"Well, this was remarkably easy," Twilight Sparkle told her friends as she pointed to a purple crystal pony. "There she is, watching him and Cadance."
"Well, of course she's going to be watching them," Rarity said as the group stood a few dozen yards away from her. "We've already discussed that she'd be sympathetic to him. She's likely looking for an opportunity to get to him, and maybe run off with him."
"I knew he was lying!"
"Stop it, Rainbow Dash," Fluttershy told her, a bit angry. "Just because she's here doesn't mean Alex is lying. It might be that she brought him here on accident, or maybe even just a coincidence."
"Let's go talk to her and find out!" Pinkie Pie said excitedly. However, before she could make her way over, Twilight stopped her.
"No," she instructed. "You all tell Cadance that we found her. I'll talk to her alone."
Radiant Hope knew that she had to be proactive. Waiting for a chance to get to Sombra alone wasn’t turning out to be a good strategy.
She had to think. What could she do? Not steal the Crystal Heart again. At least, not yet, not with Cadance once again standing directly over him, pausing only to let two other mares talk to him. With the look she had, she wouldn’t hesitate to kill him if it went missing, or try to at least. She was certain he’d survive, but she didn’t want to have to find him all over again.
While she knew that sitting here was a bad idea, she also knew she couldn’t just walk up to him… could she? Well, maybe. But for that, she’d have to explain who she was and why she wanted to see him, which was a bad plan. Was it? She thought about it, and the more she thought, the more it seemed like an okay plan at the least. After all, she was a student of Celestia’s and Luna’s at one point, and was going to become Princess of the Crystal Empire before her friend caused it to disappear. If she could explain that to them, there’d be no doubt they’d let her see him.
Of course, there was still the problem of getting him out of the Crystal Empire. Even if she was able to see him, she doubted that Cadance or Shining Armor would let down their guard for even a moment. She wouldn’t be able to just take off with him as soon as she saw him, but she was sure that over the course of a few weeks, a moment would present itself. Either way, that was a problem for later. For now, she just needed to get to him, and asking to see him seemed like the best plan at the moment.
The only thing stopping Hope from enacting that plan was the fact that they heard her voice. Twice, in fact. While she knew the chances of them realizing it was her that called out were small, they were still large enough that she didn’t feel entirely comfortable with showing up out of the blue. At least, not without an excuse.
Maybe she could be honest… somewhat. Say that she was trying to bring Sombra back to reform him and he escaped… or not. That was a bad idea. They’d probably just assume that they were working together to take over Equestria, which wouldn’t be ideal. There wasn’t really any other good excuse for her to be there. She was his best friend, and the Crystal Heart went missing that very day. It didn’t take much thinking to put two and two together. If she were just some random pony, it wouldn’t be a problem, but given who she was, they’d be very suspicious. She didn’t think she could get off saying, “that wasn’t me” if they recognized her.
She sighed. It was a conundrum she was in, with no good way forward. He could have just stayed put, but that didn't happen, and now she had to think about what to do from here. She was starting to consider simply risking her voice being recognized when her thinking was interrupted by a voice behind her.
"Radiant Hope?" a mare called. "Is that you?"
She tensed up for a second hearing that, then quickly relaxed, remembering where she was. Ponies obviously knew her and would recognize her. The Crystal Empire might have vanished for a thousand years, but to them, it only felt like a few days.
"Yes, it's me," she called without turning around. She wasn't that concerned if some random pony saw her. All they knew was that she was training under Celestia and Luna, and would possibly become a princess. More importantly, they didn't know that her friend, Sombra, was here.
“My name is Twilight Sparkle,” the mare said, stepping closer to her. “Is it okay if I talked to you?”
Twilight Sparkle? That name sounded familiar, in a vague way, like she heard it before in passing. She was probably an acquaintance she used to have
“Sure,” she said, turning around. “What is-”
Radiant Hope froze when she saw the purple alicorn standing there. A princess. It was the last pony she expected to see, and knew she'd only talk to her if she was suspicious of her, that suspicion being worsened since she'd been caught watching Sombra. She almost started to run away from her. Almost. But she controlled herself, and pushed that urge down. This particular princess wasn't there when Hope took the Heart. There was no reason to run. Running would just confirm whatever they were thinking about her.
"What is it?" she asked, keeping the nervousness she felt out of her voice.
“Well,” Twilight started, trying to tread carefully, “I was just wondering why you were watching him…” The mare she spoke to remained silent, furrowing her brow, and Twilight continued. “I also wanted to know if you… tried to bring Sombra here."
Hope took note of that word, tried. Her friend had somehow been able to convince them he wasn’t himself, and had done a very good job of it as well. They still doubted him, which is why they sought her out. They likely reasoned that, since Sombra couldn’t tell them anything, they’d try to find her and question her. However, she didn’t know what exactly he’d told them, and needed to know what that was. She had to try to direct the conversation her way.
“That’s not Sombra?” she asked, sounding confused. “Who is he?”
“Um. From what we can tell, that’s some creature named… Alex who’s trapped inside of Sombra’s body.”
That was interesting. She knew this princess was new, due to the fact that Hope didn't know her, but she must have been extremely new to just out and out tell her that. More interesting was the tactic Sombra used, pretending to be somepony else. It was a very difficult excuse to use, seeing as the princesses would quickly be able to tell he was lying. But with how strong he was and his mastery over manipulating minds, she was certain he could make it work.
“Where did you find him?” she asked curiously.
“Um, he was in the castle, in his study when we found him. I was the first one there.”
That wasn’t a surprise. She was expecting him to be there when she was there, which was why she stole the Crystal Heart to begin with. She also expected him to be weaker than he currently was, but obviously that wasn’t the case seeing as he turned up early.
“What happened when you found him?” she asked.
“Well, I went to get Princess Cadance…” Twilight started, trailing off, realizing that Radiant Hope was taking control of the conversation and trying to get information out of her. While she may have been seeking out her help, she didn’t want to reveal too much. She was still wary of her, and it seemed like she intentionally didn’t answer whether or not she brought him here. She would definitely need to keep watch over her and how she interacted with him. Luckily, Cadance, and more than likely Luna as well, would be there with them.
“Ah, I was wondering,” she started again, changing the subject, “since you have a cutie mark in healing, would you be able to help us out with him?”
Hope couldn't believe what she heard, and how unbelievably lucky she was.That was exactly what she wanted to hear. Now, she wouldn’t have to try and convince them to see him, or try to sneak in to talk to him. She could just walk right in and see him. They’d probably still be watching over him, but she could figure that part out later.
"Help out how?"
"As I said, we think some creature else is trapped inside of Sombra's body, and everypony else said they can't help him, so we were wondering if there was anything you could do."
“Well, I can definitely see what I can do,” she said, trying to keep herself from smiling.
Wow.
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I DON'T think he gives a Shit right about now. He is RIGHTFULLY PISSED!!!!!!
Didn't Twilight go to the Equestria Girls Universe to get her Crown from Sunset????? Since this look like it's AFTER Season 9. Why DIDN'T SHE KNOW ALEX IS HUMAN!!!!!?????
Either Twilight is being the biggest moron in history for asking someone who has a real clear interest in sombra for some reason, or Twilight is playing Fourth dimensional chess and is duping Radiant hope into willingly walking into the palace to promptly be arrested by the guards.
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I HOPE it's the Second one, and NOT the First!!!
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HOLD IT! When did Alex described what he was or looked like? What chapter?
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Probably she didn't get the connection? Since Sunset's human world does not have 'United State of America', if I'm not mistaken.
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Maybe she want to observe the reaction of this Sombra in the meeting with Radiant? I already predicted that Alex would like to give a(or two) boot to the her head once he found out.
I'm wondering who is the biggest moron, idiot there
Radiant or Sparkle
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It's possible they both have different ideas about how they're expecting this to go. And neither is just going to go in unprepared...
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I don't know??? But he SHOULD have told them what his Original Body (Human) look like.
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He be at a mental asylum if he gave them a description of his old body, and they most likely use that info against him. As they did when he told him where he was from.
Sombra
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Is Rainbowdash braindead? He didnt lie, a established F-A-C-T !
Somehow I imagine he will be less than thrilled to meet her.
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Rainbow has been established to jump the gun at times and with the history that the body Alex inhabits has, of course she would be more suspicious and more readily to accept a perceived fault that may hint at lying.
I'm not saying its right, but simply explaining.
are we sure her name isn't Lucky hope cause things have been going her way recently minus a few probelms.
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Brain-less bucket bash, remember?
Both of them are idiots and it's going to be Cadance who ends up beating the stupid outta all of them.
Wasn't expecting all that out of Cadenza. Celestia? Sure. She's usually a xenophobic bigot even in canon but not Cadenza. Let's see how this goes.
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From everything I've gathered if you're not a pony or don't accept her order disguised as harmony then you're to be treated like shit. Look to the changelings for example. They had to invade because they were starving to death. They couldn't get the love they needed because ponies wouldn't share their love. Celestia was said to be 10k years old and she could have fostered peace and true harmony with all races where all prosper and yet she only focused on "her little ponies." Hell you could look to Tirek and even fucking nightmare moon. Granted Tirek got greedy but still. Nightmare Moon just wanted to be appreciated and what happens instead? "I'm too busy basking in the worship of my subjects to pay attention to you." And Tirek needs magick to survive. Im also willing to bet Discord came about because of the tree of harmony tipping the scales to Order and the universe wanted to balance it and therefore created him to do just that.
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I would say the lack of comunication with other species before Twilight would be somwthing if not for Celestia being shown to be so inept that it is more she never thought about it than outroght disdain.
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1) Maybe this story disincludes EQG from its canon?
2) He doesn't look like a human, so she'd have to get his verbal description, and even if she had it, why wouldn't she just figure that Sombra knew about humans too?
It now makes sense in hindsight why Discord is refusing to have anything to do with Alex, and it has nothing to do with chaos. If he DID try anything, they woukd all turn on him and declare Discord evil and in league with Sombra for saying that Alex isn't Sombra, and is innocent. It also is telling that neither Celestia or Luna never befriended Discord, because neither of them are willing to make piece with someone they consider an enemy. Fluttershy is Discord's only friend because nobody else genuinely has ever tried or cared.
And wow, Rainbow Dash is a cunt. I guess it doesn't matter at all who it is that's the victim as long as they look like Sombra and you have the slightest inkling then they need to die. If it wasn't Alex and instead was someone she cared avout would she still want to kill then? How about Daring Do, would RD kill her? She's still "Sombra" so by previous logic she'd still need to die. The same goes fir anyone else, Scootaloo, the other EoH, and even herself.
Let's see who is doing the bigger brain.
What will Radiant do when her world comes crumbling down again?
Everypony get ready to stifle your inner assumptions and knee jerk reactions!
Keep going! ;)
Wonder how she'll react when she realizes that's not really sombra. Xp
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HOW CAN Sombra knew about us???? Last I checked, Only Twilight, Spike, Starlight, and Sunset saw and meet the Equestria Girls Humans.
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She FRICKIN REGRET IT, once they FINALLY know that the REAL Sombra is truly Dead. And Alex has the Right to Trash Talk on Rainbow and the others for being HORRIBLE Ponies and Hypocrites on the "Friendship and Harmony" BS they talk about.
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BS!!!!!!! They WON'T go that Far!!!!!!! And they be NO BETTER THAN Sombra, Tirek, Chrysalis, Storm King, and other Heartless Villains they have faced.
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with how Celestia reacted, they definitely have the potential to do far worse. Here is hoping they can make the right choice.
Somrab—> Sombra
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If they DON'T??!! I hope KARMA or BAD LUCK will bite them in their Stupid Asses!!!
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Can’t wait for the real Sombra to pop back up...
She just gives a creepy smile like Henry does in this scene.
1:24
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Yeah it's pretty clear that Twilight has a plan, I'm excited to find out what it is
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Yes but Luna,Discord and AJ confirm the truth...
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Yeah...
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Lets hope so...
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You have good points. But Tirek is a greedy asshole. He had the chance to return home and dont want it...
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Now Sunset Shimmer reapperance would be a bit oberkill... ... Lets do it
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Cadance: " Ops, nevermind..."
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Neat...
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Dito. Did we miss something?
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Get rid of Alex and return Sunbutt i guess...
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Unless he cant... Would be poetic if they murderd him for good and Radiant becomes there new Nemesis for killing him
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True
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Oh yeah they confirmed the truth, that doesn't change the bullheaded attitude that Dash has or can have. She can still convince herself that he's still at fault, no matter what and that might be what is going on.
Pretty much she's a dense idiot.
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I hope Alex will give a "You FRCIKIN Suck, and you should feel BAD about it!!!!" Rant on Rainbow, once his Name is FINALLY Cleared.
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Neither I nor Twilight would not positively predict that he knew about humans, but it would be very unsurprising for him to know of them, and so not constitute strong evidence that something is strange:
Sombra was presumably well-educated and studied a variety of magic. Star Swirl's time was before Sombra's time, but not by a large margin. So Star Swirl's use of the humans' world as a dumping ground would be recent history, and possibly well-attested at that time. Note that one did not require a mirror to send things there (the sirens would be a good example), and such banishing was typically performed in the open, so if its use gave a glimpse through to the other side, there could well be many witnesses. As far as they know, Sombra could have gained access to the mirror at some point. As a side-note, it was in the Crystal Empire during EQG, which loosely suggests it may have been there before, having been brought back by Cadence (though this raises the question of how it got taken away, as it had to have been in order to have been used by Sunset Shimmer earlier).
Given the logical contortions they were willing to go through to avoid admitting this wasn't Sombra, this would be easy for them to ignore, and far more rightfully so.
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"Given the logical contortions they were willing to go through to avoid admitting this wasn't Sombra, this would be easy for them to ignore, and far more rightfully so."
WHAT does that even mean??? Their are willing to ignore that Alex MIGHT be Innocent, and telling the Truth. Or DOESN'T want to find Proof that the REAL Sombra might probably kidnapped Alex to use him as a Scape Goat????!!!!!!! Because, if it is, THAT will be their LAST Mistake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If Alex FINALLY found a way to go back to Earth, and wants to take Revenge. He can go to the USA Government, and tell them everything. He CAN Even bring PROOF to show he's Not crazy or making this stuff up. And Once they have learn on how Alex was treated, and the fact that this Starswirl Guy DUMP their own Enemies on Planet Earth. Potential Threats on Humanity itself. Yeah, the USA, and the U.N. Will have a LLLLOOONNNNNGGGGG "Talk" to the Ponies.
Hey, it could be a Potential What If on this Story, where Alex wants Justified Vengeance on the Ponies, and ask HIS Kind for help.
NO ONE, NOT EVEN CHILDISH PONIES MESS WITH HUMANITY!!!!!!!! 😈😈😈😡😡😡
* WARHAMMER 40K IMPERIUM OF MAN SONGS!!!!!!!!!!!! *
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I think I misunderstood what you were getting at when you said,
> Why DIDN'T SHE KNOW ALEX IS HUMAN!!!!!?????
I thought you meant that that would be evidence that he wasn't Sombra.
I pointed out that it wouldn't be strong evidence that he wasn't Sombra, because as far as she knows, if Sombra was faking it all, this was a detail he could easily have invented.
And now you're talking military intervention, what?
Somrab sounds pretty rad. This chapter displays what I love best about Radiant Hope, how she's good, but also crafty and conniving.
I get the feeling Alex is gonna recognize Hope. I just feel like he will somehow.