//------------------------------// // Monster Mayhem // Story: LEGO Equestria Girls 5 // by Chronicler06 //------------------------------// Chapter 10 Monster Mayhem Inside the pocket dimension behind the magic mirror, Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, and Rarity were still trapped inside the strange realm with seemingly no way out. Fluttershy sat on the floor with a sullen expression while Rarity stood by her side in an effort to comfort her. Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie were watching Applejack and Twilight make a desperate effort to reach for the mirror surface high above their heads. Twilight had decided to try something she had once done with Sunset and Spike when they were trapped inside a cave, and that involved Applejack removing her hair piece to allow her to stand firmly on top of the farm girl’s head. Twilight struggled to reach a hand up at the mirror surface, but she soon realized that it was still way beyond her reach. “I can’t reach it,” she called back to her friends. “I’m gonna need some additional help.” “Ah ain’t too sure ‘bout that,” said Applejack worriedly as tried to keep Twilight’s foot attached to the top of her head. “Ah’m struggling to keep mah balance with just one minifig standin’ on mah head.” Before anyone could volunteer to help Twilight, they began to hear a faint whooshing noise and saw a red trail of magical energy start to emerge from the mirror surface. “Incoming!” shouted Rainbow Dash. While the other girls ducked, Applejack lost her balance and caused Twilight to fall off her head and hit the floor. Once that trail of magic fully emerged from the mirror surface, it solidified into the form of Sunset Shimmer, who screamed as she flew over everyone and tumbled to the floor. Twilight got up and as soon as she saw who had just arrived, she smiled and exclaimed, “Sunset Shimmer!” Applejack picked up her hair piece and put it back on her head while she and the others rushed over to their friend. Sunset groaned as she rolled over onto her back. She was soon helped up onto her feet by Rarity, then received a big grateful hug from Pinkie. “Hooray!” exclaimed Pinkie Pie cheerfully. “We’re all together again!” “But wait,” Twilight spoke up as a sudden realization occurred to her. “If we’re all together, then nobody out there knows where we are!” At this point, Fluttershy glanced down at her magical geode around her neck and noticed that it was now flashing on and off at a constant rate. She looked around at her friends and saw that all of their geodes were also flashing at the exact same steady rate, perfectly synchronized with each other. Unsure of the significance of this, she quietly spoke up, “Um, girls…” Apparently not hearing Fluttershy, Sunset smiled and gently pushed Pinkie away as she responded to Twilight, “Starlight Glimmer does.” “Um, girls…” said Fluttershy, barely louder than the first time, but still not enough to catch anyone’s attention. “You mean Princess Twilight’s student back in Equestria?” asked Rarity. “How would she know where—?” asked Pinkie, before a sudden realization occurred to her. She then grinned and slyly added, “Ohhhh!” Sunset could only smile uneasily and look away. “You didn’t…” said Twilight worriedly. “She isn’t…” Sunset rubbed the back of her head and hesitantly confessed, “I kinda told her she could come back here with me.” “Girls…” Fluttershy once again tried to speak up, but was still not quite loud enough. “You really think Princess Twilight would be okay with that?” asked Applejack. Sunset uneasily replied, “I don’t know for sure that she wouldn’t be okay with it.” “That’s not exactly a compelling argument,” Rarity pointed out uneasily. Finally, Fluttershy nudged Sunset in addition to speaking up, “Um, so sorry to interrupt, but—” “Whoa!” Rainbow Dash suddenly spoke up as she grasped her magical geode. “Check out our geodes!” Everyone glanced down at their respective magical geodes and finally realized that they were all flashing at the exact same consistent rate. Fluttershy slumped as she sighed and grumbled, “That’s what I was trying to say.” It was right at this moment that the pure white background turned blue, then turned pink, then yellow, then purple, then orange, then red, then back to white, and continued shifting between the same cycle of colors over and over. “Something’s changed,” noted Twilight worriedly. “This wasn’t happening before.” “Maybe it’s because all seven of us are together now,” Sunset speculated. “Is this a good thing or a bad thing?” asked Applejack with uncertainty. Suddenly, magical energy was released from their geodes, each with a different color — blue from Rainbow Dash, purple from Twilight, orange from Applejack, yellow from Fluttershy, red from Sunset, pink from Pinkie Pie, and white from Rarity. All seven beams of magical energy shot out towards the mirror surface, then once that energy was completely released from the geodes, the colored beams began swirling around the edge of the mirror surface. “I’m going with… not a good thing!” exclaimed Rarity in terror. Outside the magic mirror, Juniper Montage was once again admiring her dream reflection when that magical energy suddenly emerged from the mirror’s surface, flowed up her arm, then phased into her body, causing her to start transforming. Still hidden behind the arcade machine, Starlight watched the entire magical transformation in shock. First, Juniper started growing significantly taller. Next, her work outfit was quickly replaced by a green, purple, and black sparkling dress that covered most of her torso and her upper legs, a purple cloth extension to the dress attached over her hip joint that covered the back of her legs, black and green on her feet, and green on her hands and lower arms. For her head, her glasses vanished, her faced gained some makeup, and her hair piece shifted from straight pigtails to a mass of flowing curls. When the transformation was complete, the now magically corrupted Juniper Montage stood two bricks taller than the standard minifig — her legs and torso each now three bricks tall instead of just two. After the magical transformation finished, Juniper looked over at the glass surface of the popcorn machine and saw her reflection was not the desperate teen she typically saw, but instead she was now identical to the dream reflection she had been admiring all day from that magic mirror. Seeing her wildest dream had now come true, she grinned. “Now everyone will recognize I’m a real star!” she proudly declared, then began marching towards the set of doors at the front of the lobby that led outside. Starlight remained perfectly still as she watched the magically corrupted minifig walk right by her. She glanced down at Sunset’s shoulder bag in her hands, then slung the strap over her right shoulder and left the bag hanging over her left hip. As she watched Juniper head for the exit, she knew right away that she had to do something to stop that monster, even though she did not yet know what exactly she was going to do about it. As Juniper reached the doors, she quickly encountered a rather unexpected dilemma. Now that she was much taller than ordinary minifigs, she was now unable to fit through any of those doors. She stuck a leg out, then stuck an arm out, then bent forward but couldn’t get her head low enough without letting her hair touch the floor — she was not about to sacrifice any of her inflated dignity by crawling through a tiny doorway. As Juniper stood still and glared as the lobby doors, she pouted and grumbled, “Fine! If this door’s too small for a big star like me, then I’ll just make a new one.” With her right hand still tightly grasping that magic mirror, she placed her left hand onto the wall right above the set of doors. She pressed against that wall and, with remarkably little effort, managed to break a large hole through the wall, including tearing aside most of those doors. Now that there was a large enough opening through the wall, she stood straight up and stepped outside to meet her public. Starlight waited until Juniper had made a few steps outside, then rushed over to the destroyed wall. She stopped and stayed partially hidden behind a portion of the wall that was still standing, making sure to keep watching that magically corrupted minifig. Out on the street of Sunshine Plaza, the presence of the giant form of Juniper Montage was very hard to ignore. As she began striding along the brick red tiles of the street, numerous civilians quickly panicked and started running away, many of them rushing to hide behind any form of cover nearby. The magic in that mirror had not only change Juniper’s body, but had also affected her mind. To her, the surrounding civilians who were screaming and running were not fleeing from her in terror. Instead, she perceived them as crazy fans rushing to get her attention. She eventually settled her attention on a young boy and his mother who stood still in the middle of the street while holding hands. She smiled down at them and asked, “Want mommy to take our picture together?” In reality, the mother and son stood frozen in fear. When the corrupted Juniper singled them out, the young boy immediately broke down and started sobbing. The mother heard her son’s crying and, tightening her grip on his hand, immediately fled the scene with him. “Someone call the cops!” shrieked the mother as she and her son rushed down the street past a donut shop. Standing in front of that donut shop, there just so happened to be three police officers, two of whom were carrying some boxes of donuts. The third officer was none other than Canterlot City’s Chief of Police, officer Flash Sentry, who had definitely heard the terrified screams of that mother and child. “Good thing we happen to be in the area right now,” remarked Flash. He turned back to his two fellow officers and ordered, “Drop the donuts, boys. Let’s find out what we’re dealing with this time.” The other two officers reluctantly set down their boxes of donuts on a nearby bench and followed their superior officer as he began walking towards the source of the mass panic. “I-I’m not so sure about this,” mumbled one of the officers nervously. As Flash Sentry marched forward, he could easily see up ahead that they were dealing with yet another individual who had been corrupted with some form of magic. He’d be lying if he said he wasn’t nervous, but after witnessing four other magical incidents in the past year, he felt that he was now capable of facing the next such incident as professionally as when dealing with any other crime. Juniper obliviously continued to bask in the admiration of her supposed fans, glancing around in different directions until her gazed eventually fell on the three police officers. “Alright, whoever you are,” Flash Sentry firmly called out, “explain yourself!” Juniper simply smiled and smugly responded, “Oh, no need to be concerned for me, security. I see no reason to keep any of my fans away from me. Everyone loves me!” She then turned away to find more “fans” to impress. The three officers just stared at the tall minifig in confusion. Eventually, Flash stated, “Yeah, she’s definitely gone delusional.” He turned to his fellow officer to his left and ordered, “Better call the asylum and tell them to set aside a large room.” The officer on the left nodded without saying a word, then pulled out his phone and began dialing a number. Meanwhile, the other officer on the right nervously asked, “So, uh… w-what are we gonna do?” Flashed sighed and reluctantly replied, “For now… nothing. We don’t know what she’s capable of, nor are we sure if she’s even deliberately trying to cause trouble. I don’t wanna put anyone needlessly at risk, so until we know for sure what we’re dealing with, the best thing we can do is just stand back and observe.” Not far from the police officers, Starlight Glimmer was now hiding behind a tall potted shrub in front of a florist shop. The responses she had overheard from the law enforcement officers did little to ease her worries. “Of course the police aren’t gonna do anything,” she quietly muttered to herself. “They have no idea that Sunset and her friends are trapped inside that mirror. So I guess it’s up to me to save them.” She paused as a peculiar thought crossed her mind. “Wow, I seem to be the one saving the day quite a lot, lately,” she noted, but then shrugged and leaned out from behind the shrub. As Starlight watched Juniper — who was now blowing kisses to various people just before they ran away screaming — she focused her attention on the magic mirror that the corrupted minifig still grasped in her hand. “Okay, first thing’s first,” Starlight quietly muttered to herself. “I need to get the mirror away from her. But how?” Starlight looked around at her surroundings for any possible ideas. She struggled at first to think of something, but then she remembered the discussion she had earlier with Sunset about what Master Builders are capable of. Another quick glance at her surroundings and Starlight realized that almost everything around her really was made of Lego parts, and thus had the potential to be repurposed into something useful. It was now clear to her what she had to do to save Sunset and her friends. “Well… guess it’s time to see if I’ve got what it takes to be a Master Builder,” she remarked as she stepped out from her hiding place and began looking around. “Let’s see, what do I have to work with…?” Aside from the debris from the front wall of the cinema, there weren’t really any loose pieces just lying around, so Starlight was forced to rely on the other bit of advice Sunset had given her: break other objects to get enough parts to build something useful. Between the florist shop and the donut shop, there were some benches, some streetlamps, some trashcans, and a couple of hot dog carts. She wasn’t sure at first what she could possible make out of such objects, but she knew she didn’t have many other options, so she would have to get really creative. As she let her imagination run wild, a possibility started to from in her mind. She smiled and said, “I think I might have an idea…” With no time to waste, Starlight immediately started harvesting the necessary parts. She tore some benches from the ground and smashed them to pieces, shoved over some streetlamps that broke apart as they hit the ground, and overturned the two hot dog carts to break them into pieces. “I sure hope the vandalism laws in this world are a lot more relaxed than what we have in Equestria,” she quipped as she next started throwing all those loose pieces together. While all of that was going on, Juniper was facing away from it as her attention was focused on finding more “excited fans” to surround herself with. With all the real people running away from her, she naturally followed after them further down the street. Unlike the panicked civilians, she saw no reason to rush, so she continued to stride down the street like a fashion model on the runway. As she approached a table, she noticed that someone had left behind a notepad and pencil, so she grabbed the pencil and wrote her signature onto the exposed sheet of paper. Once she was finished with that, she held up the pencil and asked, “Who else wants my autograph?” Juniper’s wait for a response was cut short when something suddenly swept her off her feet from behind, causing her to fall into a small seat that was elevated off the ground. As that seat moved around, a small cage-like structure dropped down around her torso, locking her into the seat. Confused by the sudden turn of events, she looked back and saw that the elevated seat she was now strapped into was attached to the front of some kind of motorized cart, and sitting in the driver’s seat of that cart was Starlight Glimmer. “Hope you don’t mind me butting in,” Starlight playfully remarked. She tried to bring the cart to a stop, but the sudden deceleration combined with the top-heaviness of the giant Juniper in the elevated seat caused the cart to suddenly tip forward, though it was able to fall back onto all four wheels. “Sorry,” added Starlight uneasily as she started turning the cart around. “Very first time ever operating a vehicle.” “What is the meaning of this?!” demanded Juniper. “Let my friends go!” Starlight firmly responded as she continued driving the cart around, though she struggled to keep it going in a straight line. “Never!” Juniper shouted back. With her right hand still firmly grasping that magic mirror, she grabbed the cage around her torso with her left hand and quickly pried it off, breaking the lever system that had allowed Starlight to hold it down. “Whoa,” muttered Starlight in shock. “Probably should’ve expected that.” Juniper hopped out of the elevated seat, turned around, then grabbed that seat and began to lift the whole cart. Starlight quickly hopped out of the cart and began running away. Just seconds later, that cart flew over her head and crashed to the ground right in front of her. She stopped and glanced back and saw Juniper approaching her with a furious expression. Starlight immediately ran forward again and tried to jump over the wrecked cart, but her right leg got caught on it. After hitting the ground on her face, she flipped over and realized that leg had actually come off. She quickly found it resting atop the overturned cart, so she reached over to grab it, only for Juniper to grab it at the same time. “Hey!” shouted Starlight. “Lego my leg!” She and Juniper tugged back and forth on that leg. Starlight quickly got desperate enough to start slamming that leg repeatedly against the cart. That sudden jerking eventually caused Juniper to lose her grip on the leg and fall back onto her rear. Starlight fell onto her back, but smiled as she saw that she was still holding her detached leg. She quickly reattached the leg… then immediately screamed very loudly in intense pain. She rubbed her hands over her right ankle as she hissed in pain and grumbled, “Of course that was gonna happen from banging it against the cart.” Juniper then picked up the wrecked cart held it high up over her head as she glared down at Starlight. Still sitting on the ground, Starlight held out her hands and fearfully exclaimed, “Whoa! Hey! No need to go that far! I’m already beaten, see?” She stood up and as soon as she put most of her weight onto her injured right leg, her facial expression showed very clearly that she was suddenly in a lot of pain, so she shifted her weight back onto her uninjured leg. “Yup. Definitely not going anywhere fast on a busted leg like this.” Juniper continued to hold the wrecked cart over her head as she raised an eyebrow. Starlight turned around and began limping away, wincing very noticeably every time she stepped on her injured leg. She looked back at Juniper as she continued, “Now… if you don’t mind… I’m just gonna… limp away like this… so you can… go back to… whatever it was you were doing.” Her speech was interrupted every time she stepped on that injured right leg. As she watched Starlight limp away, Juniper scoffed and grumbled, “Pathetic.” She carelessly dropped the destroyed cart and turned away. “Now that that nuisance has been dealt with, back to me.” She smiled as she resumed striding down the street. Behind Juniper, Starlight hopped on her uninjured left leg as she quickly made her way into a nearby alleyway between two buildings. Once she was safely out of sight, she settled her weight back down on that injured leg. It still hurt a little, but it was actually nowhere nearly as bad as she had expressed it. In fact, she was confident that she could still run around on that leg just fine. She chuckled to herself and remarked, “Good thing Rainbow Dash taught me how to exaggerate an injury.” Starlight peered around the side of the building to observe Juniper’s current location, then turned away and muttered, “Okay, what should I try next?” She looked around the alleyway and saw a dumpster and some trashcans surrounded by various bits of junk, along with a few crates with no indications of what could be inside them. She turned her gaze up and saw a fire escape leading up to the roof of the building she was hiding behind. She initially wasn’t sure what she could possibly do with the parts from these items, but as she again let her imagination run wild, she smiled as another idea formed in her mind. “How about an oversized arcade classic?” she remarked to herself. Starlight’s smile fell as she peered around the building again to watch Juniper. She sighed and muttered, “Oh, who am I kidding? I’ll never get her to stand still in one place long enough for it to work. Unless…” Starlight’s gaze drifted over to just across the street, where she saw a minifig with light blue skin, a shoulder-length white hair piece, sunglasses on her face with red tinted lenses, black and white vertical stripes on her torso and upper arms with a magenta scarf on the front of the torso near the neck, black on her lower legs, a black skirt around her upper legs, and holding a camera in her hands. This minifig was currently busy snapping photos of the ongoing chaos out on the street. Starlight smiled again, then called out across the street, “Hey! You there with the camera! Over here!” The girl with the camera stopped snapping pictures and looked over at Starlight, who was gesturing for her to come over to her. Despite her confusion, the girl with the camera ran across the street and stopped in front of Starlight. “I have an idea on how to stop that giant on the street,” explained Starlight, “but I’m gonna need your help. For my plan to work, she needs to be standing in front of this building and not be aware that something’s about to come down on her.” “Say no more,” the camera girl suddenly spoke up as she held up her camera. “I, Photo Finish, shall keep zat beast distracted by capturing… za magicks.” “Fine by me,” responded Starlight. She then firmly added, “Oh, and whatever you do, don’t let anything bad happen to that mirror she’s holding.” “Understood,” replied Photo Finish. “I go!” She then ran off after Juniper. With the distraction set in motion, Starlight turned back into the alleyway and muttered, “Okay, let’s start with those crates…” Out on the street, the magically corrupted Juniper Montage continued strutting down the street, looking around for more fans that would admire her. “STOP!” Juniper stopped and turned around to see Photo Finish standing behind her. Photo Finish held up her camera and asked, “You vant good photos to distribute to your fans, ja?” Juniper smiled and replied, “Obviously.” “Zen I, Photo Finish, is just ze pro you vant,” responded Photo Finish. “First, ve need a backdrop. Go stand over zere! Right in front of zat building!” Juniper looked at the building Photo Finish was pointing at — the same one that Starlight was hiding behind — and raised an eyebrow when she noticed what kind of business occupied the ground floor of that building. “You want me to pose in front of a barbershop?” she asked in confusion. “You have a spectacular hairstyle, ja?” explained Photo Finish. “Vhen your fans see zese photos, zeir attention vill be on your hair and zey vill be so impressed zat zey vill start asking hairstylists to give zem ze same style, even naming it after you.” “The Juniper Montage hairstyle…” mused Juniper with a smile. “I like the sound of that.” Without any further questions, she walked over toward the front of that barbershop. Meanwhile in the alleyway behind that building, Starlight had torn apart all the crates and bits of junk and had tossed all of those pieces up onto the roof of the three story building. With the whole alleyway now cleared of all the parts she needed, she next moved onto the fire escape. She climbed up the first set of stairs, then tore some parts from those stairs and tossed them onto the roof. In front of that building, Juniper was already posing as Photo Finish began taking pictures of her. “Ja! Good! Spectacular!” boasted Photo Finish as she snapped picture after picture. “You have ze magicks! Show it off!” Juniper got so into the zone that at one point, she decided to playfully toss up the mirror in her hand with the intent of easily catching it only a second later. “DUMMKOPF!!” Startled by that sudden shout, Juniper fumbled with the mirror and barely managed to catch it before it could hit the ground. “Do not drop zat mirror!” scolded Photo Finish. “It is more precious zan even you!” “What?” questioned Juniper as she frowned and raised an eyebrow. “No matter!” exclaimed Photo Finish dismissively. “Ve continue! Now start posing!” Meanwhile, Starlight continued dismantling the fire escape as she worked her way up. Once she reached the roof, she tore off the last remaining chunk of the fire escape and tossed it onto the pile of parts she had accumulated. Now that she was finally done gathering all the Lego pieces she needed, she ran over towards the front of the building and looked down, confirming that the diversion had placed Juniper right where she wanted her. “And now to put it all together,” stated Starlight as she began grabbing pieces from the pile and started quickly assembling them. Down on the street, Juniper struck numerous poses as Photo Finish snapped pictures of each and every one of them. “Good! Show me your graceful face!” directed Photo Finish as she snapped another picture. “Vonderful! Show me your contemplative face!” She snapped yet another picture. “Stupendous! Now show me your schadenfreude face!” “My what?” asked Juniper in confusion. “FAH!” shouted Photo Finish impatiently. “Do you not speak my language?!” Whirrrrrr. Whirrrrrr. Juniper had definitely heard that strange sound, so rather than continue posing for the photo session, she tapped her chin and muttered, “Hmm… what is that ominous mechanical noise I’m hearing?” Juniper soon got her answer as a giant three-armed mechanical claw suddenly dropped down around her, grabbed onto her by her waist, and quickly lifted her off the ground. “Whoa! Hey! Put me down!” she screamed as she was lifted up towards the roof of the building. Once she stopped at the roof, she slowly rotated around to see the giant claw was held by a makeshift crane sitting on the roof, and manipulating the controls of that crane was Starlight Glimmer. “Not until you free my friends!” Starlight shot back. “No!” Juniper shouted back defiantly. Starlight calmly responded, “Fine. In that case…” She grinned as she placed her hands on the levers that controlled the crane. “Let’s see how long it’ll take for you to lose your lunch!” And with that, Starlight immediately started randomly flipping the levers back and forth, sending the crane arm and its dangling cargo wildly moving around. Juniper screamed as she was sent hurtling left and right, up and down, back and forth, never stopping. So wild was her ride that one could almost imagine some banjo music playing in the background. Starlight laughed as she sent Juniper swinging around in all directions without any mercy. “Round and round she goes!” she sang playfully. “Where she stops, nopony knows!” Juniper kept on screaming as she continued hurtling around wildly, up and down, left and right, back and forth, on and on and on. Despite all that crazy and aimless movement, she eventually managed to hold out her magic mirror and shouted, “I… wish… you’d… put me… down… right… now!” With the magic words spoken, that bright blue ray of magical energy was unleashed from the mirror’s surface and rushed towards the crane structure. “Uh oh.” muttered Starlight before she quickly jumped away from the controls and dove aside to avoid the magical energy. That bright blue ray quickly enveloped the entire crane, pulled it off its mount on the roof, and sucked the whole thing into the mirror, with the last part of it being the claw as it finally slipped loose from its grip on Juniper. Now that she was no longer suspended by that crane, Juniper dropped down onto the roof just a few steps away from Starlight. However, that wild ride she had been hurtling around on had taken its toll on her, causing her to take a few stumbling steps as her dizziness continued to linger. Back inside the pocket dimension behind the magic mirror, the seven Equestria Girls continued to stand around in the realm of nothingness, still unsure of what they could possibly do. Suddenly, a large object passed through the mirror surface and came hurtling right towards them. “Look out!” shouted Rainbow Dash. The seven girls screamed as they ran either left or right to avoid the large object as it crashed to the floor, followed by a giant claw at the end of a cable. Once the large object had settled in place, the girls approached it. “What the heck is that?” asked Applejack. Twilight adjusted her glasses as she looked at the damaged object and replied, “I think it might be some kind of crane.” “Certainly doesn’t seem to be one of those standard models,” noted Rarity. “This one looks more like a hodgepodge of parts from various other objects.” “Kinda like it was just quickly thrown together by some Master Builder,” remarked Pinkie Pie. “Master Builder…” mumbled Sunset contemplatively. After a moment of thinking, she suddenly smiled and exclaimed, “Of course! I gave Starlight Glimmer some pointers on how to be a Master Builder!” “Really?” asked Fluttershy. “Nice!” remarked Rainbow Dash with a smile. “If she was able to build something like this, then she must be really good at it, too!” “If that’s true,” noted Applejack, “then Ah reckon she’s throwin’ everythin’ she’s got to stop Juniper.” Sunset turned towards the mirror surface and quietly said, “Whatever’s going on out there, Starlight, I hope you know what you’re doing…” Starlight stood up and was relieved to see that she was still on the building’s roof, and thus had successfully avoided getting sucked into that magic mirror. Her positive feeling didn’t last long as she glanced around and soon saw that the magically corrupted Juniper Montage was also standing on the same rooftop, albeit stumbling around a little from dizziness. As she took a few staggered steps towards Starlight, Juniper grumbled, “You… are really beginning to annoy me.” She glanced down at her right hand and smiled as she saw that she was still holding onto that mirror. Despite her balance still being a little unstable, she slowly held the mirror up and pointed it at Starlight. Starlight immediately realized what Juniper was intending to do, so with quick thinking, she suddenly pointed past Juniper and shouted, “Look! The paparazzi! And they want your autograph, too!” “Where?” asked Juniper as she quickly turned her head to look in the direction Starlight had pointed towards. Starlight didn’t waste any time taking advantage of the false distraction. She jumped up and swiped the magical mirror right out of Juniper’s hand. “Yoink!” she playfully remarked as she began running off with the mirror. As soon as she felt the mirror leave her grip, Juniper glanced down as her now empty hands, then turned back to Starlight and saw her running off with the mirror in her possession. “HEY!!” she shouted furiously as she began to chase after Starlight. Clutching the mirror in her left hand, Starlight used her right hand to help her jump over the ledge onto the rooftop of the next building along the street. Juniper took advantage of her longer legs to clear the ledge with just one stride. “Give that back!” shouted Juniper. “No!” Starlight shouted back defiantly as she jumped over the ledge onto the next rooftop. “This mirror is nothing but trouble! You have to realize that!” “What I realize is that you are just like those other girls!” Juniper shot back. “I wish you’d join them!” Starlight reached the ledge on the other side and as she heard the magic words, she immediately turned the mirror away from herself and towards Juniper. Both of them stood still for a moment, but nothing happened. Starlight let out a sigh of relief, but was quickly forced to duck down as Juniper swiped her hand down at her. Starlight stepped to the side and jumped over the ledge onto the next rooftop. “Looks like you can’t make that wish unless you’re the one holding the mirror!” remarked Starlight tauntingly as she ran across the rooftop. Juniper growled furiously and stepped over the ledge as she resumed chasing after Starlight. Unlike with the previous jumps, the next rooftop ahead was not adjacent to the building, but was separated by a narrow alleyway, and was one story shorter. Starlight noticed this and, hoping that some momentum would help, did not hesitate to step onto the ledge and immediately took a leap of faith across the gap. She screamed and flailed her limbs around as she soared across the gap. Starlight managed to reach the next rooftop, but failed to control her landing and ended up tumbling forward. In the process of her rough landing, the mirror flew out of her hand and landed a short distance further ahead. As that mirror hit the rooftop, the mirror surface fractured upon impact. Inside the pocket dimension, the fracturing of the mirror didn’t just occur on the giant mirror surface, but also affected the entire plane of existence around them as well. The seven girls dodged the large cracks as they spread. “The mirror is breaking!” exclaimed Sunset. Once the fracturing ceased for the moment, some of them hesitantly touched the cracks and were surprised to find they were solid structures, regardless of where they were or which direction they went. Not only that, but as they watched one of the loose pieces from the destroyed crane teeter on the edge of one crack and fall through, they realized that the empty blackness between the cracks could possibly lead to an endless fall through nothingness. “If Starlight Glimmer doesn’t find a way to get us out of here soon,” said Twilight worriedly, “I don’t know what’s gonna happen to us!” Starlight quickly got up and retrieved the mirror. Upon seeing the fractures on the reflective surface, she couldn’t help but stare at the mirror with a worried expression on her face. She then turned back and saw the magically corrupted Juniper standing at the ledge of the previous building and glaring down at her. In an act of desperation, Starlight held out the magic mirror and boldly said, “I wish Sunset Shimmer and her friends would come back!” Starlight and Juniper stared at the mirror for a moment, but again, nothing happened. The tall minifig on the higher rooftop simply laughed and mockingly remarked, “Looks like you can’t use it either!” She then stepped onto the ledge and jumped across the gap. As Juniper went airborne, Starlight desperately glanced around and soon found a crowbar laying on the rooftop near her feet. Without any second thoughts, she quickly grabbed the crowbar and tossed it at Juniper. As Juniper was almost across the gap, the flung crowbar struck her lower legs, causing her to start tumbling around uncontrollably. She screamed as she fell, then smacked into the lower ledge on her upper back and tumbled the rest of the way down into the alleyway. The sound of cracking wood, banging metal, and rustling litter all at once marked the end of Juniper’s descent. Starlight flinched when Juniper hit the ledge. After the sound of that final crash, she mumbled, “That’s gonna leave a mark.” With the magic mirror still in her hand, she turned away and ran across towards the next rooftop. The next rooftop was one story higher, so she had to climb onto a large crate and from there was able to jump up and grabbed onto the ledge. She struggled to pull herself up, so she swung her legs side to side until she was able to get one of them up onto the ledge, allowing her to then roll her body around until she was completely up on that ledge. Now that she was finally up on the next rooftop, she stood up and continued running. Suddenly, every television screen on Sunshine Plaza came on and started playing the Dance Magic music video once again. Starlight stopped halfway across the rooftop and looked across the street, curious by what she was seeing and hearing. From down at the bottom of the alleyway, Juniper loudly groaned and grumbled, “Why must they torture me so?!” Starlight heard Juniper’s complaint, then as she turned her attention back to those TV screens, she smiled and said, “I could use that as I diversion!” She then turned around and looked across at all the various objects up on the rooftop she stood on. There were a few crates, some loose cables, a blank billboard, and an exposed section of air ducts. Once she took note of what she had to work with, she added, “And I think I know just how to do that.” As Starlight went to work tearing apart the rooftop structures, Juniper dug herself out of the pile of trash and junk that she had fallen into. After shoving aside the shattered crates and dented trashcans, she then brushed off some food wrappers and newspaper pages from herself. She then removed her hair piece, brushed off every scrap of litter from it, then placed it back on her head. Once she was finished cleaning herself off, she gazed up the side of the two story building and furrowed her brow. She focused her attention on the lower part of that wall right in front of her, then slammed her opened hand against it. Her immense strength had allowed her to open a gap between two rows of bricks just wide enough to fit half of her claw-shaped hand and thus provide a good solid grip. Juniper smiled at this, then slammed her other hand against a higher point on the wall, opening another gap between the bricks for her to grab onto. She then removed her first hand from the wall, pulled herself up with the second hand, and slammed the first hand against a higher point on the wall, opening yet another gap between the bricks for her to hold. She repeated this process and slowly climbed her way up the wall and towards the roof of the building. Meanwhile, Starlight had already dismantled all the rooftop structures around her and was moving quickly to assemble all those loose pieces into the new creation she had in mind. She grunted as she threw piece after piece into place, working as quickly as she could to get the whole thing done. Click! Clack! Click! Clack! Click! Click! Clack! Clack! Click! Clack! As Starlight continued frantically assembling those various Lego parts, remarked to herself, “Y’know, considering I’ve been in this world for only a few hours, I’m remarkably good at building stuff.” She chuckled. “I guess what Princess Twilight once told me is true. Master Building is for the Lego World what magic is for Equestria. And in Equestria…” She slapped the final piece of her latest creation into place and smiled. “…I happen to be a natural at magic.” With her creation completed, Starlight jumped up and stomped down onto a long platform, flipping the whole structure upright against the ledge facing back towards the shorter building. The completed object was revealed to be an enormous television screen with a massive set of speakers attached to both its left and right sides. Behind that giant screen, Starlight grabbed an oversized electrical plug and pulled it away, unspooling the cable that connected the plug to the rest of the massive electronic system. After carrying that plug to the other side of the roof, she then disconnected another oversized plug, which caused all the other television screens on the street to suddenly shut off. “Showtime!” announced Starlight as she connected the plug she was carrying into the oversized outlet. She then picked up the slightly cracked magic mirror — which she had set down for the duration of the build — and jumped over the ledge onto the next rooftop. As she ran off, the enormous television screen took a few seconds to fully power up, then suddenly started playing the Dance Magic music video with the volume cranked up ridiculously high. IT’S DANCE MAGIC, ONCE YOU HAVE IT LET YOUR BODY MOVE, STEP INTO THE MUSIC As the whole building shook with each beat of the tune, Juniper climbed up onto the ledge of the shorter adjacent building, only to see right in front of her was a massively oversized television set displaying the video of those girls she so vehemently despised. As she finally pulled herself onto the rooftop, she furiously hollered, “Leave me alone, LEAVE ME ALONE!!” IT’S DANCE MAGIC, AND IT’S ELECTRIC LET YOUR BODY MOVE TO THE MUSIC By the time the final lyric of the chorus was finished, Juniper had marched across the lower rooftop, stepped onto the large crate in front of the ledge of the upper rooftop, and smashed her fist against the display screen, disabling the enormous television set and punching a huge hole through the screen. With her arm still in that hole she had punched through, she then used her other arm to rip the entire massive electronic system off its mount on the rooftop. She lifted it over her head, then chucked the whole thing off the roof. The giant destroyed television system crashed onto the street below, followed by the rapid warbling of a car alarm. “Hey, that’s my car!” shouted one random civilian down on the street. With the annoying giant screen out of the way, Juniper jumped up onto the upper rooftop. She gazed straight ahead and growled as she saw Starlight running away, then ran ahead to chase after her again. Starlight had not once stopped running since activating her diversion. After climbing over yet another ledge onto the next rooftop, she glanced back and muttered, “Okay, maybe that was just a big waste of time.” She ran across the rooftop, jumped over the ledge onto the next rooftop, then ran halfway across before she slowed down and turned her gaze upwards. The next building up ahead was four stories taller, and there was no obvious way she was going to be able to reach the roof of that building. She frantically glanced around and saw among the various objects on the rooftop she stood on were a few TV antennas. The peculiar shape of those objects in particular gave her the inspiration for just the kind of quick solution she desperately needed. “Ladder!” exclaimed Starlight. “I need a ladder!” Starlight set down the mirror atop a small crate near the taller building, then quickly tore down all four TV antennas on the rooftop. Knowing that Juniper would catch up to her any second now, she worked quickly and efficiently by not completely tearing apart the antennas, but instead by taking advantage how they were already assembled and combining them together to form a very tall ladder that consisted of a single central beam that held all the rungs along its entire length. It was such a long ladder that, once it was completed, Starlight struggled to pull it upright, but she eventually managed to set it up against the side of the taller building. Most importantly, it was just barely long enough to reach the roof of the taller building. With no time to lose, she grabbed the magical mirror again and started quickly climbing that ladder. Starlight made it about halfway up the ladder when she suddenly felt something grab onto her leg and tried to pull her down. Holding the mirror with her right hand, she had to rely on her left hand to hold tightly to one of the ladder rungs. As she desperately held onto the ladder, she looked down and saw Juniper Montage had climbed up the ladder after her and managed to grab onto her left leg. “Hand it over!” demanded Juniper. “No!” Starlight shot back as she used her free right leg to kick Juniper right in the face. That kick sent Juniper’s head swiftly around so that it was now facing backwards. Only a second later, Juniper rotated her head back around in the same direction — making it complete a full rotation all the way around — to face Starlight again with a furious expression. “Okay, that was a little disturbing,” muttered Starlight. Juniper tightened her grip on Starlight’s leg and tried to pull her down again. Starlight still held tightly onto the ladder with her left hand, but Juniper was now tugging with so much force that Starlight noticed her hip joint was starting to separate from her torso. In desperation, she once again used her right leg to kick Juniper in the face. The second kick was so much stronger that Juniper’s head was knocked completely off her neck joint. She screamed as her head flew through the air, then she grunted each time her head bounced on the lower rooftop below, eventually coming to rest on the opposite side from the base of the ladder. As her headless body began climbing down the ladder, her head growled and spat, “You pest!” Starlight stared silently at the very unexpected turn of events before she eventually muttered, “That was even more disturbing.” With Juniper now preoccupied, Starlight knew she couldn’t afford to hesitate any further. She had to keep going. First, she planted both feet on one ladder rung and pushed her hands against a higher rung, applying compressive force on her body until her hip joint was fully reattached to her torso. She let out a sigh of relief, then resumed climbing the ladder. Once Starlight finally reached the roof of the taller building, the next thing she had to do was get rid of the ladder. She couldn’t simply push it off, as that would leave it down on the lower roof with Juniper, who could then simply lift it back into place. Instead, to prevent the magically corrupted minifig from following her, Starlight decided to haul the ladder up onto the higher rooftop. To do this, she set down the mirror on the ledge and used both hands to toss the ladder up, grab a lower rung, toss it up again, and repeat the process until she eventually reached the bottom of the ladder, which she then tossed backwards over her head. As that ladder was tossed higher and higher, it eventually got top-heavy and tipped over sideways, but thanks to that final toss backwards, the ladder landed entirely atop the taller building. Starlight let out a winded sigh as she picked up the mirror again and began running across the higher rooftop. She was panting with every breath she took, her exhaustion beginning to take its toll on her. Once she reached the other side of the rooftop, she stopped at the ledge and looked down as she was gasping for breath. The next building ahead was all the way across a city street, with vehicle traffic moving back and forth on the street seven stories below. This building marked the northern end of Sunshine Plaza, and it was here that Celestia Avenue transitioned from the brick red tiles of the plaza into a standard city street at the intersection with that other street that Starlight was staring down at. Suddenly finding herself with nowhere else to run, Starlight desperately asked, “Now where do I go from here?” A sudden gust of wind blew across the top of the building, forcing Starlight to hold onto her hat and hair piece to prevent it from flying away. “Whoa. Strong breeze, today,” remarked Starlight. Just a split second later, she had an epiphany. “That’s it!” Starlight turned around and quickly took note of the objects on this rooftop — the ladder she had just hauled up, a few more TV antennas, a few crates, and some exposed sections of air ducts. It was a rather crazy idea, but she felt confident she could make it work. Noticing that some of the Lego bricks that made up the ledge had holes into the studs on top, she stuck the handle of the magical mirror into one of those holes, then immediately started harvesting all the Lego parts she was going to need. Meanwhile, down on the lower rooftop, Juniper was struggling to guide her body towards retrieving her head. “Hey, I’m over here!” She called out, but her body walked further away. “No, no, no! Over here!” Her body turned around and began walking towards her head. “Yes! Right!” Her body turned right and continued walking. “No, don’t go right! I mean correct!” Her body turned around and walked towards her head, but took one step too many and kicked her head further away. “Ow! This isn’t a soccer game! Use your head! Oh, right. I, uh… guess that would be me.” Up on the higher rooftop, Starlight made quick work of her next creation and fitted the final piece into place. She had just built a very large box kite, and she was planning to use it for her very crazy next move, but there was one problem. “How am I gonna get this thing up in the air?” she asked herself. Starlight glanced down and suddenly remembered that she was still carrying Sunset’s shoulder bag. She also remembered a certain item Sunset had in this bag, and with a little bit of creativity, she was convinced that it could accomplish what she needed. She quickly reached into the bag and pulled out a carrot. “No,” she muttered as she tossed the carrot away, then reached into the bag again and pulled out a bottle of orange soda. “No.” She tossed the bottle of soda away — which then hit the building’s ledge, causing the cap to burst off and sending the bottle rocketing away as the pressurized soda escaped — then reached into the bag again and pulled out an apple. “No.” She tossed the apple away, then reached into the bag again and pulled out a can of spray paint. “No.” She tossed the can of spray paint away, then reached into the bag yet again and pulled out a grapple gun. “Yes!” With the grapple gun in hand, she ran over to the kite and, using some pieces of string she had managed to find earlier, began tying the grappling hook onto the kite. Meanwhile, down on the lower rooftop, Juniper finally managed to get her body to pick up her head and stick it back onto her neck joint. Now that she was fully assembled again, she turned towards the taller building and, not surprisingly, saw the ladder was gone. She wasn’t going to let that stop her that easily, so once again, she slammed her hands against the side of the building, opening gaps between the bricks for her to grab onto. She pulled herself up, slammed one hand into the building, pulled herself up, slammed the other hand into the building, and repeated the process, allowing her to slowly climb up the side of the building. Up on the roof of that building, Starlight finished tying the strings onto her kite made of Lego parts. She picked it up and carried it over to the ledge overlooking the city street, then took a few steps backwards as she used her right hand to grasp the handle of the grapple gun while holding the kite at an upward angle. She took a deep breath, exhaled, and muttered, “Well… here goes nothing.” She rushed forward, then stopped right at the ledge as she thrust her kite outward and squeezed the grapple gun’s handle, firing the grappling hook. The grappling hook, and the kite it was tied to, shot out into the air over the street. The kite began to descend, but then another gust of wind caught it and began to pull it higher and towards the left along the street. Starlight smiled as she watched the kite take off, so she turned around, grabbed the magical mirror with her left hand, and pulled it out of the brick she had temporarily mounted it on. It was right at this moment that Juniper Montage pulled herself up over the ledge and locked eyes with Starlight Glimmer. They stared at each other for only a brief moment. Without saying a word, Starlight smiled, used the mirror to give a salute, then turned around, took one step onto the ledge, and jumped off the building. As Starlight made her leap of faith high above a busy city street, she squeezed the handle of the grapple gun in her right hand. It took a second for the cable between Starlight and the kite to be pulled taut, but once that happened, she yelped as she was suddenly yanked upwards. She glanced up and saw that her kite was still airborne on strong winds, and she was miraculously being carried along with it. “Wow!” exclaimed Starlight in astonishment as she smiled. “I can’t believe this is actually working!” She then laughed and let out a triumphant cheer. “WOOOOOHOOOOO!! Who’d’ve thought that my obsession with kites would one day— Whoa!” Starlight’s victory celebration was cut short when another gust of wind suddenly pushed the kite in a different direction, with Starlight still being helplessly carried along behind it. “Ahh! How do I steer this thing?!” Starlight cried out desperately, even though she knew very well that in her currently aloft state, she had no way of controlling the kite’s direction, and thus was left completely at the mercy of the wind. As the strong wind carried the kite and Starlight along another city street, she soon found herself flying between some much taller buildings. It wasn’t long before she slammed against the side of one of those buildings to her right and bounced right off it. “Ow…” she groaned quietly as she drifted away from the buildings to the right, only to realize she was now drifting towards the buildings to her left. “Oh no, not again!” she cried out before slamming against the side of a building to her left and also bounced right off it. She grunted in pain as she drifted back towards the right side of the street. Despite those hard impacts, Starlight continued to hold tightly to the objects she held in both hands. Due to how far above the ground she was, she couldn’t afford to lose her grip in either of her hands. If she let go of the grapple gun, she would plummet to certain doom. If she dropped the mirror, it would definitely end up completely shattered, and there was no telling what kind of fate that would leave for Sunset and her friends still trapped inside. As Starlight continued drifting towards the right, there wasn’t a building tall enough for her to slam against, but that was the only good news. Up ahead was another tall building, and on one side of it was a giant billboard that advertised an upcoming boxing match, with one of the featured boxers aiming his gloved fist out towards the viewers. And Starlight Glimmer was heading right for it. Resigned to the fact that there was simply nothing she could do, Starlight cried out, “Oh, this is gonna hurt!” Just a few seconds later, Starlight slammed face-first against the billboard, right in the middle of the outstretched gloved fist. Despite the very hard impact, she had managed to keep the magical mirror in her left hand, though she did lose her grip on the grapple gun. As the kite continued to drift away, the grapple gun dangling from it clattered twice against the upper frame of the billboard before going over the building, creating a sound almost identical to the ringing of a bell at a boxing match. Ding-Ding! The pocket dimension behind the mirror hadn’t suffered much more damage since the initial fracturing, but due to the impact with the billboard, that quickly changed. The cracks rapidly spread so much that the solid ground began splitting into separate chunks, leaving the seven Equestria Girls trapped in this realm scrambling around as they screamed in panic. Sunset, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, and Fluttershy had ended up on the largest chunk. Fluttershy nearly slipped off the edge of the chunk, but Sunset and Rarity caught her and pulled her back. Applejack had ended up on a smaller chunk that was drifting away. She decided to use her super strength to help her jump across the ever widening gap towards her friends. She barely made it onto the edge of the large chunk, and although she nearly lost her balance and fell off, Rainbow and Pinkie were there to grab her and pull her safely away from the edge. Twilight had ended up on another smaller chunk, though it was rapidly crumbling away under her feet, and she was obviously not going to be able to make the same kind of jump that Applejack had just done. She could only whimper helplessly as the small chunk soon broke apart, leaving her plummeting into the surrounding abyss. “Twilight!” Sunset cried out. Suddenly, an inverted dome of diamonds materialized under Twilight and caught her. “Not to worry, girls,” assured Rarity as she moved the diamonds to carry Twilight up towards her and the others. “I’ve got her.” Once the giant diamond bowl was over the large chunk, she dispersed the diamonds, thus reuniting Twilight with the rest of the team. As the seven girls watched helplessly as the large chunk began to slowly crumble away around them, Fluttershy whimpered and muttered, “I really hope Starlight can get us out of here very soon.” “I’m sure she’s doing fine,” assured Pinkie Pie. “I mean, it’s not like she just slammed face-first into a giant billboard or something silly like that, right?” Starlight Glimmer had stayed face-first against that billboard for a few seconds before she finally slipped loose and began to fall. She was so dazed from that hard impact that she was unable to do anything as she plummeted straight down. Starlight reached the ground after a few seconds, and of all the places she could have possibly landed, she ended up falling squarely inside an open dumpster. Various bits of rubbish was thrown all around from her trash landing, and by the time all of it had settled down, Starlight was finally able to regain her senses. She coughed a few times, then let out a groan of disgust as she removed a banana peel from atop her head. She sat up and, upon realizing the magical mirror had miraculously stayed firmly in her left hand, held up that mirror. She sighed sadly when she saw that the glass had shattered so extensively that at least half of it was now completely gone. Starlight slowly stood up and looked around over the side of the dumpster. Though it didn’t show on her face, she was absolutely shocked to discover that not only was she incredibly lucky to land inside this dumpster, but it also happened to be the only thing in this alleyway that could have possibly offered such a soft enough landing. Starlight let out another sigh and quietly remarked, “Well… could’ve been much worse.” She slowly climbed over the side of the dumpster and carefully dropped down onto the ground. After checking the mirror again to make sure there were still some intact bits of glass in it, she then brushed off as much dust and crud from her body as she possibly could. “Well, well, what do have here?” Starlight gasped and quickly turned around. Standing behind her were two guys wearing black and white stripped prison shirts, black beanie hats, and each armed with a red crowbar. The two guys had malicious grins on their faces and tightly clutched their crowbars, as if ready to deliver a serious beating to a helpless victim. “Looks like we got ourselves a sissy in a dumpster, eh, Mugsy?” said the guy who had previously spoken, speaking with a gravelly gangster voice. “You said it, Rocky!” responded the other guy, who spoke in a deeper dim-witted voice. “You think she’s got anything valuable on her?” Starlight glanced down at the mirror in her hand, then held it close to her chest as she stuttered incoherently, struggling to think something to say. “That looks like somethin’ good!” remarked Rocky before he suddenly swiped the mirror right out of Starlight’s hands. “Hey!” protested Starlight as she tried to reach for the mirror, only to be shoved back as Rocky stuck his crowbar out at her. “Uh-uh-uh!” taunted Rocky. “You ain’t goin’ nowhere, sissy!” “Yeah, sissy!” added Mugsy as he also stuck his crowbar out at Starlight. “We got you cornered real good!” Rocky chuckled as he looked at the backside of the mirror. “This thing’s gotta be worth a fortune!” he remarked excitedly. “All these jewels and the craftsmanship on this crystal, ya just don’t see fancy stuff like this very often!” “Do you think we just scored big today?” asked Musgy, just as excited as his partner in crime. “Sure looks like it!” replied Rocky. But as soon as he turned the mirror around to see the shattered glass, he immediately lost all of his enthusiasm. “Aw, man! The mirror’s busted! This thing’s probably already lost more than half its value!” Starlight had listened carefully to the conversation between the two crooks, and now that she feared they might completely destroy the mirror for being “worthless”, she knew she had to do something. “Which still makes it very valuable!” argued Starlight, completely improvising her response to the crooks on the fly. “I should know, because this mirror isn’t even mine.” Now she started to grin. “That’s right, fellow robbers! I stole this mirror!” “Really?” asked Mugsy in confusion. “Sure did!” replied Starlight proudly, keeping her act going. “And don’t dismiss it as worthless just because the reflecting surface is broken. That’s just a piece of glass that can easily be replaced. In fact, I was just on my way to replace the glass, so I could sell it at full value. Not one to brag, but I’m actually pretty good at forging objects that seem valuable and then tricking potential buyers into believing they’re getting the real deal.” Rocky and Mugsy turned to each other and grinned again, then turned back to Starlight and lowered their crowbars. “I guess you ain’t so bad, sissy!” remarked Rocky. “We could always use a little extra help.” “So, uh, who’d you steal it from?” asked Mugsy. “She stole it from me!” Starlight and the two incompetent crooks immediately turned towards the street at the nearby end of the alleyway. Stomping across the street towards them was none other than the magically corrupted Juniper Montage. As she crossed the street, one car honked its horn and screeched its tires as it tried to stop, but before it could hit the tall minifig, she slammed her fist down on its hood, sending the vehicle flipping through the air over her head before it crashed to the street on the other side of her. The three minifigs in the alleyway stared at the approaching magical monster for a moment, then Rocky suddenly shoved the mirror back into Starlight’s hands and began to run off. “You’re on yer own, sissy!” he called back with panic in his voice. “We don’t want nothin’ to do with any crazy magic!” “Yeah, sissy!” added Mugsy, just as terrified as his partner in crime. “Bye-bye!” He gave a quick wave to Starlight, then ran off after Rocky. Starlight watched the two robbers flee for their lives, glanced down at the magical mirror in her hands, then looked up just as Juniper stepped onto the sidewalk right in front of her. “Give it back to me!” demanded Juniper. “But my friends are trapped in here!” argued Starlight as she held the mirror close to her chest. “Your friends stole my one chance at being famous!” spat Juniper. She then growled as she picked up a nearby parked car and easily lifted it over her head. Starlight took a few nervous steps back, only to stop when her back bumped into the side of the dumpster. Quickly running low on options, she decided to take a rather risky gamble. She looked Juniper in the eyes and asked, “Is fame really what you’re after, or are you looking for something else?” “Like what?!” asked Juniper dismissively as she held the car over her head. “Like… a friend?” suggested Starlight as she tried to give a friendly smile. Juniper raised an eyebrow and asked, “Who would wanna be my friend?” “I would,” replied Starlight as she took a step forward. “Why?” asked Juniper, her voice starting to express some doubt in herself. “Because I understand you, Juniper,” explained Starlight. “You think getting revenge is going to make you feel better, but it’s not. Please, don’t make a mistake that you’ll end up regretting for the rest of your life.” Juniper began to relax as she considered Starlight’s words. “I’ve already made too many mistakes,” admitted Juniper shamefully. “What I’ve done is… is… unforgivable!” As she cried out that final word, she slammed the car down on its front end beside her, causing its car alarm to go off. “No, Juniper,” assured Starlight. “I know these girls will forgive you, but first—” “Hold that thought,” Juniper interrupted as she held up her hand. She turned to the wrecked car — the loud warbling of its alarm still blaring nonstop — and gave it a single strong kick, sending the car flying down the street. When the wrecked vehicle crashed down further down the street, the alarm slowed and fell silent. Once that was done, she turned back to Starlight and asked, “You were saying?” “I said,” continued Starlight, “I know these girls will forgive you, but first, you have to set them free!” She stepped forward and held the mirror out towards Juniper. Juniper focused her gaze on the magical mirror. She hesitated for a moment before she reached over and gently took it from Starlight. She turned away and took a couple steps forward, but stopped and stared at the mirror she clutched with both hands. She had a guilty expression on her face as she turned back to Starlight. Starlight didn’t say anything as she smiled and gave a single nod. Juniper slowly held out her mirror as she hesitantly said, “I… I wish I could… make up for my mistakes!” Inside the pocket dimension, the last remaining chunk of existence had crumbled away to such a small area that only one person could stand on it, so Applejack was forced to use the super strength from her magical geode to carry all six of her friends. As that final chunk began to fracture, the seven girls were suddenly pulled out of the pocket dimension and brought back into their home world. The seven Equestria Girls collapsed into a pile on the pavement between Starlight Glimmer and Juniper Montage — who was now transformed back to her normal self, along with the hand mirror she held. The seven girls glanced around to see they were finally back home, and they all let out a collective sigh of relief. “An’ not a moment too soon!” remarked Applejack as she and her friends helped each other up. Starlight helped Sunset up to her feet. As soon as Sunset noticed her new friend standing before her, she immediately smiled and hugged her. “Starlight, you did it!” she exclaimed excitedly. Starlight hugged back as she chuckled and remarked, “Yeah, I guess I did, didn’t I?” Just seconds later, Sunset suddenly removed herself from Starlight and, struggling to keep her smile, asked, “Though, uh, no offence, but why do you smell worse than when we last saw each other?” Starlight chuckled nervously and admitted, “I, uh, may have fallen into a dumpster at one point.” Before anyone could further question her, she removed the shoulder bag she had been carrying and handed it back to Sunset. “Here you go. Sorry I lost your grapple gun. I used it as part of a giant kite I built for a quick escape.” “That’s okay,” assured Sunset with a smile as she slung the shoulder bag back over her shoulder. “I can always get another one. They’re actually pretty easy to come by in certain City Regions.” Rarity turned to Starlight and asked, “Did you just say you built a giant kite?” “Yeah,” replied Starlight. “I’ll admit, it was a super crazy idea to build a kite that could literally carry me away on the wind, but it actually worked!” She then glanced down and rubbed the back of her head as she added, “Well, for a little while at least.” Rainbow Dash chuckled and remarked, “With crazy ideas like that, I’d say you’ve got what it takes to be a Master Builder!” Sunset placed a hand on Starlight’s shoulder and quipped, “Looks like those pointers I gave you earlier really paid off, didn’t they?” “Definitely!” confirmed Starlight confidently. Her smiled fell as she gazed past Sunset and focused her attention on Juniper Montage. The rest of the group followed Starlight’s gaze and stared silently at the girl who had caused all of their recent troubles. Juniper saw the girls look at her. She glanced down the now ordinary hand mirror she held and watched as the final glass fragment slipped loose and shattered on the ground. She sighed, then tossed the ruined mirror over the girls and into the nearby dumpster. As she looked down in shame, she noticed she still had Fluttershy’s hairclip on her torso, so she removed it and held it out to the shy girl. “Here,” she muttered remorsefully. “I believe this is yours.” “Thank you,” Fluttershy quietly responded as she took back her hairclip and stuck it back where it belonged on her hair piece. Juniper sighed and muttered, “I am so sorry for everything I did to you.” “It’s okay,” assured Sunset with a smile, “We’ve all been there.” “Really?” asked Juniper skeptically. Before anyone could answer, the sound of an approaching police siren caught everyone’s attention. They watched as a police cruiser arrived on the scene and pulled over to the side of the road. Once the car was parked, police officer Flash Sentry stepped out of the driver’s seat and walked over to the group. He glanced around at everyone in the area with a professional expression and stated, “All right, start talking, girls. I’m sure you can convince me to go easy on whoever was responsible for all of this.” Starlight turned to Sunset with an uneasy grin and remarked, “So much for laying low, huh?” Sunset smiled and said, “I’m sure even Princess Twilight would understand.” Juniper turned to Flash and hesitantly asked, “Does this mean I have to go to jail?” Flash replied, “If you’re truly sorry for what you did… then no.” Juniper raised an eyebrow and incredulously asked, “Seriously?” “You’re still going to face consequences for your actions,” explained Flash. “But I see no reason to send you to prison just because you made a stupid mistake. Just ask the girls who came before you.” He gestured towards the rest of the group. Starlight Glimmer was the first to raise her hand as she flatly stated, “Manipulated an entire town into giving up their talents so they wouldn’t think they were special.” Twilight Sparkle went next as she flatly stated, “Overpowered by a magic I couldn’t control and created a rift between two worlds, almost destroying both of them in the process.” Sunset Shimmer finished by flatly stating, “Turned an entire city into my own personal zombie army in hopes of conquering a distant pony world.” Juniper was in so much shock that the only movement she made was blinking her eyes just once. “Wow!” remarked Pinkie Pie. “We are a really forgiving group!” All ten minifigs couldn’t help but laugh at that remark. Their joy was soon interrupted by a brief flash of light. Everyone turned to see that Photo Finish had suddenly arrived and was still taking pictures with her camera. Starlight stepped forward and called out, “Whoa! The threat’s over! I don’t need your diversion anymore!” Photo Finish stopped snapping pictures and firmly stated. “Fine. I go!” She quickly turned away and ran off. Everyone turned to look at Starlight, who simply shrugged and remarked, “What can I say? I had to get really creative with some of my ideas.” Once again, the ten minifigs in the area couldn’t help but laugh together.