Once the dust cleared away, it revealed an unconscious Sunny laying on the ground in silence, until she slowly managed to open her eyes slightly. She raised her head up to look at the damage caused by Sprout's selfishness, the whole top of her home was completely destroyed, but that wasn't the worst thing. As Sunny got up to look at the damage around her, she noticed something on the ground on a concrete slab, which was a broken picture of her with her dad Argyle, luckily it wasn't completely broken since the picture frame was only broken into four pieces, but regardless, Sunny couldn't help but feel a bit deflated as everypony else started to regain consciousness as well, including Lukas.
"I feel like my head just got hit by a crowbar." Lukas groaned as he rubbed his head in pain.
Suddenly, he heard the sound of a door opening from behind him. Turning around, he saw a now remorseful Sprout crawling out of his tumbled machine as he looked at the destruction he had caused. Even though it looked like he had regretted his decisions, Lukas still felt like punching him straight in the muzzle, and he was sure he wasn't the only one.
"Sprout" Lukas began, before slowly walking over to her. "Do you have any idea what you just did?"
"Uh... maybe?" He replied worriedly as he backed away from the angered human.
Lukas felt his face turning red with anger as his blood began to boil. But just as he was about to give Sprout a piece of his mind, he then let out a frustrated sigh. "You know what? I'm not even going to waste my breath on you, I just hope you're proud of what you did."
But Sprout was anything but proud of what he had done.
"Oh, Sunny..." Izzy said softly.
"I understand now." Sunny replied.
"Understand what?" Lukas asked as he walked over to her.
"It's not the crystals that need to be brought together. It's us. We can bring back everything that was lost, but it's up to us. We can stay separated by fear and distrust, or we can choose friendship." Sunny stated as she looked over at her friends and then down to the broken picture. "We can choose love. That's the true magic."
"I couldn't have said that better myself, Sunny." Lukas added.
There was a moment of silence as everyone thought hard over Sunny's speech. Then, Queen Haven trotted up and put one of the broken pieces of the picture frame in place. For a brief moment, Sunny looked shocked, before she gave the queen a tiny smile as Queen Haven gave a smile back. With that little gesture, Alphabittle trotted up and put another piece of the picture frame in place, followed by Phyllis, who put the last piece in place as the picture frame was now fully fixed. The three of them gazed at each other and then back at Sunny as her and her friends smiled from ear to ear.
But then, their moment was quickly interrupted when the unicorn crystal lit up and floated out of the rubble and into the air, followed by the other crystals.
"Uh guys." Lukas pointed out, turning everyone's attention towards the flying crystals, which were now circling around Sunny.
"What?" Was all Sunny could say before she started floating as well. Sunny shrieked as she floated with the crystals in the air. The others gasped in shock and anticipation. Then the next thing she knew, a holographic yellow horn and wings sprouted out of her as she looked at her new features in awe. As the crystals continued to circle around her, they all shot higher into the air and floated on top of one another, before they quickly merged together, causing a sonic rainboom to happen, lighting up the sky in an aurora borealis as everyone flinched back from the explosion.
"Whoa! What just happened!?" Lukas exclaimed, at a loss for words.
"I think I know!" Izzy replied as her horn lit up with magic.
Then, Pipp and Zipp's wings started to flap and lifted them both off the ground, then the next thing they knew, they were both flying around the rainbow colored sky.
"We're actually flying!" Pipp called out in amazement.
"Whoo!" Zipp cried happily as the both continued to fly as the other Pegasi and unicorns started to gain their magic back as well.
Sunny looked down at everypony cheering and she couldn't feel anymore happy as she slowly flew down with her newly formed wings.
"Whoa, Sunny! Check you out!" Zipp exclaimed as she flew around her.
"Whoo!" Sunny laughed as her, Zipp and Pipp all landed on the ground, allowing her other friends to get a good look at her new form.
"What?!" Hitch asked in disbelief.
"I can't believe it!" Sunny said, unable to process what had just happened.
"Now that's what I call a glow-up!" Izzy remarked.
"You took the words right out of my mouth, Izzy." Lukas added.
"Look!" Pipp exclaimed as she pointed her hoof towards the sky as everyone looked up at the aurora borealis.
Meanwhile, all the way back in Bridlewood, the three unicorn fillies still looked miserable on the playground, but not for long as the magic began to go into their horns also, as their sad expressions suddenly turned into looks of disbelief as the unicorn filly on the swing set instantly rushed up to tell his dad about this.
"Daddy, Daddy! The magic is real!" He called out as the unicorns of Bridlewood eventually all got their magic back.
But Maretime Bay and Bridlewood weren't the only places getting their magic back. The Pegasi in Zephyr Heights got the ability to fly again as they were all having the time of their lives soaring through the sky, even street rats had the ability to fly. Back in Maretime Bay, all the Earth ponies, unicorns and Pegasi there were all hanging out in the town. Sunny saw an Earth pony filly laughing while running after Cloudpuff.
"Aw, I see you've made a new friend." Queen Haven said to the filly.
"Hi there, buddy." Alphabittle said to another Earth pony filly, who was staring at him intently, much to his confusion.
As the filly continued to chase after Cloudpuff, Hitch, a Pegasus guard and a Canterlogic worker pony looked up as the tram from earlier was carefully put back on the track, thanks to the unicorn magic. Pipp was taking a selfie of Zipp, Toots, Sweets, an earth pony, a unicorn and even the small animals posed for the selfie.
"Stunning!" Pipp said in a singsong voice as she put her phone back in her wings as Phyllis and Sprout walked by.
"Mommy? Was I a good sheriff?" Sprout asked.
"Uh, uh... Look! A flying dog!" Phyllis pointed in the air as Sprout looked back, giving Phyllis the time to awkwardly trot away, when Sprout turned his head back around, she was gone, much to his annoyance.
Sunny couldn't help but smile to herself at the fact that magic had finally returned and all three pony kinds were reunited once again.
"You did it, Sunny." Hitch whispered proudly as he walked up towards her, followed by the others.
"No. We did it. Together." Sunny corrected.
"Now we never have to be apart!" Izzy proclaimed happily as she bounced in place.
"Hooves to hearts!" They all said in unison as they put their hooves together and raised them into the air, while Lukas was off to the side, with an uneasy look on his face, Pipp took notice of this.
"What's wrong, Lukas?" Pipp asked with concern as the others looked at Lukas as well.
"I just feel like it's my fault for destroying your lighthouse, Sunny." Lukas sighed.
"Oh Lukas, that wasn't your fault." Sunny assured him.
"Yeah, it could've happened to anypony." Izzy added. "Or should I say "any human" She snickered.
"Well actually, that's not the only thing I'm thinking about." Lukas said, much to everyone else's confusion.
"What do you mean, Lukas?" Hitch asked.
"Okay guys, it's about time you knew the truth." Lukas then paused for a moment, before continuing. "As you guys can probably tell, I'm not from around here. I actually came from an alternate dimension and I am what you would call a human."
"Human?" Zipp asked. "That's a weird name, no offense."
"None taken." Lukas replied. "Anyways, I hope you guys don't think differently of me now."
"Lukas." Sunny began. "No matter what you're like, there's no way we would think of you any different."
"Really?" Lukas asked as everyone nodded. "Well, thank you guys." He then extended his arms out. "Come on, bring it in."
And with that, they all gathered into one big group hug and Lukas was relieved that the ponies still thinks of him the same, despite the fact that he comes from a different dimension and he kept this information to himself until now. But their group hug was cut short when Lukas saw Cherry Berry in the same hot air balloon he used to come to Maretime Bay slowly float down to the ground.
"Well guys, looks like it's time for me to leave." Lukas said as he dispersed from the group hug.
"Aw bummer." Izzy moaned with disappointment.
"Don't worry, Izzy, I'll be sure to come back soon." Lukas assured her.
"Wait Lukas, before you go. I need to do something." Pipp cried out, but just when Lukas was about to respond, Pipp took out her phone and brought him in for a selfie. "The Pippsqueaks are not going to believe this." She laughed as everyone else joined in as well.
Later that day, everyone was saying their goodbyes to Lukas, who was preparing to go back to Ponyville and tell everyone about his adventures.
"Goodbye Lukas, hope you come back soon." Sunny said as Izzy brought Lukas in for a crushing bear hug.
"I'm gonna miss you, Lukas." She said as she released Lukas from the hug.
"Izzy, we already had a hug." Lukas informed her.
"Sorry, I couldn't resist." Izzy grinned.
"Ready to go, Lukas?" Cherry Berry asked as Lukas got in the hot air balloon.
"I sure am." He replied as Cherry Berry lit up the hot air balloon.
"Man, what a trip this has been." Lukas thought to himself as the hot air balloon slowly floated in the air as everyone waved him goodbye.
Then, at that moment, the pony who flew off with the balloons finally made his way back onto solid ground. "Whew! Hey, guys. What did I miss?" He then turned over to see the ponies standing right behind him, causing him to let out a terrified scream.
Someone is really going to have to catch him up on what he missed...
THE END