//------------------------------// // Epilogue: Vows Given // Story: SuShi's Bizarre Adventure: Twilit Curtain Call // by Jojoleopard //------------------------------// Shiho Sunfast sat up in her bed, looking out at the low-rise buildings of Angers for the third time that day. The noise below had quietened and all she could hear now were the steady beeps of hospital equipment and coughing from someone in the opposite bed. Daring Do waved her hand, then cleared her throat. “Sorry. Just choked a little on a banana.” Daring had a small fracture on her skull, along with her right shoulder, when Tenacious D had been thrown against her with Twilight’s speed boost activated. She had said that once she was done here, she was going to help her scour the world for Twilight. Shiho looked at her own untouched bowl of fruits beside her bed, propped on a long rectangular table that also acted as a drawer. There was a word scribbled on it in pen reading, ‘droor’. She shook her head in disgust. Even though English wasn’t her native tongue, she at least still knew how to spell the word. Though she didn’t hold it against them, seeing as they were in France. Josher and Cajole had been the ones to come over with fruits earlier this morning. They had escaped the battle with minor injuries, though they were still sore from getting their butts handed to them by Twilight and Spike. Speaking of them… Shiho sighed and returned her gaze to the sky outside the window. She spotted a lone bird flying across and she tried to think again about where Twilight could’ve possibly taken her grandmother. She wasn’t necessarily close to her, by no means, but she was still her grandmother, related by the blood of the Sushi family. Her mother had expected her to look after her grandmother, but here she was, resting up in a hospital while her grandmother was out there somewhere with Twilight. She had failed her. “I have to find her. I have to find that granny…” Shiho said to herself. She could only imagine what Twilight wanted with her. “Mom would want that.” “There’s much I still have to learn about this world… And I will make this world perfect. Till we meet again, Shiho.” She held those words in her mind. Twilight had only been here for a few days. To take over completely, she would need to research the world more. “And she needs time to recover. Curtain Call did a number on her body. I’ll have to find her and I have to rescue my granny. Easier said than done. Good grief… What have I really gotten myself into?” Joshi and Weather Alternate would work to warn the world leaders of Twilight and do their best to keep the world leaders alive, but at the same time, Twilight’s words were not ignored and they would also work with them to try and make the world better for everyone, bit by bit. Josher and Cajole would work with Sweetie Belle and the Crusaders Foundation to find out where Twilight had disappeared to. Shiho didn’t know what she was planning now, but it couldn’t be anything good for the world. One way or another, she was going to find her and she was going to make sure Twilight would pay for taking her grandmother away. “I will find you, Twilight Sparkle. Mark my words. I’ll rescue the old granny and I’ll find you, even if it means searching till the ends of the world. I’ll get my granny back and you’re going to wish you never took her.” Twilight Sparkle crawled through a dense brush, pushing aside leaves and branches as her Stand sheared some off with its hands. She had brought back more supplies today, food and metals to start her plan. But first, she had to check on her prisoner. Strange World placed a hand on a nearby rocky surface past the bramble and a portion of it slid down, revealing a crude stairway leading down into darkness. She descended, taking each step slowly as a pain shot up her legs with each step. Shiho Sunfast had severely injured her and because of that, she had to take things slow, at least until she could fully recover. Below, in her current secret lab, Twilight had already arranged rows of wooden tables with various metal compounds and glasses under makeshift magnifying glasses. There was also a fragment of a reflective surface attached to a metallic claw on the center of the table. Before arriving here, Twilight had made a stop over at Canterlot, where she had first come over. She had chipped a chunk of the statue’s mirror surface off, taking it with her to further study it. This was the only known way back home to Equestria and if she could figure out how to get it to work, there was a chance she could go back to get what she needed to further her goal here. She looked into the shadows where a giant capsule was standing, filled with various gasses that would keep a human unconscious for as long as she needed. Sunset Shimmer lay inside, dead to the world, at least until she could find a way to get her answers from her without Alicorn Fantasy interfering. Sunset had been here long and there was much she could find out from her, especially along the lines of Stand Geodes, the mysterious magical jewels that had the power to grant one Stand power. “Spike, if only you were still here…” Twilight said and placed a hand on the table. All her life, he had always been by her side and now that he was gone, there was an empty hole in her life, something that could never be replaced again. “Shiho Sunfast…” And it had been all because of Sunset’s granddaughter. Twilight knew she had to make the world perfect, she had to right all the wrongs the corruption of humanity had caused, but there was also this tug at her heart, this need to extinguish Shiho’s flame for what she had done. She would have her vengeance for taking her precious Spike away. “Shiho, you will die for what you’ve done. I make this vow here today, that you will not see the new world I will one day create,” Twilight said as she put her arms around her shoulders. “Whether it takes me one year or twenty, I will have what I want and everything will be right, the way it should be.” She let out a short burst of air, sounding faintly like a laugh. Then she did it again and again as she grabbed her face. Her pupils began to glow orange as her grunts soon turned into a cackle. It echoed out around her cave and out into the jungle surroundings.