(The next morning, pony planet)

Rainbow squad lied in hiding outside the fort, waiting for the moment the droids would show up. Their plan was to steal a shuttle and overtake the dreadnought in orbit. But their plan came to a screeching halt as they spotted a Lucrehulk in orbit sending down not a shuttle, but a landing craft.

"Queen lucys not going down without a fight"

"If she's sending a landing craft down then something big is coming, we need to regroup"

Rainbow squad ran back to the settlement as the landing craft landed outside the fort, releasing a garrison of battle droids and 4 armored assault tanks onto the ground. The tanks went to the front of the fort as the droids inspected the damage

"They destroyed the statue, good thing we brought another one"

"Hey look, it's RB 626" said a droid picking up a droid head from the ground

"No wonder he got blasted, he's one of those older models kept online by a central computer"

"Not us, we're independent thinkers"

"Roger roger"

"Roger roger"

"Roger roger"

The droid threw the head back on the ground and approached the tank drivers.

"2 tanks stay here, 2 tanks go to the settlement. Destroy 1 unoccupied building as a show of force. And tell those ponies to get to work on the next harvest. Her majesty demands double the crops thanks to her new liquid plant food being a great success"

2 of the tanks did as ordered and went to the settlement

"Alright boys, pick up any scrapped droids you can find, load them into a shuttle and up to the Tantrum for repairs"

(Litwak city castle, twilights class)

All the kids were getting settled into their desks as their teacher walked in.

"Good morning class. Today we're going to learn about Energon, and how it helps us lead happy lives powering our vehicles, and warming our homes. But first id like to introduce you all to a new student, courtesy of Lucy. I'd like to introduce you all to Toxic Sourpunch"

This earned gasps from the kids of candy hollow. A girl walked into the class with yellow blonde hair like lucys in a beehive style, pure white skin, a very frilly black dress, her fingers covered in rings, black heels, and carrying a black and yellow purse.

"I can't believe I have to be here" she responded

"Toxic, I told you to wear something non formal" Lucy told her

"Sorry to burst your bubble but I don't own anything like that"

"Toxic, you're alive?" Sweet tooth asked

"But you're supposed to be dead" Scoop shouted

"She is?" Twilight asked confused

"How're you even here?" Reese asked

"I brought her back. Found some old source code after bumping into her parents game jumping yesterday. Simple reprogramming on my part and here she is. To prove I'm not crazy, I'm going to reform someone bad, like her" said Lucy

A lot of the kids scooted their desks away from toxic as she sat down.

"I'm not going to hurt you all" she shouted

"Before we go over the lesson, just a reminder that Halloween is a couple weeks away, you're all welcome to wear your costumes to school, just nothing inappropriate please. And no real weapons please. We'll all be spending the school day watching some Halloween movies and having Halloween themed treats, among other stuff" said Twilight

School went on as normal but it was clear with Lucy things weren't going well with Toxic, she barely paid attention to the lessons and when given group work she barely contributed. Plus the other students still feared her. After lunch, Lucy dragged her to her bedroom for a talk.

"In case you've forgotten, your code isn't fully integrated into this game, and you need to make things up and be nicer if you want to be a part of this game. It's because of me you're even alive" said Lucy

"Why'd you even help me if you don't know me? And I don't need those kids" said Toxic

"Being lonely isn't a good feeling, mocho told me so. And I'm helping you because I feel if I can reform someone evil like you, I don't have a lot of options, people will see me as good, because I'm an internet laughingstock, long story. I'm surprised your parents even still love you after what I heard they did to you" said Lucy

"They didn't disown me. That's just some lie I told them to go with. Yes I killed scoop once, yes people were mad. I panicked and ran home, my parents wanted to protect me, but I wanted to protect them. I told them to pretend they didn't love me and disown me so they would live. I'm glad to be back to life after you found my source code, but things are so different here, all this technology, it's overwhelming" said Toxic

"Toxic, I do want to help you, but you gotta change your ways" said Lucy

Suddenly a battle droid rushed into the bedroom, startling toxic.

"My queen, important update from the empire, the ponies have attempted to rebel but we have the situation under control, AAT's have been deployed and the fort has been occupied once again. We also demanded double the crops"

"Excellent work, now destroy a building to show we mean business. Also choose 5 random ponies and send them to the Games, I'll see to them personally over there later this week. That is all RB-816" said Lucy

"Roger roger your highness"

"What is that thing? And did it call you a queen? You're a queen?" Toxic asked surprised

"Yes I am, it's in space my empire. That was a b1 battle droid. He may not look dangerous but know that I have a great many of them so don't mess with Me" said Lucy

"On second thought I think I am ready to try and make things up" said Toxic

Lucy took toxic to the playground where the others were. Things were awkward at best, but Lucy was glad toxic apologized for her past actions. She even helped her get by with the rest of the school day. Before toxic could get onboard sky lynx to go home, Lucy had a word with her

"You did alright, a little more work and you'll have your code fully put in. You still need more casual clothes though. I'd take you shopping but I have to go get ready for my brothers arcade to open tonight" said Lucy

"What's an arcade?" Toxic asked

"You'll see" said Lucy

Toxic left onboard sky lynx without saying another word.

"Come on sis, go get in your queen dress, we need to look sharp for my main business" said Kevin

"Never saw you as a suit and tie guy to be honest" said Lucy

"I finally learned to tie a tie thanks to Mrs. Smoreline" said Kevin

(Toxic belongs to my friend Mangle6)