A dragon.

A bucking dragon!

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“So,” her friend said, grunting up another layer of stone, “what brought all that on? Do you have any plans 'sides ridin' the hero wagon?”

“Huh?” Dash was caught off-guard by the question…

... or she could have been paying too much attention to the way her aurastone glinted off the sweat on Applejack’s legs.

“What you were talkin’ about awhile ago. About plannin’ things and such.”

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Rainbow knew better than to think they would be able to get through this without a fight. Hay, she didn’t deny the idea they could just as easily die. But she was just as determined to relax when she had a chance. Some things never changed.

She only wished the same could be said for Applejack.

What is it about this place that has her so worked up, anyway? Haven’t seen her act this uptight in years, she thought to herself.

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The figure prostrated itself beneath the immense shadow. Tangible darkness rolled off of her form and weighed him down, holding him prone through fear.

“A t-thousand apologies…” the doomsayer muttered, pulling back the hood of his cloak. “There was an… incident, milady.”

The darkness seethed, driving icy needles into his nerves. “Were you seen?”

He shook his head. “Only by a dead pony.”

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“I don’t believe it,” said Princess Cadance with wide eyes. “She told me she was onto something that could stop Sombra, but Twilight never told me the details... I never thought about it after she died but this is...”

“It has to be it. She circled it three times in the book,” pointed out Shining Armor. “I know my Twily. She always did that when something was that important. Twilly must have thought something about this Tree of Harmony could stop Sombra.”

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“That’s not the only emergency,” Shining Armor said, brow furrowing.

She blinked. “Uhhh… it ain’t?”

“I wish it was that simple,” the prince said, standing again and trotting towards the center of the room. The other three followed him as he stepped into a giant circle patterned on the floor. His horn glowed, and an image of the Crystal Empire appeared in the center of the chambers.

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Home... thought Rainbow Dash as she looked down the street.

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