Justin reunites with the Mane Six for a little trip into vacation...and bringing along his new girlfriend and her sonw ith him, going on big adventures!
Sequel to my original hit. Justin Exitor and his daughter Hayley reunites with their adopted family members, the Mane Six, for a little vacation, bringing Justin's girlfriend Mila and her son Brad along with them. Of course, as they try to relax, they meet up with some difficulties, like Justin trying to get a good dad to Justin, Brad's attitude problem and his secret, as well as meeting with the Mystic Ponies who has a bad past with humans.
Some time, letting go is part of life. You got to accept death one way or another, admit that you can't always be good at everything, or let your family go.
For Justin Exitor and his daughter Hayley, they did just that. But it isn't humans, but rather...ponies. Not too long ago, they took care of the Mane Six when they came to their world via an event in Equestria. Justin treated them like daughters, filling a little void in his and Hayley's life, helping them get their cutie marks and growing up.
When the day comes that they had to go back home, Justin and Hayley accepted that it's time to do so, but arrangements has been made so that the two can visit Equestria whenever they want.
Another chapter has closed on the life of the Exitors...and another one is about to begin.
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It has been a year since Justin's last visit to Equestria. The father is at the supermarket, getting some groceries as usual. He was picking up some milk while his thoughts are on his little fillies.
"Wow... This day keeps busy and busy. I wonder how the others doing." Justin said, getting concerned as he wonders how his little fillies are doing. "I haven't respond to any of them since... Since..."
"Daddy?" Hayley spoke up, getting Justin's attention. She is concerned how father appears to be distance. She knows how much he missed them.
"Sorry, Harley... I didn't mean to make you worry."
"It’s okay, daddy. I also felt that too. I miss them a lot too."
"Yeah..." Justin sighs a bit. It has been a while since he and Hayley first saw their adopted fillies. If only they...then the father realized something. Yes, maybe. "Oh yeah... In the next two weeks is your summer vacation, right?"
"Yeah?" Hayley ask her father with a nod, wondering what her father is sugestting.
"We can have an awesome vacation in Equestria!"
Hayley gasped in excitement. Could it be? She ask, "Really? That means I get to see them again! We can play together again! YEAH!"
"You bet, sweetheart!" Justin laughs as he hugs his little girl playfully. It's great to get these family together again and catch up on good old times.
"So, how long are we gonna stay there? Please, tell me!"
"Maybe three weeks or a month. Bur we're gonna enjoy it. Of course, we're gonna need some foods and gears for our vacation. After all, we don't want to mess something up again."
Hayley joked as he recalls what happened the last time that they were there, "Like keep blaming Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon for being bad girls or even criticized Gilda for being a bad Griffon."
"Very funny, Harley." Justin remarks, rolling his eyes. Yeah, he made some mistakes, probably because the father has forgotten what happened in Season 5. And he called himself a Brony! "If I remembered correctly, I told you not to play with Discord, that guy almost turned you into a cockroach."
"Hey, I resent that, dad! Discord is completely harmless as Trixie. Like what you did to her in your fiction?"
"How was I supposed to know that?! I thought they were all gonna make the ponies being villains turned out to be good kindhearted ponies! But for Sombra, why did PM loved him being a bad guy?"
Harley shrugged as she responded, "Who knows? He did say he enjoyed 'Kiss of the Dark'. It must be a good one." She is surprised as Power Master is that Sombra became good in the comic books.
Justin huffed as he pushes the cart forward to continue shopping, "Don't even think about that. Anyway, so what else do we need to bring to Equestria?"
"Maybe we should-!" Hayley gasped as her father isn't watching where he was going. He's about to crash into something. "Dad, watch out!"
Justin got bumped into someone else hard. The two yelps as their grocery carts almost collided. Whoa, that was a close one!
"Ow! Aw man! I'm sorry! I didn't mean-mean-mean..." Justin stares at the person he has bumped into by accident. It black short haired woman with blue eyes. "I-I-I-I-I-I-I-"
"Hello... My name is Mila Anderson." Mila said sheepishly to Justin, apologizing. "And sorry for bumping into you."
"Well... I-I-I... I... I... Didn't mean it."
Justin chuckles as he gave a weird out look to Mila. Wow, this woman is pretty. He hasn't felt this way for someone in a long time...well, not since before his wife Susan died.
"Hello?" Mila ask in concern as she waves a hand in front of Justin. "Anybody home? May I know your name?"
Justin quickly snapped out of it, giving out a sheepish chuckle, "Right! I'm Justin. Nice to meet you. This is my daughter - Harley."
"Hi, nice to meet you, Miss Mila." Hayley said politely as she curtsy to the woman in respect.
"Nice to meet you too, Harley." Mila said with a lightful giggle.
The trio chatted, spend together and get to know each other as well. This is a start of a good relationship...for Justin and Mila at least!
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Justin chuckles as he sat at a dining table in a restaurant a week later. He is having a date with his new girlfriend Mila Anderson.
"I got to admit, you are quite a joker, Mila." Justin said to Mila, he was laughing at one of the jokes that the woman just said.
"Thank you. I have a bit of a sense of humor...well, my son thought so." Mila said with a chuckle. She sighs. "I just wish he can lighten up on his attitude. Ever since his father died, things has been rough on him.
"Oh, I know how it feels. When Susan died, Hayley and I have been emotionally scattered. But we got each other to depend on...that and My Little Pony."
"Wait, you like My Little Pony?"
"Err, yeah. Why?" Justin ask, giving a concerned look to Mila. The man can hope she doesn't judge him for liking a kids show!
Mila laughs a bit, drinking from her glass while continuing, "i love that joke! I have been a Brony for years ever since the first generation. Oh, I can remember the theme song." The woman clears her throat as she sings a bit, "My Little Pony, My Little Pony..."
"Ha ha ha! Mila, you are a natural."
"Thank you. I just wish Brad could understand. He doesn't get the show like I do. Remember the episode where Diamond Tiara became a good filly?"
"I know, it's amazing when I first met her!" Justin exclaims as he chews on his meal a bit.
"Wait, "met her"? What do you mean?" Mila ask Justin, giving him an odd look.
Justin swallows his food, getting nervous. He and Hayley tried their best not to reveal how they used to take care of the Mane Six out of concern for their safely. So far, only their friends and family knew about them. And now?
"Well, just in my imagination...I mean, my daughters really enjoyed them and like to pretend to meet the characters." Justin said nervously. He hopes to cover up his mistake before...
"I thought Hayley was your only daughter. You got more?" Mila ask, more puzzled by this.
Justin groans a bit. He went and slipped up big time...but...the man has a thought. Perhaps it's time to share his and Hayley's secret...and hopefully help Brad out and for him to change his mood a bit.
"Well, how would you like to meet my other daughters?" Justin ask Mila with a smile.
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Inside the Friendship Rainbow Kingdom Castle of the world of Equestria, something is ringing. Nyx hums a bit as she looks for the source of the ringing. The filly found it: the phone that her mother Twilight and her friends' adopted father gave them as a birthday present so that they would contact one another back and forth.
Nyx was able to use her magic to pick the phone up and speaks into it, "Hello? Grandpa Justin?"
"Please, Nyx, just Justin." Justin's voice spoke on the other end with a light chuckle. "But then again, you can called me that. Is your mother home?"
"Yes! She and my aunties are having a council meeting now. Hang on."
Nyx trots down the hallway, taking the phone with her. Grandpa Justin wanted to speak to the Mane Six. The filly manages to open the door to the council room. There's Twilight and the Mane Five, discussing their strategies. Spike was sitting nearby, eating some gems. There was times when he used to sit at the table. Too bad his big size made it difficult to do so.
"And further..." Twilight stops as she saw Nyx trotting in with the phone. "Nyx? Is..."
"Grandpa Justin is on the phone." Nyx said with a squee while putting the phone onto the table.
"Hey, daddy!" Rainbow exclaims, smiling to the phone eagerly. "Is that you?"
"If it isn't, then I got the wrong number!" Justin's voice jokes on the other end. The ponies laughed with their adopted father. "So how are my girls?"
"Doing fine, daddy." Rarity giggles as she twirls her mane. "We were busy in helping Equestria in Friendship."
"And fighting off any Super Duper wicked meanies!" Pinkie giggles as she bounces up and down playfully. "Buuuut...it's good to hear from you again."
"So how are things?" Fluttershy ask her adopted father with a smile.
"Yeah. Listen, Hayley and I are coming over for a stay soon during Hayley's summer vacation...and we're bringing in some guests with us." Justin's voice explains. The ponies couldn't help but smirk. From the sound of his voice, he is sounding a bit a sheepish.
"Is it Mila? That woman you have been seeing?" Twilight ask Justin, arching an eyebrow.
"Yep! I accidentally slipped that I have more daughters than Hayley...but she is a My Little Pony fan! I decided it's time to share our secret with her."
"Hoo doggy!" Applejack exclaims with a thoughtful smile. "I done wanna see the mare you're seeing."
"Wait, you said "guests", right?" Rainbow ask Justin puzzled and concerned. "You're bringing Mila and..."
"We're bringing her son too, that way maybe we could lighten up his little attitude and maybe you girls can bond with him a bit." Justin's voice said, a chuckle is heard in his voice. "We will be dropping by tomorrow. Got to go. Love you, girls!"
"Love ya, daddy!" The Mane Six exclaimed as the phone is heard hanging up.
"Oh boy, grandpa's coming, and he's bringing some new friends!" Nyx giggles as she takes the phone happily.
"Wait, two new folks who don't know about us?" Spike ask, finally getting into the conversation as he arches an eyebrow in concern. "Is that a good idea?"
"Spike, this is the best way that daddy can introduce us to Mila...and maybe becomes friends with her son." Twilight said with a smile as she stood up in her throne. "All right, time we make a welcome party. Pinkie?"
"You got it, Twilight! I will take this seriously!" Pinkie exclaims as she narrows her eyes in determination. "It's time for the Pinkster to party!"
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The next week has come and so is the summer vacation. Hayley was packing up, preparing for a little vacation in Equestria. She is amazed that her father is going to introduce her adopted sisters to Mila and Brad! This is her chance to bond further with her pony pals.
Of course, Hayley is concerned about Brad. She met him a week ago and...
"Hayley!" Justin calls from downstairs. "Mila and Brad are here! Come on!"
Hayley sighs as she finishes packing and head downstairs. Justin is in the living room with Mila and a black haired kid with, red eyes, a skull T-Shirt under a black jacket, green cargo pants, and Minecraft sneakers. He is playing his guitar, obviously not paying attention.
"Hayley, hello." Mila said as she hugs Hayley who comes over to greet her. After the two parted, the woman continues with a smile, "It's good to see you."
"Same here Hayley...Brad." Hayley said, giving the dry tone to Brad.
"Hey, Pony Girl." Brad remarks with a scoff as he tunes his guitar up a bit. "Still into that pony stuff like mom does? Grow up!"
"Hey! Listen, you don't have to come if..."
"Now, now, let's not argue, there's time to do that on our vacation." Justin chuckles as he opens a drawer which the man kept locked up at all times, pulling out a device that is familiar to him and Hayley. "We will be leaving in a few seconds."
"So what are your daughters like?" Mila ask Justin curiously. Ever since he brought them up on the last date, she is more curious on meeting them. Of course, the woman is unaware of what the daughters truly are.
"Oh, they're nice. You will love them. They are just like you, Hayley and I are."
"Oh, Bronies too! That's better."
"Uh, well, sort of...in a way." Justin said, rubbing his hair awkwardly. This causes Hayley to chuckle a bit. "But we will decide on that when we get there."
"Great, going to loser ville to more loser ville." Brad snaps as he got up, getting his stuff ready since he knows that they will be leaving soon. "So what car are we taking?"
"Oh, we won't be driving, Brad."
"What, so we're flying?" Mila ask Justin curiously. Apparently his daughters must live far that they got to take a plane!
"Oh, they live far but it won't be by plane." Hayley said with a smile. She watches as her father got the device working after tapping in a few buttons on the thing.
"I don't understand."
Soon the newcomers yelp in surprise and for a good reason: the machine is flashing like mad. Mila and Brad looks at it in both wonder yet concern. Was it supposed to do that?
"Hang on, we're going." Justin said as he and Hayley held onto Mila and Brad, everyone holds onto their luggage.
Brad on the other hand looks annoyed, not liking the idea of being held. He was about to snap when a big flash covers them all. When all is clear, the humans are gone...
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Meanwhile, in Ponyville, everypony was getting ready for Justin and his family's visit.
"All right, ponies, get that up! Move it, come on!" Rainbow ordered as she urged ponies as they put some banners.
"Rainbow, this is a party, not a Wonderbolt tour." Rarity pointed out to Rainbow as she rolled her eyes.
"Come on. It's been a while since we saw daddy! I wanted to make this very important as possible!" Rainbow insisted. She wanted to make this stay for Justin as best as possible.
"Yes, it's true, I missed him too." Applejack said, bringing in some Apple Cider from Sweet Apple Acres. "But no need 'ta go overboard, sugarcube."
Mayor Mare trotted by, looking at the banner puzzled. She called out, "Excuse me. Princess?"
"Yes, Mayor?" Twilight asked smiling as she trotted on over.
The mayor pointed a hoof at the banner as she spoke, "Who is this 'Justin Exitor'?"
"Don't tell me you forgot!" Twilight laughed in disbelief as she shook her head. "Justin was the man who took me and my friends in, he's our adopted father."
"Oh yes, forgive me." Mayor Mare said with an embarrassed chuckle. "I sometimes forget these things."
Twilight's student, Starlight Glimmer, trotted in, giving a big look of concern. She spoke, "Twilight? I'm worried. I haven't met Justin and his daughter yet. What if they don't like me...?"
"I'm sure they will like you." Twilight said to Starlight with a smile. "After all, being a Brony, he must've seen the season where you reformed."
"Well, I guess. Just a bit anxious." Starlight said to Twilight with a sigh. She was concerned how the humans would treat her. "So, what was he like when you and your friends were raised by him?"
"The best father. He cared for us, loved us, and protected us." Twilight said with a happy smile. Suddenly, she noticed a glow nearby, making her gasp excitedly. "He's here! Girls, he's here!!!"
The ponies gathered around as the glow disappeared, leaving two familiar humans and two new ones. Mila looked amazed as she looked around, asking, "What...where..."
"You can ask for the full details later." Hayley said to Mila with a light chuckle.
"Hey, everyone. You won't believe who's here!" Ben exclaimed to everyone with a smile.
"I know! My daddy and sister are here! It's big surprise!" Twilight exclaimed happily and excitedly to see her adopted father again.
"Hey girls." Justin said, laughing as the Mane Six galloped over and almost collided into him. "Whoa! Wow, keep forgetting you six are too big for me to hold!"
"Daddy, daddy, I ate a bug!" Pinkie exclaimed to Justin with a giggle.
"Oh, was Applejack cooking again? Hee hee. Don't tell her I said that." Justin said, pretending not to know that AJ was nearby.
"I heard that smarty." Applejack chuckles as she nuzzles her father a bit.
As Justin lets go, he turns to Twilight, smiling as he said, "Hey, Twiley."
"Hello, Dad.” Twilight said with a smile on her face. It’s always good to see him again.
"And how's my granddaughter Nyx and future son-in-law Ben?” Justin ask Twilight, wondering how Nyx and Ben are doing.
"They're both doing well - even better since my friends/sisters and I returned." Twilight said with a smile, assuring that Ben and Nyx are doing fine.
"I can imagine." Justin remarked with a little chuckle. "But I'll bet Equestria has had plenty of stuff to keep you and your friends/sisters busy since you got back."
"More than I care to admit. It's kind of weird that so much time has pass in Equestria in between us getting turned into fillies and sent to your universe and our return. I'm guessing the evil version of Discord, Doctor Lizardo and Smaug deliberately picked a universe where time passed more slowly than on Equestria to give themselves more time to conquer the world." Twilight said, amazed by how time has passed in her world since she and her friends were turned into fillies and was send away.
"But, thanks to the Princesses, your biological brother, Big Mac, the Crusaders, Spike, the Wonderbolts, the good Discord, Ben and others, they still failed, even without you and your friends/sisters present." Justin said, recalling how, even with the girls’ absence, Equestria was still saved.
"Yeah. Serves those villains right for underestimating beings just because they aren't Element Bearers." Twilight remarked with a scoff. She turned to Spike who was coming over, doing his best not to break anything, "Also, I have to admit, Spike's more mature body and mind have improved his luck with Rarity considerably. And Pumpkin Cake is just a year away from graduating from Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns and Pound is doing great in the Wonderbolts Reserves."
"Yeah. The Cake twins were just two years old when you and your friends/sisters were sent to our universe, but it HAS been more than fifteen years between that and your return to Equestria." Justin said in amusement. "So it makes sense that they would be nearly adults by now."
"No kidding. Pinkie practically flipped when Mister and Missus Cake told her about Pound and Pumpkin's present whereabouts." Twilight said, still amazed of how Pinkie flipped out when she heard.
Justin chuckled. Then he noticed Mila looking stunned at this. The man stood up as he said, "Everyone. This is Mila, the same woman I told you about."
"Hi, Miss Mila." Fluttershy said meekly as she bowed a bit. "It's nice to meet...."
"Oh my gosh!" Mila giggled as she hugged Fluttershy excitedly, making the mare yelp. "You're real! You're actually real! Wow, when Justin said...I mean...wow..."
"Whoa, whoa, Mila, Mila!" Justin exclaimed to Mila in concern as he pulled her away from Fluttershy. "You're scaring her."
"Oh, I'm so sorry...it's just...you're my favorite pony next to Twilight, Rainbow and Rarity!" Mila exclaimed, feeling embarrassed for her actions.
"Oh, it's okay." Fluttershy said as she nuzzles Mila a bit. "I was...surprised."
"Ahem, everyone. This is my son, Brad." Mila said as she motion to Brad who looks around.
"So wait, this place is real and not some drug hallucination?" Brad asked dryly before scoffing a bit. "Great. I'm in stinkin' Sesame Street."
"I beg your pardon?" Applejack asked, giving a glare at Brad. She didn't like his attitude.
"Uh, give him time. He will come around." Justin said to his adopted daughters sheepishly. "We've brought him for some bonding time."
"Yeah, bonding." Rainbow remarked, looking Brad up and down. "So, Mr. Troublemaker, eh?"
"So...Miss Girly Pony, eh?" Brad asked dryly, making Rainbow growl at that.
"All right, relax. Relax," Spike said as he got between the two. Brad yelped upon seeing him. "What, never saw a Dragon before?"
"Seriously? You're Spike?" Brad asked in disbelief. "I thought he would be smaller."
"I grew up, pure and simple." Spike said as he blew a bit, causing Brad's hair to be blown back. "Welcome to Equestria. Hee hee hee!"
"Uh, hi." Starlight said nervously as she came on over to introduce herself, thought the mare was still unsure.
"Oh yes. Daddy, Hayley, Mila? This is my student Starlight Glimmer." Twilight said, smiling as she introduced her student. "Of course, you already knew that."
"Yes, I see." Justin said as he hugged Starlight a bit. "It's okay, we hold no grudges against you for your actions."
"Who's we?" Brad asked Justin dryly.
"It's all right. You're an okay pony." Mila said, patting Starlight on the head.
"Thanks, Mila." Starlight said with a warm, relieved smile as she hugged Justin back.
"Well. Ahem. We hope to make your summer as great as possible." Rarity said with a giggle as she glances at Mila and Brad's clothes. "Although, you must allow me to make some new clothes for you. Perhaps for Brad. The emo thing is..."
"I am not emo, I just don't like girly stuff!" Brad snapped in annoyance to Rarity.
"Well, someone needs to teach you some manners!" Rartiy scoffed as the group moves on.
"You snobby, son of a--!" Brad snarled, about to make a vulgar insult. He did not like how Rarity was being fresh with him like that
"No swearing!" Pinkie exclaimed as she took out some soap and put it into Brad's mouth. The boy yelped as she washed his mouth out before stopping. "There! Someone washed your mouth out with soap!"
The boy spat out some soap in disgust, before glaring at Pinkie in rage as he shouted, "WHY, YOU LITTLE--!!"
"Okay, calm down, calm down!" Justin exclaimed as he got between the two. No need to make this into a fight. "So ready to show us your home?"
"Yes, let's." Twilight said as she led the group to the Friendship Rainbow Kingdom Castle. Hopefully Brad will calm down by then.
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Upon arriving at the castle, Twilight manages to get guest rooms for her family as well as Mila and Brad. The boy groans as he put his things down.
"I can't believe mom allowed her new boyfriend to bring us here. Unbelievable." Brad mumbled a bit as he took his guitar, playing a bit on it. "Girly stuff. Bah!"
Brad paused as he looked around a bit. Good, no one's looking. The boy prepared to open a bag, smirking as he took out...
Suddenly, Brad heard noises from another room, making him growl in annoyance as he zipped his bag closed. What now?!
Brad left his guest room and got over to next door. He walked in to see Spike and Nyx playing a video game.
"Hey, what are you two doing?" Brad asked with a frown as Spike and Nyx turned to him.
"Playing this game Grandpa Justin downloaded for us!" Nyx chirped happily as Brad glanced at the video game.
"Is that...'Them's Fightin' Herds'?" Brad asked in surprise, recognizing the game.
"Know it?! I loved it!" Brad laughs eagerly. But he saw the amused look on Spike and Nyx's faces, making him calm down. "Err, I played it a few times...still lame since it's based on a fighting game of you guys that got cancelled."
"So you think." Spike remarked with a smirk. "Want to play after this fight?"
"Oh, really? You think a Dragon can beat a human?" Brad asked, trying his best to be cool and not be girly.
"Try me." Spike said with a smirk on his face.
"Okay, you asked for it." Brad said with a challenging smirk.
Nyx looked amused as Brad waited his turn. Was he covering up something?
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Inside the dining room, the Mane Six, Justin, Hayley and Mila are having some tea. The father cannot wait to catch up with his little girls since his last visit.
"So...how long have you dated father?" Rarity ask Mila, batting her eyelashes. "We are so hoping to know that."
"We met about two weeks ago after all." Mila said with a giggle while drinking her tea. "I'm still surprised over the fact that I've never new that you all existed."
"Well, we got our secrets, Mila." Justin said, hugging Fluttershy gently before letting go. "So, girls...any changes over the year?"
"Well, ever since we have been missing from their home universe for more than a decade-and-a-half (our Equestrian time), we have been absent for the entirety of our lives." Rainbow remarks in concern.
Ben comment, "Smaug, Lizardo and the evil Discord caused Twi and the others to vanish after Twi, Nyx, Spike, Phobos and I got back from Canterlot High, but before the mess with the Plunder Vines. When the Plunder Vines hit, Soarin', Big Mac, Shining Armor, Cadance, Flash, Spike, Doctor Whooves, the Crusaders and I took the Elements ourselves and delivered them to the Tree from which they originated. Then, when Tirek escaped, Mom temporarily borrowed the power of the other alicorns to fight him herself without getting drained. Then Trixie discovered a cult up in a place called "Our Town", only barely able to get a message for help out before the leader captured her. It was a rough fight, but nothing the Royal Guards and the Wonderbolts couldn't handle."
Justin blinks, silently thinking how that is exactly the way things happened in his collection of DVDs (the MLPs DVDs in Justin's universe reflect post "Equestria Girls" differently than in cannon because the Mane Six weren't there for those episodes in that universe. He guess that the writers got around this by promoting former secondary and background characters to starring roles for the remainder of the series.
"Hey, everyone." Starlight said as she trots into the room with a smile. "You won't believe who's here!"
"I know! My daddy and sister are here! It's big surprise, remember?" Twilight ask, giggling as she and the Mane Six hugs Justin happily.
"What, forgot that he was here already?" Pinkie teases Starlight a bit, thinking that she forgot.
"It is...But that's not what I have in my mind." Starlight admits sheepishly. "But Ben's brother-in-law - he and his girlfriend are here!"
"He is?!" Twilight asked with a gasp of surprise.
"Oh right, I almost forgot about them!" Ben exclaims in remembrance. His brother-in-law and his girlfriend are visiting today!
"Hmm? Did you just say-?!" Justin ask in surprise upon hearing. Hearing that, that must mean one thing.
"Hello? Is anyone home?" A voice spoke as everyone in the room hears someone about to come into the room.
Twilight gasped excitedly, "He's here!"
"Wait... Is that-?!" Justin gasps as a familiar pony comes into the room: a pony who appears in Power Master's stories as well as some others as well. So, he exist here as well!
Hayley squealed happily as she hugged Shadow Dragon, "It's Shadow Dragon! OMG! He's real! He's Power Master's OC! OMG! I'm meeting him here!"
"What the-?!" Shadow Dragon gasps in shock and disbelief. He hasn't seen this creature before. Unless... "A human? What's a human doing here?"
"I'm so happy to see you here!"
Shadow Dragon finally saw Justin and Mila, making him shocked and alarmed, especially when Brad came into the room after finishing his video game session with Nyx and Spike. What is going on here?!
Shadow Dragon grunted as he pushed Harley aside, "Will somepony tell me what the heck these Humans doing here?!"
"Hey, you've got the problem with the Humans?" Brad ask Shadow Dragon with a scowl on his face. He really doesn't like this pony's attitude problem!
"Yeah... Your attitude, monkey brat!"
"Hey! Who you're calling Monkey Brat?! You pony freak!"
Shadow Dragon groaned as he slaps himself, "You've got no respect to Gods, don't you?"
"You?" Brad chuckled in disbelief. This guy is supposed to be some sort of god? That's a laugh! "Yeah right!"
Hayley whacked Brad's head as she scolds him for his attitude, "Brad! Watch your mouth! He's a Mystic Pony!" The boy groans as he rubs his head. That really hurt!
"What's a Mystic Pony?"
"An Immortal Pony with powerful magic spells and powers to defeat and banish a few of bad spirits, Demons and even Dark Mystic Ponies!"
"Seriously? You're joking." Brad said in surprise. He couldn't believe that those kind of ponies even existed! The boy guessed that it must be some sort of OCs that existed in another universe or something!
"I'm serious! So, watch your mouth, mister!" Hayley exclaims with a scowl to Brad. This is her and her father's chance to have a vacation in Equestria. And she isn't going to allow Brad to ruin it now!
Shadow Dragon grunted as he glares at the Mane Six, Ben and Starlight, "You all got lots of explaining to do." The better have a good reason why there are humans right here in Equestria!
"Wait a minute! Isn't he-?!" Justin's eyes widen as he recognized Shadow Dragon. So he truly does exist! But does this mean…? "Oh no! Please don't tell me-!"
"What's wrong, Justin?" Mila ask her new beau in concern. Something appears to be worrying Justin for some reason.
"Twilight, please tell me that he and Ben- Well... Are they-?! I don't know like you and having friendship or brotherly problem with each other because they loved the same girl-! And maybe..."
"Love Triangle?" Twilight giggle. Recalling the fics that she is in, being paired with certain folks, she can understand her adopted father's worries. "Oh no! I may like Shadow Dragon but Ben is my boyfriend. My sister likes him."
"You have a sister?" Justin and Hayley ask surprised. So, this world is different because Shadow Dragon has a girlfriend...whom is Twilight's sister?
"I hope I didn't miss anything." A new voice spoke up, getting everyone's attention.
Everyone turned to their back where they spotted a blue Twilight Sparkle's doppelganger with a dark blue mane and tail with stripes of pink and purple in a ponytail while her Cutie Mark is crescent moon shaped with a 'Love' Symbol and crystal."
Spike and Nyx came in at this moment. The teenager spots the newcomer as she squeals, "Auntie Middy!"
"Midnight Crystal!" Twilight exclaims. She is happy to see her sister, now the mare can introduce Justin and the newcomers to her!
Twilight and Nyx hugged Midnight happily and passionately. Midnight hugged back as she spoke, "I hope I didn't miss anything. What the-?!" The mare looks up and gasps as she saw the humans who is watching this scene. "OMG! Are those Humans?!"
"Eeyup. This is our adopted family."
"Mr. Justin. I just want to say - thank you for looking after my sister."
"Uh... sure... I do what I'm good at. I didn't know Twilight has twin sister." Justin said in bewilderment. He doesn't recall seeing Midnight Crystal in any stories. Maybe this universe was a bit different!
"She doesn't. Originally, she actually never does have one. But here, she does because Power Master helped and solved the love triangle problem without having Ben and Shadow Dragon fighting over Twilight Sparkle. That is so X-Men style. So, he created a new one for Shadow Dragon. That avoid the problem." Pinkie explains happily and randomly. Hayley couldn't help but giggle a bit while Justin just stares a bit bewildered.
"Never mind..."
"Pinkie, you're so random..." Rainbow said, rolling her eyes while smiling.
"Hey... Where's Ben?" Hayley ask, looking puzzled. Everyone looked around as they found Ben is missing. Wasn't he here a few seconds ago?
Shadow Dragon, Twilight and Midnight however groaned in annoyance, "DRAGOKING!"
Everyone headed out as they found Dragoking, who was eating some fish from the river. He swallowed them whole inside. He burped happily. Of course, they knew better as to what he did a few seconds ago. Dragoking always do this!
"Dragoking, where is Ben?" Shadow Dragon demands more than he asked. Dragoking shrugged as if claiming that he has no idea but his master knows better. "Spit him out!"
"Right, come on, this has gone far enough!" Rarity exclaims to Dragoking sternly. "Spit Ben out."
"Come on, Dragoking, this isn't funny! Spit Ben out!" Spike demands furiously to the Hydragoon.
Everyone makes demands, wanting Ben to be spitted right out. Dragoking stuck his tongue out at them. This made most of the group groans out in annoyance. Why must he be so stubborn?!
"Hmm... This reminds me of someone..." Mila said as she glances to her son who pretended not to hear her or give interest in this affair.
Midnight cleared her throat as she shook her head while giving a wink at Dragoking. Dragoking hummed in surprise upon looking at her.
"Dragoking... Be the good boy, and let him out. I will feed you with more fish especially octopus." Midnight said as she rubs Dragoking's back side. This mare knows how to get him to cooperate!
Dragoking hummed happily as he growled angrily. Something on his neck is pushing up each time he growled. As it reached to the top, he spitted something out. Ben slammed on the Friendship Rainbow Kingdom's castle. It was a hard landing, but otherwise, the stallion is all right.
"Ben, are you alright?" Twilight ask her love, galloping over to help him up.
Ben chuckled a bit, "Yeah... Nothing I can handle..."
Of course, Ben was wrong. He fell to the ground hard. He moaned and groaned painfully. Shadow Dragon raised his left hoof up as he calls out, "Ben! How many hooves I'm holding."
The vision got blurred upon looking at the hoof. Ben moaned and groaned in confusion, "Three?"
"He's fine."
"That thing eat Ben every day?" Justin ask in bewilderment as he looks at Dragoking who rolls around on the ground like a cat...a big cat with big teeth and claws.
"You have no idea." Ben groans as he got back up while cleaning himself off. "I hate going inside his stomach. Why does he do that again?"
"Lots of Demons loved to eat him up. One good reason - his Triforce Elements attract attention especially my pet." Shadow Dragon explains as he roll his eyes. "And of course, Ben escaped his stomach once so making my pet-!"
"Hungry and determined to get Ben or any prey to his stomach unless he gets 100 meals inside. That will make up for cutting his head or escaping his stomach." Hayley explains calmly as he finishes up the explanation. Everyone looked at her. How did she knew that? "I read daddy's email to Power Master."
Brad looked at Dragoking. The boy could barely...hold in his excitement. He spoke, "That... is... so... Awesome! That's the biggest snake I ever seen."
"Technically, he's a Hydragoon - ancestor to snakes and dragons but has the ability of regeneration and regrowing his heads with three. He's awesome too. And one more thing, he's an Ancient Beast. But to be honest, I don't know how many kinds of them."
"100 of them. Wow... She's clever." Shadow Dragon said with an amazed look on his face. For a human who he just me, she is pretty smart.
Justin snickered a bit while explaining proudly, "I taught her and read some of my friend's work."
"Still think My Little Pony stinks?" Mila ask her son slyly.
Brad yelps a bit as his eyes dart back and forth nervously. The boy just shrugs it off as he spoke, "Maybe not so bad especially Dragoking. For Mystic Ponies? Sounds awesome. I would like to meet them. I want to see how awesome they really are."
"Bad idea!" Shadow Dragon spoke up suddenly. Everyone looked at him, what's with this? "I don't know if you were aware of it but Mystic Ponies have banished every last of Human Kind to their homeland."
"What? Why?" Fluttershy ask Shadow Dragon in bewilderment.
"Why in tarnations did they y'all do that for?" Applejack demands in annoyance.
"Is there even a good reason?" Mila ask Shadow Dragon with a worried look on her face.
"It happened some centuries ago, ponies did allow Humans to stay and make peace with us but some betrayed us. They used us for experiments and works. Even though good Humans helped us rescued our friends, we banished them back to homeland and never ever again allow them to set their foot on our home again." Shadow Dragon said seriously.
"Well, that was shocking." Justin said in concern. No wonder the Mystic Ponies don't have humans in their land often! They trusted humans before...and some betrayed them and made them distrust humans since.
"Well, seeing that...it's a good thing daddy and Hayley kept us out of hidden during those years in our foal hood." Pinkie said in worry. Now she's glad Justin and Hayley kept the Mane Six a secret from anyone but those they could trust!
Midnight nodded as she explains, "Yeah, it wasn't very good either too. But don't worry, some are good and trustworthy to the Humans especially Mr. Tao."
"That's a relief but how are we gonna solve this problem. Mystic Ponies may get suspicious on us." Twilight said in concern. The right idea is not visit...but it may not be long before anyone else from the Mystic Realm finds out about Justin, Hayley, Mila and Brad. And if they ever set foot in the Mystic Realm...
Everyone hummed in thinking. Shadow Dragon was the first to speak, having an idea that could solve everything, "I think I know who can. She can help us very much."
Ben grunted in annoyance while slapping himself, "Not her!"
The humans looks a bit bewildered. Her? Who's her?
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It will be a few minutes before everyone heads off to speak to the mare who can resolve this problem, which will allow the humans to visit the Mystic Realm without fail. Spike and Nyx has just finish playing another round of "Them's Fightin' Herds".
"I have to admit, that is a surprisingly fun game." Spike said with a smile as he and Nyx leaves the room, preparing to meet everyone else downstairs.
"Yeah. I have to admit, my favorite character is probably Orleander." Nyx said with a smile as she thinks of her favorite character in that game.
"Is that because she is so similar to Twilight?"
"Well, she DOES remind me a great deal of Mommy at that."
"Can't say I blame you. Orleander is one of MY favorite characters too for the same reason." Spike remarks. He pauses to think then adds something else, "Actually, for me, it's a three-way tie between Orleander, Velvet and Tianhuo."
"Let me guess; Velvet is on that list for being so similar to Rarity and Tianhuo is on the list because she is half-Dragon." Nyx said with a smile, although she doesn't really need to guess. The Alicorn knew what her little brother's answer is going to be.
"You know me too well, Nyx."
Nyx and Spike looks up and are surprised. There's Brad heading off, but not to the bottom floor. But to somewhere else. They look at each other puzzled then sneakily follows him. They followed him down a hall and spots him going through another door. As the two got closer, clicking noises are heard, meaning it's locked.
"That's just a closet. What is he doing in there?" Spike ask Nyx quietly as so Brad would hear.
Nyx uses a magic spell so that she and Spike could see inside the closet. Brad, thinking he's alone, sighs, "Man, keeping up my appearance was rough, but at least I can be myself in here."
Brad takes his guitar and practices with it for a few minutes. This puzzles the two. Why would Brad practice in there? He can practice anywhere else in the castle!
"Plus, no one will ever find out my big secret..." Brad said as he took off his bag and opens it.
Spike and Nyx blinks and looks surprised as Brad took out...a Pinkie Pie and Twilight toys! What is he doing with those? They watched as the boy, who acted like a stiff teenager punk...was playing with them!
Interesting. What is his secret?
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It was a few minutes later as the group heads off to a secret location somewhere in the Everfree Forest. The pony that Shadow Dragon spoke up should be in here. They are almost there when Pinkamena Diane Pie, Greenrob's OC that Justin recalls of, arrives with her group.
"Wow Justin Exitor and his Daughter are here." Pinkamena giggles as she introduces the humans to Golden Heart and the others. "Hey group, I like you all to meet the one who cared for the Mane Six at his world, Justin Exitor and his Daughter Hayley. I see your girlfriend Mila and her son Brad. Greetings to every single one of you. I hope you enjoy Equestria, this place is a great place to be relaxed. Oh and Justin, a warning: careful of the Mystics, they had a really bad Past with Humans but do not worry. The Mane Six, me and my group got your back."
"Well, we're going to meet someone who could helped us." Justin said as the group arrives near a cave. "Is this her place?"
"Yes." Shadow Dragon said with a nod as everyone goes into the cave. "Try not to break anything."
For a cave, it looks more like a potion shop...or a witch's home. Justin and Hayley looks around the place. It must be an exclusive place, not seen in the fics so far. And it looks like they and everyone else are not alone, for with them is a black Unicorn with a black long mane and tail in a ponytail which was the same as Celestia's body dressed in her black dress who smiled happily.
Yuko sighed as she spots the visitors approaching, "Well, well, well, if it isn't my favorite customers especially Benny Whinny."
"I'm not Benny Whinny." Ben groans out in irritation. Why must she always do that?
"You certainly are when you keep complaining about my riddles and my wisdom. You did get yjr Element of Wisdom from me. Remember, Little Benny Whinny."
"Don't get me started again! 'Wisdom has funny way to show'. That annoys me."
"If you didn't learn it, you're hopeless like getting eaten by your favorite Dragoking." Yuko remarks slyly, making Ben more annoyed.
"That wasn't funny!" Ben protests to Yuko. He is this close to leaving right now!
"But you do know why we are here?" Shadow Dragon ask Yuko. He knew that she knows why the group are visiting.
"Yes, the Humans... You want me to help you solve the problem." Yuko said thoughtfully as she trots around the newcomers, looking at them carefully. "I don't usually get Human Customers since the Human-Pony War."
"So wait, you knew all along?" Golden Heart ask Yuko in surprise. "That Justin, Hayley, Mila and Brad were humans?"
"Without us telling ya?" Jack Zen ask, surprised as everyone else is.
"Of course, I know. I can sense it when you and your friends entered the portal drive. After all, I was the first Witch of Time." Yuko admits with a lighted chuckle. Most of everyone is amazed, she is a smart one of course. "I'm truly impressed to see Humans who treat ponies same and equal as others and even themselves. "
"I'm guessing that you're gonna help us." Twilight said hopefully with a smile.
"So are you going to help us?" Justin ask Yuko curiously.
"Of course, I do. But what payment are you gonna pay to me?" Yuko ask the visitors seriously. This cause them off guard of course, well, some of them.
"Payment?"
"I will handle this." Twilight said to Justin before turning back to Yuko. "Again. What is it?"
Yuko smiled as she explains her price, "The photo of your family - both yours and ponies."
"Wait, a photo?" Hayley ask Yuko, arching an eyebrow.
"That is what you wanted, really?" Rainbow groans out as she slaps herself on the forehead. "What kind of price is that?'
"If you don't pay the price, your adopted family will be in grave danger. That attract Mystic Ponies attention. And I know some Mystic Council aren't please with it - Black Alpha, Lightning Wisdom and even Nezha Vengito. Others are fine with it." Yuko explains seriously. If the Mystic Council ever found out that humans are in their land, they will not be pleased...and consequences will be paid for.
"Well...when you think of that..." Rarity said, a bit hesitant at first of that.
"Who could say no?" Fluttershy ask meekly and worried. She doesn't want her adopted family to get into trouble when they decided to visit, right?
"You win." Justin said as he hands a photo of his family, both his and the ponies. Hopefully this price is enough.
"Good. Now we begin. Pony Transformation! Begin! Now!" Yuko booms out as she prepares for what's to come.
Yuko's horn glowed darkly and lightly in brighter. Her magic was then shot straight at Justin and his family. They slowly turned into ponies. Justin is now a green unicorn with a brown short mane and tail, green eyes, with a hero symbol as a cutie mark. Hayley's is a pink unicorn with yellow eyes, a short brown mane and a tail, and her cutie mark appears to be a book symbol. Mila is a purple Pegasus pony with a short black mane and tail with blue eyes, her symbol is a flowers symbol. Brad is a black Pegasus pony with a short black mane and tail, he has red eyes and his cutie mark is that of a guitar.
"Wow!" Twilight and her friends exclaims in amazement.
"Now that is one way of transformation!" Rainbow exclaims, impressed with how her adopted father and daughter now looks next to Brad and Mila.
"You look good, Hayley, and I mean that in a nephew kind of way." Spike remarks, giving a claws up of approval to Hayley, making her smile.
"Nice work, Yuko." Shadow Dragon said in approval to Yuko. Looks like with these forms, even Mystic Ponies could be fool!
"It is done. But I must warn you - this transformation will not last long, should any of you start losing your love and caring for not only ponies and others, you will also lose your true selves." Yuko explains seriously to the group to be careful not to lose anything that could make them think they're Equestrian ponies for eternity. "And above all, don't get near to any Mystic Ponies. They can smell and sense you very well. Especially you, Brad - you are the easiest target for Mystic Ponies to sense. Think of happy thoughts that would avoid the problems."
"Uh, sure, no problem." Brad said a bit nervous. He's worried that not only would that Mystic Ponies would find him and everyone else, there's a possibility his little secret is found out.
"Yuko, thanks for this." Justin said to Yuko with a smile. "This will help out a bit."
"Right, thanks." Mila said with a delightful giggle as she flew up a bit before landing onto the group, making the ponies laughs in amusement.
"Enjoy the fun, everypony. And above all, beware of your decision and wish because they may come true." Yuko said to the newcomers with a stern warning look. "But the worse thing is... are you really willing to pay the price?"
"What?!?" Most of everyone yelps out in alarm by that question. There is another price to be paid here?!
"Are you serious?!" Ben yells out to Yuko, freaking out again. Why must Yuko's help always got a catch?!
Yuko just chuckles, "Just kidding. Go out and have some fun."
Ben groans as he slaps himself on the face. Of course, Yuko was just messing with everyone!
As Twilight, her friends and family walked all the way to their home, both Brad and Harley yelped as they fell to the ground. These two are obviously not used to their new forms just yet.
"Hayley, are you alright?” Justin ask his daughter as he helps her up.
Hayley nodded as she spoke, "I'm fine. Grr... I'm not very use to four legs. This could take a while."
Brad hissed in annoyance, "I wonder whose stupid idea is that?"
"Well, you've got lots of nerve for insulting someone when he tried to save your flank from being caught by the Mystic Ponies." Shadow Dragon remarks with a glare to Brad. Perhaps this is punishable enough for Brad for his attitude earlier.
"I hate to admit it but he's right. Being ponies is the only way to blend in." Mila said to her son with a sigh. Shadow Dragon has the right to say that after all. Brad needs an attitude adjustment.
"Well, we'll just have to get start practicing. It won't be so easy." Justin said thoughtfully. The new ponies will need some help in training.
"Well, why don't we y'all helped you out?" Applejack ask her adopted family and their new friends with a smile.
"Yes, daddy, you and Hayley raised us to be better...now we can help you trained to be better ponies." Fluttershy said kindly.
"Indeed, we will help you out...and maybe trained someone to be a better gentlepony." Rarity remarks, giving a glance to Brad who frowns at her.
"Yep! We're ready to do our very bestest best!" Pinkie giggles as she bounces around, literally.
"As family, we're loyal big time." Rainbow remarks with a smile to her adopted family.
"Dad, no worries. When this is over, you will blend in...as long as you all don't forget who you are anyway." Twilight said, recalling the warning from before. She doesn't want Justin, Hayley, Mila and Brad to forget whom they are.
"We're happy to help. Just remember what Yuko has said. Don't go too near any of them. They'll get suspicious too." Shadow Dragon said in precaution. He knows that the Mystic Ponies will figure it out, especially a certain rival of his.
"Good plan. I'd say we get started now." Midnight said with a thoughtful smile. The sooner the training, the better.
"Yeah." Ben said. He then gasped as Dragoking appears to be lowering his head towards him. "Don't even try, Dragoking!"
Dragoking groans a bit as he backs off. Ben is no fun! As everyone arrives, they saw two familiar Alicorns waiting for them near the castle.
"Princess Celestia!" The Mane Six exclaims as they trotted over to the princess. "Princess Luna!"
"Mom, Aunt Luna!" Ben exclaims in surprise as he trots over to nuzzle them.
"His mother and aunt?" Brad ask in bewilderment by that. "He doesn't even look like them."
"It's a long story, we will tell you later." Hayley said with a chuckle to Brad. He probably didn't read "Fluttercruel My Dear" yet.
"Grandma, what are you doing here?" Nyx squeaks happily to her grandmother, surprised to see her here.
"We came to visit you and...to meet your new visitors." Celestia said, giving an eye to the new ponies. "Hello, Justin, Hayley."
"Huh? Wait, how did you know?" Justin ask Celestia in bewilderment with the other humans looking concerned. How did the Royal Sisters figured out who they really are?
"Simple. Twilight told us you all were coming in advance." Luna remarks with a smirk on her face. "And noting how badly some of you are at trotting, it didn't take long to figure it out."
"Princesses, don't tell the Mystic Ponies." Golden Heart said in concern as he and his own group trots on over. "We want to help the humans blend in."
"Correct. They won't be happy if they came into the Mystic Realm or something." Pinkamena remarks in agreement.
"Our lips are sealed." Celestia said with a smile, assuring everyone that their secret is safe. "Now then, shall Luna and I assist in the training?"
"Right, you will need the help you can get here." Luna said seriously. "It won't be easy to fool the Mystic Ponies, especially those who still not trust humans."
"Yeah, we will need all help." Justin said with a quick nod. "So you will help us?"
"Yes. Thou has kept the Elements of Harmony holder safer when they came to thou world. We shall return thy favor."
"Hey, it's 2016. No need to speak like Shakespeare." Brad remarks dryly to Luna.
"Brad." Mila said, sighing as she roll her eyes at this.
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As the training course is being set up, Brad heads into his room. He could barely be able to do so but the new Pegasus pony manages to get back into his room and locks it up.
Brad goes over to his bag and opens it, pulling out the Celestia and Twilight dolls. He smiles while playing.
"'Twilight, my favorite faithful student. Would you like to meet Ben'?" Brad ask as he imitates Celestia's voice.
"'Yes, but would it be awkward since he's your son and Cadance is your niece'?" "Twilight" ask in concern.
"No. Cadance is the daughter of another royal family. So the relationships won't be a problem.
"All right. Here's hoping."
As Brad kept on playing, he fails to see Nyx and Spike peeking in through the keyhole. The two looks amazed. He plays with MLP: FIM toys?
"Peeking in on somepony?" Pinkamena ask mischievously, making the two yelps. "I take it you found out Brad's secret."
"Wait, how did you figure that out?" Spike ask Pinkamena in bewilderment.
"I'm a Pinkie Pie, of course! Break the fourth wall and such."
"Well, I'm surprised he's playing though he seems to dislike us." Nyx said in concern, recalling Brad's behavior thus far. "Could it be that he's..."
"You best to let him come out...but the more pressure he's in, the more he will fess up." Pinkamena remarks with a smile to her two friends. "This isn't like the fact of the weird pairings the author is into."
"I don't think I wanna know."
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A bit later, the training was now taking place in a field, away from Ponyville and hopefully away from spies.
"All right, now trotting is like getting on a bicycle." Twilight said thoughtfully. "Once you fall off..."
"Get up and sell it for scrap metal." Brad remarked with a smirk, making Rainbow laugh at that.
"Uh, no. I mean get right back up." Twilight remarked dryly.
"Okay, since Justin and Mila did so well, for the kids, just take one foot forward." Rarity said as she put a hoof in front of herself. "Like so."
"Like this?" Hayley asked Rarity as she and Brad put one foot forward.
"Got it." Applejack said with a smile. "Now just keep on doing it."
It took a few minutes or so, but Hayley and Brad was able to trot right and walk like ponies.
"Cool. It's like the episode where Twilight tried to train Rainbow for the Wonderbolts." Brad commented with a smile.
"First off, that kinda never happened until after we got back. Second, how would you know that?" Rainbow asked Brad suspiciously. How would he know that if he wasn't a Brony like his mother?
"Err...my mom...spoke of it." Brad said, gritting through his teeth. This made Applejack arch an eyebrow. She can tell when someone's lying.
"All right, now for Justin and Hayley, time to help our in the magic part." Celestia said to the new unicorns. Twilight, Rarity? Will you assist me with that?"
"It'll be our pleasure, Princess Celestia." Twilight said as she and Rarity bowed to her.
"And Rainbow and Fluttershy shall insist us in helping the new Pegasus." Luna said as she motioned to the New Pegasus.
Hayley smiled eagerly. This shall be fun!
Celestia, Twilight and Rarity worked on helping with their magic. Justin was having a bit of difficulty. He was even having trouble in teleportation.
Hayley, of course, was able to succeed without problems. It's like she was destined to be a unicorn.
"Very good, Hayley." Rarity said proudly. "You are a natural."
"Thanks." Hayley said with a smile.
Mila got a thoughtful yet concerned look on her face as she spoke to the princess, "Uh, Princess Celestia? Is it all right if I ask you a personal question?"
"About what?" Celestia asked Mila, wondering what she has in mind.
"At the end of 'A Canterlot Wedding Part I'...what were you and the Mane Five thinking?!" Mila asked Celestia, getting a bit upset. "I mean, trotting out on Twilight like that after accusing the fake Cadance of being evil?!"
The Mane Five looked guilty at hearing this while Twilight looked a bit worried. Celestia, however, sighed, "That was...a day I felt guilty about. We were upset and disappointed by Twilight's words and actions on that day...but more disappointed in ourselves for acting like that. I understand some Bronies were upset over that ending and I will understand if you wish to be mad at us."
"Actually, it's all right." Mila said with a smile. "I hold no grudge. I am just a bit upset. You all have good reasons to be disappointed...it's just the reaction that we aren't right about."
"It's in the past, so why don't we forget about it and move on?" Justin asked, wanting to move away from that.
For everyone else, that's a good idea. It's in the past, so let's go for it.
"All right, ponies." Rainbow said to the new Pegasus with a smirk. "Just flap up and down and..."
Brad suddenly zoomed off into the air, rushing past Rainbow and Fluttershy. The meek one exclaimed, "Whoa!"
Brad flew around in the air for a moment, and then landed down, smirking. He exclaimed, "Yeah! How about that?"
"Very good." Luna said, impressed. "But best not to show off."
"Right, Rainbow is already our showoff pony." Applejack joked a bit about Rainbow's ego showoff nature.
Rainbow just gave a glare to her friend/sister. How sad but true.
The training itself took a bit longer but the humans were able to act it. Soon, everyone stopped to have a picnic to get their energy back.
"Phew. Haven't been this tired in a long time." Twilight said with a sigh.
"Not since we got back anyway." Applejack remarked with a smile. "We done were having a bit of difficulty in re-adapting to life in Equestria."
"Speaking of adapting, I was thinking about those guys from Them's Fightin' Herds." Nyx said as she recalled the video game she, Spike and Brad played before, "Do you think we could ever meet them?"
"Maybe...for now, just watch these clips." Pinkie said as she somehow pulled a screen.
The humans and ponies saw scenes showing the Mane Six re-adapting to life in Equestria with a great deal of effort, gradually coming to grips with how much things have changed in the decade-and-a-half (Equestrian time) they've been going through with no fault of their own.
"I see. Nice." Mila's voice said impressed.
"Wait, where did you get the screen?" Brad's voice asked in bewilderment.
"Best not to ask, we gave up trying a long time ago." Spike's voice said in concern.
Once the clips were done, Pinkie pulled it up, saying happily, "This saves Jus the trouble of doing dialogue and such for the flashbacks."
"That's good for him and Neros, I say." Nyx remarked with a smile.
"Ah, yes, I get it." Justin said with a light chuckle. "Breaking the Fourth Wall. That's what I love about you girls."
"Did someone ordered a Royal Guard?" A familiar voice spoke up. Everyone saw two familiar ponies, a Pegasus and a unicorn, arriving.
"Flash! You're here!" Ben exclaimed as he trotted over to give his best friend a hug. "It's great to see you. So what's up?"
Flash smiled as he spoke up, "Sunset and I are on vacation. And what way we do is spending great time with you here?"
"Yeah, after some crazy adventures especially mine from Equestria Girls, I could get some break. And I thought meeting my own friends here was the best." Sunset said with a giggle. Justin's group could guess that this Sunset is the EG one.
"Glad you two could join us, Sunset." Starlight said happily.
"Right, we haven't seen ya in quite a while." Jack Zen said with a smile to the newcomers. "Come, join us for our picnic."
"So wait, that's Flash Sentry? The one that some fans like to paired with in the EG films?" Brad asked puzzled, making Hayley look at him. "Uh, lucky guess?"
“Huh? So who are those ponies? I'd never seen them before." Flash said, giving a puzzled look to Justin, Mila, Hayley and Brad. He hasn't seen these new ponies until now.
Sunset hummed curiously, noting their actions, "Their behavior is kinda odd like they're still getting use to their bodies. This almost looks like..."
"We can explain." Ben said seriously. He knew that Sunset was suspecting something so may as well tell her.
"No, Ben!" Shadow Dragon exclaimed in alarm. He felt like it wasn't a good idea to tell Flash and Sunset about this!
"Come on, Shadow Dragon. He can be trusted. He's my best friend." Ben insisted to Shadow Dragon. His best friend could keep a secret after all, so why not?
"So what's up?" Flash asked, suspecting that his friend is about to give him an explanation.
"These ponies here are actually humans, Flash." Sweetie said.
"And this unicorn...was our adopted dad." Twilight said, nuzzling Justin, who smiled a bit.
"No way..." Flash said in surprise and disbelief. The newcomers are humans?
"For real?" Sunset asked, surprised and amazed as well.
"Yeah, and we really love him." Fluttershy said happily before giving a squee.
"It's a pleasure to meet you, Flash." Justin chuckled as he took Flash's hoof and shook it. "I was hoping to meet you. Some pals of mine are fans of you with Sunset."
"Thanks, sir." Flash said with a smile to Justin. "Ben and Twilight told us about you...but we never met you in person...err, pony!"
"I've enjoyed your performances in the EG films." Hayley said to Sunset happily. "Your song where you turned into a phoenix? Wow!"
"Aww, shucks." Sunset giggled with a blush.
"Hey, Brad? Looks like this is the same Flash who was nicknamed Brad." Hayley remarked to Brad with a chuckle.
"Yeah, a bit ironic." Brad remarked with a light chuckle.
"Well, you seem to lighten up lately." Mila said to Brad with a suspicious yet amused look to her son. "Perhaps you got something you want to share."
"Err, nothing, nothing, really." Brad said nervously, trying to keep appearances. "The whole thing? Lame!"
"Hmm, Rainbow, he's acting like you did when you tried to deny liking to read." Pinkie said suspiciously, reminding Rainbow of when she tried to deny her new favorite habit of reading.
"Yeah, but I was better." Rainbow remarked arrogantly.
At this time, a familiar boyfriend of Starlight's shows up, sighing, "Phew... That's a lot of work. Sorry, I'm late. What I'd miss?"
"It’s one thing you're gonna be shocked and surprised about.” Starlight said with a smile. She had a feeling her love would want to know about the newcomers as well.
Twilight sighs as she looked concerned, not about the problem with the Mystic Ponies, but with something else.
"Still upset you and the others missed seeing me, Nyx and the Crusaders growing up thanks to the efforts of Lizardo, Smaug and Chaotix, Twi?" Spike asked Twilight suspiciously, wondering why she looked upset.
Twilight nodded as she spoke, "Yeah. I know YOU know it was through no fault of my own, but still, missing so much stuff a good mother should be there for DOES take quite an emotional toll."
Spike hugged Twilight in assuring, "Well, at least you were found and returned in time to see Pipsqueak proposing to Nyx."
"Yeah. There IS that. Ben did an excellent job raising you in my absence." Twilight remarked with a smile. It's true. Her love did well in taking care of the two while she was missing.
"Well, Ben had A LOT of help." Spike said with a chuckle.
"Yeah, but that doesn't mean he did any worse a job. I thank you, Ben AND Nyx all very much for helping me re-adapt to Equestrian life." Twilight said with a smile, nuzzling her Dragon son.
"Much like Applejack's family helped her re-adapt, Sweetie Belle helped Rarity re-adapt, Scootaloo and Soarin' helped Rainbow re-adapt, the Cakes (including the twins) have helped Pinkie re-adapt and Discord and Fluttershy's animals helped HER re-adapt. And, anyway, you are quite welcome." Spike said to his adopted mother playfully.
Everyone soon chose this time to take a break and relax. They have been training all day and thus earned it.
"You must be very proud." Celestia said to Justin with a beaming smile. "Your adopted daughters has grown up well especially when it comes to readapting to life in Equestria."
"Yeah, glad to hear that, Celestia." Justin said with a sigh as he manages to use his magic to drink some Apple Cider.
"And how was life since that day?"
"Doing fine. I'm doing my best to resume being a good father. The fillies coming in our lives helped improved it. I'm concerned for one thing."
"Which is?" Celestia ask, arching an eyebrow in curiosity. She wonders what her friend has in mind.
"Well...I was hoping that Mila is the one. Ever since Susan died, it was lonely for me and Hayley. And after the Mane Six's departure..." Justin pauses, sighing as he glances at his adopted daughters talking and laughing a bit. "Well, I wonder if dating Mola is the right thing to do and if Hayley does approve of her."
"Justin. I saw how Mila and Hayley got along. I am sure she will approved. If your heart says you should do this...then do it."
Justin pauses, smiling a bit to Mila who is flying around while Hayley watches with a smile on her face. Maybe the princess does have a point. If Mila is the one...to help healed the pain from the loss of Susan...
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Although the Mane Six's group and the princesses did their best to hide Justin's group from those who wishes ill on them, it didn't take long for reports of the humans' presence to reach someone that they didn't want to know.
"Humans? In our home?" Nezha demands to a Mystic Scout in fury. His colleagues looks shocked. There hasn't been a human in the Mystic Realm in centuries. And now, it looks like there're some in Equestria!
"We're still not sure. We'll keep our eye sharp for any update." The same Mystic Scout reports to Nezha in concern.
"You'd better. Now go and learn more about this. The Humans will do anything to control us. Not if we control them first."
The Mystic Scout bowed as he leave. ZeekCrimson gave an uneasy look as he ask Nezha, "Won't we get ourselves into trouble? We are not allow to mobilize the troops without our master's permission."
Soki the Kuro Oni nodded as he adds, "I agree. Its best we wait for his return and discuss with him."
"No...Its best we deal with this now. Until we confirm the rumors were true, we remain vigilant and be ready to hunt them down. They can run, but they cannot hide from us." Nezha remains bitterly as he look out a window to the outside in thought.
If the humans wishes to take the Mystic Realm, he will fight to the death if need be!
The gang has finished up their training for the day. As the princesses went back to Canterlot to resume their duties there, the rest went back to the castle for some relaxation. Hopefully, this will be enough to fool the Mystic Ponies...as long as they don't get near them anyway.
Brad frowns as he lies on his bed in his guest room. The boy doesn't understand how these ponies were able to sleep like this. These beds are so hard to sleep in! But then again, Brad isn't a pony natural so it works.
Brad got up, groaning. He can hope that the Mystic Ponies who despite humans don't come after him. It would end well otherwise. He came out...and almost trip over something on the floor.
Brad recovers to see that he almost tripped on some sort of toy truck. Sunset and the former foals were coming by, talking when Brad spoke, "Huh? I didn't know you have toy truck."
"Err... That's not mine actually." Spike said awkwardly as he glances at the toy truck.
Nyx nodded as she spoke, "Not mine either too."
"Or any of us too," Apple Bloom said as her friends shook their heads.
"It's mine. If you want to be friends with him, you can." Sunset explains to Brad with a light chuckle, identifying the toy as hers. "Just be gentle with him. He can easily get angry and feisty."
Brad picked the toy truck up, the boy scoffs, "Yeah, right. What could a little truck could do? It just some stupid toy."
"Who you're calling stupid, stupid pony?!" A voice snaps angrily. Brad almost drops the toy truck in alarm. Did that thing just talked?!
"Huh, what the-?!"
The toy truck suddenly transformed into a small familiar robot. It then bite on Brad's hoof, causing him to drop the transformed robot and screamed in pain for a moment.
The robot known Wheelie spitted slime out as he snaps, "Stupid pony, just have to tick me off so badly. You sneaky son of a-?!"
Sunset groaned as she stops Wheelie from finishing, "Wheelie, what did I just say about that word?!"
"Sorry."
"Sorry about that. This is Wheelie, my number one assistant and of course, loyal and stubborn as Spike."
"Hey!" Spike exclaims, a bit annoyed. He may no longer be the baby Dragon he once was, but even annoying remarks like that hurts!
"Wheelie is just a sensitive and upset robot since his home is nothing but problems to him especially some bad Humans." Sunset explains with a shrug. Even she has a bit of a problem understanding Wheelie's attitude, but the mare got used to it.
"Wait, Wheelie? As in Transformers?" Brad ask, confused. "What is he doing in a My Little Pony world?"|
"What are YOU doing in a MLP world?" Wheelie snaps back to Brad, rolling his eyes, if that's possible.
"Touche, little bot, touche."
Sunset decided to step in before this confrontation could get ugly. As Justin, Hayley and Mila shows up, Sunset begins the introductions, "Wheelie, these are Twilight and her friends' adopted family. You know the humans who looked after them when they got turned into fillies?"
"Seriously? They look like the ponies than humans." Wheelie said in bewilderment. He finds it hard to believe that these ponies are the same ones who once took care of the Mane Six when they went missing!
Spike chuckled in amusement, "I guess Yuko's Magic work well. Wheelie can't tell the differences."
"It only fools mortal ponies, not Mystic Ponies. Of that work, your family shouldn't have that problem." Shadow Dragon explains, rolling his eyes a bit.
"Hey, are you calling me stupid or something?!" Wheelie snaps. He doesn't like what Shadow Dragon is implying here! "Coz I'm ticked off now! Thank you very much."
Hayley whispered to her father, "I guess he'd never change."
"Yeah, stubborn little criddle." Justin comments with a chuckle. Even when he existed in the films, Wheelie is still himself!
Wheelie gave a glare at Justin as he scowls, "I heard that!"
"All right, come on." Twilight said with a chuckle as she and the others came onto the scene. "We must get to the Training Hall."
"I thought we were done with training." Mila points out to Twilight puzzled. She thought that she, Justin and the kids got the pony part nailed.
"Yes, but Shadow Dragon's team came here to do a bit to training. And seeing how they don't mind humans like most do..."
"We decided it's best to let them in on the secret. If you don't mind." Ben said to his brother-in-law with a smirk.
"As long as no one else but us knows." Shadow Dragon remarks, rolling his eyes as everyone heads off to the training hall. Hopefully Shadow Dragon's team will keep a tight lip on this.
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Inside the training hall, a group of familiar ponies, for those who read Power Master's stories, are waiting for their leader, Midnight, and the others to arrive. They saw them come into the training hall...and with some new ponies. Odd!
"Good, they're here." Shadow Dragon said, smiling as he saw his team. "Everyone, this is my team - the Dragon-!"
Hayley however interrupts as she exclaims, "The Dragon Strike Force! The awesome special strike force in the Mystic Realm. The second-in-command is Blazefist, the third-in-command is Saber Dragoon, the supercharge heroine - Aquastroke, the inventor and medic - Shorty Thinking, the muscle - Laxtinct, the strategist - Terrorcreep and the support team - Tailtech and Icy. I especially like Terrorcreep and Fluttershy being together. That was so romantic."
"Whoa!" Most of the Mane Six exclaims in amazement.
"Got to admit. She really did read this Nigel's stories." Rarity whispers to Fluttershy who nodded.
"How was she able to know this stuff?" Applejack ask, bewildered by Hayley's knowledge.
"Didn't you hear me, AJ? She read Nigel's stories!"
"Well, I ain't random like Pinkie is, sugah cube!"
"How did she knows this stuff?" Brad ask in bewilderment. He knows Hayley reads those stories, but even then, the boy is bewildered by the girl's knowledge.
Even Blazefist is spooked that Hayley knows of them. He demands, "Don't want to be paranoid, but what the heck is going on here?"
"Right. We've never met these ponies and they already know us?" Tailtech spoke, suspicious of Hayley's reaction.
"Right, mind giving us an explanation?" Aqua demands, tapping a hoof onto the floor impatiently.
"Dragon Strike Force, this is our adopted dad." Twilight explains, smiling as she nuzzles Justin who chuckles a bit.
"Who took care of us when we went missing," Rainbow explains as she puts an upper arm around Hayley. "This is our adopted sister Hayley."
"And daddy's fillyfriend Mila and her son Brad!" Fluttershy explains, introducing the last two humans turned ponies.
"No way..." Laxtinct gasps in surprise. He whispered to his teammates. "The humans."
The Dragon Strike Force are shocked yet amazed to hear this. They've heard the story of how humans once took care of the Mane Six when they disappeared...and now, meeting them in pony...it's somehow a honor, yet a bit concerning since Mystic Ponies barely trusted humans.
"Would you like to see our training? We're happy to show you one." Shadow Dragon said to the humans with a smirk.
"Believe me, they're amazing and great at martial skills and powers. You're gonna love them too." Midnight suggested with a nod, agreeing with her love.
"Sure, go ahead." Justin said, motioning a hoof. "After reading Nigel's stories, I can't wait to see these guys in action."
And thus, the training begins as the Dragon Strike Force begin their martial arts. Blazefist used his Fire powers ability, Aquastroke used her water ability, Laxtinct used his Earth ability and created armor for himself, Saber Dragoon unleashed his power of wind and twin sabers, and Shorty Thinking launched the volley of his fire arrows and fire power abilities. Terrorcreep screeched in using Sonicwave while unleashing darkness and moonlight power, Tailtech show off his Typhoon Gun in firing at the targets. Icy launched her ice powers.
"Whoa!" The former foals exclaims in amazement.
"Well, I got to admit, these guys are cool." Brad said, whistling a bit in impression.
"Not so bad, huh don't you think?" Wheelie ask Brad with a smirk, sticking his tongue.
"Not you, these guys! Don't make me throw you in a trash can!"
"You don't havet the..." Wheelie was interrupted as Brad kicked Wheelie right into a nearby trash. When the robot crashed landed in, the lid closes down on him. "Fine! You win that round, human!"
"Must you be so negative?" Spike ask Brad with a frown. "You don't have to be like this."
"Don't mess with me, Dragon!" Brad snaps with a scowl as he goes back to watching.
Spike groans a bit. This is the same boy whose secret he and Nyx just figured out? The Dragon has half a mind to speak about it right now!
Of course, Pinkamena kept a hoof on his shoulder, speaking, "Oh, he will talk, he will talk when he wants to."
Spike groans a bit but kept on watching the battle. He hates it when a Pinkie Pie is right!
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Later, the gang was eating snacks that were being served.
"Well, looks like the training has been doing well." Ben said with a smile of approval.
"Yeah, kudos to the chef!" Justin exclaimed, making Spike smile proudly as he was the one doing the cooking.
"So Brad...tell us about yourself." Nyx said to Brad with a secret smile. If she could get him to talk, the boy will have to spill the beans about what she, Spike and Pinkamena were suspecting. "Any interests?"
"I played the guitar...and have an interest the whole Pokemon franchise thing." Brad said, counting off. "In fact, their 20th anniversary is coming up!"
"20th anniversary of Pokemon? Awesome!" Nyx exclaimed, being a Pokemon fan just like her mom and aunts along with her best friends and Spike.
"Right, new games. I don't know how it's still around. The franchise is good, but some folks feared it's getting too long." Mila said with a sigh.
"Uh, anything else?" Spike asked Brad, arching an eyebrow.
"Five Nights at Freddy's." Brad remarked with a smirk. "Those games are creepy but cool."
Spike and Nyx looked a bit irritated. It doesn't look like Brad was talking. It looked like all was futile...when a voice spoke up, "Anypony here?"
"Who said that?" Starlight asked as she looked around.
"Father?" Shadow Dragon asked in surprise. Sure enough, there's Tao coming in with his family made up of Dragon Kick, Jade Adventure, and Mighty.
Tao smiled as he spoke, "Come here; give your father a hug!" The pony seemed hesitated but he came over. But then…SMACK! The old pony didn't waste time in hitting Shadow Dragon's head like he normally does to anyone who upset him. “You have forgotten to buy some Green Tea again? Green Tea calms Tao down. Do you want dead father? No? Then, go and buy it!"
Dragon Kick shrugged as he spoke to his adopted brother, "Uncle is very stubborn. I tried to buy, but he wanted you instead."
Shadow Dragon sighed while feeling his head where Tao hit him, "Fine..."
"One more thing... Please, make sure that you get the old ginseng from Zecora, I need it for some important task." Tao spoke sternly to Shadow Dragon. Most of the others shrugged or sighed. Here they go again!
"We're performing a Dark Mystic Tracker. Even though the Third War was over, some are still out there hiding and waiting to attack." Mighty explained seriously. The new ponies' eyes widen in shock. There were Dark Mystic Ponies in this world, too?
"Fine..." Shadow Groan groaned in annoyance. His father was still paranoid over the inevitable? Unbelievable!
"One more thing... I received the latest news from the Mystic Council that we found some Humans in Ponyville." Tao said. This made the others look worried and alarmed. Somehow, it didn't take long before the Mystic Council found out about the appearance of Justin's group! "If you find them, report to me or the council about it. We want to... inspect them."
"Wait, really?" Fluttershy ask in concern.
"You wanted to meet humans?" Applejack asked Tao's group worried. Did they suspect whom Justin's group really are?
"Yes, is there a problem?" Tao asked, arching an eyebrow in curiosity.
"Uh-oh!" Nyx and the Cutie Mark Crusaders said in unison and concern to each other.
"It would be cool to meet them." Jade said with an excited smile on her face.
"Jade... It's a very bad idea to meet them. From what books I read from the last thousand years, Humans prove to be barbaric and dangerous creatures to deal with." Dragon Kick said to Jade in concern. He's not sure if it's a good idea to even meet these Humans.
"Aw, come on! Does he have to insult-?!" Brad began to protest, getting annoyed by Dragon Kick seemingly insulting his species.
Hayley held Brad's mouth as she scowled, "Shush! You want us to get into trouble?!"
"Yeah... Sure." Shadow Dragon said, trying to keep a straight face. So far, so good.
That is until Tao gave a suspicious glance at the new 'ponies', demanding, “One More Thing... Who are these ponies? And why do I smell Humans' scent?"
Laxtinct smiled as he spoke randomly, "That's because they're Humans."
"LAXTINCT!!!" Everyone but Tao's family yelled at Laxtinct in shock. The pony yelped as he widened his eyes. Not good!
"YIKES!!" Laxtinct exclaimed frantically. He really messed up now!
Pinkie scoffed, "And they say I have a big mouth to open."
Tao gasped as he screamed out his trademark screech that the ponies and the readers have known him for, "AIEEEEYAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH! Why didn't you tell me that we have Humans?!"
"Mr. Tao! We can explain!" Twilight exclaimed in concern. She hoped talking to Tao would calm him down!
"Explain now!" Dragon Kick demands sternly to the group. He and Tao wanted answers now!
"Well, remember when Twilight and her friends disappear for a few years?" Ben asked Tao, who nodded. "Well, they were taken care of by the same human who took care of them."
"And who is right here in the pony form right now." Pinkie said, motioning to Justin who gave a smile while waving.
"And this is our adopted sis, Hayley." Rarity said, introducing Hayley. "And the woman is daddy's special somepony Mila."
"And Brad, pay no attention to him." Rainbow joked about Brad with a chuckle.
"Hey!" Brad snapped in annoyance at that remark.
"Hay is for ponies!" Pinkamena jokes, laughing as she and Rainbow high-hoof one another.
"You cheeky mules!" Brad snarled in irritation. A neigh was heard, making Brad turn to a mule, apologizing, "No offense."
"So, you're the same humans taken care of these six." Tao spoke to Justin and Hayley, now realizing who they were: the same humans who raised the Mane Six all these years.
"Yep, that's us." Hayley said with a smile.
"You got it, sir." Justin said in agreement.
"While the Equestria Ponies are very merciful to your kind, ours aren't because if that happens, we won't be sending you to jail but to execute you." Tao said sternly, much to the shock of the others. Is he serious?!
"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Sunset exclaimed in concern. "Are you serious?"
"Trust me, he is." Blazefist said in concern. "Like what you were told, not every Mystic Pony approves of Humans like we do."
"Right, the memories are still there." Aqua said grimly.
"Now Tao, please." Starlight said to Tao. She hoped to talk to explain to the old pony. "I used to not be so easily trusted, but over the years, it changed for the better."
"As far as my concern, your chi is..." Tao said, preparing to give out his judgment.
Suddenly, a voice was heard yelling from outside, "Open the Gate now!"
Ben and Twilight rushed over to the door and opened it. Outside were Mystic Pony guards who came into the castle. The others gasped, fearing the worst.
"Sergeant? Is there something I can do?" Twilight asked the sergeant, trying to remain calm.
"Chief Commander Nezha ordered us to sweep check on everypony. Rumor has it that the Humans are blending within our kind. We want to check it now." The Mystic Guard said seriously. The heroes gasped while the humans turned ponies were getting scared. How did these guys even know?
Twilight tried to remain calm but was getting nervous. It showed as the mare spoke, "I-I-I-I- I don't think we have Humans here."
"Then, you wouldn't mind us do some sweep checking. This is compulsory order by the Chief Commander!" The Mystic Guard said, showing a notice which the princess took and read. It's true, it's an order by Nezha; these guys were allowed to do a search!
"He's right, this is official." Ben said seriously to Justin.
"Not good, we should hide." Brad said nervously as he backed up a bit.
"If we do that, they will find out." Mila said quietly, keeping her son from leaving.
"What're we gonna do?" Sweetie asked in concern.
"Do it. And I assure you that you will nothing here." Tao said suddenly, much to the others' shock and horror. Is he serious?!
"What're you doing?!" Sunset asked, aghast.
"You're going to turn my family over to these guys!" Rainbow protested to Tao in concern.
"Tao, please don't!" Rarity said, pleading to Tao in fright.
"Relax, trust me." Tao said, giving a wink to everyone. It looked like he got a little secret.
"Check the area! Use Mystic Sense on it too! I want the clean sweep!" The Mystic Guard ordered his men.
As the Mystic Guard and his units used Mystic Sense through their horns and eyes in scanning and checking on the area and ponies, they turned and focused on Justin and his family. This made them nervous. What will they do?
"What now?" Hayley whispered in worry.
"Better trust in Tao." Justin whispered to his daughter thoughtfully. "He seems to know what he's doing."
"He's waving his magic around." Brad said, feeling like freaking out.
However, as Mystic Guard scanned the ponies, he gave a puzzled look as if...something was wrong.
The Mystic Guard kept a suspicious look to Tao…but then again, he is one of the most trustful Mystic Ponies in the Mystic Realm. He wouldn't deceive his own kind, right?
"Hmm... Very well. But if you found any strange activity or Human, report to us. We'll be leaving." The Mystic Guard said seriously.
Everyone waited until the Mystic Guards were gone and out of hearing range. They sighed in relief. That was a close one.
"Uncle, did you use the Hidden Scent Spell?" Dragon Kick asked Tao in realization, suspecting that he had a hoof in saving Justin's group from being discovered.
"I did." Tao replied simply with a smirk.
"What was he talking about?" Hayley asked Twilight, hoping for an answer.
"It's spell that can be cast to hide certain scents." Twilight explained with a smile. So Tao did save the humans after all!
"So wait, you're helping?" Justin asked Tao in surprise. The Mystic Pony was willing to lie to his own kind, just for them?
Tao smiled as he spoke, "As far as I'm concerned about the Humans, they can be trusted. I used it to keep you from being scanned and checked by the Mystic Ponies. But make sure that you do not go too close to them. They can sense the aura easily."
"Uncle, you rock." Jade said eagerly and excited for what Tao had done for the Humans!
"Wow, thanks!" The CMC exclaimed happily in unison to Tao.
"I was worried for a moment, father, but you did great." Shadow Dragon said to his father with a smile.
"One more thing... stay out of trouble." Tao said, doing the 'One more thing' bit one more time.
"Who does that Billy goat think he is?!" Brad asked, getting fed up with this nonsense by now.
Tao whacked Brad's head, scowling, "This 'Billy goat' would give piece of his mind if you do not respect the elders!"
"Nice going, Brad." Hayley remarked to Brad with a smirk, amused as he rubbed his forehead.
"Shut up…" Brad scowled angrily. Why was he treated like the bad guy all of the sudden?
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Spike has already send in a message to the princesses who came over right away to the castle. Twilight and Justin have a discussion with Celestia and Luna over the latest incident.
"Not good. Nezha now knows that the Humans are here." Luna said seriously. "He strongly disliked them for a long time and is likely paranoid that they would invade."
"But we aren't going to invade!" Justin exclaims to the princesses in worry. "I mean, can't you tell Nezha that?"
"Nezha is stubborn, once his mind is set, it's hard to change it." Celestia said, shaking her head in concern. "I feared you, Hayley, Mila and Brad has come back only to be destroyed by our allies."
"So what now? Leave?"
"No, you won't, dad." Twilight said to Justin sternly. As the others turns, she spoke, "I will find a way to prove that there are Humans that can be trusted. If I can somehow be able to convince Nezha of that, then you all can be safe."
"It's a bold risk, Princess Twilight. Nezha won't be easily swayed." Luna said in concern. She knew Twilight's heart is in the right place, but will it be enough? "And not even my sister and I will be able to do so. Nezha doesn't even approve of our support for the Humans."
"I am not giving up. I didn't waited all this time to be with dad and Hayley again, just for this incident to forced me to send them away."
"Twilight." Justin said with a sigh. He hugs his adopted daughter, speaking, "Thanks, but you didn't have to do that for us."
"I don't but I want to." Twilight said to Justin as she nuzzles him. "No worries, we will get through this."
"One can only hope."
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The Mystic Guarda has finished their scanning before returning back to give their report to Nezha. Needless to say, he doesn't seem happy indeed.
"Still no sign of them, sir." The Mystic Guard said in concern.
"Double your search. They're still out there. I know it." Nezha demands furiously The Mystic Guard left, leaving Nezha to do some thinking. "No doubt those mortals are hiding them. They're more stupid than I realize."
"Still, I'm pretty sure they have their reason." ZeekCrimson said thoughtfully. The mortals wouldn't hide the Humans, unless there is a good reason of doing so.
"Whatever that is, I'm sure they didn't mean it. Maybe they could be different." Soki said, trying to reason with Nezha. If these Humans are different than the ones that caused the Mystic Ponies trouble years ago...
"There is nothing different about the Humans. They almost destroy us and even mortal ponies." Nezha scowls furiously to the others, making them jump back. "When we find them, I will make the example out of it. This will be perfect warning to others."
"What of others?” ZeekCrimson ask, he is referring to the ones who are hiding the Humans. What if they were to get in the way?
Things has been a bit slow since the Mystic Guards has left. The Humans felt a bit confident that they're safe...but who knows how long that will be.
Justin was using his new magic to help put some books away. He wanted to prove himself useful around the castle. The man turned pony couldn't help but chuckle. He felt like taking care of his fillies all over again.
Justin glances at Wheelie who is rolling by in his toy truck form, then transforming. As he watch, the little bot proceed in grabbing some darts...and throwing them at a dartboard. Probably to get his frustration out for Brad throwing him into the trash earlier.
One thing was on Justin's mind though. As Sunset came into the room to see how he was doing, Justin spoke to her, "Sunset... Mind me telling me what was Wheelie doing here? Wasn't he supposed to stay in the Equestria Girls' Realm?"
Sunset sighed, she knew this subject was bound to come up, "Well... When I decided to come home for some rest, Wheelie followed me. He told me that he had enough of staying with the Humans after what they have done to him and his friends."
"I see... I understand what he's been through..."
"I'd take you saw the movie about Wheelie."
"I didn't actually saw what happen to him. After what those stupid Cemetery Wind guys did to the Autobots, I can't say I'd blame him." Justin said with a sigh. Wheelie wasn't in the fourth film, but the father suspected that the robot has been through a lot. "I feel sorry for him."
"Me too..." Hayley said as she came in. The filly overheard the conversation and decided to join in. "So, how's the other Autobots? Were they alright without Optimus Prime?"
"For now, they were. I just hope nothing bad happen to them..." Sunset said in concern. She hoped that the Autobots are all right without Optimus Prime being around.
"Hey, guys!" Pinkie exclaims as she bounces into the room playfully. "Our real families are here."
"Oh good. I wanted to meet them." Justin said with a chuckle while heading out. The new stallion ponders how his girls' real families feel like meeting the ones who took care of their loved ones all these days.
"Same here." Hayley said, smiling in agreement. "This is going to be 100% awesome, as Dashie would say."
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“Hello!” Then a voice is heard that made everyone turn to stare in surprise in seeing who was entering the picture, it was the Mane Six’s family members; both by blood & adopted family members.
“Mom? Dad?” Twilight replied off in seeing who was here.
“Twilight, we’re so glad to have made it. Your mother was worried we miss out.” Night Light smiled off to say this in getting to see his daughter.
“Traffic was a bit terrible. But, we managed to make it.” Twilight Velvet smiled off in being glad they could make it.
“Yep, especially when we got these invitations & came on down as quick as can be. Course when we were on de train, we got ta know some other folks here.” Granny Smith showed the invitations to come here, they boarded a train where they meant a few others.
“Eeyup.” Big Mac nodded off in also agreeing on the subject.
“Wait, you all came together? Wow, talk about a major family gathered surprise.” Pinkie Pie replied off in finding this to be something.
“Wait, ye mean ye all know which of us is related & stuff?” Applejack raised an eyebrow in having to have heard this to be concern.
“As it turns out, we came across to know another.” Igneous Rock spoke off as the father of Pinkie Pie stated this.
“It’s true as we already remember the Apples from before.” Cloudy Quartz exclaimed to say as Pinkie’s mother about how they came to know about the Apple Family.
“It was something to came across one another, & learn about how we somehow, come across different backgrounds. Like, how I like rocks & all…” Maud Pie slowly explained this off
“And filled them in about how I help run the family rock farm and to make sure nobody messes with Holder’s Boulder.” Limestone Pie stated off to fill in the other blanks of what the Pie Family
“I see, & what are your thoughts Marble Pie?” Pinkie Pie stated off towards her little sister, to which Marble Pie mutters this under her breath, still shy about speaking up.
“Still, mother, father, I’m surprised you could make it here.” Rarity stated off in being surprised in what she has seen of her own parents.
“Your father had to keep track of when the train was leaving or else we had to take the next one.” Cookie Crumbles explained this off as the most basic of knowledge.
“Well lucky thing we got there in time, who knows what happen afterwards?” Hondo Flanks stated off to mention this on behalf of his own matter.
“Well Twilight, we have a lot of catching up to do.” Shining Armor stated off in having to mention about another case he wanted his sister to know.
“Shining Armor’s right & it seems that everyone is a bit interested about our backgrounds.” Cadance smiled off to lightly state this about the situation around them.
“Oh really, like what?” Fluttershy asked off in being curious about the thought.
“Easy there Fluttershy, knowing how everyone here got together, probably heard about how many of us have those that aren’t blood related & we were adopted.” Rainbow Dash stated off to lightly talk about the subject in having to know WHAT it be all about.
“Oh.” Fluttershy lightly responded in knowing…how Rainbow was talking about herself & of who raised her.
“Think Rainbow Dash is talking about her father?” Sweetie Belle questioned this off in being curious.
“I bet’cha dat must be it alright.” Applejack nodded off to lightly say this on the thought.
“Well no matter what, any family of Rainbow’s is okay in my book.” Scootaloo smile doff to proudly say this in being alright.
“Maybe we can take our discussion elsewhere, is everything set Spike?” Twilight stated off to say this while looking to her dragon assistant.
“Yep, if everyone just follows me, I’ll lead us to where we’re to be.” Spike insisted to say this in getting everyone’s attention here.
The families arrived at a part made by Pinkie around. Cheerilee smiles as she motioned to her foal, "Come on, sweetie. Try not to wander."
"Hey, girls." Justin said as he, the Humans and Sunset came in. "Hey, you must be the families of my girls."
"Mom, dad, everyone...this is Justin Exitor and his daughter Hayley." Twilight said, introducing Justin and Hayley. "They were the ones who took care of us while we were gone."
"Really?" Twilight Velvet asked with a surprised yet puzzled look. "But aren't they..."
"Ponies, but we has a magic spell." Ben explained with a smile. "It's for the group's protection."
"Ah, well, in that case, sir." Igneous Rock said as he shook Justin by the hoof. "Thank you for taking care of my daughter Pinkie. I felt like she could be a hoof full."
"Hey, well, no problem, sir." Justin said to Igneous with a chuckle. "It was random but Hayley and I was able to do it."
"It's a honor to see you again, sir." Cadance said, bowing to Justin as did Shining. "Fluffy Heart would be happy to meet you again."
"Is that her?" Brad asked, seeing a familiar Alicorn baby but grown up, waving. "She looks cute."
"This coming from a tough guy?" Applejack asked, arching an eyebrow.
"Hey! I call them as I see them." Brad said quickly, trying to act cool.
"I want to see the humans, mommy." Cheerilee's colt son said anxiously.
"Calm down, son." Cheerilee said to her son calmly. "You'll get your chance."
"Your son?" Mila ask, arching an eyebrow.
"Eeyup! Little Bloom. Say hello, son." Big Macintosh said to the colt with a grin.
"Hi!" The little colt, Little Bloom, greeted happily.
"Wait, you and Cheerilee?" Brad asked bewildered, making the menioned two nodded. "Dang, and here I thought you would end up with Marble!"
"Nope! Just friends." Big Macintosh assured, making Marble Pie nod.
"You know, it's funny. For someone who claims to not be a fan of our show, you seem to have knowledge of that episode." Nyx said to Brad mischievously. "Got something to share with the rest of the class?"
"No way. Forget it! Uh...hey, is that food?" Brad ask nervously as he gallops over to get some food from the table.
"One of these days, he's going to talk." Spike said with a frown. What would it take to get Brad to talk about his secret?
"Well, no need for this meal to go to waste." Limestone Pie grunted a bit.
"Right, let's eat, y'all!" Apple Bloom insists anxiously.
Well, who to argue about that? Everyone hit the table to get some food, doing some talking and such.
"Well, you are shy. No worries, we have all those days." Hayley said to Marble with a chuckle, patting her on the back. "I was a bit shy, too, but it took some friends to get me out of my shell."
"So how did you and Cheerilee get together?" Brad asked the couple in another part of the area. "Not by the love poison incident, I hope!"
"Oh, we met when he first brought Apple Bloom to my school." Cheerilee said with a smile. "Wait, actually, we were young before that is when we first met."
"Eeyup. Cheerilee was the nicest mare I ever met." Big Macintosh admits with a smile.
"No kidding?" Brad asked in interest. He never thought that they met when they were foals.
"So Twiley must be cute as a filly, huh?" Justin asked Twilight's parents with a smile.
"Oh yes, she is." Twilight Velvet admitted with a giggle. "I wish we brought photos so we can show you."
"Thank goodness." Twilight whispered a bit, overhearing this. Better than to be humiliated.
"Oh, no worries...I brought my own!" Justin exclaimed as he suddenly pulled out a photo album. "Who wants to see embarrassing shots of the Mane Six?"
"Gah, no, no, no!" Rainbow exclaimed in horror. But it's too late, most of the ponies came up to look.
Justin opened a book, showing a photo of little Applejack in a dress with a scowl. Almost everyone laughed.
"Wow, is that Applejack?" Sweetie asked with a giggle.
"Yep. She was fussy getting into that." Hayley admitted with a giggle, recalling that moment well.
"Ugh, dad. Not cool." Applejack remarked to her adopted father in an embarrassed manner.
Justin showed another pic with Fluttershy sadly holding a hammer while near a vase.
"Is that Fluttershy?" Scootaloo asked, arching an eyebrow.
"Yep, caught her in the act." Justin said with a sigh before smiling. "But she was honest enough to admit what she did."
"It was an accident...I was trying to hammer in a nail of a picture...and I slipped." Fluttershy admitted meekly.
While the families talked, Shadow Dragon decided it was that time to help Ben out for a certain training.
"Ben, I hope you're ready with your Dragon riding.” Shadow Dragon said as he and Ben goes over to the waiting Dragoking and Nightclaw, Ben's own pet Dragon. “And this time, you'd better not blame me or my pet again."
"Hey! So, I got a little slack off. But I'm still blaming that stupid pet of yours!" Ben snapped to his brother in law stubbornly.
"Really... Why didn't you blame your own dragon? He's the one who ate your food." Shadow Dragon said, pointing that fact out to Ben.
Well, even Ben got to admit, Shadow Dragon got a point. Still, he kept on speaking, "Well, at least, he didn't try to eat me like Dragoking!"
"I already told you before- Dragoking will stop eating you if you have given him 100 meals!" Shadow Dragon snapped, reminding Ben that if he gave Dragoking 100 meals, he wouldn't chase Ben to eat him all the time.
"How am I supposed to do that?! I'm not a Monster Hunter like Boris, you know!" Ben snapped to Shadow Dragon in annoyance.
"And that is why you're hopeless when it comes to battle! Good thing your sister doesn't get embarrassed by your attitude." Shadow Dragon chuckled while shaking his head sadly in reminder of his lost love Iris Crystal.
"Hey! That wasn't funny, dude!" Ben exclaimed as if what Shadow Dragon said was uncalled for, so to speak.
Some of the others watched to see this. Hayley spoke, "Midnight? What are Ben and Shadow Dragon doing?"
Midnight smiled as she explained, "“Both Ben and Shadow Dragon were training with their rides. Ben is still trying to get his Dragon ride to perform a trick. But one mistake, you know what happen next."
Harley sighed, "Got eaten by Dragoking. Ben really needs to be careful of what he's doing."
"Hey, mind if I ride Dragoking?" Brad asked suddenly. The others look at Brad in surprise and disbelief. He wants to ride Dragoking?
"You want to ride him?" Applejack asked in surprise.
"As in the big snaky Hydra guy?" Pinkamena ask in surprise and amusament.
"Are you sure? Dragoking won't listen to anyone but Shadow Dragon. He won't let anyone touch him." Ben said uneasily. To prove this, Ben tried to touch and pat Dragoking who snarled angrily. "See what I mean?"
"Okay... I'll let you." Shadow Dragon said. What he said startled everyone. Is he pulling folks' hooves here? "If Dragoking react angrily, don't do anything else. Just follow my instructions."
"Got it." Brad said with a nod.
Justin noticed how Mila seemed rather calm and confident. Perhaps she knew something that no one did.
"Okay. Listen carefully, Brad. And this one is very serious. Hydragoons are very proud and the mightiest Ancient Beasts. Other than that, they're intelligent." Shadow Dragon instructed Brad on the Hydragoons. "But I must warn you also, insult him or provoke him- you know what happened to Ben, of course."
"Hey! Leave me out of this!” Ben exclaims in annoyance. He didn't want to be a part of it!
"Follow my instructions. And just make sure that you don't make him angry." Shadow Dragon said calmly. Brad nodded as his instructor continues. "First thing first, bow before him and let him make his move."
"That's it?" Brad asked Shadow Dragon puzzled.
"Or would you rather pick a fight with him? Hydragoons are known to be fierce and wild fighters. I did challenge and defeat him. I earned his respect as he earned mine. Easy or the hard one?" Shadow Dragon asked Brad with a devilish smile. Hearing that, the boy knew what choice to make.
"Easy one. Hopefully, I don't get eaten like Ben here." Brad said in concern as he breathed in and out.
Brad bowed down slowly and calmly. Dragoking growled a bit while looking at him. He roared wildly.
"Oh boy! You know what that means!" Laxtinct exclaimed frantically. Dragoking sounded angry!
Twilight was about to move in to help, but Midnight stopped him, shaking her head. Shadow Dragon knew what he's doing there.
"Brad, move back now! Slowly!" Shadow Dragon orders Brad who moves back slowly. “And stay bow first...”
Brad moved back slowly while still bowing to Dragoking. The Hydragoon growled a bit while looking at him. He growled softly as he bowed his head down.
Everyone looks amazed, especially Ben. Brad was able to get his respect?
Even Shadow Dragon was impressed. He chuckled, "Good job. Now move slowly to pet him."
"Tell me why I have to do that? I thought I can pet him like a dog." Brad said to Shadow Dragon, unsure.
"You still have to earn his respect before petting him like a dog. You have to show respect to him and his prowess." Shadow Dragon instructed Brad, reminding him of the respect part. "And remember, this is not a dog. He's a Hydragoon - King of all Dragons, Serpentine and Reptiles."
"Great..." Brad groans a bit. He hoped this was worth it!
Brad slowly approached and wanted to pet Dragoking. The Hydragoon growled a bit in fury and angry at Brad. The colt stopped for a moment while looking at his eyes. Dragoking slowly lessened his growl in becoming to meow like a cat while showing his gentleness. Brad slowly touched and patted Dragoking's head.
"No way!" Rainbow exclaimed in shock and amazement.
"He was able to do that?!" Rarity asked in surprise. "It would've taken weeks for somepony to learn how to tame Dragoking!"
"Even years!" Spike exclaimed with an amazed smile on his face.
"I didn't know he can do it." Justin said. He was impressed yet puzzled on how Brad was able to do this.
"Well... He did touch a snake once." Mila admitted with a giggle to her new beau.
"You're kidding me?! A snake?" Justin asked Mila in bewilderment. When was Brad able to say that?
"I'm serious! My husband was a zoo keeper since he handled some animals and know them well." Mila explained that, before the death, her husband was a zookeeper.
"Aw... I want to touch Dragoking." Hayley said with a pouty look.
"I think its best you don't until Shadow Dragon thinks its okay for you to try." Justin said to Hayley in precaution. Best not to chance it.
"Ready to ride, Brad? You did earn his respect." Shadow Dragon asked with a smirk, much to Brad’s surprise.
"Me?! I don't know." Brad said in hesitation. Petting was one thing, but riding Dragoking?
Shadow Dragon didn't wait for him to answer as he helped and pushed Brad on Dragoking's back. He said, "Don't worry, Brad. If Dragoking looks hungry, Ben will take the bait. After all, he's a good one to ignore."
Ben grunted as he got up on Nightclaw, "Very funny. No way I'm gonna fall into his mouth again. And I hope you're not trying to use snake language with him about tricking me."
"Not a chance. Don't worry. Just don't make him angry than before." Shadow Dragon said to Ben, although the pony did have a smirk on his face for the obvious reasons.
"Real funny." Ben remarks, rolling his eyes. "Ready, Brad?"
"Yeah... I hope he doesn't eat me alive.” Brad said in concern over this.
“Hey! He let you pet and ride on him. That's good. And the only thing good for him is trying to eat me!” Ben snaps to Brad, trying to remain calm. Brad is one thing, the stallion is another. “Let's ride!”
Ben nudged his Dragon Nightclaw. Nightclaw roared wildly as Ben rode on his Fury Dragon up to the sky. Brad nudged Dragoking off as he held tightly on Dragoking's neck.
Both Ben and Brad were heading straight to the Everfree Forest. Ben was riding his Nightclaw as he was watching over Brad, who enjoyed riding Dragoking across the area. This looked like fun! He felt the wind blowing into his face, so adventurous, daring yet gentle. He was glad to be here, even though none knew his secret.
Timber Wolves dared not come and attack as they knew what Hydragoon was capable of.
Ben and Brad returned to the group after going around the Everfree Forest for five times. Everyone came towards him, amazed and excited.
"Yeah, you did good Brad." Hayley said, impressed as Brad slipped off of Dragoking safely.
"So what was it like?" Nyx asked Brad with a smile.
“It was awesome. I'm surprised that Dragoking didn't eat you up.” Brad remarked, giving a chuckle to Ben.
Ben just rolled his eyes while remarking dryly, "Very funny..."
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Some time has passed as things are calming down a bit. So far, no further trouble was made by Nezha or his troopers, and the families got along with the newcomers. The question is, how long for the former.
The Mane Six were passing by Brad's run when they hear a song playing from inside. Curiosity got the best of them as Fluttershy opens the door. There's Brad, performing a song on his guitar called "Achy Breaky Heart". The ponies stood there and wait a moment for him to get done.
Brad finally stops his playing, sighing a bit. He looks up and is startled to see the ponies now in his room. What do they want?
"Sorry to bother ya. I couldn't help but noticed that you were playing the music." Applejack comments with a smile to Brad. "And I'd say it was good."
"Yes, you appear to have a great talent for music, Brad." Rarity said with a giggle. She is impressed by Brad's guitar playing.
"So you're a guitar player?" Twilight ask Brad with a thoughtful look.
Brad just scoffs as he spoke, "Nah... I hate it. I just play for fun only."
Applejack narrows her eyes. She can tell a fib when she hears one. The mare spoke, "Now, don't be like that, partner! If you keep on practicing, I've got no doubt that you can make a best song. Besides, music is about passion and fun. Reminds me of Rara." The cowpony then gasped at the reminder of her old friend. “I've got an idea."
"You're thinking of what I'm thinking?" Pinkie ask with a smile. The ponies got the same idea as she and Applejack does!
Rarity gasped excitedly, "Countess Colortura?!"
"That's so obvious since AJ and her are childhood friends." Rainbow said with a nod. The ponies met up with the singer right after they got back home after years of absence. If anyone could help, it will be her!
"I have to agree with you all. Who else is gonna teach him about music?" Twilight ask her friends. Brad looks a bit concerned about hearing that. He secretly knows of Countess Coloratura, or Rara as Applejack would called her.
"I agree. She could be a great teacher. We should ask her." Fluttershy said with a smile.
Applejack smirked as she spoke, "That's the plan."
Hours later
A knock came at the doors. Earlier, Twilight send a message to Countess Coloratura wanting her to come to the castle at once. Luckily, Applejack's old friend was in town, relaxing at the time so getting to her was easy.
The guards open the doors as Rara came in. She smiles as she came up to the Mane Six, speaking, "AJ!"
Applejack and Rara hug each other, happy to see one another. The cowpony spoke up after the two let go, "Rara, am I glad to see you!"
"So do I. I miss you so much ever since you came back from your adventure. I'm pretty sure this isn't just for visits and chats."
"There's somepony here that needs some help. And you bet your boots he's got some promising future to make good music."
"Really? Where is he?" Rara ask, arching an eyebrow. She wanted to see for herself who her best friend was preferring to.
The Mane Six took Rara to the music room where Brad was asked to wait at until Rara arrives. They already explained to her about Brad as well as the humans in secret. Fortunately, Applejack's friend agrees to keep Justin, Mila, Hayley and Brad's presence as ponies a secret.
Brad was pacing back and forth until Rara came into the room. The Mane Six and the humans came in and waited to see hos Rara would do this.
Brad stood in attention as the singer spoke up while looking the new pony up and down, "So, you're Brad. Applejack told me that you were good at music. I would love to hear it."
"You're sure?" Brad ask uneasily. He has never played much in front of people, let alone ponies from a fictional TV show!
RARA giggled at that, "Don't be shy. It's best that you show how and what you feel by playing the music. I know it because I went through the same way as you did."
"Well... Okay."
Brad got his guitar and begins playing another song. Rara stood there and waited patiently for him to get done. So far, he isn't bad for a new pony that is learning.
Once Brad is done, Rara hummed in impression, "Not bad. I don't supposed a teacher never train you in this."
"Not really..." Brad admits awkwardly to the singer.
Rara smiled as she continues, "You're lucky that AJ brought me here. I'll be honored to be teach you."
"Really? Wow... Thanks..."
Hayley hugged Rara in delight as she exclaims, "Rara! Can you sing me a song - Magic Inside?! I would love to hear it."
"Of course. This is for a reward for saving and taking care of my friend." Rara said with a giggle. Anything to repay the ones who helped Applejack and her friends all those years.
Rara took a mic from Pinkie as she clears her throat. She then begins to sing a familiar song from when Applejack helped her be herself in a Season 5 episode.
Rara: I'm here to show you who I am Throw off the veil, it's finally time There's more to me than glitz and glam, oh-whoa And now I feel my stars align For I had believed what I was sold
I did all the things that I was told But all that has changed, and now I'm bold 'Cause I know
That I am just a pony I make mistakes from time to time But now I know the real me And put my heart out on the line
And let the magic in my heart stay true Whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa And let the magic in my heart stay true Whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa Just like the magic inside of you
And now I see those colors Right before my eyes I hear my voice so clearly And I know that it is right
They thought I was weak, but I am strong They sold me the world, but they were wrong And now that I'm back, I still belong 'Cause I know
That I am just a pony I make mistakes from time to time But now I know the real me And put my heart out on the line
And let the magic in my heart stay true Whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa And let the magic in my heart stay true Whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa Just like the magic inside of you
Just like the magic inside of you..
Once the song over, everyone applauds, even Brad did. The ponies were impressed since they recalled seeing it in pony at one of Rara's concerts. For the humans, seeing it in pony themselves was amazing than seeing it on TV.
"Well, that was even more amazing when I saw it on TV." Justin said with a warm smile.
Mila nodded in agreement. She spoke to the singer, "Yes. You sure came a bit of a long way when Applejack helped you...or when you were helped being herself."
"Eyup! I done do my best to help my good friend." Applejack said to the humans, proud of her good friend.
"Well, I...wow..." Brad said, giving a warm smile to Rara. The others couldn't help but notice that he is blushing towards the mare for some reason.
"Awww, he got a crush!" Pinkie giggles a bit in amusement making Brad and Rara blush a bit. "How cute!"
Rara clears her throat as she quickly got to business, "Now, that's done. Let's get to the training. I have to warn you, Brad. I can be very strict and angry when it comes to music. It has to be not only perfect but harmony and passion. No tricks. No highlights. No help. And No Svengallop - I'd never want to see that manager again after what he has done to my friends and fans."
"Promise." Brad said with a smile. He is definitely determined to learn all he can…especially from this beautiful wonderful pony!
"Good..." Rara giggles a bit. The two gave warm smiles...and is that a loving look that they're giving? The singer quickly goes back to being strict. "What are you waiting for?! Get to practice! I want it to be played in 'Apples to the Core'! And no excuse, got it?!"
"Yes ma'am!"
"Well? Get it done!"
Brad quickly got his guitar and prepares for another song, he doesn't want to upset his Rara now, can he?
Hayley whistled in amusement, "Without Svengallop, she can be very fierce."
"Right, she was much different than when we saw her on TV." Mila admits in amazement. This isn't like the Rara she saw in that episode.
"Still, Rara and Brad make perfect music together, don't you think?" Fluttershy ask with a smile. She notes how Rara is helping Brad adjust to his music better, the two give out warm smiles.
"That's Rara. She wants good and perfect music..." Applejack comments with a nod.
"Hmmm, if I didn't know any better...gasp! I think they like like each other!" Rarity exclaims with a smile. It does make sense here!
"Yeah, I remember that when me and Twilight fell for each other." Ben said as he and Twilight hold hooves gently. Rara and Brad would indeed make a perfect couple.
"Whoa, whoa, don't you ponies get any ideas. We're only here for vacation." Justin said to the Equestria ponies in precaution. "Even if there's something there, they will be separated...and remember what Yuko said."
"Yes, yes...but perhaps you should...give it a chance?" Fluttershy ask her adopted father Justin, blinking her eyes cutely.
Justin groans as he shakes his head. The man can't defied that Brad and Rara got feelings for each other. He's worried that Brad may end up forgetting who he truly is...and the other chance of the separation when it's all over.
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The Mystic Pony Council meeting is having a meeting to discuss the rumors of the humans. The princesses are asked to attend, since it's likely that they know of the humans. They just won't say who the humans are!
Jade Emperor was the first to speak up as he brings the meeting to order, "I'm glad you all have come as well as my youngest nieces. We're gathered here to talk about the rumors. Yes... The Humans..."
"Humans?" Some of the ponies mumbles a bit in concern. They accepted that humans has been accepted in Equestria...but the Mystic Realm has problems with them before.
"And you suspect this is invasion?" Azure Phoenix ask Nezha, arching an eyebrow at the Mystic Pony.
"If it's not?" Celestia ask, keeping a stern face. She hopes to the Herd that Nezha cannot see through here and force her to tell the Mystic Ponies who they are.
"It has to be. There's no other reason." Nezha said sternly. He knew that the Royal Sisters are hiding the humans. They are part of the invasion plan, Nezha know it to be true!
Princess Luna on the other hoof just scoffs as she spoke, "Let me assure you that they're not a threat. They're innocent."
"There's no such thing called innocence when it comes to the Humans. We've let them to our home especially Equestria. And what they did to us?! They tortured us! Abuse us! Use us like slaves! And worse - experiment us like guinea pigs! I suffered a lot because of them! There is no difference about them!"
"So... You'd rather stay in the past, than the future. You're hopeless." Yuko chuckled in amusement. Nezha gave a dark glare to her as she continues, "I wonder if putting you as the Mystic Council of Courage was the right decision or not. If Susano was alive, he would have different ideas."
"How dare you?! You dare insult me?! Humiliate me?! Mocked my suffering?!" Nezha yells out in fury. This mare dare on mocking his past and pain so?! "You may ignore the past, but I haven't! I will not make mistakes! You claimed that you are the Mystic Council of Wisdom yet you do not seem to be wise enough!"
"And you're not brave enough to let go of the past... As I said before, Wisdom has funny ways to show it. Humans... They're neither good nor evil... They're neutral. It is their decision to follow or defy the fate. There's no set in stone.
Tao nodded as he spoke up, "Yuko's right. We should give the Humans a chance."
"Though I'd never met them, I would love to know them as well." Azure Phoenix said thoughtfully. He wanted to meet the ones who has took care of the Mane Six during their absence.
The Mystic Council, most of them, appears to be agreeing to the idea that the humans are harmless. After all, it has been centuries since the last one was in Equestria. Yet, there are some, like Nezha who are skeptic. What if the believers of harmless humans be truly wrong?
"Uncle... Please, I assure you that these Humans are not a threat." Celestia said calmly to the Jade Emperor who was silent throughout the conversation.
"We promised you that they're good and kindhearted soul. We saw them with our own eyes." Princess Luna said in agreement.
The others look at the Jade Emperor, waiting to hear what he has to say. The Jade Emperor sighed, "I shall see to it. But for now, the Humans are not to be harmed or they harmed us. I wish to see it. I wish to see how good and innocent they truly are. If they prove what you have described, the harm will not come to them. I want reports about them. I shall decide it. If there are those who goes against my order, they shall answer to my divine judgment! Do you understand?!"
"Yes, your highness!" The mystic Council said. Even Nezha did, but only because he was reluctant to do so.
"For now, nieces - do what you think is right. And let me know the reports about these Humans. I shall be judge of it."
"It will be done, uncle." Celestia said as she bows to the Jade Emperor. The Alicorn was hoping that he would come to the right decision.
Princess Luna nodded as she spoke, "Rest assure that these Humans are good."
Nezha muttered under his breath, "We shall see, traitors..."
Nezha will find a way to prove himself right...one way or another...
Once the meeting is over, the Royal Sisters heads back to the castle to explain to them as to what's going on. Princess Celestia and Princess Luna explained about Mystic Council meeting and mission. Everyone was in shock and surprise of what they just heard.
"Wow! Wow! And wow! Let me get this straight! The Mystic Council wants the proof that these Humans are not the bad guys? If we passed, Jade King is okay with it?!" Rainbow ask Princess Luna in surprise and concern.
Princess Luna nodded as she answers, "Correct."
"Well, that's shocking." Starlight Glimmer said in concern. "But if they somehow managed to pass the test..."
"But if it does work, then there's a possibility that the humans may stay after all." Sunburst said thoughtfully. If the Mystic Ponies approves of the Humans, then Justin's group can stay as long as they could.
"Long in permanent." Flash said with a nod.
"Daddy! This means we can finally get to stay with them! We don't need to worry about the Mystic Ponies." Hayley said to her father excitedly. All the humans gotta do is to prove themselves to the Mystic Ponies and it should be fine.
Justin hummed thoughtfully about this, "I guess. But still we have to behave ourselves if we want to spend together as a family." On one hand, it may help Brad be with Rara...but on the other hand, how will they explain their move if that were to come?
Rainbow Dash huffed to Justin, "It will be easy, dad. Just leave it to me and my sisters to handle this. If the Dragon Strike Force, Tao's family and Witch are convinced by this, the Emperor and others would love it."
"Oh yes. The Mystic Council may be rough but deep down, they're nice ponies if you're on their side." Fluttershy explains with a smile.
"Yes, our friends will be friends with you after all." Rarity said with a smile of agreement.
Shadow Dragon smirked as he spoke, "Can't say I disagree. But a little warning too - watch out for Nezha. He's still not fond of Humans. But don't worry, my team and I will keep eye out for him and his tricks. I have the feeling he'll do whatever it takes to prove everypony that Humans are a threat."
"Well, he's got the right point." A certain robot remarks, Sunset Shimmer nudged Wheelie's chest in retaliation for that. "What the heck?! It's the truth!"
"Wheelie, these Humans are from another realm, not Equestria Girls. So, they're way different from the other Humans." Sunset scolds Wheelie. She is reminding her little robot friend of the fact that Justin's group are from a realm different than the one he came from. "I mean, you have good human friends from NEST Team and even Autobots' Friends. You did admire a babe like Mikaela and me. So, I'm pretty sure Harley would be a beautiful girl too when she grew up."
Wheelie hummed as he reconsider this, "I supposed so. I guess these three are okay. But this kid owe me a tin can of Energon for kicking and ticking me off!" The robot gave a dark look at Brad who frowns at him, the two are still going at it. He approached and held Sunset Shimmer's left leg as he nuzzled on hers. "But nopony is beautiful as you, babe. Nopony, I'd tell ya! Nopony! Well, except Mikaela, of course."
Sunset Shimmer giggled, "Aw... Isn't he a cute like baby assistant? It does remind you about Spike, doesn't it, Twilight?"
Flash Sentry groaned, "Oh brother." Why is he not surprised to hear that?
Twilight giggled in agreement, "It sure does." The Alicorn turned and found Spike blushed as he looked away. She smiled as she poked Spike's chest. "Come on, Spike. Just admit it. You miss hugging and nuzzling me, don't you?"
"Spike is like mummy's favorite baby boy!" Nyx chuckles as she nuzzled Twilight's cheek gently. "And I'm proud of it too."
"Yeah, he is a cute big Dragon now!" Rarity exclaims as most of the girls giggled at Spike, much to his embarrassment.
"Oh yes, even when he's grow up, one cannot forget what he used to be...a cute little Dragon you would be proud to be home to your mother." Mila remarks with a smirk towards Spike.
"He's our cute Spikey Wikey always." Pinkie giggles as she pinches Spike's cheeks a bit.
Spike burnt in red protests, "Aw come on! Just give me a break!" He sighed a bit, this whole thing is embarrassing him a bit. "Of course, I almost do miss that." Everyone gave their sly smirk at Spike. "Almost..."
"Come on, Spike, admit it." Flash said to Spike with a smirk on his face.
Spike sighed in defeat, "Fine." He hugged Twilight tightly and passionately as a mother-son kinda way. "Happy?"
Twilight giggled, "Pretty much, Spiky Wikey."
"Okay, let's focus on the main point now. Like prove to Mystic Ponies that the Humans are not a threat." Shadow Dragon said, wishing to get back to the main subject. The Humans must still convince the Mystic Council that they are not a threat to them or Equestria.
Princess Celestia nodded as she spoke, "Agreed. Both me and Luna shall be reporters of the mission. Once we write what we witnessed and believed, we'll send it to Mystic Council for approval."
"Indeed. Any question?" Princess Luna ask, wondering if anyone got any questions here.
"I have. Can someone ask this stupid Hydragoon to stopped biting my tail?!" Ben scowls angrily. Dragoking is at it again, biting onto the stallion's tail. "For my mom's mane, I'm not his toy chew!"
Shadow Dragon chuckled, "Oopsy, can't help you with that because you're too good to ignore."
Everyone laughed in amusement. Ben yelled out angrily, "That wasn't funny! I'm seriously ticked! Ask him to stop biting my tail!"
"Hayley, would you like to try?"
"Really? Are you sure?" Hayley ask in surprise. Shadow King is now allowing her to try to tame the Hydragoon?
"Don't worry. Dragoking will like it when you patted him." Shadow Dragon assures Hayley. If she petted him correctly, then he will be nice.
Hayley giggled as she approached and patted Dragoking, speaking gently, "Come on, Dragoking; stop biting his tail. You've got bigger food than him."
Dragoking meowed a bit as he released himself from biting Ben's tail. He turned and licked Hayley as she giggled happily.
"My tail..." Ben groans as he glooms his tail. The stallion wished for once that stupid Hydragoon would leave him alone!
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Hayley was sitting in the library, reading some books while looking for one on matters. Maybe there's something in here that can help out in earning the Mystic Council's trust.
Hayley looks up to see Midnight coming in, smiling as she spoke, "Hayley, hello. Are you looking through some books?"
"Looking for some manners...and hopefully some will help Brad out a bit." Hayley pauses as she did some thinking. "Midnight, can I ask you a little question?"
"You got my permission."
"Midnight. How are you close to Twilight Sparkle? And how did you meet Shadow Dragon? Well, I'm just curious and wondering. That's all."
Midnight giggled, "Okay. Let's start with both me and Twilight when we were close BSF - Best Sisters Forever. We both spent together studying. But unlike her, I loved adventures and learning more secrets, and of course I liked making friends."
"So, are you like Twilight's opposite?" Hayley ask, observing Midnight carefully. She does look like her sister a bit.
"More or less. Anyway, ever since Princess Celestia sent Twilight to Ponyville, I was upset and sad like Shining Armor. But of course, I always write letters to her, and she replied. She talked about her adventures. And I'm so jealous and upset about it too! And not to mention, she became an Alicorn! That was awesome!"
Hayley shrugged as she spoke, "Yeah, it is. Unfortunately, some fans disliked it a lot. But what about the wedding, did you side with Shining Armor or her."
Midnight smiled, she knew that subject would come up. The mare explains, "Of course, with my sister - I was suspicious of Cadance a lot since she behaved nasty and rude to almost everyone but Shining Armor. So I told her what happen and we both secretly are trying to figure out of who and what she is, and what really happen to the real Cadance. Nyx also helped too. But you know the rest too."
"Yeah. And what about Shadow Dragon? Let me guess - Third Mystic War?"
Midnight giggled before answering, "That's right. After the Tirek Battle, I went to my sister's new castle to check out the place. And it was awesome. That's where I met Shadow Dragon. But you know the rest when you read Nigel's fiction, didn't you?"
"How did you-?" Hayley ask Midnight in surprise. How did this mare even know?
Midnight smiled, answering, "I borrow Pinkie's power to be aware of other universes. You could say my magic is absorbing and borrow powers."
'That's awesome."
"So, is there any mention of me in his story?"
"Well, no." Hayley said a bit awkwardly. She knew that in Nigel's universes, it was Twilight who got together with Shadow Dragon. "And the only difference is that Shadow Dragon and Twilight Sparkle loved with each other a lot but gotten into lots of argument to compare to Ben and Twilight."
"Well... Nopony is perfect. And I really hate to see both Ben and Shadow Dragon fighting over one mare they loved." Midnight remarks, rolling her eyes. At least here, that never happened.
Harley sighed, "And be glad that never happen. If it does, let's just said that I hate love triangles."
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Brad was trotting down the hall, thinking carefully. Ever since his practice with Rara, he has gotten closer to her. The boy has a little crush on her since he saw her premiere episode. And now, being with her in pony...it's like a dream come true to any love fans.
Brad was wondering how he could stay with her. If the humans ended up failing, he must separate with Rara. It wouldn't be fair. But what if the humans decided to go anyway? Why must love be so...complicated?
Brad wasn't watching where he was going as the colt stepped on a familiar toy truck. Wheelie yelped as he transformed, "Watch where you're stepping, you dirty little piece of-!"
Brad coughed a bit, "Watch your language. Otherwise, I'd tell Goddess of Sun about this."
"Hey! You'd better leave my girl out of this or I'll kick your butt!"
"Your girl? Don't you mean Flash's girl? Hayley keep babbling that Flash and Sunset are a perfect couple. I thought he and Twilight are."
"News flash, genius! This is another universe, not the Prime one!" Wheelie snaps in annoyance to Brad. Just because Twilight may be interested in Flash in the regular universe, doesn't mean it's the same all over!
"You really starting to bug me now, you pile of racist robot. At least Wheelie G1 is much smarter and nice than you are, jerk." Brad snaps angrily to Wheelie.
"What did you say?! You'd take that back!'
"Make me!" Without warning, Wheelie punches Brad in the face then grabs his mane hard. "OW! Cut it out! That's my mane!"
Both Wheelie and Brad fight with each other fierce and hard for a few times until four familiar figures appear, pushing them back and cutting the fight off.
"Rara?! Mom?!" Brad ask in alarm and shock at the upset looks of both his mother and his crush.
"Sunset!" Wheelie exclaims, seeing Sunset giving a disappointed look to her robot friend.
Brad and Wheelie did not waste time in pointing hooves/robotic fingers at each other, snapping accusingly, "He did it!"
Mila sighed as she shakes her head, "Unbelievable. Looks like you two need some time off."
"I couldn't have agree more." Sunset said sternly in agreement. These two must get out of the castle more and stop fighting like wild animals.
Rara nodded as she spoke sternly to Brad, "Until then, you're not gonna practice until you both work together." Brad looks down in sadness. Whenever a girl, or mare, he likes speak to him like that, the boy knows that she is very upset with him.
"For now, we're out of groceries. Brad and Wheelie, you're gonna buy them." Mila snaps sternly to the two.
"WHAT?!" Brad and Wheelie yelled out in shock and alarm. They gotta buy groceries...together?!
"You heard her." Sunset and Rara said sternly. Mila gave a dark glare to the two, she isn't joking.
Brad and Wheelie groaned in defeat, "Fine..."
Brad and Wheelie reluctantly leaves, the colt not wanting to look Rara in the eyes right now. She is disappointed in him for his foolish fighting behavior.
Flash sighed, "I thought they'd never shut up for once. One Minicon is one thing, but with a human - it's one big mess. I thought Human making friends with robot is a famous story."
"Well, that depends on friendly they can be." Sunset said. She pauses then spoke to Rara, "So Rara...what do you think of Brad?"
"Very disappointed." Rara remarks with a sigh. "I just wish he wouldn't acted this way. It's hard to be with him otherwise."
"Ah, so you like LIKE him?"
Rara pauses and blushes a bit as she realizes what Sunset is on about. She's on...about that!
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In the dining room of the Friendship Rainbow Kingdom castle, Mila was setting the table. She sighed as she recalled her treatment of her son nearby. The woman turns to the others as she ask, "Do you think I did the right thing? Am I being harsh to him?"
"Well, you did the right thing." Flash said to Mila with a shrug. "Of course, it's a bit harsh but sometimes parents has to do so."
"So what's wrong with your son anyway?" Starlight asked Mila in concern, wondering why Brad is acting the way he is.
"Ever since his father died, Brad is having a hard time in getting over it. He'd prefer to be alone than with others. I wish I could help him, but I don't know how." Mila said with a sigh while shaking her head. Her son was pretty much a loner than a friendship parent.
"There is a way. You should try to talk with him. All he needs is someone he loved to be there for him. Just as someone did for me." Rara said gently to Mila. The mare was referring to her friendship with Applejack who does her best to be there for her.
"Oh, are you meaning Applejack...or Brad?" Starlight asked, giving a sly smile to Rara. "I can tell you got the hooves for him."
Hearing this made Rara start blushing a bit wildly.
Flash chuckled then quickly got serious as he continued, "She's right. I wasn't there for Sunset when she turned to a bad apple and almost lost her, too."
"Same goes to me, too. I guess I was so proud of my Cutie Mark and my dream so much. I'd completely forgotten someone important to me." Sunburst sighed in regret while holding Starlight's hoof.
Sunset smiled as she patted Flash on the back, saying, "Flash, I forgave you already."
Starlight nodded as she added, "Me too. We made our stupid decision in the first place. And best way to get over it is learn and never make the same mistakes."
Rara chuckled, recovering as she spoke, "They're right. I almost did the same thing, no thanks to Svengallop. Now? You must help Brad."
Mila paused then smiled as she spoke, "You're right. I'll talk with my son. It's time to find out why he's hiding from me."
"So if you don't mind us asking....you and Brad?" Flash asked Rara with a smile, making her blush.
"A mare doesn't kiss and tell." Rara said with a warm smile, thinking about her Bradley.
"That wasn't what your Facebook page said." Sunset teased Rara on that fact.
"Hey! I don't recall friending you." Rara protested, a bit embarrassed on that.
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The shopping trip didn’t go so well for Brad and Wheelie, Spike and Nyx came along to keep an eye on him. The two were buying some groceries while arguing with each other about differences, making some fuss and mess at the market. Spike and Nyx had the management send the bill to Twilight. Boy, was she gonna be mad!
The group was on its way to get something from Zecora's hut. Brad looked around, frowning as he demanded, "Are you sure you got us on the right place?! This isn't Zecora's hut! You're going the wrong way."
"Funny... Talking from somepony who actually hates the MLP a lot, especially Rara." Wheelie remarks with a sneer to Brad. For someone who doesn't like the show, he got some knowledge of it.
Suddenly, Brad angrily grabbed Wheelie. He held him up while snapping, "Don't you dare to talk her like that. She's different! No one talks about her like that, ya hear me?!"
Wheelie scoffed, "Yeah, I hear ya. I hear that you're a big scaredy cat."
"What are you talking about?” Brad demanded more than he asked.
"Just admit it, kid. Ponies may think you hate them, but the kids and I knew that you actually love them. Aren't ya, Brony Boy?" Wheelie teased Brad, making him blush a bit for a different reason. How did this annoying robot even know?
Brad groaned in denial, "I don't know what you're talking about."
“Really? Want to know the hard way? Well, here!" Wheelie shot a projection of Brad and his activities. "This is what we meant!"
"We?! You mean?! Spike? Nyx? You told him, didn't you?!" Brad yelled at Spike and Nyx in shock and betrayal. Somehow, he knew that the two found out about his secret love.
"No, we didn't. We're just curious." Spike admitted to Brad, claiming innocence on this.
Nyx nodded as she explained, "Yeah. And based on Wheelie's recording, you actually like us a lot."
"It's a lie! Just drop it!" Brad exclaimed in denial and anger. He didn't want anyone to even find out about…his secret. Otherwise…
"Fine, baby boy!" Wheelie snaps as he got out of Brad’s hold. He turned and glared at Wheelie who mouthed off to the closeted Brony once more. "Yeah! Ya heard me! An emo boy who don't even know the meaning of admitting and always acted like he's a tough boy, but inside, he's just a kid and scared no one would understand him that he actually likes Ponies! What a scaredy brat!"
“Wheelie, that was uncool!” Spike exclaimed upset to Wheelie. Even the Dragon admitted what he said to Brad was going too far.
"Shut up, Mini Freak!" Brad said, getting closer to stomping Wheelie to the ground. Friend of Sunset or no, no one talked to him like that!
Nyx yelped as she spotted something nearby, "Ah, guys... We've got company."
The group turned and saw some creatures snarling as they came out of the bushes. Brad, having seen the episodes, and Spike recognized them at once.
Spike yelped, "Timberwolves! Here we go again! RUN!"
Then the group all ran like the dickens from the Timberwolves, who gave chase to them.
Nyx fired a flash, blinding some of the Timberwolves quickly. Wheelie tripped, getting caught on a branch.
"Awww, sparks dang it!" Wheelie yelped out in alarm. One Timberwolf growled as it was getting closer...
...but Brad flew in and kicked the Timberwolf in the face, knocking it away from Wheelie. The new pony quickly grabbed the robot, saying, "Come on!"
"Whoa!" Wheelie yelped as he was grabbed.
The group kept on running but the Timberwolves were catching up.
"Any ideas?" Spike asked nervously. He may be a big Dragon, but even he had limits.
"Got one, go this way!" Brad exclaimed as he led the way to another part.
The group disappeared around a bush causing the Timberwolves to blindly jumped forward to catch...only to catch the tail of a familiar creature.
Manny the Manticore, whom Fluttershy befriended in the second episode, turned and glared at the Timberwolves and roared in fury as he knocks the creatures off.
"Yeah, go get them!" Brad called out to Manny quickly. "These guys are trying to hurt the friends of your pal Fluttershy! You gonna stand for that?!"
Manny turned towards the group and growled while shaking his head in reply, not wanting to stand the Timberwolves hurting Fluttershy's friends. Then he returned to fighting off the wooden beasts. The group chose this time to get away. Those Timberwolves were gonna be busy.
"That was close... And thanks, Brad." Wheelie said to Brad with a smile that one could ever see on a little bot like him, even one who was a little jerk.
"Yeah. Sure, whatever." Brad remarked with a scoff, going into his cool state.
"So, want to tell us about your big secret?" Wheelie asked Brad, making him groan. Why were folks wanting to dwell in that all day?
Brad sighed as he began to speak, "Well…"
Wheelie, however, interrupted as he spoke, "On second thought, forget it."
“Wait? Seriously?" Brad asked Wheelie in surprise. He found it surprising that this jerkish robot decided not to get into his secret all of the sudden.
"I maybe piece of scrapyard junk, but I ain't no man's breaking privacy. Well, except the ladies, of course." Wheelie said, chuckling at the last part.
Spike rolled his eyes, commenting, "Figures..." Somehow, he knew that Wheelie was still his perverted self.
"Gee... I don't know what to say." Brad said, a bit amazed and awkward. He acted like a jerk to Wheelie during the stay and now?
"You can start with apologizing to me, jerk." Wheelie snapped to Brad, making him sigh.
"Well, sorry about that, little bot. Happy?" Brad asked Wheelie with a sigh. Spike and Nyx looks hopeful, maybe this finally end this silly fighting.
"Happy. Whatever the reason, Brad, I'm pretty sure that was for you to find something to cool off your sadness." Wheelie said with a smirk to Brad, much to his surprise and concern. Does he even know?
"Recording?" Brad asked Wheelie uneasily.
"It's an obvious answer when the Mane Six told us about their adventures in the Human Realm." Wheelie explained. The Mane Six had told everyone about their adventure in the Human Realm, so it didn't take long for him to figure out something sad when he heard it.
"Of course, they do." Brad said with a slow nod. His subject of his father’s death…was something he'd rather not dwell on.
Spike pat Brad on the back, giving a smile as he spoke, "Don't worry, we won't tell anyone until you're ready."
"Besides, we'll keep it a secret." Nyx assured Brad. After all, she and Spike can keep secrets until they are ready to talk about it.
"Thanks." Brad said with a warm smile to his friends, even Wheelie.
"So...you and Rara...do you like her?" Spike teased Brad as the gang headed on their way back.
"A guy don't kiss and tell." Brad remarked, even though he hasn't gotten to the kissing part yet.
"Not what I heard, Bradley." Wheelie remarked with a scowl as he rolled alongside the ponies and Dragon.
"Hey, it's none of your business." Brad protested, giving out a big blush.
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The gang came back to the castle a while later. Upon arrival, they saw a scene in precaution...a familiar stallion was there, speaking to Rara who is very annoyed with him.
"Oh no, not him." Nyx said with a groan, recognizing who the stallion was.
"Is that Svengallop?" Brad asked, feeling ticked off upon seeing Svengallop, the one who exploited Rara for his own personal gain.
"Yep, that's him." Spike replied with a scowl while pointing with his thumb.
"Ugh, I thought we told him to not come around the castle after what he did." Nyx scowled angrily.
"Look, Svengallop, I told you, get lost!" Rara exclaimed sternly to Svengallop.
"But look at your sales, they are dropping a bit." Svengallop remarked with a sneer, using a chart as if to prove his point. "Without me, you are hopeless and never be famous as you were before."
"I am doing fine without you...the fans loved me for being myself, not for having you around!" Rara exclaimed angrily. "So do yourself a favor and get away from me."
"Fine...but let's see how you are without me for a few weeks" Svengallop remarked arrogantly to the singer. This was making the ponies watching and around her get upset.
"You heard her, jerk!" Brad scowled as he stepped in. "She is the perfect the way she is, she doesn't need you around!"
"Ooooh, what's this? Got yourself a new colt toy, Coloratura?" Svengallop taunted while sneering at Brad.
"Don't you DARE call him that," Rara shouted angrily.
"Yeah, I am not a colt toy." Brad snapped, blushing a bit. "Like she said, go away!"
"Bold words for someone weak and pathetic." Svengallop remarked with a sneer. "But I can fix that. If you got better music, I can make you better and a better star than..."
"That's enough!" Mila exclaimed as she stepped in angrily. "I don't know where you get off mocking my son, but he's better than you ever be!"
"Right, he's nice boy despite his appearance. He's stronger in heart than in muscle!" Hayley exclaimed in agreement as the others step in to help and defend Brad.
"Yeah, he even saved Wheelie and us from Timberwolves!" Nyx called out, much to the surprise of some of the others.
"Is this true, Brad?" Mila asked Brad, surprised to hear this.
"Yeah, well...I couldn't let them eat them, should I?" Brad asked with a shrug, confirming what Nyx said is true.
"They're right. He can make beautiful music if he put his mind to it...which is why I am his teacher." Rara said, holding Rara's hoof.
"Or else what?" Svengallop asked, not a bit intimidated by this.
"Or else we will have Saber Dragon ask his ape to play with you. He's right over there." Twilight said slyly as she motioned to a big ape pounding some trash into the ground.
Svengallop gulped a bit. With the size of that ape, he didn't want to be here right now!
"Fine, I get the idea." Svegallop said nervously as he prepared to leave. "But I will speak with Rara about where her career is..."
Suddenly, Brad flew in and kicked Svegallop in the face, making most of everyone gasped in surprise. As the former manager recovered, he yelped as Brad stepped on his tail.
"I will say this once and nicely...stay away from Rara and my friends...or I will make you be wearing a body cast. Got it?!" Brad snapped darkly to Svengallop as if he would say, 'go near my filly again and you're in trouble'.
Svengallop gulped a bit. He grabbed his glasses that fell off of himself and make a run for it. This was one pony who won't be bugging Rara for a long time!
Brad sighed, shaking his head while turning to Rara, speaking, "You okay?"
"Thanks to you, Brad." Rara said with a smile.
"Uh, thanks...for defending me." Brad said to Rara and the others, scratching the ground with one hoof. "I appreciate it."
"No one talks that way to my son." Mila said, hugging Brad a bit. "You are strong, despite what he said. Don't forget that."
"Anyway, thanks for defending me, too." Rara said to Brad, blushing a bit. "I appreciate it..."
"Hey, no one puts my teacher in a corner." Brad remarked with a chuckle, making Rara give him a warm smile.
"Hey, this is like in 'Dirty Dancing'...except Brad didn't say 'baby'!" Pinkie exclaimed with a happy squee.
"Pinkie!" Some of the group sighed while Rara and Brad blushed some more. Typical of her!
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At the park in the morning, Brad was playing his guitar. What happened yesterday seems to have die down. At least he was able to do the right thing and keep his Rara safe. Hopefully Svengallop will stay away for a very LONG time!
"You seemed to be relax than being emo and upset." A familiar voice spoke. Brad looks up to see Yuko looking at him in a serious tone of voice.
Brad sighs, "I'm guessing you know my secrets. Wheelie told you before he told me." The new pony suspects that Yuko found out about his secret: of him being a Brony in a secret.
"Actually, Brad. I have known this since the day you came here. You were actually a Brony in Secret as well as knowing the episodes and stories or our existence as well. That is why you knew it too well, though you're not interested in fanfiction. It also makes everyone suspicious of you. And I can tell that you feared and worried that everyone will not only see you as a fool but no one will understand you completely since the death of your father. Am I right?"
"Wow... And I thought Pinkie Pie is random. You're actually a fortune teller or something."
"Something like that. But all I'm saying is that you should be yourself." Yuko said calmly to Brad. The boy shouldn't be afraid of hiding his true self.
"I know. But to make sure that I don't become human and freak the Mystic Ponies out until the Princesses said it's okay to show and tell, I have to be cool and be myself from letting my disguise turned off." Brad said to Yuko in concern. He is trying to keep himself from being known as to avoid trouble with the Mystic Pony allies.
"I meant stop pretending to be someone else and hiding your feelings. Because if you do that, your disguise will be destroyed."
"Seriously?"
"Yes. But it's your choice, not mine. All I can do is give you some advice, and hopefully you make the right choice." Yuko said to Brad. The boy was silent at that. "If you don't, your family will be in danger. You will have no one but yourself to blame..."
"Hmm...." Brad said, pondering about this.
"I only did this is because someone have requested you to do it."
"Who?"
"Only time can tell, Brad. I must go. I have some customers to deal with especially the Mad Hatter and Discord. They brought me special tea for me to try. I can't wait." Yuko said with a giggle as she took her leave.
Brad watches her leave, commenting, "She's the strangest Mystic Pony I ever met."
But what Yuko said was true enough. Unless he comes clean with his secret...the boy may put his loved ones in danger.
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Nezha paces back and forth in his office. He got a plan that will take care of the humans once and for all. And thanks to his scouts who were observing the newcomers, Nezha knows what to do.
"The Jade Emperor made a mistake about trusting the humans. But I will make sure that won't happen again to my homeland or mortals. I will prove to the world. Starting with this boy. The scouts did a good job. He's perfect to reveal his dark secrets. When that happen, we can finally get some payback..." Nezha said in determination.
Brad was on his way back to Castle of Friendship until he found everyone was outside of the castle. Apparently, something is up.
"Hey! Hey! There he is! He sure took his sweet time." Wheelie remarks in annoyance to Brad.
"What's up? Did I miss something?" Brad ask, wondering what's going on.
"Isn't it obvious? We still need to show the Mystic Ponies that the Humans can be trusted." Pinkie reminded Brad playfully. That's right, with what's happening, Brad has almost forgotten.
"She's right. If you want to stay in Equestria as long as you want, it's best not to delay." Starlight said with agreement.
"There cannot be any delays." Justin said in determination. Looks like the father wants to prove himself a good father and a trusting Human to everyone.
"So, what else you have in mind?" Brad ask curiously. How will they do this?
Twilight levitated both her checklist pad and quill as she explains, "Let's start with Episode 1 of Season 1. Everyone keen on it?"
"Yeah, you betcha!" Hayley, Nyx and the CMC exclaims eagerly.
"Sure, I'm game." Mila said with a smile on her face. Starting from the beginning would be perfect!
"Seriously?" Brad ask Twilight skeptically.
"We are. Let's do this." Twilight said in determination. It's time to begin!
For the Past Few Days, the ponies helped the Humans in proving their worth to the Mystic Ponies. The Mane Eight sing a familiar song as they do so.
Starlight Glimmer: I never thought that I would find a place To step right in and start again I never thought that I could just begin Right where I left off and make a friend
Applejack and Saber Dragoon are bucking the trees for apples and farming the land, Rainbow Dash, Blazefist and Aquastroke cleared the clouds but two of the girls loved to race. Typical! Rarity got to work on sewing and making dresses while Shorty Thinking and his assistants (Icy and Tailtech) worked on inventions to improve things.
Fluttershy and Terrorcreep are working on taking care of the animals while Pinkie Pie and Laxtinct are making birthday parties as usual! Starlight Glimmer and Sunburst worked together in making some several magic tricks, Sunset Shimmer and Flash Sentry performed their battle skills at each other and Twilight Sparkle is arranging the books as well as helping other ponies.
Even the Cutie Mark Crusaders are in the act of helping the young foals in the progress finding Cutie Marks and learning about them as well with Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon helping out.
Twilight Sparkle: Don't ever think that it might be too late You don't have to wait, there's no mistakes with the friends you make A friendship's only made of what you bring And if you do it right, you can do anything
Twilight and the others were watching Ben and Shadow Dragon training their martial art skills. Brad tried to follow but performed it poorly. Both of them helped and trained Brad of using the martial art skills, which allows the new Pegasus pony to approve. As Ben show a kick, he flew straight and kicked at Dragoking's flank.
Starlight Glimmer and Mane Six: Just use your eyes This time, no lies Just don't disguise Who you are inside
Dragoking growled in anger making Ben chuckled uneasily. He's in trouble! Ben yelped and screamed fearfully as he ran away from the angry Dragoking. Everyone but Shadow Dragon and Twilight Sparkle laughed in amusement and happily, even for Brad. Both Shadow Dragon and Twilight Sparkle sighed in annoyance. This could take a while.
Because your friends are always there for you You don't have to be the same for friendship to be true Because your friends are always there for you Around the world, it's still the same Together you have more to gain There's nothing that a friend won't do
Brad continued practicing his guitar, with the help of Rara in getting the right notes and song. When he makes a wrong note, Rara scolded and shouted at him for being a slacker. The Pegasus colts does his best to follow along. He wants to prove himself and his love to the beautiful pony.
Wheelie and Brad secretly watched the video about girls. They both laughed in amusement before Sunset Shimmer and Mila came in and gave two of them their ears pulled. What perverts!
At one point, Mila and Brad have a heart-to-heart talk about the problems that Brad has been dealing with, especially his secret which she was proud and happy with. They reconcile. Looks like these two are doing even better now!
Justin and Mila chatted and walked together as they were getting very close to each other. They also helped and assisted some of ponies in Ponyville. The two show their relationship and caring for each other and the other kids, looks like these two are becoming more closer; They even chatted with the Mane Six's biological parents while remarking about Fluttershy's mysterious brother. The two are wondering if he does exist in this world or not.
Everywhere you go Friendship there will grow When you find it, it's the key Friends can change the world, you see
Hayley was playing with the Cutie Mark Crusaders about helping others about Cutie Marks and having their own fun. This is the first time since before the Mane Six left to go home that the girl has played with little ones! They were playing with a kite until Hayley's one got trapped on the tree. Brad came and helped her get it down before passing it to her. They both smiled and chat about getting to know each other. They both play together.
Over time, Brad slowly lightened up his emo and moody nature into a friendly and caring pony or human-like.
Everywhere you go Friendship there will grow When you find it, it's the key Friends can change the world (ah-ah) Friends can change the world (ah-ah) Friends can change the world, you see
Princess Celestia and Princess Luna smiled as they wrote down the reports. With what's been happening so far, they knew that the Jade Emperor and the Mystic Council will approve of this!
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Brad was playing his guitar at his usual spot. He has been doing better since his first arrival here. Even his relationship with Rara has improved. They are becoming...more closer than before. Brad was wondering if it's time for the next step.
"You're getting lighten up." A familiar voice spoke up. Brad looks up to see Yuko nearby watching. She must've seen his progress so far and is proud. "It seems you finally showing your true self, Brad."
"Well... Yeah, I guess I do. Lots of ponies actually appreciate me now. I guess it’s okay to show them of who I am."
"Indeed. And sooner or later, you will not need your disguise much longer, young one. The Mystic Council had received the reports yesterday."
"So? What's the good news?" Brad ask Yuko anxiously. He hopes its good news. Otherwise, the boy will never be with...her.
Yuko giggled as she answers, "You'll find out soon enough. Your performances and others' have inspired us very well. I'm impressed, young one."
"Thanks."
"And by the way, you might want to reveal your feelings for Rara. And don't break her heart like what Shadow Dragon did."
"Wait! Rara and Shadow Dragon were on a date? Seriously?" Brad ask in surprise and disbelief. He couldn't imagine Shadow Dragon being with anyone other than Iris Crystal, Twilight Moon, or Twilight Sparkle herself!
"It was a long time ago before Svengallop ruined it. And of course, Shadow Dragon was her mentor during his exile." Yuko answers carefully. Apparently, when Svengallop came onto the scene, the love that was once between Shadow Dragon and Rara was gone for good.
"Wow. That's harsh. What did he do?"
"Your sister should tell you about this. Or rather, would you like to find out by yourself?"
"Hayley isn't my sister, you know." Brad points out to Yuko with a frown. His mother and Justin didn't get married yet so it's too early!
Yuko on the other hand said otherwise, "Your actions speaks otherwise. Hate-love relationship takes some times for them to get along. If one refused to open to another, their bonds will be broken and be forgotten. And I assure you that you love your sister much. You desire one to play with since your young age."
Brad sighed, Yuko does have a point, "I guess I do. Annoying but she's an okay and cool sister. Can I ask you something?"
"What is it? "
"Do you think Humans and Ponies can - I don't know - like-like-like each other?"
Yuko knew that Brad would ask that. She smiles while answering, "That depends on you and the pony you loved. If she have the feeling for you, you should return it to her. If she does not, there is no point. As long you're honest with yourself, then you know how you feel for others."
"Make sense..." Brad said in a ponder.
"When you get the answer, I may grant your wish."
"My wish?"
"It depends on your decision. If you do know it, come and find me - I'll provide of what you wanted. Your reward can finally come. I'll see you soon. Can you send this to little Benny Whinny? It's a gift." Yuko said as she hands some sort of package to Brad who takes it.
"Uh... Sure. I supposed. But what's inside?" Brad ask puzzled as he looks at the package. What could be inside that Yuko wants Ben to have?
"You'll find out."
" You really like to tease Ben a lot. Why?"
"Isn't it obvious, Brad? I'm Celestia and Luna's godmother. And I loved playing and teasing with them. So, I should do the same with him." Yuko explains with a light giggle. Apparently, Celestia and Luna's family, even godparents, has a tradition of always playing and teasing with one another! "Ben still has a long way to go yet understand the life. You and him share similarities."
"Really?" Brad ask Yuko in surprise and concern.
"Yes... You both were afraid and scared that no one wants to treat you equal as well as performing something reckless and overconfident things which could have caused serious consequences. But of course, I enjoy playing a fool with you both because of your naivety and silliness. Such as my kiss of lust will help you get her to be crazy-in-love with you eternally."
Brad screamed in fury, "DON'T! I don't want that! I don't want to force Rara to be a zombie and crazy mare! I want Rara be herself!" If Yuko even thinks of doing what he thinks she could be doing, he isn't going to have it!
"Just kidding." Yuko chuckles a bit. Brad blinks a bit, she was messing with him? "Like I say, you're easy to fool."
"Man, you're crazy."
"That's your point-of-view. But remember, wisdom has funny ways to show. Just remember, kiss the girl with your own feelings."
Thus, Yuko disappeared from sight, startling Brad. As he recovers Brad groans, "I can see why Ben freaked out a lot from her."
Still, Yuko does have a point. Brad wants to admit his true feelings to the mare he loves. The stallion must do so now before it's too late.
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The Royal Sisters waited as the Jade Emperor was reading the papers while humming, "Hmm..."
The Alicorns waited hopefully. They are anxious to hear what the Jade Emperor has to say. These reports must be enough to get him to consider that the Humans can be trusted and not monsters like Nezha, who is watching with the rest of the Council, is insisting that they are.
"Uncle?" Princess Celestia ask her uncle hopefully.
"Please, accept it..." Princess Luna said in concern.
"The decision has been made." The Jade Emperor said suddenly. Everyone waited anxiously. This is it! "The Humans can be trusted and treated as friends."
Everyone gasped in surprise, shock and/or happiness. Celestia and Luna gave pleased looks on their faces. The mission has been a success! The Mystic Council has now accepted the Humans as allies!
"I suppose this will have to do. I hate to admit it." Lightning Wisdom remarks with a nod. "These Humans are very different."
"I told you that they can be trusted." Tao said with a light chuckle. Of course, he is glancing at a certain ticked off councilpony who isn't happy about this decision at all.
"It looks like you've lost, Nezha." Yuko said to Nezha in amusement. His attempts to prove the Humans bad...has been defeated.
Nezha groaned as he kicked the chair off and stormed off, "You're gonna regret that decision, grandfather! Mock my words!"
The Jade Emperor sighed as he shakes his head, "Nezha... What has happen to your compassion to these kind? Do you have any objections, Black Alpha?"
Black Alpha, a humanoid black armored knight-like pony with metallic yet angelic wings and a white cape turned and looked at him. He stood up and walked away.
"Alpha!" The Jade Emperor calls out to Black Alpha with a frown. He didn't like that response.
Black Alpha stopped for a moment, turning back as he spoke, "I have nothing against the Humans, Lau Wang. But be sure you dealt with the traitor among us."
"What do you mean?"
"You already know it, Lau."
Black Alpha disappeared from everyone's sights. They look concerned. What could he meant, 'traitor'? Could he mean...Nezha?
"I'd never understand that Councilpony or Knight." Princess Luna remarks with a groan as she put a hoof to her head as if getting a headache. That pony has always been so mysterious to her.
"If it not for him, we would have lost the Second Mystic War 700 years ago. Never mind him." Princess Celestia said to her sister with a smile. She turns back to the Jade Emperor to speak of him while bowing, "We're thankful, uncle."
"You are most welcome, my child. What will you do next?" The Jade Emperor ask, pondering for whatever his niece got in store next.
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Nezha was ticked off as he paced back and forth in his office. Everyone was trusting the humans…to him, it was a big mistake! This Mystic Pony wanted to prove them wrong. In this world, desperate times calls for desperate measures.
"Damn him! Why does he take the filth's side, especially my father's cousins?! Why?!" Nezha growled angrily as his closest allies watched him in concern. "Fine! If that's how he wants, I'll have to force the Humans to show their true colors."
"Wait! You don't mean-!" Soki gasped in horror as his pals looked shocked. They could tell what Nezha was up to. "Sir, that's treason especially against our own allies!"
Lightningblade hissed in agreement, "You cannot be serious! You must not do such a thing!"
Silverclaw nodded as he adds, "I ain't smart but ain't stupid too to do this!"
"I don't care anymore. I'll just have to force everyone to open their eyes about the Humans, even it means sacrificing countless mortals to prove it!" Nezha exclaimed in determination. If he must commit treason and prove himself right by sacrificing what must be done, then so be it.
Lightningblade hissed once more, "This is madness. You can't mean it, sir!" If Nezha goes down this path, he will turn dark like most Dark Mystic Ponies did centuries ago!
"Oh boy. He's gone cuckoo-head. Besides, our friends are with them. If they're okay with him, so do we." Burnblast said in hopes to reason with Nezha.
Starkiller hissed while yelling at Nezha, "You're insane! We will not be part of this! The Emperor will have your head if you continue go down this part. Your title and position will be lost."
ZeekCrimson nodded as he continued the protest, "He's right. We might as well admitted that the Humans are friends not enemies. To be frank, I would like to know them, too."
Nezha looked furious. Not one of his allies wished to support him in his plan to get rid of the Humans. Why must he be the only one who makes sense around here?!
"It looks like no one's supporting you. You're no Susano, but he knows when to admit his defeat especially about the Humans." Soki said grimly to Nezha.
Everyone else decided to leave. They did not want to be with Nezha when his plans go south…and they all knew that it will!
Silverclaw gave a look to Nezha as he was the last to leave, "Good luck figuring that out, bub; you're on your own now."
"That's fine with me." Nezha remarked darkly as the four Ultimate Mystic Warriors left, "I'll prove it to everyone."
Nezha knew what must be done. He would sacrifice his own family if he had to!
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It was a bit in the evening as the Royal Sisters were talking in a room at their castle. They decided to hold a Grand Galloping Gala tomorrow night in honor of their visiting Human friends, along with the Mystic Ponies accepting the Humans.
"Let's see…we shall invite Princess Twilight Sparkle and her family of course." Celestia said with a smile on her face. "Which includes the disguised Humans and the rest of the Elements of Harmony."
"Indeed. Hay, let's invite everyone, including our Mystic Pony friends." Luna said with a smile.
"I am concerned for Nezha though. He looks upset about the council's decision." Celestia said seriously. "A decision like that will make anypony do something drastic."
"I agree. But let's not worry about that for now." Luna said, deciding its best not to worry about Nezha for the time being. "Also, maybe we can get Countess Coloratura to sing."
"I think she and Bradley are clicking, don't you think?" Celestia giggled a bit in delight. She can tell that Brad and Rara were getting closer by the day.
"Yes, I know. A human and a pony, who could've guessed it." Luna said with a light giggle.
If Brad wanted to stay in Equestria, his time with Rara would be very interesting indeed!
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The night of the GGG had begun. Everypony who is everypony had arrived, all ready for the big time. Even the Mane Six, their friends and family are there. Hopefully, this gala will do better than the few times they were here.
The Royal Sisters and the Jade Emperor were greeting their guests coming in and joining the party. They noted that two certain ponies were nowhere in sight.
"So, the Great Black Alpha and the Brave Nezha wouldn't bother to show up? Why am I not surprised?" Luna asked as she rolled her eyes. She knew that they wouldn't show up for the obvious reasons.
"Nezha is a stubborn boy. Give him some space. He will come to accept the Humans." The Jade Emperor said sighing a bit. He was concerned that Nezha was not coming. The last time he saw him wasn't a pretty one. "And for Black Alpha, he and his Dark Sacred Knights hate parties."
"Too bad for them, they're gonna miss the party a lot." Princess Celestia remarked with a shrug. A shame really, sort of.
"Agreed."
Everyone was at the party, enjoying themselves. For once,, the girls are enjoying themselves. No disasters, no jealous Discord, no mucking around Snooze. Just what a gala should be.
"Well, despite the episodes that shows the Gala being...boring, this looks a bit better, don't you think?" Mila asked Justin with a smile.
"I should say so." Justin nodded in agreement.
"No Discord or Smooze. No disasters." Twilight said with a hopeful look. "I think everything's going to turn out fine this time."
"Say, where's Brad?" Rainbow asked, noticing that Brad had gone missing. "Wasn't he with us?"
"Oh, he said something about doing a special bit with Rara." Applejack said with a smile. "I think they're getting closer to that big moment, right?"
"Indeed. Love." Fluttershy said with a happy sigh.
"A human with a pony? No offense, but... isn't that disturbing?" Rainbow asked skeptically.
"Nah, not really. It didn't stop Twilight from crushing on Flash in the actual movie." Pinkie said playfully.
"Pinkie!" Twilight and Ben exclaimed in alarm and embarrassment.
"Well, outside our continuation anyway." Pinkie added with a giggle.
Suddenly, the group saw a familiar pony coming onto the stage, causing them to applaud for her. Looks like Rara is about to perform here.
"Attention, everypony. I would like to make a special announcement. Thank you all for coming, not because of how important this event was, but show how much we have in common especially our Human Friends. Tonight, I'm gonna sing a song with somepony special - Brad." Rara said with a gentle smile as Brad came out with his guitar, waving to the applauding crowd. "This is to show that we all love our land together."
Brad smiled as he spoke, “Thank you.”
“Are you ready?” Rara ask Brad with a gentle smile.
“Yeah.” Brad said with a nod.
The boy performed on his guitar. The crowd looked amazed, he was actually doing better.
Brad and Rara: Equestria, the land I love A land of harmony Our flag does wave from high above For ponykind to see
Equestria, a land of friends Where ponykind do roam They say true friendship never ends Equestria, my home
The crowd cheered from the great performance Brad and Rara did together.
"Wow, they are so good!" Rarity exclaimed in delight.
"And Rara singing it with Brad." Applejack said with a smile while nodding. "Gets best every time I done heard it."
"So what do you think, Justin?" Mila asked Justin with a mischievous smile. "Me having ponies as grandchildren?"
"Really?" Justin asked in disbelief and amusement.
"Okay, I take back what I said." Rainbow said with a smile. "Those two, Rara and Brad, look awesome together."
"I know." Starlight giggled. "I wouldn't be surprised if they made the next step."
"Next step in what?" Pinkie asked confused. This made her friends chuckle a bit.
As Brad and Rara got off the stage, the former turned to the latter, smiling as he asked, “Want a dance?”
“I am honored.” Rara purred as she took Brad's hoof.
Soon, a song began to play as ponies began to dance. Brad and Rara began dancing in the style of 'Beauty and the Beast'. The Mane Six's group looked impressed. Who could've known that Brad could dance like that?
"Well, perhaps I was being a bit paranoid. Perhaps Brad will do all right." Justin said with a sigh. He was concerned about a possibility of separation but now, it looked like everything will turn out fine... Right?
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The Jade Emperor and the Royal Sisters went into a private room. They are pleased by how everything has turned out. The humans has won the ponies over. Heck, even the Mystic Ponies are impressed!
"These Humans... They're truly amazing." The Jade Emperor spoke thoughtfully and proudly. "You've made a right decision, my dear nieces. Your parents would be very proud of you. And so do I."
"Thank you, uncle." Celestia said with a warm smile. All that hard work has succeeded! Justin, Mila, Hayley, and Brad can stay as long as they want!
"Do you think our world's Humans are ready to come here?" Luna ask thoughtfully. Since the humans from another world has proven themselves, maybe now is the time to allow the humans of their world to return at last.
"One way to find out." The Jade Emperor stops as he notices something: a familiar pony coming into the room. And he appears to be using magic to hold up a weapon. What alarms the trio the most...is his mad look. "Nezha? What are you doing here with a knife?"
"What is the meaning of this?!" Celestia gasps in alarm and worry. She got a bad feeling about this!
"What needs to be done...." Nezha said with a cruel chuckle.
Yes, desperate times called for desperate measures...
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The newly couple heads out to another room of the place to be alone. They both look out the window with smiles on their faces. It is a beautiful night tonight. What's more beautiful is Rara as Brad looks at her. He enjoyed being with her...and perhaps she does with him. Could it be that...
It's time to find out once and for all. Brad takes Rara by the hooves as he spoke gently, "Rara? Are you happy that we're together?"
"Yes, of course. You know you're different. Everyone said that you don't actually like 'My Little Pony' world, in fact you hate girly stuffs." Rara said to Brad, making him blush and for a different reason.
"Sorry."
"It's okay because... that was a lie made by you. You were afraid. There's nothing to be afraid now. You have everyone as your friends and family. In fact, you're a nice pony or Human."
"Really?" Brad ask Rara hopefully.
"Yes." Rara sighs as she nuzzles Brad a bit. The disguised Human nodded, it's time. No need to hide it any longer.
"Rara, there's something I want to tell you. I-I-I-I-I... I like you. No... I kinda like-like and really like and love you."
"Brad..." Rara said. She looks surprised. For a moment, Brad was worried that she may reject him. But then the singer smiled, making his hope refurnished. "So do I, Brad. I really love you too."
Brad and Rara leaned close to each other as they closed their eyes while leaning their lips against each other. They kissed. Both leans back with smiles; it's official, they are together. Brad could stay a pony forever, if it means being with the one he loves. Looks like nothing could ever ruin their moment.
But then, something shocking happens. Rara yelped in pain as she felt something plunging in her back, "AH!"
"Rara?! No!" The boy gasps in alarm. He spots something behind his love as Brad took the knife out from Rara's back. How in the world did it get there?! "Are you alright? Say something!"
"It hurts a bit."
"There he is!" A voice yells out angrily. Brad looks and saw the soldiers of the Mystic Realm coming in. Good! Rara could get some medical help!
"Please, help! Rara needs some medic. You have to help her!" Brad exclaims, tears came out of his eyes.
"We will, as soon as we arrest you, traitor!" The Mystic Commander exclaims furiously. Brad looks shocked and alarmed. What is this guy saying?!
"What?! What are you talking about?! "
"You and your family are under arrest for assassinating Jade Emperor and Royal Sisters! Ordered by Emperor Nezha!"
Brad gasps and looks alarmed as he backs up near a pair of curtains, holding Rara. He doesn't know what happened. The Jade Emperor, Celestia and Luna can't be dead! Nezha...he must be setting him, his mother as well as Justin and Hayley up! Brad needs a plan of escape and fast.
"Well, yeah, but before you do...WHAT THE HAY IS THAT?!" Brad screams out as he points a wing at something...as if something just came into the room that is terrifying just now.
The Mystic Soldiers looks confused as they turn to see what Brad just saw. And that gives him the distraction needed to use his hooves to pull down the curtains hard. The soldiers yelped as the curtains was torn off from their place and has fallen right onto them.
As the Mystic Soldier struggles to get out of the curtains, Brad grabs his love, doing his best not to make her injury worst while flying out of the room, mumbling, "They fell for that one every time."
"Come on, get him!" The Mystic Commander yells out in fury as he and his men tries to get out. That traitor isn't getting away that easily!
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The Mane Six's group as well as the Humans are laughing, trotting down the hallway. They have no idea as to what is going on.
"Wow, gotta admit. Your dancing is improving." Mila said to Justin with a sly grin, making him blush. "But it can be better."
"Come on, give me a break." Justin said with a chuckle while shaking his head. "So, shall we check in on the love birds?"
Pinkie yelps as she goes into a series of takes, some involves her blowing up like a balloon and deflating a few times. Sunset gasps, "Oh no! Don't tell me..."
"Big doozy, something has gone wrong!" Pinkie exclaims frantically. "There is a disturbance in the Pinkie!"
"Hey, there's Brad...and he is carrying Rara?!" Applejack gasps in shock as there's Brad, flying to the group with the injured Rara on his back.
"Brad, what happened?!" Starlight asks Brad in alarm.
"Nezha has gone mad! He is framing me and the Humans for killing the Jade Emperor and the princesses!" Brad explains frantically, this made everyone gasps in horror and alarm. "And now, he is sending the guards after us!"
"Find him and the Humans! Search everywhere!" The same Mystic Commander calls out from somewhere.
"They're near." Ben said seriously. "We will have to fight our way out."
"But we may not succeed." Shadow Dragon said grimly. This is one fight that he knows that they will not win.
"Pssst!" A familiar voice spoke. Everyone turns to see a familiar pony at the door, waving to them. "In here."
"Yuko?" Twilight gasps to Yuko in surprise. "Wha..."
"Get in here, quick!"
As the Mystic Guards are heard getting closer, the Mane Six's group didn't waste any time, they quickly rushes into the door that Yuko was in. Once everyone is inside, Yuko glances out and closes the door...causing it to disappear just as it appear, with the guards coming by, unaware of what has happened.
The gang has been through a rough time as of recently. Nezha seemed to have overthrown the Jade Emperor and the Royal Sisters, taking over as the new emperor. Worst yet, he had framed the Humans as killers of the mentioned trio! Looks like both Equestria and the Mystic Realm are in for a big Tartartus.
Twilight and all of her friends have arrived at Yuko's Wishing Shop. They all breathed heavily, that door that Yuko has made was a long one indeed. As they recover, the visitors spots a familiar Mystic Pony waiting nearby.
"Took you long enough to get them here, Yuko." Black Alpha remarks bitterly as Brad carefully puts Rara right onto a bed in hopes that Yuko can save her in time.
"My, someone doesn't know the meaning of patient." Yuko chuckles in amusement. She turned to Rara. "Later, we have someone to tend the wounds. Hold still, child. This won't be long."
Yuko placed her hoof on Rara's wounds as it slowly healed the injury.
"Uh, what is she doing?" Scootaloo ask a bit puzzled at the tactic.
"A special way of healing that Yuko knows." Aqua explains to Scootaloo carefully. "It is slow but Rara should be all right."
"How could this has happened?" Twilight groans out in sadness while pacing back and forth on the floor. "Everything was doing so well!"
"Nezha just didn't know when to back down." Ben said to Twilight with a groan of despair. His mother and aunt are gone, thanks to that monster!
Black Alpha glared at the disguised ones as he declares to them, "If you Humans never come here, none of this could have happened. Nezha would not have gone to the depth of darkness's rage."
"You knew about this?! You both knew this would have happened?!" Brad screams out in fury. The mare he loves was almost killed, he, his mother as well as Justin and Hayley are being hunted down like fugitives, thanks to him?! Brad didn't waste time in grabbing him and held Black Alpha's collar tightly. "And you did nothing?! Why?!"
Everyone yelped in concern and worry of what they just saw. Shadow Dragon and Ben held and pulled Brad's hands from holding Black Alpha. They can understand that he's upset but what Brad is trying to do is suicide!
Twilight gasped, "Brad, don't!"
"Brad, stop it!" Ben exclaims frantically.
"Brad, he's the Mystic Councilpony of Darkness and Leader of Dark Sacred Knights! Do you know how dangerous and powerful he is when you just assaulted him?!" Shadow Dragon explains in concern for anyone who dares to assault Black Alpha won't have long to regret it.
"Right, assaulting that guy is the last thing you wanna do!" Laxtinct exclaims in horror. He saw what happened the last time, not pretty.
"Right, don't try to do it, Brad." Sunburst said to Brad seriously. "It's not worth it!"
"Like I care! It's his fault! If he had told everyone, at least Jade Emperor and Royal Sisters about this, Rara wouldn't have been like this in the first place! Mystic Pony or not, he's a goddamn asshole! I'll kill you!" Brad screams in fury as he lunges at Black Alpha once more.
The others grabs Brad, trying their best to keep him at bay. Black Alpha just glares as if Brad's threats and insults didn't matter to him at all.
"Brad, stop! Don't do this!" Mila cries out to Brad in worry.
"Listen to your mother for once, kid! Rara's fine! Yuko's doing what she can." Justin points out as Yuko is continuing her progress on helping Rara.
"Please! Stop it! We know how you feel! Please! Rara wouldn't want you do this!" Hayley pleads to Brad in sadness and worry. Rara would never forgive him if he keeps acting like this.
"What do any of you know how I feel?! You're all just the same! You don't even care about what I want or how I feel! It's everyone all for themselves!" Brad exclaims in disgust and anger.
Black Alpha grabbed and held Brad's neck tightly while glaring at him like he was strangling the boy. The others gasps in horror. Looks like their friend has indeed hit the point of no return now!
"No! Please! Spare him! He doesn't know about it! He's just upset! Please, spare him!" Mila cries out in horror.
"Please, Black Alpha, let him go!" Rarity pleads to Black Alpha to let Brad go.
"He's upset, hurt, angry," Starlight explains in worry. "He's like I was when I was bad. Not knowing better."
"Please, spare him! He's just a kid!" Justin exclaims in alarm to Black Alpha.
Harley sobbed in agreement with her father, "Don't kill him! Please! Don't kill him!"
Black Alpha watches the others pleading for Brad to be spared. It amuses him yet confuses the Mystic Pony at the same time that they would want Brad to be spared in light of his actions as of late.
"Why? Why are you pleading for his life? All he ever has is anger and rage within him. He desired alone than anyone else stand beside him. After all, it's everyone for themselves, isn't that right?" Black Alpha ask, reminding Brad of what he has said earlier.
Brad groaned painfully, "Goddamn right..."
"No! You're wrong! I did this for... I did this for not only Mila, but also her son, her husband and my wife." Justin explains in sadness as he sniffled. Black Alpha somehow arches an eyebrow, even though the others cannot see it. "My wife died in car accident because of some silly argument. And I regret that a lot. I missed her. I loved her so much. And I kept saying that I don't want to replace her! Nothing will!"
Hayley sniffled as she explains, "Same goes to me. I just want her only. That's how I feel."
"Until we met Mila. She suffered the same thing like us. But not like us, she and her son lost him when they got attacked by some robbers."
Hayley nodded while continuing, "At first, I thought Brad was just a jerk. But after what Mila told us about him, we feel sorry for him a lot. We really do..."
"Same for us, sugah cube." Applejack said with a slow nod. "We done thought the same thing...until now."
"Wow." Pinkie said in a whistle of amusement. "Who need there was this kind of love in the same room for one person?"
"I guess it takes this event to get everyone's love going." Fluttershy said to Pinkie with a smile.
"Guys..." Brad said to Justin and Hayley. He is surprised yet touched for Justin and Hayley standing up for him. The boy had no idea what they'd went through.
"We watched 'My Little Pony', not to make us forget about the past, but to be optimistic and positive again. It's what my wife wanted. Seeing that show isn't about happiness, but the morality and lesson we learned." Justin explains calmly and gently. It's true, the show helped him and Hayley be optimistic and positive, to be happy once more.
"There's one thing we learned the most is to never ever forget of your friendship and family, no matter how long it takes. We keep it not just for ourselves, but for someone we loved." Hayley said gently while nodding.
"Dad... Hayley..." The Mane Six spoke up, touched by this. That explains the two's love for them and the show.
Black Alpha turns to Brad, asking another question, "What of you? Do you share their sympathy and pitiful for your loss? Or do you prefer the darkness where no one will ever bring you back?"
"What do you mean?" Brad ask Black Alpha. He has no idea what this guy was talking about.
"He means you might end up like Nezha. A Mystic Pegasus chose ambition and power for vengeance over his relationship and heart which could led to his downfall. He's becoming what he is today, Brad." Shadow Dragon said to Brad seriously.
"A monster..." Brad mumbled. He looked down in shame as he began crying tearfully. "I lied... I lied!"
"What?" Most of everyone ask a bit puzzled.
"Lied about what?" Apple Bloom ask, tilting her head to the left a bit.
"Brad, what are you saying?" Rainbow ask Brad in concern for him.
"So, he's doing it." Wheelie said to Nyx and Spike in amusement. Brad is finally coming out with the biggest secret ever.
"We're going to understand why he keeps it in secret." Nyx said thoughtfully. Looks like she will finally understand why Brad wouldn't say anything about him being a Brony.
"About time..." Spike remarks with a nod.
"I actually like My Little Pony! I really do!" Brad explains. Most of the others looks surprised. The boy is a Brony as well? "It's not because of how awesome it is. It reminded me of my dad so much."
"Seriously?" Rainbow ask Brad in surprise by this revelation.
"Yes. My dad always helped me and taught me everything I need to know about the world. Seeing that show makes me very happy and relief from that pain. I'd never told anyone or even the others at school! I overheard that it makes everyone gay or a lesbian! I was too ashamed to admit it that I like it so much! I'm scared. I'm ashamed. I lied, so nopony will laugh at me."
Black Alpha hummed while glaring at Brad. Everyone looked concern and wondering as they looked at him. What would happened to him now? Would he get acceptation or reject?
Wheelie chuckles and laughs a bit. He then manages to speak up, "Well, too bad, kid! I will laugh at someone who insulted a Brony, not the guy who loved ponies! Because Brad's my friend!"
"Wh-What?" Brad ask in surprise. The bot who gave him pain before is his pal?
"Same here!" Spike exclaims with a smile, making Brad more surprised.
"Me too! And besides, if those jerks want to laugh or bully a friend of ours, he's gonna have to go through us! Nopony bullied our Bronies!" Nyx exclaims as she stood near Brad, nuzzling him a bit in light of the fact that Black Alpha was still holding him.
"Right! Friends to the end." Fluttershy said in agreement.
"Yeah! I will be loyal to my friends, no matter what secrets they do their best to hide...reminds me of what I once went through, you know?" Rainbow chuckles in agreement, recalling how she was a closeted book reader.
"Yes, as I am generous, I am willing to stick by him." Rarity said with a giggle.
"Fun! Party and other stuff I can't fit in!" Pinkie exclaims happily, making her friends laugh a bit.
"I will be a liar if I wouldn't stick by Brad. He's my friend and there ain't any shame in that." Applejack said with a nod. Being the honest pony that she is, it's true.
"My teacher Twilight told me to stick my friends through thick and thin. And that's what I'm going to do." Starlight said as Sunburst stood by her.
"I've never abandoned a friend before, despite my bad turn around years ago, and I won't now." Sunset said as Flash put an upper foreleg around his love.
"The bottom line, Brad, you're our friend and we will help you out, dealing with your problems one hoof at a time." Twilight said with a smile.
"Yeah!" The CMC exclaims at once with smiles.
"Everyone...." Brad said in amazement by the support.
"See, son? There's nothing to be ashamed of. You will always have us to be there for you." Mila said to her son gently. No matter who would try to bully or harm her son, he will have family and friends to back him up.
Brad sniffled as he spoke, "Thanks, mom... Thank you so much..."
Yuko sighed in annoyance, "It's about time. Took you long enough to swallow your pride, boy. I thought I was gonna sweat out of my beautiful skin. But don't worry, your girlfriend is okay now."
Rara smiled as she got up, speaking to Yuko for her help, "Thank you. Lord Councilpony, can you put Brad down."
"Very well. You'd better teach this fool some lessons! I would have pound him to oblivion." Black Alpha remarks bitterly as he put Brad down to the floor. At least, this boy had learned not to insult or threaten him again.
"Always resort with violence, I see." Yuko remarks as she roll her eyes. Brad galloped and hugged Mila happily. Everyone sighed happily and relief. That problem is over. Brad has come out of as a Brony.
"Hate to break emotional reunion or thing! But we've gotta to do something with Nezha now!" Rainbow exclaims seriously. She is reminding the others of one thing: Nezha is still in control of the Mystic Realm and is after them all now!
"Great horny toads, she's right!" Applejack exclaims in concern. "Our Human friends and family are being hunted down and we're being hunted for helping them!"
"And it may not be long before they rampaged through Ponyville and everywhere else just to get them!" Flash exclaims seriously. Nezha would go through Tartarus just to get the Humans!
"Yeah! That monster... He killed my mother and aunt! Damn him!" Ben exclaims in fury and anger. His mother and aunt are dead thanks to that monster! He must pay!
"Calm down, Ben! She's not dead." Shadow Dragon said calmly, much to the others' surprise.
"How would you know?! Nezha thinks about fighting and killing his enemies - friends or not! He just want to win, even if it means wanting to kill you!"
"Exactly, Ben. He wounded them but faked their deaths, so he can get the Mystic Council and Ponies to stand on his side. Not only that, he wants the death of the Humans."
" Why is he so against them so much? I thought he was a hero. It's just like what Power Master had describe." Justin said in concern. He has read those mentioned stories. This isn't like Nezha at all!
"But did you actually read any story involving him alone?" Yuko ask a mysterious riddle to Justin.
"Nope... Actually, not much."
"All he wanted is fighting and dueling with Shadow Dragon." Hayley said in concern. She has read what was told about Nezha. What other stories is there left about him?
"That's one but there's something involving a deep part of his darkest tragic story - a kindhearted and noble hero turned into a vengeful warrior. When the Humans betrayed both Equestria and Mystic Realm, they kidnapped them for experiments and power. Nezha is among them. Yuko said seriously.
The others gasps in horror and alarm. So that's why Nezha hated Humans so much. If one was experimented like that, you would hate them too.
"And therefore, he desired one thing - destruction of humanity." Black Alpha said grimly. No matter what world, Nezha felt like the Humans must be killed!
"So, how are we gonna stop him?" Brad ask seriously. Nezha must be stopped once and for all if Equestria is to survive the chaos.
"A fight to the death. That's the only way to save Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, and even the Jade Emperor. I will be the one to fight with him." Shadow Dragon said to everyone. If Nezha wants a fight with him, then he will be the one to put him down for good.
"No! Let me! He's gonna be sorry for what he has done to my family!" Ben exclaims sternly. Nezha has messed with the wrong family for this.
"Count on us too!" Flash and Sunburst exclaims in determination. They will side by their friend, no matter what the cost.
However Twilight shakes her head as she steps in, saying, "Neither of you will fight! Just me alone. I caused this mess in the first place."
"Why?!" Everyone else yells out in surprise and alarm by this.
"Because if I was more powerful enough to defeat our enemies, Justin and his family wouldn't be in this mess."
"Well, you're not the only pony who got blamed for this. I am too." Applejack said as she and the rest of the Mane Six steps up to their leader and friend. "Twilight, we helped you because you're our best friend. There's no way we're leaving you to handle it alone."
"I agreed. It's our fault for this mess as well." Rarity said in agreement. She felt responsible for the mess that led up to this.
"Me too!" Fluttershy exclaims. Even though she's still a scared shy Pegasus pony, the mare is willing to step up to the mad ones as well.
"Me three!" Pinkie exclaims randomly but in agreement as well.
"Yeah! We're not just friends, we're sisters!" Rainbow scoffs as she pounds her own chest. For a long time, the mare was a sister to these girls, especially during their years with their adopted father and sister.
"The best..." Twilight said as she nuzzles Fluttershy a bit. The Alicorn is happy to have these girls by her side.
Shadow Dragon looks at the girls as if they are going crazy. Attacking Nezha is a mistaken waiting to happen. He protests, "You can't beat Nezha. He's too strong."
"He's right. You need us to help you." Ben said as everyone chatted in agreement. The Mane Six will need all the help that they can get to put a stop to Nezha's corruption once and for all.
"No! It's our fault, our mess and our responsibility. We brought our family here because we want to be together. We're gonna end it. We're gonna defeat Nezha. And we're gonna make sure everyone knows the truth behind it." Twilight exclaims sternly. She doesn't want anyone else getting hurt or killed just because of a mistake that the Mane Six was trying to do.
"YEAH!" The Mane Six exclaims in agreement. They wish for everyone else to stay out of this. It's their decision and it's best for the ones that they care and loved to stay out of it.
"But what can we do?" Spike ask in concern. Are the Royal Sisters and the Jade Emperor even alive? How will everyone know?
Yuko smirks as she answers that question, "We wait until a girlfriend of yours returned."
Justin, Mila, Brad and Hayley exclaims in surprise, "You have a girlfriend?!"
So that means that Rarity isn't Spike's girlfriend. But then, who is? Suddenly a familiar voice spoke up, "Sorry, I'm late! I've got good news and bad news!"
Everyone else looks to see someone flying in through a window. The Humans are surprised as it's a Dragon from a certain Season 6 episode which folks made shipping stories about since it premiered.
"Ember!" Spike exclaims as he hugged Princess Ember. "I knew you'd come back! You could have write me a letter!"
"Yeah... Sorry about that. Mistress Yuko requested my help." Ember said to her boyfriend with an awkward chuckle.
"For what?"
"Isn't it obvious? To spy on Nezha. To learn his plan. To find out as to what's going on. And above all, be one step ahead of him. And to be honest, that guy is very good for being one step ahead of everything. Too good. And he almost kill me."
Spike checked on Ember's body. The big Dragon ask his mate frantically, "Are you alright?! Did he hurt you?! Where's the wounds?! Aw man! What have I done?! I knew I should have been there for you! If I had, then none of this could-!"
Ember grabs Spike, shaking him to calm him down while speaking, "Spike! Calm down! I'm fine! And besides, I did most of fighting when we're at the Gauntlet of Fire, remember? This is no big deal."
Spike chuckled uneasily, "Sorry. I got overprotective again."
"What am I not surprise?" Justin ask with a roll of his eyes. He is not surprised that in this world, Spike and Princess Ember would end up together.
Mila giggled as she spoke, "Yeah. Ever since that episode debut, everyone shipped both Spike and Princess Ember together." Granted, Jus shipped Spike with somepony else, but still, this is a cute pairing as well.
"Ember, report." Black Alpha said sternly. He wants to know if what Yuko has insisted on is true.
Princess Ember bowed down as she apologize, "Sorry. I confirmed that Princess Celestia, Princess Luna and Jade Emperor are alive. But not just them, Nezha is leading an army of renegades for holding both the Mystic Councilponies and civilians hostages. The Mystic Soldiers and Royal Guards are forced to obey him for their leaders' protection."
"He knew we would be up to something, and wanted to make sure we don't achieve it." Twilight said with a frown. Nezha knew that the heroes of Equestria would find some way to put a stop to him somehow.
"So, how are we gonna do it?" Spike ask Twilight in concern. The gang needs a plan here.
Twilight hummed carefully and thoughtfully, "I think I know how..."
As Twilight and her friends have their own discussion, Yuko dragged Brad away from others. The boy looks puzzled. He has already admitted his secret, so what else does she want from him?
"Yuko?" Brad ask Yuko in concern.
"Listen carefully, Brad. This is very important. One last resort to help and save us from this chaos." Yuko whispers something to Brad.
"What do you mean?"
"You will get to that when the time is right."
Whatever Yuko has planned could turn the tide in favor of the heroes. But what does she even have in mind?
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It was a dark day at the palace in the Mystic Realm. Nezha has taken over right after the so-called "murder" of the mentioned three. And now, looks like nothing can stop him from destroying humanity...and anyone who sides with them!
Nezha entered a private room where the Jade Emperor and Royal Sisters were at, badly wounded and injured. All of the Mystic Councilpony and Equestrian Leaders were pushed into the room.
"Comfortable, grandfather? You should have taken my advice when you had the chance. You should know the Humans cannot be trusted..." Nezha hisses darkly to the pony he once respected.
The Jade Emperor groaned but kept on talking, "It doesn't have to end like this. Please, reconsider your action."
"No. Once they're dealt with, we're gonna find the Human Territories. After that, their pathetic realm."
"Nezha, please! Leave them alone! I beg of you!" Celestia pleads to Nezha in horror. She has seen his behavior too many times...and lost too many friends to the darkness.
Princess Luna nodded as spoke, "Indeed. They're not the same beings you have hated. They're kind and honest Humans!"
"Well act. I almost convinced." Nezha snaps cruelly. Nothing will change his mind now. Just then, a Mystic Soldier came into the room, exhausted due to the galloping he has done. "What is it?!"
"Sir, it's them..." The Mystic Soldier said, breathing in and out.
"Finally..."
Now it's time to end it once and for all...
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Soon, the heroes arrived at the Mystical Realm, ready for their showdown against Nezha.
The Mane Eight, Dragon Strike Force, Ben, Sunburst and Flash Sentry entered the dining hall. They saw both Mystic Ponies and Equestria Ponies held hostage by both the forced Mystic Soldiers and Royal Guards. They knew that it wasn't their fault. Nezha was forcing them to do this.
Speaking of the devil, Nezha flew and landed on the ground. He glanced at the disguised Humans while remarking, "Took you long enough. I presume, these four are your human slaves."
"Our family, jerk!" The Mane Six exclaimed angrily and in defiance. They aren't going to let this guy do anymore unnecessary damage than he did already!"
Nezha just scoffed this off, “Whatever because in the end, they're just tools for us.”
"Nopony talks about Dad and his family that way and lives, you monster!" Rainbow yelled as she gritted her teeth.
"If that's how you feel, then it pleases me to be the first, and I will live, Rainbow Trash." Nezha remarked cruelly.
"Release the princesses, the Jade Emperor and everyone else right now!" Twilight exclaimed sternly and in determination.
"Or we will make fun of your mama!" Pinkie exclaimed in agreement.
"Confess the truth. Confess that you are the enemies of ponies as well as admitting your plans of what you did with these poor innocent ponies." Nezha said to the Humans. He was obviously ignoring Twilight's demands. That fiend!
"How about you confess, you ugly mother-!" Brad exclaimed angrily, preparing to swear off.
"Brad! Not that word!" Mila exclaimed to Brad in alarm. Even if Nezha was threatening everyone, there's no need to use that certain word!
"Someone teach him some manners." Nezha remarked with a cruel chuckle as he shook his head, "I would say that you are very poor parents."
"Go to hell, Fake!” Brad exclaims in defiance. How dare this jerk make fun of his mother and the man who would one day be his new dad like that?!
"Fake? Calling mel your God, a fake? I will teach you some manners." Nezha said, fuming furiously. This human would be the first to be punished for his insolence! "Now hand them over, so I will take care of them."
"What of the prisoners?" Twilight demanded to Nezha furiously.
"Do you think me as a fool? Foolish girl. I'm not gonna let them out. I'm not gonna kill them either. I'm gonna hurt them slow and very painfully until their screams are silenced." Nezha remarked with a cruel chuckle.
Hearing that enraged everyone. He isn't going to let everyone go. Nezha was going to torture them for the rest of their days!
"You will leave them alone!" Fluttershy exclaimed furiously to Nezha.
"Who do you think you are, jerk?!" Rainbow demanded furiously as well.
Nezha boomed madly, almost scaring everyone in the room, "I am the Emperor of Mystic Realm! I will bring peace, justice and order to my kingdom! And I will make sure the humans fall before our feet!"
"Dumb meanie! You're a total jerk!" Pinkie snapped in defiance. No way was she going to bow to this guy!
"Indeed. You're not the Emperor! You're a tyrant!" Rarity exclaims with a scoff of agreement.
"So are you. Ponies treated and praised you as heroines. But to me, you're just pretenders. Pretending that friendship can solve anything. And all it did is damage and destroy you and everything you have done for. And the only you do is to ensure their friendship is absolute control. And I will make sure all feared me." Nezha said dryly. He believed that these heroines weren't what they claimed to be. And everyone thought that friendship was right? Absurd!
"How dare you!" Sunset yelled furiously.
"That's nothing but a big damn lie!" Applejack shouted, furious by the lie that he was giving here.
"You take that back!" Starlight demanded. She wasn't going to stand there and take this mess!
"Suck my horse dick!" Nezha snapped harshly, refusing to take his remark back.
"We aren't going to let you get away with this!" Ben exclaimed furiously to Nezha.
"Release the prisoners and our rulers now!" Twilight demands once more for the prisoners to be released.
Shadow Dragon got his weapon out, ready for a fight that will be breaking out here. He spoke up, "Nezha, don't make this hard. Turn back now."
"If you don't, I will kill you!" Ben exclaimed furiously. He will not stop until this guy paid for trying to kill his mother and aunt.
Nezha responded with this, "Go to Hell..."
"Fine... The hard way... Girls, now!” Twilight shouted in determination. If Nezha won't surrender, then he must be taken down the hard way!
The Mane Six entered their Rainbow Forms while armed with their own weapons. The Dragon Strike Force, Ben, Flash and Sunburst armed themselves with their weapons. Nezha armed himself with his Heavenly Spear. There was a pause as the action was about to begin.
Nezha charged straight into the battle while the Mane Six and their allies joined the battle. As the fight began, Spike, Princess Ember, Nyx, Justin, Mila, Brad and Harley quickly hid behind the pillars as they headed straight to the hostages.
"You will NOT take over Equestria!" Rarity shouted angrily as she and the rest of the Mane Six attack Nezha.
"We'll see about that, mule!" Nezha shouted, "If you know what's good for you, you will worship me as your God! And if I have to make all you Ponyville mudbloods my slaves, turn your foals to prostitutes to be obedient and burn that apple dump to ashes, SO BE IT!!!"
"Now, just a minute!! THAT'S GOING TOO FAR!!!" Twilight yelled in rage and offense. How could Nezha say such awful things?!
"Exactly!" Nezha shouted as he made a psychotic grin, and then, he slashed Twilight hard in the face with his spear, making her scream in pain as she fell.
"You know who also goes too far...MY MOM!" Pinkie exclaimed randomly.
"What? Now I don't get it." Nezha said with a frown, not understanding what she just said.
"Come on, Nezha. Show me the money." Pinkie said with a smirk, confusing Nezha some more.
"Show you what money?" Nezha asked, getting more confused.
"Show me the money, show me the money!" Pinkie exclaimed with a giggle. "You have me at hello. Tear? No?"
"Uh, Pinkie? I doubt this guy saw Jerry Maguire." Applejack remarked dryly to her friend/sister.
"I don't know what that is, and I don't care, because you are the MOST ANNOYING PONY IN THE WORLD WHO SHOULD BE DEAD!!!" Nezha roared as he slashed Pinkie in the eye.
"OWW!!" Pinkie cried out in pain while holding a hoof to her slashed eye.
"What's the matter? Did I put a permanent scar in that eye of yours, Earth filth?" Nezha asked sarcastically and menacingly while giving a sadistic grin.
"Now you force me to get rough!" Pinkie exclaimed furiously. "FIRE THE LASER!"
Suddenly a clip of a laser blowing up the White House was shown. Nezha screamed as he ducked down, "GAHHHH! DAMAGE REPORT, DAMAGE REPORT!"
Pinkie removed the screen, giggling making Nezha confused.
"Well, actually, that was just a clip from the movie "Independence Day" but our attack is gotta be a lot like that. Yeah, scary." Pinkie remarks with a smile.
"Pinkie, your eye! Is it badly damaged from when he slashed it with the spear?" Fluttershy asked in worry as she looked at her pink friend.
"No, he just ruined my makeup." Pinkie remarked dryly. "MAKE UP!!!"
In some confusion, some makeup ponies came in and quickly worked on putting makeup on Pinkie's eye. Once they're done, they rushed out quickly, showing Pinkie's face back to normal.
"Okay, back to the story!" Pinkie exclaims happily.
"Pinkie, you are so random." Rainbow remarked.
"I've had enough of this random bullshit! PREPARE TO DIE!!" Nezha shouted darkly.
"Fine, let's!" Rainbow exclaimed with a smirk.
Rainbow sped around Nezha, sending him up in a tornado. Ben zoomed in and kicked the villain, knocking him to the ground.
"You cursed pony with the hideous scar!" Nezha growled.
"Oh! You just did not go there!" Laxtinct taunted Nezha in amusement.
Ben growled as he slashed at Nezha rapidly, snapping, "Don't ever...ever...do that...again!" The hero head butt his enemy hard.
"Hey, looks like we 'pulled the rug' out from under you!" Fluttershy exclaimed as she pulled from underneath Nezha, knocking him down.
"Cocky little freaks!" Nezha shouted in anger as he got up.
Without warning, the enemy suddenly begins to summon something as the clouds began to swirl in an unusual manner. A single dark cloud emerge from the cloudy skies and began to form a strange gigantic gargoyle-like beast as it flew across the air towards a local population in the center of civilization. It began to let off a charge magical attack as it fired it off, it destroyed a fountain along with 40 square feet surrounding it, causing the locale ponies to start panicking and running in fear. The beast let off a mighty roar as it made its mark for all to know…
"Great, just what we didn't need!" Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes in seeing what they got.
"He's gone off towards dat direction!" Applejack pointed off in noticing where the flying beast went.
"But that leads to Canterlot!" Rarity gasped.
"If that creature makes it there, lives will be endangered!" Flash stated in knowing what great danger is ahead if they don't reach there in time.
"Oh dear, we have to do something!" Fluttershy yelped with worry about the subject.
"Quickly, let’s chase after it!" Pinkie Pie issued forth that they need to hurry up.
"Alright, everyone, let's hurry!" Twilight issued off to say this in what they need to do here.
The Mane Six, Ben and Flash headed off as the mares had their Rainbow Forms to help fly them as Ben used his Hover Boots and Flash flew by his natural wings. It wasn't long before they confronted the beast, as Ben clashed his Master Sword against the enemy's mouth. The others tried to clash their physical and magical attacks on the adversary's forehead, but it was hard to penetrate. But even when pushed come to shove, everyone was continuing to clash against the enemy to stop it, while watching out for the teeth. Then Ben Mare charged a Sword Beam as it broke off a surface of the beast's armor facial, as it began to fall while breaking through countless structures before it lay flat on its back. As everyone saw the fallen foe, the beast rose up to roar while charging for another attack as it took off. The Dragon Strike Force saw the action below, they felt concerned of what was going to happen.
"We have to help, whatever we can. Hurry!" Shadow Dragon gave the order to the others as they scatter.
The beastly foe was flying upwards, but as the Mane Six, Ben and Flash tried to catch up to it, different sections showed the Dragon Strike Force in place as they fired grapple hooks to slow the beast down while offering their friends to quickly go after the target. At first, it was hard as the beast was more resistant, but from the effort of their allies, the Mane Six, Ben and Flash were able to go up to higher heights. And it was gonna be close, as the beast was charging up its attack for a final assault. As the Mane Six fired off with their Rainbow Forms, Flash used his spear for Ben to stand on as he hurled his best pal forward with all his might.
"This is gonna be close!" Flash exclaimed in seeing how things were gonna be.
As the seven heroes were diving into the heat of battle, the beast unleashed its largest magical sphere from its mouth, large enough to wipe out an entire town and make any pony figure look like a tiny ant to it. The Mane Six and Ben plowed into the attack, it looked like they were finished instantly. But in a shocking display, they made it through the other side and were about to attack the roaring beast that was diving towards them. Combined with the Mane Six firing a rainbow beam with Ben’s sword, the guy was slicing from the enemy’s head all the way to his tail. Soon, a final roaring of the beast is heard as it was seen falling while glowing blue, the Dragon Strike Force watched this in amazement as the creature impacted more metal structure bars while slowly fading from existence. Upon the final crash, the beast was no more and the heroes soon landed on the sidelines in having stopped one disastrous enemy from causing trouble.
"Well, he's taken care of." Ben sighed in relief.
"But where is Nezha anyway?" Rarity asked with a frown, noting that Nezha was nowhere in sight.
"He's trying to recover. After him!" Twilight exclaims in determination.
Then the heroes charged after Nezha as fast as their legs could carry them.
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Meanwhile, the scenery changed to a new location, where Sunburst was seen by a strange device that's a weapon; a temple made to be used for destruction. Problem was, he wasn't alone, he soon came into contact, with the enemy; Nehza. Sunburst had to step backwards when Nehza leapt off to approach this wizard.
"You have unlocked the secret of the temple, how did you accomplish this?" Nehza asked, demanding to know how this stallion achieved such a thing.
"If you were smart enough, you'd know to figure that question out yourself. Because I won't tell you." Sunburst issued off to say this in keeping a distance with his magic horn glowing.
"No matter…the power within will soon belong to the forces of evil." Nehza exclaimed off, not wanting to bother with trivial things, the important step was securing the power unlocked.
"Just so you know, I don’t fear you!" Sunburst put on a bravo to show he’s not afraid.
"Then you will just die, braver than most." Nehza remarked sarcastically.
Then without warning, Nehza was firing a bunch of spells that Sunburst was trying to counter with teleportation and barrier motions. But though Sunburst was well knowledgeable of spells and magic, he was limited to what he could use, even levitation spells to rebound the enemy’s launch spell attacks could only work so far. Wasn’t long before the enemy bash his defense as Sunburst lay on the ground, at Nehza's mercy.
"Perhaps I was wrong!" Nehza exclaimed, seeing that this pony was not at all what he was expecting.
"It wouldn’t be the first time!" Ben's voice was heard as he and the Rainbow Form Mane Six arrived on the scene to stop this villain.
"So, you have come before me!" Nehza exclaimed after seeing who was there. "Our awaited final meeting has come at last." He issued off to say this, as this would be the last they meet.
"Uh, we met about a few seconds ago!" Rainbow snapped as she rolled her eyes at this.
"Shut up, I was trying to make this dramatic!"
"We're glad we gave you something to look forward to!" Rainbow Dash remarked towards the enemy.
"Come now, we need not be advisories, young Benjamin. My lord will show you mercy…if you can tell me where Dragon Strike Force’s main bases can be found." Nehza exclaimed to speak only to Ben, offering him a place on the side of evil.
"As if we would even tell ye dat!” Applejack snapped off that they were not gonna sell out a pal.
"Yes, we would never sell out our friends." Rarity stated to say this in what they never do.
"That's right…Ben isn't like you." Fluttershy firmly agree on the case.
"Perhaps this stallion will confess if Ben is truly satisfied with things, if he will not." Nehza exclaimed as he looked towards Sunburst, claiming that he would get the answers out of someone of things he wanted to know.
"Forget it! No way we're gonna let you try to turn any of our buddies into evil wannabes! Even those of the Dragon Strike Force!" Pinkie Pie snapped, not wanting to give into threats.
"Shadow Dragon was weak, I’d gladly destroy him if given the chance." Nehza issued off to mention such a fool.
"Sorry, but you won’t be hurting anyone, anymore! We’ll stop you, even if we have to blast you with full force to wipe away your evil!" Twilight stated off to firmly tell this enemy off.
"You aim to destroy me, destruction is not your peaceful ways, little ponies." Nehza remarked off to taunt what such little ponies have in mind for him.
"Too bad for you, to keep the peace….we'll do what we can!" Ben stated this off with a stern face, as they got serious now.
"Wait, since when did we get into bases and other stuff not related to what's going on?" Pinkie asked, a bit bewildered.
"I decided to wipe out the Dragon Strike Force’s bases when this is…Ugh! Now you went and confused me!" Nezha groaned as he slapped his face in annoyance. "We're going off base here."
Now Ben and the Mane Six get themselves ready, their magic auras flaring up now. Nehza was getting himself ready, as his dark magic aura was seen with an eerie feeling. And soon, the battle began with Ben Mare swinging his Master Sword against Nehza's own sword as they were clashing with one another. As Ben fought, he moved aside when the Mane Six fired their Rainbow Powers that pushed the enemy back, but he only skidded across the floor. Then Ben leapt over to attack the guy from a blind side, which Nehza countered, and soon, they with the Mane Six helping Ben, threw in some physical strikes to which it seemed seven on one apparently was about an even match. That left Sunburst alone for the time being, as Flash Sentry along with Dragon Strike Force arrived to help the stallion up.
"Come on, I'm going to need help with this!" Sunburst called out to his friends in concern.
"Of course, Terrorcreep, Shorty, come on." Blazefist ordered the ones mentioned to help out in the progress.
"We're on it!" Blazefist shouted.
"Yeah!" Shorty agreed as he and his companion started helping Sunburst.
Outside the evil weapon temple, the heroes continue their fight against Nehza who was not going down. Even with a seven against one, Nehza's swordsmanship, plus magic usage was keeping him around the same league as Ben and the Mane Six. Even as Ben struck with his Master Sword, he's still unable to press Nehza a bit more…But then, without warning, Nehza unleashed a devastating blast of magic that pushed the heroes off the edge of the temple to fall down to land at the bottom; seemingly lost conscious. Just then, he felt the temple's vibration, something was going on.
"What? What's happening?" Nezha demanded.
Inside, the gang works on removing the power source...but it's stuck. The thing won't come out.
"Ugh! Looks like it's stuck." Saber groaned as he frowned.
"Stupid piece of junk!" Laxtinct groaned as he kicked at the power source...and suddenly, it fell right off, much to his surprise. "Hey, what do you know? Just like stopping the washer back home!"
Suddenly, the place shook like mad. Shadow Dragon spoke in concern, "Looks like doing that is making this place collapse. We better get going!"
"No need to tell us twice!" Flare Tiger remarked frantically as she ran like the dickens with the rest of the group following.
Just as the Strike Force was nearing their escape route, a dark magical glow came around the object Sunburst held as he felt himself getting dragged off. Everyone quickly pitched in to help keep the guy and the object within their hold. They soon stared to see that the one pulling the string was Nehza.
"Oh no, no-no, no, not now!" Lax yelped, seeing that they got trouble here.
"You are not going anywhere!" Nehza hissed menacingly as he slowly approached those doomed creatures.
"It's him!" Aqua yelped, seeing that the enemy has returned.
"We know, hold on!" Smartypants issued off that they need to hold on to each other.
"It’s no use…he's magic is stronger than all of ours combine!" Tailtech yelped, feeling their magic wasn't keeping the enemy from pulling the power source to him.
"Don't give in, if he gets that power source, then we're all dead anyway!" Shadow Dragon issued, not wanting his team to quit.
"End of the line…" Nehza exclaimed as he was completely focused on tormenting those fools while retrieving the object.
But Nehza was not paying attention as he failed to see that Ben and the Rainbow Form Mane Six were charging off. Nehza then sensed something approaching, he turned to see his opponents he thought were defeated, but…
"NOOOOW!!!" Ben yelled as the Mane Six transferred their Rainbow Power around the Master Sword for the guy to leap off to take one final strike…
"Gruuaaarrughhh!" Nehza cried as Ben's strike breached his own defense to break his sword, and slashed across his right face and body to knock him down.
But the move used up much of the heroes' strength that Ben and the Mane Six fell across the ground.
"Ben! Twilight…everyone! You have to hurry, this place is gonna blow!" Flash cried out to his friends to hear him.
"Benjamin…" Then a voice is heard during Ben and the Mane Six slowly getting up; they turn to find something shocking. "Benjamin…" It was Nehza, he was wounded and once more….half of his face was scarred from the force of the Rainbow Power and the Master Sword, but he was…calling out to Ben.
"You're kidding me, all that and he's still conscious?" Rainbow Dash remarked.
"He's about as sturdy as a cockroach." Applejack replied about the fiend.
"Ugh, disgusting…" Rarity lightly gasped in disgust at the mentioning.
The Dragon Strike Force were quickly getting near the escape route, but saw that as the self-destructing temple was closing in on itself; they saw Ben and the others were not coming. They saw Nehza was slowly standing up, preparing to continue their fight.
"Give it up, buster, you lost!" Pinkie Pie snapped.
"Leave Ben alone, he's not yours to command!" Fluttershy snapped, defending Ben from that meanie.
"Ben chose to be with his friends and family, he won't join you or any evil…in my heart, I know him better than your twisted psychological means of turning him into a monster!" Twilight proclaimed that Ben was his own being, and he won't be used by any evil, for he chooses to be as he is by his love ones.
"You heard them, Nehza, I'm not going to be used by you. Not now, not ever!" Ben shook his head with a firm tone.
A final stare off seem to be going on here as the sides of good and evil were staring at each other’s faces now.
"If that is your choice, then you will die with your love ones…" Nehza exclaimed off in glaring at his targets that Ben choose to die than give up.
"Ben, everyone…" Sunburst tried to reach out to his friends that they were choosing to fight then leave the location about to blow up.
Soon, without warning, the Mane Six was unleashing every bit of Rainbow Power into a full focus, centering around Ben as he held his Master Sword firm. Then with a final swing, it unleashed the biggest implosion force of a sword beam sonic rainbow effect that covered the entire area while blasting Sunburst away. As the light blinded everyone, the temple closed its doors, leaving no one to know, if their friends got out.
"No! Ben…Everyone!" Flash cried, in seeing their friends still trapped without knowing if they won or not.
"No time! We need to go, NOW!" Shadow Dragon issued off that they can't waste any time here, they must go or be destroyed all together.
With heavy hearts, the Dragon Strike Force was forced to take Flash and Sunburst, as they were quickly making their escape by air. They were just far enough, that a gigantic explosion came from the unstable energized temple weapon, which almost knocked them off course. Even a large nuclear blast effect was covering much ground as everyone managed to get away in the nick of time. Many that looked back were in shock, not knowing if their friends made it out alive or not; all while Sunburst held the dark power source from what was used to unleash such an evil force.
Suddenly, the rubble moved. The Mane Six and Ben were alive...but so was Nezha.
"Like I said, I am not going down so easily." Nezha remarked bitterly.
"Then let's continue, shall we?" Ben demanded more than he asked.
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As Nyx and her friends headed from one area to another, they convinced the guards to help them. Some willing to let hostages go and escaped. Others were forced to fight but knocked out easily.
The Mystic Renegade Guards continued guarding their prisoners. Both portals appeared as both Black Alpha and Yuko emerged from them while glaring at the guards. The renegades armed with their spears and swords.
"You dare point them at Mystic Councilpony? Have you no honor? We only say this once. Stand down..." Yuko ordered the Mystic Renegades sternly.
"Forgive us. We cannot! Emperor Nezha's order! Sorry!" One member of the group said grimly.
"Fine... Soul of Destruction!" Black Alpha remarked sternly as he made his move.
Just before the Mystic Renegades could do anything, Black Alpha fired his multiple greenish beam blasts at the guards. Yuko glared at him.
Black Alpha shrugged as he said, "I didn't kill anyone."
Yuko opened the door as she spoke, "Come. We're leaving now."
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Nezha manages to grab Twilight and head a sword to her head. He was about to hit her but Ben jumps in and blocks with his Master Sword. The mad Mystic Pony furiously swings around but Ben moves his love out of the way time, getting hit by a beam sword.
"Ben!" Twilight exclaims as she grabs Ben who almost fell to the ground.
Nezha jumps up but the rest of the Mane Six jumps forward and fires blasts at his chest, knocking Nezha back like mad. The heroes quickly hits him back then kicks him high into the air. With a nods, the heroes send a beam right through Nezha, sending him crashing to the ground.
Nezha grunted in disbelief, "No... No! No! No! NO! I cannot be defeated now! I can't be defeated by this filth!"
"It's over, Nezha. Surrender now!" Twilight demands sternly. Nezha has been defeated, he must give up!
Yuko arrives on the scene with her own group, along with the captives. She demands, "It's wise that you surrender now! You're outnumbered and outmatched now!"
"Just what I had hope for, we all can go to hell..." Nezha snaps furiously. If he's going down, then he's taking everyone with him!
BOOM! The lights turned off as the pillars and walls began falling apart, even the ceiling. Everyone screamed in fear and concern of what they just saw.
"Nezha, what have you done?!" The Jade Emperor yells out in horror.
"If I can't have my revenge, then I will destroy everything to complete one. It's over now..." Nezha remarks madly. Everyone screamed in fear and concern while panicking. He has truly gone mad!
"No way! This cannot end like this!" Rainbow exclaims frantically.
"Isn't there a way to get out of here?!" Justin ask the Alicorns frantically.
"I'm afraid Twilight and her friends are tired from their battle with Nezha. And we're too wounded to teleport us out." Celestia said seriously. It's true, with everyone either tired or wounded, teleporting out is out of the way.
"WE'RE GOTTA DIE!!!!" Pinkie screams out frantically as she shakes Fluttershy like mad.
"No... This can't be happening... It just can't be..." Brad said as he trembles in fear. The Pegasus pony can't go...he wanted to spend the rest of his life with Rara. And now?
Yuko groaned as she reminds Brad of something, "Brad, remember what I said before about your wish."
"My wish?"
"Yes. Make it the right one. And above all, make sure it's what you want..."
Brad thought carefully of what he wanted to wish for the moment. And at the same time, he watched his family, friends and everyone struggled holding tight together as the building begin collapsing on them. Thew Mane Six and Dragon Strike Force struggled in holding the pillars and ceilings to keep them from falling. Mila held and hugged Rara tightly while the latter hugged back. Justin and Harley hugged each other tightly.
He then turned and found Nezha coughed heavily like he was going to die. Brad knew what to do now.
Brad hissed, "I know what I want. I wish Nezha never became the enemy of Humans, the Mane Six or anyone else. I never want this to be happen..."
Yuko sighed in relief, "A wise decision. And do you know what price you must pay?"
Brad took his harmonica out as he said, "My father's harmonica. It's my dad's treasure and the only thing I want to remember..." If the boy must give up something of his late father, then so be it.
Yuko's eyes glowed brightly as she booms out, "Your price has been paid. Time Spell!"
And just before anyone could do anything, Yuko's eyes shined upon everything. It went blank...
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"Brad? Brad? Are you alright?" A familiar voice spoke up as Brad open his eyes.
Brad gasped as he found Rara looked concern and worry. He turned and found everyone were still chatting, dancing and partying together. He even saw that his family and friends were alright. It's like what happened never occurred!
Brad was surprise and shocked of it. He turned and looked at Yuko, who was talking with the Royal Sisters and Jade Emperor. Even Nezha was there as well. And this time, he didn't seem to be hostile or fill rage. Yuko turned and gave Brad a wink.
"My god... It works..." Brad whispers in amazement. His wish has been granted. He has saved the day...
"Brad, is anything alright?" Rara ask Brad puzzled.
Brad smiled as he laughs, "I'm fine, Rara. I am. I love you, Rara!"
Just before Rara could respond, Brad kissed her lips. Instead of resisting, she kissed his lips back.
Brad's mother as well as Justin and Hayley are talking with the Mane Seven. Starlight chuckles, "I gotta admit, this party has been great so far."
"As my big brother would say, eeyup!" Applejack spoke, making the others laugh.
"Hey everyone." Brad said as he came over to the others.
"Oh, hey, Brad!" Twilight exclaims with a smile.
"Hey Bradley!" The rest of the girls exclaims eagerly.
"Having fun with your Rara?" Mila ask her son teasingly, nudging her son a bit.
"Yeah, great...uh, say out of curiosity, do you remember anything that happened before?" Brad ask the group in concern. The boy is wondering if his friends and/or family remembered what happened.
"Like what?" Pinkie ask, moving her head around in a circle very eerily and creepily.
"Well, as in...someone attacking ponies, trying to kill us, all that?"
"Uh, we have no idea what you're on about, darling." Rarity said a bit puzzled.
"Right, everything has been turning out fine." Justin said a bit puzzled as well. "I mean, it's just us, spending vacation as well as being with friends and family. Remember?"
"Brad, are you all right?" Mila ask her son in concern. She is concerned that her baby boy has hit his head or something.
"Oh, nothing. Just a bit curious as it's your usual day in Equestria." Brad said a bit awkwardly as he quickly leaves. The others looks after him a bit puzzled.
"What is he on about?" Fluttershy ask the others worried. "It's like something happened and we aren't aware of it."
"Or maybe he made some wish that undo any nasty ugly thing that happened to us and he and Yuko are the only ones who remember!" Pinkie exclaims happily while making a big squee.
"Pinkie, you are so random." Hayley sighs, shaking her head while smiling a bit.
Brad did some thinking as he trotted across the room. No one but him remembered what has happened...no one but him and...unless...
'I got to know.' Brad thought in his mind as he gallops over to the one pony who will give him all the answers. Yuko was drinking punch when he trotted up to her. "Hey, Yuko. Can I have a moment?"
"Sure." Yuko said with a nod. She and Brad goes over into the next room to do some talking, away from the ears of everypony else. "So, what is it?"
"Why am I and you, or not sure you, know what really happened before? Nezha didn't look like he's a crazy murderer from before."
"Simple. You make a wish and make it happen."
"How?" Brad ask a bit puzzled. He is not sure how he was able to make this happened.
Yuko smiled as she spoke mysteriously, "You know the answer very well. Remember carefully."
Brad pauses to do some thinking, trying to remember what he did to make it happen. Then...memories came into his mind as it all came back to him...
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Flashback
Brad got up from the ground, looking a bit weary for wear. That wish that he asked Yuko to grant was a real pain in the flank!
Brad groaned, "Man, sometimes I really hate stupid roller coaster. What the-?!" The pony...correction, HUMAN look himself over. "I'm Human. How? Wait! Where am I?" Brad looks around in confusion, the area he's in was not Canterlot, but somewhere else entirely! "This isn't Canterlot. It looks like a science lab but except it looked like World War II or something."
"That's because it is." A familiar voice spoke up, startling Brad. Someone else is here besides him.
"Who's there?" Brad ask as he looks around. A light appeared to shine, nearly blinding him. When all is clear, he saw Yuko who emerged from the light. "Yuko?"
"I am Yuko from this timeline - 900 AE. This is when Nezha grew his rage and anger more powerful and dangerous than before."
"What? No way..."
"Yes. It is true. When you make a wish, Yuko sent you here for one purpose - save Nezha." Yuko explains clearly to Brad. Looks like when he made that wish in the present, the boy has teleported himself to this timeline.
"What? Why? Why couldn't he do it?" Brad ask Yuko in bewilderment. Why him and not Nezha?
"There's a problem. If the future refused to change its course, it destined to continue towards the end of its journey."
"In other words, Nezha doesn't want it because he will convince his past self to do something-!"
"Yes, revenge." Yuko said with a nod, satisfied that Brad understood why. Nezha himself would make his past self does something terrible that will make the present day even terrible than it is now!
"So, I have to save him. Even if I did, Nezha won't listen to me." Brad said in concern. How would he know that Nezha would listen to him, a human of all things?
"That depends on you of how you respond to him. Now, go. Time is running out."
"I hope I don't regret this!"
Brad ran across the hallway of the old science lab-like. And at the same time, he hid behind the doors, crates and inside the holes to hide from the Ancient Humans Guards. They have no idea that he's from another world and would most likely mistaken for a traitor or a pony sympathizer.
As Brad continued passing them by, he heard some screams nearby. He came across a surgery room where he took a peek in. He saw two Mystic Ponies killed while a younger version of Nezha was screaming and crying in pain as he lost his limbs and even has scratches on his face and body. The ancient wizard and acolytes were checking on him. Those monsters!
Brad gasped in horror, "Oh my god... How could they?!"
Acolyte #1 nodded as he spoke while observing Nezha, "Look at him. His body is regenerating yet slowly. It must be the effect of the Black Crystal."
"Yes. That's the only reason. And I'm amazed that these creatures were able to withstand our blades and swords especially this crystal we found." The Wizard spoke cruelly and amused of this. "Imagine all of our work we have done so far. We could make this country and another realm ours - riches and glory! We'll be the most powerful race in the world."
"What of the others? If they found out of what we did, they may come and attack us especially that stupid William and his cohorts - he thinks everyone and animals are equal." The second Acolyte remarks in concern, fearing that William and his pals may come to defend these ponies.
The third acolyte nodded while speaking, "Yeah. These are just dumb animals for us to eat and experiment on."
The fourth acolyte just snort and laughs cruelly, "If they show, we'll kill them with this power. They're gonna regret for turning against us and our leader's vision."
The fifth acolyte nodded as he remarks wickedly, "I can't wait to have that kind of our power in our hand."
Brad has heard enough. These monsters have no heart and they called themselves humans! It's time for him to change history and put a stop to this madness!
"Damn them! Damn those Animals!" Brad snarls as he took the sword near the entrance. He charged in, startling the rogue humans who saw him. "Let him go! Let that Mystic Pony go!"
Nezha cried upon spotting Brad, "No! No more Humans! No more!"
"Who are you? Who authorized you to enter-?!" The Wizard yells out in alarm and confusion. He has never seen this Human before...but it won't matter in the next few minutes!
Brad stabbed his blade through Wizard's chest before pulling it out, sending the monster to the ground dead. The acolytes and even Nezha were in shock, but the former won't for long. Two were about to attack but Brad swung his at their chests hard.
"What are you doing?! You're ruining our work!" The third acolyte protest in shock. This Human is ruining everything that they're working on!
"Do you have any idea what you have done? We could us them to make the world obey us!" The fourth acolyte protests, outraged by Brad's "betrayal".
"After all, they're just animals!" The fifth acolyte yells out in agreement. How dare this newcomer defend the ponies like this?!
"Shut up, animals!" Brad yells out in fury. He has had enough of these guys! Brad swung his blade at wounding the rest of Acolytes, knocking them all down. He then approached Nezha who was shivering and quivering in fear while crying. What will this new Human do now, "It's okay. I'm gonna get you out. But you have to trust me."
Nezha nodded fearfully. Brad unbuckled the strappers before he carried the young Mystic Pony, running quickly ran as fast as he can. The Ancient Soldiers and Guards chased after him, determined to put a stop to this foolish "traitor".
Brad managed escaped the lab while continued running as fast as he can. The Human Guards continued chasing after them as they entered the forest. And just before anyone could do anything, arrows flew and struck the guards to the ground.
Yuko appeared before Brad, smiling as she spoke, "You did it."
Brad lowered Nezha while breathing heavily, "Yeah. It wasn't easy. Now I understand why these ponies have grudge on Humans. Darn them. How could they do this?"
"Lust. Greed. Power. This is what Humans have desired. Unlike William, he has a good heart and wanted friendship with ponies. No war, no bloodshed."
"You okay?"
Brad was speaking to Nezha who was recovering. The future villain looks shocked and confused. Why did this Human helped him...especially since what his kind has done to him?
"Why? Why did you save me? Why didn't you kill me like what you did to my mummy and daddy?!" Nezha demands in confusion to Brad.
"I'm not like them. I know you won't trust or believe in me. But you've gotta trust me, Nezha, I would never wanted to kill the ponies." Brad said to Nezha gently. He must convince this guy that he, or any other Humans, aren't like the ones who would harmed anyone.
"How do I know you're not lying?"
"I was like you. I lost my dad who was killed by those stupid robbers! They murdered him like he's just a punching bag for them to do. This is something I couldn't stand! And I'm sorry I couldn't save your family. I really am." Brad then begins to sob. Yuko was silent while Nezha looks stunned, he hasn't seen a Human acting like this before. "But please. Don't kill all of the Humans. Some can be bad but others are good. If you can trust me, then you can trust them. Just give them a chance. They're not all evil..."
Nezha gasped in amazement, "I don't believe it... Humans can cry..."
"All I ask is you to give them a chance. If they did good, they can be your friends. Please, trust me..."
Nezha sniffled as he gave a slow nod, "I... I... I'll try..."
"Thank you." Brad said in relief. Hopefully now, this means that Nezha would change for the better.
"Well done. Your duty is done. You can go home now..." Yuko said gently to Brad. Now that his task is done, time for him to return to his own timeline.
"Wait-!"
Before Brad could react, Yuko's eyes glow as everything turn to white...
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Present
Now Brad remembered, he remembered it all. He was able to save Nezha...and convince not to kill all of the Humans. Because of his actions, the Mystic Pony changed for the better. Brad couldn't believe that he has forgotten...until now.
"So, that's what happened. I saved Nezha. Did he-?" Brad ask Yuko in concern, wondering what became of Nezha.
"Although Nezha can't forgive the Humans from the Past for what they did to him and his family, he's willing to give some a chance." Yuko said to Brad with a smile. "When the reports came in, he give and is willing to give them a chance to befriend."
"Wow... No way..."
"Yes. It's true. You have journeyed far and fulfilled the destiny. Thank you, Brad. You have saved Nezha from his depths of darkness."
"No problem. I just don't understand one thing. Who was the person contact you to keep an eye on me?" Brad ask Yuko puzzled. He is still pondering the individual who asked Yuko to keep an eye on him in the first place.
"Your father." Yuko answer. Brad was in shock and surprise by that, his father asked her to keep an eye on him?! "Yes. When I sense pain and sadness from the day you came here, I knew there's something wrong. So I research on you. I sought and contacted him of what needed to be done. And thus, he asked me to guide and help you overcome your sadness and pain. And at the very end, you did it."
"Dad asked you to help me? I can't believe it. He's been watching over me."
"Indeed. And one more thing, I have a message from him. He said 'I'm proud of everything you had done at Equestria. No more pain. No more sad. Be happy. Love you.'"
Brad sobbed and sniffled, "Thanks. You're one crazy witch, alright."
"I'd take that as compliment." Yuko remarks with a light giggle.
Brad sighs as he left Yuko. Looks like thanks to his action, the timeline has been changed for the better. Now only one thing is left for him before he could put this matter to rest.
Nezha was talking to some friends when Brad came over. The Mystic Pony looked him over. The boy couldn't believe that this is the same one who tried to kill him and everyone else in the original timeline!
"So, you're Brad?" Nezha ask Brad in amusement.
"Yeah. That's me. You're not trying to something stupid, right?" Brad ask Nezha in concern. He wondered if this guy remembered him somehow.
"I would have. But a Human told me to give them a chance. And I will. To be frankly, you oddly look familiar. Do I know you somewhere, boy?"
"If I told you, you wouldn't believe in me."
"Try me, Human. But don't try to trick me about my powers. I'm not a patient pony." Nezha said to Brad sternly.
Brad couldn't help but laugh in amusement. Looks like everything is as it is!
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As the party is about to come to a close, Celestia asked everyone to gather to the front of the book for a speech. Justin, Hayley, Mila and Brad stood near the Mane Seven,
"We have gathered here today in celebration of momentous occasion. My student - Twilight Sparkle and her five friends - Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy and even Pinkie - disappeared from our land for a long time since the battle against Smaug and his Alliance. They were all taken care and adopted by two trusted Humans and their friends for quite sometimes. These Humans even reunited the young mares with us." Celestia explains to the crowd. She smiled while continuing, "But today, something extraordinary happens. For the first time ever, Mystic Ponies have finally accepted the Humans as friends after a long thousand years since the local ones - pure evil - betrayed and attacked both us and their own kin. They even gave permission to the Humans to live and stay with us as long as they want. And therefore, those who treated us fair and equal are welcomed here. Fillies and gentlecolts, may I present the mares' adopted family - Justin, Harley, Mila and Brad."
The ponies hoof-applaud as Justin stood forward. He spoke up, "Hey everypony. And to be honest, I'm a little bit of nervous. I'd never done speeches before. But I know what I want to say - I do whatever it takes to look after my family. And no matter what happens, no one hurts mine, even my adopted one and theirs, and gets away with it. And believe me, everyone, I'm a big angry daddy."
The audience laughs a bit. Hayley took her turn as she spoke, "Hey, everypony. I know I'm just a kid but I know what I want to say. I loved you all especially my sisters. And no matter what happens, I'm gonna be there for them! Do you know why? They're my sisters and first best friends I ever had. I'm really happy for it."
Now it's the newcomers' turns. Mila smiled as she stepped forward, speaking, "I've known MLP for my entire life since its debut. I'm truly love it very much. It's not because of how popular the show is, but what's morality and the lessons behind it. I learned a lot from it. And I'm truly proud to be one of the Bronies, not just for myself but also others. Do you know why? We're friends. We help each other out no matter how dangerous it can be."
Now it's Brad's turn. The boy clears his throat as he spoke, "Hey, everyone. I know I may have been a bit rough and rude to anypony, even a robot like Wheelie. But there's something you should know about me. I'm not who or what you think about. I lied about everything. In truth, I am a Brony."
The audience mumbles questionably. Sunburst spoke up, "Seriously?"
"Wow, he's a Brony, really?" Starlight ask Sunburst in amazement. Brad never admitted it before...at least, not in this timeline!
Brad smiles as he spoke, "Yes. I really am. And the reason I hid it because I was afraid that everyone will laugh at me for being a gay. So, I pretend to be a guy who cares for nothing but himself. How and why? It reminded me of my dad. He helped me with everything I need to know about the world. Seeing that show makes me very happy and relief from that pain. MLP isn't about the cartoon, it's about how strong our friendship is through damn pain struggles. And I'm proud to have it. I'm proud to be a Brony. That's who I am."
The crowd looks amazed. Then they applauded eagerly and wildly. Brad smiles as the Humans looks on proudly.
"Wow, I'm proud of Brad." Twilight said to the others with a smile. "He has come a long way."
"And to think, we thought he was a big jerk." Rainbow laughs a bit while nudging Applejack who chuckled a bit.
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Soon the party came to an end. The ponies went on. Now that summer vacation is almost over, it's time for the Humans to go home too. But they are happy, knowing that they will be welcome back to Equestria anytime they want.
"Well, it's been one interesting vacation." Justin said as he hugs the Mane Six. It's sad to leave them but at least the father can go home, relieved that everything is fine for them. "I got a feeling we have forgotten something."
"Oh well, maybe next time we will figure it out, darling." Rarity said to her father with a giggle.
"You come back now, you hear?" Applejack ask Justin, making him smirk at that.
"You bet." Justin promised to Applejack as he did the Pinkie Promise. "Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye."
"And don't you forget it!"
Brad is saying his own goodbyes...this time to Rara. The two hold hooves, hating to depart so soon.
"So, you'll be going back home soon?" Rara ask Brad in concern.
"Yeah. You know the usual. But that doesn't mean I'm gonna ignore you." Brad said gently as he brushes part of his love's mane a bit. "And believe me, Rara, I love you ever since I saw the episode. You were amazing."
"Really? Thanks..."
"I will come and visit you, Rara. I promised."
"I know. And thank you for finding and asking me to be your teacher." Rara said to Brad, blushing while giving a lovingly smile to him.
"Yeah. Thank you for being my friend and girlfriend, Rara." Brad said gently.
Brad and Rara leaned and kissed each other lips passionately and happily. Everyone watched it in amazement.
"I knew she would get a love of her own." Applejack said with a smile that her good friend has her special somepony.
"And you complained about the whole pony x human thing." Fluttershy giggles to Rainbow. She didn't responded just smiled a bit in amusement.
"It's a shame that these two would have to part." Sunset said in concern, sighing. It's sad that Brad and Rara must part after getting together.
"Yeah..." Flash said in agreement with a sigh.
Mila pauses then an idea came into mind. The mother trotted upward as she spoke, "You know, Brad. There are no rules saying you have to come back...or cannot stay here permanently."
Brad and Rara look stunned. Is Mila saying what they think she's saying?
"You mean..." Brad begins to speak up in hope.
"Wait, what about Earth and school?" Justin ask Mila in concern. Doesn't Brad still have some school left to do back home?
"Brad graduated already. It's time for me to let go and let my son live his own path." Mila said to Justin with a sad smile. She turns to Brad, speaking, "Stay here, Brad; be with her."
Brad laughs as he uses his wings to twirl Rara in the air. The mare giggles while hugging her love. Brad is here to stay!
"Great, looks like I gotta put up with him forever." Wheelie groans out yet he is giving out a light laugh.
"Wheelie." Most of the gang remarks, laughing a bit.
Once Brad put Rara down, he gallops over to Mila and hugs her. The new stallion cries out, "Thanks, mom! Are you going to be okay?"
"I'm positive." Mila said with a smile as she hugs her son back. Once the two let go, the woman spoke, "Now you let us know when the wedding is, okay?"
"Only if you tell me when your wedding is!"
"Brad!" Justin exclaims with a blush while laughing a bit. Looks like Equestria's new pony species has just gotten a new member.
"Does this mean we will be getting new family members?" Fluttershy ask Twilight curiously.
Twilight smiles as she watches the scene of the Humans saying goodbye to one of their own. She said gently, "Looks like it, Flutter. Looks like it."
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A few years later
A familiar voice is narrating as he looks at familiar photos, "Well, years has passed and things in Equestria has been fine for everybody and everypony."
We see photos of Justin and Mila, smiling at the camera at their wedding.
"Mom got married to Justin a few months after our great event. Hayley and I are now step-siblings."
We see photos of various Mystic Ponies, some did not want their photos taken obviously.
"The Mystic Ponies are now friends to the Humans in their world or the next. Of course, now the only thing they gotta worry about...is the tourism! Hoo boy!"
We see a photo of Brad flying through the air, laughing with Rainbow.
"As for me, I adapted well to the new world of Equestria, being a pony full time! It's amazing that the ponies of this world get used to a former Human. As for Rara..."
"Brad." A familiar voice spoke up. Brad, years later, looks to his wife, Rara who is smiling. "Looking at the photos, honey?"
"Sure am." Brad remarks with a light chuckle. He looks at the photos while speaking, "Well, Rara got a permanent addition to her tour group...a guitarist and a husband. Boy, our wedding was awesome."
"Brad?"
"Yeah, dear? What?"
Rara smiles as she patted her stomach. Brad looks on in wide eyes. Could it be...?
"I'm pregnant." Rara remarks with a light chuckle. Looks like the Exitor/Mane Six family now got a new member!