PonyballzKai: Adventures In Equestria (Redone)

"So... not only can we not take part in a fabulous ancient ceremony, but we're also about to be frozen solid!"

The mane 6, cyre, shining, flurry heart and the princesses were currently in the middle of a freakout. Flurry Heart, the baby of shining armor and princess cadance, had just had a temper tantrum, and in doing so, shattered the crystal heart.

"Without the Crystal Heart's magical protection, the entire city's about to become a winter wasteland!" Twilight exclaimed.

"But what about when King Sombra ruled the Crystal Empire and the Crystal Heart was missin'? The city wasn't covered in snow then!" Applejack inquired.

"The Heart wasn't missing. It was still in the castle. King Sombra had just hidden it."

"I'm afraid Twilight is correct, and the storm clouds are already forming." as Celestia and the others looked outside, they saw dark clouds and lightning headed their way. Rainbow, however, didn't waver.

"I can fly up there and bust those puppies! No problem!" just as she was about to leave, Celestia closed the curtains.

"I wouldn't advise it, Rainbow Dash. Those storm clouds are not like the ones you know."

"This far north, the weather has a will of its own, and now it will only grow stronger, enveloping everything in its path." Princess Luna stated.

"Including the Crystal Empire!" cadence added.

"And us along with it!" twilight added fearfully.

The dark clouds are getting closer to me
In every moment...
I'm so excited by this feeling
Even if it's dangerous.

(The title screen, Ponyball z: adventures in Equestria appears as the sun shines down. Cyre is then seen flying by with Rainbow Dash, Princess Luna, Princess Celestia, and Broly joining him. They all flare up their energy and take off, with Cyre soon following up after them with a huge smile on his face.)

OK! Bring it on right now!
I'm the strongest in the universe
All I do is show you my unlimited power
Go! Kamehameha!

(Shenron is being summoned in front of the main 6, their families, Ruby, Mita, and Cyre, who had huge smiles on their faces before Cyre transformed into super Saiyan.)

Get ready! Fight it out!
Fight it out 'till the end of world (Beat the Spirit Bomb!)

(Broly and Cyre are seen fighting furiously on screen before briefly disappearing, and reappearing as they punch each other in the jaw.)

Look around and you'll know that
You're not fighting by yourself Get ready!

(King Sombra and Queen Chrysalis appear first. And behind them, ponehendge appears, and in a flash, the pony of shadows appears.)

Fight it out!
Fight it out for the dream of world (Fusion, you, and me!)

(Broly is seen charging up his ki. Luna and Celestia are then seen performing the fusion dance before a flash of light appears and shows only a silhouette of their combined form.)

Let's gather the power of our friends!
Never gonna give up!

(Cyre is charging up his ki before a burst of energy flashes, showing Cyre as an SSJ3.)

Fight it out and do our best
To save our planet Earth
And I say, Go! Kamehameha!

(Cyre is showing fighting Queen Chrysalis as he shoots a Kamehameha at the changeling Queen.)

Fight it out! Wow!!
Fight it out! Yeah!!!!
Fight, fight it out!!!!!!

(The mane 6, Broly, Mita, Ruby, Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, and Cadance, along with Shining Armor and Starlight Glimmer, stood tall and smiled as Cyre stood in the center as an SSJ3.)

"There's gotta be somethin'..."
Meanwhile, starlight and Sunburst were still trying to rekindle their friendship but were having no luck doing so.

"I know Princess Twilight is keen on the two of us rekindling our friendship, but... it's been so long. I don't see how anything on that list is going to help." sunburst sadly admitted.

"I know, right? It's not like there's some spell that would magically compel us to pick up where we left off." starlight playfully said.

Sunburst then started pulling books from the shelfs and opened them. "Well, actually, there's several. Mistmane's Material Amity, Rockhoof's Rapport, Flash Prance's Fellow... ship... But I-I get the feeling the princess isn't looking for a spell."

"Definitely not." starlight chuckled.

"Got it!" spike exclaimed. He was covered head to toe in Twilight's scroll. "And if all else fails, ask them to share an embarrassing moment from their past, maybe even something they regret!" both starlight and sunburst grew nervous at that suggestion.

"Uh, I don't see how that would help." sunburst said rather hastily.

"Uh, yeah! We should just get out of your mane. It's pretty obvious this isn't going how Twilight hoped, and I'm sure you have plenty of important work to do..." starlight added.

"What? Oh! Right, yes, heh-heh! Uh, no rest for the wizardly."

"Come on, Spike." she grabbed him with her magic and left out the front door, with spike groaning while doing so.

The storm was now getting worse, evidenced by the fact that it was now blowing the curtains.twilight was growing more worried by the second. "There must be a spell that can restore the Crystal Heart!"

"Perhaps." Celestia said.

"But it isn't something that either of us knows," Luna added.

"The library here at the castle is nearly as extensive as the one in Canterlot. There's a good chance we can find something there!" cadance suggested.

"Can you hold off the storm?" Twilight asked the princesses.

"Yes, for a time, but even our magic will eventually succumb to the power of the Frozen North." Princess Luna said.

"Then I'll be there by their side to fight when they can't!" Cyre stepped up and he looked serious, much different then his normal happy go lucky attitude. They all looked at him like he was crazy.

"But how will you get to the clouds? You can't even fly!" in the time rainbow said that, Cyre was floating ten feet off the ground. Everypony looked at home in surprise, except for Fluttershy. She remembered that he told her he had a different method to fly. The royal sisters shook off the surprise and soon joined him the air.

"We will do what we can, but you must hurry." with that, all three of them took off to stall the storm clouds.

"I don't know how long it will take to find the right spell, but you should probably tell the crowd outside to get somewhere warm!" Twilight said.

"And try not to mention the Crystal Heart. We don't want to start a panic."Cadance added.

"Yes, ma'am. C'mon, girls!" Applejack, Fluttershy, and rainbow dash went outside to warn the crowd.

Twilight Sparkle then turned to who was left. "I'm gonna need all of your help. The crystal library is enormous!"

"You can count on us, Twily!" shining armor said confidently. Flurry had teleported out of shining armors hands and onto pinkie's face, who shrieked and threw her off. She was about to land in Shining Armor's hooves when she teleported again.

"Where'd she go?!" all of them then heard her giggling in the castle.

"This way!" with that, they all followed cadance to find flurry.

Cyre, Luna, and Celestia were now sitting in front of huge, snowy storm clouds. While the two princesses began to delay them, Cyre lifted his hand into the air, his aura flaring as he did so. Celestial and Luna were very confused by cyre's behaviour. "Uh, Cyre are you alri-" Luna was interrupted thoroughly by Cyre.

"ANNIHILATION ATTACK!!!!" from his hand, hundreds of blue beams shot out of his hand at high speeds, directed at the storm clouds. This was an attack he gained from buu. Well, super buu more specifically. He used it wipe out all life on earth when he was around.

The blast hit the clouds with huge explosions, with Luna and Celestia staring in fear and awe as the beams curved past them. It simply was beyond their understanding. How could he have this much power? It was overwhelming! And what feared the princesses most... They knew this was only a very small fraction of what he's capable of.

Cyre on the other hand, was firing shot after shot, and it was starting to take its toll on his energy. Cyre began to seriously wonder how buu did this with little to no effort. It was exhausting!

"Well, Spike, looks like my biggest fears came true. I wouldn't be surprised if Twilight decides to give up on me entirely." starlight were walking through town from sunburst house back to the castle.

"Aw, it's not your fault. I'm the one who said all we needed was this list." spike said before sending the scroll away with his fire.

"It's not the list, Spike. Or you. Or Twilight. I'mthe one Sunburst doesn't want to be friends with." starlight sadly said.

"I don't remember him saying he didn't want to be friends." Spike remarked.

"He didn't have to say it." starlight said with a sigh.

"Well, Twilight obviously thinks you're worth being friends with! And I do too!" spike retorted while giving her a hug.

"Thanks, Spike. At least I have two friends, even if one of them has dragon breath." spike exhaled, but he was positive it wasn't him. "Uh, that's not dragon breath. It's freezing!"

It was then when they started yo notice the snow falling. "Oh, you're right! But I thought the Crystal Heart was supposed to keep the cold weather out."

"It is... unless something's happened! Come on!" with that, they both began their run to the castle.

"We're just saying that it might not be the best idea to stay outside!" rainbow, Applejack, and fluttershy were trying to get the crystal ponies to move, to no success.

"I camped out all night for this spot! I'm not about to just give it up!" a crystal pony from the crowd said.

"Still, when you think about it, the view is just as good a little further back, like... inside your house?" Fluttershy said nervously. The crystal ponies continued to complain.

"The Crystalling ceremony is one of our most sacred traditions! And when that foal is held before the Crystal Heart, I plan to be as close to the action as possible!" another crystal pony said.

"Honestly, I don't know if there's gonna be a Crystallin'. The truth is, the baby's an Alicorn and her magic's plum crazy, so you might not wanna be that close after all." her words only improved the crowds resistance to move.

"A baby Alicorn? Wow, I can't wait to see that!"

"Oh, those little wings are probably so cute!

"I know, right?"

"Look, I am a hundred percent sure the Crystalling isn't happening." rainbow said. To her surprise, magic rays shoot out of the castle, and numerous blue beams were shooting in different direction.

"No Crystalling, huh? Then why are they starting the fireworks show?" the crystal ponies cheered as they saw the beams.

The others were in the library still searching for a spell to fix the heart. Meanwhile, Shining Armor Rarity and Pinkie Pie were having their hooves full trying to contain the baby, while Cadence and Twilight were searching for a book that could help.

"Young filly... come back here!"

"Come to your Auntie Pinkie Pie!"

Twilight searched multiple books with no luck. "Bridle Buck's Boat Chants,Hayhoof's Intonements,Mystic Maps and Mazes... Anything up there?"

"Not yet! I'm not even sure how these are organized!" princess cadance turned to see that flurry had teleported onto the shelf next to her. Reaching out to her cadance made a sorry attempt to capture flurry as she teleported away and flew off, with shining armor in hot pursuit.

"Shining Armor, I thought you were taking care of the baby!" cadance said with worry.

"I'm trying!" was his response. Just ahead of flurry was rarity, waiting with a net to catch her.

"Gotcha!" With a magic pop, flurry teleported behind her and continued her flight.
"Oh! Or not..."

It was at this point starlight walked in. "What is going on?!"

"You want the long or the short version?" Pinkie asked as she was being dragged by flurry.

"Short?"

Pinkie Pie quickly responded. "The baby's an Alicorn and she accidentally destroyed the Crystal Heart, so Twilight and Cadance are looking for a spell to put it back together and save the Crystal Empire from turning into a giant wasteland of ice and snow."

"Oh." Starlight said.

Princess Cadance gasped, as she might have found something. "What about this? Trotter's Tome of Reliquary?"

Twilight Sparkle took the book and flipped through the pages. "I think this is it!"

"Spell of Relic Reconstitution"! I can't believe we found it!" Cadance said with happiness.

"It's a good thing, too! Without this, I don't know what we'd do!" a few moments later the baby shot a laser right through the book, causing Twilight to gasp.

"Oops." Pinkie said.

"That spell was the only thing we found in the whole library that was even close to what we needed!" Twilight exclaimed.

"I'm so sorry, Twilight!" starlight quickly said.

"It's not your fault, Starlight. None of us were expecting any of this." cadance walked over to Twilight. "Do you think you can remember the spell?"

Twilight's face was full of worry."I only read it through once!"

"Well, if anypony can exactly remember something she read for the first time two minutes ago, it's you, Twilight." Rarity said with confidence.

Twilight Floated over a piece of paper and a quill "I'll try. But I'm not sure how long it'll take."

Pinkie Pie took a look outside to see the wind blowing fiercely. "Is quickly an option?"

"I'll help if I can, but we should evacuate the city just in case! You need to lead everypony to the train station before the tracks freeze over!" princess Cadance said.

Shining Armor, being a soldier, was prepared to rally every pony. "We will. But between you and Twilight, I'm sure you'll remember the spell." with that, they left.

"I only hope this spell is the one we need." twilight began to right down the spell from memory as Starlight walked over. "Is there anything I can do?"

Twilight shook her head in sorrow. "I don't think so. I'm just sorry about your lesson."

Starlight barely registered it."Oh, that doesn't matter now. Sunburst and I don't have anything in common anyway. He's a big important wizard! And I'm re-learning everything I ever thought I knew."

Princess Cadance put a hoof to her muzzle in thought. "Sunburst? I don't recognize the name, but if he's an important wizard, you should bring him here. Maybe he'll know what to do if the spell fails."

Starlight Gasped. "Of course!" she rushed off to sunburst's house in a quick gallop...

"You better go with her, Spike." With Spike now in hot pursuit, Twilight looked out the window to see the princesses get engulfed by the storm.

Starlight Glimmer and spike were arriving at sunburst's house, with starlight straining to close the door due to the snow blowing. "Sunburst! Haven't you looked outside?!"

Sunburst did so and finally saw the heavy snowfall. "Snow? That's... not right. The Crystal Heart—"

"Is gone!" starlight interrupted. "The baby – Shining Armor and Cadance's baby – it's an Alicorn!"

"Really?" he asked.

"Really! And her magic is a little berserk, and well, I guess she destroyed the Heart! But Twilight thinks she can fix it and Princess Cadance thought you could help!"

That made sunburst tense up. "Me?"

"Of course! You're an important wizard in the Crystal Empire! It just makes sense!" starlight said with happiness.

Sunburst began shuffling books around on his bookcase, although some of them were just the same books in a different position."Right... right... right right right. You know, I'd like to help, I-I really would. I-I just have so much, um, important wizard work to do around here." he held up a binder to prove a point, leaving starlight and spike confused. "Huh?!"

"You can't stay here!" applejack and the others were still trying to get them to move, but they still refused.

"Did I mention this was a Royal Crystalling? When the crystaller holds the young one aloft, all of the Empire will share their joy and light, and the Crystal Heart will beat stronger than it ever has before!" one crystal pony said with pride.

"It really is a moving ceremony!" another crystal pony said in tears.

"I really don't think it's going to happen." fluttershy said.

Rainbow dash was starting to chatter. "Come on, it's freezing out here!"

"Uh, this is the Crystal Empire. We've seen snow before." one pony said with a little sass.

"Not like this!" they all turned to see shining armor. "We don't have time to argue! Princess Cadance has decided to evacuate the city!" the crowd then gasped.

"But the Crystalling...!" they still refused but they were quickly put to rest with shining armor's next statement.

"I don't know if we'll ever have another Crystalling again! The Crystal Heart... is shattered." the crowd once again gasped and finally got the picture in their heads.

"It's not safe here!" one of them said.

"That's what we've been tryin' to tell you!" Applejack said with a groan.

Cyre Was still blasting the clouds, but his beams were starting to fail him as storm got stronger. And he was starting to feel his arm get tired as well. "Gotta... Keep... Firing... Blasts! Can't let... Empire... Turn into... A frozen... Wasteland!!!" Cyre spotted the princesses being engulfed. Even if they got out, they'd probably be to tired to help. It was him now, and him alone.

Starlight was still trying to convince sunburst to help. Sure, he had work to do, but this was WAY beyond that! The empire could be nothing but snow soon!

"Sunburst, I know you're busy, but did you hear what I said?"

"Oh, I heard you, but-but like I said, when you're an important wizard, the work just piles up." sunburst retorted.

Starlight was starting to get impatient."Sunburst!"

"Look, Starlight, I want to help. I do. But I can't. I wish I could." sunburst said with a sigh.

Starlight Glimmer was confused. "What do you mean?!"

Sunburst looked at her in fear and hesitancy. "Fixing an ancient relic? I-I can't even come close to doing something like that!"

"But I thought you were an important wizard!'

"Well, you were wrong, okay?! I'm not an important wizard! I'm not even a wizard at all!" he snapped and stormed off into the next room, leaving a dazed spike and starlight.

Sunburst was now sitting down in sadness. "I know it's hard for you to understand, but not all of us end up achieving greatness."

"What? Why wouldn't I understand that?" starlight asked.

Sunburst looked at her skeptical. Really? "You're the protégé of the Princess of Friendship! I don't think she picks just anypony for that!"

"Technically, she's more of a student than a protégé." spike said. But when he looked at the two, he decided it would be best to stay out of their way.

"Whatever. I'm sorry I'm not the big important wizard you were expecting."

"Sunburst, I don't care if you're a wizard or not. I'm just surprised. You always knew so much about magic. I mean, look at all these books!" starlight said while waving a hoof at some of the bookshelves.

"Yeah, well, reading about magic is one thing, but you don't know what it was like at magic school! To know so much and not be able to do any of it!" sunburst snapped.

"Well, you don't know what it was like to be left behind! And then getting so bitter that you steal the cutie marks from an entire village and then get defeated by Twilight and her friends, so you travel through time to get back at them, but they beat you again and teach you about friendship, but you're so terrified ponies will find out what you did that you can't make any friends!" starlight snapped back in tears. Sunburst's glasses almost slid off his muzzle when he heard that.

"Did you really travel through time?"
Sunburst said surprised.

Spike grinned. "See? I told you he'd be impressed."

"I'm sorry we lost touch. Maybe if I had reached out, you could have helped me at magic school, and I could have helped you to..." sunburst started.

"Not become totally evil?" starlight
finished with a sigh. "Let's just say I know what it's like to have something you're not exactly proud of."

"When you showed up thinking I was some big wizard... I'm sorry. I should have told you the truth." sunburst said with some regret.

Starlight Glimmer simply smiled. "It's fine. At least we worked it all out. I think Twilight would be proud of us."

"Well, if you ever want to tell her about it, we should probably leave now!" spike interrupted.

Starlight gasped in realization. "I forgot to tell you! They're evacuating the city! You need to get to the train station, unless you've got a spell here that will drive back the Frozen North and fix the Crystal Heart so the baby can have her Crystalling?" Sunburst thought a moment before realizing something

"Crystalling...! Of course!"

As the others were leading the crystal ponies to the station, Celestia and Luna had managed to get out of the clouds, but had ice all over their bodies, and were struggling to do anything against the storm. "Push them back, my sister!" were Celestia's words before being engulfed in the storm again.

The crystal ponies were panicking as shining armor led the way. "This way!"

Rainbow began busting clouds in their path, but she to eventually gained icicles on her body. "Ugh!" just as she was about to bust another one, a blue beam destroyed it. Rainbow began to wonder where they were coming from now. She turned to see the source was Cyre, who looked like he was straining. She was completely shocked. All those blasts she saw before were coming from him? That's incredibly awesome power! Eventually she snapped out of it and joined the others.

"Just a little bit further, y'all! The station's just ahead!" applejack shouted. Just as the were running, they ran into starlight and sunburst.

"We have to go back!" starlight shouted.

"I know how to stop this!" sunburst added.

Twilight was scribbling down the last few notes of the spell as Cadance looked it over. "Uh, I think that's everything?"

"It looks right to me, but... there's only one way to find out!" princess Cadance said. Using their magic, Cadance and twilight vegan to reform the heart... Only for it to blow back into shards a moment later.

"The spell failed. I don't know what else to do." twilight said in sadness.

The royal sisters and the others just then arrived. "An old student of mine believes he does."

Cyre could hardly feel his arm now. He could tell he was going to stop soon. But the he remembers what he said about a week prior...

I'll...I'll be fine here. I'll protect my friends from whatever comes their way. I promise.

Cyre's eyes narrowed, and his pupils shrank. He also began to grind his teeth. "I... WILL NOT... BREAK PROMISE!!! must... PROTECT... NEW FRIENDS!!!!! I... WILL NOT...FAIL!!!!!!!!!" With a huge shout, Cyre went super saiyan, and a huge burst of even faster golden beams rained down on the clouds. He made a promise, and to god Kami he would not break it!

"The baby did this?!" sunburst said in surprise.

"I tried putting it back together with—"

"The spell of Relic Reconstitution." sunburst finished. "No, that won't do it. The Crystal Heart's been around for millennia. Restoring a relic like this is way beyond one spell. You need to combine it with something else. Something unique to the relic itself. Something that strengthens it and provides it with power...?"

The realization hit them light a freight train. "The Crystalling!" twilight said.

"Combining that spell with the light and love of everypony gathered for the ceremony, together with... Somnambula's Weather Abjuration to clear away the snow... and a little Fledgling's Forbearance for the parents... Heh. That should curb the little one's power fluctuations." sunburst said as the baby giggled.

Princess Cadance smiled at him. "You must be Sunburst. Starlight said you were a powerful wizard."

"Oh, I'm no wizard." sunburst casually stated as applejack, pinkie pie and rarity gasped.

"What?" rainbow said.

"But he studied magic his whole life! You should see his house! And since nopony has any better ideas, what do we have to lose?!" starlight said with hope, and slight desperation.

"I had planned on asking Twilight to be our crystaller, but since it seems like she'll be busy..." shining armor turned to sunburst and handed sunburst the baby. "I'd be honored!" sunburst said with a smile. The others promptly ran outside.

"Well, what are we waiting for?!" twilight, starlight, and the royal sisters began to reform the heart with their combined magic. Back outside, shining armor and princess Cadance touched horns, and the baby was lifted into the air with a bright light surrounding her.

"Citizens! May I present the newest member of the Crystal Empire!" sunburst shouted as flurry continued to laugh. The crowd cheered, with some getting emotional.

"She's beautiful!" one pony said.

"Oh! It's just so moving!" another one said. The crystal ponies all started to bow as a blue light began to shine through the empire, representing the love for the baby and the crystalline. Using one of the crystals rarity brought, sunburst contained all the love into the crystal. He then ran back inside, and had jumped and inserted the crystal into the heart, which began to glow brightly. When it cleared, the heart was repaired, and with a flash, all of them turned into crystal ponies. With a bright flash of rainbow colors, the storm was repelled, and the snow in the city completely gone. The crystal ponies cheered in happiness.

"Best Crystalling ever!" one of them said.

"For a pony who isn't great at magic, you did pretty well." starlight said to sunburst.

"Indeed. I'm glad to see you've found a way to share your unique gift, Sunburst. You may be more of a wizard than you think." princess celestial said. Not was right about then when they all saw a huge golden light shining in the sky, which was now lowering towards the mane 6. once it landed, and their eyes adjusted, they all saw a crystallized Cyre, with golden hair, golden eyebrows, a golden tail, and teal eyes, with an aura flaring upwards around him. They all could also sense a huge amount of energy being radiated from Cyre. "What did I miss?" Cyre asked. They all just stared in awe and beauty at Cyre. "Uh, guys? You ok? Equestria to twilight..." Cyre said, waving his hand in front of her.he was bombarded with hugs from all angles by his friends.

Now that Rarity could see him clearly, she stared intently at the golden hair, saying that it was "The most gorgeous and bold fashion statement she had ever seen." As Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy continued their embrace with the saiyan, Rainbow Dash was fan-girling over his amazing hair style, and the massive power he displayed.

Back at the train station, twilight's parents had arrived. "You would not believe the crazy weather that delayed our train. Came out of nowhere." night light, who was twilight's father, said.

"But it was all worth it to see this peaceful little angel! Awww, so sweet! Come to your grandmare!" twilight velvet, who was twilight's mother, said as the baby giggled.

'Yeah, peaceful now, anyway." applejack said with a chuckle.

"I suppose that spell really did the trick!" twilight said. The baby was now beginning to inhale for a sneeze, causing the rest of them to tense, and Cyre to drop into fighting stance. She then sneezed... But nothing happened!

"We have Sunburst to thank for that." shining armor said very grateful sunburst fixed that.

"I hope he takes his role as crystaller seriously. Something tells me the baby will need a pony like him to look to for magical advice." princess Cadance said. She then turned to the saiyan. "And thank you, Cyre. We're all very grateful for what you did." cyre nodded with a smile and a blush while looking away.

Twilight Velvet smiled and spoke up. "Cadance, darling, aren't we gonna name the poor little dear, or are we gonna spend our entire visit just calling her "the baby"?"

"We were thinking... "Flurry Heart"." princess Cadance said.

'You know, to remember the occasion." shining added.

"Oh, goodness, how could anypony forget?" Rarity asked.

"I think it's lovely." twilight gave flurry a kiss as she giggled.

"Well, I think you're the Crystal Empire's big important wizard, whether you like it or not." starlight said to sunburst proudly.

Sunburst was a tad bit nervous, though. " I don't know if I'll have time for any wizarding. I'm a crystaller now. That's a big responsibility."

"I can't think of anypony more qualified. Just... promise you'll stay in touch?" starlight asked.

Sunburst chuckled. "Hm, like I'd ever lose touch with my oldest friend." they both gave each other a hug as twilight watched them from the train window.

Spike couldn't help but notice she was saddened. "What's wrong, Twilight?"

"I don't know, Spike. I think I have a lot to learn about being a teacher."

"What are you talking about? Your lesson went perfectly! Starlight and Sunburst got over their past and rekindled their friendship!" Spike said.

"No thanks to me. I know a lot happened. I just wish I could have given my pupil the attention she deserves." she said as starlight sat down on the train as it began to move.

"Well, I know she needed to be put on the right path, but giving her the space to make her own decisions worked pretty well. Isn't that how Celestia taught you?" spike added.

Twilight Sparkle instantly perked up. "You know, I never thought about it! But I guess it is!"

"Maybe you're a better teacher than you thought." spike said happily. It wasn't until now they noticed Cyre wasn't present. They both began to look around until somepony... Or rather, someone... Knocked on the glass. They saw Cyre flying next to the train. Starlight waved goodbye to sunburst as the train pulled out.

But as they left, an unknown creature was flying towards the empire....