Spike shivers with fear of seeing his mistress trapped by that strange energy, all the objects around now moving and crashing against everything without control.
His canine ear manages to capture how the furniture in the rest of the house also begin to be trapped by that energy.
In the middle of his lament he manages to see the small window of the basement which faces the backyard, looking at his mistress and arming himself courageously runs to the other end of the room and using all the strength of his legs tries to reach the window, but this is Too high for him to reach.
He goes around looking for something to help him and sees some boxes that now fly in that whirlwind of magic, with fear but determined to help his owner wait the moment and then jump into the whirlpool, manages to land in the box and with Your nails hold as much as you can.
When he gets up, he watches the room twisting and turning, prepares himself, and when he does, he jumps out of the whirlpool and manages to knock and open the window, thus getting out of the basement.
He shakes quickly to release his nerves and after a few barks he runs out of the backyard and walks away from the house for help.
***Mirage***
Not far away, and guided by her friend Equestre, the girls are headed to the house of Twilight.
"They are just a few blocks from here." Clarifies Sunset.
Pinkie shows a cake and her hand. "What do you think you like most about Twilight, chocolate or vanilla?"
Applejack looks at her smiling. "I think they both might like it the same."
"that is!" Crush both cakes with each other, and somehow manage to merge them. "Chocovanilla! Great idea Jackie!"
"That was not ... what I said, but thanks."
The girls laugh a little at the occurrences of their party girl friend, the sooner their smiles fade when they hear a bark, when they see the front they see Spike approach.
"Is that ... Spike?"
The puppy comes up to them and stands in front of Sunset, barking and moaning sadly.
"Flutter do you know what's wrong with him?" Rainbow asks her friend.
"Um, well ... h-he looks scared, for something ... but ..."
The little dog looks at Sunset with melancholy eyes and moans.
"Spike, what's up, boy?"
The puppy barks and looks anxious while trying to say what had happened, Sunset thinks a moment when he realizes that the puppy is alone in the street and as Fluttershy said, he is very shaken and frightened.
"Maybe ... did something happen to Twilight?"
Spike barks with more force as he jumps with his front legs, the others are slightly altered by what has been said.
***Mirage***
Only moments later all arrive until the house of Twilight, great is his surprise to notice a bluish glow in the interior.
Rainbow asks the question that they all have.
"What is that shine?!"
Sunset approaches, managing to distinguish the chaos inside the house.
"is magic..."
"Twilight is there?!" Exclaims with terror Rainbow Dash. "We have to go for it now !!"
The girl rushes to the door, but when she touches the handle, she feels an electric shock running through her hand causing her to let go of the door and a faint cry of pain.
"Rainbow!"
Rainbow shakes her hand "I'm fine, but I can not knock the door."
Applejack is coming "Leave it to me!"
Placing in front of the door, the farmer stands slightly on one side and supporting her weight on one leg, she flexes the other and then kicks the door, a kind of shock wave goes through the door for a moment only to reverse and cause Applejack comes flying in the opposite direction.
"AppleJack!" They shout all together.
"Auh ... wrote down the tractor plate?"
Rarity helps you get up.
Sunset watches the house with fear.
"We can't force entry ..."
The girls begin to worry. Soon the whole house is surrounded by what looks like a tornado of energy, even from outside you can hear the wreckage inside.
Spike barks and catches Sunset's attention to guide her into the backyard where she sees the basement window.
Sunset caresses the little canine. "Good Guy."
As she looks out the window, she notices the silhouette of Twilight in the center of that energy.
The others approach and see Sunset take off his leather jacket and approaches the window.
"Sunset, what you do?"
"I'm going to come in, girls you wait here!"
Does not wait for response and shrinking as much as he can, he gets in and falls on the basement floor.
"We go with you!" Says at Rainbow.
"No! It's very dangerous! And there's almost no room to move, stay there."
"What are you planning to do?!" Is the question of her friend farmer.
"... something will happen to me! Remember that I am an expert in magic!"
"In Equestria! But we do not know how our magic works here!"
"... well, then it is time to find out."
With that, the former horse runs and enters the whirlwind covering the books and notebooks that hit it, is thrown to the ground to dodge the screen of the computer and dragging gets to reach the scientific, and in the zone free of flying objects are He gets up and approaches the other girl.
"Twilight! Twilight can you hear me?!"
There is no response from the scientist but Sunset gets a glimpse of the brightness on his forehead and how it expands to his entire body.
"What is that? Damn! Twilight please reacts!"
Still no answer, Sunset hears the worried cries of her friends and the uproar that occurs in the house, can only imagine what is happening abroad.
"It's useless, she can't hear me, what can I do?"
She focuses his eyes on the brightness and as this travels his body, an idea comes to his mind and after a moment hesitates and approaches the girl's hand.
"Twilight, if you don't come, I'll have to get in, I must be crazy."
The ex-horse soon feels the magic begin to wrap her arms around her and move to her body, closes her eyes in an attempt to push away the fear she feels and clings to her friend's hand to prevent her reflexes from releasing her, Covers completely and his mind is clouded by the magical overload and he feels losing his consciousness.
***Mirage***
Sunset opens her eyes and realizes that she is in the backyard of Twilight, when she looks at the house she sees this in order that makes her smile more quickly erases her smile when realizing that her friends are not, her doubt becomes Surprise to see in the yard a small girl playing with a rag doll.
"Well smartypants, time for the exam, I hope you have studied."
The girl does not seem to notice the presence of Sunset and she looks at the surprised little girl realizing who she really is.
"... Twilight ...?"
Indeed, the girl in front of her looks like a miniature version of the girl with glasses, having these included in her face.
You can not ask anything, before two blurred silhouettes approach. It does not distinguish who they are, but it reaches to notice that they are a man and a woman.
Little Twilight notices these and runs to them with a smile.
The whole place seems to darken slightly and the sounds become barely audible, however the girl could distinguish something from the conversation, there were some apologies, expressions of affection, and a phrase that she could not distinguish, but was said seriously and caused The girl erase her smile.
Sunset failed to analyze what she was seeing before she saw herself in another place,
Sunset is seen in the living room, the phone starts ringing and after a few seconds the door that opens to the basement opens, from it comes Twilight, but it was no longer a girl, had grown, but it is notorious that it does not reach the age When Sunset met her.
As expected Twilight does not notice Sunset in the room and instead only answers the phone.
"Hello? Shining Armor! What good that you call, I have everything ready for our meeting and ... eh? Oh ... I understand ... no, yes, yes, it's okay, I understand. Oh, no, next week I have exams so I will not have time. Yeah, okay, I get it, really, yeah. I also love you brother, say hi to Cadence. Bye…"
With heaviness hangs the phone and stands in front of this for a while, Sunset tries to touch her shoulder but her hand just crosses the other girl causing her impression and some fear, after a moment Twilight turns around and returns to the basement closing the door.
His head starts to ache when he sees another place, with the sun shining he is now seen somewhere in the city, looking to the side sees a large church, and to the opposite end, what looks like a newly married couple.
Twilight enters her field of vision, far removed from the rest, wearing a beautiful and elegant dress, the decorations and makeup on her face note that she contemplated the recent wedding, but far from wearing a smile like the rest of the present, His eyes show melancholy, sadness, and fear.
When the girl turns and makes a slight gesture of wanting to move forward, she is stopped by the voice of her brother who approaches her.
"Twily! Twi ..."
Twilight turns smiling "Hello Shining, congratulations on your wedding."
"Twilight ... you ... are you okay?"
"Of course, why would not I be?"
"It's just ... you're here, alone ..."
"Oh you know I do not like being in the middle of so many people, it bothers me."
"... if ... am ..."
"It was a wonderfull wedding, Cadence looked beautifull, and you finally got dressed."
"Hey, how at finally?"
The child laughs a little which seems to calm her brother.
"I'm happy for you, really, now you can really start a life together."
"Yes, I'm happy, too ... but, Twily, are you sure you'll be fine at home? With Mom and Dad working so hard ..."
"Shining, you know I'm perfectly capable of taking care of myself."
"Yes, but ..."
"I'm not a little girl anymore so you have to worry about me, now you're married and you have a new life to live."
"but-"
"Neglect, you live your life, and I will live mine, I will be well."
"Okay, okay, if you say so, but if you ever need anything, or if you get bored at home or something, you can come with Cadence and me, I'm sure she'll love to see you."
The girl just nods with a smile, the older one says goodbye to her with a hug and returns with the others, at which point the scientist drops her smile and returns to her sad look.
"It's like I was watching the Twilight life ... are these ... your memories ...?"
Sunset asks inwardly as the darkness surrounds her. Soon he sees around him several images, ... screens ... each showing ... some moment in the childhood and early youth of Twilight ...
These "screens" are going away, being lost in the infinity of auqella penumbra. She sees herself again, with nothing around.
She starts to get scared, unsure of what to do ... that ... until she sees a silhouette in the vicinity ...
Insecure, approaches, and distinguishes Twilight, sitting hugging her knees, hiding the face between them.
"... Twilight?"
"... leave me ... I want to be alone ..."
"Twilight, you're trapped in this place, we should get out of here."
"… I do not want…"
"What? ... What are you talking about?"
"I just want to be alone ... I'm better like this ... without being disturbed, please ... leave me."
The image of the girl begins to darken as if the darkness tried to swallow it.
"No ... Twilight you can't stay like this, there are people waiting for you."
"is not true…"
"Yes it is! I met your brother today, he asked me to come and talk to you, he is worried about you, we are all, we are your Twi friends!"
"... I don't have friends ..."
"Yes, you do!"
The girl just stay in silent and her image darkened more, Sunset begins to terrify and after meditating her words speak again.
"Twilight ... I know ... how you feel, I really ... I know."
No respond...
"... there was a time ... when I was not a nice person ... I ... hurt a lot of people, even ... a lot of people who tried to help me ..."
Twilight shows no reaction. She does not listen to her, but still, Sunset continues.
"I felt that I was better than the others, that I deserved to be better than the others, and I decided that everyone around me ... they should see me as their leader ... their ... princess ..."
The emotions behind those words, surely Twilight would not understand them at all ...
But she followed, not just for Twilight, but for herself.
"I stopped at nothing to achieve what I wanted, I felt, that the world owed me respect, obedience, I was ... I was a tyrant ... a demon ..."
One move, she almost did not notice, but Twilight seemed to have raised her head just a little.
"... but the end comes to every tyrant ... one person, he opposed me, and joined others, who together ... ended that evil that I had begun ..."
It sounded like a fantasy story. Indeed it was. But how else could he explain it to her?
"I lost my power, my position, I lost all that day ..."
She was not sure, but she could almost swear that Twilight was reacting to her words.
"... I was left alone ... with nothing ... no friends ... no family ... just ... I was ..."
Twilight raised his head, but his face was still low, an expression of pain and sadness on her face.
"... funny is ... that same person, who took everything ... then became my friend, a very special one, showed me my mistakes, and helped me to continue ... I learned ... what I really was important"
Now Twilight was looking at her, still saddened, she seemed to be curious.
"She showed me, that she could not be alone, that she was either better or worse than the others, there is no reason to alienate others."
The image of Twilight slowly darkens ...
"We can't live alone Twilight, and we do not have to."
Smiles gently, and reaches out his hand.
"Someone showed me the way that time, now ... I want to show it to you"
Kept his smile. Twilight stared at her doubtfully. With fear, she stretches out her hand.
Sunset takes the girl's hand, a soft but firm grip. The whole place is bathed in light.
***Mirage***
The whirlwind of magic begins to calm down, the crown on Twilight's head cracks and breaks falling to the ground, the magic surrounding his body fades, soon all objects that had been affected by magic cease their flight and fall.
Twilight's eyes return to normal and her body falls, fortunately Sunset reacts and holds her, although both end up kneeling on the ground with heavy breaths.
"... Twi ... ar ... are ... alright?"
"... Sunset ... Shimmer ... why ... why are you ... here?"
"... we were worried about you Twi."
"... "we"?"
"The rest are outside, we all came to see you."
"… why…?"
Sunset gives her a soft smile. "Because we're friends."
"Fri ... ends ..."
The scientist is unconscious, Sunset holding her and giving a heavy sigh.
His calmness lasts little when he suddenly feels a severe headache, with one hand touching his forehead, where the pain begins to concentrate.
Her eyes start to cloud over and her ears barely catch the sound of the front door bursting with clamor followed by the screams of her friends.
The last thing that can distinguish their cloudy sight are the silhouettes of their friends approaching and their voices that seem so distant as you see them advance to them, after that everything turns black.
***Mirage***
Opens her eyes softly ... her eyes blurred, and the shadows of the place prevent him from seeing anything.
He knows he's in a bed, the softness and warmth of the blankets betray that fact.
Blinks and rubs his eyes, lightening his sight a little, slightly distinguish his surroundings.
Although dark, he can distinguish that place, it is Rarity's room, the care and elegant touch, added to the "organized chaos", as her friend calls it, evidence that.
With that fixed, the next thing you notice, is the other person lying next to you.
She would have been startled if she had not been so tired.
The silhouette of that person remains hidden by the darkness, but eventually his eyes become clear, and he can see it.
Is Twilight, placidly asleep next to her in bed.
"Okay, it's not uncommon for friends to sleep in the same bed ... but ... what the hell happened?"
She thought as she forced her head to her more recent memories.
Slowly remembering the moment with Shining Armor, going with her friends to the girl's house with glasses, and ... that magic chaos ...
Look at the sleeping, worried girl.
"... then I think I fainted"
Remains silent looking towards the ceiling.
"... where are the others?"
With that thought, he takes off his blankets and sits down on the bed. A slight dizziness causes him to grab his head. Soon surpasses it and stands up.
Walks and activates the lap-ond switch, turning on the lights. After hesitating a moment, decides to wake up his companion of lenses.
"Twilight, Twilight Wake Up"
Shaking it a little, getting her to wake her up. Twilight covers a bit of light, but eventually opens your eyes, although your view is too blurry by not having your glasses on.
Sunset notes that, and sees these on the nightstand, takes them and helps the girl put them on.
"Hey twilight"
"... Sunset Shimmer ... what ... what happened?"
"You ... remember, something?"
Twilight sits on the bed rubbing her head. "remember..."
Then your mind is filled with visions of what happened. At the moment it embraces itself, with fear.
Sunset sits next to her and surrounds her with one arm to help her.
"Hey, it's okay, it's all over, I think we fainted, the girls should have brought us here"
Twilight seems to calm down a bit, turns to Sunset, more let out a scream and recoils at the sight.
"What happen?" asks surprised by her attitude,
"Y-you have ..."
"what? what have I got?
Twilight does not respond, but if he takes a small mirror from the night table, and shows it to him.
Sunset looks confused, but seeing her reflection understands the surprise. On his forehead, is glued what looks like a jewel, with a diamond shape, orange.
She exclaims a cry of astonishment. Only a few seconds pass before the door opens, and the five girls enter a little altered.
Her state changes to confusion when they see her friend from another world standing, crossing her eyes upward in an attempt to see her own forehead, and that jewel, while touching it with her fingers.
"wh-what-what what?!!"
Pinkie Pie approaches and takes the head of the ex horse in his hands, and begins to examine the jewel, close one eye and open the other intensely for a better view, shakes Sunset's head with intensity leaving this dizzy, Covers the gem with his breath and then cleans it with his elbow leaving it so bright and so glittering that the party fanatic is able to be reflected in the four faces.
"Uh, shiny" drops to Sunset "cute ornament, Sunsie."
"o-ornament ... it's not a pinkie ornament! It's ...! ... it's ... I don't know what it is!"
Applejack is the first to put the issue aside and make the question really important.
"Are they both? Sunset, Twilight?"
"Um ... I ... I'm fine ... I think."
"I'm ... I'm fine, alone, that this thing in my head ..."
All observe the new decoration on the head of Sunset, after a while is Rainbow who breaks the silence.
"Meh, it's not the weirdest thing we've seen, talking about weird, what happened?"
Before the question all turn to Twilight waiting for an answer.
The girl with glasses is full of nerves to see the center of attention.
"I-I ... I ..."
"Calm down sugar cube, we're not annoying or anything, we just want to know what happened."
Twilight lets out a sigh "on Saturday, when I returned home, I found among my things, a digital memory, I have no idea where it came from, but in it, there was information, and records about the Equimia, the way it affects the fields Quantum and electromagnetic, even had a plane of an artifact capable of controlling it."
Sunset is very surprised. "Artifact? What kind of artifact?"
"It was like a neural sensor helmet, only it had a shape ... like a tiara, or something like that."
At the mention of the word "crown" the look of Sunset is filled with panic.
"Am ... will ... this?"
The shy girl shows in her hands the two pieces of the crown.
"Yes, it's the artifact I built on the planes."
With some haste Sunset takes the pieces and accommodates them so that they are assembled.
"Darling ... is ..."
"Is a replica ... of the crown ... of the Princess Twilight..."
All are astonished and somewhat frightened at this fact, Twilight feels the increase in tension and unconsciously embraces her legs becoming as small as she can.
"Twilight, where did you get that memory?"
"I ... I don't know where he left alone ... he was in my wallet when I came back from the picnic."
"And where is he now?"
"I ... I suppose it will be in my house and ... oh my God! My house! What happened to my house ?!"
There is a deep silence while the four of the five students look at each other with discomfort looking for a way to respond or in the best case anyone else who did.
"... well ... you'll see ..."
"It's something complicated ... we ..."
"We went to your house because we heard that ... well ..."
"Your brother went to our school to talk to Sunsie because you had got crazy with all the magic thing and he asked Sunsie to help you stop being crazy and go out to have fun so we all went there and we took something Of cake but when we arrived all u house was like "brum! Brumbrumbrumbrumbrum "with that magic thing coming from everywhere and breaking everything inside we wanted to enter but the magic did not leave us so Sunsie got a way to enter through the basement window and came to help you while we were outside and While we waited for the floor to be full of purple flowers and it started to shake and we were like "bruuuu eestoooooo seeeeee moves muuuuuuuchooooooo" but then ended when there was a big "PLOF" and all the magic in your house went away and Applejack kicked the door so we could Enter and we went in and went to where they were but we found the two sleeping on the floor and then we heard police sirens and Rainbow said we had to leave and Rarity asked "why?" To what Applejack said we could not tell anyone What happened and Fluttershy and I nodded like that."
With that he moves the shy girl's head at the same time as his nodding.
There is a faint silence. … a while…
"... My Phaters going to punish me until I finish college, and now they'll never stop treating me like a girl."
Applejack sits next to her "calm sugarcube, everything will be fine."
"Fine?! FINE?! My house is destroyed! I sure lost all my data and my files of this and any previous research! Surely they will also expel me from school and send me to an even stricter one and will not let me continue doing research or projects! I'm going to become just a girl in a lab coat that all she does is look at cells through a microscope and play with beakers with highly volatile chemicals that do not stand out at all from all the other brains with lab coats ! I WILL NEVER BE RECOGNIZED AND I WILL BE JUST IGNORED BY ALL THE REST OF MY LIFE! THAT SEEMS YOU "FINE"?!"
Very large eyes and tightly closed mouths is the only response from all present.
"... I'm sorry, I didn't want to scream" she hugged her knees.
"... no ... no problem, come on, don't be like that."
"How not to be ...? Now ... I lost my only chance to be someone recognized, someone that people admire ... now I will only be the rare four eyes that sits in the front row of the room ... just like always ..."
With her forehead resting on her knees, the girl tries to contain her desire to cry.
They all look at her with much concern, Sunset sits across the girl and looks for the right words to say next.
"... hey ... you know ... for us, you're not one, "rare four eyes"."
Rainbow speaks at that. "Actually, yes you are, but, that's what we like about you."
Twilight looks up a little, his glassy eyes are greeted by soft smiles.
Sunset continue. "I know things ... have been very crazy lately."
Rainbow crin a littel. "you say, since last fall everything has been very rare for us."
The athlete looks with an accomplice smile at the former villain who returns an equal.
After a little laughter shared by all the farmer speaks to the scientist
"But you know one thing? The whole thing, it has helped us to realize something important."
"... sniff ... what thing?"
"that even in the craziest moments, we will always have our friends to help us."
The girl takes off her glasses and wipes her eyes a little.
"... but I ... I don't have ... friends ..."
Pinkie Get up in front of her "you silly!" laughs a little "we all are your friends!"
"... but ... why would they want to be ... my friends ...?"
"I just told you, we like you, we like you the way you are, you're different from Princess Twilight, but that makes it great."
"... the princess ..."
Rarity smile to Twilight. "We may not know you as deep as we'd like, but that's why we want to try, we'd like to meet you and you'll know us."
"but... why ...?"
"Because that's what friendship is all about." respond Sunset.
She did not know why, but the smiles all directed her made her feel something warm in her chest, her mind tried to make sense but failed, it was a feeling he had never experienced.
A bark pulled her out of her thoughts, one she knew perfectly, all eyes turn to the door and the puppy they all know runs in to immediately jump to her mistress throwing her on the bed and give her a series of joyful licking.
"Ha ha ha Spike! It's okay, it's okay, boy, calm down."
Sitting up to sit, she hugs her cub who cheerfully rubs against her wagging his tail.
"I'm glad you're well too."
All the girls smiles at see the scientist with her puppy. A doubt still lashes the mind of the scientist and is forced to ask.
"... you ... really want ... to be my friends?"
Without even a moment of doubt all respond affirmatively.
Twilight mentally wondered how Pinkie's neck did not break when she nodded so hard and fast.
"but ... don't you think I'm ... weird?"
"Yeah, but for the third time, we like that about you, weird people are the best, look at Pinkie."
As if answering the prayer the party girl inflates a large balloon and moves her arms at a speed impossible to catch by the human eye, or pony eye, forming... nothing, the balloon falls to the ground without modifications but the arms of Pinkie are completely scrambled in a knot that should not be able to achieve for someone with bones.
"heh heh! I need to practice more."
After a laugh on the part of her friends and another mental issue registered to try to resolve later on part of Twilight, the farmer takes the word.
"Maybe you're weird, or maybe we're the weird ones."
"But weird or not" continue Rarity "we are friends, nothing will change that."
A smile on the part of Sunset is followed by a hug, soon all, including Pinkie who managed to bare her arms, hug the scientist who with watery eyes, flushed cheeks and a smile she knew herself, had not been embodied in her face in for a long time, allowed himself to be the center of that show of affection.
The moment is softly broken by a sound, Sunset recognizes it as her cell phone signaling a call, the hug is broken and the ex equestrian walks to his jacket to take the device out of his pocket and answer.
"Hello?"
From the other side of the device you hear the voice, of Flash Sentry.
"hey Sunset, is flash, um... where are you now?"
His tone seemed nervous and agitated, and Sunset didn't need to think hard to realize that something was happening to the boy.
"I'm at Rarity's house, why?"
"it's... ... damn... the guys and I... well, to make it short, the guys and I were going around, and we spent close to where you live and... oh my god..."
"Flash whats happen?"
The boy's nervous tone began to infect Sunset, who tries to stay calm.
"the building is ... full of cops, surrounded and ... looks ... they're checking your apartment."
At the statement Sunset's gaze is filled with terror, her throat dries up and her whole body freezes.
***Mirage***
The apartment building where Sunset lives was only a short bus ride away, so they did not take long to get there.
Rarity had given sunset a ribbon for the forehead with which to cover that jewel.
Being in front of the building, could see several patrols by the place, as well as several officers interrogating to the neighbors of the place.
The Sunset department was cordoned off and several officers came and went constantly.
None of the seven knew what to think, or what to do. Sunset was terrified.
"Sunset!"
The shout makes them all flip, see Flash come running to them.
Were not the only ones to hear it, one of the officers turns, and soon sees him, to address them.
"Flash..."
"Sunset, what's going on?"
She does not know what to answer, she has no idea, and she's quite nervous about the whole situation.
"I..."
"Sunset Shimmer!"
Again, a shout makes them all turn, this time they see the officer approaching at a brisk pace, with an extremely serious countenance on his face.
"You are under arrest"