The Toras is out there, somewhere. Can Sunset and her Friends help find it?
The Toras is defeated and successfully banished from Equestria. But why does it feel like it's not over yet?
Worrying the Toras may be in another universe, specifically the EQG universe, Twilight writes to Sunset Shimmer to ask of her and her Friends to keep an eye out on the lookout for the Toras in her world.
Also, while Sunset and the rest of the Humane Seven are on the lookout, our six colored equines will also be on the lookout too.
It's a beautiful, sunny, spring day at Canterlot High School.
The end of another long Tuesday had Sunset Shimmer in the Library, busy studying for a math test that's to be taken tomorrow morning.
Usually, all her other friends would join her and they all would've formed a study group, though that was not the case as Rainbow Dash had to be at soccer practice directly after school. Applejack having to head home to her farm to help with the apple harvest. Pinkie Pie having to directly go to work at Sugarcube Corner, helping either man the register, or help with the baking of sweets. Rarity and Fluttershy both going to the animal shelter, as Rarity had a ‘fabulous’ idea of an animal clothing line, her wanting to go and get the animal’s measurements. Fluttershy coming along to help her.
And finally Twilight Sparkle, who you may think would want to help her study, had a ‘special’ “get together” with Timber.
So yeah, it was just her, sitting at one of the many work tables while other students around her either checked out a book they had to read for class, or typing their essays down on one of the computers.
“The square root of one hundred and fifty is twelve point two four seven four four. Multiplied by five and we get...” Sunset uses her calculator to get the answer, “Sixty one point two three seven two four.” Sunset said to herself, writing down her work down in her notebook.
Right as she goes to do another question, she hears a vibrating, buzzing sound.
Looking into her book bag, Sunset sees that the journal that her and Princess Twilight write to each other with is, indeed, the one doing the vibrating and buzzing.
“I can take a break for a little while. She probs just wants a quick chat.” Sunset brings the journal out of her bag, setting it on the table and opening up to the page with the newest entry, starting to read.
“Dear Sunset Shimmer, I am writing to you to warn you of a potential threat that may or may not be in your world.”
Threat?
“You see, me and my friends had to use the Elements of Harmony (Celestia and Luna’s orders) to banish an old, ancient threat to Equestria called the 'Toras'. It's appearance with that of the head of a dragon, body of a pony, and tail that of a manticore.”
Sunset puts the journal down, moving her pen to her cheek, a thought occurring in her head. “Toras? Now where have I hear of that before?”
After a minute of thinking, Sunset picks back up the journal, but right as the loudspeaker turns on, announcing from it: “Attention students. The Library will be closing early today due to... principal reasons. Don’t worry, it’ll be opened extra early tomorrow morning at six thirty sharp. That is all.” VP Luna announces as the loudspeaker turns off.
“That’s weird. But story does check out.”
Right as everyone is starting to pack up and head home, Sunset decides to quickly read the rest of what Twilight had sent her.
“But you see, the Toras made it easy to banish him, and that’s what we think he’s planning. I mean, you wouldn't believe how easy he made it for us. It's almost like a trick, a ploy, a plot. Whatever!"
“Anyway, be on the lookout in your world for anything, if it’s Equestrian magic, or something you feel is a threat.”
“Of course, you can let the other girls join in, as for who knows where he could be in your world.”
“It’s all up to you and the others to track down, and possibly defeat this thing before he causes harm to your world. I just know you can do it. Sincerely, Princess Twilight Sparkle."
'Another threat from Equestria. With Equestrian magic possibly!'
'Of course something like this would happen a week before spring break.'
'Nevertheless, we’re on it.'
Sunset thinks to herself as she packs up everything back into her book bag, getting up and walking out of the library.
As she does, Sunset pulls out her phone from her jacket’s pocket, opening up to a group chat where her and her friends all text to each other.
She texts to all six of them: “Hey girls. Make sure to bring your element necklaces with you tomorrow to school. I’ll explain about it tomorrow. See you then.”
* * *
As yesterday was a beautiful, sunny Tuesday, today is the exact opposite, as it’s a cloudy, rain all throughout the day, Wednesday at Canterlot High School.
Sunset Shimmer is at her locker, taking out books from and to her book bag.
As she had told her other friends, she too had brought her element necklace with her to school.
Right as she’s done with her locker, the rest of her friends walk on over by her. All the six of them looking to have seen her text, and brought their element necklaces with them too.
“Hey guys,” Sunset says with a smile, “How are you?”
“Oh fine. Reallyfine... and by fine, I mean sore. Like, really really sore,” Rainbow Dash answers her, “Ever since we’ve had this new soccer coach, she’d been working us so hard, I don't even think you can be worked this hard.”
“Quite a predicament there,” Sunset says back, “Anyway. I’m sure you're wondering about why I’ve asked of you to bring your element?”
Each of the girls either give a sideway nod, a confused strug, or a wide smile with two thumbs up (specifically Pinkie Pie).
“Well you see,” Sunset opens up her book bag, bringing out her SunTwi journal,“Yesterday Princess Twilight wrote to me, asking for us to be on the lookout for something, or someone, called a Toras.”
“Ah, a what now?” Applejack asked.
“A Toras. A being said to have the appearance of a dragon's head, a pony’s body, and a tail of a manticore.” (Human) Twilight answers for Sunset.
“Oh, oh my.” Fluttershy sounds a little scared, after hearing of Twilight's description of it.
“Uh, how did you know that?” Sunset asks, a little surprised to her friend.
“Oh you know, the usual... research.” Twilight says as she sneakily tucks her phone back into her backpack behind her, not trying to let anyone know she simply just looked it up on the internet.
“Okay. Anyway, I’ll just have to say, be on the lookout for anything looking to involve Equestrian magic, or anything else looking threatening. Kapleesh?”
“Kapleesh!” All seven girls shout as they all put their hands together, then all simultaneously raise them up in the air.
The six ponies (including Starlight and Spike) appear in the Friendship Castle's Throne Room. “I’m sure you are all wondering why you are here?” Twilight asks to her six group of friends.
“No idea.” Applejack replies.
“Me neither.” Rarity replies.
“Is it anything good?” Fluttershy asks.
“Good? Yes.” Twilight levitates a scroll right out of Spike’s claws.
“You see, while Sunset Shimmer and her friends are busy looking for the Toras in their world, I feel we should do the same. Whether he’s still in our universe, or in any others," Twilight opens up the scroll, “Which is why with the help of Starlight here, we feel we may have found a certain spell that'll let you travel from universe to universe. Safely, I should add.” Twilight gives a smile to all ponies.
“A spell that safely lets you go from universe to universe. How do we know that it’s safe?” Applejack asks.
“Oh, it’s safe alright. I've done plenty of calculations and, I can guarantee it.” Twilight makes a face to display her genius.
“Sounds good to me!” Pinkie joyously said, somehow making the open scroll appear in her hooves.
“Me too,” Rainbow flies up into the air, "The longer we’re here, the longer he’s probably terrorizing some other world. I’m in.” Rainbow puts one of her hooves out.
“Aw shucks. I guess I'm too.” Applejack says, removing her hat and meeting Rainbow’s hoof with her own, her hat on her hoof.
“Here here.” Rarity’s hoof meets Rainbow’s and Applejack’s.
“Okay. Let’s do it.” Fluttershy says softly but also confidently, her hoof joining the others.”
“Absolutely!” Pinkie hops over to where they’re at, still having the scroll, her front curl hanging onto it.
“I’m so proud.” A sense of liquid pride floods Twilight’s eyes, having a small smile.
Soon later, all the ponies walk from the Throne Room over to the Library, where the portal that’s used for all things EQG is.
Twilight reopens up the scroll, levitating the spell scroll up onto the top of the portal, then, with the ease of casting a spell, the portal connects with it.
“I just want to make sure you all seriously want to do this.” A concerned Starlight tells Twilight, “I know it isn’t exactly like going back in time and all that but, it just feels worrisome.”
“Don’t worry. We’re all sure to not mess with the other worlds’ normalcy. Right?” Twilight said less worrisome to Starlight, before then asking all of her friends.
“Uh huh.” “Sure.” “I know I will.” “Cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye.” The girls all saying at once. Pinkie of course saying her special ‘Pinkie Promise’.
“I guess so. But while you're gone, I’ll make sure to study all up on that spell we found. To see if there’s anything else we should know.” Starlight says to all ponies.
“That sounds great,” Twilight says while walking over to the portal. “Are you girls ready?”
“Ready as I’ll ever be.” Fluttershy says confidently.
“Alright. Let’s do this.” Twilight says as one by one, each of her friends walk through into the portal.
The ponies’ own search for the Toras beginning.
00*00*00*00
The search begins in a world that looks exactly like their own.
The six ponies magically appear right on the outskirts of a town that looks exactly like Ponyville.
'Cause it is.
“Did the portal just teleport us outside? What gives?” Rainbow asks a little angrily.
“Now now. We’re just-“ Twilight is interrupted as soon as she sees all of her friends, soon after looking over herself.
Their manes, tails, overall colors and cutie marks being the same as when they're ponies, but they’re not exactly ponies here.
Each girl looks at each other, top to bottom, from hoof to head, to find that they’re all now cows (or bovine).
“Weird, and freaky,” Rainbow says about her new body, constantly looking over her back to see there being no wings attached, “And no wings? Okay, this world is officially not awesome.”
“And no horn.” Rarity said, pointing to both her’s and Twilight’s head to show that there is in fact, no unicorn horn.
“Oh dear,” Twilight starts to get all panicking, “If no horn then no magic. And if no magic, then how will we get back home.”
Applejack goes over to try to comfort her. “Is that all?”
“Yes!” Twilight yells out.
“I don’t know. I think I might just enjoy this new bovine lifestyle,” Pinkie says as she looks all over herself enthusiastically, “Plus, I’ve always wanted to know what it’s like to have an udder!”
“Udder?” The rest of her friends question at once, then going to look at their own underbellies too to find that they too have one, an udder.
“Again, weird, and freaky.” Rainbow said again.
“Well, good news is that the spell worked," Twilight stops for a beat, "Bad news, is that the magic in this world could be tricky.”
“Now I’m sure we’ll figure that one out,” Applejack says. “But for now. We better get a move on if we’re gonna find this thing.”
“Applejack’s right. We’ll figure out the magic situation later. But for now, we better try to find the Toras here before he possibly wrecks this world,” Twilight looks at all of her friends concerningly, then giving a big, friendly smile, “But I know we can do it.”
At once, all six ponies nod their heads, starting to gallop off, though after taking a few steps toward the town, they see, well them.
For about five minutes straight, all twelve of them (including the pony M6, plus this world’s M6) just stared at each other, both shocked and surprised.
Well except for Pinkie as she and her other world’s counterpart stared at each other happily, big smile on both face.
Other world’s Rainbow Dash would break the silence. “So uh, this is weird.”
“And freaky.” Other world's Applejack says after her.
Their other world’s counterparts not only looking exactly like them, but sounding exactly like them too.
“You, you sound, exactly like us.” Pony Twilight said shocked and surprised.
“Well of course. This is an alternate universe where we sound and look alike, but are two different beings,” Cow Twilight explains to her, “Speaking of alternate universes, why exactly are you here? Not trying to conquer this world now, are ya?”
“I...” 'Think, you’ll in a different universe where everything’s the same except for the fact their cows instead of ponies. “Excuse me, bovine brothel, but you hadn’t exactly seen anything that looks, or feels threatening, have ya? Anything involving dark magic?” Pony Twilight asks either all six of them..
“Hmm, I can check with my dark magic scan spell...” Cow Twilight says before just so suddenly staring off into the air. “Nnope, no sign of dark magic anywhere here in Bovineville, or any surrounding areas.
Pony Twilight looks shocked at what she just saw. “Wha.. how did you do that? No offense but you-“
“Don’t have a horn like yours?” Cow Twilight interrupts her. “We get that a lot, trust me.”
For another ten minutes there’s nothing but silence, until Cow Pinkie breaks it.
“So, how’d you get here? No wait, let me guess. You guys found a spell allowing you six to travel from slash to other worlds. Did I get it right?” Cow Pinkie gives a squee.
“Spot on.” Pony Pinkie says to her.
“Okay. I would question how you knew that but you are Pinkie Pie. This world’s to be exact.” Pony Rainbow says to her next.
“Aw thanks.” Cow Pinkie says back.
Cow Twilight walks over to Pony Twilight. “Say, I don’t suppose you could let me see that spell of yours?”
“I don’t know. Can I trust you?” Pony Twilight asks warily.
“Trust me?” Cow Twilight gets in a better posture. “Trust is an internal part of friendship. But you should know that. You are the ‘Princess of Friendship’.”
“How’d you know-“
Cow Twilight interrupts her pony counterpart by levitating a crown that looks exactly like hers onto her head.
“You're the Princess of Friendship in this world too?” Twilight asks surprisingly.
“Of course. What, you thought this world would be nothing like yours?”
“I, uh...”
“Just teasing ya,” Cow Twilight jokes before putting on a more serious face, “But to be serious, we gotta find a way to get you all back home. Got any suggestions?”
“I have one. Well, question more like it. How were you able to cast that spell? You have no horn and-“ Rarity is soon interrupted by her cow counterpart.
“Well it’s simple.” Cow Rarity levitates out a needle, a spool of blue thread, and an unfinished blue sweater.
Using her magic, she easily finishes the sweater, levitating it over to her pony counterpart.
“Magic here is... complicated. In some spots, it can be real strong, but normally magic is real low. You have enough to do everyday, household things, but not exactly enough to cast interuniversal travel spells.” Cow Twilight explains to the new girls.
“Complicated? Are you saying we could be here for a while?!” Pony Twilight asks panicky.
“Depends. Let me see that spell of yours.” Pony Twilight decides to trust her cow counterpart, carrying the all rolled up spell over to her.
Opening up the scroll, she gives it a good read.
“Hmm... oh, alright... I.., think... we may have a problem.” She says while reading the spell.
“Problem?” Pony Applejack asked, worried.
“Well, it appears, good news, is that you can cast this spell. Bad news is...” Cow Twilight looks downcast to her pony counterpart, not a good look at all. “But this world has a limited supply of magic, and like I said earlier, enough to do everything, normal things, but this, nope. And your spell calls for a lot of it. Meaning...”
“Meaning we’re stuck here for a while?” Pony Twilight finishes her sentence.
“Answer is, yes.”
All six of the ponies-now-cows look to one another, then towards their cow counterpart worryingly.
Pony Pinkie slides to the ground, yelling: “Nnoooooo!!!!!”
Rainbow Dash is in her first hour math class, she being the only one taking the class since apparently Applejack switched to an honor math class because she’s so apparently smart at math.
Anyway, the day begins with Mr. Cranky Doodle introducing to the class a new student.
The student being a he, he wearing all black clothing, his hair color purely black, and his skin a light gray.
“I’d like to welcome, uh... Terry. Terry Astro.” Mr. Doodle says to the class.
While Terry Astro goes and takes his seat, doing so looking as bored as ever, Rainbow thinks to herself: ‘Terry Astro aye? Could be nothing but name does kinda resemble Toras. Maybe.’
Second hour of class and the school day is about to begin.
Right as Twilight is walking to her class, Rainbow runs up to her to tell her about the new kid.
“Terry Astro? You do know that it’s a stretch to assume he’s the being we’re after, right?” Twilight questions her friend.
“Well sure maybe, but you never know.”
“Hmm, I suppose I could keep an eye out for him. But it’s still a stretch.”
Right as Rainbow’s about to open her mouth, the bell rings, signifying class has begun.
After watching her friend Rainbow Dash immediately take off running to the class where she's needed, Twilight goes ahead and walks into her next class, Advanced Physics, taking her seat.
And today was random student Wednesday, meaning she’d get to work with a random student.
And the student she has to work with today is the new kid, Terry Astro.
“Howdy! My name’s Applejack.” She greets the new student, holding out her hand, expecting a handshake.
Though he just so balantly stared at it, not talking at all, then later going to sit on the floor, putting his earbuds in and listening to heavy metal.
“Okay.”
Throughout the whole class, he just sat there, listening to his music while Applejack practically did all the work.
Fourth hour and Pinkie is almost always all over this one.
The class being advanced honors geology.
Of course, she only takes it just to be with her best sister, Maud.
As soon as Pinkie walks into the class, she notices sitting in the way back a new student.
So being her, Pinkie decides to of course introduce her to him.
“Hi. My name’s Pinkie Pie. What’s yours?” She introduces herself, being as wholeheartedly nice, holding out her hand and staring at him with her big blue eyes.
Though, a minute passed of just him and her staring at each other until it was time for class to start.
As Pinkie went to take her seat, she thought to herself: ‘I’ve seen weirder but usually they at least tell me their name.’
As everyone got their lunch and sat down with their friends, our group of seven had something else they need to do.
And by something else they need to do... they all had to finish their social studies homework.
All seven girls, seated at one of the lunch tables, both textbook and notebook out, writing down whatever it is they feel is the right thing to write down.
Sunset Shimmer would break the unusual silence at their table. “So, anyone seen anything suspicious?”
Rainbow immediately stops what she’s doing, standing up from her seat, looking to all her friends. “Actually, I think we may have this whole thing wrapped up.”
All seven girls now walking on over to Twilight’s house.
“So let me get this straight. There’s this new student in school who Rainbow Dash here thinks is the guy we’re looking for.” Sunset explains what Rainbow had told her to all her friends, “I don’t know. I don’t really normally like to assume but it does feel like a real stretch.”
“I said the same thing.” Twilight said after.
“Listen, I know it’s a stretch but I just think he’s our guy.” Rainbow explains her reasoning once again to everyone.
“I still don’t know. Not unless we see him doing some strange Equestria Magic type of doohickey.” Applejack said back.
“Yeah, you know, kind of like that.” Pinkie sounds happily, seeing Terry Astro across the street, pointing over to him.
Only now, he seems less like how they all saw him before, what's with him seeming to be holding a gem encrusted necklace.
And coming out of it appearing to be some sort of dark energy, Equestrian magic type of doohickey.
“So let me get this straight. We’re all in this "other" world that justsohappens to look like ours, only for the simple fact that everyone here are cows.” Rainbow Dash recaps to everypony/cow.
“Eyup.” Cow Big Mac says right as he walks pass everyone, carrying behind him a wagon full of apples and hay bales.
Twilight and her Cow Counterpart Discuss Things (All While The Humane 7 Start To Go After The Toras)
Twilight and her cow counterpart are both inside this world’s Friendship Castle's Library.
Inside, mostly (okay pretty much) every book is pulled from the shelves, every scroll unrolled, and well, the whole room looks like what two eggheads would make it look like.
If you’re wondering, the rest of Pony Twilight's friends decided to go with their other world’s counterparts.
Applejack went with hers to Sweet Apple Orchard. (Orchard in this world.)
Rainbow Dash with hers to see how exactly the weather here works.
Rarity going with hers to check up and see what this world’s fashion is like.
And Pinkie and Fluttershy both going with theirs to just check out everything.
Back to Twilight(s), the two creatures going over everything they could find to figure out exactly how they could get enough magic for the spell to work.
“Yyes!” Cow Twilight brings to her a book, opened to a page explaining about a magic artifact that could help them out.
“It’s called the ‘Alicow Amulet’. With it anycreature can harness enough magic to have the same, if not more, than Celestia and Luna themselves.” Cow Twilight gives a big dorky smile.
“The Alicow Amulet?”
“Yes! You know what I’m talking about?”
Twilight gets up, walking around the room. “Well, to be frank, in our world, it was called the 'Alicorn Amulet'. And also, it's just, in our world, a pony found and tried to used it against me. Not only me, but my friends. And also our whole town of Ponyville."
Cow Twilight deflates just a little bit. “Oh. Well if it bothers you that much, then we can try something else," She looks up at a huge stack of books still ready yet to be read, “I’m sure we’re find something else in all these.” She points a hoof at them all.
“No no, I’m good. Besides, this could be our only chance. Does your book mention where we can find it?” Pony Twilight walks back to her counterpart and also the huge stack of books.
Cow Twilight flips through a few pages. “Yes, and no. According to paragraph twelve, sentence seven, it says that the amulet is actually right in Canterlot, locked up tight in Celestia’s Castle.
“That’s wonderful news!” Pony Twilight says a little pleased.
“Though, bad news is, the Castle is heavily guarded this time of year, and both of our princesses right now are out of the country for a big diplomatic meeting.
“Oh.”
(Back in the EQG World)
“Hey you!” Sunset Shimmer yells over to Terry Astro (A.K.A. the human Toras) from across the street.
Terry Astro looks up from what’s happening to the necklace in his hand to see all seven of the 'Equestria Girls'. The sight of them all making him not think twice as he quickly puts the necklace into his pocket before making a break for it.
“They always have to make this hard, don’t they.” Rainbow said as they all start to run after him.
But just now fast enough to outrun seven girls. Especially one who can literally catch up to him 'ten seconds fast'.
Rainbow Dash used her element necklace to zoom fast, catching up way out in front of him, causing the Toras to stop in his tracks.
The rest of the girls catching up to have him surrounded.
Instead of fighting back, Terry Astro just simply gives himself up, putting his hands up above his head, taking the necklace he had earlier out of his pocket and dropping it to the ground.
Seeing him surrender so easily, six of the girls go to hold onto him tightly, making sure for no room to escape.
Applejack grabs one of his arms, holding it out to Sunset.
Sunset Shimmer nods her head in agreement, moving her hand to touch his arm to try to figure out what his deal is.
Touching his arm, the first vision Sunset sees is of the Toras himself, though him looking way more like his dragon, pony, manticore self, and him also looking more nervous(?), acting shy as he walks into a small village of Earth Ponies, the look on his face being one of hope, as to make friends with them all.
Though, as soon as everypony sees him walking through the village, they all start hysterically laughing, just at the sight of him.
Seeing all this, feeling a feeling he never wants to feel again, the Toras' feelings gets crushed, trying to hold it all in, though unable to do so as Sunset sees him running out of the village as fast as he can, stopping at an abandoned well to let all the tears come out.
The second vision Sunset is shown is of the Toras again, this time he's outside that same village from before, also this time he does not look to be in the mood to be making friends.
“If they wanna treat like that. Then I might as do the same.” The Toras said to himself as he powers himself up, eyes flaring with blue flames as he then marches into the village to show those ponies why they should never, ever laugh at him again.
And lastly, the third (and final) vision Sunset sees is of the Toras, him altogether terrorizing/threatening ponies of every kind, going from town to town, showing them his full wrath.
But not until Starswirl the Bearded, that same legendary pony, comes into the picture, battling him for a good few minutes before finally casting a spell on the Toras that forcibly banishes him from Equestria, forcing the Toras to have to live to the lands of way south.
After the third vision ends, Sunset removes her hand from his arm.
“I think I know why you're like this.” Sunset looks to Terry Astro more closely, making eye-to-eye contact.
“All you wanted was friends. But when everypony laughed at just the way you looked... well you took it upon yourself to make life harder, not just for them, but for everypony.”
“Right you are," Terry Astro sinisterly answers her question, “I put myself out there, and all I got back was laughter. Lots and lots of laughter!” His eyes start turning to the same bluish flame of which Sunset had seen from his visions, the girls holding onto him even tighter, “And so I decided, if I can’t make friends with ponies, then I might as well make enemies with them!”
Terry suddenly gets a lot of strength built up, soon using his newfound power to break free of all six of the girls.
Applejack though, using her element necklace for just that extra strength to hold him down with.
Though not even AJ’s extra strength can hold him as he easily breaks away from her.
Terry Astro goes to pick up the necklace he had dropped earlier, whispering into it some old Pre-Equestrian saying, and before you know it, he gets turned into his natural ponyland form.
Also possessing a whole lot of magic just from the necklace, available at ease and ready for domination of this world.
“For a thousand years, I started thinking. If I can’t conquer their world, then I might as well conquer this one!” He said, sounding all so totally evil.
With one hoof stomp, the Toras makes the clear, blue sky go away, thunder and lightning appearing in the sky.
“Girls! It’s baddie busting time!” Rainbow Dash shouts excitedly, all seven of them using their own magic to transform into their ‘battle the evil baddie’ forms.
“Well, if it’s a fight you want. Then it’s a fight you’ll get!”
***
Well um, the fight didn’t last too long.
The Toras was tough, but all seven girls were able to defeat him.
What happened to the Toras?
Well, the girls knocked that necklace he uses out of his hoof, Sunset quickly going to pick it up, then whispered into it some Pre-Equestrian reverse spell (that she, for some reason, knows) that made the Toras lose all his powers, I guess.
So, now defenseless as he is, Terry Astro went to sit on the curb, crying his eyes out.
Seeing their once former baddie in battle now crying, all girls returned to their normal selves/forms, Sunset feeling the most bit of sympathy, going over to sit on the curb next to him.
Sunset puts her hand on his shoulder. “You are not useless.”
“Yes, I am. Nopony wanted me, so they casted me away! All alone. No friends. I thought that maybe, just maybe, that if I showed everypony then my power, that they would like me. ‘Cause face it, deep down, I’m just a useless, no good loser.”
Sunset strengthens her grip on his shoulder. “No, you are not. You’re powerful. You’re... just like everybody else. They may not show it, but deep down, everyone feels the same way as you do. Only, they’re able to push past it all, and project themselves to look and feel as different as what they actually are inside. You can do the same. Just gotta, believe in yourself.
Terry Astro looked up at Sunset, his eyes all teary. Thinking about what he'd just been told. “Okay, I think I can. But I’ll need some help.”
“Well lucky for you, you've got seven friends here that can help.”
“Friends?”
And just like that, all seven of the girls hugged him.
Starlight Glimmer, pacing constantly in front of the mirror portal, waiting impatiently, tapping a hoof on the Library's floor.
When, just now, all six of the ponies all come falling through into the room, Starlight having to quickly dodge out of their way.
“So, how did it go?” Starlight asks curiously.
After a second of silence, and all ponies getting up off the floor, Rainbow replies: “Looked exactly like our world. But it wasn’t. ‘Cause everypony there were “cows”.”
“Hmm...?” Starlight nods her head in confusion.
“It went good Starlight. No sign of the Toras there. Any word from Sunset Shimmer?” Twilight said, walking over to her.
“Actually...” Starlight makes appear Twilight’s own SunTwi journal, the book appearing to be vibrating and buzzing, having a new message from Sunset.
Me and my friends were able to take care of that 'Equestrian' magic you asked of us to do. Really was no big deal.
Okay, sort of. The Toras was just looking for a friend, and he just let his anger overtake him too much. If you’re wondering, he’s perfectly fine with the way things are going. We’ve gotten him introduced to every student here, and he actually seems to be making friends real easy. If there’s any trouble, you'll be the first to know.
Your Friend, Sunset Shimmer
***
"So what did Sunset Shimmer had to say?” Spike asks Twilight Immeditely after she finished reading the latest entry.
Twilight looks at him with a big, proud smile. “Everything is perfect Spike. Everything is fine.”
Well, the past events of today… and yesterday… this whole week I suppose, have been certainly eventful.
It’s still weird how, and I’ll never forget it, how just two days ago I woke up in Equestria, my old “home”, and now reside in this strange, new world.
I’ll never know why I was sent here specifically, but that doesn’t matter now.
I’m here, in this strange world of two-legged creatures living in an urban setting.
I, should say my final thoughts on this world, more specifically towards a group of seven girls. I still remember my first day attending that ‘school’. I still doubt that anybody ever knew that I could’ve used my power to read their minds. Though considering the magic, or lack of, in this world, they probably didn't.
Except for those same seven girls. They had magic.
But unlike these girls from the ponies of old, they could’ve used their magic to banish me away from everyone. Or worse, start making fun of me. They wouldn’t be as any different as the ponies who did the same things.
But instead what I got was… surprising.
I secretly read their minds (yes I know, creepy), and if their thoughts were correct, they never wanted to do any of that.
When I was about to do evil, and the same seven saw me, while yes they did put up a fight, but once they had me, they didn’t banish me.
After being (and feeling) defeated, I cried. What happened next? One of them came to my side and comforted me.
They all comforted me.
Long story short, I just think I’m going to like this whole ‘friendship’ thing. I admit that’s what I wanted when I first met those ponies thousands of years ago, but this time instead of making me feel worse, those seven girls had reached out a hand and offered it to me.
These next few days are going to be difficult for me, considering how I never had any friends before, let alone know a single thing about friendship, but I know they’ll help me, one step of the way.
Oh, and about those ponies from my original world, I do hope they find my stone tablet I’d chiseled up before I got banished from there. If I want to be more nice from now on, I should at least warn them of what’s about to happen.
Even though frankly, truthfully, they will never even consider it.
