//------------------------------// // Insidious Plans Are Put To Action // Story: Forever Changed // by ShadowedKnight68 //------------------------------// Three days have passed since James' party, he explained to the girls what had happened and they all have been trying to help him gain his memories back fully, but he's been living in Twilights castle and doesn't really leave. James yawned waking up, he crawled out of bed and stretched his legs making them pop then his necking making it cracks, he twisted his body resulting in more pops and cracks he then shook himself feeling ready to start the day. He left his room and walked through the castle halls, he walked to the library grabbed a book and laid on one of the couches and began reading, he did this for the past three days, he had read through all of equestria hystory, there have been a lot of wars for such a friendly looking world. He was no reading a how to magic book, yes apparently there is such a book here. Twilight walked in and saw James she smiled and walked over "what are you reading today?" She said peaking over James' shoulder. "Trying to figure out how to use magic" James said as he flipped to the next page. Twilights eyes widened and sparkled with excitement "want my help??". "Um...sure" James set the book down. Twilight was visibly excited "ok what do you wanna learn first?". "The basics" James replied. "Ok" twilight teleported a rubber ball on the table in front of them "ok I want you to focus your magic on this and lift it up" twilight said as she made a note pad a quill appear. "Alright" James closed his eyes and took a deep breath, he then focused his magic around the ball and lifted it, it was pretty easy he just imaged picking it sup with his hand. "Ok very good" twilight made three more appear "now loft all these". James focused on them all and tried lifting them, but it was a lot harder he could lift two but the other two were harder, he was sued to having only two hands, he took a deep breath and opened his eyes and looked at all four of the balls, instead of imagining hands he imagined just lifting all four up. All four of the balls blew up "...ok...so...not exactly what I wanted..." He rubbed the back of his neck nervously. Twilight made four more appear "practice makes perfect" she smiled and watched waiting for James to continue. James huffed and focused again, all four lifted up before turning to dust "ok...this magic is really dangerous..." He groaned. "Normally magic doesn't do that" twilight said writing all this down, she then made more balls appear. James huffed and continued attempting to lift the balls, this went on for hours, he was able to successfully levitate them, he moved onto lifting rock balls, metal balls, and eventually he could lift pretty much anything in the room, which he gladly did so, the room was full of flouting books couches and a purple pony alicorn. "Muahaha the powerful James can lift all!!" James cheered levitating everything in the room, that was until his horn fizzled out and everything fell to the gorund, James stumbled a bit and suddenly looked tired "w-what happened?.." He groaned. Twilight quickly ran over worried, she then used a spell to check if James was ok "oh...your magic is very low...you must have used it all up". "R-really?.." He rubbed his head before his stomach growled, he was extremely hungry now. "Um maybe we should get you some breakfast?" Twilight smiled and walked with James out of the library and into the kitchen, she then made James some cereal. James levitated the spoon with cereal on it to his mouth, he ate it and chewed before his eyes widened and he instantly spit the food out "oh god what the hells wrong with your cereal??". Twilight got another spoon and took a bite of the cereal "what do you mean? It tastes fine". "What?" James took another bite but spit it out, the cereal tasted rotten and disgusting, the milk tasted spoiled too "your crazy!". "What?" Twilight was genuinely confused. James looked through the coverts and found an apple he took a bite out of it before spitting it back up, it tasted rotten, he then ate anything else he could find in the kitchen but spit everything out, it all tasted disgusting he felt like puking. "W-what's wrong with me?.." He looked at twilight with worry as his stomach growled, he was starving but he couldn't eat anything, he needed to eat or he'd starve to death. "I'm not sure" twilight pondered why James couldn't eat anything. James looked at a muffin and ate picked it up, he opened his mouth nervously and ate the thing whole and swallowed it, he sighed in relief until he felt his stomach turn and twist he groaned holding his stomach before running to the bahtroom, he then puked into the toilet as his eyes watered from the pain. He panted barely able to keep himself up, he's never felt this sick before in his life. Twilight walked in with a solemn expression "I...I think I know how why you can't ear anything James...". "W-why?..." James groaned looking at her. "Well I remembered changeling's feed of of emotions...I think that's why you can't eat anything" Twilight explained walking over and rubbed James back trying to comfort him. "Oh...that's great..." James winced feeling his stomach grumble "so...how do I feed off of emotions?..." He asked looking up at her. "I'm not sure..." Twilight said sadly. James groaned and hung his head, Twilight hugged him feeling bad for him, once she hugged him James felt an odd tingling he pulled at it more and more and an explosion of wonderful taste filled him, though the more he gladly fed on the hungrier he got, he needed more so he kept taking more and more. Twilight felt woozy and fell over passing out from exhaustion, James noticed instantly because the wonderful taste and feeling was gone now, he looked at her worriedly and shook her lightly "twilight?? Are you ok???". "Ngh..." Twilight groaned in her sleep. James realized he was feeding off her love and accidentally took way to much, he felt horrible...and still hungry. He looked at twilight and pressed his head against her trying to get that feeling again but he got nothing, he grumbled "guess I can't feed off her...I already drained her..." But he was still starving, he needed more. He then got an idea, he was in a town known for friendship, he could easily feed on everyone in town, the thought of all the love made his mouth water, he changed into his pony disguise and went to leave the castle, but he ended up running into spike. "Oh hey um..." Spike squinted at the odd pony and realized it was James "James? Why are you a pony?". "Oh I thought I'd just have a little stroll through town" James said with a smile. "Oh does Twilight know?" Spike asked. "Of course" James answered as he walked over to spike and pulled him into a hug "I ever tell you how cool you are?...". "Um...no" Spike said weirded out. "Well I think your the coolest per-er dragon in town" James siad, he could taste it already. "Thanks" spike smiled. That was it James started draining the love spike released, but spike looked tired already and he'd just started. "Ugh...w-what's?" Spike tried to talk but passed out. James groaned letting spike fall to the floor, he still was hungry. He walked down the stairs and out the castle doors, he then looked towards town, he saw so many ponies walking around. There were some walking and talking, others sitting at tables talking, he even saw fillies running around laughing. They all looked so...delicious, James walked towards town smiling, he walked up to a group of ponies "hello I'm new to town...mind giving me some directions?..". The green earth pony was the first to speak "oh sure just follow us" they all started walking, James could already taste their kindness. James gladly started feeding on it as the ponies showed him around, each of them looking more and more exhausted as they walked while James looked more and more energized. "S-sorry...I...I don't think I can keep walking...I feel...very...tired..." The green pony collapsed followed by the other two. "Aw...you guys were so good though...to bad" James wined as he walked past them and over to other ponies, this town was full of ponies all full of love, all just waiting to be drained. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Twilight groaned waking up, she rubbed her head and looked around, she found she was still in the bathroom but James was nowhere to be seen. She stood up and walked out of the bathroom, down the hall she saw spike passed out, she quickly ran over to him and checked him to see if he was alright she then shook him trying to wake him "spike please wake up!". "Ngh hm?.." Spike groaned waking up "Twilight?...what happened?...where'd James go?". "James?" Twilight asked confused before her eyes widened and she gasped, James was trying to figure out how to feed off love he must of fed off her then spike, twilight quickly ran around the castle looking for James, but she couldn't find him anywhere. If he wasn't in the castle then he must have went outside, twilight ran outside and towards town, once there she gasped in horror, ponies all over were knocked out. Twilight walked through town following the sleeping bodies of ponies, she then found ponies wrapped up in green slime, some stuck to the ground others to buildings, she even found one dangling on a string wrapped up in the slime. Twilight picked up her pace and she saw a dark figure shuffling around by something on the ground, she slowly made her way towards it "h-hello?" The figure didn't react. "Who's there??" Twilight said in a more stern voice, the figure still didn't react, she lit her horn a cast a light spell on the figure, she then gasped at what she saw. It was James and he was spitting green slime onto a passed out filly, Twilight stumbled back "James?! What are you doing??" She yelled. James stopped spitting out slime and looked at her "T-Twilight?" He looked at the filly then back at Twilight with a scared expression "w-what the hell have I done?..." He ran passed Twilight. James ran down the road looking at all the ponies he'd drained, tears formed in his eyes as he ran, he couldn't have done this but he was the only one capable of doing it. If twilight hadn't stopped him, he would have just trapped all these ponies to drain them, and he knew he'd just do it again if he staid in town, he made his way out of town and towards the forest, he was a monster that was where he belonged. He ran as fast as he could, he ran even when he heard the calls from Twilight to stop p, he kept going and going, tears blurred his vision as he ran, he kept running till he could no longer hear the calls. He panted and looked around, he was pretty deep in the forest far enough away so he couldn't hurt anypony. He sat down and sniffled as he looked at the ground, his tears hitting the forest floor, ever since he's got to this place his luck has been getting worse and worse, he really did have nothing in this world, he wanted to protect ponies but now he's become a threat to them himself. "Good gods above are you always crying?" Chrysalis mocked as she walked out of the shadows. "Oh goody if it isn't my good ol friend Chrysalis the bug horse" James groaned and looked away from her "haven't seen you in a while, I was begging to think you'd actually left equestria, guess dreams don't come true..." He sighed. "Oh your cute, alright little monkey I'm actually going to give you the chance to leave here" she said with a smirk. "What? Why would you do that?" He asked suspicious. "You've been a very very big thorn in my side as of late, one I would oh so gladly be happy to get rid of, but with all your jokes I'm not feeling up to it, so ta ta" Chrysalis started walking away. "No wait!" James yelled standing up "I'm sorry but if you can get me out of here I'll stop mocking you, please.." He begged. Chrysalis smiled and turned around "of course I can, a simple spell once you've figure it out" she walked over to him "so...would you like to leave?..I need you to completely agree for this to work". "Yes I want to leave" James felt hope fill his body, he'd given up hope of going home a long time ago but now he felt it again he could actually leave, a smile grew on his face. Chrysalis smiled and touched her horn to James her eyes then glowed green as her horn lit up, she cast the spell and James was sent spiraling into darkness, it was getting harder to think, he struggled to form thoughts. He tried to think anything but he failed to as everything went black and he was gone. Chrysalis looked at the now passed out monkey, she then shook him lightly "wakey wakey". "Ngh..." His eyes opened and looked at her, he then stood up and rubbed his head "Chrysalis? Where are we?...ugh...my heads killing me". "Hm who are you?" Chrysalis smiled. "What kind of question is that? I'm Queen Antennae your sister" she glared at Chrysalis. Chrysalis smiled and laughed triumphantly "oh you have no idea how good it is to hear that sister". Antennae continued glaring "what in Tartarus is wrong with you?". "Oh I'll tell you on the way to the hive, I also have a new plan to take over equestria I think you'll like it sister" Chrysalis smiled as she started casting the teleportation spell. "Hm if it's anything like how your acting, I won't like it" she growled waiting for the spell to commence. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Antennae was walking through the hive, her sister was walking with her keeping an eye on her, it was getting on her nerve quite a bit "you keep looking at me and I'll bite your head off sister..." She growled. "I had forgotten how grumpy you can get" Chrysalis smirked. Antennae huffed "Yeah yeah I know I'm crabby deal with it!...Now tell me what this amazing plan of yours is". "Fine, my plan is we take all of the swarm and surround the town that is home to the elements of harmony, then-" Chrysalis was cut off. "Aren't those the girls that ruined your little wedding?" Antennae smirked. Chrysalis gritted her teeth "yes...they are". "So this is a revenge plan? Oh now I'm really looking forward to this plan" Antennae chuckled. "Hrr just listen! Once we have the town surrounded we will swarm the town and take all the ponies, they all are full of love that could feed the hive for a good long time, as well remove the elements problem" Chrysalis explained feeling proud of her plan. Antennae looked at her unimpressed "so we release the entire swarm?...why not just tunnel below the town and collapse it?...then the elements are out of the way". "We'd be loosing all the love in the process" Chrysalis retorted. "A minor loss but worth it to be rid of an enemy" Antennae said. "We're going with my plan" Chrysalis said leaving with no room for argument. "Fine go ahead sister, just remember I'll be there watching your plan unfold" Antennae said and walked into a large room holding a hundred changeling's "oh good gods is this really how many we have?". "Yes...why?" Chrysalis looked at her confused. "We're screwed, I'm out" Antennae walked out of the room. "W-what n-No! They are very well trained!! If you don't come with to this then your a coward and I get full control over the hive" Chrysalis yelled. Antennae stopped and huffed "fiiiine...." She groaned. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Twilight and the other girls had successfully freed and woke up everypony James attacked. At the moment all six and spike were sitting in the castle around the table, they all were silent. "I doubt he meant to hurt anypony" Fluttershy was the first to speak. "Fluttershy's right, James wouldn't do that on purpose he's nice and funny not mean and scary" pinkie said with a smile. "Ah don't think everypony else will see it that way" Applejack said with a somber frown. "Well he could explain himself if he hadn't ran off to hide in the forest, that's sounds pretty guilty in my book" Rainbowdash said crossing her arms. "But he ran off into the Everfree Forest in tears, the poor dear must be so sad and scared, I wish we could find him but it's nearly impossible to find anypony in that forest" Rarity said. "So do I..." Twilight said feeling bad, she was worried for James he wasn't used to his magic and with so many dangerous creatures in the Everfree he had a low chance of survival. All seven of them heard a scream from outside and they all ran out of the castle, they all stopped in their tracks when they saw a huge swarm of changeling's surrounding the entire town, there were ones flying in the sky keeping pegasi from flying, standing in front of the swarm were Chrysalis and James. "James?! What are you doing get away from her!!" Twilight yelled. James looked around before looking at Chrysalis "is she talking to me?". Twilight looked at James stunned, why was he acting like that. James walked forward closer to Twilight "young alicorn your mistaken on my identity, I have never met you before I'd recognize a younger alicorn, I am Queen Antennae, second ruler of the changeling's and sister of Chrysalis". "What??..." Twilight looked shocked before glaring at Chrysalis "what did you do to him?!?!?" She yelled but was then lifted into the air by a violet magic aura. Antennae glared at twilight and lit her horn "you dare speak to my sister in such a way? I should end your life now". "Not so fast sister" Chrysalis chuckled walking over smiling "little Twilight what I did to James was what he agreed to, I did nothing with out his consent". "What did you do?!" Twilight growled struggling to break free of the magic. "I brought my sister back, simple as that he took her away and I brought her back while also getting rid of him" Chrysalis smiled darkly, she then moved closer and whispered into Twilight's ear so Antennae wouldn't hear "I erased James from his own mind and replaced it with my sisters...your little monkey friend is gone" she chuckled and walked away "come now sister let's not waste our power on them". "Fine" Antennae let twilight drop to the ground as she followed her sister. Twilight looked horrified as Chrysalis walked away with her sister. "Swarm the town and take all the ponies you find" Chrysalis ordered as the changeling's swarmed the town grabbing all the ponies they saw, twilight and the others ran around fighting the changeling's. Rainbowdash shot through the sky hitting changeling's out of the sky, some chased after her but she easily out flew them and took them down. Applejack bucked each changeling that ran at her, one was thrown back and smacked against a window and slowly slid down before falling to the ground. Fluttershy ran around dodging changeling's accidentally making them slam into each other as they tried to grab her, two flew at her but she ducked down just in time making the two slam their heads together. Twilight and Rarity were using their magic to throw objects at changeling's, Twilight froze five of the changeling's in ice. The changeling's couldn't run fast enough to escape the pink menace, they tried to hide but they couldn't, they tried to fight but failed, her laughter caused changeling's to scream in terror, the sound of her cannon firing off and making colorful confetti rain from the sky made them cower in fear, none could escape as she bounced closer and closer, her smile never leaving her face. "Pfft well trained in getting their asses kicked" Antennae chuckled watching the swarm get beat. "Hrrr" Chrysalis growled annoyed with her sister. "Wow sister I'm very very impressed with you plan, honestly I don't think I could ever come up with one any better..." Antennae said sarcastically and rolling her eyes. "Hrr shut up!!" Chrysalis yelled having enough "you couldn't do better!!" She challenged. "Oh really?..." Antennae took the challenge and cracked her neck, she lit up her horn "let's see...who's doing the most damage...hm" she looked around but spotted Rainbowdash and smirked "you" she fired a beam of magic at Rainbowdash. "Haha nice try bugs" Rainbowdash mocked as she kicked another one of of the sky, she didn't notice the beam of magic shooting at her until it was to late, in an explosion of bright colors Rainbowdash fell from the sky and crashed to the ground, her fathers and fur burnt as she was knocked unconscious. "You see sister, that's how you do this" Antennae smirked. "Shut up! You know I don't need you to rule the hive, I did after all bring you back! I can just as easily send you away" Chrysalis threatened. "Really?" Antennae looked at Chrysalis. Chrysalis smiled believing she scared her sister "yes it is ac-" she was cut off by the sound of magic firing off and searing pain in her chest, she slowly looked down to see a wound gushing green blood out from her chest, she looked back up at her sister. "Try to send me back now..." Antennae smirked and smacked Chrysalis away, she then charged her horn up, she flew up above the town as she charged a large magic blast "this town will be reminded of the failure so many changeling's have brought upon the hive, but after I'm done with it there will be nothing but a crater!!!" She yelled. Twilight gasped and looked up at the large magical blast forming above town, she then flew at Antennae and head butted her in the stomach, it caused Antennae to loose focus making the blast explode, Twilight was sent fly back towards town while Antennae smashed into a building. Everyone ran over to twilight including the now awake Rainbowdash who limped over, Twilight groaned and sat up, she had scuffs and scraps on her but was otherwise alright. "Arrrghh!!!" Antennae yelled blasting out of the building she crashed into, she growled standing on the road in town "I get why my sister was so sick of you ponies!!!" She yelled and started charging another blast. They all ran toward Antennae and surrounded her "please James don't, I know you're still in there, you can't do this!!" Twilight yelled. "I'm not James!!! I don't even know who that is!!" Antennae yelled. "Don't you remember your parents your friends?? How would they react to this???" Rarity yelled. "I killed my own mother and you think this is what she'd find worse??? You think trying to make me feel bad will make me stop? That's far to cliche" Antennae laughed. "Hrr this is for shooting me out of the sky!" Rainbowdash yelled and threw a rock hitting Antennae on the head. Antennae stumbled back and the magic blast fizzled out, her eyes spun in her head and she passed out hitting the ground hard. "Dash uh good job" twilight said as they all walked closer to the now knocked out changeling queen. "James can't really be gone can he?" Fluttershy asked worried. "I'm not sure...but I know a way to find out" Twilight lit her horn and pressed it against Antennae's, her eyes then glowed and she went into her mind. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Twilight looked around the black void, it seemed endless. She moved around the void and passed by memories of Antennae, she looked at all the memories looking for ones from James but she couldn't find any, as she was flouting through the void she spotted a grey spot in the darkness, she flew towards it and saw it was what she assumed was James, he looked human but not like the ones from the mirror. James was sitting in the black void he was grey and transparent, Twilight could barely feel his life force at all, she flew down to him and touched him "James??" She called but he didn't respond. Twilight was then tackled and pinned to the ground "hello little brat!" Antennae growled "you'd dare invade my mind?!" She slammed her hooves done on Twilight. Twilight screamed in pain and looked at James "James please! You have to gain control!! This is your mind! Not hers!" She yelled but he still didn't react. "Quit your babbling!" Antennae raised her hoof to slam on Twilights head. "Please James!" Twilight yelled and stared terrified at Antennae. "Die!" Antennae yelled and stomped her hoof down but it was caught before it could reach Twilight "wha?!" She looked at he stopped her and saw James. "No one uses my body to hurt ponies" James sucker punched Antennae off Twilight, he then ran at her and continued punching her, he relentlessly punched her in the face before grabbing her and lifting her up above him, a large chest appeared in the ground and opened up into a colorful abyss. "What is that?!" Antennae yelled. "This is where all my darkest memories go! ENJOY DABS AND BAD MEMES!!!!" James yelled and threw he down into the chest. "NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!" Antennae screamed as she fell further and further down into the abyss before disappearing from sight, James then slammed the chest shut. James walked over to twilight and helped her up, she then proceeded to hug him tightly "sorry twi...I was having a hard time remembering myself". Twilight sniffled as she had tears of joy in her eyes "I thought you were gone forever!...but I'm so happy your back". "Heh same...now let's go back to the real world...there's a certain bug queen's ass I wanna kick" James said and cracked his knuckles. Twilight nodded and she cast her spell to leave James mind. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ James sat up awake and rubbed his sore head "gah who hit me?...". "James?" Fluttershy asked. "Yeah it's me..." James said before he was tackled in a group hug by the ponies, he smiled "this is nice...but really who hit me?". "That was...um..Chrysalis, yeah she flew over and hit you before flying off" Rainbowdash lied. "You hit me didn't you?" James asked. "Yeah...well only because the other you shot me out of the sky" Rainbowdash clarified. "Oh shit really??...sorry damn it she really screwed around with my body" James huffed before looking around and spotting Chrysalis who was trying to crawl away "oh no you don't!" He ran at her. "Crap" Chrysalis cursed before standing up and lighting her horn and firing a spell at him. James deflected it and threw a barrel at her smashing on impact and knocking her over "haha!! A man from my world always said barrels were evil, guess he was right in your case". Twilight was looking at James stunned. "What?" He asked confused. "You deflected her spell!" Twilight yelled amazed. "I did? I did!" James yelled in realization "looks like taking back control from Antennae allowed me full control over the magic" he smirked. "Of course it did...hrr you lucky little monkey!" Chrysalis yelled. "Huh...I guess I am lucky" James thought about it and even though a lot of bands happened to him, he was able to get help from Fluttershy, survive fights against Chrysalis, gain friendship from the girls, and even regain his memories, he was actually pretty lucky. "But now you luck runs out!!" Chrysalis yelled and shot a magic blast into the sky. "...um...you missed..." James said looking at her, everyone then burst out laughing. "Oh laugh it up, because this will be the last time any of you laugh!!" Chrysalis yelled as the sky darkened. The sky tore open to a dark purple void, dark clouds formed around the rift and lighting sparked into the rift. Purple lightning shot out of the rift and started ripping open other rifts, the new rifts grew over time and some formed together making larger ones, the rifts grew larger. "Twilight what's happening?!?!?" James yelled. Chrysalis beat twilight to answering "the rifts are tearing apart our dimension, their bleeding into other ones and crushing them together, in moron terms for you their destroying each other hehehehehe, if I loose then you all do as well" she laughed maniacally. "You psychotic bug freak!!" James punched her and turned to Twilight "how do we fix this?!?!". "I-I'm not sure, we'd have to try and force the rifts close, but we'd need a lot of magic to close them, enough to risk a ponies life!" Twilight panicked and started talking with the girls for ideas. James thought over what Twilight said, he then looked up at the large rift and his expression turned stern, he then spread his wings and shot up into the sky towards the rift. Twilight looked back towards James not finding him there now, she looked up and gasped "James?!? What are doing?!" She yelled. "Saving the world!!!" James yelled while dodging lighting, one bolt came close to hitting him but he was able to narrowly dodge it, he then got to the large rift and lit his horn, he then started pulled the two parts of the rift together trying to close it, a bolt shot out and ripped open a rift next to him, he looked at it and his eyes widened at what he saw. It was Nightmare Moon, but she had a white mane and tail, she was using her magic to pull another large rift closed, she glanced at James before looking back at her rift, she then gasped and looked at James again. "Um...hi..." James said looking at her. "Hey..." She replied. "Soo...were you human before?" James asked. "Yup...you?" She asked. "Same" James said. She chuckled lightly "life likes throwing curve balls I guess". "Heh no kidding" he looked at the rifts "man I wish we could talk more...bet we'd be good friends huh?" "Yeah we probably would" she smiled sadly before looking back at her rift as she started pulling it closed. James looked at his rift and did the same as he pulled it closer and closer together the other rifts closed together, he struggled to pull the main rift closed as it kept trying to reopen and grow bigger, James growled and forced all his magic into closing the rift. His horn sparked and blasted out waves of magic as he out everything he had into closing the rift, his horn shot out a large blind blast of light "arghhh!!!!!!" He yelled as the light exploded blinding everypony watching the scene play out. Once everypony could see again they all saw that the rifts were closed but James was nowhere to be seen, Twilight and the others ran around looking for James. They searched under broken buildings, everywhere, but they couldn't find him anywhere. Twilight was sobbing at the only possibility she could think of, he had used all his life force to close the rifts, he was gone all because he gave his life to save them all, he'd just gotten back his life only to loose it for everypony who had chased him out of town not that long ago, and he knew what he was doing, twilight told him trying to close the rift would cost a pony their life, and he still did it. The other girls hugged twilight in tears as they cried as well. "What's with all the crying? I just saved the world...id expect some celebrating not crying" James said as he limped over to them. They all gasped and tackled him into a hug "oh! Not this again!" James said as he was squished in the hug. "We thought you were dead!!" Twilight yelled. "Sorry! I was blown into the forest it took me a while to get back here my wings are tired so I couldn't fly" James explained. Twilight and the others hugged him tightly, he smiled and hugged them back.