My Little Pony: Ren's Adventures In Equestria

by MaxTV1234

Chapter 67 - The Return of Queen Chrysalis!

Things have been growing for us ever since Sarah joined our party. She's been very kind with us, and a very nice guest to have around the home-ship. Though, some were reluctant and kept her eye on her for a while...but I know that she's a really good pony for a while. She hasn't been doing anything creepy or anything evil-like to make us suspicious. Although, we have took noticed that she hasn't been going outside and talking with the other ponies, and we've tried talking with her, but she hasn't talk back to any of our questions about personal things. I guess she hasn't gained our trust yet, but I wonder what's going on her mind...but that doesn't involve her right now. What involves is what's about to come that'll get us all to see that side of her.

One night, Carrie, Applebloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie were in the forest at night, each wearing explorer clothes.

"This was a great idea. We can get our cutie marks as zoologists!" Apple Bloom exclaimed cheerily.

"Zoo-what? No, we're getting them in being jungle adventurers!" Scootaloo reminded.

"But girls, are you sure we should be out here?" Carrie asked. "I mean, we are trespassing in Fluttershy's backyard."

"And I don't think Fluttershy's backyard can be considered "The Jungle".

"She's right." Carrie nodded before smiling softly, "Also, did you know that the study of ponies is called 'Hippology'?"

"I don't think we look much like hippos..." Scootaloo stated, glaring at the two. "Also, where did you even learn that?"

"Jamie did!" Carrie smiled softly.

"Of course he did..." Scootaloo face-hoofed herself.

"Speaking of which, where's Skye?" Apple Bloom asked curiously.

"She couldn't make it in time." Carrie shook her head. "She said that she was...busy watching a movie at the movie theaters."

"What?!" Scootaloo yelled, feeling upset by that. "How could she?! Man, she's gonna miss out on earning our cutie-marks!"

"But Carrie can't get one." Sweetie Belle pointed before earning a glare from the pegasus filly and exclaimed, "Did you forget how two of Rainbow Dash's friends, Ren and Jamie, earned their cutie-marks too! This could be something big that we can do! We can even help both Carrie and Skye to earn their cutie-marks too!"

"Mm...Thanks you guys." Carrie smiled softly, clapping her hands together. "But I'm not sure if I can get my own Cutie-Mark like Ren and Jamie did."

"Don't say that!" Apple Bloom smiled. "We'll be glad to help you along the way because..."

The three fillies bumped their rumps together before exclaiming "WE'RE THE CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS!"

"Mm! Yeah! Cutie Mark Crusaders!" Carrie laughed happily before hearing some creaking sound before they turned around to see a bunch of wild animals approaching them. "Huh? Hey, what's wrong with some of Fluttershy's animals?"

"Huh?!" The three fillies turned over and widened their eyes to see the creepy green eyes on the animals' faces.

"Umm... wait what's that group of animals with glowing eyes doing staring at us?" Sweetie Belle asked.

"But that's what I said-" Carrie was about to finish that sentence till the animals pounced at them, scaring the girls before they all screamed in fear...

"NOOOOOO!"

The Next Day

Ren's POV

Another day, another good day in the town of Ponyville. I've brought over my art portraits so that I can sell out much to the others.

"Man...that was so worth it at the end." Oh yeah, I forgot that I brought both Skye and Kodiak with me. Skye apparently stayed overnight to watch one of her favorite animated movies, Princess Mononoke. "Ha ha! I love it at the end! That's the mark of a true warrior! If only wish the other girls would have seen it!"

"You've really enjoyed that movie, didn't you?" I asked, smiling at her.

"Ha ha, of course Corporeal Loodan! I loved that movie to the very end!" Skye grinned. "Thank you again for ever suggesting that idea to me!"

"Well...It was the least I can do for that offer I gave out to help me sell these paintings." I shrugged before finding a good spot right around the streets of Ponyville.

"Do you think they might love these?" Kodi asked curiously. "I mean, they really look nice, but they don't seem to be fond."

"What do you mean?" I asked in confusion before seeing him point his paw over at some of the ponies, and I took noticed that some of them were...acting weird. Some of them had these big bulging green eyes, making me feel a little creeped out by. Huh...He wasn't kidding, they aren't even paying attention to my paintings. It isn't the paintings itself, right?

"Mm...Meh, I'm sure they're just being jerks to not admire this." Skye shrugged, checking over a certain painting of flowers. "Although, I feel as though this is just too plain in my taste, but either way, it's gotten my interest..."

"Really?" Kodi asked, sniffing the flower vase portrait. "Well...it smells weird, but the design looks really nice."

"Well I did use paint." I shrugged.

"Mm...Well it needs more...what would Sergeant Pinkie Pie would say...'Pizzazz'?" Mm...Pizzazz...I don't know...Do I? I mean, I guess it is her opinion so maybe?

"... and then she just left like that." At that instant, I turned around and saw the Mane Six and the others chatting about something walking past some of the townsfolk.

"Yes, even Carrie was acting weird." Mason frowned. "I didn't know why, but she wouldn't explain why she was outside and I can't seem to talk to her like I have always been..."

"Hrm...Those three fillies and your sister of yours are sure acting funny." Applejack agreed.

"Hey guys!" I called. "What's going on?"

"Scootaloo has been acting strange." Rainbow stated.

"Applebloom too." Applejack added.

"And Sweetie Belle and Carrie as well." Rarity nodded. "We're not sure what's been going on with those three."

"Indeed..." Mason nodded. "Carrie has never acted...this way. It's almost suspicious..."

"Everypony in town has been acting strange." Twilight said. "I've been trying to plan a viewing celebration for the Secretariat Comet this week and I can't get anyone to listen to me."

"What was that? I wasn't listening." Rainbow said, earning a deadpanned look from the purple unicorn.

"Rainbow! Twilight, my sister and her crew are being as peculiar as everypony else around here! Something not right." Applejack exclaimed, glaring hard at Rainbow Dash who smiled sheepishly at the farm pony.

"Secretariat Comet?" Me and Kodi asked, blinking in confusion.

"It's a very important comet that should show up in the next three days as me and Twilight deduced." Jamie smiled softly, showing some notes and drawings he had in his notebook.

"Huh, that's actually pretty cool." I smiled softly.

"A comet! That means we can grant some wishes!" Skye jumped for joy.

"Yeah! Wishing comet!" Pinkie laughed, jumping along with Skye.

"Ummm...Hey has anyone seen Cheerlie? I just heard she didn't show up to the schoolhouse." Fluttershy asked, feeling concern.

"Huh? No." I shook my head. "Sorry Flutters, but I haven't seen her at all today. I just came here to sell these paintings for potential buyers, but so far..." I looked around the crowd, seeing them all giving us each weird glances. "Nopony seems....interested."

"And the Cakes didn't open Sugarcube Corner this morning." Pinkie chirped. "At first I thought maybe thy were planning a birthday party because Ms. cakes birthday is in 43 days and that's cutting it way close to just be staring in on ordering supplies..." Pinkie glanced away with a smile. "...But whe I asked about it, they just looked at me like I was crazy." Everyone sighed at Pinkie's claim, shaking their heads.

Although, they're right about about everyone is acting strange all of a sudden. What's going on? Why is everypony around town acting so...weird. First the Cutie Mark Crusaders and Carrie are acting weird, and now everypony...?

"Everypony is acting so bizarre! More and more ponies by the hour!" Twilight looked over at the corner, seeing more ponies staring right at us. "What in Equestria is going on?"

"Um...guys?" Kodi called, whimpering at the sight of the people. I took noticed of what he was looking at and saw the crowd of ponies coming around us all looking really strange with green eyes like they were possessed or something.

"Umm maybe we should move somewhere more.. secure." Jamie said nervously.

"Or maybe how about I get rid of the crowd?" Jack cracked his knuckles. "Trust me, I've dealt with crowds like them when I'm with the police."

"Uh...I think we should go with Jamie's suggestion." I frowned. "Fighting won't solve everything, you know that Jack."

"Says you." Jack rolled his eyes.

"Quick! To the library!" Twilight cried out, only earning a pout from Rainbow Dash.

"That's your solution for everything." Rainbow Dash huffed.

"Quick! Retreat!" Skye dashed ahead and we followed after her before we all gotten inside of the house, and Pinkie slammed the door behind us and we all caught our breath.

"So is everyone else weirded out by this?" Kaede gulped, making sure the door was locked.

"What the hell is wrong with them?" Jack questioned. "I mean, I've heard of angry crowds, but what the hell did we do to piss them off?"

"Wait... this is all too familiar." Twilight said. "Acting strange like they were... replaced?!"

"You lost me." Rainbow rose a brow.

"Me too." Jack nodded.

"Wait...You don't mean..." At that moment, I suddenly realized just where Twilight was going with this. Ponies being replaced and acting weird like they aren't acting like themselves as we see everyday...This is...

"Changelings...!" Jamie widened his eyes.

Rarity let out a gasp before exclaiming, "Of course the Royal Wedding! Princess Cadence was replaced by a changeling!"

"The Queen Changeling and she went all evil on everypony." Applejack gritted her teeth in anger.

"Oooh...The wedding...Yeah...Well, I don't remember much after I had Pinkie's tutti-frutti sherbet sugar punch. It made the day a bit of a blur..." Rainbow Dash frowned.

"Heh heh...That and you and I had that belching contest after eating all of that sherbet." Jack smirked. "Which I won."

"N-Nopony asked you fatty!" Rainbow growled. "I-I mean...it was so...good that I forgotten much of what happened...Okay?!"

"That's because I use seven parts of sugar to every one part Tutti!" Pinkie grinned.

"Wait a minute, you all went to a wedding and you already know the enemy?!" Skye blinked.

"Yeah, it was before you woken up from your pod." Jamie nodded. "The Changelings...aren't exactly a species we would've think..."

Twilight walked over to a shelf full of books and searched through it before pulling one of the books out of the shelf and said, "Hmph. Lucky for you, I kept a journal of what happened." She opened the book and showed us a page with a changeling on one and a replaced pony on the other with the exact face we've seen on everypony else. "According to me and Jamie's extensive note-taking, , the changelings are back...and this time, they must be after Ponyville."

"O-Oh no..." Jamie gulped. "Are they here...for revenge?"

"No duh if you guys might've pissed them off!" Skye exclaimed angrily. "Look soldiers, we're gonna need to fight back against them if we're to take them all on!"

"Wait!" I called, stopping her from opening that door. "You really shouldn't open that!"

"Oh yeah? And why's that Corporeal Loodan?" Skye rose a brow before opening it, and right in front of her were the townsfolk glaring down at her with their big bulging green eyes. Eventually, she slammed the door shut with widened eyes and deep breaths before giving us a sheepish grin. "Okay, point taken."

"Well anyway...We need to warn Princess Celestia right away!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed. "She'll get rid of them quick!"

"Right! Spike! Take a letter!" Twilight called to her assistant dragon, who was upstairs and doing something with the stacks of papers he had before seeing him take a quill.

"Right!" Spike grinned before he began writing down the note.

"So now what?" Kaede wondered. "We're trapped in here till we get a response from the princess..."

"Mm...The most thing we can do is just stay here and wait till those guys are gone." I suggested.

"Well I'm sure those Changelings might...leave, right?" Fluttershy smiled assuredly. "I-I mean...they can't stay in that place forever, right?"

Three rewrites and a spell check later...

"Oh my...they really haven't leave." Yeah...These guys just love staying around, don't they?

"Okay Twilight, I'll send it right away!"

"It's about damn time!" Jack yelled, nearly spooking Spike with his loud voice. "What the hell have you've been doing while we sat on our butts and done nothing?!"

"Relax Jack, what's important is that Spike's finished with the letter." Twilight reassured. "Send it to Celestia, Spike."

"No problem!" Spike winked before blowing it with his flames. We waited till five minutes later, he regurgitated a scroll out of his body.

"Now that's what I call service." Pinkie pointed out before Twilight opened the letter with her magic.

"Dear Correspondent: I am unavailable due to an emergency. Please try sending your letter at a later time." she read aloud before widening her eyes, flabbergasted by this. "...I...I was just form lettered?!"

A moment of silence passed before we all groaned, "Oh great!" Jack exclaimed annoyed.

"Well looks like we're on our own for this. It's clobbering time." Rainbow said, clapping her hooves.

"You read my mind, Skittles." Jack added, cracking his knuckles. "I've been waiting all day for a fight."

"Um...I would be okay with waiting until the princess is available." Fluttershy insisted.

"Yeah, same here." I agreed. "But we need to do something or we're gonna be toast."

"Literally." Skye nodded before grabbing her remote. "As general, I say we fight now!"

"My sister is missin' and if those things are responsible we need to find out what's goin' on." Applejack stated, snorting angrily.

"Yeah." Mason added, taking out his staff. "They took my sister and they shall pay for what they have done. I guess Chrysalis thinks it's a funny joke to do that, and now she's gonna learn the consequences of her actions."

"We can't just go out there!" Jamie cried out, pointing to the window of the weird ponies outside trying to crawl inside. "They'll know we aren't Changelings! We need a plan."

"WAAAAAAIIIIT!" Pinkie cried, surprising us.

"What Pinkie?" I asked, a little alarmed by her yelling.

"... Where's Sarah, Ran and Nikki?"

And that's when we realized a certain unicorn and two humans were missing. How did we not notice that?

"Oh no! Ya'll don't think the changelings got her?!" Applejack cried.

"Hopefully not." Twilight frown in worried.

"But still, Ponyville is infested with these crappy bugs. We got to find newbie." Jack stated.

"Umm.. I'm already here." a voice said and that's when Sarah and Snowflake appeared before us, shocking me.

"Woah! Where did you come from?" I exclaimed in shock.

"Invisibility spell, duh. I used it to get in here." Sarah answered.

"How? The door is locked?" Kaede asked.

"I came in through Twilight's balcony window." Sarah added, pointing over to the window.

"But what if-"

"I made sure of that it was closed and none of those Changelings came in and saw." Sarah reassured calmly.

"Well.. thank goodness you're alright and not replaced Sarah." Applejack said with relief.

"Yeah, now we can charge right in and save our friends." Rainbow pumped her hooves together with a cocky smirk.

"Rainbow, we can't, remember?" Jamie reminded. "We can't let the Changelings see us."

"Idea! Idea! Pick me! Pick me!" Pinkie said rapidly.

"Yes Pinkie?" I asked curiously

"How about Sarah casts her invisibility spell on all of us so the changelings won't see us." she said. Another moment of silence passed before it dawned on us.

"...Duh." Skye crossed her arms with a smirk. "It was so obvious."

Then why didn't you say anything at all about it when Pinkie said it, Skye?

"Alright then, let's go!" Sarah's horn began glowing before she turned all of us invisible.

"Huh...Cool." I commented in awe.

"I can see you guys just fine." Kodi barked. "Even myself!"

"Take a look at the mirror." Sarah pointed over to the mirror nearby as he trotted over there and gasped upon seeing no reflection of himself.

"Whoa! It really did work!" Kodi smiled happily. "Thanks Sarah!"

"Anytime, now let's go..." Sarah stated.

"Wait, what about Nicole and Rantaro?!" Kaede asked in worried.

"Don't worry, they're hiding out from somewhere in Ponyville." Sarah reassured. "If you want, I can help you guys find them."

"That sounds good. Thanks Sarah." I sighed in relief.

I'm glad to hear Nicole and Rantaro alright...that's just a relief for all of us.

In the town

"It's working." Kaede whispered.

"Yeah, guess the crazy pink pony was right for once." Jack admitted.

"Aww... thanks." Pinkie smiled, earning a low growl from him.

"So where are they Sarah?" I whispered to the cloaked unicorn, who turned to me and whispered back, "They should be on the main streets in town, hiding behind Sugarcube Corner."

Odd place to hide, but then again, maybe it's a safe haven for now from these Changelings.

"Umm... everypony." Twilight called over, pointing her hoof over as we watched and saw a familiar gray pony trapped in a cocoon.

"H-Hey...isn't that Derpy?" Jamie gulped in fear.

"Yeah..." I nodded grimly. She got caught too...Oh man, there are Changelings everywhere.

"They've captured that pony and took her place." Twilight muttered before watching the Changeling that trapped her transforms and takes her place.

"Jeez...that still creeps me out." Kaede gulped.

"Tell me about it..." I agreed before seeing the Changeling started sniffing something before it began hissing. What? What's going on with it?

"It knows...!" Skye hissed till Applejack covered her mouth and muttered, "Quiet!"

The Changeling, disguised as Derpy, walks around, almost near us, trying to catch its scent. However, not too soon did something electrocuted it. Five seconds later of electrocution, it collapsed unconsciously and reverted back to its original self.

"That takes care of that thing." Ah...! Rantaro! And Nicole!

Two two came out of the bushes while Rantaro twirled around his taser gun in hand.

"Mm...I can't believe those guys are actually invading this place. How unexpected to do that out of Chrysalis's personality...but then again, she's too arrogant and highly confident on wanting revenge on all of us." Nicole sighed.

"Mm...Don't think I saved you out of a free charge." Rantaro scoffed.

"Okay..." Nicole sighed, taking out some cash and handed it to him.

"Nice." Rantaro smirked.

"Hey guys." Sarah called, making us visible again to let them see us.

"Oh...Hey guys." Nicole greeted. "Did Sarah made you two invisible, I take it?"

"Yeah, and it was really useful." I smiled.

"What about you guys?" Kaede asked. "Y-You didn't get...caught, did you?"

"They could try." Rantaro waved it off. "But while we were minding our own business, I saw how everypony wasn't interested in my sales and they were looking weird, so I had a suspicious feeling that they were the Changelings."

"Tch, it was obvious they were Changelings." Jack scoffed.

"Yeah, and it took you a whole hour to eventually realize that, huh tubby?" Rantaro snorted, earning a growl from him.

"Why you...!" I stepped over and gotten between them. "Guys, come on! We need to focus!"

"Ren's right!" Twilight agreed. "If we don't do something, then all of these towns-ponies could end up trapped in those cocoons forever!"

"Ugh...fine. But I still want my punch to the face later." Jack huffed.

"Like you can try..." Alright, so far...I think this is the real Rantaro and Nicole considering that Nicole always has her iPad with her and looks at the screen for her 'data research' and Rantaro being...Rantaro.

"Where are they keeping all these things? This is only one we've seen so far." Rarity asked.

"Umm..." Kodi spoken, looking a bit frighten and nervous. "Do you think where they're keeping them would... I don't know.. is big and pulsing and has a green eerie glow?"

"Kodi what are talking ab-" Me and the others turned and saw town hall pulsing with green energy. We all gasped in shock, seeing it look like that.

"Well...I...guess that's where they are." Twilight blinked in shock.

"Let's go!" Sarah exclaimed, running straight to the field

"Let's get this rodeo started!" Applejack added, charging in with Sarah.

"Give me back my sister you ruffians!" Rarity said.

"And give me back my sister too!" Mason yelled, charging in with his bamboo pole in hand while Dash and Jack kicked down the door.

"It's flank whooping... time?" Rainbow widened her eyes, unable to finish her sentence as we all took a close watch upon seeing so many cocoons Oh my god! There were loads of with ponies inside of them.

"Holy crap." Jack stated, his eyes widened.

We then took noticed of a lot of changelings, hissing at us, ready to fight. I got out my Hacking gun and aimed straight at them.

"Alright, everyone, we fought them before. We can handle this... I hope." I said before the changelings then turned into copies of us.

"Watch out they're taking our form to confuse us." Twilight said.

Well this is..." Rarity started.

"Nightmarish." Applejack added.

"Oh! This would be the best party ever if we weren't all all about to be turned into pod ponies and humans." Pinkie grinned.

"PINKIE!" We all groaned.

"Sergeant Pinkie! This is no time for party...well at least, not after we win the battle!" Skye exclaimed before taking out a small baseball bat from her hands. "Besides, these things don't scare me one bit."

Gotta admit, she's really not afraid of them.

"Yeah...Let's get them!" Jack yelled, which we all chanted together before we charged straight at them.

"Be careful!" Nicole called, standing back with Rantaro, Jamie, and Fluttershy. "Don't hit the pods! We may hurt whoever is inside!"

"Got it! Thanks!" I called back before firing multiple Burn bullets at some of the enemies, taking them down and making them revert back to their original forms.

Kaede took out her bowing arrows before firing much at some of the changelings, managing to pin some of them down with her shots.

"Woo! Time to kick some flank!" Rainbow grinned alongside with Jack before they took down some of their own copies.

"Rainbow! Jac! Be nice! That kinda hitting your own...in a way..." Flutterhsy muttered.

"Oh! Be careful! We can't hit the real deal!" I added before seeing a bunch of Fluttershy clones. "Oh no...I can't them...they're all pretending to be my girlfriend."

"Well too bad..." Rantaro shot each of the Fluttershy copies with his taser, giving me a serious yet tired look. "This is battle, so focus kid."

Mm...I hate to disagree with him, but he's right about that.

"Um, be careful with who you hit, you guys..." Fluttershy warned.

"Can it!" Jack yelled, body-slamming a few Twilight clones. "Stop acting like some brat who thinks everything is nice!"

"Fatty has a point! You need to learn to stop acting nice towards anything that could harm anyone!" Rainbow agreed, punching a Pinkie clone. "They could even hurt your boyfriend."

"Um, Rainbow Dash, Jack, are you sure that's wise?" I asked before being tackled by my own clone, who glared sinisterly with a dark smirk on his fac.e

Upon seeing me like this, she widened her eyes in shock before glaring at my copy before grabbing one of them by the neck and gave them a scary glare.

"HOW DARE YOU HIT MY FRIENDS AND MY MATE! YOU...YOU...MEANIE! YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS SHOULD GO HOME RIGHT NOW!" Fluttershy screamed, scaring some of the Changelings around us. I simply sat there with a shocked look before smiling softly and nodded.

Yep...that's my special somepony right there...

Eventually, all the Ren, Fluttershy, and Pinkie clones ran away in fear of her while she helped me up. We each gave each other smiles before kissing each other in the cheeks and witnessed Jack and Dash's jaw-dropping reactions to that.

"Well...If that's okay with you..." Fluttershy meekly smiled.

"Take that! And that!" Skye begins whacking each clone she sees with the use of her baseball bat. "Ha ha! Even as a military general such as myself, even she has to play dirty in order to secure her victory for her crew!"

Not sure that how it works...What about honor?

"How are we supposed to tell me apart from them?!" Kodi gulped, seeing some clones of his own.

"Hmm...Do you mind if I do something I've been dying to try with you?" Rarity offered, confusing my pet husky before she began doing something to fur, and suddenly made it...all nice and smooth, almost like a gorgeous hairstyle.

"There, now you look different and fabulous!" Rarity smiled.

"But that's not what I had in mind..." Kodi pouted before dodging an incoming headbutt attack. Kodi then bit the Changeling on the leg, causing it to screech before throwing him across with the others.

"Rarity!" Kaede called, firing more arrows. "I think you should blast them! Pretend its last year's fashion!"

Rarity let out a gasp before snarling at the Changelings, disguised as her, before she fired some with a powerful blast!

"Eep! Leg warmers and stirrup pants?! Not in my spring line!" Um...what's wrong with those types of things?

"But I like leg warmers..." Skye pouted before getting tackled by another one of her clone. "Hey! Get off of me you creep! Besides, I don't look that angry!"

"HA!" Mason came in and hit the fake Skye copy in the face with his bamboo pole while helping the real one out. "Take it easy, Skye. Be careful around them."

"Yeah yeah, I get it. Thanks Private Hunter." Skye smirked, nudging him a bit. "Now come on! Let's keep fighting! We need to rescue these ponies, the Crusaders, and Carrie!"

"Very well..." Mason nodded before charging and attacking some enemies and grabbing one of them by the chest. "Alright you, it's time for you to talk! Where's my sister?!"

"U-Um..." The Changeling let out a shrug before flinching at his dark glare.

"Alright then..." Mason then threw the Changeling away, slamming him into the wall in a very hard manner. Ohh...That's gonna leave a mark.

"Um...A little help here?" Applejack begged, hoof-kicking them some of her clones away.

Twilight and Jamie stepped in by firing two small magic beams, blinding each one. I quickly took out my Hacking Gun and fired 'Dance' bullets, making them each dance uncontrollably to give Applejack enough time to escape.

"Thanks!" Applejack smirked.

"We need to try something else! We need to take them all down at once!" Twilight hissed, firing more beams.

"B-But how..." Jamie wondered.

"Well..." There's gotta be a way to deal with them somehow...Wait Sarah! "Sarah! Can you use your amulet?!"

"I sure can!" Sarah nodded before her amulet began glowing brightly, and at that moment, shot out every single

Sarah's Amulet then glowed brightly and sent out a large shockwave that sent all of the changelings flying out of Ponyville.

"Whoa...!" I exclaimed in awe. Well that was fast.

"Nice work Newbie." Jack stated with a grin, seeing all the changelings gone from Town Hall. "Glad those damn things are gone for good."

"They're all gone...Quick, now's our chance!" Mason called.

"R-Right..! Come on you guys! Release them out of those cocoons!" I called, which they quickly began doing so to release the Changelings.

"Ngh...how can we get them out?" Kaede wondered.

"What about the Hacking Gun?" Jamie suggested.

"It's our only suggestion." Skye shrugged.

"Okay..." I nodded before raising it over at the cocoons. "Detect!"

I began using 'Detect', the purple light radiating across each of the cocoons before it began melting everypony's cocoon prisons.

"It's working! It's actually working!" Twilight cried out.

"Well goddamn, what are we waiting for?! Let's hurry and rescue them!" Skye ran over and helped out any pony that were nearby from out of their cocoons. Eventually, we all began helping out each of them out of their prisons, getting them into safety.

One moment later, everyone was free…well almost everyone...

“There’s no sign of Carrie, Sweetie Belle, Apple Bloom or Scootaloo and we’ve opened all the pods.” Rarity said. Mason looked very worried for her little sister, feeling almost scared.

“Where could they be if they weren't here?” I asked.

“They must be here somewhere.” Pinkie said, looking around the town hall in a second.

"Uh...guys...I don't feel good..." Spike groaned before puffing his cheeks out and spitting out something out of his body, revealing a green orb.

“What the-? That never happened before.” Twilight muttered, examining it.

“Huh...I don’t remember eating.” Spike scratched the back of his head.

“Is that an egg?” Fluttershy asked.

“Is it from the Princess?” Twilight hoped.

"But Twilight, she never done something like this..." Jamie pointed out. "So who-"

Before Jamie had the chance to finish, a voice spoken through the orb. A voice that we all shivered and grew fearful upon recognizing it.

“Not a Princess, but a Queen.”

I gasped, along with the others before we saw what was on the orb....It can’t be...I mean, I know that we would meet her again, but not like this! It's...

“That bastard again!” Jack yelled.

"Queen Chrysalis..." Nicole muttered, narrowing her eyes at the sight of the Changeling Queen.

"How is she back?!" Kaede covered her mouth in shock.

"My my my, you didn’t have trouble seeing through my minions huh? Clever. I’m sure you’re clever enough to notice some little fillies and human girl are missing?” Of course...She planned this entire thing, so they must've done something to them!

“Where’s my sister?!” Mason exclaimed in anger while Chrysalis smirked before moving to the side and we saw the CMC’s and Carrie in a large cocoons, trapped together but were still able to look around.

"I believe this is what you're looking for?" Chrysalis presented, taunting us with her a smirk on her face.

“How do we know that’s the real them?” Rantaro asked. "For all we know, those four could be one of your precious babies disguised as one of them?"

Yeah, there's no possible way that it's them.

"Maybe this will help us get out Cutie-Marks?” Applebloom smiled, not feeling frighten by any of this.

“In what? Being fillynapped?" Scootaloo questioned incredulously. Sweetie and Carrie sighed, slumping their heads down.

“That’s them.” Jack deadpanned, groaning at the sight of them.

“I have them here… in my kingdom. You can come and collect them if you want.” Chrysalis offered.

"Really? That easy...?" Kodi tilted his head.

"Hold on, you expect us to listen to this bug queen? Even if I haven't met her before, I still think this is suspicious." Skye pouted.

"Oh my? You must be Skye Jones, one of the humans in this world." Chrysalis smirked.

"Yeah!" Skye grinned before widening her eyes. "H-Huh?! Hey, how do you know me?!"

"I know a lot about you humans, so it isn't that hard." Chrysalis cackled. "Even if we haven't met, I know a lot about stuff about you nine in peculiar."

What does that mean? How could she possibly know? Does this relate to back on how her army can easily transform into our appearances?

"Now then, let's make a deal," Chrysalis smirked. "Why not you all come to my kingdom in three days, but if not, then I'll simply suck away all of their love. I can already sense how special these four must be to you whelps."

“Oooh, that bastard has gone too far!” Jack yelled, growling angrily at the Changeling queen.

“Well this is obviously a trap.” Rainbow huffed.

"I'll be waiting to 'generously' give them to you..." Before Chrysalis could respond in time, we began hearing the Crusaders speaking to each other.

"What would a Cutie-Mark in being fillynapped look like?" Apple Bloom whispered.

"Like us?" Sweetie Belle questioned.

"I don't know if I want a picture of you on my flank for the rest of my life." Scootaloo rolled her eyes.

"And how is being fillynapped count as a talent?" Carrie asked curiously.

We all sweat-dropped at how nonchalant and less afraid they were acting. Then again, they are kids...but didn't they even see the Changelings back the Canterlot Wedding?

Even Chrysalis was sweat-dropping at the sight of them.

"...Because I don't know how long I can put up with this." Chrysalis groaned.

"Hey! She's about to start monologuing! I bet she reveals her entire twisted plan!" Scootaloo anticipated, only to receive an annoyed look from the bug queen herself.

"...Ugh...Goodbye..." Chrysalis sighed in exasperation before the orb signaled off. So Chrysalis has them in her castle? This all sounds so suspicious, and maybe a trap...but...

"Ngh!" Whoa! M-Mason?!

"Mason darling! Calm down!" Rarity cried out, pulling Mason with her magic before he could destroy much of the orb.

"Where is she?! Don't you play mind games with me, Chrysalis!" Mason cried out in anger.

"Mason, dude! Stop!" I called out.

"Stand your ground, Private Hunter!" Skye added.

After a few deep breaths, he slowly began calming himself down.

"R-Right...I am sorry for you all to see me like this...but..." Mason looks down sadly. "Carrie...Sweetie Belle...Apple Bloom...Scootaloo..."

"Shh...It's okay." Rarity shushed him, nuzzling against his chest. "I understand how you feel...and we will get them back."

"Rarity's right." Sarah nodded. "Hang on tight Mason, Carrie and the others will be safe. Chrysalis is expecting us to arrive there in three days so that she can take us down herself."

"Arrogant to the end." Rantaro sighed. "Jeez, I guess her botched plan on beating us before back at Canterlot taught that stupid bug nothing."

“Though, why three days?” Twilight wondered. Yeah? Why just three days? I mean, wouldn't she just suck away their love in just 24 hours? There's gotta be a hidden meaning behind it. Suddenly, she then gasped, “The Secretariat Comet! In three days, the Secretariat Comet will be passing over Equestria!”

“And that relates how?” Jack asked. "It's just some comet, big whoop..."

"It's-"

“It’s a phenomenon every magical creature is going to feel the effects, am I right?" Nicole guessed, adjusting her glasses while Twilight simply stared at her in a deadpanned manner before sighing, "Yes, and that might be why Princess Celestia didn’t answer. She’s probably protecting Canterlot from that.”

"What?" Pinkie asked.

"Speak in English, you two." Skye stated with a raised brow.

"She means that the Secretariat Comet will be the biggest conjection in celestial events in over 3,000 years because it drains away everyone's magic. It could very well happen to us..." Jamie frowned in worried. "Which means, this is what Queen Chrysalis wants...She's hoping for us to arrive when the comet comes to give her a fighting chance."

“But...if Celestia is busy, then who's gonna go to the changeling kingdom and save them?” Fluttershy asked.

“Duh, we are.” Rantaro rolled her eyes. "Who else? Besides, I got no choice in the matter..."

"You really want to go Rantaro?" I asked.

"My business is gonna be put on hold what with these guys recovering." Rantaro sighed. "So whatever..."

Well...that's...something I never expected you to respond.

"Still no one with me that this is a trap?" Rainbow Dash called.

"Can it Skittles." Jack snorted. "We all probably know that it's a damn trap, but we can't sit on our behinds and let them get away with this crap! Screw the princesses if they are't gonna help!"

"Jack!" Twilight scolded.

"Hey, if that princess wants to do nothing and not help us, we'll do this ourselves." Jack scoffed.

"I hate to agree with the brute, but he is correct." Rarity's agreeing with Jack? Well this situation really has turned for the worse. "Sweetie Belle needs my help! I'm going with him!"

"Same!" Applejack grunted. "Even if its a trap, we can't just wait around for help from the Royals! I've got to save my sister!"

"Me too!" Mason agreed. "As a soon-to-become Royal Guard, I'm not gonna sit around and just let my sister get hurt by that vile bug queen! We need to act fast!"

"But we should wait..." Twilight stated. "We need to some investigation into what the queen is up to. Something isn't right..."

“And we don’t even know where to go.” Kaede stated. "I mean, we don't even know where the Changeling Kingdom could be."

She's right? It could be anywhere...so where could we even start?

“But I know someone who can.” At that moment, we all glanced over at Nicole, who was adjusting her glasses while giving us a serious look.

"Y-You do?" Fluttershy asked.

“Who?” Kodi barked curiously.

"...Meet up at the front of the home-ship and I'll explain." Nicole explained. "And don't even try attacking my friend."

Why would we do that...? We're not that heartless...

Later

"Wonder what's taking so long...?" Twilight muttered as we all waited outside of the home-ship. Sarah made sure that no other Changeling are still here in Ponyville with help of her amulet while the rest of us helped out some of the towns-ponies.

"I'm back..." Nicole came out of the door, carrying a...potted plant?

"Well, where's your friend?" Skye asked.

"He's right here..." Nicole placed the potted plant down while we all stared at it with blank looks.

"...You're kidding...right?" Applejack glared blankly at the psychologist.

“How is that gonna help?” Jack deadpanned.

"Yeah..." Skye chuckled nervously before leaning over to Kodi and whispered, "Should we call help for this girl? I know she's weird, but not this too weird..."

"Beats me..." Kodi shrugged.

"Yeah...someone call for help." Pinkie pleaded while we shushed them both.

"....Everyone." Nicole turns to us with a serious look. "I've...been keeping a secret, and Mr. Wilde has helped me keep this a secret too."

Rantaro went silent and simply just allowed Nicole to go along with this.

"What do you mean...?" I asked in confusion.

"Let's just say...I've been taking care of him and been helping him through...so please don't go hostile and trust him." Huh? What is she talking about? I mean, isn't it just a potted plant? Unless it's a magic potted plant?

...W-Well, I'm sorta taking my chances.

The pot suddenly change… into a changeling!

"A-Ahhh!" Kaede screamed. "It's a Changeling!"

"Get it!" Rainbow hissed before we all got into our fighting positions and me aiming my Hacking Gun in front of him.

We all got into fighting positions while Rarity screamed in terror, “W-Wait, I’m friendly!” the changeling cried out.

“Yeah right bug!” Jack growled. "Hey kid, shoot this damn thing!"

Well...I don't know. I mean, this guy is actually talking. Other than Chrysalis, I didn't think any of the Changelings would try speaking, but he seems to be telling the truth.

Nicole let out a sigh before adjusting her glasses and said "Please don't attack my friend and guest here."

"Guest? And...Friend?!" I asked in shock. "You mean this guy here is the friend you're talking about?!"

"Yeah, she is and he won't do harm." Rantaro stated nonchalantly. "He's just going through a phase."

"Are you kidding?! So far, we know that he's the big bads!" Skye narrowed her eyes before leaning over to Pinkie. "That is right, right...?"

"Mm-hmm, totally!" Pinkie nodded.

"Thorax shows signs of timidness and nervousness unlike his brothers and sisters. Unlike them he wasn't to have friendship with the ponies and us instead of stealing love.” Nicole explained.

"Yeah, and do you think we'll accept that?!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed.

"Rainbow Dash, wait!" I exclaimed, raising my hands to her. "We should at least hear them out."

“It’s true. All I ever wanted was a friend. I was a part of the attack on Canterlot during the royal wedding but I never saw true friendship like yours and I couldn't just steal it and feed on it's love. I wanted to share it. Nicole saw right through my disguise and she knew that I wasn't like the rest. If I had a friend maybe the love we shared could sustain me but I don’t think anyone would want to be friends with a creature like me,” Thorax said sadly. "Nicole has been helping me with my Hive Mind so I can no longer be under Chrysalis's control."

“And why should we believe you after what your kind did at the wedding?” Rarity sneered.

"After what you all done, it's hard to believe in your words..." Mason sighed. "Nicole, why?"

"...Because he intrigues me." Nicole stated, looking through her iPad before showing the screen, revealing online notes that she herself made. "From my study for almost a month, I've been helping him control his urges. Queen Chrysalis has apparently been using the Hive Mind to take control and give orders to the rest of the Changelings. It's very similar to a bee."

"Huh?!" I asked in shock.

"So...back at the Royal Wedding, they were just doing what Queen Chrysalis was telling them to do?" Jamie asked.

"She says that it's for the best..." Thorax muttered sadly.

"Heh, 'for the best'?" Rantaro scoffed. "You just gonna let that thing control you? Wow, and I thought we helped you with your little self-esteem. I guess not."

"Rantaro!" Fluttershy scolded. "Please be nice to him, I'm sure Mr. Thorax went through some terrible times, um...right?"

Thorax let out a nod before closing his eyes, and soon...music began playing somewhere around here. Before you knew it, Thorax started singing...not something that we were expecting.

Music started to play and Thorax started… singing… not something I expected.

Everyone stood in shock at Thorax until Sarah came up to him, “I’ll give you a chance, Thorax.”

Thorax’s eye lit up with joy, “Really?”

Sarah nodded and replied, “Thank you.”

"Sarah? Are you sure?" Mason asked.

"Yeah, what if he back-stabs us?" Skye added.

"Guys, please give him a chance." Sarah pleaded. "Ren, what do you think?"

"Well..." I softly smiled at her and Thorax before nodding, "Well yeah...I say let's give Thorax a shot in this."

"Oh fine..." Skye sighed before taking out her bat. "But if he so betrays us, then he knows what he's got coming."

"Where do you even keep that?" Kodi asked curiously.

"I always kept inside of me." Skye smirked confidently before seeing our incredulous and skeptical looks, causing her to deflate in annoyance. "Okay fine...I asked Sergeant Pinkie to hide it in her mane. Seriously, her mane is like an infinite pocket dimension in there."

"And I don't wanna know what the hell's that about." Jack groaned.

"I would." Sarah giggled.

"Sure you would, newbie..." Hey, be nice Jack. I mean, she's just curious.

“So… how exactly are you going to help us?” Rainbow asked curiously.

“I know how to get to the Changeling Kingdom so I can help you get there and save your friends.” Thorax stated. “Even if it…gulp...means facing my mother.”

“Don’t worry partner, we’ll protect you.” Applejack promised.

“Yeah. If those meanies wanna get to you, they’ll have to get through us!” Pinkie added.

Thorax smiled happily, happy to hear that we're willing to help him.

“Alright everypony, it will take us almost three days to reach the changeling kingdom so we better get moving.” Twilight added.

“Right.” We all nodded.

"Hmm..." Skye tapped her chin in thought. "Well we obviously can't transport to alert the enemies...So we need a faster transportation to get there."

"Transportation...?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"Where in tarnation are we gonna get that?" Applejack asked.

"Trust me." Skye grinned. "As a matter of fact, I had both Private Wilde and Private Yamaki to help me with it!"

"Jack...and Rantaro?" I asked in confusion before turning to the two.

"She asked for help after sparing a little cash, so..." Rantaro shrugged before nudging Jack. "And the big guy helped out make up the van, making it run its gas...along with him."

"S-Shut up...!" Jack exclaimed angrily.

"So where is this... transportation?" I asked.

Sarah lit her horn and a large object underneath a white sheet appeared. Now ladies, gentlemen and ponies, I give you. Your self driving car!"

Skye yanked the sheet off revealing a small gray car with dashing windows and headlights.

"So this car can actually drive itself?!" Mason exclaimed. "But how could you possibly do that?!"

"Yep. You just has to say the location you want to go to and the GPS will map out the perfect route and take you there." Skye explained. "And don't ask how, it was Sarah's idea."

"Mm-hmm." Sarah nodded, smiling softly. "We thought maybe something like this might happen, so we decided to do this in case of emergencies like this."

"Skye, Sarah...where you find this?" I asked in shock.

"Simple really. It was in that garage that was between Private Yamaki and Wilde's bedrooms and I just happened to modify it." Skye smirked.

"Wait, this car probably won't fit most of us." Kaede stated.

"That is why I happened to make another in case." Skye whispered to Sarah, who nodded before her horn lit up and revealed another transportation.

"And I give you...a new van!" Skye unveiled the sheets, revealing a large gray van that could possibly fit everyone.

"Whoa...it looks like a nice van." I exclaimed.

"It's a Citroen H Van!" Jamie gasped. "They were produced by a French automaker between the 1940s to the 1980s. It was certainly made after WWII, but they stopped production due to the newly made vehicles today in our world."

"Heh heh, yep." Jack smirked. "It works like a charm, so we can each share with it."

"Yes..." Nicole nodded. "Hmm...Although, one of us will have to drive this van while the other drives the other."

"Okay, but who?" I wondered.

"I could drive." Jack offered.

"Do you even have a license to drive a car?" Jamie asked.

"I have a license to drive a motorcycle, not a car." Jack scoffed. "Besides, who can stop us? The fuzz aren't here in this world, and besides, none of these ponies know about cars or vans or anything we have...!"

"I-I was just asking..." Jamie frowned.

"So whose gonna drive the van then?" Pinkie asked.

"Me." Jack huffed. "I don't have a license, but so what? It'll be fine, you didn't hear me, you pink loon?"

"Just asking!" Pinkie grinned.

"And besides, this will be great to experience what an automobile is like!" Twilight smiled. "I mean, Jamie told me a lot about from our coffee breaks, but now we can finally experienced them!"

"And you can thank me for making your dreams Private Twilight!" Skye smirked before growing stern, "But no time for talking! We got to hurry!"

No problem! With these vehicles, we'll definitely there right early straight to the Changeling Kingdom! Though, I have to wonder...Chrysalis seems to smug and confident on this. She took the Crusaders and Carrie for some purpose, like she's trying to draw us over to her kingdom when the comet arrives. But for what purpose...?

"Ren...?" Fluttershy called me over, noticing my frown. "Is something wrong...?"

"Huh? Oh...Sorry Flutters. I'm just worried for Apple Bloom, Carrie, and the other girls. I mean, Chrysalis took them hostage and wants us to get them...I think it might be a trap, but even so...We can't just abandoned our friends like that." I frowned sadly.

"I know what you mean..." Fluttershy gulped. "But...even so, I know that we'll be able to save them...I think."

"Yeah..." I softly smiled, feeling confident that we will save them. I mean, we would always be best friends with each other no matter the situation.

"Hey Ren, Fluttershy..." Sarah called over. "We should probably hurry and get ready for our trip to the Changeling Kingdom."

"Oh right, thanks for the reminder Sarah." I smiled softly. "We're all ready."

Soon, we each boarded the two different vehicles; Me, Jamie, Jack, Mason and the Mane Six got into the van while Rantaro, Skye, Kaede, Thorax and Nicole got into the car.

"I'll drive." Rantaro offered.

"It saves trouble from lessening room in that van, and I'm not good with being with crowds." Nicole agreed. "Besides, I'm not used to being in crowds...yet."

"Mm...well at least it's made for us each." Thorax meekly smiled, sitting between Skye and Kaede.

"Surprised that you're letting yourself drive for us." Kaede stated, surprised by Rantaro's offer.

"Meh, who says this is free?" Rantaro rose a brow, extending his hand. "So how about you all hand it over to me?"

Kaede, Skye, and Nicole gave him blank looks before they each handed him their bits, excluding Skye.

"That's better." Rantaro snorted.

Okay, maybe not.

"Wait, where is she?" Rainbow Dash asked, noticing that Sarah and Snowflake aren't in the van! We all looked around before noticing the two outside of either vehicles.

"Sarah, aren't you and Snowflake going to get into the van or car?" I asked, noticing Sarah and Snowflake not getting into either vehicle.

"Nah, Snowflake and I will just walk." Sarah replied, surprising us all.

"Just walk?" Mason asked in confusion. "Hmm...are you sure?"

Sarah nodded, “Yes. Snowflake and I will be fine.”

"Mm..." Mason closed his eyes. "Okay..."

"Well...alright..." Kaede frowned, speaking through the communicator. "Anyway, girls, how are you feeling in the van?"

"It seems pretty's nice." Twilight smiled softly. "I guess it beats riding in a chariot or hot air balloon."

"Best part, I get shotgun!" Pinkie cheered.

"Excellent choice, Sergeant Pinkie!" Skye smiled happily, voicing out through the communicator. "You always gotta have the shotgun! It's the most vital thing in a roadtrip!"

"Says who?" Jack snorted.

"Well...I think just about anyone." I shrugged. "And wait, did you guys install a communicator?"

However, there was no response back.

"Hold on..." Mason stepped over and pressed a button that was next to it. "Can you hear us?"

"Yep, that's right." Kaede answered.

"Oh yeah, did I forget that I installed this to communicate with each other?" Skye ranged, sounding sheepish.

"Whoa...how can you do that?" Pinkie awed.

"Pinkie...This is just another piece of tech from their world." Rarity stated.

"Though, it's kinda similar to communicate through telepathy in a way." Twilight hummed.

"Oh! I wonder if we can fast-food through here!" Pinkie giggled.

"No it wouldn't..." Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes before leaning over to Fluttershy and whispered "Does it?"

Wasting no time, Twilight walked over and pressed her hoof on the button and communicated, "Thorax, how do we get to the Changeling Kingdom?"

"Well...We have to get past the Macintosh Hills, we need to go South through the Appaloosan Mountain Range, and then through the forest of Loeta and that should bring us to the gates of the Changeling Kingdom." Thorax said.

"Sounds easy enough!" Skye smirked before she began giving the directions into the self-driving car. You know, I never knew that we would get something like that.

"Location locked." Whoa...was that from the car? Pretty impressive.

"Alright you maggots, let's go." Skye called. "Time for a rescue mission to save our friends!"

We all started our engines while we each sat on our seats, and as said, Pinkie was sitting in the front seat, next to Jack while Kodiak lay his head on my lap.

Sarah placed a saddlebag on her back and nodded, "Alright, we're all ready to go."

"Are you sure you don't want to get in here?" Kaede asked. "I mean, we can share some room with you and Snowflake."

"Don't worry...we'll be able to catch up with you guys." Sarah reassured with a soft smile.

"Heh, if you say so newbie..." Jack shrugged before he started the engines, along with the self-driving car the others are in. "We're good and ready to load in!"

"Right!" Skye called through the communicator, sound exciting. "Come on! Ponies, fatso, leader, and other pals! Let's roll!"

"What the hell!?" Jack yelled out angrily. "You're so gonna get a spanking, you little brat!"

"You could try, but you won't stop this general!" Skye laughed.

Jack and Skye started the engines for both of the vehicles and we were off. Hang on tight, you guys...we're coming for you!

"Carrie..." Mason muttered, clenching his fists. "I'm sorry for not being there for you..."

"Mason...It's okay." Rarity placed a hoof on his hands. "I understand...but we need to stay calm..."

"But even so, I let her down by letting her and her friends, even your sister, to get caught. How can I not blame myself for it?" Mason sighed, looking down sadly.

"But even so...I have myself to blame too." Rarity sighed sadly. "If I just been a little more cautious about this, then..."

Rarity began sniffling as tears began developing her eyes.

"Miss Rarity...Please don't cry." Mason pleaded.

"Yeah, I get what you mean Rares..." Applejack frowned worriedly. "Our sisters are in trouble, and we can't just sit around and do nothing about it while they're suffering from that varmint!"

"Yeah! Even though if Scootaloo isn't my sister, she's still important to me!" Rainbow Dash agreed. "I might as well do much to save them over myself!"

"They're right..." Mason nodded, placing a hand on Rarity's hoof. "Promise me that you can let out your tears...when its all over."

"Mason..." Rarity smiled softly, feeling happy.

"Mason's right!" Spike agreed happily. "You can never go wrong! I promise that I will save them too, Rarity! I will not let you down!"

"Whoa Spike, didn't know you were in this." Jamie expressed his surprise upon noticing Spike there.

"I boarded in along with you guys when deciding seats." Spike stated. "So...looks like we're going to the Changeling Kingdom? It's gonna be a rough journey, huh?"

"It apparently will." I shrugged. "But who knows what we'll see...I hope we can get there in time..."

Hang on tight girls...we're coming for you...

And so...we've begin our journey straight into the Changeling Kingdom. This van seems to run by electric power as we began to run straight over through the many landmarks that Thorax stated. First we went through Macintosh Hills, then the Apploosan Mountain Range, and pass the forest of Lotea, and eventually, we were almost nearing to the gates that would take us to Chrysalis's lair, the Changeling Kingdom.

But unfortunately, we had to get pass a little mountain...or mountains, heh heh...oops.

“So how do we get through the mountains in these things?” Jack asked, turning back at Twilight.

“There’s a path carved through the mountains when miners used to worked there. We can use those to get through the mountain ranges in no time.” Twilight explained.

“Er… through the mountain? Why not go over the mountain?” Rainbow suggested.

“Skittles, these vehicles and the others, except for newbie and that pet tiger of hers can actually fly.” Jack stated.

“The fastest way is through the mountain.” Twilight said.

“We’ve only got three days to save Apple bloom, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo and Carrie. I say we take the fastest route.” Applejack insisted.

Rainbow groaned, “Well for me the fastest way is over the mountain.”

“No we stay together as a group.” Applejack glared at her sternly.

Rainbow scoffed in annoyance before huffing, "Fine.”

"Don't worry Rainbow Dash." I reassured with a soft smile. "I mean, once we arrive to the place, you can stretch your wings, I mean, we're almost there..."

"I know, and we got way earlier than we expected." Applejack complimented. "We've been gone for a day and we're already one-step ahead to get there."

"Hey, can it you two!" Jack hissed. "We're trying to drive here through!"

Jack and Skye drove the two vehicles with Sarah and Snowflake following behind the van. Soon we made it to the entrance to the mine. It had two small pillars with statues of large dragons on it.

“Eek!” Fluttershy squealed in fear, clutching onto me.

"W-Whoa! Flutters!" Ren cried out in shock.

"S-Sorry...my dragophobia was acting up again..." Fluttershy sniffled.

"It's alright, they're just statues." I reassured with a soft smile before feeling the van stopping ahead. "Huh? Why are we stopping?"

"We can't go through. It's too narrow to fit either car." Jack huffed.

"Hmm...This is a problem." Mason muttered before we all got out of the car and look at the entrance.

“How the hell are we gonna get these vehicles through that?” Jack asked irritated.

“Hmm…” Sarah examined the entrance. “I can make the entrance bigger.”

“How newbie?” Jack asked.

“Watch.” Sarah stood at the front of the entrance and took a deep breath. She stomped her foot and a crack moved across the ground and towards the sides of the exit and amazingly they moved apart wide enough for the van and car to go through.

“Oh my stars!” Rarity cried.

“Woah!” I exclaimed in shock.

Sarah just moved solid rock! And she did it...with a stomp of her foot.

“What the hell? How’d you do that?!” Jack exclaimed as well.

“I have many tricks and talents that are not seen with the naked eye.” Sarah said simply. “Now come along we have a deadline.”

Sarah and Snowflake walked into the mine system while we all stared at her in a dumbfounded way.

“...I hate to be the one who would fight her...” Skye muttered.

"Same..." I gulped.

Just how powerful is this Sarah Gem pony?

Soon enough, we all piled back into the vehicles and drove into the mine, following after Sarah and Snowflake.

We didn’t see anything in the caves as Jack and Skye turned on the headlights to help them see better. “I wonder how long it’s been since anyone’s been in these caves?” Twilight wondered.

“Well that means we’ll get through without an issue.” Applejack said hopefully.

Suddenly, there was a roar echoed through the cave.

The vehicles stopped and we all froze. “What… was that?” I asked.

Oh god, please don't pull a Dead Space on me...I mean, I seriously just gotten it out of my head upon watching that trailer once...

“Probably. Nothing.” Twilight said, hoping it was nothing. Unfortunately, that wish didn't come true at all...

At that moment, we heard four more roars and suddenly the ground began to shake beneath the vehicles.

"W-What's going on?!" Rarity cried out.

Suddenly, the communicator flickered on and we heard Rantaro's voice saying "Crap!"

"Everyone, stay calm!" Nicole's voice ranged. "We're gonna fall, but stay calm!"

"How can we stay calm from that?!" Spike and Rainbow Dash exclaimed before we felt the rumbling and saw visible cracks on the ground and...the two vehicles fell into the darkness with us inside.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!"

At that moment, I think I experienced what a nightmare for death would experience...is this....the end of us?

Meanwhile...

“Hmm….” Back at her secret lair, the Queen of the Changelings was watching everything through her crystal ball, but she wasn't interested in the humans nor the Mane Six, but she was looking more at Sarah and Snowflake. “That unicorn is very strong. She could be of use to me.” Then she looked at the Mane 6. “I think it’s time for a little fun.” she turned to her minions. “You have your orders. I’ll be watching.”

The changelings nodded and flew off.

"Alright then, Miss Sarah Gem, prepare for your untimely demise..." Chrysalis chuckled.

Back with Ren and his friends

.....

"Ren..."

......

"Ren..."

....

"Ren...!" Huh? I felt my eyes slowly waking up before feeling Kodiak licking my cheek and Fluttershy looking down at me with a worried look.

"Whoa!" I jolted right back up before turning to the worried looking Fluttershy. "F-Fluttershy...? Kodiak...?"

"Oh thank goodness, you're alright!" Fluttershy rushed over and hugged me while Kodi licked my face happily.

"Oh boy Ren! You're finally safe!" Kodi laughed. "We thought you were gonna die!"

What? Me? No way I would end up dead that easily.

"I-I'm fine you guys, honest. So...what happened?" I asked, looking around the place before realizing that we were still in the van. Wait...we're alright and the van is still alright?! But how?!

“Everyone?” Twilight called, rubbing her head while the others woken up.

"I-Is everyone alright?" Jamie asked, groaning a little.

"Yeah...I think so." Mason coughed.

"But how are we still alright? I thought we fell into a chasm?" Rarity wondered.

We all looked around before noticing something that was protecting both us and the van.

"A pink shield...?" Kodi blinked.

“What the-?” Jack exclaimed. Suddenly the shield disappeared before the two vehicles, along with us fell safely on the ground.

“Well.. that was odd.” I'll say Applejack...Wait, that couldn't been...

“Where are the others?” Twilight asked.

“They must have gotten separated.” Rainbow suggested.

"Well...We might as well find them." I insisted. "Come on, Kaede, Rantaro, Nicole, Thorax, and Skye could be in trouble! Even Sarah and Snowflake!"

"You're right, let's find them!" Jack nodded. "Let me just check out the van to see any damages while you all figure out our surroundings.

"Right..." I nodded.

"I'll stay too to see if anyone can communicate back." Jamie offered, which we nodded. "Be careful you guys."

"Don't worry Jamie, we'll be alright." Twilight reassured with a soft smile before we all began exiting out of the van. We began searching around the caverns and looked across to see how massive for the chasm it is. I was walking by with Twilight, Kodiak and Fluttershy, and we were exploring the place.

"Huh...for a chasm, it is...creepy." Kodi whimpered before I scratched him underneath the ears.

"Don't worry boy, we'll find a way. We just need to find a way out while also looking for the others."

But then, suddenly...we began hearing voices...and those sound like....

"Man, I can't stand Twilight. She's such a know-it-all egghead!"

Rainbow Dash?

"And what about Fluttershy and Ren? They're both scaredy-cats, mostly Fluttershy since she's afraid of her own shadow! She was useless to bring along..."

And Pinkie Pie?! W-Wait...why are they saying all that?!

"Why...Why would they say things like that?" Twilight widened her eyes in horror upon hearing this while I saw Fluttershy began crying, using her tail to wipe away her tears.

"Wait, girls, something's not right..." I muttered. "I mean, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie would never say that..."

"Well they did now..." Twilight huffed. "I can't believe them..."

"Me too..." Fluttershy sniffled.

"Flutters...You've known them for your whole life and you know that they didn't mean that..." I frowned worriedly.

"...I don't know what's true anymore..." Fluttershy sighed sadly, flying away.

"Flutters! Wait!"

"And who can forget about Ren? He's so useless without that megaphone he always carries around! So useless for a human being!"

Huh? Useless? Pinkie Pie would never say that...No, she wouldn't say that...Something's definitely not right.

"Come on Ren, let's go meet up with the others..." Twilight sighed, walking away.

"R-Right..." I nodded, frowning.

"Ren, what's going on? You don't think they would really said that to each other, right?" Kodiak whimpered. "I mean, they're friends, right?"

"I know...but I can't shake the feeling that this is too weird and too much of a coincidence...and plus, how could we have just hear them?" I wondered, rubbing my chin in thought.

Soon after, we all returned back to the spot before spotting Jack and Jamie starting up the engines.

"About damn time..." Jack sighed before turning to see us, "Heh, you all sure came back fast..."

"Yes..." Mason nodded grimly. Huh? What's up with him?

"Um, guys? Is...everything alright?" I asked, noticing them each looking upset with each other, excluding Mason.

But the girls were starting to argue with each other, “Oh look, we all found the exit without your ‘Knowledge and Magic’ La De Bah.” Applejack sneered.

“What? There’s nothing wrong with magic… or being smart.” Twilight frowned, looking quite shock for Applejack to said that.

“Maybe you’re the one being full of yourself!” Rainbow yelled at Twilight.

"Skittles, not cool." Jack glared.

“Stay out of this Rainbow and Jack. Oh I’m sorry I’m too much of an egghead for you? Should I use smaller words?” Twilight sneered.

"Girls, stop it." I pleaded.

"That's enough." Mason demanded, but the girls continued to argue more and more, causing me and the other boys to look at each other in worried.

"What's up with them?" Jack asked, adjusting his pants a bit.

"We don't know...while me, Miss Rarity, and Applejack were exploring much around the cave, I've heard Twilight and Fluttershy's voices." Wait, what? Mason heard what?

"Wait...what do you mean?" I asked. "We weren't even that far off."

"I thought it was weird too...especially what they said about them, even me." Mason stated, furrowing his brows. "Even what you said to me..."

"W-What I said?" I asked in surprise.

"Yes...you said that I'm too much of a show-off with my pole, and...a tool..." Wait WHAT?! No no no! I would never say that! "And what Twilight said, she was implying that she was much better than everypony due to having magic to defeat anything. Fluttershy was even saying that me and Miss Rarity couldn't even do anything right or even care about anything about our sisters...without dirtying our own hands."

I-I can't believe what I'm hearing...! This can't be right...!

"But...we also heard Rainbow Dash and Pinkie's voice..." Kodi stated. "And they said similar things to us."

"Yeah...and the weirdest part is that I know that neither of us would ever say that to each other." I frowned before turning to the girls, who continued to argue back and forth.

"But then, why...?" Jamie wondered before gasping a bit, "Oh no...this must've been a trap!"

"A trap...?" I asked in confusion.

"I think that we were by tricked by-"

Suddenly, the ground began to shake again before Jamie could finish his sentence.

"What's going on now?" I exclaimed before something burst from the ground! What the hell...are those...?!

The first three resembled giant gulper eels with bulging eyes, spiny face and six rows of rotating teeth in their mouths

The other one was a heavily mutated, albino version of them. It is white in color, has large red eyes, a longer and a more massive body, and larger tail. It also has three rows of teeth, but they are aligned differently. They have rows of frilly spines that line the edges of its unsegmented underbelly.

Wait...have I seen those things before...?

"W-What in the world...?!" Mason gasped.

Wait...Those designs...I have seen them before...

"What the?!" I exclaimed in shock. "Those are...! A Screaming Death and a Whispering Death?!"

I remembered seeing these in the HTTYD series, Dragons Riders and Defenders of Berk! It's one of my favorite cartoon shows! But...What the?!

"A what?" Mason asked, grabbing his bamboo pole. "Ren...what are these things?"

"They're dragons, but fictional ones from a show. Where did they come from?!" I exclaimed in shock.

The four dragons roared at us and one of the Whispering Deaths fired its spines at us. Twilight made a shield around us and deflected the spines but the Screaming Death let out a screech, hurting our ears and it actually cracked Twilight’s shield.

“Guess your magic is that strong afterall.” Applejack smirked, which pissed off Twilight.

"I didn't want to hear that from you!" Twilight hissed.

The Whispering Death fired its spines at us.

"Watch out!" I got in front of their way and used Knock-back, sending the spines back at them, which took down three of the dragons. I then aimed my Hacking Gun at the Screaming Death, but it let out a loud screech, pushing us all back onto the wall.

"Crap! What the hell?!" Jack hissed. "If these came from newbie, then why the hell are they attacking us?!"

That's what I wanna know! I mean, if they're from a cartoon, then they should like, come out of Sarah, right?

Suddenly, the three Whispering Deaths fired their shots at us before we all quickly tried avoiding it, but suddenly...

"AAGH!" Huh?! Sarah!?

Sarah suddenly appeared, riding on Snowflake before jumping off of him and taking the hit from the two spines that were launched at us; one to the right front leg and one to the back left.

“Sarah!”

“Newbie!” Me and Jack cried out before rushing over to her.

Snowflake purred and frantically nudged Sarah. She groaned and her hood came down revealing her face. At that moment, The four dragons’ eyes widened at the sight of her and the larger Whispering Death gently flew over to her.

“Hey, back off! Jack growled, seeing the Screaming Death slowly approaching Sarah, but it didn't look like it was angry.

"Wait Jack...!" I called, getting in front of him. "They're...doing something."

"What?!" Jack yelled before seeing the four dragons warbling straight at Sarah, who slowly looks up and and manages to stand with help from her tiger friend.

"It’s alright.” Sarah reassured, smiling softly at them. “Whispers, you didn’t mean it.” Sarah said.

“Whispers?!” We all exclaimed, staring at Sarah in shock.

“You know theses dragons?” Mason asked, crossing his arms.

“Yes, Snowflake and I met them during our travels. I didn’t know you lived here now. Sorry we intruded on your

The four dragons warbled and nodded before they all slithered back into the tunnels. While the girls and Jamie were gawking at the sight of them, me, Mason and Jack helped Sarah up before we heard a beeping sound and turned to see the car speeding towards us before stopping.

"Guys!" Thorax called, poking his head out of the window with a relieved look while the others came out of the car and saw us.

"Guys, you're all safe!" Kaede sighed in relief. "I thought you were gone till Sarah told us that you were alright..."

"Wait, really?" I asked in shock. "What happened to you guys?"

"We've gotten ourselves lost in this damn cavern, what you expect?" Rantaro scoffed in annoyance.

"Well-"

"Don't worry, we're alright. And Sarah helped us before they began running off upon hearing that loud roar." Nicole explained, adjusting her glasses.

"Heh, how lucky..." Mason sighed in relief before turning to the girls. "Well now, since we're all back together, let's get out of here and tend to Sarah's wounds."

The girls nodded before looking at each other and glared at one another. Oh boy...

"What's up with them?" Kaede asked in worried.

"We'll explain once we get out of here..." I sighed.

Trust me, this is just already chaotic...

Meanwhile

"Um..." Carrie looked around in worried, seeing much of the inside of Chrysalis's lair while she and her friends were trapped inside of a cocoon.

"Like what what you see?" Queen Chrysalis approaches them, smirking down at them. "This is my glorious home, where I can grow my newborn and soon it would stand as the highest peak for when I rule Equestria and take all the love in the world."

"You won't get away with this! My big brother, Ren, Kaede, and my other friends are gonna stop us!" Carrie exclaimed, pouting at the Changeling Queen.

"Yeah, you really don't scare us, to be honest." Scootaloo rolled her eyes.

"And plus, they'll kick your plot into next week." Sweetie Belle stated, glaring at her.

"Tch, keep talking and I can already absorb your love..." Chrysalis hissed before taking deep breaths. "No...I need to savor your love later once I take down those foolish humans, especially that Sarah Gem..."

"How do you know, Sarah?" Carrie asked, growing surprise by that.

"Let's just say that a little friend told me about her in one of our meetings before realizing that he was using me as a tool..." Carrie and the Crusaders looked at each other, wondering what she was talking about. Chrysalis didn't seem to want to talk more about it and decided to change the subject.

"Have I ever told you why I decided to kidnap three fillies and a little human girl?" Chrysalis asked, narrowing her eyes directly at the four kids.

"No...?" The Crusaders muttered, feeling a bit afraid of what she was gonna say.

"Well...You four are the ones who feed on your friends' anger if something terrible happened to you four. Once I'm done with those pathetic humans and ponies, Sarah Gem will be next...and then I'll show him that I am capable of doing this all without his help, and that I'm not some tool to just throw away for his own benefits."

"And then what?" Scootaloo asked.

"And then...I'll take over Equestria and I won't be foolish to underestimate my foes, especially those two ignorant fools, Twilight Sparkle and Jamie Watson. Especially with Sarah Gem...Heh heh..."

"Uh oh..." The girls all muttered.

Carrie frowned worriedly before looking away.

"Please big brother...everyone....hurry..."

....Man...this sucks...the girls are fighting each other...and now we're here together outside of the cave through our vehicles and Skye came out with the car and Jack came back with the van. Me and Mason were carried out Sarah while Kaede, Snowflake, and Jamie

“Easy Sarah.. You’ll be fine.” I cooed.

"T-Thanks you guys..." Sarah reassured before feeling Snowflake licking her face. "Heh heh, thanks Snowflake."

"So you guys said that you saw actual dragons?" Kaede asked.

"Yeah!" Spike nodded. "It just suddenly happened and none of us saw it coming! I mean, they didn't look like any dragons I've ever saw!"

"But...I still don't get it..." Jamie frowned. "Ren, didn't you just say that they were based on a TV series?"

"Yeah, I never actually imagined that they were real." I stated.

"Yeah!" Skye agreed. "Isn't that the coolest thing or what?! Man! Why did I have to miss out on all the fun?!"

"Yeah, but..." Jamie frowned. "Where did they even come from? If they were on a TV show like Ren said, then wouldn't they be fictional? How could that be...?"

"Sarah..." Nicole called, glancing over at her. "You know the answer, yes? Do you know where they originate and how they came to be in this world if they're just cartoon characters?"

"They from a world that is far beyond Equestria." Sarah stated. "A place where dragons live untouched by humans and ponies."

A place where dragons live untouched by humans and ponies...That would be...

"Wait...The Hidden World!" I exclaimed.

"The Hidden...Oh my god...!" Skye widened her eyes in shock. "You've watch How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, too?! That movie really hit me up!"

"I know, it was really awesome." I smiled before turning to her. "But...The Hidden World...it's real?"

"How is that even possible? She could just be saying trash to us." Rantaro stated with narrowed eyes.

“Snowflake and I have visited the Hidden World before and made a few allies there as well.” Sarah explained. "The Hidden World is a secret place very very few creatures know about."

"The Hidden World...Awesome..." I muttered in awe.

I've watched the HTTYD series, and every bit of it so good and it was really great! I really enjoyed it...and I was so sad that it had to come to an end...I think I remembered watching the trailer, and it made me so sad that two best friends have to leave after everything they've been through together.

So the Hidden World is real?

"But...how? I thought the Hidden World was something from a movie?" I asked in confusion

"Yeah...Unless you're saying that its real." Skye stated. "That the dragons from the movie...it's actually real. These dragons are actually real."

"Each world holds it's secrets. Some worlds have more secrets than others." Sarah said before she winced from her injuries.

"Newbie, you alright?" Jack asked, coming out of the van to helped her up.

"Y-Yeah...I just need to remove these spines..." Sarah sheepishly smiled.

"Mm...Hey you, kid." Rantaro snapped his fingers at me, gaining my attention. "You can use your healing powers, right?"

"Well...yeah." I nodded, knowing what he's saying.

"Good...just heal her legs while I remove those spines..." Rantaro proposed.

"What?! What if you hurt her?!" Jack yelled.

"Hey, I have medical knowledge, so it's no big deal...that is, for payment." Rantaro offered, gesturing him to give it up.

"Tch...damn money grubbing fly..." Jack hissed, handing him a couple of bits. Rantaro smirked before walking over to the injured Sarah.

"Alright, this will take a little while so we're gonna have to do this in the van. I'll call you over kid, got it?" I gulped a bit before nodding as he and Jack began carrying Sarah over to the back of the van. Hmm...I sure hope that Sarah will be alright...

Meanwhile, Twilight and the girls continued to argue with each other, arguing over to whatever it was.

"Girls, stop!" Kodi called. "Come on, why are you all fighting in the first place?"

"Kodi's right, just stop it!" I pleaded.

"Ask her for even bothering reminding us of why we're even doing this." Applejack scoffed.

"My fault?! Well maybe if you just...!" Twilight hissed.

"God, stop it." Rantaro called, looking over from the van with an annoyed look. "Look at you all, fighting over things...Man, you girls are stupid. I can't believe you actually are falling for this.

"Falling for what...?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"Alright...who started this fight? The one who first spoken up and was talking bad?" Rantaro asked us with a bored look.

Where is he going with this...?

Not too soon did Mason answered.

"I believe it was Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy and Ren..." Mason answered. "Though, it was odd for Ren to ever say that considering that he has never said anything bad about neither of us before..."

"Mm..." Nicole stared at the girls, narrowing her eyes. "They're being deceived..."

“We’d never have to go through any of this if we’ve went over the mountain.” Rainbow said.

“I told you over the mountain would take longer.” Twilight said.

“But Sarah wouldn’t have been injured.” Applejack pointed out. “I think you’ve just proven you can’t be trust to make the decisions around here.”

“WHAT?!” Twilight said. Oh dear, this can’t be good.

“Well Miss ‘Let’s go through the Mountain’ I think we need someone else should be in charge of the map. I vote me.” Applejack said.

“Thorax is the one who knows the way.” Twilight pointed out. “It’s gotta be better than you handling the directions.” Applejack growled. Thorax was shivering in fear before he began pleading too, “Um… can we not fight?”

“Rarity, Mason and I can do this without you ponies. Go home. We can save our sisters without you.” Applejack growled as she and Rarity started to walk away.

“Girls wait!” Mason called.

Suddenly, before any of us could act...

"AAAHHHH!" Huh?! Sarah?! We quickly turned around to see four changelings taking her away while Rantaro and Jack were covered in some slime, trapping their feet.

"HEY! GET BACK HERE!" Jack roared.

"Crap!" Rantaro yelled. "I can't believe they snuck into the van without us noticing!"

“Help!” Sarah cried.

"Hold on, Sarah!" I quickly raised my Hacking Gun. "Break!"

I shot four 'Break' bullets straight at each of the Changelings' faces before knocking all of them down, letting go of Sarah. Sarah got up and limped over to us and the changelings got back up...

“Give is that cloaked unicorn, humans.” The leader hissed.

“Never!” I said, raising my Hacking Gun at them.

“What do you want with her anyway?” Kaede asked.

“The Queen wants us to bring her to her.” The other changeling said. “And we’re not back until we have her.”

I held out my Hacking Gun and replied back, “We’ll we’re not gonna let you take our friend away.”

“Yeah.” Jack added, managing to break free from his slime prison before showing his fists. "You're gonna damn well better be ready for trapping me in that damn slime off guard and taking newbie away from me! "

"Indeed!" Mason agreed before he took out his bamboo stick. However, before either of them could do anything, Snowflake leaped in front of Sarah and roared at the changelings.

The changelings hissed and charged at her but Snowflake swatted and clawed then with her large paws sending them to the ground.

“Woah… now that’s a powerful tiger.” Skye commented.

I'll say...

The changelings quickly got back up, but were met face-to-face with an angry Snowflake, who lets out a loud roar which scares them away to retreat!

“That was too close.” Mason sighed in relief..

“What did those thing want with Private Gem… how do they even know about her?” Skye asked.

“Yeah. I don’t know how they know about Sarah. But I do know that whatever Chrysalis wants Sarah for can’t be good.” I said, feeling worried before rushing over with Kodiak and helped her out.

“Ren’s right. Who knows what she’ll do to Sarah if she gets her.” Mason added.

“W-We’ll just have to make sure they don’t.” Jamie added.

As for the girls they were still looking mad at each other and they began to argue again. They started arguing with one another, acting as if they aren't friends at all. This is just the Canterlot Wedding all over again...breaking off their friendship and losing trust in each other...

Why now...?

Suddenly....

"S-STOP!” T-Thorax...? Did he just yell at them? I never expected that a guy-er, a Changeling like him would speak out assertively. Snowflake soon let out a loud tiger roar, silencing everyone to grab our attention, even making the girls stop fighting with each other.

Thorax slowly stepped up and looked at the girls with a sorrowful expression and began his speech.

“I thought you six were supposed to be friends, but you let what the changelings tricked you into hearing almost ruin it. We got through the Mountain Range and that’s what matters. Now we have to get to the changelings kingdom to free your siblings, but we have to do it together.”

Oh…my...God…he acted like Fluttershy back during the Gabby Gums incident.. Whoa...

Thorax then realized what he said and added, “.. Sorry for yelling.”

Whoa... I didn’t think Thorax could be that assertive. Guess he’s like Flutters in a way. Being assertive when it counts.

The girls looked at each other with remorse.

“No..you’re right Thorax… we shouldn’t be arguing.” Twilight frowned, rubbing her foreleg with an apologized look. "Everypony...I owe...you all an apology. I...I should never have gotten so angry at you. And I should never have left you without a map to find your way. That was awful of me."

“Yeah. Sorry ya’ll.” Applejack added. "I think we all said some things that we didn't mean. I'm sorry too."

"Me too." Rarity agreed, nuzzling Twilight. "We should have talked things out...Like civilized pones. We are in this together, after all! I'm sorry."

"I'm sorry everyone..I can be such a hothead." Fluttershy blushed while I chuckled a bit.

"Oh Flutters..." Fluttershy nudged me in the arm softly, giggling.

"Oh you two..." Kodi barked in laughter.

"Riiiiiight...Well, I'm sorry...I guess." Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes.

"Rainbow." Pinkie warned.

"Okay, okay...I'm sorry too."

"Me too! Sorry everyone!" Pinkie smirked before disappearing and reappearing in a...Wait, what the heck is that?! "Luckily, I always travel with an 'I'm sorry' cake! I also have 'I'm sorry' goody bags!"

Pinkie was wearing this giant costume that looked exactly like herself, but...it was creepy and haunting like one of those creepypastas...Ugh, just the thought of them makes me feel scared already.

"Uh...Pinkie, I don't think we have time for cake...we're only an hour away from the Changeling Kingdom..." Twilight muttered, widening her eyes in horror at the sight of her costume. Pinkie crawled a little closer to the purple unicorn with a creepy smile.

"Eat...The...Cake."

Uhh...Being a little creepy there, Pinkie?

"Er, are we just going to ignore that costume?" Applejack whispered to her friends before they all responded, "Please don't ask about it."

"Yeah...Sergeant Pinkie Pie, please don't even try..." Skye sighed before leaning over to Kaede and whispered, "Let's blow it up when we have the chance..."

"Uhh..." Kaede sweat-dropped, wondering what to say.

“Now that that’s settled.” Mason said looking at Sarah. “Let’s get these spines out of your legs.”

“Thanks.” Sarah said. We went back to the vehicles and Sarah sat in the back of the van while Rantaro and Fluttershy removed the spines, disinfected them in the process, and once so...

"Okay kid, now's your job." Rantaro tipped his hat off to me, which I nodded before placing two hands on her knees and slowly closed my eyes, focusing my energy to heal Sarah's legs.

Heal...Heal...Heal...Please heal...

As soon as I opened my eyes, I saw a bright light circling around her legs. Once it was cleared off, there was no wounds on her legs

"There we go." I sighed, smiling down at Sarah. "There we go Sarah, good as new."

“Thanks.” Sarah smiled softly before seeing Snowflake walking over to her and nuzzled her, giving her a soft roar in concern. Sarah giggled before petting her on the head and replied, “Oh, I’ll be alright Snowflake.”

“Are you alright Sarah?” Thorax asked in concern.

“Yes, I’m alright.” Sarah said. Then she let out a yawn and we saw it was almost dusk.

“We’d better get some rest tonight.” Rantaro suggested.

“Yeah, it’s not safe now that we know the Changelings are around here.” Jamie added, looking outside the window.

“We can’t waste any time. We have to keep moving.” Rainbow stated.

“Skittles, newbie is in no shape to walk.” Jack retorted. "She needs her rest!"

“It’s alright.. Ugh.. I’ll be fine..” Sarah tried to get up till I stopped her.

"No Sarah, we can't risk you to get out there while you're still resting!" I pleaded. "Right now, you just need to rest now. Please..."

“Sarah, you can’t walk like this.” Mason agreed. “You have to rest.”

"...Okay..." Sarah nodded, looking down with a sigh. "I'll trust you guys..."

“How about you place her in the van and we continue to drive to the changeling kingdom?” Thorax suggested.

“Good idea.” Twilight nodded before Jack and Mason placed Sarah in the back of the van and Snowflake curled up around her.

I could tell those two had a strong bond with each other....They're really close just like me and Kodiak.

"Those two looks so happy..." Kodi smiled, sitting on my lap. "Sarah and Snowflake are really good friends."

"Yeah, just like us." I smiled, scratching Kodiak on the head.

"Yes, those two have an elegant bond." Mason agreed before seeing his two pet squirrels coming out his scarf. "It's alright Nate and Maddy, do not be afraid of them."

Mm...We all have our worries on her, we would've done the same for each other. Why else are we on this adventure? We're in this to save our friends...! I'm not gonna abandoned them! So let's do this together!

Later

Soon after about two hours of traveling through our vehicles, we finally arrived to our destination. Right in front of the gates of the Changeling Kingdom.

We got out of the vehicles, hiding them behind some boulders and made sure that they were camouflaged to keep them safe while Snowflake placed Sarah on her back, carrying her over.

"Do you think Sarah will be alright?" Kaede asked in worried.

"Yeah...let's hope so." I nodded before looking back at her with a worried. "But...about the girls...The way that they were fighting....it's just like back at the wedding."

"Yes...I remembered that." Mason sighed. "It was an unpleasant memory..."

"...I didn't like that we were all fighting." Jamie frowned sadly.

"Yeah..." That event nearly teared us apart, and it almost did again. That's why we can't fall for these tricks again. It's time for us to head out and solve this problem!

"No time to discuss. We need to hurry because the Secretariat Comet will be flying over soon." Sarah said.

"And what will happen when it does pass over?" Applejack asked.

"The comet's passing is the most intense series of celestial events in centuries! The magical disruption will be felt across Equestria." Twilight explained, looking worried. "I think Chrysalis is planning onto absorbing it's power..."

"Well let's stop talking and get walkin' into this castle to find the girls from that evil doing, crazy cheese grater." Applejack formed a determined look, ready to get inside to save the girls. Snowflake sniffed the floor and growled before she ran off.

"WOAH! Snowflake?!" Sarah cried, holding onto her pet tiger. What the?! What is she doing?!

"Newbie!" Jack cried as the white tiger dashed into the castle.

"Follow that tiger, you maggots!" Skye exclaimed before we e all dashed after Snowflake. While so, we all saw some Changelings flying straight towards us.

"They've noticed us!" Mason called.

"This is a problem..." Nicole narrowed her eyes.

"Ha! Like they scare me!" Jack cracked his knuckles and stood still before knocking out a few Changelings. He even punched one of them into the gut, making them screech out in pain before slumping down on the ground.

"I got this!" I raised my Hacking Gun at the next blockade of Changelings. "Paralyze!"

With help with the 'Paralyze' bullet, shocking all of the blockade and freezing them all in shock.

"Nice one Ren...!" Fluttershy smiled softly.

"Right! Now it's my turn!" Skye takes out her toy chopter and began controlling it with her remote. "Now! Fire at will!"

The toy copter fired multiple bullets and missiles, blasting and scaring off the blockade for good. Huh, for such a toy helicopter, it's quite useful...

"Alright!" Jack smirked, throwing off another Changeling over the wall. "Now come on! We gotta find Newbie!"

"Right!" Mason nodded. "Quickly, to the castle! We need to find her and the others as fast as we can!"

We all nodded before rushing towards the doors, and slamming it shut.

"Huh...Like what she did to the place." Rantaro muttered, tilting his hat. "Tch, maybe if I was a real estate agent, I'm sure any idiot would have the right mind to buy something like this."

"I would..." Nicole agreed.

"Not funny..." Rantaro scoffed.

"Hey!" Skye called out to Sarah and Snowflake. "Here, kitty kitty kitty!"

I...don't think that'll work Skye.

“This would be larger than you’re average kitty.” Rantaro deadpanned.

"I think I see her over there..." Mason pointed over there, noticing a familiar cloaked pony and her pet tiger looking around the place.

"Sarah, darling!" Rarity called out. "There you are!"

"Hey guys..." Sarah weakly smiled. "Sorry if Snowflake took me through here without warning. She must've heard the others."

"I see..." Twilight hummed.

"So they're somewhere around the doors, but which one?" Jamie wondered, seeing the millions of doors across the hall.

Snowflake stopped at a hallway and there were many rooms.

"Ooh! What about this one?!" Pinkie raced over to one of the doors, and upon opening it, she saw something that made her mane and eyes popped wide open before closing it slowly.

Umm...Is...is she okay?

"Um...Pinkie Pie?" Jamie called meekly. "Are you okay...?"

"WOW! That was a terrible surprise!" Pinkie gasped, taking a deep breath.

"...Or we can have Kodiak and Snowflake sniffed out their scent?" Nicole suggested.

"Yeah, I was gonna say that too..." Twilight nodded.

"Okay! You can leave it to me and my big nose!" Kodiak smiled before walking over to Snowflake. "Alright Snow, let's do this!"

Snowflake nodded before the two began sniffing around the ground before the two came upon a single door that was at the end of the hall.

Snowflake sniffed the ground and went to one door and pawed at it.

“Are they in there girl?” Sarah asked, lifting herself up to see what was up.

“Let’s find out.” Mason crossed his arms. "Carrie, Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, hang on tight."

This is it...If this is the right door, then Chrysalis is on the other side, so we're going to fight her. Let's just hope we're all ready...

"Right...Let's do this, dude." I said, raising my Hacking Gun while Kaede readied her bow.

"I'm ready as well...Let's go." Kaede made a serious look before hee opened the door and we rushed inside, before seeing Chrysalis glaring down at the large green cocoon.

"Stop copying me!"

"Stop copying me!"

"I'm warning you!"

'I'm warning you!"

"Guards! Throw these miscreants in the dungeon...Now!"

"Guards! Throw these...missy-crates in the...wait what?"

Those voices...It's Carrie! And Sweetie Belle, Apple Bloom! As well as Scootaloo!

"Apple Bloom!" Applejack snarled at the Changeling queen. "Let her out of there NOW, Queeny!"

"Sweetie Belle! We're here for you!" Rarity gasped, seeing her sister in this state.

"Carrie!" Mason called, sighing in relief upon seeing her before glaring at Chrysalis, taking out his bamboo pole in the process.. "Oh thank goodness that you're still alright! Hang on, your big brother is coming!"

"Big brother! I knew you all would come!" Carrie cheered happily.

“Ah, so you’ve arrived.” she said, smiling down at us. There she was...Queen Chrysalis...It's been a month since we've last each other, but still...it still surprising to meet her again.

"Okay Chrysalis, we're here. We made it in time a day for your deadline...Hoof them over." Twilight demanded.

"She's right...We're not sure what your plan to be honest, but it relates to the Secretariat Comet..." Jamie glared at the big queen. "But we want you to release our friends this instant!"

"Oh...Little Twilight...Little Jamie....I'm so glad you two could come..." Chrysalis approaches them before squeezing Twilight's cheek, mocking her and Jamie with a 'frown' of her own. "You're so much trouble for a couple of tiny things. You don't amount to much up close, do you?"

"Twilight is twice the pony you are!" Yeah! You tell them Flutters!

"Yeah, and Jamie's much better than you, Chrysalis!" I agreed, supporting Jamie.

"T-Thanks Ren..." Jamie blushed a bit, clutching his notebook a bit. "But...Chrysalis, I don't understand some things...like why you would kidnap us. We know that this is a trap...but...there's somepony here that you needed."

"Ah yes...I guess you really have paid attention to some of these stuff." Chryalis smirked. "But you're right...There has been somepony else that I've been longed for...Someone that my friend gave me that tip when we last met...In fact, she's standing in this room already who's far superior than Twilight Sparkle, and even any of you."

"Where are you going with this...?" Skye asked. "You're making no sense! Just let my friends go or else I'll blow you away, you bug eye freak!"

Chrysalis lets out a sly smirk before saying “Alright then, I’ll release your precious siblings, for one condition.”

“What’s that?” Jack growled.

She turned to her head over to the one unicorn that we all should have expected to see.

“Hand over that unicorn.” She demanded, shocking us all.

“What?! No way!” Kaede exclaimed, shaking her head before readying her bow. "Wait a minute, why do you even need Sarah?! We thought you were gonna get Twilight and Jamie since technically, they beat you!"

"You're right...I was humiliated by those two crevices..." Chrysalis hissed before turning to a meek Thorax who was hiding behind Nicole and Rantaro. "Especially how one of my own kind has betrayed me for something stupid as that as 'friendship'."

Thorax looks down, feeling guilty and depressed by being called out for that.

"But...even with their power combined with the Secretariat Comet won't give me enough joy on vengeance...No, but I need to do something to impress my colleagues that's something simple as to destroy you all to make his way to the big leagues." Chrysalis smirked.

"And you mean...Sarah?" I asked in surprise. "But...I don't get it...Why...her?"

“Forget it, bastard!” Jack interrupted, glaring dangerously at the Changeling Queen. “Newbie’s not going anywhere with you.”

"Wait...why do you want Sarah anyway?" Jamie asked. "I don't understand..."

"...You want her because you want to use her as bait for someone, right?" Nicole narrows her eyes at Chrysalis.

"Hmph...I guess that file about you is right that your observation skills is quite high." Chrysalis smirked.

"Huh? What do you mean? Made a deal with you?" Mason asked.

"It was Void wasn't it?" Sarah muttered, glaring at Chrysalis. All of us stared at Sarah in shock and surprise while Chrysalis simply let out a venomous smirk on her face.

She knew about Void?! But none of us told us about her?!

"Ah...so he was right. You do know him." Chrysalis chuckled. "He was awfully concerned for you..."

"Wait...Void? How do you know him Chrysalis?!" I demanded.

"It's simple...He and I had a mutual agreement back then...and he was the one who suggested that I would attack Canterlot for my kingdom's sake..." Chrysalis smiled.

"I-It's true..." Thorax nodded. "He came one day and suggested that to us, and he even left her something...a bunch of files about you guys..."

"Files?!" I exclaimed.

"So I guess that explains how they could change into us." Nicole said adjusting her glasses.

"Wait...files of the nine of us?" Kaede asked in shock.

"What?! How could that even be?!" Skye exclaimed. "What is this logic that I'm wondering about?!"

"And Void..gave them to you?" Rantaro asked. "Heh, wonder where he could have gotten those?"

"That is right...it gave out every bit of information about you all." Chrysalis smirked. "I never knew why...but as always, he used us as his pawns for something about collecting the darkness from the events occurring at Canterlot."

"Collecting...darkness?" I asked in confusion.

"Void feeds off of the darkness of other to become more powerful. He uses his dark powers to spread fear and despair to all who he affects." Sarah explained.

"Fear and despair..." I muttered.

Is that...even supposed to happen?

"Yes...and he has big plans of Equestria that even I think it's most cruel." Chrysalis smirked. "Something about finding shards of a meteorite and using them to absorb dark energy..."

"...He's trying to call out to the Great Fall." Sarah gasped.

"The Great Fall? What are you talking about Private Gem?" Skye asked.

"The Great Fall..." Kaede muttered. "I don't know why, but I felt like I heard of that before..."

The Great Fall...That was something that Void told me about back at that watering hole in the Everfree Forest...So Sarah knows about it too?

"Maybe it links to our lost memories..." Jamie muttered.

"The Great Fall..." Nicole muttered, covering her mouth and closed her eyes into deep thought.

"I don't know much about it, but he said something about some people he was acquainted by were planning on fulfilling that prophecy back then." Chrysalis smirked.

"Huh? Acquainted by?" I asked.

"The people who created Void." Sarah explained.

"Yes and in order to do that, he needs one thing out of the way." Chrysalis, lightning her horn. "YOU!" she fired at Sarah but Twilight countered with her own magic blast

"Not so fast!" Twilight called. "I don't know what does Void have against Sarah, but you won't hurt our friend!"

"Yeah, same!" I agreed, taking out my Hacking Gun. "Sarah's our friend and you won't hurt her. As a matter of fact, you won't hurt anyone! Give us back Carrie and the Crusaders now!"

"Heh...this is just too perfect...Once you know the truth, you would think of who to blame." Chrysalis laughed.

What does she mean? Who to blame? Does she mean Sarah? But...why?

Chrysalis smirked before saying, "Now then...Let me make room for my little guest."

She then blasted us and we were thrown against a wall with our hands and ankles bounded by the green slime before we were trapped in our own cocoon prisons!

Ugh! What!? She caught us off-guard?!

Snowflake growled at the changeling Queen, but a bunch of Changelings came out from their hiding holes before shooting green slimes at the tiger. Using his quick instincts, he manages to get himself and Sarah from them.

“Hahaha! There’s no more protection for you now. You might as well hand yourself over.” Chrysalis laughed. Ngh...I won't let her!

"Ren! The Hacking Gun!" Huh?! I looked down and saw the Hacking Gun just outside of the cocoon I was trapped in! Wait what...?! Dang it, I must've dropped it from when she trapped us in here! Without it, I can't get it!

Kodi tried breaking us free, but it wasn't enough.

"No! It won't work!" Kodi whimpered.

"No bro, it's okay." I reassured, giving him a soft smile before frowning in concern towards Sarah and Snowflake, now that they were vulnerable.

However, Sarah didn't seem to be that scared. She instead narrowed her eyes and she managed to climb off of Snowflake, walking on her still recovering legs.

“I’m not going down without a fight, Chrysalis.” she said in a serious tone.

Fight?! S-She can't!

“Sarah, you can’t fight her, you’re hurt!” Kaede cried, banging hard onto the slime.

"Newbie!" Jack cried out. "Dammit kid, stop it!"

"Well....guess we're in a sticky situation." Rantaro sighed.

"Tell me about it, what the stick is this junk?" Skye growled, using her chopter to shoot through the slime, but it had no effect. "Come on! Ngh! Now this is just not fair!"

Chrysalis laughed and she fired a blast at her but Sarah made a shield with her magic, deflecting the blast. "Changelings get her!” she ordered and the changelings all charged Sarah. Snowflake then grabbed Sarah by the back of her neck and leaped high into the air, causing the changelings to crash into each other.

Snowflake landed and Sarah readied herself for battle.

Suddenly, “STOP!”

Thorax got in front of Sarah.

“Grr.. what are your doing back in my kingdom, traitor?!” Chrysalis exclaimed in anger. “You were a fool to return and now I can show everyone what happens when you betray the hive!” Chrysalis fired a blast at Thorax but Sarah countered with her own large blast, pushing Chrysalis' beam back and striking her hard. “GAH!”

"Y-You saved me..." Thorax muttered. Sarah looked at him with a soft smile and replied, "Of course I would."

Chyrsalis growled before shouting. "Get her!"

The changelings lunged at her but Sarah's eyes suddenly glowed a little...W-What? What's going on? Is she gonna send out another attack?

As the Changelings were this close at hurting her and Thorax, she let out the loudest sound I have ever head, and that blasted all the changelings back!

The entire room was shaking, even Chrysalis was spooked before being pushed back from the blast!

"Whoa...! What was that?!" I asked in shock. Okay, Sarah has to go explain that much about that!

"Impossible!" Chrysalis exclaimed, getting back up from the attack before snarling at Sarah. "How...?! This power...!!"

"You should know Chrysalis that you should never underestimate your opponents for selfish things like this." Sarah narrowed her eyes, shocking Chrysalis before seeing the venomous glare sent to the cloaked unicorn.

"You...Fine then, I won't bring you to Void as a way to impress him, I'll destroy you all!" Chrysalis screamed, showing how angry she was. Sarah readied herself for battle, but before she can dish out her attacks...

“Chrysalis, please stop! I beg of you!” Thorax got in front of Sarah, defending her.

"T-Thorax?" Nicole muttered, staring at Thorax with widened eyes. Is she...surprised? But...what for? I mean, I'm surprised too, but...

“Grr.. GET OUT OF MY WAY YOU TRAITOR! YOU HAVE NO BUSINESS IN MY KINGDOM! IN MY WORLD! IN MY PRESENCE!” Chrysalis exploded in anger. She fired a powerful green beam straight at Thorax, but then he quickly shot back with his own beam!

"UGH! GRRRR!" Thorax hissed, doing his best to fire back the beam, but it was slowly ready to hurt him!

"Thorax!" We all cried out, seeing him on the ground, seeing him about to be defeated! If he and Sarah doesn't get out of there, then...!

"See what happens now when you defy me?! I am your mother, your queen, your ruler! I know what's best for my babies, if you won't submit to my rule! Then I'll just eliminate your entire existence!" Chrysalis barked up a mad laughter, ready to destroy Thorax till...

"No...he won't!" S-Sarah?! Sarah walked up and placed a hand on Thorax's shoulder, glowing a bit.

"W-What?!" Chrysalis widened her eyes.

“No harm shall come to Thorax!” Sarah exclaimed before we saw her eyes glowed, along with Thorax before the two started charging their attacks, slowly pushing Chrysalis back a bit.

"W-What...?! No...No...!" Chrysalis widened her eyes in horror.

"This energy..." Thorax muttered before glancing at Sarah, who winks before she turns to the rest of the Changelings and Chrysalis before she managed to use that roar again and blasted them all the way out of the room, knocking each of the guards out of the palace, even breaking free of each of our prisons!

Oh my crap-baskets...What just happened?! No seriously, what just happened?!

"W-W-What...?!" Jamie gaped.

"What was that?! How did Sarah do that?!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed. "I mean, I know she's powerful, but that's-"

"Bananas!" Pinkie laughed, bringing out a banana peel from out of her mane.

"Ugh...it stinks..." Skye groaned.

"Hey, idiots..." Rantaro called with an annoyed look. "We're in the middle of a battle..."

Didn't need to be rude to us....

“Hey everypony...! Look at the sky!" Skye pointed over at the sky as we all looked up and gasped at the sight of a fainting star through the starry skies.

"The Comet!” Twilight cried out. “It's already here!"

"Wait a minute..." Jamie glanced over and looked over at Sarah, who was panting while Thorax and Snowflake stood by her side. "The comet must've increasing her magical powers! That explains just how she increased her power along with Thorax!"

"So you are as powerful as Void claimed you'd be." Chrysalis slowly gotten up again, smirking at Sarah. “You’re more interesting than I thought. You possess magical knowledge I don’t possess. I have a proposal for you little pony...Your destructive abilities are wasted on the goody-two life style. You could be great. You could be… terrifying.”

“What are you talking about?” Sarah asked.

“You. You will become my pupil. My peer! The things we could learn from each other as we rule this land and the next kingdoms will fall to our hooves.” Chrysalis said.

Okay...now she’s lost it!

“Sarah, no it’s a trick!” Kaede cried out.

“Don’t listen to her, Sarah!” Jamie pleaded. "She's just using you!

"No!" Sarah shook her head. "I'd rather be destroyed than joining with a monster like you!"

"Then how about this, little one...You agree to stay with me and teach me the destructive properties of your magic and I will not harm your companions..." Chrysalis grinned darkly.

"NO!" I yelled. "Sarah, don't listen to her!"

"Same!" Twilight stepped over with a serious look. "You can keep trying, but Sarah would never do that. Neither will me or Jamie..."

"But think about it...You all could leave and I can release everyone...as you want..." No...This seems all way too easy for Chrysalis to just do that...I think she's planning something if she's the type of villain to do that!

"No!" Jamie shook his head, stepping up with a serious look. "These guys...everyone...they mean a lot to us and...and...we mean a lot to each other..."

"Exactly..." I agreed, standing next to them. "Jamie, Twilight, Carrie, the crusaders, and all of us mean a lot, almost like a family...and they're all they got. I know maybe I still have a loving family, but these guys...each of them had something, and while we may have been strangers to each other from the very beginning, I know their feelings, what their hearts are really say, and the lives they went through...and I don't know what life Sarah must've went through...but that doesn't matter...what matters is stopping you..."

"...You're all such idiots." Chrysalis scoffed. "What do you each of you even know? What can't you all understand? You all are nothing...None of you even know each other...Oh well, now Sarah-"

"No." Sarah darkened her face, confusing Chrysalis before seeing the anger look on her face. "I’ll never join you Chrysalis! I’ll never teach you anything! And most importantly, I will never hurt my friends!” Sarah hissed, Snowflake roaring in agreement.

Chrysalis growled and scoffed, “Fine if you won’t join me…” she pointed her horn at Sarah. Oh boy...That can’t be good! “Say goodbye!”

“NO!” We all cried.

"No!" Thorax jumped in the way before using his own spit to create a cocoon shield in front of Sarah, managing to block the attack. "Leave her alone...!" Thorax cried out, glaring at his former queen / mother.

Chrysalis grew shocked and devastated by his sudden betrayal before growling, "You're choosing a pony over your hive?!"

"Yeah...! They gave me the meaning of friendship!" Thorax exclaimed. "I was different from all of you, and nopony here ever taught me these things that I'm learning thanks to Ms. Nicole, Mr. Rantaro, and these guys..."

Thorax gives us a bright smile. It felt like I felt that smile before...that smile showed that Thorax was really giving out his real emotions...his real feelings coming out from his own heart...

"And I wouldn't betray my new friends." Sarah smiled proudly at Thorax while Chrysalis gnashed her teeth in complete anger.

"Well then, I'll show you what happens to those who betray the hive!" she fired a fiery beam at the pair but Sarah unleashed that giant powerful roar again and it countered the beam and actually destroyed it!

“If you won’t accept a new life...” Chrysalis lit her horn and aimed it at us. “Then say goodbye to your life as you know it!”

"NO!" Twilight, Jamie, Sarah, and I quickly came in front of our friends and blocked her attacks with Sarah and Twilight creating a barrier to surround us from it.

"I’ll...never...say...goodbye!" She yelled as her horn lit up with power.

"Exactly..." Twilight hissed, her eyes glowing and her horn sparkling with electricity before the two lifted in the air while me, Jamie, and the others looked up in shock. Twilight? What's going on? Is it because of the comet? I mean, we deduced that it makes anything go have a magic surge, which explains Sarah's increase in power, but is it increasing Twilight's power as well?!

"You aren't the onlly one that can feel the magic in them spiking...I can fight too!" Twilight hissed, smirking at Sarah before glaring at Chrysalis. "But you! You can't take away our friends nor ourselves!"

"Twilight! Sarah!" I called. "You can do it, you two! You two are one of us, a part of our family!"

"You're as important to us as we are to you Twilight..." Jamie placed a hand on his heart. "And...important to me...just as you think of me as an important person or pony in your life..."

"There isn't any pony better at magic than you! Come on!" Applejack cheered.

"Yeah! Newbie! Twi! Kick your bug butt!" Jack cheered.

"We believe in you two!" Kaede cheered.

"Come on you two! Get your heads out of the clouds!" Skye rooted for them!

"You got this you two!" Mason called.

"We're...best friends and family...!" Carrie pumped her fist in the air, cheering them on.

"W-What...? What's going on...with you two...?" Chrysalis widened her eyes, starting to feel frightened by their awesome power.

"Queen Chrysalis..." Sarah's eyes glowed, holding a hoof with Twilight. "You may think you can take everything from all of us. But the one thing you won't take is our friendship..."

“As well as the bonds we forged! The friends we've made! Our friends! And you'll never have Equestria!” The two of their horns lit up on the tips of their horns before glowing brightly and shot straight at the Changeling Queen, pushing her back before Twilight used her magic to grab onto Sarah before she curled up into a ball and launched herself as Chrysalis and started grinding her against her!

“Alright get her Newbie!” Jack cheered.

“Show her who's the boss, Private!” Skye added.

“You’ll never rule in Equestria. You.. can’t.. Win.. this..” Incredible! Sarah was easily beating Chrysalis. Not even Celeste could beat her. Just how powerful is she?!

"N-NO...! I'm not supposed to lose...!" Chrysalis screamed in anguish, doing her best to push Sarah back!

"You don’t know what it is like to have friends. You could tell me what it is like to feed on love but you can’t tell what it’s like to truly love and be loved! You motivations are selfish. We fight because you know about things worth fighting for. Love! Friendship! We have things that you can’t hope to have. You envy us!" Sarah yelled.

“Yeah, tell her Sarah!” Skye cheered.

Chrysalis yelled out in anger. “Spare me this nonsense!”

“Ponies who can’t do things themselves tell others that they can’t do it… I can stand up to you…” Sarah glowed in a very bright white light.. “And I can… win!”

“Oh boy! Hit the deck!” Thorax exclaimed. He dashed over and made a cocoon shield around us, excluding himself. However, before any of us could say anything...

"Ren!" Huh? I looked over and heard Sarah's voice calling out to me. "Use the Hacking Gun! Unleash its true power and finish it off!"

"Huh?!" I gasped before looking down at my Hacking Gun, seeing it still on the ground before quickly rushing over and picking it up. "Okay, I got it! Now what?!"

"Fire with all your might! That'll be the final blow against her!" Huh?! She wants me to what?! "Don't worry about me! I'll be alright! Put all your power into one final attack!"

One...final...attack....Okay Sarah...I trust you...and...even so...I know you'll turn out alright...Because even so, I know you can do it...despite all this, I know you'll be alright...

...You always do...

Charging my attack, I aimed my Hacking Gun straight at them as the Hacking Gun began sparkling electricity from all the energy glowing inside of it.

"You ready Ren?" Twilight asked, hovering down at me as her horn started glowing.

"...Yeah." I nodded.

"Can I...join in?" Thorax offered. "I too...want to help..."

"Me...too." Jamie offered his hand out, joining with the rest of us. I smiled at each of my friends before we aimed our guns straight at them.

Let's go...!

"HOPE LIVES ON!" We each yelled before firing each of our attacks together with my final Hope bullet straight at Sarah and Chrysalis, increasing more of Sarah's attack and...

BOOOM!

At that moment...we all finished up...and we ended it with a final attack...As soon as the bright light and smoke cleared off...we all knew it was all over...

When Thorax lowered the cocoon shield for the others, we all witnessed that the entire place was all ruined, but when we saw Sarah...

“Sarah!” I cried out in horror and worried before the rest of us raced over to her side.

Sarah was sitting on the floor, panting heavily.

“Are you alright?” Kaede asked in worried.

Sarah nodded, “I’m good.”

Man...that was so crazy...did we actually do that just now?

Suddenly, some rubble started to move and Chrysalis burst from the rubble, hissing.

“It’s over Chrysalis, you’ve lost!” Twilight growled.

“You may won this battle, but I shall win the war!” Chrysalis stated. "I'll be back...with an even bigger plan...which will work that'll end you all for good..."

“No you won’t.” Sarah said as she got up and glared at Chrysalis, “And now it’s time for you and your bugs to say goodbye,”

"W-What?!" Chrysalis exclaimed.

Sarah's eyes glowed a little before letting out a massive roar and created a twister that sucked Chrysalis and her changelings into it and the twister took them far far away!

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" The Changelings and their queen were blown away out of their castle while we gawked in shock at what we just saw.

"T-They're gone..." I muttered in shock.

Sarah panted before semi-collapsing on the ground.

"Newbie...!" Jack called as all of us raced over to her aid.

"Are you okay?!" I asked in concern.

"I'm alright." Sarah said. Snowflake came over and nuzzled her. "Aw, Snowflake, I'm alright. Honest.."

"Sarah what was that roar you just did?!" I exclaimed in shock.

"That was my Roar of Harmony. It's a very powerful, mythical ability that I was given." Sarah explained.

"Oh..." I muttered.

Wait, Roar of Harmony? That almost sounds like...Nah, that's too much of a coincidence...right?

"Seriously, is anyone else surprised by this?" Skye muttered. "First dragons from a movie exists, and now something like that even exists, is that even possible anymore!?"

"Nothing makes sense here..." Mason sighed.

"Especially Pinkie Pie." Jack stated.

"Hey!" Pinkie cried. "Oh, wait, yeah."

We all shared a laugh, letting all of the tension out of us and replacing with joyful looks.

"Sarah..." Sarah turned over to Nicole, who gives her a suspicious look. "Just exactly how do you know about Void?"

"...I'm sorry, but I can't tell you Nikki." Sarah shook her head. "I'm sorry..."

"Why not, Sarah?" I asked.

"...Because not yet...you all wouldn't understand much of what I might say..." Sarah shook her head. "You need to solve this yourself...to see the choice you would make...if your wills are strong or not."

"Oooh, she's foreshadowing again." Pinkie stated.

We all looked at Pinkie with strange expressions before we all shook our heads. Oh Pinkie Pie...

"That was really brave thing you did Thorax, protecting Sarah from your own mother." Twilight spoken over to Thorax, who was standing five feet away from us.

"O-Oh...um...thank you..." Thorax nodded, blushing a bit.

"So...Nicole, Rantaro, you two were keeping him away from us?" I asked, turning to the two.

"Yes...and so far, I think he's doing well during our therapy sessions." Nicole nodded. "He's unique in a way, compared to the rest of the Changelings."

"And now that I'm officially a traitor, guess I have no where else to go." Thorax said sadly.

"...You could always stay at our place." I offered, shocking him.

"H-Huh? R-Really?"

"Yeah, at our place." Kaede smiled. "You can still stay there."

"Mm-hmm." Nicole nodded.

"Really? But where will I stay?" Thorax asked.

"You can stay in my room." Nicole offered.

Thorax smiled happily at that suggestion before nodding, "Thank you."

"B-Big brother...?" Huh? Carrie?!

We turned to see Carrie covered in slime with the other Crusaders. The older siblings all quickly raced over to the four of them, helping them out.

"Oh Carrie!" Mason hugged his sister tightly. "You're okay!"

"Big brother...?" Carrie looked over and softly smiled at the sight of us. "D-Did you beat her...?"

"Yeah...we did..." Mason sighed in relief, hugging his sister.

"You four are in so much trouble!" Rarity sternly called, glaring at them.

"Hey, what did we do?! It's not our fault that we were captured by them!" Sweetie Belle whined.

"Yeah, it just sorta happened!" Apple Bloom agreed.

"That doesn't excuse you four for getting caught like that...!" Applejack retorted.

"Guys, go easy on them. They're just kids..." I chuckled, rubbing the back of my head. "I mean, they're just victims and what's important is that they're back safe and sound."

"Yeah, he has a point." Rainbow Dash shrugged. "Besides, I knew you would make it out alive Scoots!"

"Ha ha ha! Thanks! Wait...Oh my Celestia, I just gotten praised by THE Rainbow Dash!" Scootaloo giggled, feeling excited about it.

"Carrie...girls, are you all alright?" Mason asked in worried.

"Mm-hmm..." Carrie nodded, before feeling someone licking her. She glanced over at Kodiak and Snowflake, the two licking her face, which made her giggle.

"Hi Carrie! We thought we could clean ya up!" Kodi smiled happily, wagging his tail.

"Hee hee...Kodi...Snowflake." she greeted, petting the both of them. Snowflake purred while Kodi opened his tongue out in joy before the two nuzzled her back.

Carrie hugged both Snowflake and Kodi and laughs while the rest of us watches with smiles on our faces.

I'm glad that Carrie is saved...that's a major relief.

Later

With the girls saved and Chrysalis and the Changelings defeated once and for all...again, we all safely returned back to Ponyville via Twilight and Sarah's teleportation. Though, Sarah was in no condition, especially with her fight against Queen Chrysalis so we put her back in her bedroom to get some rest with Snowflake watching over her.

We all were in her room, smiling and chatting about what we went through...

"That battle was awesome!" Scootaloo cheered. "Sarah easily bested Chrysalis with no sweat."

"Yeah..." I nodded before turning to her. "Seriously Sarah, you're total OP. Like someone who reaches to the highest level of an RPG."

Mason sighed, "Grow up already."

"What?" I asked, shrugging a bit.

"How are your legs?" Jamie asked in worried.

"They'll heal in a few days. After that some physical therapy should get them to their regular strengths again." Snowflake came into the room and nuzzled the bandages. "Hehehe, now now Snowflake. I said I'll be fine." Snowflake let out a soft roar.

"Hey, don't worry Snowflake." I reassured, petting her on the head. "She'll be alright."

"How's Thorax settling in?" Sarah asked.

"He's settling in just fine. I think he's gonna like it here." I said to her. "Well...until everypony in town knows that we're keeping a Changeling in here, and then they'll know that maybe not all Changelings are not evil."

"Good. He deserves a reward for all he has done." Sarah smiled softly.

"What do you have in mind?" Jamie asked.

"Well.. I think our friendship is as good as any gift we could have given him." Sarah smiled.

"That's really nice Sarah." I commented, making a soft smile.

Sarah chuckled before I said, "We'll let you get some rest now."

Sarah nodded before we all began leaving the room, and into the elevator, and back to the living room.

"Big brother, Ren, is Sarah gonna be okay?" Carrie asked in concern. Mason gave her a reassuring smile before nodding, "Don't worry...like she said, she'll be back to normal in a few days..."

"Yeah, but what's more important is for all of us to get some shut-eye..." Rantaro yawned. "Man...I wasted three days helping you...you all owe me a quick buck or two..."

"As if..." Jack scoffed. "I just hope newbie's alright..."

"Mm..." Kaede agreed. "We all were practically useless in that battle...most of us didn't aid her in the final battle..."

"I know..." Jamie frowned. "I wished we didn't stand around and did nothing..."

"I agree..." I nodded in agreement. "I think maybe we all need to be ready for something like this in the future..."

"That I agree..." Mason nodded. "And this will be a reminder that I must protect all my closest companions for when I get submitted into the Royal Guard Academy..."

Oh right, May's almost over...I forgot...and at the last day...that's when Mason is gonna leave...

"Oh...right..." Kaede frowned. "Are you gonna be alright, Mason?"

"To be honest, I am not so sure..." Mason sighed. "But...I shall be alright...but I promise to come back as strong as ever for you all."

"Yeah, I know you can do it big brother..." Carrie softly smiled, hugging her big brother while the rest of us patted him on the back.

"I wish you good luck on your training, Private Mason!" Skye saluted, giving him a smile. "Don't worry, I promise to take care of Private Carrie as a friend!"

'Thank you..." Mason nodded. "But let's not worry about me, let's just all get some rest after that rough journey we all went through..."

Yeah...we've all been through a lot into this entire journey...and we've learned a lot from this entire trip...even if it felt fast, I think it was nice getting closer together...but Sarah...she knows more than she lets on...but at the same time, I can't blame for hiding things when she doesn't trust us yet..

"Sarah Gem..." I muttered, looking down a bit. "I don't know why...but...I feel happy for some reason."

"You mean about how she'll recover quickly?" Jamie asked.

"No...that's not it. It's just this feeling...of like...I lost something but then, I felt...happy to see it again..." I explained, placing my hand on my chest. "That kind of feeling..."

"You already have a girlfriend." Jack deadpanned.

"Not that kind of feeling?!" I exclaimed, blushing.

"Yeah...Ren has a point...I have that feeling too..." Kaede agreed. "Ever since we first met Sarah, I've been having that feeling too..."

"Yeah." Mason said. "Still I'm wondering how does she know about Void and how she's so powerful."

"She obviously has more magical abilities than any other unicorn. Even me." Twilight added, looking down a bit. "Her magic skills on an Alicorn level."

"And I thought that fancy Amulet of hers was powerful." Applejack said. "That thing looked an awful lot like the Elements of Harmony."

"But there are only six Elements. Not seven. If there were, I would have read about it." Twilight stated.

"Same here..." Jamie nodded in agreement. "Something isn't right about her..."

Yeah...Just who are you Sarah Gem? And...why do we feel like...whenever we're around...we're happy to see you?

Hm? Nicole? I noticed her was looking at her iPad, looking a bit focused on it.

"Hmm..."

"Something up Nikki?" I asked.

"No, not at all..." Nicole replied.

But Rantaro wasn't convinced, "Do you find out something else?"

"....No." Nicole shook her head.

"Okay so now we know the Void has something against Sarah, but we don't know what exactly." I frowned, crossing my arms.

"So?" Jack huffed. "Who cares what the hell is in that damn creepazoid's mind?"

"Hello, he means Sarah is Void's main target and he might try something else to harm her or any of us!" Skye stated, glaring at him. "Come on Private Yamaki, get your head out of your behind!"

"Hmph!" Jack huffed, looking away.

"Yeah, we gotta do something!" Kodi barked in agreement. "We gotta protect her!"

"Why are you all acting so protective of that girl?" Rantaro asked.

"Uh hello, she's the target of a crazy mad man, do you not remember what he did at the Crystal Empire?!" I exclaimed, exasperated. "Who knows what tricks he'll have up his sleeve to harm Sarah."

"Plus newbie is our friend and I don't leave a friend hanging, you dirty money grabber." Jack added.

"Unlike you, I actually get money." Rantaro stated annoyingly. "Besides, you all try to protect each other but you're all focusing on her more than yourselves."

"And you're not the slightest concerned because..." Nicole lead on.

"Because...she's suspicious." Rantaro asked. "I could go on for 500 bucks."

We all gave him a deadpanned look, hearing his claim.

"And why do you think she's suspicious?" Jamie asked.

"You idiots know it. She seems to know us and we all somehow feel like we've seen her before." Rantaro answered. "And she knows Void and Void knows her."

"True, but Void is obviously bad news. He gave Chrysalis files of us and he told her to attack Canterlot during the royal wedding." Kaede stated.

"While Sarah, on the other hand, helped us rescue Carrie and the others from Chrysalis and defeat Trixie and her Alicorn Amulet." Twilight added.

"True..." Rantaro nodded in agreement. "But...she's still hiding something...But about those files..."

"Yes...I was confused." Nicole agreed. "Why were there files of us?"

“Uh, hello were you two listening, Chrysalis and her changelings used the flies about you guys so they could change into you guys.” Pinkie explained.

"That's not what I meant....She said that Void gave it to them, but where exactly could he have gotten them about us?" Nicole clarified in a stern way.

"Yeah..." I nodded in agreement. "I mean...I don't get with some of us having files of us...it's just weird. If so, how could Void even have them?"

"He must have been spying on us for a while." Mason said.

"I guess so..." I frowned. "But...why us? Is it because we each are special?

"I guess...I mean, you and Jamie have cutie-marks on your cheeks." Kaede stated.

"Mm...Good point." Jamie nodded in agreement.

That is true...Just...what's going on? Why does Void want us so much?

"Did anypony else notice Sarah doesn't have a cutie mark on her flank, even though she's a mare?" Applejack asked

"Yeah...I've noticed that too." Twilight nodded. "This doesn't make any sense...she's quite talented...so why?"

"Hmm..." I muttered, crossing my arms.

Sarah Gem...Who are you?

Meanwhile

In the distance, Void was watching the home-ship.

"Pitiful Sarah...Why can't we get along? We are one...but your light is too pure...wasting time on thinking humanity is nice..." Void scoffed. "You are so worthless...but I know that you are afraid of me..." He held up his crystal that shimmered with dark energy. "I'm close...I am this close...to bring out the Great Fall to end this entire world...for the sake of the hope of salvation..."

"Soon, they'll be nothing that goody two shoes can do to stop me." Void laughed before he vanished into the shadows.

To Be Continued