Equestria Girls: MAGIC

by NegaiFreak

Join Canterlot High's Mane Seven as they and members of the Omni Force have to handle the challenges and mysteries in the world, even with magic playing a role! ADAPTATION OF EG SPECIALS! INCLUDES SEVERAL CROSSOVER CHARACTERS AND PAIRINGS! SPECIAL CHARACTER INCOMING AS WELL! PLEASE READ, REVIEW, & ENJOY!

3. Mirror Magic

Oh boy, am I ready to give you a show with this one! The reason I've been really excited to write this short in particular is because it'll include my favorite character in action! No, it's not Starlight, but someone you… really should take the time to look at more once you've seen him.

Anyways, thoughts on the short by itself will be at the end, so enjoy!

EQUESTRIA GIRLS SHORTS

Canterlot Mall had a large influx of people with the upcoming movie releasing a few weeks after its production had been completed. Despite that though, not everyone was excited about the endeavor as a certain spectacled girl donning a uniform for a theater usher trotted along the pathways. As she did, television screens were turning on, showing off the winners of the music video contest dancing, much to her chagrin as she groaned loudly, stomping off.

"Those girls!" she yelled, gritting her teeth angrily as she saw them left and right on various monitors throughout the complex, "Ugh! Ahh!" she screamed, thinking that it would never end, "First, they get me kicked off the Daring Do set… Now..." she started to say as she backed up, accidentally bumping into something. She turned her head and glared at the poster stand she had hit, seeing all seven of the girls alongside the multiversal guests who had participated in the film gathered in the lower right corner. "Ooh!" she scoffed, grabbing at her head, "They're everywhere!" she shouted, catching the attentions of shoppers as they witnessed her outburst, "I bet they'll be at the premiere tonight…" she grumbled in realization, clenching her fists tightly, "I bet I'll be the lucky one ushering them to their seats…" she added in frustration, "Ugh!" she groaned loudly, slapping the poster board over and over before picking it up and shaking it, while the people watching just looked on in surprise. As she threw it down, the sound of static and a beep coming from her outfit caught her attention.

"Juniper, where are you?" a male voice asked through a walkie talkie that she pulled out, which she seemed evidently annoyed by as she listened, "We need you back at the popcorn popper stat," he told her, while she was mockingly imitating his voice with hand motions.

"Kerrr!" she sounded off, imitating static as she gritted her teeth, "What was that... boss?" she questioned sarcastically in between another fake pause of static, seemingly very frustrated, "Can't hear you!" she said, continuing her tirade of fake static and annoyed attitude, "Losing you!" she added, walking off without a care soon afterwards once she made another sound, "If those girls hadn't shown up, I would have played Daring Do!" she stated to herself as she approached a sunglasses kiosk, "Tonight would have been about me," she mentioned while noticing a pair of spectacles within the collection that seemed just for her, "I would have been a star!" she exclaimed, putting out the red framed, star-shaped shades over her eyes. The clerk perked up and slightly took off the sunglasses over his own eyes to see how she looked, shaking his head in disapproval in just a moment. The girl then grabbed and looked into the hand mirror on the counter, also a little concerned about her look. "You're right," she agreed, taking the spectacles off of her eyes, "They are a bit much," she admitted, setting them back down where she had found them. As she was looking at another pair, she didn't notice the sparkling white light coming down from the complex's glass dome, which merged with the hand mirror upon the counter as it suddenly crystallized on its outer edges, along with gaining a familiar symbol upon its handle. When the female picked it up to see her reflection again, she barely had time to see it as all of a sudden, an image of her with her hair down and makeup across her face came up. "WAH!" she shrieked in surprise with widened eyes, dropping the mirror onto the floor. Thankfully, no one appeared to notice her. "What was that?" she asked in shock, poking at the glass of the item again, which caused it to let off a surge of ominous energy, "AH!" she screamed, but still didn't get anyone's attention, giving her a moment to pick up the mirror and look back into it as she put her regular glasses on. In just a second, the beautiful image of her reappeared again, wearing a lovely dress and a necklace with a juniper-like pendant.

"Mmwah!" she said upon blowing a kiss, making the girl standing there gasp in amazement.

"Incredible!" she exclaimed, holding it in both of her hands closely. She then reached into her skirt and pulled out a couple of dollar bills, tossing them onto the counter and getting the clerk's attention. "Keep the change," she advised while walking off, distracted by looking into her new reflection, "Something tells me this thing's worth it…" she mentioned rather happily. Suddenly though, she bumped into something, letting out a grunt.

"Oh, sorry about that!" a male voice quickly apologized, making her realize that she had accidentally hit someone.

"No, that's my bad," she reassured with a wave of her hand towards the person, "I just… got distracted is all…" she confessed, smiling sheepishly before heading off on her way again. In the meantime, the one she had run into went on his way as well, being a teenager with green eyes and black, curly hair with green highlights. He donned a light grey suit over a white dress shirt and dark green dress pants, along with a red necktie that did not seem to be properly done as it was shorter. Red sneakers that looked too big were upon his feet, as he carried a yellow backpack and a greyish suitcase with the number eighteen emblazoned upon it in a yellow-green color.

'Really hope I don't have to wait much longer…' he mumbled inwardly as he trotted down the path of the mall.

MIRROR MAGIC

Sitting at a table in the food court was Sunset Shimmer, who was eagerly writing in her journal as people passed by.

"Dear Princess Twilight," she began to write,"tonight's the night of the big movie premiere," she noted,"All my friends are really excited, and I should be, too," she pointed out, seeming somewhat distressed as she put her hand up to her head,"Except… I can't seem to keep my mind on anything other than our new powers," she admitted,"and the rogue magic that's loose in this world," she continued to list off, smiling a little as she prescribed with her pen carefully, "and how scary but exhilarating it all is," she mentioned,"How does it work? How can we be prepared for it? When will it show up again?" she questioned again and again, appearing to grow more nervous until she realized how her writing was coming across,"Well, you see the problem," she noted, putting the book into her lap,"With the weight of all Equestria on your shoulders sometimes, you must have some advice on how to—"

"Oh, no!" she yelled upon running out of writing space as she checked the last page, sighing in realization, "Shoot," she uttered in frustration.

"What's the matter, Sunset Shimmer?" Pinkie Pie suddenly asked her, chiming in as she had arrived with a tray piled with veggie and hamburgers, one of which fell onto the table.

"Oh, I just ran out of pages in my journal," she responded rather anxiously as she held the book close to herself, "That's all," she claimed, giving off a saddened expression.

"That look says otherwise," Ben Tennyson chimed in as he arrived at the table with his own tray of food, sitting down beside her, "You sure you doin' okay?" he questioned out of concern.

"I… guess…" she replied slowly, rubbing her right arm.

"Chillax, SunShim," Rainbow Dash advised, winking at her as she had arrived with Applejack, Fluttershy, Rarity, Twilight Sparkle, Alain Regulus, Kyoya Tategami, Monkey D. Luffy, Sting Eucliffe, Rogue Cheney, Lector, and Frosch at the tables; all having food ready to eat.

"Um, who's 'SunShim'?" the animal whisperer asked in confusion as she and her boyfriend sat down beside the cowgirl and the fashionista at a table.

"That's Sunset Shimmer's new movie star name," the athlete responded, sitting next to the scientist and the pirate as she took a tip of her soda through its straw in a rather casual manner, "I just made it up!" she mentioned, feeling quite clever at the moment while not noticing the rubbery teen beside her gobble down on a few burgers in a matter of moments.

"For sweet apples' sake, we only have bit parts in this flick," the freckled girl pointed out bluntly in annoyance, while the beyblader and the shadow dragon slayer took their seats at the table she was at, "We're not movie stars," she mentioned with a shake of her head.

"Yet, darling," the indigo haired girl beside her corrected, catching her attention, "Yet," she repeated as she smiled excitedly.

"Congratulations on the movie though," the Sabertooth mage there complimented as his exceed hopped onto the table and started to drink his soda through its straw, "I wish Sting and I could've shown up," he admitted.

"Yeah, it was pretty cool," the green haired teen responded as he leaned back casually in his chair, "I think I even got a pretty good reward out of it…" he mentioned, winking at his girlfriend as her face turned a mad red.

"Ugh…" she groaned with a roll of her eyes, "Just don't go braggin' about it…" she muttered, sipping on her soda as the others at the table gave off shrugs to one another, having no idea what they were even talking about.

"So the person you're writing is the Twilight from the other world?" Lector asked the former pony as he hopped up onto the table, standing beside her.

"Yeah, it is," she responded, rubbing his head gently as he smiled.

"Bet it shocked you to know that she actually was a pony from that world…" Ben pointed out to Sting in a rather snarky tone, causing him to blush a little.

"Well… it took some time to adjust…" he confessed sheepishly, receiving snickers from both his squadron leader and his exceed in response, "Huh…" he sighed deeply, folding his arms over his chest, "So where's your partner?" he questioned, arching an eyebrow.

"Work," the Omnitrix bearer responded as he finished chewing a piece of his burger, "Being Magister is great and all, but he gets super busy these days," he admitted as he waved his hand, "Plus, I bet he could be a big help here," he noted, pointing towards the rather upset female they were sitting with.

"There's more bothering you than just journal pages, isn't there, Sunset?" the spectacled girl of the group inquired out of concern.

"Um... Heh…" the amber skinned girl uttered, unsure of what to say as she held the book closely to herself.

"Sunset, seriously…" her best friend said in a pleading tone.

"C'mon!" Pinkie chimed in as she leaned up against her, "Share your troubles," she advised, "It might help soothe your stressed nerves," she pointed out while rubbing her pal's cheeks a little roughly, letting go soon afterwards.

"Uh, I don't wanna take any of the fun out of our big night..." she pointed out, trying to sound modest.

"I said spill it, SunShim!" the partier girl suddenly screamed in demand, much to her shock as she widened her eyes and held the hardcover she had out before herself protectively. In the meantime, the red-furred feline had fallen off of the table, while the other two men there just glanced at each other in surprise.

"Okay, okay," she repeated reassuringly, pushing the hyper girl back down to her seat, "It's just that things have been calm around here, magic-wise," she confessed to the others as she opened her journal back up.

"And that's bad how, precisely?" Rarity asked as a response as she put her hand up against her cheek, while Alain arched an eyebrow.

"It's not," the former pony answered, "It's just that instead of enjoying the fact that things are calm," she continued, fidgeting with her pen as she twirled it against the table, "I'm constantly thinking about things going wrong, even when they aren't," she stated as she dropped the writing instrument, holding her own cheeks with her hands.

"Ooh, like... like what things?" Fluttershy stuttered in question nervously.

"I don't know," the amber skinned girl replied honestly as she shook her head, "I shouldn't even be thinking about any of this stuff right now," she admitted sadly, "And neither should any of you," she pointed out, managing to crack a smile.

"Well, it's not like we can blame you," Sting chimed in, catching her attention, "After what happened at Camp Everfree, my first thought was that maybe all the powers of the Tartaros demons ended up here," he explained as a confession.

"Same," his fellow dragon slayer agreed, "If Mard Geer's powers made it here, surely there could be others," he mentioned, putting his hand up to his chin.

"And we already had a tough fight with the last one…" their squadron leader pointed out, sighing deeply again to the worry of the males at her table. Just then, her journal began to glow a bright pink, causing them to all perk up.

"Look! Twilight's writing you back!" Pinkie exclaimed, yanking it away before she could even get a glimpse at it, "Hey, everybody," she called out to the others, holding the book up high in her hands, "Sunset's getting an Equestritext!" she noted while pointing at it, just as its owner stood up.

"Pinkie, give it back!" she yelled, reaching to grab it. However, she accidentally knocked it out of her hands, gasping as it was about to hit the floor.

"Whoa!" a voice yelped as a right hand with scars and a somewhat crooked shape caught it, pulling it back up, "That was close," he pointed out as it turned out to be the plain-looking teen from earlier.

"Oh, thank you so much!" the red and yellow haired girl said in gratitude rather happily, shooting a look towards her hyper friend as she chuckled sheepishly, "Sorry about all that," she apologized, going up to the boy and taking the hardcover.

"No, it's fine…" he reassured, grinning a little. He then blinked in surprise upon noticing who she was along with everyone else there, widening his eyes more and more.

'No way… No way! NO WAY! NO WAY!' he inwardly screamed excitedly, blushing a little as his mouth gaped open.

"You okay there, kid?" Ben asked, catching his attention as he snapped away from his thoughts.

"Oh, uh… yeah, yeah!" he claimed in reply, "I… uh… sh-should be going now…" he admitted as he stuttered, sweating nervously as he slowly walked off. Just then, his stomach growled loudly, making everyone glance over at him as he stopped mid-stride.

'Great…' he muttered inwardly in embarrassment, expecting them to start laughing.

"Want some?" Pinkie offered as she handed him one of the several burgers she had, surprising him a little as he took it.

"Um… thank you…" he said in gratitude, nodding as he trotted off and took a bite of his new food.

"That was odd…" Alain noted once he had left.

"Maybe he's a moviegoer and got nervous when he saw that all of us were here," Kyoya suggested, laughing aloud.

"Get off yer high horse…" his girlfriend advised out of annoyance, elbowing him.

"His skin tone isn't like the ones we normally see in this world…" Twilight mentioned as she rubbed her chin, "In fact, it's like those from the other ones," she pointed out.

"It's probably just a coincidence," Rainbow retorted, sipping on her soda again.

"So what's her text say, Sunset?" Applejack asked, changing the subject for the moment as she saw that her friend was glancing at her journal, widening her eyes after reading the words.

"Princess Twilight wants me to come to... Equestria…" she said, causing both the white dragon slayer and the Omnitrix bearer to blink in surprise. Elsewhere in the mall's movie theater, Juniper was standing behind the concession stand, looking into her new as people were loitering about. The image in the reflection showed her in her gallant dress, posing for the cameras as microphones were stuck out to try and get a word from her.

"It's like this mirror is the only one around here who gets me," she realized, seemingly content as she continued to stare at it.

"Ahem…" an irritated voice coughed, making her immediately perk up and turn to see her boss there with a broom in his hand, "Popcorn spill at the condiment counter," he said, handing the object to her.

"Does this look like someone who cleans popcorn spills?" she retorted in question, showing him her mirror. However, he only saw his own reflection.

"No," he responded bluntly, "It looks like someone about to fire somebody," he stated, giving off an annoyed expression as he gave her the broom, much to her chagrin as she slouched down.

"Ugh!" she groaned loudly, dragging both the broom and a scooper to the spill, sighing deeply, "This is the worst," she grumbled, letting both of her cleaning supplies fall to the ground, "Hey, I know what will perk me up!" she realized, reaching into her uniform, "A little Mirror Me time!" she stated, pulling out the glass to see herself once more. The image of her showed that she was signing autographs for clamoring fans who had her picture, making her giggle, "That's more like it!" she said, sighing happily, "I wish this popcorn would just clean itself up so I could just stare at you all day…" she admitted. All of a sudden, the mirror began to glow in an aurora-colored light, much to her surprise as it then shot out a beam that struck the mess of food on the floor, sucking it away like a vacuum cleaner in a matter of seconds. The light faded afterwards as she was very surprised.

"Whuh?" her employer uttered upon noticing the barren floor, "Done already?" he questioned as he rubbed the back of his neck, "I'm shocked," he confessed as she was giving off a nervous smile, seeing him leave.

"You… and me both!" she agreed, letting out an anxious laugh upon what had happened. Back at Canterlot High, Sunset was donning a satchel over her shoulder as she trotted up to the mirror statue. She hesitated for a moment, pulling her hand away as she sighed.

"It's not about seeing Twilight again, is it?" a familiar voice chimed in, causing her to turn and see Ben standing there alongside Sting.

"Guys…" she uttered, giving off a saddened expression, "Where's Lector?" she asked, noticing that the exceed wasn't with his partner.

"He wanted to stick around with the others at the mall before the premiere," the white dragon slayer answered as he and the Omni Force leader trotted up to her, "More importantly, shouldn't you glad to see your friend again?" he questioned, arching an eyebrow.

"It's more than that," the other male there stated, catching his attention, "You're nervous that Celestia's there, too," he concurred, making her clutch the strap of her bag tightly.

"Twilight's been getting better and better as the Princess of Friendship and even has her own castle and a pupil to teach," she explained to them, "Compared to me, I would be completely ignored by Celestia," she confessed, "I don't think I've done anything as great as Twilight has," she finished, letting out another sigh.

"Well, you've certainly helped us," the Omnitrix bearer replied, making her widen her eyes in surprise.

"Yeah," the Sabertooth guildmaster agreed, folding his arms over his chest, "Whether it's this world, mine, Ben's, or anyone else's," he listed off, "you've shown people a lot of things about friendship that I don't think a lot of others could," he told her as she grinned a little.

"Besides, no one should have to go at it alone," the brunette haired teen added as he placed his hand onto the former pony's shoulder, "So you want us to be your entourage?" he offered, making her chuckle.

"Sure," she replied happily.

"Count me in, too!" another voice cried out, catching their attentions as they saw Luffy running over to them.

"Luffy?" Sting uttered in surprise, "Why aren't you at the mall?" he questioned, tilting his head to the side.

"Ah, everyone else wanted to just shop before the movie," he started to reply as he waved his hand, "so I thought I'd come with you guys!" he said as he chuckled cheekily, "Plus, I wanna see this Equestria place for myself!" he admitted, stretching out his arms as he grabbed both sides of the mirror statue, "Gum-Gum…" he began as the ones right by the glass cringed in realization.

"Luffy, wait-!"

"ROCKET!" he bellowed, interrupting Sunset's shout as he launched himself forward and slammed into the three of them, sending them all through the mirror portal in a flash of light. They all yelled as they span through the vortex. Within the library of Twilight's castle, the mirror there began to activate as magic surged throughout the device, leading to it glowing as four figures flew out from it.

"Whoa!" the red and yellow haired girl yelped as she and the others crashed into a pile of books, "Oof!" she shouted in pain upon striking them. She seemed very dizzied as she returned to her pony form, with only her satchel upon her. As she shook her head to try and regain herself, she groaned as she noticed a blurry figure before her. "Princess Twilight?" she uttered, still a bit dazed, "Is that you?" she asked with a raised eyebrow as she was starting to regain her vision. It turned out that she was not her close friend, but rather someone she had mentioned earlier.

"Nope!" she replied, being the pony with the heliotrope coat, "Starlight Glimmer," she introduced.

"Uh, heh, heh…" the amber coated mare laughed nervously upon wrongly identifying her, "Oops," she uttered sheepishly, standing up on her two back hooves as she tried walking forwards, "Whoa. Whoa!" she yelped as she stumbled, coming to a stop soon after, "Phew," she breathed out, grinning as she placed her front hooves at her hips. The pony watching her seemed disturbed by how she was acting, as she turned around and realized what she had forgotten. "Whoa," she said, going down onto all four of her hooves, "That feels a little weird after all this time," she admitted out of embarrassment, rubbing her front right hoof against the floor, "Starlight Glimmer," she uttered to the female, "You're Twilight's student, right?" she inquired as she trotted up to her.

"Uh-huh," she replied, letting her horn glow in a bright blue aura, "She wanted me to give you this," she said, levitating a book with a sun-like symbol on the cover that was red and yellow on one half, and purple and pink on the other. She expected the visitor to take it by using her own form of levitation, but it dropped onto the ground with a thud as she had reached out her hoof to try and grab it. They shared a confused glance at each other before Sunset smiled sheepishly. She then tried to pull it towards herself by just using her hoof, grunting as she continued to fail. Her frustration was noticed by the one in front of her, much to her embarrassment as she merely smiled nervously again. The latter of the two then gestured towards the appendage upon her head, causing her to grin in realization as her own glowed in a bright red aura, floating up in the same light. "By the way," her fellow unicorn began, getting her attention, "who were those others that flew in with you?" she asked out of confusion.

"LUFFY, I'M GONNA KILL YOU!" a certain voice suddenly bellowed, much to her fright as she yelped.

"Oh, great…" the Omni Force squadron leader muttered in realization. Popping out from the pile of books was a golden yellow coated colt with spiky blonde hair and the Sabertooth guild mark in white upon each side of his rump.

"Ha, ha!" the pirate laughed as he had emerged elsewhere, being a red coated colt with a skull and crossbones that had a straw hat upon each side of his own rear end.

"You think that's funny?!" the white dragon slayer yelled as he tried standing up on his back two hooves, only to stumble and fall over in a grunt.

"Hey, we're horses now!" the rubbery teen noted as he tried walking on all four of his limbs, tripping himself as he hit the floor face first.

"Oh, for Celestia's sake…" their team leader grumbled, using her magic to levitate the both of them over in the reddish aura, standing them up beside her, "These are my friends, Luffy and Sting," she introduced as the glow around them vanished, "They tend to usually be a lot nicer…" she pointed out with a glare towards them, causing them to both blink in surprise. Starlight narrowed her eyes upon noticing something about both her and the guildmaster next to her.

"Is he… your coltfriend?" she asked curiously, causing them to both blush instantaneously.

"What?! No!" they cried out simultaneously, both still red in the face.

"What… would give you that idea?" the female of the two questioned to avoid any more embarrassment.

"Because you're both wearing matching earrings," the unicorn before them replied, making them blush again as they looked to see that they did indeed have the same jewelry upon them.

"Good thing I've been on all fours before," Ben's voice chimed in, getting their attentions as they saw him trot up to the others, having a green coat and the Omnitrix upon his left hoof, whereas the symbol of the device was upon his rear end, "Starlight, right?" he inquired to the heliotrope coated pony, "Nice to finally meet you in person," he greeted with a nod.

"Likewise…" she responded, unsure of what else to say.

"They're my entourage, so to speak," Sunset joked, giggling a little before going back to flipping through the pages of her new journal excitedly.

"Twilight wanted to give that to you herself," the purple haired pony pointed out in annoyance, "but then she and her friends were called away to solve a friendship problem," she explained, causing the amber coated unicorn to immediately shut her book, noticing her saddened expression, "That happens a lot around here," she mentioned as the one before her put the hardcover into her satchel, deactivating her magic.

"That must be stressful, huh?" she guessed, "Never knowing when you might be called on to save the day…" she kept going, swinging her front left hoof as behind her, Sting and Luffy were practicing their walking motions, "Dropping everything at a moment's notice," she added, "How does she do it?" she asked, catching her best friend's attention as he went over to her.

"Sorry," the pupil apologized, "She just told me to give you the journal," she said, evidently upset that she apparently could not help her.

"Heh-heh," the red and yellow maned pony chuckled, followed by an awkward moment of silence, "So, are you sure she won't be back anytime soon?" she asked with a shrug, not noticing the white dragon slayer falling flat on his face again.

"Pretty sure," her fellow unicorn answered honestly.

"O...kay... I guess we'll be going now," she realized as she stood up on her back hooves again, only to stumble like before until the Omnitrix bearer caught her, setting her down onto all four of her hooves.

"Aw, we're leaving already?!" the pirate yelled in a complaining tone, "I wanna do something cool!" he screamed.

"It would be cool to be back on two feet…" the guildmaster confessed as he tried to stand up, falling down again however. As they were about to head back to the portal, the female they met followed them nervously for a moment.

"What's it like back there?" she asked curiously, making them stop.

"It's pretty different," Sunset responded as she turned around, "And not so different at the same time," she added while smiling, "It's kinda hard to explain," she confessed with a wave of her hoof.

"Heh," Starlight chuckled, rubbing her own hoof against the floor, "Guess you kinda have to go there to really get it, huh?" she inquired nervously, "I, uh, don't suppose..." she started to suggest, glancing away for a moment.

"You really think Princess Twilight would be okay with that?" Ben asked, arching an eyebrow.

"I don't know for sure that she wouldn't be okay with it," the unicorn retorted smugly.

"That's not a particularly compelling argument," the female Omni Force squadron leader replied, somewhat skeptical.

"She wants me to learn as much as I can about friendship," the pupil stated as she trotted up to the group, "And I'm not learning a whole lot just hanging out here in her castle," she argued out of frustration, glancing around the expansive library.

"Yikes…" Sting uttered, shocked by thoughts of how many books were around them.

"Well, I haven't ever seen you in that world," the female next to him noted to the one before her, rubbing her chin, "So chances are you aren't gonna run into yourself…" she pointed out cleverly.

"...is something you don't hear every day…" the unicorn finished for her.

"So, just lay low," she advised seriously to her, "Don't draw too much attention to your—"

"Pssh," she scoffed, interjecting her advice, "You'll barely even notice I'm there!" she stated.

"Introducing you to our friends could be a nice distraction," Sunset mentioned, while the Omnitrix bearer frowned a little.

"But you'll also totally notice I'm there," Starlight noted as she zipped up to her, "and it will keep your mind off of other things that might be bothering you," she explained, having her eyes sparkle excitedly, "So? What do you think?" she questioned as she nudged the mare, "Can I go back with you?!" she begged, hopping up and down with glee.

"I don't see why not!" Luffy concurred, grinning widely.

"Yeah, sure," the green coated colt agreed, glancing over at his best friend.

"Hmmm..." she hummed curiously while looking back at the mirror portal, seeing its energy swirl slowly.

X

The Crystal Mirror buzzed as it glowed, with the four people who went through returning along with someone else.

"Ugh…" the pupil's voice groaned as she opened her eyes, with the first thing she saw being her arms; the left of which had a watch upon her wrist, "What happened?" she asked, somewhat discombobulated from the transfer of bodies as she .

"It's all pretty weird at first, but try to roll with it," Sunset advised as she helped stand the girl up, as she was wearing a turquoise t-shirt with a purple collar and cuffs underneath a black, open vest, dark grey jeans with rips in them, black shoes that had purple laces, and a light purple hat that had sparkling white stars upon it. She flailed her arms around as she could not find her balance, needing help from Sting to stand her up with his squadron leader. "Hi!" she greeted nervously while waving to a few passing students, who glanced skeptically at the visitor, who looked at her extremities curiously, waggling her fingers.

"Are these-?"

"Hands," her new friend interjected quickly in a whisper, as she glanced down at her new shoes.

"And what happened to the rest of my hoo—?"

"Feet! Those are feet," the amber skinned girl interrupted quickly, whispering all the while as students were passing by, "Remember the whole thing where I said you need to lay low?" she recalled for her, "Now would be a good time to play it cool," she advised, folding her arms over her chest.

"Besides, the mirror gave you a cool enough look already," Ben complimented as he put his hand up to his chin.

"Oh. Right," Starlight realized with a laugh, "Play it cool," she repeated as she waved out her arms to their respective sides, "Heh-heh," she chuckled, grinning as she flipped her back and stretched out her legs, prepared to start walking. Without warning though, she went down onto all four of her limbs, casually trotting along the path as everyone stared at her. The red and yellow haired girl and the Omnitrix bearer immediately jogged out in front to make her stop, standing her up as the others just looked at them weirdly.

"You did say I'd make a good distraction," she pointed out to the girl, who grinned sheepishly as she rubbed the back of her neck. Luffy looked as if he could barely contain his laughter until the white dragon slayer elbowed him, making him grimace slightly as he frowned. Back at the mall's movie theater, Juniper was behind the concession stand scooping up popcorn and dumping it onto the floor beside her, still having the mysterious mirror in her hand.

"Mirror, pick up this popcorn!" she ordered, aiming it down the food there. Nothing happened however, as two customers standing before her looked at each other in confusion. The worker looked at the object in confusion, wondering why it was not doing as she said. "Mirror, I command thee, pick upeth this poppage of corn!" she stated in a more dignified manner, but still nothing followed, "Ugh!" she groaned in frustration, "Why won't this thing work anymore?" she asked herself, taking more popcorn out of the machine with the scooper, about to dump it down again.

"Like... we were gonna eat some of that," one of the patrons there pointed, causing her to perk up.

"Mirror, make these annoying people go away," she commanded, aiming it at them. They merely walked off however, freaked out by the usher's attitude. "Well, that kinda worked..." she admitted, smiling a little as she had gotten them to leave.

"Juniper Montage?!" a familiar and squeaky voice exclaimed in shock.

"Whoa!" she yelped as she dropped the scooper in her hand, making popcorn fly everywhere upon seeing the group that had ruined her plans standing in front of her.

"What in the blazes are you doin' here?" Applejack asked, evidently surprised.

"Were you invited to the Daring Do premiere?" Pinkie asked as she zipped up to her, leaning against the countertop, "Ooh, that's exciting!" she shrieked, "No, crazy!" she corrected quickly, "No, concerning!" she kept going, waving her hands around as she zoomed back, "No! Just no!" she finished in denial, shaking her head, "No offense," she apologized with a sheepish smile.

"Rarity, who is that?" Rogue asked, catching his girlfriend's attention.

"That, darling, is Juniper Montage," she responded while gesturing towards her, "She tried to sabotage the movie we're seeing tonight in order to become the main star!" she explained, surprising him a little as he blinked.

"Whoa, really?" Lector questioned, tilting his head to the side.

"So how come she's here now?" Frosch asked as he raised a paw, "Did she get invited, too?" he guessed curiously, much to her chagrin as she growled a little.

"I wasn't invited to the premiere," she answered while adjusting her glasses, "My uncle Canter Zoom felt bad for firing me," she began to explain while gathering bits of popcorn upon the counter, "so he pulled some strings and got me this job…" she muttered, obviously angry as she showed them her skirt.

"You work here?" Fluttershy inquired after a moment, arching an eyebrow.

"As little as possible," the pigtailed girl replied, brushing the popcorn onto the floor beside her, kicking some of it away.

"Maybe… we can help you," Alain suggested, about to head over to the entryway to behind the stand.

"I don't help from nosy people who like ruining others' lives…" she retorted in a nasty tone, much to his astonishment as he blinked.

"Y'know, if you hadn't tried to sabotage the movie," Rainbow chimed in defensively, "you could be celebrating with us," she noted to her, making her widen her eyes.

"Ooh!" she growled, coming out from behind the stand as she shoved the Pokémon trainer aside, "This should be my night!" she shouted, gesturing towards herself, "I would have found a way to be in the film if you all had stayed out of it!" she stated angrily, "I would have been Daring Do!" she screamed, "Everyone would've loved me!" she yelled, "See?" she pointed out, showing them the mirror. However, they only saw their reflections in it, giving off very confused reactions.

"Huh?" Rogue uttered as his nose twitched, picking up a rather familiar scent. He then noticed the symbol upon the handle of the object the usher had, gasping in shock. "Tartaros…!" he exclaimed, catching the attentions of his fellow Omni Force members and the girls.

"What?" Kyoya said in confusion. Twilight adjusted her glasses as she tried to take a closer look at, also noticing the symbol while widening her eyes.

"Can't you see what's right under your noses?" Juniper suddenly questioned rhetorically, "Ugh!" she groaned loudly, "I wish you'd all just go away and leave me alone!" she screamed angrily. Without warning, the mirror began radiating the same aurora-colored energy as it did before, shooting out and entrapping the entire group.

"No!" the shadow dragon slayer yelled as he and the others were sucked into the glass in an instant. The potent energy from the glass suddenly coursed through its holder's arm up to her head, making her eyes glow an ominous green before she shook her head, grinning. She then noticed that Fluttershy's barrette had fallen off in the process, picking it up and pinning it to her uniform.

"Hmm," she hummed contently as she looked at her reflection, "Looks like I may be finally getting the hang of this…" she realized, as her superstar image reappeared once more, giggling happily.

"Hi, me!" she greeted with a wave.

"Six cell phones, all straight to voicemail," Sunset muttered as she checked her device, walking through the complex with the others, as Starlight was enjoying an ice cream with scoops of three different flavors.

"MPG says they're all gathered in one place," Ben chimed in, pocketing his own contraption, "but the movie's not for a few more hours, so why turn them off?" he wondered as he shrugged.

"I'm sure they're around," the princess' pupil reassured as her lips were a messy pink, "What's the worst that could have happened?" she asked, licking away at her treat.

"Magic is on the loose here now," the amber skinned girl stated, causing her to stop and accidentally let the pink ice cream scoop fall towards the floor, as Luffy was able to snatch in time by stretching his head out and eating it whole, "and it does not work the same way it does back in Equestria," she pointed out with a wave of her hand, "Any number of terrible things could have happened," she mentioned while shrugging, exhaling afterwards, "And lately, I spend eighty percent of my time thinking about them," she added, placing her hand against her head. She then noticed the surprised reaction from the interdimensional guest, causing her to smile sheepishly in embarrassment as she clasped her hands together. "My friends are probably fine. I'm overreacting," she admitted reassuringly, "But maybe not…" she suggested, correcting herself, "I can't tell anymore…" she said, shaking her head.

"Sunset, come on…" the Omnitrix bearer chimed in pleadingly.

"This is the problem you wanted to talk to Princess Twilight about, right?" her new friend inquired to her, seeing her cross her arms, "Because you can still talk it over with me if you want," she noted. Unfortunately, the former pony pulled out her journal and pen, about to start writing, much to her dismay. "Or you could just journal with Princess Twilight about it," she concurred, "Whatever works," she recommended, going back to licking her ice cream as she scribbled on the pages by using her writing utensil.

"It's just..." she began, closing the hardcover and putting it away, "I know my friends and I have been given special powers for a reason," she explained, gesturing towards the pendant upon her necklace, "and I want to be ready for whatever is gonna be thrown at us," she declared with clenched fists, "I guess knowing that is making me feel like I could never really relax and let my guard down," she confessed as her other pals perked up and listened closely, "so I end up obsessing about it and can't get out of my own head," she finished, seeming depressed afterwards.

"Hmm," Starlight hummed, folding her arms over her chest, "That is a toughie," she agreed, "Guess my advice would be to just trust things will work themselves out in the end," she advised with a wink, "If you spend too much time worrying about the bad things that might happen," she continued, not noticing that she let another of her scoops of ice cream drop right into the pirate's mouth, "you'll miss out on all the good things that are happening," she explained, suddenly realizing that her treat was surprisingly smaller than it used to be.

"AAAHHH!" Luffy suddenly screamed, grabbing at his head as the others looked over at him, seeing his lips were tainted with the colored ice cream, "BRAIN FREEZE!" he yelled in pain. Everyone else just chuckled for the moment, even the red and yellow haired girl as she looked over at her fellow former pony.

"Like how Princess Twilight's student is teaching me a lesson right now," she inquired with a raised eyebrow, making her grin.

"Yup," she replied, "Like that," she added, licking what remained of her ice cream.

"Besides, you've got us to help you feel less stressed," Ben mentioned, wrapping his left arm around his best friend's shoulders, "After all, we're teammates," he pointed out, causing her to smile.

"Yeah milady!" Sting agreed, putting his own arm around her as well, "We're better together!" he exclaimed, smiling brightly.

"Mm-hmm!" the Gum-Gum user uttered with a nod, still recovering from the cold headache he got.

"'Milady'?" Starlight uttered upon what she had heard, blinking in confusion, "Are you sure you two aren't a thing?" she questioned skeptically to the dragon slayer and the Omni Force squadron leader, tilting her head to the side. They both blushed instantaneously.

"No! No! No!" they blurted out repeatedly at the same, glancing at each other in embarrassment as she was let go.

"Uh, heh-heh…" the female of the two laughed nervously, grabbing her new pal's ice cream cone before pulling her over and walking off, "Come on," she beckoned as the others followed, "Let's go take a look around the theater," she suggested, "I'm sure they're fine," she reassured as they went on their way, passing by a familiar figure, who was the same well-dressed boy from before.

"Huh…" he exhaled out of exasperation, looking at the clock ahead of him to see that it was almost three o'clock, "Less than an hour till it happens…" he muttered, grasping at the left strap of his backpack tightly.

'He told me it'd be obvious, but I have no idea what to expect!' he noted inwardly, 'I wish he explained more about all this!' he admitted to himself, mumbling aloud while not noticing the people staring at him in confusion. Meanwhile within a void of white, the group that had been sucked into the mirror was standing around, evidently confused as to where they were.

"Uh... Any clue yet where we are or what just happened?" Rarity asked, glancing around worriedly, "Anyone?" she questioned, hoping for an answer.

"Pinkie Pie's on the case!" the partier girl responded before Rogue could, grabbing at the fourth wall and making it creak as she tilted it from side to side.

"Whoa!" Frosch yelped as he was the only that fell over from the change.

"Nope, no wall over here," the puffy haired girl concluded as she reset the position, "Come out, come out, walls, wherever you are!" she beckoned, jogging off into the distance as the others seemed very freaked out, "I don't get this place!" she cried out as she suddenly passed by the group, even as she had run off in the other direction, "There's no walls in here anywhere!" she noted after returning. Just then, a strange glow caught their attentions as they saw a circular rift appear right above them.

"Somehow, some way…" Applejack began, getting the attentions of the others, "that dang Juniper sucked us all inside of that mirror of hers," she concurred, walking towards the opening.

"Or into some kind of limbo behind it," Twilight suggested, adjusting her glasses.

"I think I might be freaking out a little bit," Fluttershy confessed as she grabbed at her hair protectively.

"You call that a freakout?" Rainbow questioned, arching an eyebrow.

"It's sort of a deep-down-inside freakout," the animal whisperer responded, stroking her hair nervously as her boyfriend came over and placed his hand onto her shoulder reassuringly.

"It's gonna be okay," he promised, causing her to smile as he fixed the loose strand of her hair, "Rogue, you said this was a Tartaros' demon's power, right?" he inquired to the shadow dragon slayer.

"Yeah…" he answered, narrowing his eyes onto the surrounding area, "but it's not-"

"If it's a demon, then I can handle it," Kyoya declared, letting black, curved markings overtake his right arm as he went up to the rift, "Lion Gale…" he began as he arched his head back, taking a deep breath of air, "RRRROOOOAAAARRR!" he bellowed, unleashing a powerful torrent of wind from his mouth that struck the opening fiercely. However, it did not appear to anything to it once he finished. "What the heck?!" he yelled, evidently frustrated.

"Like I was saying," the Sabertooth mage restarted, causing him to perk up and look over at him, "it's not just a demon's power," he kept going, "but also milady's…" he told them.

"Sunset?" his girlfriend questioned, raising her eyebrow as she placed her hands at her hips.

"I meant Minerva," he corrected bluntly, making her blink in surprise.

"Oh, right…" she realized, waving her hand up and down, "Only Sting calls her that…" she noted, chuckling nervously.

"Wait, Minerva was in Tartaros?!" Twilight questioned, completely shocked.

"More like she was forced to be a part of their guild for a while," the athlete explained, patting her on the back reassuringly, "So that's what this space is?" she guessed to the jet black haired man, who nodded as she folded his arms over his chest.

"Tartaros must've somehow taken a part of Minerva's magic and wound up sending it into Juniper's mirror," he explained as he put his hand up to his chin, "If this is like her magic, then there's no easy way out of here," he confessed, causing most of the others to gasp in astonishment.

"On the upside, there's popcorn in here!" Pinkie chimed, tossing the bits of food off the ground beneath her feet, letting them plop into her mouth before she chewed them, "Mmm, sticky..." she uttered delightedly.

"How could this happen on the evening of my very first movie premiere?" the fashionista questioned rather dramatically, "Of all the nights!" she complained, "Curse you, cruel fate!" she exclaimed in frustration, while her boyfriend smacked himself in the face out of annoyance.

"Not our number-one problem right now, Rarity," Rainbow pointed out bluntly to her.

"Mmm, true," she agreed, causing her to develop her own annoyed expression, "But perhaps we can agree it's in the top five," she mentioned, not hearing the agonized groan that escaped Rogue's lips.

"Is there really no way out of here?" Applejack asked somewhat desperately.

"We could try reaching that rift," Alain pointed out, pulling out a Poké Ball from his belt, "Might as well if there's nothing else," he added as he enlarged the containment in his hand.

"Good idea," Lector concurred as he grinned, "Plus, I'm sure Sting and milady will find out where we all are…" he noted confidently.

"Not to mention that Luffy and Ben are still out there," Twilight said, chiming into the conversation. All of a sudden, they noticed several pellet-shaped objects flying their way through the rift, about to hit them.

"Watch out!" the Pokémon trainer exclaimed, protectively getting in front of his girlfriend as flame-like markings appeared on his own arm, allowing him to knock away the pellets coming towards them with a single swipe. The others were not as lucky, getting struck as they yelped in pain.

"Oh, my heavens!" the cobalt skinned girl cried out, grasping her necklace and making it glow in order to create a small, diamond-shaped energy shield upon her hand to save her face from getting struck, "What's that?" she asked as the athlete grabbed her own jewelry to activate her super speed, moving her arms around quickly to block the objects before catching one to look at.

"Chocolate-covered almonds?" she said, very confused. As the treats kept raining down, Twilight finally took hold of her pendant, sticking out her hand as it glowed in a pink light, making the oncoming pellets stop in an instant thanks to her levitation.

"Dibs!" Pinkie exclaimed before gobbling up the candy pieces one by one in a silly manner. Back in the movie theater, Juniper was cleaning up a spilled box of the treats by using her mirror's power like a vacuum cleaner, sucking in each and every almond on the floor. Just then, the group of five walked in through the door, chatting away until Sunset noticed the girl there, gasping in shock. She grabbed Starlight's arm and pulled her over behind the claw machine, while the males of the group just glanced at each other in confusion, until they saw her wave them over in a beckoning manner, making them quickly hide.

"It's Juniper Montage!" she noted as she peeked out at her.

"No!" her new friend gasped, sounding surprised, "Who's that?" she asked sheepishly afterwards.

"She's trouble," the Omni Force squadron leader answered after a moment.

"Guess she got the next best gig after almost destroying a movie…" Ben joked, folding his arms over his chest.

"She doesn't seem dangerous to me, milady…" Sting pointed out rather bluntly, "You sure you're not overreacting again?" he questioned seriously to her.

"Okay, maybe a little bit," she admitted as she blushed, causing him to smirk, "Huh," she uttered upon noticing the butterfly-shaped object on the usher's outfit, "That's Fluttershy's barrette," she realized as she was looking into her mirror, surprising the men a little as they slightly widened their eyes, "Wait here for me," she advised to the group after a moment, handing her satchel off to the princess' pupil before getting up and walking over to the concession stand. There, the pigtailed girl grimaced as she noticed her coming from the reflection of the glass.

"Sunset Shimmer," she uttered in greeting with a small smile, "I was wondering if you'd show up," she mentioned, arching an eyebrow ominously.

"I'm, uh, looking for my friends," the former pony said as she leaned against the table, "I don't suppose you've seen them…" she wondered, putting her left fingers onto her pendant. Meanwhile, the white dragon slayer perked up as he sniffed the air.

"That's weird…" he muttered, catching the attentions of the others beside him. At the stand, Juniper giggled rather mischievously and ominously, much to the surprise of the one confronting her.

"Where are they?" she asked demandingly.

"I'll never tell," the spectacled girl replied as she grinned.

"You don't have to," the amber skinned girl retorted, suddenly grasping her arm with her left hand, causing her eyes to shine a bright white as she peered into the girl's memories.

FLASHBACK

"You're lucky I offered to get you this job after the stunt you pulled on my set!" Canter Zoom yelled at his niece after showing her where she would be positioned from now on.

"I just wanted to be Daring Do," she claimed despondently, feeling ashamed of herself, "I just wanted people to like me," she added sadly. Later, she had run into the group that had ruined her plan in the first place. "Everyone would love me if it weren't for you girls!" she stated angrily, "This is all your fault!" she screamed, "Ugh!" she groaned loudly, "I wish you'd all just go away and leave me alone!" she bellowed, right before the mirror's power sucked them all away into it.

END FLASHBACK

A few seconds passed by, but Sunset had seen all she needed to, gasping upon realizing what had happened.

"What?" the girl she grabbed questioned, pulling her arm away.

"I know you want people to like you," the red and yellow haired girl said, looking very angry, "But trust me," she continued with a wave of her hand the magic in that mirror is only gonna make things worse for you," she explained, "Especially since it has that mark!" she pointed out, much to the others' surprise from afar, as the males gasped to see the Tartaros emblem upon the mirror's handle.

"You're just saying that because you want the mirror for yourself," Juniper retorted, holding it protectively as she clenched her teeth.

"What I want is my friends back," the amber skinned girl stated as she closed her hands into fists, "Please, Juniper," she begged, "You wished them into that mirror," she pointed out, "Maybe there's a way you can wish them out," she suggested, sounding desperate.

"Or maybe..." the usher began to suggest, letting the energy from the mirror course through her, making her eyes shine a bright green, "I wish you'd join them!" she declared, suddenly causing the aurora-colored light to entrap the Omni Force squadron leader, lifting her up before vacuuming her into the glass as she screamed. Her disappearance delighted the pigtailed girl, while in the corner of the room, Starlight gasped in horror as she had peeked out to see.

"Sunset!" she yelped, right before Ben put his hand over her mouth, pulling her away just before the aspiring movie star could spot them, seeing that the theater was barren of anyone else from her perspective. As she walked away, the others just seemed frightened, especially Luffy as he clenched his fists in realization.

"Montage…!" he growled angrily, trembling.

X

Within the void of white the rest of the group had already gone into, Charizard had been summoned by his master, breathing out a torrent of fire onto the circular rift. Alain and Kyoya were beside him, being lifted up by the winged Lector and Frosch respectively as they each performed their own attacks to no avail.

"Dang…" the Pokémon trainer muttered as he and his fellow demon slayer lost the markings along their arms.

"And we can't go through it," the beyblader mentioned while being lowered down to the ground gently.

"RAH!" the Flame Pokémon roared as he slammed against the opening, but did not manage to break it.

"So this is like that pocket dimension thing Minerva used in the Grand Magic Games, right?" Rainbow guessed to the shadow dragon slayer while arching an eyebrow.

"Basically, yeah," he responded, standing with his girlfriend as they were attempting to relieve a frightened Fluttershy as she was crouched down to the floor, "That could mean that only Juniper or anyone holding the mirror has access to this space," he noted, putting his hand onto his chin. Just then, the group noticed a red streak of light zooming into the rift, flying over their heads as it turned out to be Sunset, who screamed before hitting the ground with a grunt.

"Sunset Shimmer!" Twilight cried out happily, rushing over to her with the others.

"Oh..." she groaned, trying to push herself up before her friends came to assist her.

"Glad you're okay, milady!" the red-furred exceed greeted, embracing her warmly as she grinned just a little.

"Hooray!" Pinkie cheered while bouncing over and hugging the former pony herself, "We're all together again!" she pointed out cheerfully.

"But wait," the scientist started to realize, "If we're all together," she continued in a panicked tone, "then now only Ben, Sting, and Luffy could know where we are!" she exclaimed, not noticing her pendant starting to flash like the rest of the girls'.

"Um, girls..." the animal whisperer tried to chime in, seeing the light coming off of her necklace.

"Starlight Glimmer does, too!" the amber skinned girl pointed out, pushing her hyper friend away.

"Um, girls..." the shy one of the group uttered, hoping to get their attentions as she held out her pendant.

"You mean Twilight's student back in Equestria?" Rarity inquired curiously, interjecting her sentence.

"How would she know where— Ohhhh!" Pinkie sounded off in realization, smugly resting her arm against the Omni Force squadron leader's shoulder, while she just grinned sheepishly and glanced away.

"You didn't…" the spectacled girl said, shaking her head, "She isn't...!" she started to guess.

"I kinda told her she could come back here with me," the red and yellow haired girl admitted, rubbing the back of her neck in embarrassment, still smiling.

"Girls..." Fluttershy tried to chime in again.

"You really think Princess Twilight would be okay with that?" Applejack questioned skeptically, arching an eyebrow.

"I don't know for sure that she wouldn't be okay with it," Sunset retorted rather cheekily.

"Doesn't really matter now…" Kyoya mentioned as he went up to them.

"Um, so sorry to interrupt, but—"

"Whoa!" Rainbow yelped in surprise to interject her shy friend's sentence, holding her pendant in her hand, "Check out our crystals!" she pointed out, enticing them to all look at their jewelry.

"Huh," the animal whisperer sighed as she slouched slightly, "That's what I was trying to say," she bluntly noted with a blank expression. Suddenly, colored lights began flashing all around them, changing one after another.

"Now what?" Alain questioned, stepping back a little.

"I'm scared…" Frosch admitted, tearing up a little as he held onto his partner's leg.

"Something's changed," the scientist realized as the glow of their pendants were brightening, "This wasn't happening before," she recalled.

"Maybe it's because the seven of us are together now," the former pony suggested, wondering what was to come next.

"Seven…" Rogue uttered, blinking in surprise before widening his eyes in realization.

"Is this a good thing or a bad thing?" the cowgirl asked as the glow around her own crystal was becoming stronger. Without warning, it and the six others shot out beams of colored light into the rift, which glowed as the energy began swirling around it, brightening ominously.

"I'm going with not a good thing!" Rarity answered rather worriedly.

"This is really bad…" her boyfriend realized, catching her attention along with those of the others, "If this is like what happened with Gloriosa," he started to imply, making the rest of the group grimace in fright, "then everyone out there is in a lot of trouble…" he concurred, clenching his fists in frustration. Back in the theater, the rainbow-like glow swirled around Juniper's mirror, causing her to perk up from seeing her reflection as it coursed into her body, causing her to suddenly enlarge as a bright blue aura shrouded her form.

"Uh oh…" Ben uttered from the corner behind the claw machine as he and the others looked out at her. Upon growing, her appearance changed drastically, gaining large gloves with sharp claws, sharp earrings, and a sparkling black dress with purple and green additions upon it. Though she had lost her glasses, her hair was now let down and curled in some places, while her face now had beautiful makeup and a defined jawline. She curiously looked at her reflection in the popcorn machine, smiling upon seeing what she had become.

"Now everyone will recognize I'm a real star!" she declared, trotting off as her footsteps echoed ominously in the part of the building, passing by the concealed teens without even noticing them.

"Let's go!" Sting whispered in a beckoning manner, enticing them to carefully follow him outside. The mall seemed to be bustling with joyful and cheery people, but their jubilance was dashed at the moment they saw the giant walking toward them. They screamed, running off in fright. Up on the second floor of the complex, the plain-looking boy from earlier gasped upon noticing the female, seeing everyone getting away.

"Well, it doesn't get any more obvious than that…" he muttered to himself, quickly racing off in the opposite direction. He then went into an apparel store, ducking into a changing room just as a woman was about to go in and try on a dress.

"Hey!" she screamed angrily with her hands at her hips, hearing the door lock.

"Sorry!" the messy haired boy apologized, "I'll try to be quick!" he promised, setting down the case he had before unlocking it, pushing it open to reveal the dark green outfit with a pair of gloves, elbow and knee pads, a grey gas mask, and a red belt inside.

"Okay, first things first," Starlight said from back in complex walkway, strapping the satchel over her shoulder as the others looked over at her, "We need to get that mirror away from her," she noted, looking right at the object in her gloved right hand. The scared patrons backed away, with some of them holding out their phones to take pictures and video footage of the monstrosity before them. However, she saw them as paparazzi, clamoring for her attention and desperate to talk with her. She then noticed a young boy alongside his mother, who seemed happy in her eyes.

"Want Mommy to take our picture together?" she offered to him kindly, while he was very frightened. His ice cream merely fell to the ground before he screamed, crying as he and the woman ran off quickly.

"Okay, I'll just go Ghostfreak and-"

"MONTAAAAGGGE!" Luffy's voice suddenly bellowed, interjecting Ben's plan as they gasped to see him jump out, extending his right arm back while clenching his fist tightly.

"Oh, you really want a picture, don't you?!" Juniper guessed excitedly as she turned around. However, she blinked in surprise to see that it was the pirate coming towards her.

"Gum-Gum… BULLET!" he screamed, striking her fiercely in the torso by shooting his extremity into it in an instant. She grimaced in agony, stumbling back a little. "Now Gum-Gum…" her foe continued, stretching both of his arms back very far, "BAZOOKA!" he roared, shooting them forward in an instant and palming her as she coughed up a wad of saliva.

"Ugh…" she groaned, narrowing her eyes onto him in anger.

"Hey, it's that rubber guy from Camp Everfree!" someone cried out, smiling excitedly.

"He's gonna stop that lady for us!" another exclaimed, followed by the rest of the patrons cheering loudly, much to the transformed girl's surprise.

"You're… a star, too?" she inquired, arching an eyebrow towards the Devil Fruit user as he sneered at her, "And you're stealing my spotlight!" she yelled, clenching her teeth tightly, "I wish-!" Her declaration was interjected as she was punched in the face by him, as he had stretched out his left arm to do so.

"I'm not letting you make another wish," he stated, getting into a ready stance, "unless it's one that'll save my friends," he said proudly.

"Hmph," the giant scoffed, wiping her stricken cheek, "Then just try to stop me!" she screamed, readying the mirror again, "I wish-!" Her cry was interrupted as she was hit by his fists again; this time more rapidly.

"Gum-Gum Gatling!" he shouted, roaring angrily as he barraged her with quick punches.

"Ah, what is he doing?!" Ben asked, grabbing at his head out of frustration, "I was gonna get the mirror back no problem!" he mentioned as he was evidently disgruntled.

"Well, this wasn't gonna be easy either way," Sting pointed out, rolling his eyes as he looked over at his fellow squadron member, who dodged a swipe from his enemy, "Would've still been nice to have her focused on something else though…" he admitted while shrugging his shoulders. He then ran out, cloaking his right fist in a white light that shined brightly. "White Dragon…" he began to echo, catching Juniper's attention as she saw him approaching.

"Gum-Gum…" Luffy started to roar, readying his right arm. Grimacing in fright, their opponent shut her eyes, protectively holding her mirror close to herself. All of a sudden though, she instantaneously vanished, switching places with the white dragon slayer as he found himself heading towards his comrade.

"Wait, that's-!" His realization was interjected as he and the pirate accidentally punched each other right in the face, falling down onto the floor.

"Uh… what just happened?!" Starlight asked, very concerned as she stood behind Ben.

"They switched places…" he noted, narrowing his eyes, "What kinda Tartaros demon had that power?" he questioned as he raised his eyebrow.

"It's… milady's…" the Sabertooth guildmaster answered as he slowly rose up from the ground alongside his messy haired friend.

"Sunset's?" the princess' pupil inquired out of confusion.

"No, I mean Minerva!" he corrected, blushing a little, "That's her Territory, which is basically spatial magic," he explained, getting back onto his feet, "and it's strong to boot…" he added, grunting as he stepped forward. He then gasped to see the aurora-colored aura shrouding his foe's hand, making her smirk in realization as she turned to face him.

"Now let's see what this power can do!" she declared, throwing her right hand out. All of a sudden, an explosion right where the two Omni Force members were, blowing them away in loud yells as dust flew about. "HAHAHAHAHA!" their adversary laughed maniacally, using her power to blast apart the surrounding area, making debris fly everywhere. Back in the clothing store, the boy could hear the rumblings grow louder, widening his eyes.

'Come on, hurry!' he pleaded to himself, putting on the suit before grabbing the elbow pads from the case.

"Gum-Gum Stamp!" Luffy yelled, stretching out his leg to try and kick the giant woman. However, she merely swatted it away with her left arm, which was still cloaked in the light. An explosion occurred right underneath her rubbery enemy, blasting him up into the air.

"Luffy!" Starlight cried out, instantly frightened.

"Stay back!" Ben advised quickly, gritting his teeth as he then ran forward, enveloping himself in a green flash of light that the girl gasped at.

"Now I've got you…" Juniper muttered delightedly as she aimed her mirror at the falling pirate, "I wish-!" Her declaration was interjected once more as something slammed into her right hip, causing her to hit the glass windows of another store, shattering them into fragments. She growled angrily, looking out to see what had attacked her. It was a dinosaur-like creature that was about twelve feet in height, standing on two legs. His skin was a tannish brown with a lighter tan on the inner part of his body. He had a tail and black briefs along with a green sash over his shoulder that had the Omnitrix symbol at the center, while his body was mostly muscular with wrinkles along his face

"Sorry, but I think you've used up all the wishes that thing'll grant," he mockingly apologized, making her seem even more angry as she clenched her teeth.

"Hang on, Ben!" the blonde haired teen yelled, rushing over to assist him as his arm became cloaked in a white light once more, "White Dragon Talon!" he bellowed, jumping up to strike his enemy. Unfortunately, she avoided the swipe from him, also dodging an attempted punch from her alien foe.

"Amazing…" the vested girl uttered with trembling eyes, glancing over to see the Devil Fruit user land down on his feet, breathing heavily.

"I got you now!" Sting shouted, about to strike the former usher in the chest. She merely cracked a smirk though, disappearing as Humungousaur took her place.

"What?!" he yelped in surprise, seeing that she had gotten behind him. Grimacing in realization, the Sabertooth guildmaster quickly redirected his fist down to strike the ground, creating a bright flash of light that blinded the both of them as they cried out in agony.

"Perfect," Juniper uttered as she flipped her hair rather smugly.

"MONTAAAAAAGGE!" Luffy roared, catching her attention as she saw him dashing towards her with a fierceness in his eyes, "Armament, Hardening!" he yelled, coating his right arm in black as he closed his hand into a fist, reeling it back, "Gum-Gum…!" he started to echo.

"Hmph," the giant woman scoffed as she grinned, readying her mirror, "I wish you would join your friends in here!" she declared, causing it to suddenly spark and buzz with the ominous, aurora-colored energy.

"Luffy!" the white dragon slayer and the extraterrestrial exclaimed, with the former regaining his vision as he ran out and leapt into his view just as a beam of light shot out from the mirror.

"Sting?!" he yelped in surprise, seeing him get entrapped by the luminosity instead of himself, followed by being sucked into it as he shouted in despair.

"No!" Starlight yelled, grimacing in fright as she clutched the strap of her friend's satchel tightly.

"Hm," the transformed girl hummed with a shrug as she looked at the glass object in her hand, "Not who I was going for, but oh well…" she muttered while grinning, trotting towards the pirate evilly, "Now you're next…" she stated, making him growl angrily.

"Mess with the bull," the Vaxasaurian's voice chimed in, catching their attentions as they looked over at him, seeing that his eyes were fine from the flash earlier, "you get the horns," he snarled, twisting the dial upon his sash by using his fingers, "And when you mess with my friends…" he continued, slamming the symbol with his left palm, "you get…!" he started to bellow, as a green light flowed through his body, morphing himself again as his body grew and changed. Everyone watching gasped to see the result of what he had done. He grew into an Ankylosaurus-like creature, being about twenty feet tall as he seemed more buff than his previous form, having camo green skin instead of tan. He had a dark blue, Ankylosaurus-like helmet with brownish yellow spikes running down the top. He possessed a dark blue, turtle shell with long spikes running down each side. His plated chest and torso were also dark blue with five spikes on each end. His tail had a blue mace on the end of it, with silver spikes. On his limbs, there were exposed metallic plates and tubes that were barely covered and outlined in black strips of flesh.

The form of his helmet was a dark blue mask, which had a rhino-like horn on top of the nostrils. There were two smaller horns that ran down the silver part of his helmet. He had tusk-like structures on his mask that pointed down while also having a pair of tiny horns above his eye sockets. His green eyes were outlined in black and are indented further into his head, being surrounded by pale green skin. His mouth consisted of the beak on his mask and a pronounced lower jaw, which had a large yellow fang on each end and four small skin-colored teeth in between. There were now three gill-like structures on each side of the silver part of his helmet. His chest and torso had plating, having a large chest piece on top, followed by a shorter chest piece and finally a smooth abdomen with a vertical line indent. The sides of both his mid-chest piece and his abdomen had a shark tooth-shaped extension that points upwards. There were four holes on the top chest plate and two on the one in the middle.

The turtle-like shell on his back was large and had a single row of spikes running down its center. The silver outline of the shell fused with the outline of two shoulder pads, which fractured at the shoulders' end. On the shoulder pads, there were three spikes that pointed towards the torso. There were also three lines with triangular points at the center of each that also pointed towards the torso. There also appeared to be two small spikes on the elbow of each arm. Both the shell and shoulder pads had a metallic texture. His fingers were sharper than before, and the mace on his tail had rather stubbier spikes, while Omnitrix symbol upon the creature's chest protruded four spikes in diagonal directions.

"ULTIMATE HUMUNGOUSAUR!" he bellowed loudly, letting his voice echo throughout the area.

"Hah," Juniper laughed afterwards, "Bigger doesn't always mean better, you know," she pointed out rather mockingly, resting her hands at her hips.

"Oh really?" her evolved foe questioned rhetorically, sticking out his arms. All of a sudden, they both transformed into five-barreled missile launchers, exposing pale green muscles. The holes of the cannons themselves were green with a silver outline. Blinking in shock, the giant woman suddenly grimaced.

"Uh oh," she uttered. Her enemy then fired several fragments of bone at her shaped like projectiles, striking her in yells as the others watched on in amazement, seeing the cannons spin. In the meantime, the group in the void was trying to figure what to do, until they heard a familiar sound.

"WHOOOAAA!" Sting yelled as suddenly soared in out of white streak of light, almost hitting Sunset as she ducked away just in time, seeing him hit the ground and bounce off of it a couple times before coming to a complete stop, "Ugh…" he groaned in agony as he lied on his side.

"Sting, are you all right?!" his fellow dragon slayer asked, running up to him with the others as he rose to his knees.

"Yeah, I'm good," he reassured in reply, rubbing his hurt arm.

"Phew…" Lector breathed in relief, "For a second, I thought you were gonna land on milady's boobs again…" he confessed, causing both his partner and the amber skinned girl to blush madly in embarrassment.

"LECTOR!" they yelled simultaneously, causing him to cringe in fright as he held out his hands in a placating manner.

"What's happening out there?" Alain asked, changing the subject.

"Juniper transformed, and we were trying to get her mirror back," the Sabertooth guildmaster explained in reply, standing on his feet, "We got into a fight and I wound up here…" he mentioned, folding his arms over his chest, "Guess you guys figured out that this is milady's magic, right?" he inquired to those among him.

"Yeah," Rogue answered, "but there's no way out of here…" he pointed out as he glanced around, "At least not one that we can access ourselves," he added, gesturing towards the rift his guild mate had just come through.

"AGH!" the giant woman shouted out pain, growling as she continued to get barraged by the missile-like bone fragments from Ultimate Humungousaur. The princess' pupil just looked on, amazed by what they were doing. However, she felt that she needed to get the mirror back as she had first planned, developing a serious expression as she ducked behind a clothing rack.

"Whoa!" the hyper-evolved Vaxasaurian yelped as he was enveloped in another aurora-colored blast from his foe, who grinned evilly. However, she didn't notice the girl sneaking up behind her, grasping the mirror in her hand as she tried to pull it away from her.

"Starlight!" Luffy yelled as he hurriedly rushed over, while the extraterrestrial used his arm to brush the dust away, seeing what was happening.

"I told you to stay back!" he shouted to her as she struggled to get the object away from her adversary.

"I'm sorry!" she apologized, evidently failing as she was lifted up with the mirror by the transformed girl, "It's just… you guys are putting your lives on the line to save your friends," she kept going, developing a determined look in her eyes, "so I should, too!" she exclaimed to his surprise, seeing her swing her legs to kick the mirror out of her grasp, making her gasp in shock as she saw it fly away, while her new enemy landed on her feet, running out to try and catch it. Unfortunately, it struck the ground before she could as the glass cracked. Within the void, large cracks were forming all around the others as they yelped in surprise, having to duck and step away from them.

"The mirror is breaking!" Sunset realized, hearing the area around them continue to come apart.

"Whoa!" Twilight yelped as she stepped away from a crack that had formed, "If those guys don't find a way to get us out of here soon, I don't know what's gonna happen!" she confessed rather desperately.

"Guys, I hope you know what you're doing…" the former pony said worriedly. In the real world, the vested girl picked up the mirror and looked at it, horrified by how badly she had broken it.

"No, no, no, no!" she repeated in fear, breathing rapidly, "This is all my fault!" she exclaimed, looking as if she was on the verge of tears.

"Don't worry about it!" Ultimate Humungousaur advised as he was stepping back, "Now's a good time to try and use that thing and save our frie-! AH!" he yelled in agony, having his sentence interjected as he was caught up in another blast of aurora-colored light. Just then, Juniper stomped towards the princess' pupil.

"Give that back!" she demanded, swiping at her by using her left hand, which she dodged as she ran behind a bush.

"No!" she responded defiantly, "This mirror is nothing but trouble. You have to realize that," she recommended in concern.

"MONTAAGE!" Luffy yelled, about to punch her again, only to end up blown away by another explosion that came from her right hand.

"What I realize is that you are just like those other girls!" she bellowed down to Starlight, picking up the decorative shrubbery as she squatted down in fright, "I wish you'd join them!" she declared. The girl quickly held the mirror away from her face, thinking that it was about to absorb her until she noticed that nothing happened.

"Eh... Phew!" she breathed out in relief before having to immediately get up and run to avoid another swipe from her foe, "Looks like you can't make that wish unless you're the one holding the mirror!" she noted cleverly, grimacing upon seeing the bush being flung towards her, "Whoa!" she yelped, diving towards the floor. As she struck it, more fragments of the glass fell off, much to her fright as she saw how it looked. Back in the void, the girls and the boys were quick to dodge the cracks that appeared, becoming cornered as the area around kept breaking apart.

"What now?" Kyoya asked, hoping for a suggestion. In the real world, the beanie-wearing girl ducked behind the sunglasses kiosk, widening her eyes as she believed that she had a solution to rescuing the people inside the mirror.

"I wish Sunset Shimmer and her friends would come back!" she exclaimed as she stood up at held out the mirror towards the giant woman. It sparked for a moment, but only let a fragment drop as nothing else occurred. Its holder could not believe it, while her enemy crossed her arms smugly, laughing.

"Looks like you can't use it, either!" she noted, swiping at her as she dodged her attacks, being chased around the kiosk.

"Hang on, Starlight!" the hyper-evolved Vaxasaurian yelled as he ran in and tackled the transformed girl to the ground. However, she growled angrily, disappearing in instant to his surprise. Before he could even think of where she had gone, he was caught up in another blast, much to the fright of the princess' pupil.

"Ben!" she screamed in dismay. Meanwhile, with the click of a belt, the plain-looking boy in the changing room was finally finished with getting his outfit on, closing the case that had his original clothes.

"Are you done yet?" the woman outside asked in annoyance, folding her arms underneath her chest.

"Sorry about all that," he apologized as he unlocked the door and opened it, surprising her as she looked at his suit, "Excuse me!" he cried out to the cashier, catching her attention as she saw him jog over to her, placing the suitcase and his backpack onto the counter, "Do you think you can hold onto my things for a little while?" he asked in a pleading tone.

"Um… sure…" she responded nervously, "Will you be back soon?" she questioned back, somewhat skeptical.

"I will be," he answered, quickly racing off out the doors without setting off the alarms, which she noticed.

"You're not selling those, are you?" one of the customers inquired out of confusion to the worker. The freckled boy hurried along, hearing the screams coming from the distance.

'Not much time left I bet…' he realized, letting a reddish energy start to course through his body as if it was his blood vessels, making green electricity spark around him, 'so I gotta hurry!' he declared to himself, moving faster, 'One For All… FULL COWLING!' he inwardly bellowed, suddenly leaping up rapidly, right over the head of Flash Sentry.

"Whoa!" he yelped, turning around to see the dark green blur rushing in the opposite direction, widening his eyes in surprise. At the kiosk, Starlight was continuing to avoid her foe's attempts to take the mirror away, but she then grabbed a few display cases from the wall, which concealed some of the patrons as they took off in fright. Starlight barely dodged the objects thrown at her, becoming cornered as she grimaced.

"Give it back to me!" Juniper demanded, holding out her hand.

"But my friends are trapped in here!" the girl pointed out pleadingly. Just then, the television screens around them turned on, playing the winning music video once again. The sound of it caused the transformed girl to growl angrily.

"Your friends stole my one chance at being famous!" she yelled back, turning around and smashing the sets through the glass out of her pure hatred. Meanwhile, the ones within the void now were starting to separate as tiles carried both Applejack and Twilight away from the others, making them whimper in fear. The former of the two took a big leap to the main tile the others were, but it did not appear she would make it as she screamed.

"I gotcha'!" her boyfriend promised as he caught her arm with his left hand, grunting as he pulled her up with the help of Rainbow and Pinkie.

"Whoa..." she uttered, wondering how far the fall would have been as Kyoya held her close. In the meantime, the scientist was losing footing as pieces of her tile were quickly falling into the abyss, while the others watched on in fear.

"Charizard, go!" Alain called out, causing the dragon-like creature to fly over and catch the spectacled girl just as she was about to plummet into the abyss, much to everyone's relief as they breathed out sighs.

"Gum-Gum Bell!" Luffy roared back in the real world as his forehead was coated in black, using it to slam into Juniper's own cranium.

"Ergh!" she growled, palming him in the chest and blasting him away in an aurora-colored explosion.

"AH!" Starlight yelped as she saw him fly over her head, smashing into the window of one of the stores as the glass shattered into pieces upon his impact with it, "Luffy!" she cried out worriedly, while people were still running in fright from the conflict between the demonized girl and the hyper-evolved Vaxasaurian. He swung his wrecking ball-like tail at her, only to fail as she deflected it by merely using her hands, smirking all the while.

"Aw, come on!" he complained, spinning around to try and land a punch on her with his left fist. He managed to connect, but saw that she had caught it in her left extremity, which glowed in an aurora-colored aura before she suddenly unleashed a beam of light that blew him away in a loud yell. He crashed into the entry doors of the mall's movie theater, leaving a trail of dust in his wake as the beautiful monstrosity cackled in delight.

"Oh, I really love this..." she said with an ominous grin, turning her attention back onto the girl by the sunglasses kiosk. She grimaced in fright as she slowly backed away, about to run off until the giant being vanished instantaneously, followed by reappearing right in front of her.

"WAH!" she shrieked, falling down onto her rear end in fright while also causing another piece of the hand mirror to break off and hit the floor.

"I'm still going to need that mirror back..." Juniper stated menacingly, reaching for the accessory while grinning evilly.

"Ah, no!" the former pony cried desperately, looking for a way out of the situation she was in. In the meantime, both Omni Force members were slowly getting back onto their feet, perking up and widening their eyes to see their friend being cornered.

"Starlight!" they called out quickly, both trying to hurry to her, even as it seemed like it would be all for naught. All of a sudden, a dark green blur began rushing by the crowd of panicked people, causing them to all stop and curiously see what it was, noticing the green sparks of electricity emanating off of it. Ultimate Humungousaur noticed it zoom in, gasping upon seeing what it actually was. It was the freckled boy they had run into, now dressed in a dark green, full-body unitard with red boots and elbow pads. The knee pads of the outfit extended to his legs and reached up to his thighs. His mask behind his head had long ear-like protrusions. His gloves had blue striping on them, and his gas mask was diamond-shaped and gray and had 2 holes top and bottom, left to right. The demonized girl caught a glance at him in confusion, seeing him grit his teeth while reeling his right arm back.

"SMMAAAAASSSHH!" he bellowed before punching her directly in the face with his fist, sending her sliding away in an instant as everyone looked on in complete astonishment. He landed down on his feet, seeing his foe wipe her stricken cheek as she growled at him. He merely got into a ready stance, clenching his extremities tightly.

"Who... are you?" the beanie-wearing female asked as her eyes continued to tremble.

"Starlight, get away!" the extraterrestrial cried out as he morphed his hands into cannons once, shooting off the missile-like fragments and striking her in the back within a fierce explosion. She turned around and glared at him afterwards, closing her hands into fists.

"Gum-Gum…" Luffy's voice started to echo, catching her attention too late as she was struck in the back by both of his palms, "Bazooka!" he yelled, sending her sliding forward as he landed down. After realizing what was going, the costumed teen turned around and faced the princess' pupil, picking her up and holding her in his arms bridal style.

"I'm getting you outta here," he told her, leaping away in an instant as she yelped in surprise, seeing that they had reached the second floor. She glanced at the mirror in her hands as it lost more and more fragments, much to her fright as she cringed. "You okay?" her rescuer asked, catching her attention as they came to a stop, with him setting her down gently, losing the sparking electricity around him.

"It's just…" she began, tearing up a little, "I screwed up and tried to get the mirror back myself because those guys were doing everything while I just watched!" she explained, sniffling, "If I hadn't gotten involved, this wouldn't have happened!" she claimed as she fell to her knees, staring at the breaking mirror, "All my friends that are trapped in here are going to die because of me…" she mentioned while wiping her eyes. The teen was stunned by her words, but kept his composure.

"You know," he started to say, causing her to perk up, "someone told me that meddling where you don't need to is the essence of being a hero," he stated while turning around. She widened her eyes slightly, surprised by what he said. "You did your part, so we'll do ours and get your friends back," he promised, giving her a thumbs up before dashing off quickly, regaining the sparks of energy as he leapt away.

"A hero…" the girl uttered afterwards, looking into the mirror to see what she could of her own reflection. Meanwhile, the plain-looking boy raced onwards, jumping off the walls as he saw the giant woman ahead still fighting against the Omni Force members.

'Okay, what's the plan?' he asked himself, grimacing a little, 'From the looks of things, we need to take her down as soon as possible…' he stated through his thoughts, 'So what I should do first…!' he realized, bouncing off the left wall before landing down hard in front of the transformed girl with his feet, causing more dust to billow up as the floor cracked massively.

"Ah!" she yelped, unable to make out her surroundings within the veil. Her new opponent curled in his right middle finger, holding it in by using his thumb as he aimed it forwards.

"Five Percent…" he began, clenching his teeth, "DELAWARE SMMAAAASSSHH!" he yelled, flicking his finger to cause a gust of wind to blow out, sending the dust flying past his enemy and even into her eyes.

"AAAHHH!" she shrieked in agony, closing them and rubbing them immediately.

"Now's your chance!" the costumed teen called out to his allies, who blinked in surprise.

"Don't mind if I do!" Luffy responded, readying his right fist, "Gum-Gum Pistol!" he roared as he punched the former usher in the face, causing her to stumble back a bit. Ultimate Humungousaur then charged in, ramming into her and sending her flying across the mall as she screamed, slamming into a wall hard as it cracked.

"Nice one!" the freckled boy complimented, causing him to crack a smirk.

"Ugh…" their adversary groaned, pushing herself up. As she did so, she accidentally tore down a water fountain, causing the liquid to gush out onto her face. She shook her head afterwards, regaining her vision as she grinned evilly at her foes.

"Guess she's not goin' down easy…" the hyper-evolved Vaxasaurian concurred, transforming his arms back to normal.

"We've gotta beat her quickly!" the messy haired boy mentioned, "Every second she's still trying to fight us, the less time we have to save the people trapped in that mirror!" he explained rather worriedly. The pirate then perked up in realization.

"I need an opening," he told the two with him, "I'll take her down," he declared, causing them to widen their eyes in surprise.

"I can do that," the human of the two responded as he got into a ready stance.

"You sure, kid?" the extraterrestrial questioned out of concern, making him perk up, "I mean, I don't know what you're doing here and all," he pointed out as he grimaced slightly, "but I can tell you're one of the good guys," he finished as he gasped a little, seeing his grin.

"Yeah, I got it!" he replied with a nod, dashing out in an instant.

"And I'll cover you!" the dinosaur-like creature called out, transforming his arms back into cannons as they rapidly fired the missile-like fragments again, which his opponent blocked by using the aurora-colored energy shrouding her hands. Meanwhile, the plain-looking boy was continuing to zip around, waiting for his chance to catch her off guard.

'One punch should do the trick…' he concluded inwardly, leaping off the facing of the mall's second floor, heading right for her, 'You're mine!' he exclaimed through thought, reeling his fist back. However, she spotted him coming in the nick of time, moving back just enough so his punch would not connect directly with his target. 'Crap, I only grazed her!' he realized, grimacing.

"Out of my way!" she demanded, smacking him aside with her right arm.

'Dammit…' he inwardly cursed as he flew towards the wall, looking over to see Ultimate Humungousaur continuing to fire his projectiles, while the rubbery teen beside him was about to stick his thumb into his mouth. Unfortunately, it seemed as if Juniper was going to spot them before they could execute the plan. 'No…' the freckled teen uttered to himself, letting the energy he had surge through him again as sparks emerged, 'NOT LIKE THIS!' he bellowed inwardly, bracing himself against the wall he would have hit, leaping off of it in an instant towards his foe.

"FIVE PERCENT…" he started to roar, catching her attention as she gasped to see him coming, "DETROIT…" he kept going as he reeled his arm back, "SMMMAAAAASSSHHH!" he screamed upon punching her torso fiercely, causing her to let out a wad of spit as she stumbled back, "Now!" he cried out to his allies.

"THIRD GEAR!" Luffy exclaimed loudly, biting his right thumb and blowing into it, causing it to inflate like a balloon and grow in size as he clenched his fist tightly, "Armament, Hardening!" he yelled, making the black coating appear over it as he reeled it back, "Now Gum-Gum…" he began, while the costumed teen ran back over, "ELEPHANT GUN!" he roared, throwing out his enlarged extremity fiercely. Upon noticing, the former usher grimaced in fright, crossing her arms to brace herself from the impact. Though she was able to block it at first, her foe's giant fist sent her sliding back as the floor tiles shattered beneath her, followed by her tumbling across it as she fell.

"Ugh…" she groaned, slowly rising to her feet as she clenched her teeth, "Is that the best you've got?!" she challenged, letting her arms light up in the aurora-colored aura. Hearing her words enticed the Devil Fruit user to bite his left thumb and blow into it, making his left arm grow giant as well before coating it.

"You took away my friends and hurt them!" he screamed as he leapt up, clenching both enlarged extremities, "I'm not letting you take away anything else you could hurt!" he declared fiercely, "Gum-Gum…" he began.

"It's pointless!" Juniper yelled, readying her hands as she was about to attack. Suddenly though, she froze in place upon seeing the menacing and conquering glare in her adversary's eyes, causing her to quiver in fright.

"ELEPHANT… GATLING!" he roared as he punched at her rapidly with his gigantic limbs, breaking the floor as he yelled loudly.

"Amazing…" the costumed teen uttered with trembling eyes.

"More like overkill…" Ultimate Humungousaur noted, noticing all of what had been destroyed throughout the complex. Once he had finished, Luffy let his appendages shrink back to normal and lose their coating, landing onto the cracked floor and breathing heavily as a veil of dust shrouded their foe. All of a sudden, a rapid beeping caught their attentions as they saw the Omnitrix symbol upon the hyper-evolved Vaxasaurian's chest blink a bright green, followed by him transforming back into Ben in a flash of light.

"Uh oh," he uttered, worried that being out of power may have come too soon.

"Guys!" Starlight's voice cried out, catching their attentions as they saw her running up to them.

"Starlight, be careful!" the Omni Force leader quickly advised, causing her to screech to a halt.

"Ugh…" the former usher's voice groaned from within the dust cloud, causing everyone around it to gasp in fright. She emerged from it with plenty of scrapes and bruises from her fight, but she still seemed eager to continue, especially as she saw the mirror in her enemy's hands. "Now… I can be famous just like I've wanted…" she muttered, about to take the accessory as the girl backed away slowly.

"No!" the freckled boy chimed in, zipping in front of her defensively, making the demonized girl growl.

"Is fame really what you're after or…" the princess' pupil started to imply, catching her attention, "are you looking for something else?" she guessed, smiling nervously.

"Like what?!" the giant woman questioned angrily, about to attack as her messy haired foe got into a ready position.

"Like... a friend?" the beanie-wearing girl inquired, going up to her beside her rescuer.

"Who would want to be my friend?" she asked back, still clenching her teeth angrily.

"I would," the vested girl answered honestly, much to her surprise.

"Why?" she questioned.

"Because I understand you, Juniper," Starlight replied, gesturing towards herself, "You think getting revenge is going to make you feel better, but it's not!" she pointed out seriously, "Please, don't make a mistake that you'll end up regretting for the rest of your life," she pleaded calmly as the turquoise haired girl grimaced in realization.

"I've already made too many mistakes," she retorted, starting to sound reasonable, "What I've done is... is... unforgivable," she stammered out sadly, surprising the others.

"No, Juniper," the girl there responded, "I know they'll forgive you," she reassured to her, "But first, you have to set them free!" she told her seriously, showing her the cracked mirror. Within its dimensional space, the girls and boys were all huddling together on a single tile as there was nowhere else for them to stand. Charizard had picked up Alain onto his back with Fluttershy, while Lector and Frosch carried Sunset and Rarity respectively. In the real world, the giant woman finally decided to take the mirror back from the girl she spoke, as the males of the group there watched on nervously, wondering if she would do as told.

"I…" she started to say, looking back to see the small grin on the pupil's face, along with those coming off of the others', "I wish I could make up for my mistakes here today," she finished, causing a bright flash of blue light to envelop the area. As the boys and girls that remained on the final platform were about to fall into the abyss, in another flash of light, they suddenly found themselves back in the mall, which been completely returned to normal with no trace of any damages. The demonized girl had also turned back into her normal self during the process.

"Ugh…" Kyoya groaned, lifting his head to see that he was lying on top of his girlfriend, "Well, isn't this familiar…" he joked in a snarky tone, causing her to blush madly before she kneed him in the crotch, "OOOWWWWW!" he yelled in pain, falling off of her.

"I told you to get off yer high horse…" she grumbled as she stood up.

"Rah!" the Fire/Flying type roared happily as he flew down to the ground, allowing for his master and his girlfriend to disembark and embrace each other warmly.

"Oh, we're alive!" the fashionista exclaimed as she was let down by the frog-costumed feline, skipping up to her boyfriend and eagerly kissing him on the lips before he could say anything.

"Sweetheart, you okay?" Ben asked as he picked up Rainbow by the arm, standing her up.

"Yeah, thanks," she responded in gratitude, brushing her hair back, "Guess you really picked up the slack, Mister Ten," she joked as she put her hands at her hips.

"Whatever you say… Missus Ten," he retorted while crossing his arms, causing her to blush instantaneously.

"Twilight!" Luffy exclaimed as he suddenly embraced his girlfriend tightly, "Am I glad to see you!" he noted, while her face flushed a bright red.

"Uh, y-you, too…" she agreed with a stutter, evidently embarrassed. As Sunset came down with Lector and rubbed her neck, she saw the princess' pupil trotting up to them, making her smile brightly.

"Starlight, you did it!" she said happily, hugging her warmly as the exceeds lost their wings. Everyone's joy was interrupted however as they saw patrons coming towards them, conversing over the bizarre scene that had just happened.

"So much for laying low," the beanie-wearing girl noted, sheepishly rubbing her arm.

"I think even Princess Twilight would understand," her new friend reassured, placing her hand onto her shoulder. In the meantime, the theater employee looked at the hand mirror, which had turned back to normal as only a few pieces of glasses remained on it. She lowered it to see the blank and concerned expressions from everyone else, wondering what she was going to do now.

"I'm so sorry," she immediately apologized.

"It's okay," the amber skinned girl responded reassuringly as she went up to her and placed a hand onto her shoulder, "We've all been there," she pointed out sheepishly.

"Really?" the pigtailed girl questioned, somewhat skeptical. She then noticed the vested girl raise her left hand.

"Manipulated an entire town into giving up their talents so they wouldn't think they were special," she explained with a nervous smile.

"Overpowered by a magic I couldn't control and created a rift between two worlds," the scientist continued, chiming into the conversation, "almost destroying both of them in the process," she admitted.

"Turned an entire school into my own personal zombie army in hopes of conquering a distant pony world," the red and yellow haired girl finished, followed by Juniper giving off a rather shocked expression.

"Wow!" Pinkie yelped in surprise, resting her arm on Rainbow's shoulder, "We are a really forgiving group!" she noted, causing everyone to laugh. Just then, the freckled boy noticed the satchel that the purple and cerulean haired girl had been carrying was resting against the sunglasses kiosk, picking it up.

"Um…" he chimed in, catching everyone's attention, "I think this belongs to you," he said, handing it off to the Omni Force squadron leader as she blinked in surprise.

"Hey, you're that kid from earlier!" she remembered as she snapped her fingers.

"But what's with the weird costume?" the hyper girl asked with a tilt of her head.

"Well… uh… I… um…" he stuttered, sweating nervously.

"He's a hero," Ben answered for him, causing him to perk up, "If it wasn't for him, Luffy and I probably wouldn't have saved you guys," he confessed as he widened his eyes.

"Really?" his girlfriend questioned, somewhat amazed.

"It's no problem at all," the messy haired boy reassured as he waved his gloved right hand, "I just did what any hero would do in a situation like that," he noted, smiling brightly, "Anyways, it was nice meeting you all," he said while starting to run off, surprising them a little.

"Oh, wait!" Starlight yelped, causing him to stop for a moment, "You… never told me… or us your name…" she pointed out as she curiously raised her eyebrow. He blinked, letting off a small grin.

"Just call me Deku," he replied, suddenly letting green sparks appear around as he jumped off in an instant to the astonishment of the others, seeing him run off on the second floor. There, he grabbed his things from the clothing store he had left them at, putting on his backpack before racing outside. Later that afternoon, the girls were all gathered back at the mirror statue by Canterlot High, as Juniper had joined them. She was getting her pigtails braided by Rarity, while Pinkie took her theater-styled hairband and put it on, causing them to all laugh.

"Huh…" the princess' pupil sighed as she stood next to the pedestal, "I'm so sad to leave," she confessed to Sunset as she looked around the area, "I haven't really had the chance to get to know all of you," she pointed out, while her fellow former unicorn noticed her bag buzz, taking out her journal.

"Maybe you don't have to leave yet," she suggested, catching her attention,"Dear Sunset, some lessons are better learned in action, and you girls are great teachers," she read aloud as the others listened to her, Starlight should stay for a few more days. Enjoy the premiere!" she finished, leading to everyone cheering and laughing excitedly.

"Huh," the vested girl uttered afterwards, "Think you can focus on the positive?" she inquired with an arched eyebrow to the girl beside her.

"Whatever happens is gonna happen," she replied with a pump of her fist, "I've just gotta live in the moment, right?" she guessed, playfully punching her new friend's shoulder.

"Right!" she answered, punching her back rather cheekily.

"You know, I bet we're run into that Deku kid again…" Ben chimed in, catching their attentions, "but I don't think from here…" he admitted, folding his arms behind his head.

"That punch he made was awesome!" Luffy exclaimed, "You guys shoulda' seen it!" he yelled rather excitedly. Everyone laughed in joy, not noticing the shadowed figure looming over them from the building, being none other than Zeref.

"Your happiness will soon come to an unfortunate end…" he stated, holding a navy blue, glowing red MPG in his hand as he glanced at them, specifically towards Sunset.

END

Hooray, I finished! Gosh, I know you guys won't find out until September, but the system I've come up with has literally been the best thing ever in terms of producing stories and doing other things in my off time. Anyways, studying has been going well, school's starting again soon, so on and so forth. As for what's next on my list of fics to keep working on, I think I'll get back to "The Challenge of a Lifetime" and "The Mega Protocol for old time's sake. I think writing a few battles will be just the motivator I need to keep going into September. And I know that there are plenty of shorts coming out that people might want me to write about, but they're a little short for my standards.

Anyways, did you like that surprise with Izuku Midoriya?! After recovering from his injuries during his internship with Gran Torino, he sent him off to Professor Paradox to be sent back in time to help the others defeat Juniper. Of course, he was told to just wait until something bad happened, so he had to loiter around the mall for a while with not much else to do. Also, I should mention that the ending bit with Zeref was supposed to be extended where he'd have a conversation with Sunset, but I thought it'd be a bit much since she just got over her fears of uncertainty.

Loved the short by the way. Starlight might not be my favorite, but I can appreciate her from time to time. I'm gonna be pairing her with someone by the way. Who you may ask? Well… not someone you'd probably expect. Catch you guys later!