don't let it win!" Dash hugged the creature. "When I lost my sight, I was grounded for years until I moved to Ponyville with Fluttershy. The day you came to Ponyville, and we became friends, you helped me to learn to fly through using my hearing. You didn't give up on me, even when I did. You kept going and giving me hope! Don't give up now!"

Rainbow Dash hugged the mist monster as it glowed brightly and was about to explode. Everyone could see it and could see Twilight's body breaking through.

"One of the lessons you taught me is that even without wings, you can still fly. Even if I couldn't see anymore, I kept moving forward because you told me that, even without seeing, I could still fly! Twi, you need to believe in yourself and fight it! I know you can!"

Rainbow Dash closed her eyes, holding Twilight tightly, not caring what would happen to her. Her friend was in trouble, and she would never let her go.

Twilight felt her friend's embrace, and she was scared. She felt powerful dark energy within, trying to stop her from gaining control again. She remembered a lesson that she taught herself after living so long after all her friends and family died. What Spark saw in her...

"You got to keep pushing. No matter what, don't give up and keep moving forward."

Twilight focuses her mind and magic, blocking the dark thoughts of her younger self and Alice. She held Dash...

"Everyone, get back!" screamed Snake. She took cover as Twilight blew up, creating a vast purple light that engulfed the area and made everything white...

The light blinded Twilight and her group. As it faded, she could see both groups were exemplary. She wondered if her other universe self survived with that version of Dash. Night Luna walked up to her.

"We shouldn't be wasting time watching these. The Element of Magic is about to exit memory. We should do the same." said Night Luna.

Twilight nodded and followed her and the others to the next memory. She stopped, however, and turned back. She needed to know what happened.

The light faded, and the only thing left was smoke. Snake and Brigitte's group was fine, as Shinko used her A.T. fields to protect everyone from the blast. As the smoke faded, the group saw a hooded Twilight, and she was back to normal, holding Dash in her arms.

"Rainbow?" Cloaked Twilight called out, looking at her. Tears were falling as she was happy to see Rainbow Dash again, even if it was from another universe. She could see her leaning back, her eyes still closed but smirking at her.

"Twi? I know you could do it!" said Dash, raising her hoof and messing up Cloaked Twilight's mane. Twilight hugged her. "It's good to see you too. I guess we can finally finish what we needed to do."

The two let go and turned to everyone. Cloaked Twilight stepped forward, lowering her black hoodie.

"Like you all, Spark came to me, and Dash here to help those children. She found and gathered you all here because we weren't enough to get through those kids. But with all of you here, we can save them."

Rainbow Dash slowly walked and stood by cloaked Twilight's side. Her twitched as she scanned the room. She smiled at everyone. "So..." She opened her wings and flew slightly off the ground. "Is everyone ready or what!? We got some kids to save!" She landed and remembered something. "Oh, and saving the multiverse, I guess. Let's go!"

Cloaked Twilight smiled at Dash to the point she started to cry. This caught everyone's attention, even Dash herself. Dash approached her, asking what was wrong, even though she knew what.

Cloaked Twilight shook her head and wiped her tears. "It's been so long since I heard one of your rallies. It's great to hear one again, Dash."

Dash opened her wings and hovered off the floor. "Really now?" She scratches her chin. "I can do better, though. How about." She turned to everyone. "Let's KICK SOME BUTT!" she cheered but stopped and thought of another one. "LET'S DO IT, TOO IT! IT'S JUICE AND JAM TIME!"

Cloaked Twilight pulled on Dash's tail. She Forced her to the ground. She giggled. "Yeah, don't push it. I miss hearing your voices and rally cries, but not when you sound like an idiot."

Dash raised her hoof and pumped it into the air. "Okay, then how about..." She paused and turned to Cloaked Twilight. "Let's save those kids and send that Fayth brat packing?"

Cloaked Twilight nodded in agreement. "Yeah."

Everyone gathered around them, but soon, sixteen light figures appeared in front of the closed door. The purple and blue lights flew closer to the group, and the purple ones spoke as one.

"Time is running out. The tree can't be saved if that dark energy is still over it. You must hurry and stop those kids and the fallen Watcher."

The blue lights joined the purple light side and spoke as one. "We were right to trust you rather than destroy you when you arrived at the tree's base. We made that deal with Spark, allowing us to see what versions she gathered and were like. She could have bought anyone here but chose the right ones."

The four lights turned to the other lights, and they all became bright stars and entered the door surface. The blue lights became stars and joined them. The purple lights turned back to the large group.

"We wish we could do more to help, but our powers are tied to the tree, and we need to give all the remaining energy to keep the tree alive. So please, don't fail. There are no second chances." They became purple stars and flew toward the door.

The door slowly opened as the light faded into it. Everyone could see the wooden path. They all entered through the door and walked the wooden path. They could see the millions of branches with the prism windows, which acted like leaves. Above it all was the vast dark orb. They looked at each other and hurried toward the center of the top of the tree.

Twilight watched until the doors closed shut, and the memory became grey. It was the end of the memory. She stood up and exited the memory, joining the others. They could see the Element of Magic stopping and soon giving off a rainbow light. In front of it, a rift appeared. Twilight could see it, the place she had been before all those years ago and recently when Spark called out to her and the others.

"We are here; this time, it's real." She stepped inside and could feel the grassy ground. "The real garden. We finally arrived inside for Spark's core."

The others joined her, and Night and Day sisters walked past Twilight and over to the large tree in the middle. They turned around and sat down.

"We brought them like you wanted," said Night Luna.

Twilight suddenly felt something wasn't right. "Like how you wanted?" She narrowed her eyes, feeling like this was a trap. "Who is 'they'? What's going on!?"

Day Celestia turned to behind the tree. "You know these two very well, Twilight."

Twilight suddenly felt hope as she took a few steps. "BRAVER!? BLITZ!?" She could feel her tears falling as she got closer to the tree. "SWEEITE! MOMMY IS HERE! PLEASE, COME-" but she stopped as she saw who stepped out behind the tree. Who she saw made her sit down and feel ashamed. She did a bow to them. "I'm sorry..." she started to hate herself. "You trusted me to watch over one of your daughters, but I..." She began to sob as she looked up at them. "I hurt her! Please, forgive me..."

Who was standing there were Spark and her sister's real mothers.

"Nightfall! Rainbow Sky!"

End of chapter 26