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Waking up because of Shiny Armor lightly shaking me, I groaned and sat up in the sleeping like bag that I was given by Wisdom just the night pier. Wiping the sweat from my brow, I yawned and stretched a bit, hearing my joints pop and crack as I did. Shiny did the same thing as well, but he looked more like a cat stretching then anything. Looking around, I thought for sure that Wisdom would be around to see us off, but he was not, the ghostly sound of wind blowing though the open door of which we came in to do my test was all that could be heard, as well as the clopping sound of Shiny as he stood and took a few paces forward. It felt a lot colder then it did last night, which slightly worried me; it made me feel as if truly, the ghosts of the past humans were watching us. Standing up and clipping my new blade on my back, I was about to follow Shiny out the door, when I stopped and looked back at the middle of the room, the last place where I saw and spoke to my mother. Shiny must've known what I was thinking about, for I saw him stand before me.

"Take all the time you need," he told me softly. "I'll wait outside."

"Thanks man," I told him as he nodded and left me to be alone.

I just stood there, my arms crossed over the wrists behind my back, holding onto my hands tightly as I held my head down. I don't care what my mother said to me last night; I failed her to keep her safe. That is what I did and still do believe in, when I was staying with her and my father, I was the only one that she could be happy around. He never allowed her to go out and have fun, he never allowed her to just be herself. I was her friend, and she was mine, it was something beyond the love of a mother and a son, it was...; something I just couldn't explain.

"Mom," I whispered softly outloud into the air as I looked up. "I don't know if you can hear me, but if you can, know this. Sinbad will pay for the crimes he has done in this world and our home world, this I swear to you, I know you don't believe in fighting for revenge; and that is not what I'm doing. I am fighting for the future; I am fighting, to make sure that Equestria, nah, the world is safe from his, Darkness, and Discord." I sighed and turned away. "One day, I'm going to bring Twilight back to our home world to find your grave, so at least she can say something to you. This isn't goodbye, just farewell; for now."

Walking out the door, I had to stop for a moment as I looked around, white was seen all around the ground, falling from the broken roof from above, when I went closer to touch it, and it was freezing.

"Snow?" I asked myself as I stood up and made my way outside with Shiny Armor standing there waiting. I was right, the sky above was a grey like color, small flakes of snow slowly falling down to earth, coating the ground and destroyed buildings in a blanket of white.

"Seems winter is at last here huh?" he asked me as I nodded with a smile. To me, it wasn't that cold, it was something I could get use to no doubt until we got back to Ponyvile.

As we made our way though Everfree Forest, me and Shiny spoke along the way, that was until we heard a sound.

"Yo, Brandon, Shiny, wazup!" I snapped my head over to the side to see Devon and Rarity run up toward us. But what caught my eye, was the glasses Devon was wearing, large black glasses, almost like the Terminator in a way. "Hey, hey Brandon!" his face then went blank and slightly slack. "I'll be back," he said in the somewhat same way the actor did before I started to laugh slightly before the four of us were close enough to each other, me and Devon bringing our hands up and shook in the air slightly.

"So I'm guessing you got the Element of Courage?" I asked him as he nodded, bringing up his wrist to show the green gem along his wrist as I brought up my blue one. I then looked over to Rarity and knelt down as she came over and hugged me, I hugged her back as Devon and Shiny said their good wills. "So are we ready to get going?" I asked out loud as the other three looked to each other and nodded, finding the single path that we all knew, and made our way toward where we hoped was the exit.

We made sure not to tell each other of our tests until we were back home with all our friends so that they all could hear of our trails all at once. For once, I noticed Devon acting a little more, I don't know what to call it, all I knew, was that somehow Devon looked much difference then when we left for this quest just yesterday. Though we did chat along the way, and only did we get many a few minutes from the exit, we stopped in confusion to see Mike sitting on a dead stump as well as Applejack, eating what else; but an apple each.

"So what took yall?" asked Mike taking another bite of his apple as Applejack only chuckled. The city that held the Element of Power was the furthest away from us, how the bloody hell did these two get here before us?"

"How the bloody hell did you two get here before us?" I demanded as Mike only chuckled.

"We wake up early every morning pardon, we were up even before the sunrise, so we thought, why not wait here for yall to hurry and catch up?"

"Right..." I trailed the word off, I noticed, just like Devon, Mike seemed different as well. Like, he held a much greater force within him now. what had happen to him when he was tested?

"You two look different," The cowboy sated as me and Devon looked to each other. "Like I mean...just...different."

"Yeah, I'm getting the same thing from you two as well," Devon spoke up as I looked to them before I too agreed.

"Do you think it's because we house each of the Elements now?" I asked as Mike shrugged.

"Maybe, who knows," he stood up then and patted his hammer softly. "Let just get," he answered pointing toward the path once more. "I'm in the mood for some home cooking."

"I second that!" Devon answered out pushing his glasses over his horn. "Maybe get soaked up in a nice hot tub too."

"Ugh...mental image...bad, bad, bad!" I cried out holding my head as Devon and even Rarity laughed.

"Which one Brandon; the one of my sexy bum or with Mike's?"

"GAH! Shut the fuck up you!" everyone around me started to laugh as I only grumbled, going on ahead to get away from Devon's now back to his old perverted mind, I swear, I think he and Rainbow Dash would've made a better couple...unless those two would've been making out in public...ugh...that thought making me shudder slightly.

At last, we made it out of the forest; we were close to Fluttershy's place, everything all around us covered in snow. I sighed, home, we were now home.

"Mike!" we all jerked our heads over to see the little filly known as Apple Bloom run over, behind here was Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle, Big Mac, Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash flying in from above alone with Candace, on the ground walking as fast as she could with Spike beside her was Twilight as I smiled, glad to see her again. Apple Bloom jumped and landed right into Mike's chest, causing him to fall back in the snow with a grunt as the young filly nuzzled into his chest and held him in a tight embrace. "I miss yall Mike and AJ, what was it like out there?" she asked pushing herself up, still on top of Mike. The next to be tackle hugged was Devon, but he went down on one knee as Belle jumped into his arms and nuzzled him as well, Scoot pointing a hoof to her mouth making a gagging noise as I went over and ruffled her hair; as she laughed and tried to fix it. Everypony started to ask the same questions on what happened and about our stories, Shiny Armor going over to his wife to nuzzle and kiss her, as Twilight came over to me as I went down, and held her softly in a hugging embrace. When I looked down toward her, I noticed her belly a little bigger, this got me to thinking, did ponies have shorter birth time then that of a human?

"I missed you," She whispered in our hug as I smiled and kissed her lips softly.

"And I missed you too...Twilight, I truly wished that you could've come...what happened out there..." I closed my eyes and sighed. "I'll tell you later alright?" she only nodded as I looked around, Celestia and Luna wasn't around, which was understandable, they were busy tracking down Darkness, Sinbad and any sighting of Discord; so far, nothing of this Discord guy. That's when I noticed that Pinkie Pie was now where to be seen. "Uh...where's Pinkie?"

"Your all back!" the thrill scream of a young women filled my ears as I looked over, backing away from Twilight as I screamed in shock as a pink blur slammed into my chest hard, so hard in fact that I was sent sliding on the snowy ground, groaning in pain. "What happened out there, huhhuhhuh? Come on tell me, tell me, now, now, now!"

"P...Pinkie..." I gasped out loud as she tilted her head. "Right...hind...hoof...on...crotch!" She looked down and sure enough she gasped as she jumped off, I groaned and rolled to my side, covering my lower horn so to speak as I shook in slight pain.

"O...oh my," Fluttershy gasped coming up to me. "Are...you alright Brandon?"

"Y...yeah I'm fine...thank god there's snow around huh?"

A little while later, we were all at the Apple's place, the room we were in was spread out so that I, Devon and Mike could be placed like a stage before our friends, as they wanted to know what happened. Mike thought of going last, leaving it to me and Devon to go before him. Devon went first, telling us about Courage and about how the blade that was to be use was powerful, but could cost the wielder his life, I was shocked at this; could one of us really die using this sword? He also told us about a young filly named Blue, or I thought was young until he told us that she was in fact five hundred years old thanks to Courage. I was up next, I told my story as best as I could, telling them about the fight that Wisdom wanted me to do, and then telling them who it was I was fighting. I tell you, the gasps I heard was so loud. I pulled out my blade and showed them what my mother had did, changing the blade and what it could do, and then I told them what she said about Twilight. I saw Twilight look down, a saw a single tear run down her face, was it for my mother, me, or maybe both? Ether way that was the end of my story and now it was Mike's turned, but before then Devon spoke up.

"You know what we should do when this battle ends?"

"What?" Mike asked as Devon went on.

"I think, we should rebuild the human cities, make it how ponies and if any other humans come here can have a place to call home? I mean really, each city sounds large enough to hold I don't know, maybe a few hundred; maybe a thousand ponies or humans?"

"You know...that's a good idea," I came in as I nodded. "I mean, sure we rebuild, change the buildings a bit, leave the Temples alone, maybe fix them up and have like a museum in there to tell the history of the city as well!"

"Or maybe make one of the cities like a large farm in a way," Mike added as well. "I mean, if we are going to fill the place with ponies and humans, they need a place where food is just maybe a day away right?"

"And us three, we could be like the mini rulers of those places, oh! I would so call my city Los Pegasus! (Hint, hint)"

"That sounds like a splendid idea dear!" Rarity spoke up. "And we all could help out as well right?"

"Yeah, I would help out with yall, right Big Mac?" Apple Bloom asked looking at her older brother.

"Eeyup," he answered with a nod.

"But we would have to asked the sprits of course," I answered and pointed out. "I mean...these were their homes, still are. It wouldn't be right unless we asked them first."

"Yes," Fluttershy spoke softly. "It wouldn't be very nice if we just took away the spirits homes."

'Oh come on, their ghost Fluttershy!" Rainbow Dash answered in her bash like way. "Not like they need it."

"Dash, these spirits gave their very lives in case their powers were needed." Twilight spoke up looking at her. "It is only right we give them a say in this."

"Yeah, yeah, whatever, as long as there's a place where I can race around, I'm fine!"

"And then we can have a big party right?!" asked Pinkie as we all just laughed. "Anyway, Mike tells us your story now!" Mike chuckled and crossed his arms leaning back, before he started his tale.