My Little Pony: Equestria Girls-Crystal problem

Chapters

Chapter 7
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
chapter 6
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11 (Prologue)
Chapter 12 (Finale)
Season 6 Timeline

Chapter 7

After Sombra falls out of the passage, the others rush over to try to get him back on his feet.

The human version of Sombra is 6'3" and has a muscular (but not overly muscular) build with a dark grey colour, while his long, shoulder-length hair is jet black.
His eyes remain a deep red. His clothing includes a brown suit with a red tie and a badge resembling his beauty mark on the right side.
On his left hand is a bracelet that is a modified version of his Band.
He is also wearing black long trousers and black dress shoes.

As he tries to recover from a slight dizziness, others gathered around him and, holding him by the arms on either side, tried to lift him to his feet,

"Are you all right, Mister Sombra?" asked Sunset, standing in front of Sombra.

Sombra, after regaining consciousness, says with his eyes closed, while holding his head with his left hand, "I'm fine, just a bit sore!"-then he is surprised by the strange feeling of a body part on his head, and sees his hand vaguely, then after a few seconds clearly.

"Ah... what are those?" asked Sombra, startled, then even more startled after seeing the look of the others, because for a brief moment, vaguely Sunset and her friends looked like the human-like creatures that he and Luna had seen while in the shadow leader's world.

He almost fell from fright, but the others prevented him from falling because, although Sombra's musculature and height gave him a bit of weight, they could easily prevent him from falling with Applejack's help, because the strange necklace around her neck gave her super strength.

Once on her feet with the help of the others, Sombra tried to balance herself, which she managed to do after a little while.

"Are you sure you're all right?" asked Sunset worriedly.

"Ah, I'm fine! ...it's just a little hard to get used to this new body," Sombra said, then remembered something, "Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot to introduce myself... my name is Sombra," he said kindly, then held out his hand to Sunset.

"My name Sunset Shimer," Sunset introduced herself as she held out her hand for a handshake, which Sombra accepted, "By the way, Twilight has already told us about you, and it's a pleasure to meet you, King Sombra!"

Sombra was surprised to hear the name, but waited for Sunset to finish her speech, then asked in a surprised tone, "Are you Miss Sunset? ..." he said, and then continued, smiling slightly, "Miss Twilight has already told me about you, and said that your progress is admirable..." he said kindly, and Sunset smiled at his kind words, "And you can call me Sombra, because I don't expect to be called King or Your Majesty by the inhabitants of another world...

By the way, it's nice to meet you and the others, too!" he turned his head to the others standing around Sunset.

Then the others introduced themselves, in the following order:

Sci-Twi, who was extremely excited to find out all about Sombra's crystal knowledge and dark magic.

Pinkie Pie, with her usual hyperactive glee, shook hands with Sombra, who declared that she looked very much like Cotton Candy.

With a happy smile Pinkie declares, "I like that name!" At this, the others begin to giggle at her statement.

Rarity, after introducing herself and shaking hands with Sombra, noticed the ornate bracelet on his left hand, which was a modified version of Sombra's Band, and was impressed by its appearance, and asked what she was, while pointing to the bracelet.

Here, Sombra explains that she inherited it from her father, while she was happy that it had not hurt her.

Fluttershy introduced herself with her usual kindness and soft speech, while smiling faintly.

Rainbow Dash, who has rainbow-colored hair and light blue skin, and whose outfits include black and white sneakers, a white T-shirt, blue jacket, and a pink and white miniskirt, and black tights, said casually to Sombra, "From what I've heard about you, you are without a doubt 20% cooler than anyone I've ever met!" Sombra thanked her for her words.

Next up was Applejack, whose skin was a light beige color and who wore a cowboy hat over her long blonde hair, which was tied back with a red headband.

Her outfit included a green and white t-shirt with a red apple hanger, a denim miniskirt with a red belt, and long-stemmed leather boots in shades between dark brown and light brown, with apple hangers in light brown and red.

She declared of Sombra's strong physique, "With a physique like that, he'd definitely make a good farmer!" Sombra also thanked her for her words.

The last three were Cadance, Celestia and Luna.

As the others introduced themselves, Sombra was surprised that they had the same names as her friends in the other world, and then, when they finished, she would speak up:

"Interesting... So much in common in our world, but so many differences at the same time..."

"After all, it's another world, so there may be similarities, but also differences...," as Twilight spoke, she adjusted her glasses, "but it's the transformations and time dilation that make it seem like our world or your world may be some sort of pocket dimension."

"A pocket dimension? ... What's that?" asked Sombra inquiringly.

"We speak of a pocket dimension when there is a secondary, smaller Universe attached to the universe, which can only be accessed by a specific means, and where time and space exist according to the same or different laws as our universe, or may exist differently," but really, science says it's just a theory... but from what I've seen so far, I wouldn't be surprised if it's true... but I do think it is true!"

"Thank you, now I understand... I think..." whispered Sombra the last two words, then suddenly he thought of something, -Oh, I almost forgot..., -he turned to Cadance, -Miss Twilight said there were pictures of that crystal... If I could, could I see them? ...

But I can't tell you much information unless I can see the crystals that leaked this stuff in person...

But don't get me wrong, it would be nice if I could see those photos, because it would be nice to see what the liquid material looks like!"

"Sure thing..., hold on a second," Cadance said after listening to Sombra's speech as she took the photos out of her bag and handed them to Sombra, who took them and began to analyze them carefully as he began to walk around getting used to the new body language he was getting used to relatively quickly.

"To be honest, the wings were harder to get used to!" thought Sombra absentmindedly as he looked at the pictures.

After some time, he began to list possible reasons.

"Looking at the crystals like this," he began his explanation, then pointed to the crystals as the others gathered in a circle, "it's probably crystal tearing...

But, as to what is causing it, I can only tell if I can see the crystals ACTUALLY."

"What's a crystal tearing?" asked Sci-Twi with great curiosity.

"Essentially, crystal tearing occurs when something unusual happens to the crystal... -seeing that the others were surprised at the last part of the sentence, Sombra began to explain, -Unusual includes something that has possessed, violated, contaminated, or something like that..."

"Do you think it's connected with the incident at school?" asked Cadance inquiringly.

"There's a possibility... but from what Twilight told me, from what Miss Sunset wrote to her, no such event occurred on the previous occasion...

And so it would be important for me to see it as soon as possible!" he announced with a serious expression.

Seeing Sombra's serious expression, they agree. Sombra then asks how I can get there, as he believes that this school is not Crystal Prep Academy, but rather Canterlot High School.

They tell her that they can only take the bus because Celestia's car is being used by a friend, Luna doesn't have a car because she lives just a few houses away from her work, and Cadance's car broke down.

Since Sombra doesn't live in this world, he declares, "I don't know what a bus and a car are... but, since you know this world better, listen to your words!"

They then walk to the bus stop, where the bus will arrive at 5:15 pm and then depart for Crystal Prep Academy.

And with Celestia and Luna no longer needed, they return to school.

But before that, they were wished good luck.

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While waiting for the bus, Twilight and Sombra talk to each other.

Sci-Twi asks Sombra about crystal magic and dark magic, while Sombra asks about this world.

When Sombra's crystal expertise comes to the fore, Sci-Twi is suddenly reminded of the 7 special crystals found in the Everfree forest that have been transformed into a necklace.

"Mr Sombra..." he began his question as he took the necklace off his neck and handed it to Sombra, "Would you take a look at these necklaces? -It may not show, but this one, - she held the necklace in her hand, -and the others, - she pointed to the necklaces hanging around her friends' necks, -7, different colored crystals have been transformed into this form... And since your ability revolves around crystals, I was hoping you could tell me some information about them."

"If they are made of crystal, then they certainly are..." said Sombra, and then took the necklace to look at it more closely, and then, after looking at the crystal more closely, began to explain the name of the crystal, and its abilities.

"This necklace has none other than a multi-coloured geode crystal, which can have the same colours as the rainbow.

These can give different powers to people who do not have magical abilities, and the more the wearer has the more powerful they become, but they can also corrupt the mind.

Such crystals are formed when White Fairy Crystal absorbs high magical energy, and then small geode crystals of 5-10 different colors grow out of it, and magenta crystals can be formed as a by-product..., - he finished his explanation, and then Sombra turned to the others, with a curious face -Where did you find these?"

Here they are told that the crystals were found in a cave by a camp proprietor named Glorriossa, whose camp and cave are located in a place called Everfree Forest. She intended to use these crystals to save her camp from a rich, money-hungry businessman, but instead she corrupted her and wanted to keep everyone in the camp.

Eventually, Sci-twi used her magic to free him from the corrupting power of the combined power of the crystals, and these crystals were transformed into a necklace of the same colour, and then one of each was given to each of the members of the Mane 7.

"How did they get there?" was Sombra's next question.

Sunset explained that her ability had allowed her to see from Gloriossa's memory a magenta gemstone-like thing floating into the cave where the 7 crystals had come from. This happened the day after the Friendship Games, which they found out after Gloriossa told them when the event happened.

Then Sombra asks, "Where did this magenta gem-like powder come from?"

Twilight tells him that they're not sure, but they saw a similar-looking one on a recording that Principal Celestia showed them the day after they returned from their camping trip.

This recording was taken by a camera placed in a hall at Canterlot High School, because the camera had a perfect view of the statue that served as a gateway.

The recording clearly showed a small rift opening at the top of the sculpture, from which things similar in appearance but resembling a different colour of gemstone dust flew out, and then the rift closed, while the recording was made at the time the charity party was taking place at Camp Everfree.

It is speculated that this is where the magenta gemstone dust may have come from, but no evidence has yet been found.

"And what caused this?" asked Sombra.

"According to Princess Twilight Sparkle, the destruction of the statue of the horse at the top of the statue may have been due to the disappearance of the statue, which she believes caused the gate to become unstable and its own stored magic plus the magic of Equestria to flow into this world." -revived Sci-Twi's explanation of Twilight.

(Oh yes, that's another interesting fact about the gate. It's able to store enough energy from the log for one trip once it's removed.)

Sunset then says that she thinks they are destined to own these necklaces.

Before the others can express their agreement, Rainbow Dash suddenly announces that the bus is coming.

After boarding the bus, which has no passengers, Cadance buys Sombra a bus ticket, as he has no money to pay for it.

Sombra thanks her, and says that he'll pay her somehow, but Cadance says that just helping him solve this mystery is enough.

They then sat down in the back of the bus and at 5:15pm the bus left for the Crystal Prep Academy.

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Chapter 1

On a stormy Friday in the library of Crystal Prep Academy in autumn, at about 3pm, 4 girls are sitting at a large oak table in the library.

2 are doing homework, one is listening to music through her headphones, while another is tapping away on her phone.

The 4 girls, of average height, are dressed in the usual Crystal Prep Akademy dress code of a reddish-purple blazer and skirt, and a dark blue bow and black shoes.

One of the students, named Sour Sweat, whose skin is a pale light-gold color, while her hair is styled in a ponytail in the back, while in the front she has bangs that reach to the bottom of her forehead, which are a moderate rose color, and which are light moderate pink and interspersed with grayish aquamarine stripes.

Her eyes are a greyish orchid colour, and she is the one in attendance, wearing a blazer in place of a reddish purple vest with a light blue t-shirt underneath.

She wears purple socks that reach to her ankles on both feet.

She has just finished her history homework, which is due in a week and a half on Monday. She completed this homework with one of her friends, Sunny Flare, as it is a historical homework assignment that they have to do as a group.

Sunny Flare has light turquoise-grey skin, while her shoulder-length hair is a filtered mauve with light raspberry-coloured streaks.

The eyes are of a moderate brown colour. On the right side of her hair is an orange flower-shaped hair clip.

The topic of the history homework is the history of a particular building in the city. These two are presenting the history of the city theatre.

"Well, at last we've done the assignment!" said Sour Sweat, looking relieved, as he wiped his brow with his hand:

"Good thing we got the theatre, it's easier to write about than the other buildings."

"I totally agree with you, Sour!" agreed Sunny Flare, "It's a good thing we're not the ones who have to present the history of our school, since there's not much about the school to be found on the internet.

Most of the stuff we found about our school is in very thick books, and there's nothing interesting about our school in those either!"

One of the girls who uses her phone is called Sugarcoat.

Her skin is a greyish orchid colour, while her hair is styled in pigtails, a light opalescent grey with light arctic blue-grey streaks.

The eyes are a moderate indigo colour. He wears orange glasses and has a pink hair clip on the left side of his hair.

She is the only one in attendance who, in addition to her skirt, is wearing an ankle-length pair of dark blue tights.

"The most interesting thing is," Sugarcoat said, reading an article about his school on his phone that described the most interesting thing, "that every fifty years, at exactly midnight on Halloween, the crystals that cover the school begin to glow brightly, and that this event ends within five to 10 minutes after midnight. What causes this special event is a mystery even to scientists."

The fourth girl, who was listening to music, stopped the music and took off her pink headphones just as Sugarcoat started the article, which is why she heard his entire speech. This girl's name is Lemon Zest.

Her skin is a pale light grayish-amber color. Her waist-length hair is a light pistachio color, interspersed with light grayish green and bright bright lemon green streaks. The eyes are a light brilliant amber. Like Sour Sweat, she wears knee-length purple socks.

"Maybe it's magic too!" said Lemon casually, as the three other girls looked at her, but in a way that you could read on their faces, "you've got to be kidding?"

"Lemon, we can't attribute everything weird to magic," Sour Sweat explained, "surely there must be some scientific explanation for this event!"

"Maybe Sour Sweat, but don't forget the events of six months ago, I'm thinking of the Friendship Games events!" said Lemon as she reminded the others of what happened six months ago.

"Yes, we remember the Friendship Games event, and we remember that it was because of magic, but that doesn't mean that this Hallowenn event is because of magic!" explained Sunny Flare to Lemon.

"It's very likely that this event will happen again tomorrow," Sugarcoat told the others as he continued to read the article, "because based on the date in the article, tomorrow will be 50 years since this event was last seen. This will be the 4th time in the school's history that this event has happened.

It will even be observed by the city's science team and will even be broadcast on public television when it happens."

"Hey girls, we might as well check it out," offered Sour Sweat, to which the other 3 girls turned their heads towards her, "I don't have anything to do at midnight!"

"Actually, I don't have any plans for midnight either," said Sunny, "I can probably watch it, and you..."

She stopped talking here, because she saw something on one of the crystal walls of the library, right between Lemon Zest and Sugarcoat.

What he saw was some strange midnight black liquid flowing down the crystal wall and dripping onto the clean wooden floor.

""What's that there?!" asks Sunny, surprised and frightened at the same time.

The others turned to where Sunny was looking. When they noticed this strange substance, there were those who were startled and those who speculated as to what it was, while Sugarcoat took a photo with his phone. When Sugarcoat took the photo, she noticed in the photo that the substance that had been splashed on the floor had crystallized.

He walked closer and noticed that the dripping crystal crystallized in a matter of seconds.

"I wonder what this midnight black liquid could be?" asked Lemon Zest, and then he saw a broom nearby, which he picked up and touched the end of the handle to the strange liquid dripping down the wall.

The moment he touched the liquid, the liquid began to crystallize on the broom's metal handle, and this crystallization almost reached Lemon's hand if he hadn't dropped the broom.

"Holy crap, what the hell is that?" shouted Sunny, then dragged a stunned Lemon away from the crystal.

When they all started to move away, they noticed that not only was this particular liquid on this crystal wall, but it was also on all the other crystal walls that were constantly flowing down.

When they turned around, they suddenly noticed that on to, large oak table in front of them, this strange liquid was dripping continuously, almost without stopping, turning all the objects on the table into crystal.

Then they looked up at the ceiling and were frightened by what they saw. On the Crystal Ceiling, several small crystals and one large crystal had formed, dripping liquid almost continuously.

These crystals were photographed by Sugarcoat in order to have proof, which he explained to his friends.

"Where do you think this can disappear to?" asked Sunny.

Just as Sugarcoat was about to answer, a small crystal was suddenly knocked off the wall and fell onto the oak table, shattering the crystal. Fortunately, the scattered shards of crystal did not hit anyone. When they heard the shattering of the crystal, they tensed and looked up at the ceiling, then became frightened as the crystal on the ceiling continued to spread and the crystal above the table began to crack, threatening to fall.

"I think girls, let's get out of here, but right now!" said Lemon nervously, and then they started running towards the exit all at once.

As they were running towards the exit, the large midnight black crystal shard finally broke off and started to fall.

It hit the oak table underneath just as the girls were leaving the library. The falling shard of crystal finally shattered the oak table, and the piece of the table hit some bookshelves. The crystallized objects on the table were shattered by the large crystal that fell.

After the girls ran out of the library and rounded a second corner, they almost ran into an adult woman.

This woman had pale, light greyish-cherry skin, while her waist-length hair was a moderate violet with bright pink and pale golden streaks. The eyes are a pale, light greyish-purple. She wears a navy blue blazer and a light blue t-shirt underneath.

On the left side of the navy blue blazer is pinned a multifaceted light blue crystal heart set between gold lace.

She wears a gold necklace around her neck. She also wears a turquoise blue knee-length skirt and gold colored high heels.

This woman was Principal Cadance, who has been the school's headmistress for six months after being promoted.
"Hey girls, watch out or I might bump into someone!" scolded Principal Cadance to the girls.

"Sorry Principal Cadance," said Lemon apologetically, "but something weird and scary just happened in the library!"

"What?" asked Cadance, concerned and curious at the same time.

"I think Principal Cadance, you'd better see it for yourself!" said Sunny Flare with a serious expression.

Cadance, seeing Sunny's serious expression, started walking with the girls towards the library.
Once they got there and entered the library doors, Cadance was surprised at the extent of the destruction.

But even before Cadance could take the girls to account for what had happened, Sour Sweat suddenly spoke up at what she had seen.
"Where did all those crystals go?" asked Sour Sweat in surprise, just as the other three girls were about to ask the same question.

Sugarcoat took out his phone and showed Cadance the pictures of the crystals.

"Good heavens, I've never seen anything like this in all my time working here at the school," Cadance said to the girls in surprise, "what could have caused this?"

"All we know is that this liquid was flowing out of the crystals, but how this could have happened, we don't know," Sugarcoat explained.

"Maybe it was magic!" suggested Lemon.

"Not everything can be attributed to magic, but suddenly I don't know any other explanation!" said Sugarcoat.

"But, unfortunately, we don't know anything about magic," said Sunny, "but maybe the Canterlot High School students can help us.

"That's a great idea, Sunny," Cadance agreed, "I'll go and call them right away, but first I'd like to ask Sugarcoat to come to the secretariat, because I need to get those pictures printed so I can show them to Principal Celestia."

"Okay, Principal!" said Sugarcoat, and then she started to walk with Principal Cadance to the secretariat.

But before Cadance left the sight of the other 3 girls, Cadance turned around to look the girls in the eyes.
"Please don't upload these pictures to any community media, because I don't want any fuss about this, okay? And I'm shutting down the library until we solve this mystery and get it cleaned up."

"All right, Principal Cadance!" the girls agreed with Principal Cadance.
Once Cadance was out of sight, Sour Sweat spoke up.
"Too bad we have to do our homework again, Sunny!" said Sour Sweat sadly to Sunny.

"Don't worry, I took a picture of the whole thing!" said Sunny to Sour Sweat.

Chapter 2

Chapter 2.

While Principal Cadance is busy printing out the photos that Sugarcoat has taken, a woman sits at a desk in the Canterlot High School principal's office, writing on a piece of paper while drinking tea.

You can tell she is very tired.

This woman's skin is a light magenta grey, while her long hair ranges in colour from pale greyish cyan to pale arctic blue, from pale light greyish harlequin to light aquamarine, from pale light greyish cornflower blue to light sapphire blue, and from pale light greyish mulberry to darker strawberry.

Her eyes are a light purple. She wears a sand-coloured blazer with a purple and white T-shirt underneath.

She also wears long purple pants and gold high heels. His sand-coloured blazer has a sun-shaped pin on the left side.

This woman is Principal Celestia.

As she writes on the paper, the door opens and a woman walks in, holding a folder.

This woman's skin is Light phthalo bluish gray, while her waist-length hair is a moderate sapphire blue, Persian blue.

Her eyes are a moderate cyan blue. She is wearing a light purple T-shirt with a white neck. On the right side of the white part of his shirt is a dark blue crescent-shaped stitching pattern.

She is wearing dark blue trousers and white and light purple high heels. This woman is the sister of dean Luna, Principal Celestia.

"Here's the folder you requested," Luna said as she set it down on the desk at which Celestia was sitting.

"Thank you!" thanked Luna as Celestia took the folder, "By the way, what are you dressed up as for the Hallowenn party tomorrow?" she asked Luna.

"Hm, let it be a surprise!" said Luna mysteriously.

"Okay, but I hope you're not…Celestia's speech was interrupted by a phone ringing.

Celestia answers the phone and says: Hello!

"Hi Celestia" came Cadance's voice, which Celestia recognized.

"Hi Cadance, long time no talk, how are you?" asked Celestia happily.

"Thank you, I'm well," Cadance replied happily, and then continued to speak, her voice sounding like she was getting more serious, "But I have a favor to ask. Can you meet me at Canterlot High School today? It's very urgent!"

"Of course," said Celestia in a confused tone, "May I ask what has happened?" asked Celestia anxiously.

"I'll tell you all about it at school!" said Cadance in a serious tone, "thank you for seeing me. I'll be there in an hour! Goodbye." -Cadance said goodbye.

"Well, that's odd," Celestia said, blinking in surprise, "What happened?

"I don't know!" replied Luna as she put her hand to her cheek, "but whatever it is, we'll find out in an hour!"

Suddenly something occurred to Luna:

"By the way, what were you going to say when Cadance called you?" asked Luna, with crossed arms and a piercing look.

Celestia pulled her face up in fear.

After Cadance finished the phone conversation, she took the printed pictures and put them in her bag, and sent the four girls home from school (because at the time this incident happened, only these 4 students were in school.)

After locking the library door, he then hopped into her car and headed to Canterlot High School to meet Celestia and explain what had happened. On the way, she hoped they would be able to give him some answers.

Finally, after 1 hour, she arrived at the school, where Celestia and Luna were waiting for him.

After a happy greeting, Celestia and Luna led Cadance into the principal's office.

There, they asked if she wanted a cup of tea, and she happily accepted, thirsty from the journey.

When they sat down, Celestia asked Cadance why they had to meet so suddenly.

Cadance told us what had happened at the school, about the crystals and the strange midnight black liquid and the destruction they had caused, and how she thought it was magic.

"That's awful," Luna said, stunned by what had happened, "at least no one was hurt, but can you please tell me what those crystals looked like?

"I'd rather show you what these crystals looked like," said Cadance as she took out the pictures and showed them to Luna and Celestia, "these pictures were taken by one of our students who saw the event in person."

"I've never seen anything like this," Celestia said in amazement as she held one of the pictures in her hand, "I'm sorry Cadance, but we can't help you with this!"

Luna after seeing the sad look on Cadance's face, sad because they can't help her, suddenly remembered something.

"If this is because of magic, then maybe Sunset Shimer can help us with this, since she comes from the world of magic."

"What do you mean he's from the world of magic? What magic world?" asked Candace, surprised after Luna's speech.

It was then explained to her that the statue on the school grounds that had a statue of a horse (destroyed by Twilight (the Twilight Sparkle of the human world, who was driven insane by a large amount of magic during the events of the Friendship games)) was actually a portal to another world.

They also told Cadance about other magical events, such as Princess Twilight Sparkle's journey from another world to this world where she fought Sunset Shimer with the help of her friends because Sunset Shimer was evil at the time, and the Battle of the Bands where she fought Sirens with Princess Twilight Sparkle, Sunset Shimer and her friends, and the magical event in the Everfree forest.

She was also told that she could talk to him tomorrow because she, her friends and some students were helping to prepare for tomorrow's Halloween party.

"Wow, this information surprised me!" said Cadance in surprise, then sighed before looking at one of the photos Celestia and Luna had returned to her in the meantime, "I hope she can help me!"

Chapter 3

The next morning, around 8am, in bright sunny weather, Sunset Shimer and her 6 friends walk to Canterlot High School to help prepare for the Halloween party, and as they walk, they talk about various topics.

Twilight, whose skin is a light purple, has her hair styled in a ponytail in the back, while in the front she has bangs that reach to the bottom of her forehead, which are a moderate sapphire blue color, interspersed with moderate purple and light rose streaks. The eyes are of a moderate purple colour.

She wears black glasses, a purple cap, a purple and white sweater, black long pants and black shoes.

...And that's why I can't attend tonight's party. "Twilight explained to her friends that she can't attend the party because there's a special event at her former school, which is Crystal Prep Academy, tonight at midnight that she wants to attend.

Sunset Shimer, whose skin is light amber, red and yellow, has flame-like hair down to her waist, while her eyes are a moderate shade of cyan.

He wears a black leather jacket with an orange T-shirt underneath, with a red and yellow glittering sun in the middle.

She is wearing purple long trousers and black shoes.

"What special event is going to happen at school?" asked Sunset Shimer.

Twilight paused and then told the special story that used to happen every 50 years at her former school.

"I wonder what is causing this event?" wondered Sunset, "Is it magic?"

"After the events of the past six months, I suspect the same thing!" said Twilight, "That's why I'd rather see this event, because the Halloween party happens every year, but such an event only happens every 50 years. And I want to gather as much information as possible!

I hope you can understand why I'm not going to this party!" said Twilight, after a sigh.

"Don't worry, Twi. If you'd rather watch this, then feel free. We're your friends and we understand that this is important to you!" said Sunset, and the others nodded and said the same to her, and then Sunset continued, "And who knows, maybe you'll solve this mystery!"

"That would be great!" said Twilight in a happier tone, "And maybe my other worldly self would be interested in the subject!" she raised the possibility, thinking back to how fun it was to talk to him about science and magic and the strange relationship between their worlds.

"Knowing Twilight, I'm sure she'd be interested in that topic!" she agreed with Twilight.

After Sunset's speech, one of her friends called Pinkie Pie spoke up.

Her skin is pink, while her long hair is dark pink and her eyes are light blue.

She can be seen wearing blue long pants, a light blue sweater and pink and white sneakers.

"Speaking of Twiligth, would he like to come to the best Halloween party ever?" she asked excitedly.

"Actually, I forgot to invite her, but she might not be able to attend because she's a princess... -Sunset interrupted her sentence, for after she and her friends had turned the corner, she noticed, as did the others, that at the entrance of the school stood Principal Celestia and Dean Luna, but they were surprised not by that, but by the fact that there was a third person, namely Principal Cadance, standing beside them, as if waiting for someone, with a purse slung over her right shoulder.

After the girls walked over, they said hello to Celestia, Luna and Cadance, and Sunset said hello to Cadance.

"If I may ask Principal Cadance, why did you visit our school? Sunset asked curiously, "Perhaps you would like to attend the Canterlot Halloween party?"

"I'm not here to be part of the party," Cadance explained to Sunset, "I'm here because I need YOUR HELP!!!

"My help!?" asked Sunset, puzzled, "Why do you need my help, Principal Cadance?"

Hearing this, Cadance recounted the events at her school and took out the photographs from her purse and showed them to them.

"...and that's why I want to ask for your help!" said Cadance to Sunset - "I heard Luna that you are from the world of magic, and that's why I'm hoping you can help me!" finished Cadance hopefully.

"It may have something to do with the strange events that have been happening at the Crystal Prep Academy," Twilight mused, "though no such event has ever been recorded."

"What events are you talking about?" asked Cadance

Hearing this, Twilight explained these strange events.

"I've never heard of that!" said Cadance, surprised.

"I confess, I've never seen anything like it," Sunset said to Cadance, looking at the photographs of the crystals, "and I'm afraid I can't help you there!"

This made Cadance sad because Sunset had no answer, but seeing this, Sunset remembered someone.

"Maybe twilight Sparle can help, because she's the greatest magic expert I've ever met!"

Cadance then turned to Twilight Sparkle in puzzlement, not knowing that Twilight was such an expert in magic, while Twilight pointed her hand dismissively.

Seeing this, Sunset spoke up.

"I'm talking about the other Twiligt," seeing Cadance's puzzled look, he continued his speech, "I'm talking about the Twiligt Sparkle of the other world!"

"It's true, Celestia and Luna talked about her, and they said she was a princess!

"That's right!" agreed Sunset, "-I have her to thank for changing me and making friends," Sunset pointed to her friends with a smile, and her friends nodded approvingly, "-back on topic, I think Twilight could help!"

Hearing this, a smile appeared on Cadance's face and she began to hope that he could help her.

Sunset then took off her backpack, opened it and took out a pen and a brown diary with a symbol on the front cover consisting of a red sun with a yellow glow on the right side, a red glow on a small part of the left side and a purple star on the rest of the left side.

"What is this Log for?" asked Celestia curiously.

"To be able to communicate with Twilight!" explained Sunset, explaining the diary's properties, "It's because of this diary that we can go through that gate at any time," she pointed to the gate, "because between two connections the gate is inactive for 15 months, and when it is active, even then the connection between the two worlds only lasts for 3 days. To remedy this, Twilight transformed the crystal mirror on the other side and, using the logbook she owned, which my logbook is linked to, she connected it to the transformed mirror, thus amplifying the connection. Thanks to this transformation, we can cross over to the other world at any time, but only if the diary is connected to the transformed mirror!" finished Sunset's explanation, and then began to write a message to Twilight explaining what had happened and their hypothesis.
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Meanwhile, on a sunny day in Ponyville at Twilight Sparkle's castle, Twilight Sparkle and her friends sit in chairs next to the Cutie Map table, talking about something while they talk about a new upcoming holiday.

They are talking about the new Crystal Empire holiday, which will be the first anniversary of the end of the Sky Tear War.

This day is to be declared a national holiday in the Crystal Empire and, at Celestia's suggestion, throughout Equestria, on which day, every year, a great festival will be held in the Crystal Empire.

"I can't believe it'll be the day after tomorrow that it's been a year since we killed, or rather Sombra killed, the leader of those slimy shadow things, and ended that war!" said Applejack in surprise - how fast time flies!"

"It is fortunate that this war is over, and that the Shadow Leader's invasion plan has been stopped in the Empire!" declared Rarity, to which her friends nodded in approval.

They then recalled the events of the war, in which, thankfully, no one was killed.

The most serious incident was the crystal plague, where almost everyone would have died if Sombra hadn't found the medicine and helped distribute it to the sick ponies.

But in truth, the whole war would have been lost if Sombra hadn't fought those shadow creatures and beaten them back, risking his life for the future of the Empire. Though in truth, he sent for the future of the whole world.

They also remembered the time he almost sacrificed his life to stop the Shadow Leader's final invasion plan.

But thanks to the people of the realm, he not only survived his mortal wound, he became Alicorn.

"Am I the only one who thinks Sombra deserves to be officially declared a hero?" asked Rainbow Dash to her friends.

"It's not just you, we all think so, even the people of the Crystal Empire think so, but Sombra insisted that there was no need for that, because he thought everyone was a..." -she interrupted when she heard someone call her name and so she turned towards the voice, or the door.

Through that door, a unicorn female entered, pushing a cart into the room with her magic, loaded with books and other things.

This unicorn's coat is pink and her mane and tail are purple, interspersed with bright purple and aquamarine.

The eyes are a persimmon blue. Her Cutie Mark is a purple and white star with two blue sparkling streams.

This unicorn female is Starlight Glimmer.

"Hey Twilight, where do I put these things?" asked Starlight.

"Put them down on that table please." asked Twilight to Starlight as she placed one of her hooves on the table a few feet from the door.

"Okay!" said Starlight, and then began to push the cart towards the table with her magic.

When he got halfway between the door and the table, a log-looking object started to glow a pale, light greyish orchid colour and vibrate like a mobile phone on vibrate.

The colour of this diary is brown, and there are two gold stripes on either side of the spine of the diary.

On the cover is a symbol resembling a stylized sun.

When Starlight saw this, she spoke.

"Twilight, what about this Log?" asked Starlight as she lifted the log with her magic, the cover of which she pointed towards Twilight.

"Sunset Shimer must have written something for me!" announced Twilight, and then she took it from Starlight with her magic and opened it, and began to read it aloud.

"Hello Twilight Spakle!

I hope you're having a good time! As are your friends.

You must be busy, and so I don't want to disturb you, but I need your help!

A strange event occurred at the former school of this worldly Twilight Sparle yesterday!

(Here he describes what happened at the school, the appearance of the crystals, and his hypotheses.)

If you can answer, please do so, because as I described, the crystals covering the school will glow at midnight tonight, and we believe that the two events may be related. And it may also be that these events have to do with magic.

I can only give you so much information.

Thank you in the advance for your reply!

Signed Sunset Shimer.

P.S. If you're up for it, you're welcome to join us for tonight's Halloween party (a holiday similar to Nightmare night.)

The others were shocked at the events, and there were some who were scared at what had happened, as they could have been hurt.

Finally Applejack spoke.

"Twi, what do you think caused it?" he asked.

I confess I have no idea! I have never heard of such an event! And it doesn't help my case that I'm not much of a crystal expert!" replied Twilight as she thought about her answer, then remembered someone, "there is someone who can help, I mean, with the CRYSTAL!"

"Sombra!" said everyone in a chorus, at which everyone giggled as they blurted out her name almost simultaneously.

"On a more serious note, I hope Sombra can help!" said Twilight, after a sigh.

"I'm sure he'll try!" whispered Fluttershy in a kind voice.

Twilight then used her magic to pick up a saddlebag from the table across from her, put it on her back, into which she placed the journal, and then headed for the door.

"Leaving so soon?" asked Rarity of Twilight, then she thought of something as she looked up at the wall clock, which read 12 o'clock.

True, the train to the Crystal Empire leaves in 15 minutes."

Before Twilight could open the door, she turned and said goodbye to her friends.

Her friends returned the greeting and wished her good luck.

Twilight then walked out the door and headed for the train station.

Chapter 4

After Twilight reached the train station, she sat down on a bench and wrote to Sunset Shimer saying that she could not help, but that Sombra, who she had told me about earlier, might be able to.

Finally, after 12:15, the train arrived and she boarded it. After a few minutes of waiting, the train set off for the Crystal Empire.

The train finally arrived at the Crystal Empire train station at 16.

But before she got off the train, she remembered that she could have asked Sunset for the pictures and brought them to the Crystal Empire to show the pictures to Sombra.

Without them, all she can tell about the crystals is what Sunset described to him.

After she got off the train, she met his brother, Shining Armour, who is on patrol with some guards.

"Hi, BBBFF!" said Twilight Sparkle to Shining Armour, her voice carrying the sound of joy at seeing her brother.

After hearing his sister's voice, he turned his head towards the voice and saw his sister waving at him.

Meanwhile, the guards bowed their heads and saluted Princess Twilight.

"Hi, sis!" said Shining Armour to his sister, joy and surprise audible in his voice.

He was happy to see his sister, but also surprised, not understanding why she had come to the Empire.

After his sister walked over to him and they hugged, the group finished their patrol and then headed towards the Crystal City.

As they walked, Shining Armour called to his sister.

"Sister, what brings you to the Crystal Empire?" he asked his sister.

'I haven't seen you since little Flurry was born!

"I came because I need Sombra's help!" replied Twilight.

"Why do you need Sombra's help?" asked Shining Armour with genuine curiosity.

"I think, brother, I'd better start at the beginning," Twilight began her explanation, "Do you remember the crystal mirror that Celestia had delivered to the Crystal Empire after Sombra's defeat? The crystal mirror that leads to another world?

"Of course I remember!" replied Shining Armour to his sister, "I was responsible for ensuring that the crystal mirror was safely transported to the Empire.

I also remember that at the time of your coronation, someone stole your crown and took it with them to the other world, where you followed them and retrieved it from the person who later became your friend. I think it's called Sunset. Afterwards there were minor skirmishes in that world, but I don't know much about those.

What's Sombra got to do with it, anyway?" he asked.

'Wait until the end,' said Twilight to her sister, 'So while my friends and I were here in the Empire for the Sky Tear incident, Sunset and her friends were participating in a tournament called the Friendship Games, where they were competing against their rival school, Crystal Prep Academy.

Well, something strange happened at the school yesterday that has to do with crystals, and since…

"...Sombra's powers revolve around crystals, maybe she can give us some answers!" -finished Twilight's sentence, Shining Armour chuckled, "Surely she can help!"

"I hope he can give us an answer to this strange event!" said Twilight hopefully, "Now we know that he can't recognize all crystals either!

Remember the incident at the birth of Flurry Heart. Then we learned that not only could Sombra not repair the crystal heart, but she couldn't even recognize the crystal that made up the crystal heart. Sombra, who was thought to recognize all crystals because of his dark magic, could not recognize a crystal.

And that is very strange!"

"Surely there must be a limit to his skill!" said Shining Armour, offering an explanation for this oddity, "by the way, if you ask me, Sombra was the last to head for the palace gardens after he finished his work. Probably, he could still be there!

"Thank you, brother," Twilight thanked him for the information, then remembered something.

Where is my sister-in-law, and sweet Flurry Heart? And Shinig Sea and Bright Spark?

"The last time Cadie was in the throne room, she and Sombra were signing a trade-related paper. You're probably looking out for Flurry Heart now. Shinimg Sea and Spark went to a parent-teacher conference to discuss class trip-related matters. They'll be there until at least 4:30.

"Thanks!" thanked Twilight, "before I meet Sombra, I'll say hi to Cadance and check on little Flurry Heart.

After that, they chatted about other things, including the upcoming festival, before parting ways at the Crystal Beacon heart.

Twilight approached her sister-in-law, and they greeted each other, and then she briefly explained to her why she had come to the Crystal Empire. Meanwhile, Shining Armour had returned, and the three of them discussed the crystal matter, and after seeing her niece, said goodbye and followed Sombra into the palace gardens to meet her.

In the palace garden, Sombra took a walk to clear her mind after a long paperwork.

In the dusky weather, the cool breeze helped a lot.

When Twilight found Sombra, she was standing in front of a statue of her foster father, looking up lovingly at her father's absent-minded gaze.

"Good evening, Sombra." He heard Sombra Twilight's voice, then jumped in a let startle as he flapped his wings.

He then turned and saw Twilight waving shyly at Sombra.

"Hello Miss Twilight!" greeted Sombra, happily.

"I'm sorry I scared you!" apologized Twilight after she walked up to Sombra and they shared a hug.

"Oh, no problem!" said Sombra in a calm voice, then continued, "By the way, if you don't mind me asking, what brings you to the Empire?"

"I'm here because I need your help with something, CRYSTAL matter!" explained Twilight the reason for her visit.

"My help? Crystal matter?" asked Sombra in surprise as she walked past Twilight in the palace gardens.

"I'm glad to help, but what crystal matter are you talking about?

"You ought to know a crystal." said Twilight, "I'll tell you something, a crystal that is midnight black, and it is formed by a light blue crystal oozing a midnight black liquid, which crystallizes out, which is also midnight black. And it spreads if you touch it.

"Wow, I've never seen anything like that before!" said Sombra in surprise, after listening to Twilight's description of the crystal, "No one's hurt, are they?" asked Sombra uneasily, but calmed down after seeing Twilight shake her head, "Well, I can't think of what kind of crystal it is, but if I could see it, I'd probably recognize it!"

"Well, that's going to be a bit of a problem, because unfortunately the crystals are gone!" explained Twilight sadly, before sighing, "but they took a picture of it!"

"I can't tell you much information from a photo unfortunately, but if I could see the crystal that this midnight black substance leaked out of, I could use the two pieces of information to determine the name of the crystal," Sombra explained, "where did this event even happen?

"At the Crystal Prep Academy, -Looking at Sombra's confused look, which was because she had never heard of a place with a similar name, Twilight began to explain, "I think it would be better if I started at the beginning.

On the day of my coronation, which, as you know, happened here in the Crystal Empire, a unicorn named Sunset Shimer, who used to be a disciple of Celestia, stole my crown, which is my own Harmony Element, and took it to another world!"

"Another world?!" asked Sombra in surprise, not knowing how this Sunset Shimer was able to travel between worlds, "How was this Sunset Shimer able to travel between worlds?"

"With the crystal mirror," Twilight began her explanation, and then continued, "It is a magical mirror that, that creates a connection between our world and the other world.

For a long time he was in Canterlot, and after we defeated you," she was silent, thinking that she had offended Sombra because of his past actions, but seeing his indulgent look, she continued, "he was here for a while, and then finally he was taken to my castle."

"A mirror that can connect between worlds?" frowned Sombra, "I've never heard of such a thing, but it's certainly a fascinating invention!

If I may ask, Who or whom made it?"

""Celestia told me that Bread Starswirl the Beard's mysterious master and someone else created it," Twilight answered the question, "And after I asked her why we didn't know the name of Starswirl's master, she said she couldn't remember for some reason. She's sure she's seen it before and knew its name, but other than that she doesn't remember anything about it!"

"That's very interesting! I wonder what could have caused it, and if it has anything to do with Thanatos and the Fursoans forgetting their history?" said Sombra, explaining her hypothesis, and then, a little shyly because she had disturbed Twilight, she said: Oh, sorry, we're a bit off the main topic! Go on!

"It's all right, I'm interested in this topic too!" reassured Sombra, and then Twilight started to tell her more about the main topic:

'Now, where was I? Ah, I've got it! After Celestia and Luna told me some information about the mirror, then me and Spike went through the mirror and into another world! Well, how shall I say, it looks a little different than our world. And then there's the weird transformation, which is the transformation of my body and Spike's body."

"What have you transformed into?" asked Sombra with childlike curiosity, "sorry to interrupt again, but I'm very interested in this subject!"

"Well, it's hard to answer that," Twilight replied as they started walking towards the palace, "There is no creature in Equestria, or all of Equus, that looks like this.

It would be easier if you could see them with your own eyes!"-seeing on Sombra's face that she understood this, she continued:

Here I met a few people who eventually became my friends, and with their help we stopped Sunset.

Sunset then confessed his sins and my friends I met there helped him to change."

Hearing this, a smile appeared on Sombra's face, for she was glad that friendship had healed the hearts of others.

Meanwhile, Twilight spoke the same way, "I returned to this world after 1 year, a few weeks before the War of the Sky Tears started, because they needed my help to defeat 3 Sirens, who we eventually defeated in a musical battle."

"HM, I've heard tales from my dad about 3 Sirens that Starswirl herself banished from Equestria to another world," Sombra recalled, "You're talking about these Sirens?"

Twilight nodded.

Seeing Twilight nod, Sombra asked:

"But how are they still alive?

Because as far as I know, a siren can live for 150-200, 300 years at the most, but it's been over 1000 years! So how have they survived for so long?"

"I think with those red crystals they wore around their necks, they kept themselves young! They were able to use their abilities because of them, since they can't even use their magical powers.

Those crystals probably contained a lot of energy, because after we destroyed those three crystals, they couldn't use their magic anymore".

"They must be Red Blood Moon crystals!

So far, I've only seen them in the Alicorn Amulet after examining it.

This crystal is similar to the midnight sea crystal, that is, only in that it can store large amounts of energy, but much more, but it cannot store memory!" explained Sombra as they entered the palace and sat down at a table.

Twilight was surprised to hear the words Alicorn Amulet, but she waited for Sombra to finish speaking, and when he had finished, she asked him:

"Does this crystal make the wearer evil?

And while we're at it, why didn't Celestia and Luna destroy this item?" asked Twilight, puzzled, not understanding why the princesses would leave such an evil artifact in one piece.

"I'm sure that's not why its user turned evil, because this crystal is only used for energy storage and nothing else.

Vagyisa crystal only works as a source of energy for the amulet.

The answer to your other question is that unfortunately they cannot destroy the amulet because it is surrounded by some kind of powerful energy field that prevents it from even being scratched.

Whoever made it was probably a genius, I mean evil genius if the evil transformation is built right into it.

After trying to destroy it and disconnect its energy field, but since neither worked, Celestia put it under powerful spells.

Where, she didn't tell me!"

"I hope no one ever uses that evil amulet!" said Twilight hopefully, and then continued:

"Going back to the main theme, during the time we were busy with the sky tear war, Sunset and her friends got to know my other-worldly self.

Well, he used to be a student at Crystal Prep Academy, but he transferred to Canterlot High School, where my other-world friends go.

Well, suddenly that's all I can say! Do you have any questions?"

"Yes, when are we going?" asked Sombra.

"When are we going?" asked Twilight, surprised, "so you'll help me?"

"Of course, you are my friend and I can see that this is very important to you!

And I'll be honest, I'm quite curious about that world! But, I hope that this world is not like the other one where that shadow thing attacked me!" shuddered Sombra, thinking back to the horrible place where she and Luna had been forcibly dragged.

"No need to worry about that, it's a much safer world!" replied Twilight in a soothing tone

Thank you so much for helping me!" she said with a delightful smile on her face!

"As I said, that's what friends are for!" said Sombra in a kind voice and stood up from the table as she said:

"I'll be right back, I just have to discuss this matter with Cadance and Shining, and..."

"No need," Twilight interrupted Sombra, "I've already spoken to them about it, and they said you can go if you want, and it's fine if you're going to do it tomorrow, but come back on the day of the festival."

"Oh, thank you!" thanked Twilight, Sombra, "but I'll say goodbye to them anyway."

Sombra then went off to find Cadance and Shining Armour, and after they met, asked them if they were sure it was okay to be away for now, but they repeated what Twilight had said, and just told her to have a good time and good luck, and then said goodbye to them.

He then went to his room, meeting his wife and daughter who had just returned.

Around Sea's neck was the same necklace that Sombra had given him when they went to the theatre during the war.

Sombra gave Sea a kiss in greeting and then hugged his daughter.

Afterwards, Sombra told them all about why Twilight Sparkle had come to see her.

Sea, after hearing from her husband that the other world was safer, said to him, "Go ahead, but take care of yourself and return to the festival on time!”

She then packed her bags, and before leaving to take the train back to Ponyville with Twilight, Sea and Sombra shared a goodbye kiss, while Spark poked Sombra's nose and said his usual "Boop!

Then Twilight said goodbye to them, and together they left for the train station.

They finally boarded the train at 5pm and the train left for Ponyville.

While they were travelling to Ponyville, Twilight took out her log. Seeing this, Sombra asked her what the log is for.

Twilight explained that she could use the log to communicate with Sunset Shimer.

As they travel, Twilight and Sombra begin to talk, and Twilight recounts the strange event that happens every 50 years at the Crystal Prep Academy at midnight. She also mentions that this event will happen today in their world.

"But then why did they tell you so late?" asked Sombra, puzzled, "It's only 4 o'clock at midnight!

"Oh, I forgot to tell you something!" she thought of something Twilight had said:

"There's a time dilation between the two worlds!"-before Sombra could ask what time dilation meant, he quickly explained, -basically, compared to our world, time passes half as fast in the other world!

But this time dilation is not permanent! After 30 moons (30 months), the time between the two worlds will pass at a 1:1 ratio, for 3 days."

"Is there any explanation?" asked Sombra with genuine curiosity.

""Unfortunately, there is not, but I hope that one day we will get an answer to this curiosity, because I am curious about it too!" declared Twilight.

They spent the next hour on the train talking about various topics.

Finally, at 9 pm, the train arrived in Ponyville.

After getting off the train, they headed to Twilight's castle, which they reached in 10 minutes.

As they entered the castle, Sombra yawned and Twilight told her to get at least 8 hours of sleep.

For, after asking Sunset what time it was in their world, she replied that it was 12:30, and that, according to the time of this world, it was 9:00.

After this Twilight showed Sombra the room where she could sleep in peace, and then they said good-bye and wished each other good-night, and Sombra went to bed in his room.

Chapter 5

The next day, after about 8 hours of sleep, he met Twilight at the library, where they had breakfast.

After they had breakfast, Twilight led him to a storage room where she kept the crystal mirror while carrying a saddlebag that held the journal through which she could communicate with Sunset Shimer.

Upon reaching the storeroom, Twilight performed a series of powerful spells to unlock the spell needed to seal the storeroom.

They then entered the door, and when Sombra saw the Crystal Mirror, her jaw dropped.

The Crystal Mirror looks like an ordinary mirror, but its purple rim is shaped like a horseshoe, with a face set with pink gemstones.

The base of the mirror is also decorated with horseshoes, and at the top of the mirror is a small horseshoe-shaped window with a pony in the shape of a horseshoe.

This is surrounded in a semi-circle by a wooden and metal mechanism, the top of which extends beyond the top of the crystal mirror, which does not look as if it were an integral part of the crystal mirror, but as if it had been built in as an afterthought.

"Wow, this mirror looks amazing!" said Sombra, amazed after seeing the mirror and the equipment around it, "but what is the machinery that surrounds the mirror for?" he asked curiously, "Because it looks to me like it was added afterwards."

"You're right, because I added it afterwards...," Twilight begins to explain, "Its purpose is to allow us to use my diary to go through the gate or return to this world at any time, because without it the gate only works for 3 days, then it stays closed for 30 months!"

"All I can say to that is that you are a genius!" he praised Twilight's knowledge, to which Twilight replied with a thank you and a flushed face, and then continued his speech, "But I have a question! Can I use my magic to examine the crystal mirror?" asked Sombra, turning her head to the crystal mirror, "I wonder what kind of crystal it is!

Twilight's answer was a nod.

Seeing Sombra Twilight's nod, he took a few steps towards the mirror as his horn began to glow a dark purple color, and when he closed his eyes and then opened them again, they glowed a bright ethereal green color while a dark purple aura emanated from it.

Then the mirror also began to glow dark purple for a few moments, and when it stopped glowing, he closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, his eyes returned to normal

"Well, what kind of crystal is it made of?" asked Twilight inquiringly.

"Just like with the crystal heart, I can't tell!" replied Sombra, "But why can't I find out what crystals make up the original crystal heart or the crystal mirror?" asked Sombra, puzzled.

"Possibly because your power has a limit..." suggested Twilight, "At least my brother thinks that might be the answer."

"Now that I think about it, Shining is probably right," Sombra agreed with that theory, "but I still find that weird!

By the way, when can I leave?" asked Sombra inquiringly.

"Actually, you're almost ready to go, I just need to activate the gate first," Twilight replied, and then took the log book from her saddlebag, and began to wave her magic at the connection point above the crystal mirror, and when the diary reached the connection point, then, after less than 1 second, the diary began to glow a pale, light greyish orchid color, and then a similar colored bolt of energy radiated through the cables on the machinery as it passed through several of the smaller machines connected to the machinery.

Some parts of these smaller machines also began to glow in a similar colour, and eventually this energy bolt reached the smaller machines on either side of the mirror, directly connected to the large machine, which resembled a Tesla coil, and then each of these fired a beam of energy, which crossed over and in front of the crystal mirror in a non-regular path, then merged into a wormhole of similar colour, which in less than a second transformed into an arrow of similar colour, which quickly slammed into the surface of the crystal mirror.

When this energy arrow reached the surface of the crystal mirror, a large, blinding light show began, which stopped after a few seconds.

When they glanced at the surface of the crystal mirror, they saw that a pale, light greyish orchid-coloured swirl had formed on the normally flat surface of the mirror.

Sombra watched the activation of the mirror in amazement, and when the big light show occurred, he closed his eyes, and when he opened them and saw the activated mirror, he was amazed.

"Wow, that's just amazing!" said Sombra, amazed, "by the way, does it always look like that when it's activated?"

"Until I built this machine for it," Twilight explained, pointing to the machine with her right forehoof, "there wasn't much change."

"I see, and thank you for your reply," Sombra thanked Twilight as she began to walk towards the crystal mirror, "-

By the way, is there any special information about going through the portal... I mean, do I have to recite a spell, or do I just have to walk through the portal?

"Actually, all you have to do is walk through it...," Twilight replied, and then she remembered something, "but I have a request for you... Could you take off your royal clothes, because the people on the other side aren't used to seeing kings in everyday life...

Simply put, you'd better keep a low profile!"

"You know this world better, so I'll take your advice!" agreed Twilight's advice to Sombra, and after Twilight summoned a clothes locker that Rarity had left here at the castle, Sombra then hung up her royal attire, but, after he got to the part where he took off his band, he asked Twilight, a little uneasily, "Do I have to take off my band too?"

"If you don't want to, you don't have to, because it wouldn't cause any meaningful attention!" replied Twilight reassuringly to Sombra.

"Okay, I'll keep the band!" said Sombra happily, looking happy to keep the band, as he treasured the veins.

As they had already agreed that only Sombra would cross the gate, as there was one thing Twilight had to do and he didn't need it anyway to get used to his new body, as her friends, especially Sunset, would help him, they said goodbye and Twilight wished Sombra good luck.

"Deep breath!" said Sombra to herself as he took a deep breath, -it's time to explore a new world where no shadow thing is trying to kill me!" he finished his speech firmly and walked into the dust to explore a world he didn't know

chapter 6

After the message, in the human world, about 5-10 minutes before the scheduled meeting, Cadance, Celestia, Luna and Mane 7(Sunset and friends) are waiting outside the gateway.

Prior to receiving the message, Sunset and her friends were helping the other students organise the Halloween party.

While they were waiting, Dean Luna asked Mane 7 who Sombra was after the three adult women were told who was going to help them.

"Well, we haven't met him in person yet," Sunset began to explain, "but, from what Princess Twilight has told us, we know that he was once a tyrant king in the Crystal Empire, and now he is the beloved King of the Crystal Empire!"

"Wait a minute..., he used to be a tyrant, but now he's a beloved king?" asked Luna, puzzled, "May I ask what this guy did to go from being a scum of the past to a beloved king?"

"Essentially, he risked his life to protect the citizens of the Crystal Empire from a shadow thing attacking from another world in a war he almost gave his life to end, which, if it had spread any further, would have endangered even us."

"Who set it off, what does this guy have to do with it, and why would it threaten us?" asked Celestia curiously.

Here they launched into the storytelling, explaining to the adults in broad outline the events of the war, directly related to Sombra's exploits, while also answering questions that arose in the meantime.

For example, they explained that they were unable to contact Twilight because she had left the diary in her castle when they travelled to the Empire, and for security reasons she had disconnected the log from the crystal mirror, so they were unable to pass through the portal.

Plus Twilight forgot about this world because of the events in the Empire.

They also answered the other question, which was why would this threaten them.

Basically because if the war had extended beyond the Crystal Empire and the shadow leader (leader of the shadow creatures)found the crystal mirror, then his destruction would have continued in this world as well.

"So this guy's a hero! ... - Luna made her point, -But then what drove him to become a tyrant?"

"Because of his terrible youth! ... -sighs Rarity sadly, whose long purple hair and blue blazer, slightly adorned with gems, glistened in the bright sunshine after she took her hand out of the pocket of her blue jeans, with which she had put on dark blue high heels.

"Suffice it to say that he was physically and emotionally abused by many, including his parents!" she shuddered as she recalled what Twilight had told her about the things her friends, her brother, and her sister-in-law had seen in those horrible nightmares.

"Poor guy! ... -Cadance pitied her, -But what made them treat him so?"

"As I understand it," Sunset added, "it was forbidden in those days, for it was thought that one who used such magic could only be evil!" she sighed, and then her sadness turned into a faint smile, "But she taught many that dark magic was only a lil' magic... And according to Twilight's writing," Sunset added, "King Sombra can, because of his dark magic, determine the names and uses of all... well, almost all the crystals."

"But, if he transforms," Celestia reminded them, "he won't lose his ability, since we humans can't use magic. That is, with your exception."

"Maybe everyone can use magic! ... - Twilight Sparkle (Sci-twi) began her hypothesis while adjusting her glasses, -Because probably all you need is some sort of intermediary device for someone who can't use magic naturally! -pointing to the necklaces with the logo around her neck, then to the necklaces around her friends' necks.

"Oh, right... I forgot about those," Celestia remembered the crystals as she slapped herself across the face, remembering back to the events in the Everfree forest.

"Add to that," Sunset began her explanation, "Mister Sombra's crystal expertise... ," she interrupted her sentence as she saw the familiar glint of a side of the statue's pedestal, and then suddenly a man fell out of it, falling to the pavement, slightly unconscious, "I think Mister Sombra has arrived!" she announced with a smile.

Chapter 8

As the bus drove towards the school, Sombra watched the city and its buildings.

When they came to a red light and then the bus stopped, Sombra told the others that when he and Luna were in the Shadow Creature world, they saw similar buildings.

They talk about this for a few words, and then Rarity shudders at what she has heard, and then declares: "Luckily you beat it!"

Then she and the others thank Sombra for defeating the shadow creatures and preventing the war from spreading to this world.

But at this, Sombra shook his head and declared, with a kind expression on his face, "This is not only thanks to me, but also to the people of the whole empire, my friends and family!"

He then thought back fondly to the Empire and the other people he cared about, because after the things he had done in his past, they had not only forgiven him for them, but offered him a home, friends, family, and for that he would be forever grateful.

While he was thinking about this, the bus arrived at the school.

After they got off the bus, they walked into the school and then into the school hall.

While they are waiting in the school hall for Cadance, who has gone to get the key to the library, Sombra looks around and spots a crystal in a display case.

He then walks over and takes a closer look at it, noting what kind of crystal it is.

Once he has determined the name of the crystal, Cadance appears, and the group starts walking towards the library.

Once inside the library, Sombra and the others note that, fortunately, there was no great destruction.

Sombra then walks over to one of the crystal-encrusted walls, which is about a metre above the floor and apparently consists of 2 sheets of lying 30x20 centimetres, tightly connected

He analysed this for half a minute, and after a few seconds he announces it:

"These are different crystals, one is..." he interrupted to the puzzled looks of the others.

"Different crystals?!" stared Cadance, puzzled, "I only see one kind of crystal!"

"True, these crystals seem to look alike, but their structural complexity and abilities are completely different...

Take the crystal that covers the school," Sombra pointed to the top 30x20 centimetre crystal sheet, "and some of the ones here in the library. Those are called Echolitium.

It's an extremely rare crystal that begins to glow when a faint connection is made between the real world and the Otherworld.

They don't just glow, they also absorb energy," Sombra explained.

"There is something to it, after all!" said Twilight, touching her hand to her cheek, " The Halloween holiday is mythologically believed to be a connection between the otherworld and the real world... By the way, you know all this because of dark magic?"

"As for the information related to the crystal, yes, but the knowledge of the otherworld connection was given to me by a friend of mine from Death, or Thanatos as he is now called."

"From Death! ..." said Twilight in surprise, "From Death, the one who accompanies the dead to the Otherworld? ... I thought it was a legend!"

"I assure you he's real, and he's not the only one, there's a whole race doing the job.

Who are none other than the Fursoans...

Unfortunately I can't tell you about the history of their race, because for some reason they don't remember it!

Why this happened is a mystery!"

"That's sad!" said Fluttershy softly, and sadly at the same time, and then with a faint smile she continued, "I hope they will get back the lost fragment of their past!"

"Me too!" said Sombra sadly, after he sighed with his head bowed, and then pointed with his hand to the crystal sheet underneath the one he had just analyzed.

And the second crystal is called Nexulixsium! These crystals can be linked together, but to do so we need some kind of signal receptor that can either observe an area or conduct energy through it.

But, the radius of this is at most 10 kilometres."

"And what's the explanation for the midnight black liquid?" asked Applejack.

"There's only one explanation...Someone or something is sucking large amounts of energy from the Echolitium!

If you suck a large amount of energy out of it in a short period of time, it can be damaged, and that leads to crystal tearing.

True, I didn't mention it, but it's an important thing, crystal tearing can also crystallize objects, or even living things -seeing the frightened faces of the others, he started to reassure them.

But don't worry, in a few minutes the liquid caused by the crystal tearing and the crystal formed from it will turn into air and leave everything intact."

"The energy drain is the Nexulos, ... wait Nexulix, ... not Nexulox, Ah anyway, so that's because of the crystal, right?

"Nexulixsium," Sombra corrected Rainbow Dash, "and yes, it's definitely sucking it!"

"But, how is it that this event happened yesterday, with Halloween being today?" asked Sunset, puzzled.

"Probably the connection is made first, which is not as strong at first," Sombra began to explain, "and probably will intensify over time...

But I'm more concerned with where is this energy being sucked, or being sucked, from," Sombra mused as he touched one hand to him cheek, "and why?"

"Whether good or bad must be the purpose," Twilight began her explanation, "we must still find an answer to this oddity!"

"But how shall we find it?" asked Rarity.

"Most likely there is still a trace of the connection, and if we could run a vibrational pulse through the crystal similar to the resonance of the crystal, we could trace the signal.

But unfortunately I don't know how that's possible!" replied Sombra, shrugging him shoulders and pointing him two palms upwards.

Listening to Sombra's explanation, Twilight thinks for a moment, then declares that there may be a solution.

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Shortly after Sombra and his team enter the lobby, the scene is shown on a futuristic monitor from the point of view of someone standing in front of the monitor.

The "camera" doing the watching is a Nexulixsium crystal, placed among the other crystals in a display case.

The monitor reflects the figure, whose appearance is perfectly visible because of the weak light from the monitor, while also showing that he is probably in a cave.

This figure appears to be a humanoid robot with a black symbol on its grey metallic torso, a 30 centimetre diameter ring with various symbols in a circular pattern.

The ring contains 4 identical circles and 3 texts consisting of several symbols, with 1 symbol in each of the 4 circles.

Out of these 4 circles, 3 are equally spaced, while the fourth circle is located in the middle of the ring and is touched by the outline of the other 3 circles.

The 3 circles, which are arranged in a triangle, have one of their circles, which is positioned parallel above the circle in the middle of the ring.

Within this circle is a symbol of a raven flying at an angle.

Clockwise, in the next circle, is a stylised diamond.

Clockwise, in the last circle is an 8-pointed star.

The fourth circle, which is in the middle, contains a 4-pointed star.

Between the three equally spaced circles, there are 3 multi-symbol texts.

The symbols of the 3 texts are of different styles in relation to each other, but the style of the symbols between the stylised diamond and the 8-pointed star is the same as the style of the symbols on the ring.

The text between the soaring raven and the 8-pointed star, which appears to consist of 5 symbols, is barely visible due to a midnight black matter that oozes from the robot's body.

(Such material also leaks from the robot's body in several places.)

The full, large symbol, and the other, smaller symbols that go with it, are visible normally.

Returning to the robot's body, its arms are also grey, while its fingers are black, as are the robot's legs, which are grey, but there are no fingers on the feet. The left arm has a midnight black substance oozing from it, but just barely.

The robot's neck, which is the length of an average human neck, is dark grey.

Its head is oval in shape, flattened at the front but not at the back, with rounded edges. Its mouth consists of only one strip, one centimetre thick and 5 centimetres long, while its two eyes are oval and yellow in colour, only one of which is a robot eye, the other being more of a yellowish glowing eye.

It has no ears or nose.

Once this one sees the team entering, it starts talking to itself.

"I wonder what they want? ... And why do they look so familiar? Especially that man..." he pointed his mechanical hand at Sombra as he stood with his back to the crystal.

Then, suddenly, Sombra turned and started walking towards the display case, apparently seeing the crystals placed inside.

When this person looked more closely at Sombra, he noticed a pin on his suit and was surprised to see it depicting 3 Red Crystals in the form of a fan.

"What? ..." he asked in a surprised, deep, slightly robotic, masculine voice, "It can't be... But it is..." he was suddenly angry, and then he slammed his mechanical hand on the table in front of him, which dented, and then he began to speak loudly, his voice a mixture of surprise and anger.

"ARE YOU STILL ALIVE? ... And how did you get here?! ... -after a while his anger finally subsided, -If this guy is really that bastard, I'm in big trouble! ... Because of this, unfortunately, I have to make a lot of changes to my plan... But I don't care! ..." he declared firmly.

"I'd like to kill you, but the power you have, it would be a shame to let it go to waste!", (he would smile mockingly if he could), "I can't wait to have your power!" he declared in a mocking tone, and then with his hands raised, he started a devilish and maniacal laugh, which we could see behind him, as the 'picture' grew more distant.

Author's Note

The link below will take you to a google drive folder with an image of the part of the robot where the strange Symbol is located.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yZnRu8u9wTgU5u5JBugnLhcgjpW-Ycxn

Chapter 9

After Twilight states that she has an idea, Rarity asks her what it is.

She then outlines her plan, which is essentially a machine that can find the receiving tool based on its resonance value.

The Nexulixium crystal would be the emitter of the signal, while the Echolitium would serve as the power source for the device's operation.

After Sombra tells us that this could work, Twilight then asks Cadance if we could take a small shard of each of these two crystals.

Cadance agrees because she trusts Twilight's knowledge.

They then set to work.

They get a laser cutter from the school's technology room and use it to cut 2 pieces of crystal, about 10 centimetres long.

Twilight then examines these crystals and, in order not to mix them up, labels them with the help of Sombra.

She places the labelled crystals in her shoulder bag and then declares that she can only do the construction at home, as the school does not have the necessary equipment.

They agree with Twilight, and then, after returning the laser cutter to its place, the team exits to the school, and after Cadance closes the school, the team heads to Twilight's home.

In the meantime, she told Cadance that there was no need to return to the school as this crystal was enough.

As her home is only a few houses away, they were there in ten minutes.

From the front, her home is a large, two-storey house with a sizable yard and a shed with a driveway leading up from the road.

The house is mostly in various shades of dark purple and pink, with lots of star-like patterns and decorations.

When they got there, Twilight let them into the house.

Sombra asks at random if Twilight lives here alone.

She tells him that she is with her parents, only they are away because they are celebrating their 20th anniversary in Manehattan and won't be home until the day after tomorrow.

Before leaving with the two crystals, Twilight tells the others about her workshop, which is located in a small shed next to the house:

"Make yourselves at home, but do not disturb the work and do not make a mess."

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While Twilight worked on the device, the others talked about this and that.

Sombra, for example, told about her father's strange sense of humour, which made the others unable to keep a straight face.

In about an hour, Twilight finished her device, then laid a small sheet over it for dramatic effect and left the workshop.

When she got into the living room, she noticed that everyone was either giggling or laughing with full-throated laughter.

"What did I miss?" he asked with genuine interest and a sweet smile as he held the sheeted contraption in his hands.

"Mister Sombra told me some funny stories about his father..." explained Pinkie Pie between giggles, "He was a master of jokes!"

"Well, he was more than that..." said Sombra with a smile, and then noticed the covered contraption in Tvilight's hand, which she had just set down on a nearby table, "You finished that in less than an hour?" she asked in amazement, "Well, YOU'RE probably as much of a genius as Princess Twilight Sparkle!"

Twilight snorted, "Pfff, come on, it's nothing! It's not that difficult to make something like this, it's just science! ...But thank you anyway..., - she thanked the kind words and turned to the machine, -And now back to the device.

Here it is..., - she suddenly pulled the sheet off the machine and pointed at it- the Rezonator Mk 100!" she announced with a broad smile.

When they saw the machine, their jaws dropped and they expressed their congratulations, while some of them clapped.

The Rezonator Mk 10 is a 20x20x10 centimetre box with a grey brick body metal casing.

It has a screen on the front, several buttons and switches next to it, and two 10 centimetre antennas on one side, which appear to be slightly tilted upwards, and are angled in opposite directions to each other.

On the opposite side is a brown belt, probably intended to be hung around the neck.

Finally, a crystal protrudes from each of the other two sides, and a label attached to the connection between the crystal and the machine indicates which crystal is which.

Also on these sides are several buttons and, on the right, a black, scrollable switch.

"And will it work?" asked Sunset, walking with the others to the side of the machine for a closer look.

"Hopefully...," Twilight said hopefully, and then pressed one of the buttons on the device.

Soon the machine started up, followed by a loud cheer.

Then a radar map appeared, an exact replica of the map showing the city of Canterlot and its surroundings.

"All we need now is a little fine tuning and hopefully we'll find the place we're looking for..." said Twilight as she fiddled with the machine's switches.

After a little fiddling, a red dot appeared on the map, flashing over an area.

"The Crystal Lake Cave in Canterlot?!" asked everyone, except Sombra, in surprise, -and Sunset turned to Twilight with a doubtful look, "Are you sure this machine works right?" asked Sunset, pointing to the object.

"Absolutely!" declared Twilight firmly, though she didn't understand why the machine was pointing here, "The machine should show the exact coordinates of the beacon...or at least within 10-20 meters."

"Why, what's wrong with this place?" asked Sombra, "Other than the fact that the name makes it the perfect place to make a crystal detector."

"It's a popular tourist attraction near the Everfree forest," Sunset began her explanation, "It's a big open cave, so you can't just build something like that here..."

"Maybe he just delivered the device there?" hypothesized Applejack.

"That would only make sense if there were Echolitium crystals nearby..." explained Twilight, "Although in this situation you could use Nexulixium!"

"And what if the machine was always there, just directly under the cave?" said Sombra, at a guess, "The signal can easily transmit through even 100 meter thick rock."

"Ah, that makes sense!" agreed Twilight to Sombra's suggestion, "The researchers think there's a collapsed cave entrance nearby, but for safety reasons it hasn't been explored yet...

What caused it to collapse, we don't know!" she said, shrugging her shoulders, palms upturned, "It was probably caused by an earthquake more than five hundred years before the discovery of the lake cave.

Well, my guess is that the signal may have come from behind this cave entrance."

"Well, how do we find out?" asked Sunset, "It's getting dark!"

"I've got night vision goggles... -Twilight saw the confused looks on the others, -I've had them made for a few years and have enough for everyone, -she started to list several items as she counted on her finger, -Plus a flashlight, battery, survival kit..."

"We get it, Twi!" said Sunset, with a slight smile.

"If we want to get going," said Rarity, looking at the bus schedule on her phone, "we'd better hurry, the bus is coming in 15 minutes!"

"So we're in?" asked Rainbow Dash, with great enthusiasm, then held out her hand in front of her.

The others did the same, and then, with hands raised together, shouted "Go for it!"

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Then they go to get the stuff, but Cadance's phone starts ringing, and she looks and sees that it's her mother. So she stands back and picks up her phone.

"Hi, Mom. What do you want?"

"I just wanted to warn you that it's one o'clock and your father's birthday party starts.

-At the words, a look of surprise appeared on Cadance's face, tinged with mild fear. There followed a moment's silence, whereupon her mother said, with a hint of maternal concern. "You're all right, aren't you?"

"Sorry, I just forgot about it a bit as I had to go to school today for an important matter..." said Cadance, in a slightly sad tone, "But don't worry, I'll be there in 20 minutes. I promise! "

"Relax. It's okay, sometimes we all forget things...

So take your time. I'm waiting for you with lots of love. Goodbye, darling'"

"Bye Mum.", Cadance hung up her phone and, as Twilight and the others returned, turned to them.

"I'm sorry, but you'll regret it terribly if I don't go...," she explained, a little nervously and guiltily, "It's my father's birthday and I completely forgot about it because of what happened yesterday."

"Don't worry, Miss Cadance," said Sombra, in a soothing tone, and with a kindly expression, -We can manage without you... Go and enjoy yourself.

And don't worry, I'll take care of them..."

"Actually, we'll take care of you!" said Rainbow Dash pompously, and then pointed to her necklace, "You know, the necklaces!"

Twilight gave her a stern look, then scolded her in a stern tone.

"Dash! You shouldn't be talking like that in front of this crystal!" she pointed at the crystal, "You want to give the watcher...or watchers!"

"Don't worry...," said Sombra, "Crystals are not capable of voice communication...

And in this case," he pointed to Rezonator, "the strong vibration wave blocks the crystal's ability."

"Thanks again for your help!" said Cadance.

"Not at all. Just have a good time and I wish your father a happy birthday!" replied Sombra, and the others wished him similar wishes.

Cadance then said goodbye to them and thanked them once again for their help, who assured her that they were happy to help, and then returned her thanks.

Twilight hands out walkie talkies to everyone for communication purposes.

After explaining to Sombra how they work, the group packed up and left the house, walking to the bus stop across the street.

Just as they exited, Cadance boarded the bus and, after sitting down, waved to them, who waved back.

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Meanwhile, from the entrance to the cave, you can see the robot working on a piece of machinery about 5 metres in front of you.

This machinery is located right next to the left wall of the cave.

Next to the rig is a piece of furniture resembling an electric chair.

From the entrance to the cave, you can see the cave in its entirety, which is the size of a large room.

(average size: 20 metres (from the entrance, left wall to the right wall) x 10 metres, and 6 metres.)

The cave is irregular, with red crystals hanging down from the dome-shaped roof.

Looking forward, a cave wall is visible on the left, running parallel to the left side of the cave entrance.

This wall is so smooth that it is impossible to believe it could have formed naturally.

On the far side from the cave entrance is a right-angled corner with a large monitor set at an angle.

Next to it is a stand with a light blue crystal on it.

The stand is connected to the monitor by cabels.

Moving to the right, there is a lamp in the middle of the room that illuminates the cave in white.

Beyond it is a piece of furniture resembling a mirror, with its back directly against the cave wall. The mirror part of this piece of furniture is a hexagon with an edge, about 2 metres high and 1 metre wide by 2 centimetres thick.

The rim is made up of a large emerald-coloured crystal, 5 centimetres wide and completely smooth. The emerald-coloured pedestal is 1.5 metres in diameter and 30 centimetres high.

The pedestal also features a symbol that appears to match the symbol on the robot's body.

The part between the raven and the eight-pointed star is partially obscured by a small grey metal plate.

The cave wall behind the mirror is a natural formation, and on the wall directly behind the mirror is a vein of red crystals that runs up the wall to the red crystals.

Standing in front of the mirror, to the left, in an irregular corner of the cave, is a machine with a huge yellow crystal on it. Part of the machine is futuristic in design, and there is a small monitor on it.

On the monitor is a bar graph showing the energy reserve of the crystal, which is at 90, sorry, now 91%.

From this, wires run to the large monitor, the lamp and the machine.

On the other side of the mirror, directly 3 metres from the cave wall, is a modern desk, apparently made of metal.

The right side of the desk is directly adjacent to the right side of the cave.

The robot suddenly stops working and starts talking.

"Fortunately, the modification for my new design can be done more quickly on the machine made for my older design...," he chuckled, "What a pleasure it will be to avenge you, LITTLE PRINCE..." he said in a mocking, delighted tone.

Then he starts towards his desk.

On it is a piece of machinery with a tank attached to it, in which a green liquid is bubbling.

"Time to unload the traps!" he announced, then grabbed the machine, and then the apparently just-assembled machinery stored next to the desk.

These are 10x25 square centimetres with 3 crystals wired into them.

On one side is a flame-coloured crystal, which sits directly next to a red crystal.

At the other end is a light blue crystal connected to the red crystal by a wire via a transmitter.

With these objects, he finally walked out the entrance to the cave.

Chapter 10

The next bus arrived soon after.

When the door opened, the bus driver, seeing the girls, greeted them.

"Hello girls."

The girls were talking to each other before they heard the bus driver.

Surprised to hear the voice, they recognized the bus driver and turned their heads towards him and greeted him.

"Hello Uncle Bob. How was your day?" asked Applejack.

"Kind of average..." shrugged Bob, "And yours?"

Pinkie stepped forward and said with beaming happiness:

"We helped set up for the Halloween party, and now we're off to the Crystal Lake cave!"

"So late?" asked Bob, puzzled, "But why?.... And who is that guy? Is he with you?"

"This is mister Sombra..." said Pinkie beaming happily as she pulled Sombra to her side, who shook hands with Bob, and Pinkie continued, "and we're going there because..." she took a deep breath and started.

Because yesterday, a strange event happened with 4 other students in the CPA, and they told Principal Cadance, who passed the message on to Principal Celestia personally, and Dean Luna, who all three contacted us this morning about it, and then, because we couldn't answer, Sunset wrote to Princess Twilight, who lives in another world, and since she couldn't help either, she contacted a friend of his, I mean him, -pointing to Sombra, -who came to this world, and after a little getting to know him, he checked out the problem, and then after giving us some information, Twilight used the information he provided to put this gadget together, -pointing to the Rezonator, -and hopefully we'll find the source of the problem! " - she finished her speech with a big breath.

"Wow, all that in one breath! ..., -started clapping Rainbow Dash -Congratulations!"

"That must be a record!" announced Pinkie with a smile after she stopped breathing heavily.

At this statement, a few people giggled, or laughed tearfully, or slapped themselves in the face at Pinkie's silliness.

"I get it now...!" said Bob with a shrug of his shoulders, "Get in, we'll be there in half an hour."

"How come you're not surprised by that, may I ask?" asked Sombra, puzzled.

""Heh, I've heard stranger things." replied Bob.

Then Sombra wondered what kind of things Bob had heard, and they boarded the bus and Sunset bought a ticket for Sombra, which he thanked her for.

After they were about to sit down, Sombra asked them who Bob was and why he was pretending that what had happened was completely normal.

They tell him that Bob is an acquaintance and friend of theirs.

They have known him since he cured Applejack's dog about 3 months ago, when he was buying apples at her farm.

Her dog had eaten something that made her feel sick. He realised from the symptoms that her illness was the same as the illness his dog was suffering from.

He then concocted a remedy in the farm's Kitchen and fed it to the dog, and after less than an hour her symptoms had gone and she was feeling better.

Since then, he and the Apple family have been good friends.

Applejack's friends also got to know him around the same time.

And why Bob is so indifferent about it, they don't know.

They arrived half an hour later.

When the bus reached the bus stop at the entrance to the path to the cave, the others got off the bus and Bob called out to the others.

"If you miss the 7 p.m. bus, call me," he mimed making a phone call with his hand, "and I'll come get you in my van. And it doesn't matter when you call."

"Thanks Uncle Bob!" said Applejack with a smile.

Bob then wished them good luck and, waving to them who waved back, said goodbye, closed the bus door and left.

Shortly afterwards, they head towards a path with tall trees along its edges.

The leaves of the trees were a beautiful yellow-reddish autumnal colour.

The path leading to the cave was illuminated by flashlight, due to the lack of light and the dark time, as the only natural light source was the moonlight shining through the tall trees.

As they walk, Sombra asks Sunset a simple, yet interesting question.

"Sunset, may I ask you a question?"

"Go ahead, what is it?"

"This question has been on my mind ever since Twilight told me about you...

How did you know that Twilight has the element of magic in her element of harmony? I asked Twilight that, but she couldn't answer me either!"

"To be honest, I had a dream in which I saw the mirror was in the Crystal Empire, and that the element of harmony had turned into a crown... Exactly like the one in its current state, which was also in the Empire."

"A dream!" everyone but Sunset was surprised, "did you really do it for a dream? "-asked Twilight, with raised eyebrows.

"I know it's a stupid reason, but I felt like I had to try!"

"So because of a simple hunch and a random dream that miraculously turned out to be true, you steal a crown of great power?" asked Twilight, puzzled, "Well, I'm sorry, but that really is a stupid reason! ...

And what was the plan if you got caught...Because you obviously had a plan."

"Well," Sunset said with an awkward smile as she stroked the back of his neck with the back of her hand, "Actually, it all just came spontaneously.

I just felt like I had to do this and stuff...

But on some level, I'm glad I did it," she looks lovingly at her friends, "because it gave me something I needed...YOUR FRIENDS!"

At this, her friends hugged her, while Sombra smiled again at the fact that friendship had healed more than just his heart.

After the friendly hug ended, they continued on their way.

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Soon after, they arrive at the entrance to the lake cave, where they notice that it is closed.

In front of the yellow and black striped ribbon is a sign that reads:

"Cave closed for safety reasons. Scheduled to reopen on 15 November!

Do NOT enter before the scheduled entrance!"

"Now which way?" asked Sunset to Twilight, "I guess we're not going to break any laws or risk our lives to find out where the signal is coming from!"

"Of course, No," said Twilight firmly, "and the machine says our journey continues that way." she pointed towards the narrow path beside the cave.

Following Twilight, they set off along the peaceful path towards their aim...

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About 5-10 minutes later, they reach a rocky area where, after a short while, they see a cave entrance, two metres high, with a huge rock in front of it, completely blocking it.

"Is the signal coming from behind the fallen rock?" asked Rarity.

"According to the machine, yes!" replied Twilight, "But how are we going to get in there?" she asked as she pointed towards the cave.

"And if we clear that big rock?" asked Applejack.

"It hasn't been touched so far for safety reasons," Twilight explained as she adjusted her glasses, "and since we're not experts, we could get seriously hurt!

Plus, the experts have determined that there could be a 10 metre long corridor that could have collapsed... Or even more than that.

Mostly because of this, and also because a few years ago, the researchers used a cave detector to find out that it was not worth exploring, as there was nothing surprising behind the collapsed tunnel!"

"If not, why is the signal coming from behind it? Maybe there is another entrance?" asked Sombra.

"They couldn't find one..." she broke off her explanation as the ground suddenly shook beneath her feet.

"What's happening?" asked Sunset, and soon her question was answered.

For, shortly after, flame-coloured crystals erupt from the ground, quickly creating a dome with a hole in the top around the group.

This causes them to panic, and as Twilight almost drops the device, Sombra spits out with a nervous and surprised look on his face, "thermally expanding flame crystal!"

But, before she can say anything, a dark green smoke begins to ooze from the crystal, which, before she can do anything about it, puts them to sleep.

After they are completely asleep, the huge rock in front of the cave entrance begins to shake, then moves away, clearing the entrance.

The robot then walks out and heads straight for the team's " prison ".

It hits the crystal with great force, causing it to shatter as if it had never been there.

He then grabs Sombra and pulls him out, shattering the Rezonator in the process, and then, after pulling Sombra far enough away, he presses a few buttons to re-create a crystal dome around the girls.

When he's done, he will return to the cave with Sombra.

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After a few hours, the girls wake up, almost simultaneously, while holding their heads.

"What happened...?" asked Sunset, then noticing the crystal wall around them, "Oh no, we're trapped! What do we do now?"

Twilight meanwhile spots the radar on the ground and sadly spits it out:

"Well, I don't know, but unfortunately the radar is broken...

Mister Sombra, what do we do now...?" she looked around but couldn't find him, "Oh no, where is Sombra?" she asked in a frightened tone, then looked at each other with a frightened expression.

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Then, 10 minutes later, Sombra finds himself in a dimly lit cave after slowly opening his eyes.

"Where am I?" he asks, as his headache makes him want to hold his head, but he notices that his hands are tied to the armrest of a chair.

He soon realizes that his legs are tied to the leg of the chair.

He tries to free himself, but soon realizes that this is impossible.

He then begins to look around as best he can, and notices someone standing with his back to him in front of a yellow crystal, apparently staring at it, hands clasped behind his back.

"Hey, who are you, and what do you want?" he asks irritably.

Hearing this voice, the person begins to speak to him, in a sinister tone:

"Are you awake again? And so quickly..., he shook his head, -This is the second time, Nemesis!"

"Nemesis...?" asked Sombra, puzzled, with tilted head and raised eyebrows, "Do we know each other?"

"Too well Sombra, Too well!"

"How the hell do you know my name!" asked Sombra, surprised and a little irritated.

"Don't you recognize me?" he chuckled sinisterly, "Perhaps I do, little prince..." he turned and then pointed his yellow, non-machine eyes at Sombra, who was startled by this, finding it familiar.

But he also quickly noticed the black substance oozing from the robot's body.

He quickly put the two together in his mind, and then fear began to gnaw at his stomach.

"That's impossible...It can't be true," he protested, but deep down he knew it was true, for he soon found out the answer.

You...You...You are..., -he didn't want to say it, but he finally had to, - THE SHADOWLEADER!

Chapter 11 (Prologue)

More than 10000 years ago

We find ourselves in a large, futuristic technology shuttle, the technology of which is identical to the twin-propulsion space shuttle stored inside, apparently ready to launch, which is vertically positioned.

The shuttle is 50 metres long, its wingspan would be 25 metres if they were open, and its height is about 5 metres.

The combination of grey, black and turquoise blue gives a special decoration to the clean design of the ship.

What makes the spaceship even more unique are the 2 identical white painted texts, one on each side of the ship.

The text is simply: Purtifiel serexton.

Although lamps are visible, the lighting is provided by a fiery red plant that dimly illuminates the silo.

In the shuttle's control cabin, a humanoid man sits in front of the controls.

He is suited in a futuristic suit, with the mask part of the suit completely hiding his face.

As he fiddles with the controls, he is speaking.

"...the amount of trans-dimensional jump stabilizer...

"...Your condition is 100%." replied a masculine, mechanical-voiced AI.

"And the ship's surplus power levels and the amount of power required for the magnetic missile launcher?

"Both are perfectly sufficient...

If you'll excuse me, we'll have these tests running by the 10th.

There's a 99.97 percent chance that everything will be all right...

I suggest you get going!"

The man sighed, head down... I know, I know... But I want everything to be all right!

We only have one chance!"

"Shall I open the silo door and start the launch?

"Yes, but put the DNA Reconstructor in the cargo bay first!"-as he spoke, his eyes turned to a display.

On it, in one part of the silo, a cylindrical machine in shades of grey and black, 2.5 metres high and 1.5 metres in diameter, was shown, about to be loaded into the ship by a mechanical arm.

The technology and design of the machinery is identical to the various machines found in the silo.

On it is a monitor showing the structure of a creature.

It looks like a pony, with midnight black skin, wings and unicorn horns and yellow eyes.

"Yes, Mister..." -then suddenly there is a crackling sound, which causes the last word not to be heard, and then a slight shudder shakes the shuttle.

"What happened?!" the man asked in confusion.

"A faint starburst hit the base, which overheated a damaged Thermolithium crystal, causing it to explode and shake."

"What damage was done?"

"The quake caused a cable support beam to break off, which severely damaged a cable support pillar directly connected to the base's computer as it fell.

And the beam fell on the mechanical arm that placed the Reconstructor."

"Has the Reconstructor been placed in the cargo bay?"

"Negative, sir. The beam fell on it just as the arm was about to place it in the hold."

"Damn... We should have placed it in before!" the man sighed, "Oh, never mind now...time to go!"

After a few seconds he buckled himself in as the silo door opened.

Shortly afterwards, the magnetic launch station was activated and began draining the base's entire energy reserves at high speed.

Meanwhile, a grey metal tube began to protrude from the launch station below the ship, seemingly to encircle the ship.

This tube stretched up, and even extended through the open silo door, some 20 metres.

Inside the tube are a number of cams, barely a few centimetres in diameter, which are beginning to sparkle blue.

"5...4...3...2..., - a countdown by the AI started, ...1!"

The magnetic launcher activated and launched the shuttle with a loud bang.

As it flies towards space, we see the top of the base, which is located on a burnt-out terrain, surrounded by seething lava.

The closer we get to space, the more the devastation of the planet becomes apparent.

As we enter space, an emergency beacon appears, then the AI sounds;

"Starburst has occurred, it will reach us in 30 seconds."

The man then presses a few buttons and flicks a few switches.

Once, for the last time, he looks down at the planet, his home, and then states firmly;

"I will find out who started the collapse of the universe!"

The starburst finally hit the ship, providing enough energy to activate the Trans-dimensional Jumper.

After a few seconds of silence, a turquoise-blue vortex opened up in front of them, and in the blink of an eye the shuttle jumped into it.

Then as if it hadn't been there, the vortex disappeared so quickly.

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Meanwhile, as the starburst wave reaches the planet's surface, the information from the monitors at the base suggests that it is starting to heat up the Thermolithium Crystals dramatically.

The crystals were giving off excess energy due to the high temperatures, which overloaded some of the machinery.

This energy also reached the wreckage of the mechanical arm. The collapsed beam caused the Reconstructor's wiring system to become connected to the arm's wiring.

This caused the high energy to flow into it and then start creating the body.

Meanwhile, one of the monitors displays that;

"Warning, strong Neutrenium radiation has been released! Find the nearest shelter.

All open doors will close."-10 seconds later the silo door closed.

As the body inside the capsule began to evolve, another crystal explosion occurred, causing an even stronger earthquake than the previous one.

This tore down a second cable beam, whose supporting pillars had been severely damaged by the fall of the previous beam.

This causes one end of the cable to be embedded in the capsule by the beam.

The explosion causes a wall to collapse and lava to flow into a room in the base containing futuristic machines.

A monitor in a laboratory then shows;

"Data storage temperature leads to data loss. Search for temporary data storage in progress...

Partial data store found.

Name: DNA Reconstructor.

Data transfer has begun. Process: 0%"

Three hours after the starburst began, the starburst ended.

The creature, which was half the size of the shuttle, evolved in less than two hours.

Shortly afterwards, the data transfer was complete.

Some data was lost during the transfer, but most of it was saved, including the coordinates of the target universe.

In addition, there was an oddity detected by the computer in the creature's body.

In its mind, these were the words of the dominoes;

(Kill, Destroy, Strengthen, Dominate, and at all costs.)

And they were constantly repeated. As if that was its purpose.

Why this is happening is STILL a mystery.

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Not long afterwards the creature woke up, and at first it didn't know who it was, or rather what it was.

Then after a few seconds his eyes began to glow, and a sickening projection from the creature's point of view began, while his pained scream was audible.

This projection lasted for a few more minutes, and then, as abruptly as it came, it ended, and then collapsed to the ground.

A little later he grinned mockingly as he repeated it:

"Kill, destroy, strengthen, rule, and at any cost! So that's me, a destroyer, a doom-monger, a parasite, intent on destroying everything while growing stronger.

For a goal that is my goal, I like it...! Then there's nothing left but to start my goal!" he let out a mad, evil laugh.

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The following scenes show the shadow creature either testing and studying his powers, or creating his clone soldiers from his own powers, and under telepathic control, begins to gather power.

In less than a millennium, it consumed the entire universe and then continued its journey to another world

The worlds he destroyed would have been destroyed without him, he just accelerated the process.

It was like an infection, a parasite that destroyed everything to sustain itself.

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After so many destroyed worlds, he reached the "gate" of a certain world, which leads to a certain planet, to a certain realm... Or The Crystal Empire!

And here begins the familiar adventure that led to the purification of an evil tyrant's heart.

Chapter 12 (Finale)

"What the hell are you doing here?" asked Sombra, with a mixture of anger and surprise in his voice, "I saw you die, so how the hell are you still alive?"

"To tell you the truth, I don't know either!" the shadow leader shrugged and continued his monologue, "At that moment I thought I was going to die, that it was the end, etc.

But then I got here. I'm sure I don't know how, but I have a hunch... -he pointed to the emerald green crystal mirror, -I think the energy released by you, the two crystal hearts and your friends' trinkets was so much that it created a momentary space-time rift between these two universes, right where you destroyed most of my body.

The rift and this crystal mirror were linked, and then what was left of my body was transferred into this robot body."

"Did Starswirl's master have something to do with the creation of this mirror?" thought Sombra, frowning.

Seeing this, the shadow leader turned his head to look directly into Sombra's eyes before speaking.

"What, little prince, do you know something?" The Shadow Leader asked in a mocking tone.

"First of all, I'm king to you!" said Sombra pompously, to which the Shadow Leader's reply was a tone of anger and surprise, for he could not understand how the fellow he called a mutt could be accepted as king by what he considered to be the lower life forms, namely the ponies, " For the second time, forget about me telling YOU!" spat Sombra.

"Actually, you don't have to tell me...Because your body will be mine!" said the shadow leader calmly.

"What...?!", Sombra snapped, and then continued irritably, "Well, you can forget it!"

"Imagine that," he stepped closer to Sombra, then looked sharply into his eyes, "that wasn't a request!" he turned away from him, then walked over to the machine by the chair.

"And how are you going to do that?" asked Sombra, "Because it doesn't look to me like you have the power to do that!"

"If you'd turn your ugly face to the machine next to you, you'd see what I'm going to use to do it!

First I wanted a new body, but I'll do more with yours!

And now all I have to do is wait until midnight and your body will be mine!" he sneered.

"And what will you do with my body in this world?"

"Not in this, but from whence you came... For there must be a gate in this world, for you had to come through it somewhere!"

"And what good will that do you, they'll stop you anyway!"

"Before they see me, I'll kill anyone who can stop me!" he walked in front of the angry Sombra, then took her chin to look her straight in the eye, "Then I'll kill the ones you love the most... starting with the stupid little girl and her bitch mother, I mean your precious little love..." he let go of his chin and walked away from him.

"'You take that back, or else…' Sombra snarled, with immeasurable fury.

"Or else what...?" snarled the shadow creature, "You can't do anything, and no one can stop you, especially those girls you came here with...," he snorted mockingly, " They have no power!"

Sombra was puzzled by this statement. So the shadow leader doesn't know of their power...It could be used against him.

"I hope they get here in time and stop him...Otherwise Equestria will be in big trouble!" -He put his face in a neutral position to avoid being caught.

"Though I don't see why I'm wasting my time on you..." -he stepped away from him, then walked back to the crystal.

"Your plan will fail!" shouted Sombra as the shadow leader returned to the crystal.

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Back to the girls

"Where could Sombra have gone? "Fluttershy asked in a low and trembling voice, "Could the one we are looking for have taken her?"

"Most likely!" announced Twilight, and then sighed sadly, "Let's hope she's all right!"

"We've got to find her somehow!" said Rainbow Dash firmly, "But we've got to get out first."

"And how?" asked Rarity, "We can't climb because the crystal wall is too steep!" she pointed to the crystals.

"What if we break it?" guessed Applejack, "My super strength would be enough... I think!"

"You could try, but I doubt you could...If it left us alive, we could probably not break it!"

Applejack stood up and walked over to a wall just in front of the cave entrance.

Meanwhile, the others ducked behind him, shielding their eyes from any crystal shards.

Applejack gathered his strength and pulled his arms back, closing his eyes and slamming them hard against the crystal.

When it hit, cracks appeared, running across the crystal dome, and in an instant the dome shattered as the shards of crystal turned to dust as if they had never been there.

This left behind a beautiful cloud of mica, and as quickly as it was formed, it disappeared.

"Well, we did it..." shrugged Twilight.

" YES, IT WORKED!" cheered Rainbow loudly, but the others hushed her as she grinned nervously, "Oh, sorry!" she whispered.

"Hey, the cave is open!" announced Pinkie as she pointed towards the cave entrance.

"It must have been opened by whoever kidnapped Mr. Sombra!" explained Twilight.

"Shall we go then?" asked Rainbow Dash, with great determination in her voice.

"Dash, we can't just go in there, we'd have to figure out a way to find our way back first!" explained Sunset, "It wouldn't be nice to get lost!"

"I have an idea...," said Twilight, and then she pulled out of her bag a small radar-like machine and a black little gadget with a small antenna on top.

She explains that this gadget is left at the entrance so they can return with the radar.

The others tell her it's a good idea, and then Twilight puts the gadget near the cave entrance.

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They then put on their night-vision goggles and carefully enter the cave, so as not to step into some kind of trap.

Already at the entrance, they notice that the cave entrance has been completely cleared, leaving a narrow passage that does not look natural, as they notice.

During their journey they did not encounter any traps or difficult obstacles of any kind.

So to their surprise, it was a pretty peaceful trip.

After a few minutes of walking towards their destination, they round a corner and notice a faint light filtering out of the corner at the end of the cave.

They walk slowly towards the corner and peek inside.

There they spot the bound Sombra, and some machinery, and a figure standing in front of the crystal, who turns and starts walking towards Sombra. Luckily he didn't see them, because they pulled their heads back in time.

"Did I see what I saw right? Is that really a robot?" asked Applejack in surprise.

The others nodded.

"So what do we do now?" asked Fluttershy in a low voice, even for the situation, "Barki, or whatever it is, looks pretty strong!"

"Fluttershy's right!" agreed Twilight, "Fighting it with fire would be suicide!"

"But then what do we do?" whispered Applejack, "We can't leave Sombra tied up like this, and judging by the situation, it looks like this robot's intentions are not good!"

They start to think of a plan, before Twilight looks around and spots a few things on the ground.

"I have an idea!" She smiles conspiratorially as she points towards the things.

The others look in the direction she's pointing, then quickly figure out her plan.

Pinkie then pulls a small party cannon from her bag.

"Party cannon?!" she asks quietly, but extremely excited.

Sunset puts her right hand on Pinkie's shoulder, then looks her in the eye and says with a determined smile, "Yes Pinkie, Party Cannon!"

Pinkie smiles with outbursts of happiness, and they get to work on the plan.

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Meanwhile, the shadow leader reaches Sombra, who, having nothing else to do, watches the events.

"Well, the great day I have waited for so long has come! As you see," he pointed to the digital clock on his hand, which read midnight, "it's already midnight!

Now all I need is one of these little helmets, -he took a helmet from the top of the machine next to the chair with cables tied into it and began to place the device on Sombra's head, -I can finally have my revenge on you!" he placed it on her head and let out a triumphant laugh.

""PARTYCANNON!!!"-he hears a high-pitched exclamation, which surprises him, but before he can do anything, several pieces of smaller and larger crystal shards, stone fragments, and stalactites, some of which are larger pieces that glitter magenta, plus even magical sparkling diamonds hit him.

Many of these came with such force that they struck the cave wall opposite the cave entrance, and were impaled and anchored there by a larger crystal and several smaller ones.

Sombra, hearing Pinkie's battle cry and the defeated and impaled shadow leader, smiled.

The Shadowleader looked at Sombra's rescue party, then shouted in an angry voice:

"You Dastard!"

Pinkie Pie simply said:

"Why, what did you expect...," she looked towards the cave wall on the right, holding the fired party cannon in her hand, then interrupted her sentence with a raised eyebrow, "Why I said that, and why I looked that way. .., - she looked at her friends, who shrugged, -What did you expect? - she looked towards the twitching shadow leader, -We're going to have an epic battle and all that..., - she waved her hand, -Oh, come on!

Okay, it may have been a sneaky solution, but it was also a sensible and practical one!"

"You bastards...," the shadow leader blurted out, and then his body started to spark, and then in a few seconds he was off, or at least seemed to be.

""Yes, we win!" announced Rainbow Dash, and then a fist bump took place between them, and they set off to rescue Sombra.

Meanwhile, although seemingly switched off, the shadow leader, with overwhelming anger;

"If the knowledge cannot be mine, it should be no one's!" suddenly raised his hand and fired a hook into the crystal, causing a loud crack.

The others, meanwhile, were busy freeing Sombra, which they did, and as Sombra thanked them for their help and was about to get up from the chair, they heard a loud crack, which got the attention of the others before they were startled.

Then they turned their heads towards the crystal, and retracing their steps to the hook that had been buried in it, Sombra, then voicing their surprise, declared:

"What the hell happened?"-while he stood with the others, less than a metre away, in a startled stance.

"If I die, I'm taking you with me!" the shadow leader stated firmly, then abruptly raised his hand, which had turned into a laser cannon, and then directed a small amount of the energy in the crystal into it, then fired a laser beam towards Sombra, in revenge.

Rarity, standing behind her, instinctively created a diamond shield in self-defence, deflecting the beam, which struck the emerald mirror, causing it to explode.

Fortunately no one was injured by the explosion, but it caused 2 events to occur simultaneously.

First, a piece of the crystal mirror hit a modern-style desk in shades of white and black.

This caused a seemingly hidden drawer to fall and slip out, preventing the desk from falling over completely as the drawer mechanism got stuck.

Now the secret drawer of the half-way-fallen desk can be seen into.

If you had peered inside, you would have seen a 15x25 cm standing picture, turned 90 degrees to the left. In this picture, standing upright, you can see a photograph of three beings resembling human beings in a cave, standing in front of a red crystal.

On the left is a woman wearing a brown and white fur coat, brown trousers, black fur shoes and brown fur gloves.

Her posture is upright and her hands, clasped together in front of her groin, show a bracelet with a raven symbol on it.

On his right is a slightly thin man, slightly taller than the others, wearing a brown suit and black tie with a white shirt underneath.

He also wears black trousers and black shoes.

A necklace with a star with 8 branches hangs around his neck.

Behind his back he stands at attention with his hands clasped together.

Between them stands a stockier, slightly smaller man wearing a brown, old-fashioned robe with black buttons and a few pockets. Down and under his ankle-length robe he wears a pair of grey trousers and matching black boots.

On his back he wears a cape in shades of blue and light blue with yellow stars.

There is also a badge resembling a diamond on his right side.

He stands amused while hugging the people standing next to him, which shows that he is wearing black gloves.

As their heads are obscured by a paper placed at an angle, it is not possible to tell who they are.

Because their heads are covered by a piece of paper placed at an angle, it is impossible to tell who they are.

The second event took place after the force of the explosion cracked a crystal, which ran on a wedge from the floor to the ceiling.

In that instant, a crack ran through it and loosened a red crystal hanging from the ceiling, which broke off and fell onto the robot head of the shadow leader, who was about to fire another blast.

The crystal was pierced, and then began to glow red from the energy running through the head.

Not only did it cause a spectacular light show, it also emitted a high temperature that burned the shadow leader alive, letting out a great scream, in a matter of moments.

And with that, it was destroyed for ever.

After it had burned up, Sunset turned to Sombra and asked what the crystal was.

"It's a thermolite crystal...Energy produces heat and the higher the energy..."

He interrupted his explanation when a loud hissing sound was heard, then turned his head towards the source of the sound coming from the crystal.

When they turned their heads there, a bolt of lightning shot out and slammed into the large monitor, blowing it up.

"What on earth is happening?" asked Applejack in surprise.

"The crystal's going to explode!" said Sombra in a serious voice, "We have to get out of here now!"

"And what about the inventions?" pointed to one of them, "We can't leave those!"

"Sorry, but our lives are more important!" said Sombra with a firm but understanding look.

After a brief hesitation, she agreed with Sombra and they began to make their way out of the cave.

As they ran, Twilight saw a strange object and pocketed it, then continued on her way without hesitation.

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After a short run, they used radar to get out of the cave and, after running far enough, the crystal exploded.

The explosion pulverized everything, then collapsed the entire cave as a huge blast wave erupted from the cave entrance.

The entire cave entrance then collapsed completely, finally sealed by a huge boulder.

The group then looked at the cave entrance after it had completely collapsed.

"Is everyone okay?" asked Sombra of the others.

Panting, Sunset nodded, "Who was that guy? And how did he know you? Because it looked to me like he knew you! ...And how did you know we were going to walk to the place where our crystal prison was created?"

"He was the shadow leader..." said Sombra tersely.

"Shadowleader...?" asked everyone in a surprised tone, "But we heard from Twilight that you killed him!" said Applejack, puzzled.

"Somehow, his body ended up in this world through a mirror, and it controlled that... what was it called again? Oh, right, robot body."

"You mean through that emerald green mirror?" Twilight asked.

Sombra nodded.

"He thinks that the immense amount of energy used to kill him caused a space-time rift between the two worlds, and this rift connected to the mirror.

The direction of the crystal's spread was probably controlled remotely somehow."

"Does that gate also lead to Equestria?" Sunset asked.

"Most likely!" Twilight replied, "But I'm more surprised by those devices...

They seem much more advanced than anything I've ever seen, plus there's something else," - she took an object with a symbol on it out of her coat pocket, - "Have you ever seen a symbol like this?" - she showed it to Sombra.

"Hmm, it looks exactly like the symbol on the robot body! Where did you find it?

"When I rushed out, I quickly picked it up..." Twilight explained, "It most likely came from the emerald green mirror!"

"I wonder what these smaller symbols represent?" Sunset asked, pointing at one of the smaller symbols.

"I don't know..." Rarity shivered from the cold, "But I think we could look at this in a less cold place!"

They agreed, and since they had already missed the 19 bus, they called Bob, who gladly came to pick them up.

Half an hour later, he arrived, and after they got in, they headed towards Canterlot High School.

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As they drive to school, Twilight checks the time on her phone, which reads quarter to one:

"Wow, is that the time already?! We were swooned for a long time!" she sighed, turning her head, "too bad I missed the event I wanted to see!"

"And we missed the last Halloween party we had together!" The girls sighed.

Sombra felt sorry for them, so he asked;

"Hey, want to come to the upcoming festival?"

At this, the girls' eyes lit up.

"Are you serious, Mr. Sombra?" asked Pinkie with a delighted smile.

"Sure...," said Sombra with a kind smile, "You deserve to have a well worthwhile time and I was about to say, just call me Sombra!"

"Thank you, Sombra!" they exclaimed, very happy.

Bob first rejoiced at the girls' happiness, then sighed in unison, then said; "Too bad I can't go!"

"Who says I didn't...," said Sombra with a smile, "You came to pick us up so late, and you deserve to have a fun time!"

"Thank you very much!" said Bob with a big smile as he watched the road, „Will it be in that other world?"

Sombra nodded.

"And nowhere else but in the Crystal Empire!"

"After all these years it will be nice to return to Equestria!" -Bob said happily.

"Well...," they dropped their pennies, "What?" they said at the same time, "Have you been to the other world?"

"I've not only been there, I'm from there!" replied Bob, with total calm.

"Are you from there? ... they all exclaimed, -Why didn't you tell me that information?"

"Well," he shrugged, "you never asked!"

"It's not customary not to give out such information!" said Sunset, puzzled.

"All I can tell you is that it was Princess Celestia's order not to tell you!

I can only reveal so much to you!"

The others exchanged a puzzled look, and Pinkie spat it out;

"Okay, we don't want to get involved!

And since you've helped us so much, we'll respect that you won't tell us anything else."

"Thank you!" said Bob, relieved, " Is the invitation still open, Mr. Sombra?"

"Sure, I guess," he said, confused, "but Celestia won't mind you leaving this world, will she?"

"She told me I could cross over at any time.

Obviously only if the gate is open... I suppose it's open again."

"Well, technically, no..."

"Then how did you get through?"

Soon after, having been told how, they reached the school at about 1pm.

After Bob parks, they head to the statue that serves as a gateway, and once there, they contact Twilight using Sunset's log.

Twilight writes back a few minutes later, saying that the gate is open.

Then those who had never been to the other world were prepared to step through, and together they stepped through the gate.

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Meanwhile, Twilight is in the room where the mirror is located, waiting for Sombra.

Suddenly there is a brilliant light, and Sombra, in his transformed form, steps through it.

As she starts to walk over to talk to him, to her surprise, 8 other ponies fall out of the mirror.

She recognized seven of the mares, because one was Sunset, and one of the other six was her, only without wings, and a replica of her friends.

The eighth pony, a stallion with white coat and a black mane with a baseball cap on, well, he didn't recognise.

"Uhm, I'm sorry to ask, but what are you doing here, and most importantly... who is he?" he pointed his hoof at the strange stallion, aka Bob, who was still unconscious.

"Well," Sombra began his explanation, "I invited them to the upcoming festival because they missed a party...," he pointed to the girls, some of whom were either waving to Twilight, trying to get used to their bodies, or still slightly unconscious, "and he is Bob, the girls' friend, and according to him, he is from this world," Bob pointed, who had just woken up.

When Bob shook his head to clear it, he noticed a tall pony he identified as Sombra.

"Sombra, are you an Alicorn?" asked Bob in surprise, but quickly realised he had asked a stupid question, "So you're probably a member of the royal family!" he bowed to him, then saw Twilight, and as she was an Alicorn, he bowed to her too.

Sombra's response was a nod and a bow.

"Well, all right...," Twilight said with a surprised tone and expression, then greeted Bob with a smile and a nod, then remembered something, -What did you find out?"

Then they were told everything that had happened to them.

She shivered at the return of the shadow leader, but was delighted to learn that they had killed him again.

But the most surprising thing for them, was the cave they found, and the tools they found there surprised them, as Sci-Twi said that in their world, such advanced technology did not exist.

Meg, they even showed her the strange symbol, which now clearly shows a molten, metal-like substance molten and still solidified at the point where the text between the 8-branched star and the raven symbol is located, completely hidden from view.

While they are talking about this, Sombra notices that the girls, plus Bob, are very tired, so he offers them a spell to help them rest.

They agreed and he performed the spell, during which their bodies glowed purple.

After half a minute he finished, and the girls, plus Bob, felt as if all their fatigue was gone.

They thanked Sombra, who looked a little tired from the spell.

They were a little worried about this, but Sombra assured them that since he was an Alicorn, he would be fine in no time, but they shouldn't get used to it, as it was a very difficult spell.

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Even before they left, Sombra disguised Sunset's friends, except for Sunset and Bob, with a spell to keep them inconspicuous.

They are disguised by a crystal necklace around their necks.

Soon afterwards, they packed up and headed to the train station, where they met their Twilight Sparkle friends from this world, who they tell everything, including who they are, as they head to the Crystal Empire.

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A few hours later we find ourselves in the Crystal Empire, in the afternoon.

From above, you can see that there are many ponies, many of them crystal ponies, but many more of different kinds of ponies waiting for a festival to begin.

This festival is a celebration of a brand new and special holiday, as the War of the Sky Tears ended exactly one year to the day.

These many ponies stand in a semi-circle in front of a temporary podium in the town square, listening with delighted smiles to a special pony's speech.

He is, of course, Sombra.

Cadance and Shining Armour insisted that he be the one to open the new celebration, as he is the war hero.

Although Sombra didn't think so, he agreed.

During his speech, he was asked where he was yesterday, but he said it was top secret.

He didn't like lying to citizens, but telling them information would create unnecessary panic and, to be fully understood, they would have to tell information that would not be good if it got into the wrong hooves, claws, and so on.

"...And with that, I would like to open the Crystal Empire's newest celebration to remind the Future Generation that together we are always stronger; The Day of Victory!"

This was greeted with cheers and applause.

After the crowd cheered Sombra's speech, they set off to enjoy the Crystal Empire's latest celebration.

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In the following scenes, we can see that Sombra and her friends and family members are engaged in different activities.

For example, the disguised Applejack and her otherworldly self are trying out a new game, namely Hit the Shadowcreature while you can.

Or Rainbow Dash helps his human counterpart from the human world fly, or the two Fluttershy and Discord operate a pet petting farm.

Although Discord doesn't like to travel to the Crystal Empire, as he can't use his powers here, he does like to help her dearest friend, albeit in his own stupid personal way.

In fact, everyone is having a good time.

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As night approaches, Sunset, Celestia, Luna, and Bob walk together from booth to booth, talking about other things.

Ever since Sunset was forgiven by Celestia during the events of the memorial stone incident, they've been wanting to spend a lot of time together.

And Celestia is also very happy to be meeting one of her best secret agents, Bob, again.

While walking, Sunset spots a familiar pony standing outside a jewellery booth.

"Hello, Starlight!" greets Sunset, "May I ask what you're buying?"

"Ah, hello Sunset!" replied Starlight with a smile, "Good to see you again..."

"Seeing you again?!" asked Celestia in surprise as she talked to Luna Bob, "I didn't know you two knew each other!"

"Ah, it's a long story!" said Starlight, "In answer to your question," she looked towards Sunset, "I want to buy this necklace." she pointed to a gold necklace with a green gemstone dangling from it, "But I'm waiting for the seller!"

"Hold on, I'll be right there, I just had to take care of something!" a man's voice called from behind the big booth.

After a few seconds, the door opened, and a unicorn entered the foyer of the booth, using his magic to bring in a box that glowed a brilliant green.

When they saw him in his entirety, they were a little startled.

They were not frightened by his black coat or his blue mane, but by his blue non-reflective eyes.

"Ah, what, what happened?"- the salesman was a little scared by their reaction, but quickly found the answer, "I guess it's my eyes that scared you, isn't it?" the salesman asked with a poker face.

"Excuse me, but we've never seen a pony with eyes like that before!" apologized Celestia, and then the others, "I've only ever seen eyes like that on Changelings in my life!"

"Changelings?!" asked Sunset and Bob, puzzled.

"Long story!" replied Luna.

"If you don't mind me asking, why do you have those eyes?" asked Sunset inquiringly.

"I was born that way. It's caused by a rare birth disease called..."

"Phathium vortus...," Sunburst said as he adjusted his glasses, "It occurs in ponies whose ancestors included a bat pony.

In addition to the eye defect, they also have perfect night vision!"

"That's right!" said the owner, "If they're always scared of my eyes, they should be of some use!" he chuckled.

"What a lot you can learn from a simple purchase!" said Starlight with a smile, to which everyone started giggling.

"'Miss, what would you like to buy?" the salesperson finally asked after his giggle.

"I'd like this!" pointed to the necklace Starlight.

"Ah, that's an excellent choice!" said the salesman with a smile, then put it in a bag, "It costs 25 bits."

"Wait…-Starlight reached into her saddlebag, then sadly said, -Sorry, but I only have 20 bits."

"Ah, you know what, you can have it for 10 bits!" said the salesman with a kind smile.

"Thank you very much!" thanked Starlight, and then she paid for the necklace, and they joined the others as they continued on their way, laughing.

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A few hours later, to close the celebration, fireworks at midnight marked this momentous day, which led to the end of a war!

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One month ago, we find ourselves in a cave in an unknown place.

The dark cave is consisting of grey rocks, with different coloured crystals covering the walls and ceiling, and in the centre of the cave there is a table with a tablecloth on which strange symbols are sewn.

Suddenly someone walks into the cave and heads straight for the table.

He wears a strange cloak embellished with various small crystals, and his head is covered by a mask, revealing only his blue, non-reflective eyes.

One part of the mask completely hides his horns, while the cloak and the great darkness prevent him from showing his legs and his entire body.

When he got to the table, he took a few pieces of minerals from his bag and placed them on the tablecloth on the table so that they would be placed exactly on the symbols.

He then took a spell book from his bag and placed it on the stand next to the table, opening it to a certain side.

After reading through the spell, he began to talk to himself.

"I hope the crystals will give me enough power to perform this spell!" he said in a distorted voice because of the mask, and then he started casting.

The object that completely hid his horns began to glow a brilliant green, then the crystals on his clothes, and finally the crystals on the cave walls and ceiling began to glow.

After a few seconds, several smaller beams of energy began to shoot out from the cave crystals towards the crystals on his clothes and when he hit them, his cloak began to glow as he felt stronger.

As tempting as this power was, he would have to use it all to complete the spell.

Finally, a beam shot out from his horn towards the mineral treasures on the table, transforming into a magic orb, in which the mineral treasures transformed into an object.

It resembles a gold necklace with a green gemstone dangling from it.

He puts it in his bag and then declares;

"The first phase of my plan is underway!

The next phase, using this object to stage a coup!

But let's not get ahead of ourselves, I still have a lot to accomplish!"

He puts the book away, then shoots a beam from his horn, setting the table alight.

The table and the sheet on it are not needed.

After burning quickly, he turned and walked out.

The End!

Season 6 Timeline

Author's Note

Here is the end of my story!
I hope you enjoyed this story.
I would love to hear your comments, positive or negative.
My next story will be published in 2025 (Alternative Seasone 6 finale), planned for late February or early March.
(But it's not certain!)
I believe a cut a long story short, so... bye!

Season 6 Timeline

Season six

In unspecified chronological order...

At the beginning of the season (after the 17 episodes of season 6), the 16th episode of season 8 will be played.

The Cutie Mark Crusaders help Tender Taps get his cutie mark.

Ember wins the Gauntlet of Fire and becomes Dragon Lord, succeeding her father Torch.

Starlight Glimmer befriends Trixie.

Fire Streak retires from the Wonderbolts, and Rainbow Dash is promoted from reservist to full member.

(Episode 12 of season 7 takes place in this season)

Equestria Girls specials

The Rainbooms and Shadowbolts collaborate on a dance music video to win the Canterlot Mall Chance to Prance music video contest.

The Mane Seven are invited onto the set of the Daring Do movie and solve a prop theft mystery committed by Juniper Montage.

Starlight Glimmer travels from Equestria to the human world and helps stop Juniper Montage when she is corrupted by a magical hand mirror.

Sunset Shimmer and her friends destroy the Memory Stone and foil Wallflower Blush's memory-erasing schemes. (Forgotten Friendship)

Shortly after the episode, My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Crystal problem.

Rarity For You is opened in Manehattan, and Buried Lede writes a newspaper review about its grand opening.

Fluttershy's younger brother Zephyr Breeze graduates from mane therapy school.

The Cutie Map is reactivated, and it summons Pinkie Pie and Rarity to Canterlot.

Rainbow Dash attends the Daring Do Convention in Manehattan and meets Quibble Pants.

The Applewood Derby is held in Ponyville.

Spike befriends a changeling named Thorax.

Gabby the griffon becomes a member of the Cutie Mark Crusaders.

The Cutie Map summons Applejack and Fluttershy to Las Pegasus.

The Cutie Map summons Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash to the Wonderbolt Academy.

At the beginning of the season (after the 17 episodes of season 6), the 16th episode of season 8 will be played.

"S.o.C.": After 1125 years

early spring.

At the end of the season Big Mac and Sugar Belle get married.

(Episode 23 of season 9 takes place at the end of season 6.

Changes in the episode: Spike doesn't have wings yet. So he doesn't fly in any of the scenes.)

Episodes following this event that contradict this event (except those I have already changed chronologically) will have their events aligned with this event!!!

One week later.

Alternative Season 6 episodes 25-26

(The next story!)