Back in CHS, we see the mirror portal glowing as Sunset Shimmer and another person came out from it, and that person is none other than the human form of Starlight Glimmer. Starlight now has a long, curly hair. She wears a blue-green t-shirt with purple trimmings underneath a black vest, gray ripped jeans, black kicks with purple straps and a star-spangled purple beanie.
"Ugh..." Starlight let's out a groan as she opens her eyes and noticed that her hooves were replaced by hands, "What happened?" she asked.
Sunset then appears on her vision, "It's all pretty weird at first, but try to roll with it..." Sunset advised as she helped Starlight up, only for her legs to wobble and nearly fell down if it weren't for Sunset. Then several students such as Tennis Match walks past them, "Hi..." the bacon-haired girl greeted nervously.
Starlight looks at her hands while wiggling her fingers, "Are these-?" she was about to ask in panic when Sunset spoke.
"Hands." Sunset interjected with a soft whisper.
Starlight then looks down on her feet, "And what happened to the rest of my hoo-?" she was about to ask when Sunset interjected again.
"Feet! Those are feet." Sunset answered quickly as more students passes by, "Remember the whole thing where I said you need to lay low?" she reminded, "Now would be a good time to play it cool." she advised with her arms crossed.
"Oh. Right..." Starlight chuckled in realization, "Play it cool..." she mused while waving her arms out to the sides, "Heh-heh..." she chuckled while flipping her hair and stretching one leg out and all of sudden, she went down onto all four of her limbs before trotting forward, getting everyone's attention much to their bewilderment as Sunset immediately jogs towards her, taking her hands and getting her up as students such as Sandalwood and Cherry Crash walks past them with weird looks. Starlight then spoke, "You did say I'd make a good distraction." she pointed out with a sheepish grin as Sunset rubs the back of her neck with a smile.
Bzzzttt...
Back in the mall, we see Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Rarity Belle, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Eddy Skipper McGee, Duncan Nelson, Jake Long and Rex Salazar making their way towards the movie theater.
"Woah... I think that is going to be one of the coolest movie ever." Rex commented.
Eddy slicks his hair backwards, "Since I'm the most mature looking...'' he boasted, "I'll go in first!" he declared, "Jake here can act as my wife!" he suggested while pointing a finger at the young dragon.
Jake sticks his tongue out in disgust, "Eew...'' he said before pointing a finger at Duncan, "Duncan is taller... I think he should." he pointed out.
"Never happening." Duncan declared.
Applejack then turns to them, "Ye boys are not going to watch any r-rated movies!" she admonished.
"Seriously? What's so good about those shameless and uncouth movies?'' Rarity asked indecorously.
"You guys should watch the Daring Do movie with us instead!" Pinkie suggested with a cheerful glee.
"We've read the books and we prefer the books." Rex replied with the boys nodding in agreement.
Twilight tips her glasses, "Come on guys, I prefer the books, too." she said, "But sometimes... I appreciate movies based of my favorite books.'' she stated with a smile.
"After Hollywood butchered my favorite books with it's mediocre movie adaptions? I don't think so.' Rex replied in defiance.
Rainbow scoffed, "Hollyhoof is different from Hollywood." she pointed out.
"Hollywood, Herowood, Hollyhoof... no matter they're called... they're all the same.'' Rex stated darkly.
"How many of your favorite books have been butchered by Hollywood anyway?'' Duncan asked with a casual smile.
The group enters the theater when the Rainbooms saw Juniper Montage doing something behind the counter.
"Juniper Montage?!" Pinkie exclaimed in shock.
"Whoa!" Juniper yelped in surprise while dropping the scooper in hand, sending popcorns flying all around her.
"What in the blazes are you doin' here?" Applejack asked in surprise.
Pinkie then zips in front of Juniper at the counter top, "Were you invited to the Daring Do premiere?" she asked, "Ooh, that's exciting!" she shrieked, "No, crazy!" she corrected, "No, concerning!" she corrected again, "No! Just no!" she exclaimed with a shake of her head, "No offense." she apologized with a sheepish smile.
Eddy then spoke, "Uh... who's the four-eyed usher?'' he asked.
"Her name is Juniper Montage." Rarity replied, "She's the niece of the director of the Daring Do movie and tried to sabotage it, so she can take the lead role." she explained.
"Any lawsuit filed?'' Duncan asked with a smile.
"Fortunately, no." Fluttershy replied.
"Really? That's so lame." Duncan commented.
"I wasn't invited to the premiere." Juniper replied adjusting her glasses, "My uncle Canter Zoom felt bad for firing me, so he pulled some strings and got me this job..." she explained while gathering bits of popcorn upon the counter.
"You work here?" Fluttershy asked.
"As little as possible." Juniper replied while kicking the popcorn onto the floor beside her.
"Y'know, if you hadn't tried to sabotage the movie." Rainbow chimed in, "You could be celebrating with us." she stated.
Juniper's eyes widen in anger, "Ooh!" she growled before coming out of the stand, "This should be my night!" she complained, "I would have found a way to be in the film if you all had stayed out of it!" she exclaimed angrily, "I would have been Daring Do!" she cried out, "Everyone would've loved me!" she yelled, "See?" she pointed out while showing them the mirror.
Everyone then stares at the mirror with confused looks while Twilight steps forward and adjusted her glasses.
"Narcissism much?'' Jake commented.
"Probably." Rex replied.
Taking notice of their lack of reactions, Juniper was further aggravated, "Can't you see what's right under your noses?" she demanded, "Ugh!" she groaned, "I wish you'd all just go away and leave me alone!" she screamed angrily. Suddenly, the mirror radiates some sort energy before shooting out a powerful light which caught everyone and got sucked into the mirror. Energy then soared through Juniper's body, turning her eyes green for a minute before letting out a grin. She then noticed Fluttershy's butterfly pin on the floor before picking it up and pinning it to her uniform, "Hmm..." she hummed, "Looks like I may be finally getting the hang of this..." she mused while looking at the mirror with a different image of her looking back at her with a wink.
Meanwhile, somewhere in the mall, we see Sunset and Starlight walking around with the latter enjoying tasting a three-scooped ice cream in hand.
"Six cell phones, all straight to voicemail." Sunset muttered while checking her phone.
"I'm sure they're around." Starlight reassured with a messy lips, "What's the worst that could have happened?" she asked.
"Magic is on the loose here now..." Sunset replied as one ice cream drops on the floor, "... and it does not work the same way it does back in Equestria." she pointed out, "Any number of terrible things could have happened and lately, I spend eighty percent of my time thinking about them." she said with a hand against her head. Starlight looks at her in confusion which made her smile nervously, "My friends are probably fine. I'm overreacting." she admitted, "But maybe not..." she corrected, "I can't tell anymore..." she said with a shake of her head.
"This is the problem you wanted to talk to Princess Twilight about, right?" Starlight inquired, "Because you can still talk it over with me if you want," she suggested as pulled out her journal and pen, "Or you could just journal with Princess Twilight about it..." she concurred, "Whatever works." she recommended before licking her ice cream again.
"It's just..." Sunset spoke putting the book away, "I know my friends and I have been given special powers for a reason and I want to be ready for whatever is gonna be thrown at us, I guess knowing that is making me feel like I could never really relax and let my guard down, so I end up obsessing about it and can't get out of my own head." she explained with a depressed look.
"Hmm..." Starlight hummed, "That is a toughie..." she pointed out, "Guess my advice would be to just trust things will work themselves out in the end, if you spend too much time worrying about the bad things that might happen..." she was saying when another scoop drops down the floor, "... you'll miss out on all the good things that are happening." she finished explained before realizing that her ice cream became small.
Sunset smiled, "Like how Princess Twilight's student is teaching me a lesson right now." she pointed out.
Sunset chuckled before grabbing Starlight's ice cream cone before pulling her over and walking off, "Come on." she beckoned, "Let's go take a look around the theater." she suggested as Starlight smiled, "I'm sure they're fine." she reassured.
As the two kept walking forward when they came across Marcus "The Kane" McGee with a yellow pastel-crayon in his mouth. "Hey, Bacon Hair.'' he greeted with a blank look before taking notice of Starlight, "Who's the weirdork?'' he asked.
Sunset rolled her eyes, somewhat used to Marcus' off-handed personality, "Says the weirdork with the crayon in his mouth.'' she retorted, "What's up with that anyway?'' she asked.
"I was craving for a smoke but this mall doesn't allow smoking, so I had this crayon in my mouth as a substitute." Marcus replied.
"Right..." Sunset said in bewilderment, "Anyway... this is Starlight Glimmer, she is new here." she introduced her companion.
"Hi..." Starlight greeted nervously thanks to Marcus' rather imposing physique.
"Marcus "The Kane" McGee." Marcus introduced himself back.
"By the way... I thought you were working with something?'' Sunset pointed out.
"I still am." Marcus replied before smiling, "But at the same time... I am slacking off." he admitted.
Sunset rolled her eyes, "Figures..." she muttered, "Anyway... Starlight and I are heading towards the movie theater to meet up with the girls.'' she said, "And since you're just slacking off... wanna come along?'' she offered.
Marcus nodded, "Sure.'' he accepted, "I was about to meet Eddy and the others at the movie theater to watch some sort of x-rated movie.'' he stated before walking off.
"He seems... nice." Starlight commented.
"Yeah... nice." Sunset muttered, "Once he's asleep." she added.
Meanwhile, we see the Rainbooms alongside Eddy, Jake, Rex and Duncan in a white void, looking around in confusion.
"Uh... any clue yet where we are or what just happened?" Rarity asked while glancing around in concern, "Anyone?" she added.
"How should we know?" Jake replied, "It's not everyday that we get sucked inside a mirror?!" he exclaimed in annoyance.
Pinkie then appears on-screen, "Pinkie Pie's on the case!" she exclaimed before grabbing at the fourth wall, tilting it from side to side, "Nope, no wall over here." the she concluded before setting back the position, "Come out, come out, walls, wherever you are!" she beckoned before jogging away off-screen, "I don't get this place!" she cried out as she suddenly passed by the group from a different direction, "There's no walls in here anywhere!" she exclaimed upon her return.
Then a large glowing, mirror-shaped rift appears before them as Applejack spoke, "Somehow, some way... that dang Juniper sucked us all inside of that mirror of hers." she concurred.
"Or into some kind of limbo behind it." Twilight suggested while adjusting her glasses.
"I think I might be freaking out a little bit..." Fluttershy confessed.
Rainbow raised an eyebrow, "You call that a freakout?" she asked indecorously.
"It's sort of a deep-down-inside freakout." Fluttershy replied while stroking her hair nervously.
Jake then spoke, "You're lucky that you're only having a that kind of freakout compare to that guy over there!" he exclaimed while pointing a finger towards Eddy.
Eddy is currently sporting a mentally unstable grin, "Dahahahaha! The void of reflections has rendered me OBSOLETE!" he exclaimed, "DELETE! DELETE! DELETE! DELETE! DELETE!" he chanted over and over again like a mad man recently escaped from a mental institution.
Duncan turns to everyone with a panicked look, "We got to get out of here or we're next to loose our minds!" he exclaimed.
Suddenly, they heard a crunch making Fluttershy yelped as everyone turns to Pinkie with popcorn scattered around her feet, "On the upside, there's popcorn in here!" she chimed in before tossing some popcorns into her mouth, "Mmm, sticky..." she uttered in delight.
"Gross, Pinkie." Rex admonished.
"How could this happen on the evening of my very first movie premiere?" Rarity complained, "Of all the nights!" she cried out, "Curse you, cruel fate!" she exclaimed in frustration.
"Not our number-one problem right now, Rarity." Rainbow pointed out.
"Mmm, true." Rarity replied, "But perhaps we can agree it's in the top five." she stated.
"Is there really no way out of here?" Applejack asked in desperation.
Suddenly, the rift starts to rain down with small brown-colored objects, hitting them on the process while yelping at the same time.
"Ow! Ow! Ow!" Jake yelped in pain.
"Oh, my heavens!" Rarity cried before creating a diamond-like shield to protect herself, "What's that?" she asked.
Rainbow then uses her super speed to block the projectiles before grabbing one, "Chocolate-covered almonds?" she said in confusion.
As this is going on, Twilight finally took hold of her pendant and sticks her hand out with a bright pink glow, stopping the projectiles by levitating them.
"Dibs!" Pinkie cheered before eating the treat like Pac-man.
"We've found Mister and Miss Pacman's illegitimate daughter." Rex commented with a blank look.
Meanwhile back in the real world, we see Juniper was cleaning up a spilled box of the treats by using her mirror's power. Then Sunset, Starlight and Marcus enters the theater, the bacon-haired girl then gasped upon taking notice of Juniper, she quickly grabs Starlight's hand and pulls her behind a claw machine while Marcus stood out in the open which prompt Sunset to run back out, grabbing Marcus and pulling him as well behind the machine.
Sunset then pokes her head, "It's Juniper Montage!" she noted.
"No!" Starlight gasped in surprise, "Who's that?" she asked with a sheepish smile.
"Someone you had bad blood with?'' Marcus asked with a lazy look.
"She's trouble." Sunset replied.
"Who isn't." Marcus commented.
Sunset ignored his comment before noticing the butterfly-shaped object on Juniper's outfit, "That's Fluttershy's barrette." she examined, "Wait here for me." she advised before handing her satchel to Starlight as she got up and made her way to the counter.
Juniper is looking at the mirror when she noticed Sunset walking towards her, "Sunset Shimmer." she greeted with a small smile, "I was wondering if you'd show up." she mused.
"I'm, uh, looking for my friends." Sunset answered while leaning against the table, "I don't suppose you've seen them..." she asked while grasping her pendant as Juniper giggled mischievously, Sunset glares at her, "Where are they?" she asked demanded.
"I'll never tell." Juniper replied with a grin.
"You don't have to." Sunset said before grabbing Juniper's arm with her left hand as her eyes to shine a bright white as she peered into the girl's memories. Here, she saw memories of Juniper getting the job as usher thanks to Canter Zoom and the part where she sucks the Rainbooms, Eddy, Duncan, Jake and Rex into the mirror. After that, Sunset relinquish her arm, "I know you want people to like you..." she said at Juniper with an angry look, "But trust me... the magic in that mirror is only gonna make things worse for you." she explained.
"You're just saying that because you want the mirror for yourself." Juniper retorted.
"What I want is my friends back." Sunset declared, "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.
"Or maybe..." Juniper uttered in reply before pointing the mirror at Sunset with her eyes glowing green, "I wish you'd join them!" she declared as a powerful force pulls Sunset into the mirror, much to Juniper's satisfaction.
Upon witnessing Sunset disappear, Starlight gasped in horror, "Sunset!" she yelped when suddenly Marcus put his hand over her mouth, pulling her away just before Juniper could spot them, looking around the empty theater, Juniper decided to walk off.
Starlight had a frighten look on her face when Marcus spoke, "Well... shit.'' he uttered in annoyance while holding Starlight rather protectively.
A/N: Inspired from someonestupED, damnlastwords, Hope the Victor and Ace Neptune. All OCs and concepts not created by moi were given permission for me to use by it's respected creators.