Author's Note

Chapter 8: BAD ENDING
Chapter 9: GOOD ENDING
NEUTRAL ENDING
Chapter 11: WORST ENDING

Neutral Ending

Neutral Ending

Sunset wriggled in the chair. “Sunset?” The familiar voice called from inside the building. Banging and the sounds of girls screaming echoed into the warehouse.

“Your friends? You have got to be kidding me.” Lyra untied Sunset, forcibly holding her with Grogar’s bell against her back. “Perfect, now you will convince them to give up their magic too, otherwise I’ll rip the magic from your body right in front of them.” Sunset nodded, reluctantly.

Entering the stage room they found her six friends entirely entangled in wires and being tormented by the living animatronics.

“Listen Sunset, I told you this place was a freak show.” Rainbow bragged as Sunset came into view.

“You don’t like my little place?” Lyra said, emerging from behind Sunset.

“Not at all.” Pinkie Pie added bluntly. “Is this supposed to be me, because… that’s just weird.”

The others began examining the animatronics attributes. Noting their similarities, despite their horrific condition, the attempts to make them look like them… were evident. “This place is creepy.” Twilight stated plainly.

“Cause’ the wire trap didn’t already’ tell ya’ that.” Apple Jack replied sarcastically.

“Well you’re all just in time!” Lyra shouted excitedly.

Sunset hummed. “Lyra, you really don’t want to do this.”

“Do what?” Rainbow Dash asked.

Lyra pressed the bell into Sunset’s spine, causing her to leap forward. “You really don’t.” Sunset said, turning her head over to face Lyra. She looked over at the animatronics. “They don’t deserve this, and neither do my friends.” All eyes and lack of eyes were on her now. “A real friend wouldn’t do what you’ve done… and a real friend wouldn’t let you do it again!” Sunset shouted.

“What are you talking about, Sunset. You’re not making any sense?” Rarity insisted. “This booby trap was quite the elaborate show, but we have not been hurt.”

The girls murmured in agreement. “Lyra plans to harvest the magic from all of us using an Equestrian magical relic.” Sunset said finally.

“Always with the magic relics!” Twilight shouted in exasperation.

“It’s almost as if these people never learn.”

As the girls struggled against the wire traps they were wrapped in, a blast of multicolored magic began to form.

Lyra held up the bell, anticipating that she would capture all of the magic, but she had not accounted for the four additional points of power.

The animatronic’s souls pitched in, adding not only the magic of friendship, but wrath and betrayal. Loyalty to their saviors.

As the bell began to suction the magic, Lyra lost her balance from the power of the blast, sending the bell clamoring to the floor. As blasts of light shot out of it from every angle.

The wires released as the magic from the animatronics returned to their cross-dimensional owners.

The seven girls approached Lyra, usually fairly forgiving, but hardly so this time.

Sunset thought for a moment “I guess the best thing to do is to prevent you from ever returning to Equestria… from ever doing something like this again.”

Twilight sighed. “You don’t mean…”

“I think it’s best.” Apple Jack added.

“What she gets, I think.” Rainbow said.

Pinkie lifted the bell and passed it over to Sunset. She gently used the bell to remove what little magic the human Lyra had obtained from her time in Equestria.

Lyra shook her hands, feeling rather indifferent. “You think that will stop me from returning to Equestria?” She laughed. “I went there with no magic from the start.”

Sunset nodded slowly. “No, but I have a sneaking suspicion that this might. The aura of the seven began to glow. Blasting Lyra directly. Upon contact the magical blast sent a chill over Lyra’s body, and suddenly she began to not be able to move. It wasn’t until she was completely encased in stone that she knew exactly what had happened.

The seven girls pushed the statue into the warehouse.

“That’s how we do it in Equestria.” Sunset said as they made their departure.