It's been ten days since Lone had discovered the truth about cutie marks, and he, John, and Metamorpha were still trying to find the spell that would remove them, or, more accurately, deactivate the nano-machines that caused them to appear, and remove any possibility of Plasma being able to control other ponies, and freeing those that are under his control. The three of them had only one breakthrough, a single sentence in a book of prophecy, of all things, that said, "When the blood of Darkness is brought back together, the way to freedom shall be revealed, and Sacrifice, Trust, Determination, and Acceptance shall protect those who follow them. The path to many worlds revealed, and peace shall flower." It was vague, but they did know that "the blood of darkness" was a reference to the original Lone Shadow's blood line, and Lone was the only one they knew. Lone had said at this point he had a brother that was foalnapped when he was six, and might still be alive, and the only way to free those under Plasma's control was to find him if he was alive.
They were on their tenth day of looking when a spore that Hermit controlled came in to the vault and said, "Lone, we have a development."
"What is it," Lone asked, looking up from his book
"I sense a familiar presence, in that it is very, very similar to yours. I can not see clearly who or what it is, but of what I could tell, they have two minds in a single body, much like how you and Fear share a body. I was able to hear, and he said that he wished to speak with you, and you alone."
"How do I know I can trust him?"
"He says he knows what happened to your brother, and won't say unless he meets with you. I can tell that he's telling the truth."
After five seconds of consideration, Lone said, "Tell him to come to the entrance to the library, but don't let him in." He got up as the spore bobbed down, then back up, indicating a nod, and left. Lone said to John and Metamorpha, "Let the others know, but don't let them come with me," to which they nodded, then set off for the location he had designated.
. . .
Shadow was extremely nervous. It had been ten days since he had A: Discovered the truth of his family, including the fact that his mother was a descendant of Plasma that had become a member of the group he once though of as his enemy, lone team, and B: Had been ordered by the Conclave to hunt down and kill Lone Shadow, his brother. He had left the headquarters of the Brotherhood an hour after, making sure his mental link with Midnight was still active, as she had said that she was fed up with how the Brotherhood acted, and wanted to help him in his personal mission, which was to make sure the Brotherhood was destroyed. She had stayed behind to give him any important information.
Upon leaving the place he once considered home, he had made contact with his own network of intelligence gatherers for anything that might lead him to the location of Lone and the others. It was his sources in Yakyakastan that had given him a solid lead, saying that "two, loud objects in the sky that moved faster than they should were seen going to the north pole', as Yakyakastan was among the northern most countries on the planet. It had taken him an entire week to find the two objects, which were definitely the ships Lone and the others had used to escape from the Empire. He had waited in one of them for an hour before he heard a voice say, "What are you doing here?"
"I came to talk with Lone Shadow, and only him," Shadow replied.
After a few seconds, the voice replied, "What makes you think he'll speak to you?"
"Tell him I know what happened to his brother."
After a few more seconds, the voice said, "If you would please exit the craft and follow me, You'll be able to speak with Lone Shadow."
Shadow then teleported out of the craft, as he had gotten in the same way, and saw a yellowish speck. "Follow me," it said, and moved to what was Shadow's north.
He followed it for what felt like ten minutes before he saw a rectangular opening in the ground with a staircase leading down. He saw what he was following go down, and, against his better judgement, as well as Chaos' advice, he followed it down into an earthen bunker, where he stood waiting for ten minutes in front of an ancient looking door before he heard it open. He looked to see who was coming through, and saw Lone Shadow, who had a clear glare on his face. "What are you doing here?" he asked.
"To help you and the others," Shadow replied. "You have no reason to trust me, I know, but at least hear me out before you say anything, okay?"
"Yeah, but the first topic is what you know about my brother."
"That's actually a reason why I'm here. I've been doing research into my family line, one that the Brotherhood's leadership went to great lengths to keep hidden from me. I found both the names of my mother and father. As well as birth certificates, both with their names on them," Shadow said as he grabbed the documents out of a pocket dimension he had created shortly before leaving the Brotherhood and handed them to Lone. "Plus," he added, bringing what appeared to be a black, red, white, green, brown, and blue blanket out of the same dimension, "I feel like this is important to more ponies than just me."
Lone eyes widened as he recognized the blanket. It had been something his mother and father had done with him and Unity before Unity was abducted. It was the same blanket that had been with Unity when he was foal napped. He looked at the documents then, and saw that the names on the mother and father spots on the birth certificates were Darkness Strider and Joy. He looked at the names of the children, and saw that one bore his name, and the other had two names, one being Unity, the other being Shadow Specter. "And before you ask about the blanket, it's the only thing from before I became a member of the Brotherhood, and it has a spell on it that prevents those that aren't family from taking," Shadow said, though Lone knew of the spell, as he had been the one to place it on the blanket to prevent other foals or fillies from taking it from Unity.
He looked to Shadow, and said in a voice barely above a whisper, "Unity?"
"So it would seem," Shadow said.
"Why are you here? I know you have more than just one reason to come here, given what you've done."
"A few reasons actually. The first is to tell you that the leadership of the Brotherhood sent me after you to kill you. Coupled with the discovery of our relations, I decided to renounce them, and help you to bring them down," Shadow said. "Another was to apologize to Celestia, as I had lost control over Chaos Bringer, my own dark side, and wish to make it known to her that I had no intention of killing her back in Canterlot."
"How do I know I can trust you?"
"Because I'll allow for any restraints you see necessary. I know you don't trust me, but I will work for it."
After a few seconds of thinking, Lone said, "Hermit, much as I hate to, we need Applejack and Celestia here. You mind getting them?"
"As much as I disagree, no. This needs to be done. I'll let them know."
"Thanks," Lone said, to which there was no reply.
"I imagine I'll need to work to get to the trust level needed to know about that?" Shadow asked with a raised eyebrow.
"In which you'd be correct. You may say your Unity, but you need to prove it. Believe me, you outright saying the Brotherhood sent you both helped and harmed, more the former then the latter, but barely."
"Noted."
The two then waited for a few minutes before they heard the door open, and Applejack and Celestia walked through.
"Hermit said you wanted to see us, Lone," Celestia said before she and Applejack laid eyes on Shadow. "What are you doing here," she nearly snarled in a very un-princess like manner, even considering the solar alicorn was no longer a princess, lighting her horn, while Applejack got in a fighting stance.
Amazingly, Shadow walked up the the alicorn with no visible hesitation or fear., and stopped just a few feet from her. He then did the one thing none of them expected.
He bowed to her and said, "I wish to apologize to you and the others for what I did to you all at Canterlot, as well as what ever I did to your subjects before then. I know a simple apology is not enough, and I am willing to bring the Brotherhood to it's knees to prove I am sorry."
"Applejack," Celestia said, not taking her eyes off the stallion in front of her, "your the Element of Honesty. Is he telling the truth?"
"Far as Ah can tell, he's as straight as a rope drawn taught by two cows trying ta out do one 'nother in a tug-o-war match."
"So, yes," Lone asked in a deadpan.
"Yessiree."
"I now see why the Brotherhood ensured no pony talked like that. It's hard to follow," Shadow said. This made Applejack literally fume, but he ignored her.
"Well, now that that's done," Lone said. "Come on, Shadow. There's something I need help with."
"Right," Shadow replied. The two stallions walked through the door, a spectral apparition of Fear materializing next to Lone, while one appeared next to Shadow. In reality, it looked like Fear, but had Shadow's color scheme. One thing the two mares noticed, though, is that both seemed to glow with an emerald light, with it being brightest around Lone and Fear the most.
"What do you think that was," Celestia said as the two stallions and their shadows walked into the library.
"Ah got no idea, Princess."
"Applejack, I'm not royalty anymore, which means just "Celestia'."
"Sorry. It's jus' a force ah habit."
"Understandable," Celestia said before they too reentered the library. Only this time, Solar Flare was smirking, and neither Celestia, nor Applejack saw this. Applejack's dark side, however, a blood red mare with grenades as her cutie mark, a black mane and tail, an old fashioned military helmet on her head, smiled as well.
All according to plan, they said to one another over their mental link.
. . .
Lone and Shadow, fortunately, were able to avoid the others on the way to the vault.
"So," Shadow said, "what is it you need help with?"
"Does the Brotherhood have records on when the first cutie marks appeared?"
"You pla on removing Cutie marks?"
"Caught on fast. Should be expexted, given we share blood," Lone said. "Yeah. As it turns out, it was a way for Plasma to control the ponies that sided with the original Lone Shadow. That plan failed, obviously, but the effects are still around today. I'm a little surprised you know."
Shadow shrugged. Yeah, well, the Brotherhood has records on anything that happened during the rebellion, including the actual cutie pox. Probably the only things that are correct there in terms of history."
"What do you mean?"
"For one, the books there say Plasma had two daughters that were born during the rebellion. If so, then they're dead now, given the fact it's been twenty thousand years since their births. A few sons, yeah, simply because there are records of them fighting, but there's only one passage saying he had daughters."
"It might be true," Lone said as the two reached the vault entrance.
"But it might not be."
"Also correct," Lone said as he and Shadow entered the vault. Fortunately, John and Metamorpha were still in there.
"Hey, guys."
"Hey Lo- WHAT'S HE DOING HERE?!" Metamorpha yelled upon seeing Shadow.
"He's here to help us, Metamorpha. He left the Brotherhood, and both Hermit and Applejack say he's telling the truth. Trust me I'll keep an eye on him. Besides," he said, shrugging, "he's family."
"What do you mean?" John said apprehensively.
"You two remember when I told you that my baby brother was taken when he was just a week old?"
"Yeah. Why?" Metamorph said.
"Well, as it turns out," Lone said, "he was taken by the Brotherhood, and was trained by them. He became one of their best soliders, but he discovered who his family is, and left the Brotherhood, coming here."
"So that means-" Metamorpha said.
"Yeah. He's my brother," Lone said. He then used his magic to bring the book that held that prophecy up to Shadow.
"Looks like we're going to need to do this together," Shadow said once he had read the passage. "Any idea what the spell is?"
"None," Lone said.
"Actually," John said, getting their attention, "these are machines, right? Why not create an EMP?"
"Wouldn't that knock your suit out, though, John," Metamorpha asked.
"Doubtful. Spartan armor is hardened against EMP's. The shields might go out, but the power assist systems will stay on, so I'll be fine.'
"But what if the nano-machines are the same?" Lone asked.
"Nano-machines?" Shadow said. "You three mind filling me in on this?"
Metamorpha rolled her eyes and grabbed the journal in her magic and handed it to Shadow. He read magically highlighted pages, magic being used to avoid damage to said journal, and said, "Okay then. I have to agree with Lone. We're going to need to test it out first before dedicating to it."
"Agreed," John said, "but who would volunteer to have a large part of their identity removed, even if they knew the truth?"
"How about four to help you guys out?" they heard Radiant say behind them. The four of them turned back to see who was with her and was met by the entire Crystal Empire branch of lone team, as well as Rainbow Dash.
"You guys really want to risk this?" Lone asked.
"Yeah," Saber said.
"Same here," Rainbow said. "Even if my cutie mark is what makes me awesome, I'd give it up to help mt friends, if I had the choice, and I obviously do."
"You've changed a lot since this started, Dash," Metamorpha remarked.
"Yeah, maybe, but I'm the Element of Loyalty. Not exactly loyal if I keep my cutie mark for selfish reasons instead of giving it up to see if it'll help my friends."
"Plus it'll be a good way to see if we keep our talents without them or not," Opal said.
"That too," Radiant said.
"And just how," Shadow said, raising an eyebrow, "did you know we needed help?"
"Well," Rainbow said sheepishly, "we kinda eavesdropped."
"My fault there," Saber said. "I was trying to get her to practice stealth, and she though it would be a good idea to listen in on you guys."
"It's alright, guys," Lone said. You're all okay with this, and I mean Shadow being my brother and ow a part of the team, not the cutie mark thing."
"Hey," Saber said, "if you trust him, that's enough for me."
"Me too," Radiant said.
"Same here," Opal said.
"Yeah," Rainbow said.
"Okay then," Lone said, lighting his horn. "Let's try this out." He cast a spell that was designed to knock out magical frequencies, as he assumed that the nano-machines functioned similarly. A wave spread out from him, enveloping the room. Once it did, it faded away. Unfortunately, there was no change in the three crystal ponies and one pegasus in the room.
"Let me try," Shadow said, lighting his horn in a completely black aura. The same happened, result and all.
"Damn it," Lone said, "I though it would have worked. Why didn't it?"
Those present brought their hooves/hand to their chin and though on this until Metamorpha said, "Didn't the sentence say 'togther'? Maybe you two need to activate the spell at the same time."
"Wouldn't hurt," Shadow said as he and Lone lit their horns, and waves of black and emerald colored magic enveloped the room. Once the waves faded, it looked like it was a failure as well. "Worth a shot," Shadow said before Lone pointed out somehting, pointing at Rainbow and the others.
"You guys might want to check this out." John, Metamorpha, and Shadow looked to see what was going on, with the other four looking at each other, and saw the cutie marks of said four begin to slide off, almost as if they were being washed away by water, even flickering a little as they slid down to the floor.
"Whoa," the four of them said. "I expected to fell something," Rainbow said.
"Us too," Radiant said.
"Metamorpha, write that down," Lone said, "Might be usefull later on with the others."
"Right," the changeling said as she brought up a quill and paper and wrote it down. "Anything else?"
"Depends," Lone said. "You guys still got your talents."
"No idea," Saber said. "Let's find out," he said as he brought his hoof down on the floor, causing it to crack, and a perfect sword made out of crystal appeared. "Good here."
It was Opal who went next. She lit her horn in a near crystal white aura, and created crystal armor around her body. "Same."
Radiant went next. She was a unique pony, even by Crystal pony standards. She had the ability to telekinetically control crystals, much like a unicorns telekinesis. She focused on Sabers sword, and used her abilities to hold it in the air, the action making Rainbows jaw drop.
"How," she asked.
"Simple, really. For one thing, she had rudimentary control over crystal when the team recruited her, but the standard training regiment increased it to the point it's like unicorn telekinesis. Every member of the team, whether they be unicorn, pegasus, earth pony, changeling, or any thing else, they learn to amplify their natural magic, and even learn to use other magic, though only the weakest of those. That's your current stage, Rainbow. Amplifying your natural magic to the point you don't need your wings to fly. Definitely the slowest learner I know, but you've made progress."
"How?"
"Look down," Lone deadpanned. She did so, and yelped when she saw she was hovering off the ground with out using her wings. In fact, she still had the anti-flight jacket on, her having gotten used to it, she began to think she no longer liked flying as much. That and current circumstances didn't exactly allow for flying a great deal.
"What the!? How am I doing this?"
"Might be your subconscious," Saber said. "That's how it happened for me."
"Your sister, too," Lone added. "I was there, and I was the one who made her face her fears, something you still need to do."
"Can we just take care of that now, since I'm here?"
"No. You've progressed to the point you need to face them in the real world before your ready. No pony can help you in that regard," Lone said.
"So, should we remove the others cutie marks, or should we wait?" Radiant asked. "I doubt they'd understand this as well as we did."
"They're going to find out soon enough, what with us not having cutie marks anymore. It would only make logical sense they would then be wary of us, with the exception of Metamorpha, Chitinia, their mother, John, his crew mates, and the other extraterrestrials."
"You feeling alright, Rainbow," Saber asked.
"Yeah. Why wouldn't I?"
"Because of how you just said it would make sense the others wouldn't trust you guys, due to lack of cutie marks."
"You okay, Saber," the cyan pegasus asked, "You seem a little concerned about something that's entirely standard."
Shadow leaned into Lone's ear here and whispered, "I'm going with her cutie mark made her a little less intelligent when it comes to grammar, and removing it let that knowledge come to the front."
"Agreed," Lone whispered back. "Who knows what else cutie marks are hiding?"
"So long as it doesn't make her a murderess, I'll be happy."
"Okay, Rainbow," the two brothers heard Metamorpha say. "How is it every pony race has some amount of magic?"
"That's actually simple, Metamorpha. You see, Equis' magnetic field is able to contain some of the radiation form Celestia's sun. Combine that with all the natural magic, and it was that combination that gives the three pony races their abilities, and I imagine that it's similar to changelings." The jaws of the crystal ponies and changeling went slack, as that was the most widely accepted explanation of how the three pony races could all do some sort of magic, and they knew how much Rainbow disliked being called an egghead, yet here she was, giving an egghead answer out like it was always how she did it.
"I don't know about you guys," Metamorpha said, "but I like the new Rainbow Dash."
"Old one," Metamorpha," Rainbow said, holding up a hoof. "I was always like this. The nano-machines just repressed those memories, but now that they're deactivated, the real me's back, and ready to kick some plot. Oh, and you guys can leave the jacket on me. It's actually comfortable," she said before she began to hover a few feet off the floor. "Plus, I could get used to this." She then went to hover in front of Lone. "And for the record, Lone, I faced my fear back in the Empire. Not being able to help my friends when they needed it. I was able to overcome it, and I imagine that's when I first got access to this, but it didn't manifest until now."
"In that case, Raibow, you are now a full member of lone team."
"Nice," she said, her new demeanor making her, though still liking to say it, finding saying "Awesome" to everything good a little annoying, even if appropriate.
"Once this whole mess is over with," Saber said, "you'll be able to choose which branch to be a part of. If you want, you can always ask the leader of that branch to go to another. Personally, I'm hoping you choose the Empire." He blushed a little here.
"Why," Rainbow asked before noticing his blush. "Oh. In that case, why not make this entire adventure a date, seeing as how we're going to be with each other for a while?"
"Re-really?"
"Yeah. Besides, I do find you a little handsome, Saber. The fact you're a crystal pegasus doesn't hurt either. I was just afraid of not looking cool before, but now that I don't have anything altering my mind, I couldn't care less about what others think. Except for you, of course."
"Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh," was all Saber could say.
"I think you broke him," Shadow said, "though I'm not certain how."
"Might be she called him handsome," Radiant said. "He's said that he wasn't exactly the most handsome pegasus, and I think the mare he's interested in calling him that would jam his mind."
"Yeah, I suppose that makes sense," Rainbow commented. Those in the room waited for Saber to come out of his mind jam, which took a few minutes.
"You back yet," Rainbow asked.
"Yeah," the crystal stallion replied. "So, um, what do you want to do?"
"Depends on if Maruco has any good movies he can project saved in that armor of his," Rainbow replied. "Want to find out?"
"Sure," he replied before the two of them left the room.
"Might as well go and make sure those two don't get in trouble," Radiant said, to which Opal nodded, and the two left, leaving the Spartan, changeling, and two unicorns in the vault.
"Well, now that that's over with, that leaves one issue," Shadow said.
"Yeah," Lone says. "How to make it to where the others can at least tolerate you."
"It's probably safe to assume the other ponies would have a hard time due to what happened a few weeks ago. Same for the others as well," John said.
"You trust him," Lone said, raising an eyebrow.
"Not entirely," John said, "but you trust him, and I trust you, so that does get some."
"Same here," Metamorpha said, smiling.
"Better than nothing," Shadow said.
"Well, come on, guys," Lone said. "We're done in here for now. Might as well prevent the shit storm as much as possible by letting them know directly. Hermit, get everyone who assembled at the vault entrance. Might as well take care of the cutie marks too.
"Of course," they heard Hermit say, then went to the entrance to the vault.
Before they could get there, though, Shadow said to Lone, "Hold on, Lone. There's something I need to take care of."
"What's that," Lone said, getting in a combat stance slowly.
Shadow lit his horn and said, "I wanted to get you into the mental link I share with a friend of mine, Midnight Stream, who is helping me by giving me information from the Brotherhood, as she was in them as well, and currently acting as if she's still loyal. I wanted you to have access to the link so you and your dark side can more easily converse with her, me, and my dark side, as well as hers."
"She can go nightmare as well," Metamorpha asked.
"'Nightmare,'" Shadow asked.
"In reference to me saying Fear Bringer is like Nightmare Moon," Lone said. "And I'll accept, but I warn you, I have spells protecting me against any kind of harmful mind magic, and those spells are designed to kill."
"Duly noted," Shadow said as he touched his horn to Lone's.
Hello, brother, Lone heard a voice say inside his head.
"I assume that's your dark side?"
"Yeah, but I call him Chaos Riser."
And it fits me perfectly, Chaos said. So, when can I speak with my other sibling?
Right now, Fear said.
"As long as you two keep it to the back ground, got it?" Shadow said.
Yeah, yeah, they both responded.
"They're going to annoy the tartarus out of us aren't they," Lone asked.
"Most likely."
"Well, come on, Shadow," Lone said, restarting his walk to the entrance.
Once the four of them were there, they waited for a while, as the only ponies to get there soon were those that left the vault shortly before them. It was about five minutes before the others arrived, and, needless to say, all but Applejack and Celestia were surpised and angry that Shadow was there. It had taken a while to calm them down, Luna especially difficult, even for Lone and Celestia, but they all calmed down enough to listen. The ponies, trusting idiots they are, believed him after he had said he was sorry that he tried to kill the solar alicorn. It was grounded, as Hermit and Applejack could say he was telling the truth.
"And that brings us to our second topic," Lone said.
"An' just wha' would that be?" Applejack asked.
"Anypony notice Rainbow and the others not having cutie marks?" Metamorpha said.
Amazingly, none had noticed this until it was pointed out. "How," Luna asked.
"Isn't it obvious?" Pinkie asked. "It's because this dimension has cutie marks being some sort of mind control that hinder the abilities of certain ponies. Some ponies are immune to it, like Lone and Shadow, as well as Applebloom and the Cutie Mark Crusaders. I'm immune to it, but only the mental effects. Why else do you think I break the fourth wall so much and get away with it. They were all made by Plasma, who wanted a way to make sure any large scale rebellions could be taken down with ease. Why else do you think Cadence is with that meanie."
"She's right, as illogical as that sounds," John said.
"Right," Lone said, "and for the past ten days, me, Metamorpha, and John have been searching for something to fix this." He held up a hoof. "Before you scream with anger at us not telling you sooner, we did so because we knew that you would want a cure from us, and some would pester us about it. It wasn't until an hour ago, when Shadow came here, that we were able to cure it, for lack of a better term. By combining our specific magical frequencies and casting a spell, which I won't say the source of for reasons I'll keep to myself, we were able to remove the cutie marks of the Crystal Empire branch of the team."
"Wait a minute," Applejack said, "Dash decided to live in the Empire? Why? I thought we were y'all's friends, Rainbow."
"Believe me, AJ, you guys are, but I have more than one group of friends now. besides, I think we can agree that Ponyville is in good hooves with you five there, as well as Vinyl and the others. I'd love to still be there, but I'd rather be where my stallion lives then live someplace he'd be uncomfortable, due to him being a crystal pegasus and all. Plus, I will be able to visit you five when my duties allow for it. Who knows," the mare said, shrugging, "I may become as smart as Meta."
"But we thought you weren't interested in books, darling," Chitinia said.
"The me you guys knew wasn't, but that one had her mind messed with due to my cutie mark. Now, I'm a mix of that me and Meta."
"Yeah, needless to say," Shadow said, "if you guys want your marks removed, it might cause your personality to change a little."
"Do any of you want your cutie marks removed?" Lone asked.
"And," Radiance added, "it won't hurt at all."
"I do," Luna said after a near thirty seconds of silence.
"Oh, oh, me too," Pinkie said
"And me, if. . . that's alright," Fluttershy said in a voice barely above a whisper.
"Of course it is, Flutters," Lone said. "Anypony else?"
After a few more seconds of silence, it was Celestia who said, "Me too."
Applejack followed by saying, "Shucks, Ah don't see why not."
"In that case," Lone said as he and Shadow ignited their horns before saying in unison, "Prepare."
The two stallions crossed their horns, and an orb of magic that was olive green in color erupted from them, encompassing the entire library due to the sheer amount of power put into this spell. In fact, if anyone there had a magic detector on the lowest sensitivity, it would explode like a flash bang, and the two alicorns could feel this power, so much so that they felt empowered just sensing the amount of energy being used. Unlike the last time this spell was used, it now just made the cutie marks come flying off, disappearing in small explosions. It also made the ponies go to what would have been their personality had Plasma not created the nano-machines to begin with instantly. Strangely enough, though, it didn't create a breeze like other spells would.
"That was. . . different," Applejack said.
"Yeah it was," Luna said.
"Well," Fluttershy said, her new personality coming to light the soonest, "what did you two expect, seeing as how the ones who cast it are the two most powerful unicorns alive. It isn't complex science to figure out it would be different." Everyone just looked at Fluttershy due to how she phrased that, even though they all knew that their personality would be different.
"I don't know why, but I like her more this way," Kasumi said.
"Yeah," Zaeed said. "Less of a fuckin' doormat."
"Shut it, Zaeed," Fluttershy said.
"Definitely liking more," Lily said.
"Well," Lone said, "now that that's done, you guys can go back to what you were doing before. I plan on showing Shadow around." With that, the two stallions walked off.
"I think I'll join them," Luna said, "just to ensure nothing happens."
"And me as well," her sister said as the two followed the unicorns that, one way or another, had saved them.