The next morning the Shadowers were fighting harder than ever.
“Doctor what are going to do?,” Derpy asked.
“You three children stay where it’s safe. We’re gonna try and stop this war, Avante,” the Doctor said.
The three ran off, being careful to avoid the battle zone. The Doctor noticed the Shadower filly from before looking sickly.
“Maybe we can try talking to that young Shadower,”
“Doctor, Do you think they’ll listen to reason?,” Tick Tock asked.
“We have to try. Maybe we can talk to her. Find out what they want. Get them to leave. Their not trying to harm anyone I can tell, and their clearly intelligent,” the Doctor said.
“I hope so,” Derpy replied.
They walked over to the filly who looked like she was having a hard time keeping her balance.
“Alright there. I’m the Doctor and I want to know why your instigating a war,”
The filly looked at him confused.
“What Wa- Ahhhhh!!!!,” she started before backing away wincing in pain.
“Are you OK?,” Derpy asked.
“Y- Ya. I’m- I’m fine. Just need to walk it off. I’ll… be back soon enough,” she said shakily, limping away.
“What ‘s wrong with her?,” Tick Tock asked.
“I don’t know,” the Doctor said.
The filly walked away and leaned against a tree panting.
“... It’s starting,” she said.
She lifted up her hoof as it slowly started turning into a dark purple mist.
Orangecream's ears perked up and she looked towards the forest.
"Hey. Orange? Are you OK?," Winter asked.
"What? Oh ya. Ya. I'm... I'm fine. I just gotta... go check something. I'll be right back," Orangecream said.
She walked off into the forest, almost like she was somewhat in a trance.
Search was watching something on the projector in his office. Twinkle walked in with the Doctor, Derpy and Tick Tock.
"Search. The Doctor wants to talk to you,"
"Let him in," Search said.
"Hello Mr. Search. I'm here to ask you about this war,"
"Well I know very little,"
He turned his attention back to the projector he had up with his magic.
"What are you watching?," Twinkle asked.
She walked up to the projector.
"There's something very strange about what was happening in Orangecream's log cabin a few years ago,"
"Oh for Celestia's sake search! How did you even get this?," Twinkle asked.
"Thant's not the point. Watch,"
Search re-winded what he was watching.
Orangecream was tossing and turning in her bed. She was a lot younger. She looked like a small normal sized filly. She was also moaning in her sleep. A Shadower suddenly appeared in her room and slowly lifted her up telepathically with her hoof. Then she started swaying Orangecream peacefully into peaceful sleep before setting her back down and covering her with the blanket and left.
"What?," the Doctor said confused.
Orangecream was walking through the forest. She saw the large and heavy cloud of mist. Something ached in the back of her mind. She shrugged it off. The mist looked like something she wouldn't normally want to walk into but something told her that she wanted to walk into it.
"Think about it. This Shadower who would normally go for attack just lulls this filly. This SPECIFIC filly back to sleep,"
Orangecream felt the pain in the back of her head again. Though this time it was much more powerful. It demanded to be felt. She felt a cloudy memory being recalled in her mind. A memory that she shouldn't have been able to recognize but did. A feeling of waking up for the first time. Of never seeing her parents, but instead a pony she didn't know and she was lying down on a table, very small and frail.
"And then they do no damage to her while other foals around her get sent to the hospital. A foal they have no reason to care about. Unless they do have a reason to care about her," Search said.
"OK what's your point?," Twinkle asked.
"You know what my point is you just don't wanna think about it," Search told her.
Orangecream's feeling got sharper. More vivid. That everything she had ever thought was wrong. That the Shadower's weren't frighting these war to hurt them. that they weren't bad at all. That they didn't want this war to begin with. Suddenly she felt lightheaded and passed out in the mist. It started changing lifting her up. Swirling around her like a tornado as it got larger and larger.
"You're not seriously suggesting she involved," Twinkle said.
"We have to entertain the possibility," Search said.
Suddenly there was a large explosion causing the ponies to run outside when it was over.
Derpy squealed and the ponies looked at what had caused the explosion in shock.
"What is that?," the Doctor asked.
A large cloud of purple mist had rose from the forest. Ponies ran back. while the Shadowers calmly flew off.
One of the main Shadowers looked at the cloud smiled and flew off. A small filly Shadower was running through the woods. She suddenly took the form of a pony, a purple filly with a darker purple straight mane, with a golden streak going through the center of it and royal blue eyes. She stopped and looked up at the cloud.
"Well... she's back," she said in a sweet voice that did no longer sound distorted, it sounded like a normal pony.
The cloud took on a form of a ponies' head with razor sharp teeth, it roared and went down to the ground rapidly. There was a loud boom and a bunch of wind hit the town.