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// Final Pursuit 
// Story: LEGO Equestria Girls 6 
// by Chronicler06 
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Chapter 8
Final Pursuit


The sky over Lego City began to turn brilliant shades of orange as the sun slowly started to set. The citizens were finishing up with their daily occupations and prepared to return home as another seemingly typical day was coming to an end. Little did any of them know, they were all now just less than an hour away from potentially having a small portion of their collective memories become permanently erased, with no hope of ever recovering them. The only chance the people of the Lego World had to avoid this fate lied with two girls who were now riding together in a red performance car, zooming across Blackwell Bridge back into the city.

VVVRRROOOOOOMMM!!

As the car near the end of the bridge and approached the Uptown district, the driver, Sunset Shimmer, spoke up, “I need to keep my eyes on the road, so I want you to tell me exactly which way to turn and when.”

“Right,” confirmed the passenger, Trixie, with a smile and a nod of agreement.

Sunset immediately turned right at the first intersection.

“No, don’t go right!” exclaimed Trixie in panic. “I meant yes, sure, I’ll be your navigator!”

Sunset groaned in frustration and grumbled, “Please don’t tell me we’re going the wrong way.”

Trixie looked down at the GPS map on the display screen on the dashboard. She was keeping track of an icon that resembled the Memory Stone they were going after. After a quick glance at the map, she smiled and remarked, “Actually, we are going the right way.” Upon immediately realizing a slip of the tongue, she quickly blurted out, “I mean correct way! We’re going the correct way! Please don’t make another right turn!”

Sunset smirked and quipped, “If this wasn’t such a dire situation, I’d be laughing out loud right now.”

Trixie continued to stare at the GPS map as they steadily got closer and closer to the location of the Memory Stone icon. As she kept staring, she noticed that the icon was not staying in the same location, but rather appeared to be slowly moving. “Our target appears to be on the move,” Trixie pointed out.

As they headed south past Crescent Park, Sunset said, “She’s probably driving around in her van. If we’re gonna catch her, we may have to run her off the road. And here I was hoping I could avoid doing anything mean to her.”

“Like you said in the video,” Trixie pointed out, “sometimes you just don’t have a choice. If you have to do one more mean thing before you can try the nice approach, then so be it.”

WEEEEEEOOOOOO! WEEEOOOWEEEOOOWEEEOOOWEEEOOO!

Both girls immediately tensed up as they heard the wailing of police sirens and began to see the flashing red and blue police lights in the rearview mirrors. In her haste to go after the Memory Stone, Sunset had chosen to ignore all traffic laws and just rush directly towards their target. She knew it was a huge risk, but with so little time left, and with the police already trying to find her anyway, she felt that it was the best option. Even though she figured the cops would chase after them sooner or later, she was honestly hoping that it wouldn’t happen until at least after they had caught up to the Memory Stone.

“Oh, great,” grumbled Sunset. “This is the last thing I need right now.”

“Just keep going,” encouraged Trixie as she continued to stare down at the GPS map. “We’re getting really close now. If I can time our next move just right, we can cut her off and put a quick end to this!”

Behind Sunset and Trixie, at least half a dozen police vehicles were already in hot pursuit. Driving the cruiser at the front of the pack was none other than officer Flash Sentry, Canterlot City’s Chief of Police and the one officer in the entire Lego World who was absolutely determined to bring down Sunset Shimmer. “Ten-four! We’re in pursuit of Sunset Shimmer and Trixie!” he called out on his radio. “Suspects are driving a red Spirit! They’re heading south towards Bright Lights Plaza!”

Meanwhile, as Trixie kept staring down at the GPS map on the dashboard, she called out, “Get ready to make a left turn when I say so!”

Sunset tightened her grip on the steering wheel, weaving left and right around traffic.

Honk! Honk-honk!”

They passed through one intersection, ran a red light through a second intersection, then passed through a third intersection.

“Now!” Trixie cried out.

SCREEEEEEEECH!

As they reached the fourth intersection, Sunset jerked the wheel to the left, making the car power slide through the intersection. As she straightened out the car onto the next street, they saw a red light at the intersection up ahead.

“Shoot!” exclaimed Trixie in frustration. “Trixie was hoping that traffic light would be more favorable!”

“Then improvise!” Sunset responded. “Which way should I go?!”

Trixie glanced down at the GPS map and said, “Go right! We should find our target somewhere directly ahead!”

Meanwhile, Wallflower Blush was driving her van on a southbound street through the district of Bright Lights Plaza. While she had been frustrated earlier that Sunset Shimmer had managed to find her and discover the truth, a quick use of the Memory Stone easily took care of that. Not only did she lure Sunset and Trixie and locked them inside the abandoned facility in the mountain in the process, but she also informed the police anonymously where to find them. As far as she was concerned, there was no way Sunset would be coming after her again anytime soon.

The first unusual thing Wallflower noticed was the sound of numerous police sirens getting closer, which she initially dismissed as the cops going after some other criminal. Seconds later, a red performance car suddenly did a power slide through the intersection behind her and began coming down the exact same street she was currently driving on. She checked the oncoming vehicle in the van’s side mirror, and since that car had no roof, the driver’s red and yellow hair flowing in the wind was hard to miss. The fact that a bunch of police vehicles quickly followed after her pretty much confirmed without a doubt who was driving this car.

Wallflower gasped in shock, hardly believing how Sunset Shimmer could possibly have caught up to her so quickly. As that red car continued to quickly close the distance between them, she panicked and stomped on the accelerator.

SCREEEECH! VRRRRRROOOM!

Both Sunset and Trixie noticed a certain green and white van up ahead suddenly accelerate ahead of the surrounding traffic. Trixie glanced back down at the GPS map and saw the Memory Stone icon was now moving along the road significantly faster than before.

“Aha! So the coward flees!” declared Trixie. She pointed straight ahead and shouted, “Follow that van!”

Sunset was already putting the pedal to the metal, so she narrowed her focus on that van and weaved her way through the surrounding traffic to keep up with it.

Honk! Beep-beep! Honk!

Behind both the van and the car, the half dozen police vehicles continued their fierce pursuit. “Suspects now appear to be in pursuit of a green and white van!” Flash Sentry called out on his radio. “Get the number on that van and find out who they’re after!”

Wallflower continued pushing her van as fast as it could go, but she recognized that her common van was never going to outrun a performance car like what Sunset had. She knew she had to try something to shake off her pursuers, so in desperation, she took an immediate left turn. This sent her smashing through a barrier onto a street that was significantly torn up from construction work.

Sunset began to turn left after the van, but as soon as she saw the terrible condition of that road, she immediately jerked the wheel to the right to keep going straight ahead. “Whoa! Not putting this car through that!” she exclaimed as she struggled to regain control of the car, which she had sent drifting after avoiding that turn at the last second. “I need an alternate route!”

Trixie immediately turned her attention back down at the GPS map and called out, “Go left!”

SCREEEEEECH!

Sunset did another power slide through the next intersection, after which she was able to fully regain control as she straightened out. That extended unintentional drifting had allowed the police vehicles to catch up to her, but she knew her car’s five hundred horsepower engine would allow her to easily pull ahead again.

“Take another left!” called out Trixie.

Seconds later as they reached the next intersection, Sunset made another hard left turn with a power slide.

Meanwhile, Wallflower forced her van and herself to endure through a countless series of huge bumps as she drove across the very rugged surface of the torn-up street. She was frequently sent bouncing around in her seat. One particularly large bump caused her handbag — containing the Memory Stone — to be flung out of the passenger seat and then bonked her on the side of her head. “Ow!” she cried out from the impact. As she continued violently bouncing around in her seat, she muttered, “Okay, this was a bad idea.”

Fortunately, Wallflower was getting close to the end of the torn-up street. As she finally smashed through the barrier at the other end of the road work site, she took a left turn at the intersection.

At the same time, Sunset saw some planks of wood resting against a pile of bricks on the left side of the road. As she saw Wallflower arrive from the torn-up street, she made the split second choice to avoid a potential head-on collision by using those planks as a shallow ramp to jump over the van. She kept her foot down on the accelerator, swung left to cross in front of oncoming traffic, and drove right up those planks.

The car flew right over the van as it turned left onto the road. Thanks to the weight distribution of being a rear-engine type of vehicle, the car remained level as it flew through the air and slammed back down onto the road. Despite the hard impact, the car continued speeding ahead.

Sunset was well aware that she was now driving in front of the van she was trying to chase after, so she quickly thought of a way to take advantage of such an opportunity. “Let’s try a little containment,” she remarked. She turned to Trixie and asked, “Which way should I force her to turn?”

Trixie glanced back down at the GPS map and quickly studied the layout of the surrounding streets. “Try right,” she suggested.

Sunset moved over as far to the right as possible, then once they reached the next intersection, she jerked the wheel hard to the left, making the car slide around the intersection across the roads ahead and to the left.

SCREEEEEEEECH!

Fearing that Sunset was going to ram into her van, Wallflower panicked and made an immediate right turn in an effort to dodge the car coming back around. As the van made the turn, the car completed its loop around the intersection and followed after it.

“No side roads on this street,” noted Trixie confidently. “We’ll catch up to her in no time!”

It wasn’t long before the van, the car, and the half dozen police vehicles passed through the entrance of a tunnel in a steep hillside. “Suspects are heading eastbound through the Crosstown Tunnel!” reported officer Flash Sentry on his radio as he continued to lead the police vehicles.

“Don’t worry, guys!” one of the other officers responded eagerly over the radio as he pulled his cruiser ahead of Flash Sentry’s to the right. “Frank Honey is here to save the day! I’ll just give them the good old PIT maneuver! That never fails!” The eager officer with auburn hair pulled his cruiser further up along the right lane and managed to slowly bring the left front corner of his car close to the right rear corner of Sunset’s car.

Sunset glanced in the rearview mirror and immediately recognized what that cop car was trying to do. “The old PIT maneuver, huh?” she quipped smugly. “I’ve got a counter for that.” The first thing she did was slam on the brakes, quickly slowing down the car and, from a relative perspective, brought the consistently fast police cruiser up ahead. As soon as her car was positioned with its right front corner close to the left rear corner of the cruiser, she stomped back onto the accelerator and turned right into the cruiser.

Frank was unable to react quickly enough before he suddenly found himself the target of a PIT maneuver rather than the initiator. As Sunset pushed into his car, he immediately lost control and began to spin out to the left. When his car skidded over into the dividing zone between the opposing lanes, its front half slammed into one of the tunnel’s support pillars, causing it to rapidly spin around counterclockwise until it slammed into the next support pillar right in the middle of the passenger side. This final impact not only brought the car to a complete stop, but also smashed much of it to pieces, exposing Frank still in his seat and holding the now detached steering wheel.

While the other police vehicles quickly passed by, Frank groan in pain, then slowly held up the steering wheel and called out, “I’m okay!”

Up ahead, Trixie had glanced back to watch the destruction of that cop car. “Nice move,” she commented as she turned to Sunset.

“I call that one the reverse PIT maneuver,” remarked Sunset with a smirk.

Trixie returned her attention ahead to the van they were pursuing. Just seconds later, she spoke up, “You know, it’s just occurred to Trixie; the cops are chasing us through a tunnel. Do you think they called in some other cops to block the exit?”

“If they did, then at least Wallflower won’t go anywhere either,” Sunset pointed out, tightening her grip on the steering wheel as she kept her gaze focused on the speeding van up ahead.

Meanwhile, just as Trixie suspected, another half dozen police cars had been parked across all lanes on the eastern end of the tunnel. Among the police officers standing by was Chase McCain, one of Lego City’s finest officers. “Roadblock is in place,” he reported over his radio. He then turned back to his fellow officers on the site and called out, “Get ready, guys! Here they come!”

Inside the tunnel, Wallflower continued to push her van as fast as possible. As she came around the final curve in the tunnel, she gasped as she saw the police roadblock across the exit. She rapidly glanced back and forth between the side mirror back at Sunset’s car and up ahead at the roadblock. In her panic, she was convinced she had to make a choice between the lesser of two evils, and quickly made her choice. She closed her eyes and clenched her teeth as she kept the pedal to the metal.

At the roadblock, the confident expressions on the faces of every police officer soon turned more fearful as they realized the incoming van was not slowing down at all. “Look out!” cried out Chase as he immediately ran out of the way. The other gathered officers cried out in terror as they also rushed out of the way of the incoming van. It wasn’t long before the van slammed right into the roadblock.

CRASH!!

The momentum of such a large vehicle moving so fast allowed it to shove aside two of the blocking police cruisers. As they were flung aside, those two cop cars slammed into two more, and all four vehicles ended up with a lot of pieces getting knocked off from the hard impacts. Although Wallflower’s van was able to punch through the roadblock with minimal damage, she quickly lost control as the van skidded to the left across the opposing lane of traffic and onto a grassy patch of ground. She swerved the van left and right, but couldn’t get any traction on the slippery grass as she continued speeding ahead.

Seconds later, with a huge gap now opened in the roadblock, Sunset was easily able to zoom out of the tunnel without even slowing down, and continued straight ahead down the road.

Chase cursed under his breath as he rushed back to his cruiser — which thankfully was far enough from the impact site that it had not received any damage. As soon as he climbed in and started the engine, he quickly reported over his radio, “Whoever’s driving that van is now officially a suspect! I repeat, the driver of that van must be apprehended!” He switched on the siren and lights on his car as he pulled onto the road and followed right behind the half dozen police vehicles already in pursuit as they passed by.

Right behind Chase, the other officers rushed back to their police vehicles, though only three of them were intact enough to follow after him. A fourth car attempted to join them, but didn’t make it far before a wheel came off and the whole thing completely collapsed into a pile of Lego parts, to which the driver moaned sadly.

Sunset did yet another power slide as she turned left onto the avenue that followed the beach along the eastern coast of the city’s Paradise Sands district. As they began heading north along the road, Sunset urgently asked, “Where is she? Where’s she going this time?”

Trixie glanced down at the GPS map again and responded, “Stay on this road. She’s coming right toward us.”

Despite her confusion, Sunset followed Trixie’s advice. Seconds later, Wallflower’s van suddenly plowed through the hedges on the median, briefly launching into the air as it crossed the divide onto the northbound lane of traffic. The now visibly banged-up van skidded a little as it straightened out and began to accelerate down the road, followed closely by Sunset’s car. And behind them both, there were now more police vehicles in hot pursuit.

Meanwhile, up the coast at the amusement park on the pier, the people there began to hear the noise of approaching police sirens. Among these civilians were the Equestria Girls, and as they began to hear that noise, Pinkie looked down the coast and suddenly pointed out, “Oh, look! The cops are chasing some bad guys!”

The rest of the group followed the direction Pinkie was pointing. The chase was still a long distance away, so Spike pulled out a pair of binoculars to get a better look. After a few seconds, he reported in shock, “It’s Sunset Shimmer!” He paused before he added in confusion, “And Trixie? What’s she doing here?”

Back down the coast at the ongoing pursuit, Sunset noticed they were approaching the pier where she knew her friends were probably still hanging out. She quickly glanced at the clock on the dashboard and knew time was now getting very short. If she was going to put a stop to this and save the world, there was only one thing she could do, and she had to do it now. She let out a reluctant sigh and muttered, “I can’t believe that it has to come to this.”

“Come to what?” asked Trixie.

“Better hold onto your head, Trixie!” Sunset cried out as she floored it.

The performance car quickly caught up to the van and pulled up alongside it on the left. As the car matched speed with the van, Sunset and Wallflower briefly looked at each other — Sunset in determination, Wallflower in panic — then Sunset jerked the steering wheel to the right and began to shove the van off the road. Wallflower tried to push back, but the momentum of both vehicles was already pulling them to the right, across the wide concrete walkway and out towards the beach. The van slammed into the guardrail and scraped along until the large vehicle eventually tore right through it. With that barrier gone, both vehicles flew right off the concrete ledge.

Both vehicles were airborne for a few seconds before they finally slammed down onto the sandy beach. The van impacted with enough force to compromise its structural integrity, so while it remained mostly intact, the roof and walls shifted around as the large vehicle plowed right through the sand until it soon came to a stop. The car bounced a little from the initial impact and the low sloping front end kicked up a lot of sand and significantly slowed its momentum very quickly, and while it came in at a slight angle to the right that threatened to flip the car over as a result, the heavy engine in the back kept it somewhat upright as it plowed sideways through the sand until it eventually came to a stop, now slightly turned around to be facing the van.

The crash onto the beach had occurred just before those vehicles could reach the pier, so the Equestria Girls got an uncomfortably close view overlooking the devastation. Without a word, all six girls and Spike rushed for the nearest stairway down onto the beach. Regardless of whether the victims were bad guys or not, they wanted to make sure nobody was seriously hurt from that terrible crash.

At the same time, the pursuing police vehicles pulled over to stop on the walkway overlooking the crash site. As all of the police officers began to climb out of their vehicles and made their way towards the nearest set of stairs down onto the beach, Flash Sentry quickly reported over his radio, “We got a ten-fifty here! Repeat, ten-fifty on both suspect vehicles!”

In the car, both Sunset and Trixie groaned. Although the seatbelts kept them in their seats and Sunset had taken her hands off the steering wheel before the impact, the crash had left both of them dazed and shaken. Despite the pain and dizziness, Sunset knew she had to act fast, so she removed her seatbelt and tried to open the door, only to discover a large pile of sand was blocking it. Undeterred, she fought against the soreness in her body as she climbed over the door, then placed her hand on the top corner of the windshield to hold herself steady as she stood up on the sand.

In the van, Wallflower was equally dazed and sore from the crash, but her panic from being pursued still managed to overwhelm all other thoughts and feelings. Fighting desperately against the pain in her body and her dizziness, she removed her seatbelt, retrieved her handbag from the floor, and opened the door. The damage from the impact caused the door to fall off its hinge as soon as it was pushed from the inside, and because she didn’t anticipate that, she ended up falling out of her seat and landed atop the detached door onto the sand.  She was momentarily stunned, but soon wobbled up to her feet and, with the handbag in her hand, she began to slowly stagger away from the crash site.

Sunset saw Wallflower trying to escape, so as she put every ounce of her weakened strength into staggering around the front of the wrecked car and towards the van, she called out, “Wallflower! Wallflower, stop!”

Wallflower immediately stopped on the spot and, with a look of confusion on her face, turned around to face Sunset.

Sunset was still breathing heavily from the crash as she desperately continued, “Please… you don’t have to do this! I remember everything… the Memory Stone… how I reacted… all of it!”

“But how?!” exclaimed Wallflower in exasperation. “I erased your entire memory of our encounter when I locked you in that room!”

It was as Wallflower blurted that out that Sunset’s friends and the nearly dozen cops had reached the crash site on the beach, all of whom immediately stopped in their tracks the moment they had heard that.

Pinkie Pie gasped and exclaimed, “Holy zucchini! Sunset Shimmer was right all along!”

That remark, combined with Wallflower’s accidental confession, caused the police officers to mutter amongst themselves in confusion.

“Please listen to me,” Sunset pressed on. “It’s true that I used to be ruthless and could seemingly get away with anything, but I was also completely alone. We’re actually not that different.”

“You’re nothing like me!” Wallflower furiously shot back. “And I’m not lonely, because I have… plants!” Once that final word came out of her mouth, her eyes widened in shock, then she facepalmed and grumbled, “Okay, that was just pathetic.”

“I understand how wrong it was for me to treat you the way I did,” continued Sunset. She glanced over her left shoulder and, just as she had been hoping, her friends were on the scene watching and listening to everything. “I care very much about my friends, and I was so determined to recover their stolen memories, it never occurred to me that I was hurting your feelings in the process.” She turned back to Wallflower. “And for that, I’m very sorry.”

“No, you’re not!” retorted Wallflower. “You’re just saying that to look good in front of everyone!” She glanced over at the two groups gathered behind Sunset and couldn’t believe that none of them were making any attempts to subdue Sunset. In fact, any looks of disdain appeared to be directed at her instead of Sunset. She gripped her hair in frustration and shouted, “And it’s working! Gah! How am I supposed to fight back against your injustice if nothing I do matters?! I HATE YOU!!”

“Whoa…” muttered Trixie in shock, who had just moments ago recovered enough from the crash to climb out of the wrecked car and now stood right in front of it. “I knew that girl had issues, but… wow…”

Wallflower growled in frustration and grumbled, “I wanted to prove to everyone that you should be locked away forever by erasing their good memories of you and forcing them to see just how evil you still are. Obviously, that didn’t work.” It was at this moment that she decided to remove the Memory Stone from her handbag.

As soon as that magical artifact was exposed for all to see, Twilight — recognizing the artifact from the sketch Sunset had shown them earlier — exclaimed in shock, “That’s the Memory Stone!” She turned to the cops on the scene and called out, “She’s been using that to erase our memories!”

Wallflower continued to glare at Sunset. As she tossed aside her empty handbag, an evil smile began to form on her face as she continued, “If I wanna really get back at you, then I’ll have to hit you where it will hurt the most.” She turned her attention towards the Equestria Girls group. “Since you seem to care so much for your so-called friends that you’re willing to ruin the lives of others, then perhaps I should erase all of their memories for as long as you’ve been around! About ten years back should be good enough.”

“Have you gone mad?!” exclaimed Sunset in horror. “You would be erasing their memories of each other! And you really wanna do that right here and now?! Especially in front of the cops?!”

“Then I’ll just erase their memories of this incident!” argued Wallflower. “As far as they’ll be concerned, you’ll still be the most wanted criminal who ever lived, as they always should have! And as for your stupid friends, well now they’ll think of each other the same way you think of me… which is not at all!” She then held out the Memory Stone directly towards the Equestria Girls and willed the stone to unleash a glowing beam of its power straight at them.

“NOOOO!!” cried out Sunset as she immediately jumped in front of the beam and took the full impact herself. She collapsed to the ground as the glowing blueish-green magical energy now completely covered her body.

Everyone in the area — the Equestria Girls, Trixie, the police officers, and even Wallflower — all gasped in shock.

Sunset grunted as she struggled to get up on her knees and said with firm conviction, “I would do anything to protect my friends. Even if I have to make the ultimate sacrifice…”

Just a couple seconds later, the effects of the Memory Stone kicked in as glowing ribbons of memories began to be pulled out of Sunset’s head and were absorbed by the magical stone. “Fluttershy!” she cried out helplessly as a yellow glowing ribbon was the first one taken from her. “Applejack!” An orange glowing ribbon was the next one taken. “Rarity!” A white glowing ribbon followed after that. “Rainbow Dash!” A blue glowing ribbon was then taken from her. “Pinkie Pie!” A pink glowing ribbon quickly followed after the others.

As Sunset continued to lose more and more memories, everyone else in the area could only watch helplessly in shock and horror. Even Wallflower was powerless to do anything, for she had not expected Sunset to jump in the way, and thus did not know if she could even do anything to stop the process.

As Sunset’s memories continued to quickly diminish, she turned to her friends and reached her hand out as she desperately cried out, “Twilight! Please… don’t forget me!” Finally, a glowing purple ribbon containing Sunset’s memories of Twilight were pulled from her head and absorbed by the Memory Stone. Over the next few seconds, Sunset screamed in agony as all of her remaining memories of the past ten years were rapidly taken from her in a cascade of colorful ribbons that then quickly vanished into the Memory Stone. Finally, once the last of those memories were gone, she immediately fainted and collapsed face-down into the sand.

Everyone else in the area continued to stare at the fallen Sunset Shimmer in shock and horror. None of them dared to say anything. Flash Sentry didn’t say a word as he solemnly removed his hat and held it in front of his chest. Even Trixie was left speechless as she fell back to sit upon the hood of the wrecked car. The only sounds to be heard were the steady crashing of ocean waves along the beach.

Wallflower Blush was left virtually petrified in disbelief from what she had just witnessed. She had always been convinced that Sunset was a selfish brat who never truly cared for anyway. Yet, Sunset had just demonstrated how much she was willing to lose for the sake of protecting her friends. What have I done…? thought Wallflower remorsefully.

It wasn’t long before Sunset began to awaken. As soon as she became aware of her surroundings, she quickly stood up — on all four limbs like a pony — as she gasped in shock and muttered, “This isn’t Canterlot. Where am I? Princess Celestia, where are you?” She gazed out across the ocean beyond the beach, then quickly glanced around in different directions. When she looked down at herself, she immediately gasped and let out a shriek of terror. “W-w-why is my body so horribly twisted out of shape?!” she exclaimed as she sat down and felt over herself, whimpering from being completely unfamiliar with her minifig body type.

Seeing Sunset Shimmer in such a helpless state convinced the Equestria Girls to approach her. Twilight knelt down and placed a hand on Sunset’s shoulder.

Sunset flinched at the touch, then turned and looked up at the gathered group of girls she was completely unfamiliar with. “W-w-who are you?” she asked nervously.

“We’re your friends,” assured Twilight with a smile. The rest of her friends also gave friendly smiles to Sunset.

“We may not remember you…” added Applejack.

“…and you may not remember us…” continued Rainbow Dash.

“…but after seeing what you did…” continued Pinkie Pie.

“…the sacrifice you made for us…” continued Rarity.

“…we’d be proud to call you…” continued Fluttershy.

“…our friend!” finished all six girls together, before they each placed a hand on Sunset’s shoulders.

“Okay…” muttered Sunset in confusion. “I have no idea what’s going on here. At all.”

Suddenly, Sunset’s magical geode began to glow, quickly followed by the magical geodes of the other six girls. The magical glow soon expanded to completely cover their bodies as they slowly began to rise up into the air. The intensely bright glow lasted for a few seconds, then faded to reveal the seven Equestria Girls had not only ponied up — where they gained pony ears, longer hair like a tail, and some also had feathered wings on their back or a unicorn horn on their head — but also were now wearing an entirely new set of outfits. Twilight had dark purple on her upper legs, dark blue on her lower legs and the skirt piece around her upper legs, magenta on her lower arms, light blue on her torso with a magenta six-pointed star on the front, and a hairband with magenta stars on it. Rainbow Dash had dark blue on her legs, red on her upper arms and the sides of her torso, and medium blue on her feet and the front and back of her torso with her cloud and rainbow lightning bolt symbol on the front. Applejack had red on the skirt piece around her upper legs, medium blue on her torso and upper arms, and brown on her feet and the western hat on her head. Rarity had medium blue on her lower arms and hands, light purple on the lower part of her torso and on the skirt piece around her upper legs, light blue on the upper part of her torso, and gold on her lower legs and waist and the headband. Pinkie Pie had light blue on her feet and the skirt piece around her upper legs, and magenta on her torso with a blue and yellow heart on the front. Fluttershy had purple on her torso and upper legs, pink on her feet, and light blue on the long skirt piece around her legs. And Sunset had black on her arms, yellow on her lower legs, pale red on her upper legs, bright red on her torso and the skirt piece around her upper legs, and a black spiky hairband on her head.

With their magical transformation complete, the seven girls remained hovering in the air as they looked down at Wallflower Blush, who was left more stunned than ever before.

Twilight pointed at Wallflower and scolded, “Wallflower, you have a magic you do not understand! But it is nothing compared to the magic of—!”

“No time for long speeches!” Pinkie suddenly interrupted. “Light her up, ladies!”

Right away, the seven girls held hands and channeled the magical energy of their geodes, then unleashed it as a beam of rainbow light directly at the Memory Stone still in Wallflower’s hands. Unable to react quickly enough, Wallflower stood in place as the magical beam struck the Memory Stone, quickly overloading it until it finally exploded into fragments, the force of which threw her back onto her rear.

With the Memory Stone now destroyed, all of the stolen memories within were immediately released as glowing ribbons that quickly returned back to where they belonged. Sunset regained all of her memories of the past ten years, while her friends regained their memories of Sunset as a good person. Trixie stood up and smiled as she regained her memories of Sunset as a good person as well as her first encounter with Wallflower earlier that afternoon. Thousands of different collections of memories relating to Sunset rapidly scattered around as they returned to the people they rightfully belonged to, from the police officers gathered on the scene, to all the citizens of Lego City and Canterlot City, and out to the other regions of the Lego World and even as far away as the distant reaches of outer space. All across the universe, every single memory that had been magically stolen over the past three days had been successfully recovered.

Their job completed, the Equestria Girls slowly descended back to the ground. Sunset briefly rubbed her head from a slight headache, but then turned back to her friends and slowly smiled. “Twilight… Sparkle?” she asked.

Twilight turned to Sunset and, upon recognizing her friend right away, cheerfully exclaimed, “Sunset Shimmer!” She then rushed over and shared a hug with Sunset, with the rest of their friends quickly joining in for a big group hug. Once the friendly embrace was over and they all parted, Twilight shamefully said, “We’re so sorry for not believing you.”

“That’s okay,” assured Sunset. “I’m just glad to have you all back.”

“And we’re all glad to have you back, Sunset!” agreed Pinkie.

“Good thing, too,” noted Rainbow Dash. “After what happened between us while you were away, I don’t think any of us will be taking your friendship for granted ever again.” She leaned close to Sunset and quietly added, “Trust me, it got really bad at one point.”

“Nevertheless,” Rarity spoke up, “now that this whole memory debacle is behind us, perhaps we can finally proceed with that relaxing vacation we had all been looking forward to."

“Not yet,” cautioned Sunset as she turned away. “There’s still some unfinished business to take care of…” She walked away from her friends and towards Wallflower Blush, who had remained seated where she fell on the beach with the fragments of the Memory Stone still in her hands.

Once Sunset stopped in front of her, Wallflower hesitantly looked up at her face, expecting to see an expression of hatred and ridicule, but instead saw a face of worry and concern. Wallflower turned her gaze down to the Memory Stone fragments, then sighed as she let them slide out of her hands and fall to the sand beside her legs.

“I’m so ashamed,” muttered Wallflower sadly. “When I first found the Memory Stone, I erased only little things — awkward greetings, saying the wrong thing, anything that would embarrass me in front of a crowd…”

“I’ve had plenty of awkward moments I wish I could erase, too,” admitted Twilight as she and the other girls joined Sunset.

“But it’s no excuse,” continued Wallflower shamefully as she continued to stare down at the Memory Stone fragments. “I was so used to erasing memories that I got completely carried away. I should’ve known that my landscaping business was doing poorly because I simply made everyone forget I even existed… but I chose to make things worse.” She sighed before she finally turned her gaze up at the Equestria Girls. “That day when I bumped into you at the airport, and your taxis shoved my van off the road… a police officer gave me a parking ticket for that incident. I’m sure anyone would understand how wrong that was, so I used the stone to erase that officer’s memory and then threw away the ticket.”

The dozen police officers gathered nearby glanced at one another, uncertain about which one of them could’ve been foolish enough to do such a thing to Wallflower.

Wallflower dropped her gaze again as she continued, “Once I crossed that line, I was only going to get even more carried away. Due to my poor financial situation, I became tempted to try stealing some cash and using the stone to erase any suspicions — not clearing out a whole bank, but taking just enough that its absence could be excused as an accounting error.” She turned her shameful gaze back up at Sunset. “At least you were able to stop me before I would’ve had a chance to try that. If we hadn’t bumped into each other, I could’ve eventually turned into the exact same monster I’d foolishly believed you had always been and always would be.” She then dropped her face into both of her open hands. “I’m so sorry for everything…”

“It’s okay,” assured Sunset with a friendly smile. “I’m sorry, too. I may have stopped being deliberately mean to people, but a certain Great and Powerful friend helped me realize that I still wasn’t being very nice.”

“No thank-yous are necessary!” Trixie suddenly spoke up proudly as she clasped her hands behind her back. “Though the Great and Powerful Trixie would highly appreciate them.”

Police officer Chase McCain walked over to Trixie and slyly remarked, “Funny you should say that…” He then immediately slapped a pair of handcuffs onto Trixie’s wrists, binding her arms together behind her back. “…number one on LEGO’s Most Wanted!”

Trixie’s eyes widened in shock from the sudden predicament she had just walked right into. “Oh, drat!” she grumbled. “Trixie should’ve seen this coming from miles away.”

“You got that right,” noted Chase smugly.

“And look at what I found back here!” Flash Sentry called out. Trixie and Chase turned back to see Flash standing beside the wrecked car. The passenger seat had been pushed forward, and held up in Flash’s hand was Trixie’s magical staff. “The ultimate contraband!”

Trixie turned forward and sighed before she sadly muttered, “I guess this is the end of the Great and Powerful Trixie.”

While the others had their attention turned to Trixie and the police, Sunset glanced back down at Wallflower, then turned back to the cops and spoke up, “Perhaps you guys might consider going easy on Trixie.”

Everyone in the area immediately turn to Sunset with looks of confusion on their faces.

“To tell you the truth, I couldn’t have done this without her help,” admitted Sunset. “Strange as this may sound, it was her behavior bringing out the worst in me that made me realize where I went wrong with Wallflower, and how I still have a long way to go to make myself a better person. Not to mention, her magical staff was able to get us out of a few tight spots.”

“Are you suggesting that Trixie could be reformed like you were?” asked Chase skeptically.

“Yes, I believe so,” Sunset boldly stated. “All she ever wanted was for her name to be forever remembered by everyone, and if she was offered a way to do that without having to resort to acts of evil… I think she would be more than happy to take it.”

Trixie smiled at the words of confidence from the girl she was now willing to consider one of her closest friends.

Flash Sentry and Chase McCain turned to each other, then shared a nod of agreement and turned back to Sunset. “We’ll consider everything you’ve said when we make a decision in the courthouse, tomorrow,” said Chase. “Same goes for Wallflower, too.”

Flash set aside the magical staff and walked over to where Wallflower remained sitting in the sand. “Even though your apology means you’ll likely avoid time in prison,” he explained as he pulled out a pair of handcuffs, “I’m afraid you’ll have to spend tonight in the jail cell at the police station. Strictly protocol, just to be sure you don’t try to run away before your trial.”

“I understand,” muttered Wallflower in defeat as she held out her arms.

Flash placed the handcuffs on Wallflower’s wrists, then pulled her up onto her feet.

“You’ll be fine, Wallflower,” assured Sunset. “If there’s anything I’ve learned today, it’s that everyone matters — no matter what their past or how insignificant they might feel.”

Wallflower turned to Sunset and smiled, then allowed Flash to guide her away.

“You made the right choice, Wallflower,” noted Chase as Wallflower and Flash walked by. “While you were busy talking to Sunset about framing her for everything, I was sending pictures and text messages to everyone back at the station warning them that you possessed something that could erase people’s memories. Even if you had succeeded today, we would still have evidence that you were behind all of this, so no matter how hard you might’ve tried, we were going to catch you sooner or later. At least now that the worst was prevented and you’ve agreed to turn yourself in, you won’t have to worry about facing some serious hard time.”

Wallflower lowered her head and sighed.

As Flash led Wallflower toward and up the stairway to the parked police vehicles on the side of the street, Chase did the same with Trixie. Some of the other officers also returned to the police vehicles, while a few others remained on the scene to assess the damages on the two wrecked vehicles on the beach.

Sunset walked back to the wrecked car and retrieved her satchel. As she checked the time on her phone, she sighed and quietly remarked, “We really cut it close this time.”

“What do you mean?” asked Fluttershy.

“While I came back from Equestria after learning about the Memory Stone,” explained Sunset, “Princess Twilight did some further research, and later messaged me that if I failed to recover your stolen memories before sundown today, those memories would’ve been permanently erased, with no hope of ever getting them back.”

The group of friends all looked over to the west across the city skyline, where they saw between the buildings that the sun had likely already dipped below the horizon. “Wow,” muttered Spike. “That’s a really scary what-if scenario.”

“Believe me, I put a lot more urgency into my efforts once I found out about that,” acknowledged Sunset.

“Seein’ as we’re all friends again, Ah’d love to hear the whole story,” remarked Applejack.

“Yeah, especially seeing as you somehow got Trixie involved,” agreed Rainbow Dash.

“Perhaps we can discuss all of these recent events over supper,” suggested Rarity.

“Yeah, dinner definitely sounds like a good idea,” agreed Sunset as she and her friends began to walk away from the crash site. “The only thing I’ve had to eat all day was half an ice cream sandwich.”

The Equestria Girls continued their friendly conversation as they made their way back to the hotel they had been staying at. After everything that had occurred following the temporary partial loss of their memories, they were all just glad to still be together as the complete group of friends they truly were.