A/N: Hey, guys! Sorry it's been awhile since I uploaded a chapter, but work has been crazy for the past couple of days. Thanks for being patient, and I hope y'all are enjoying this story! Without further ado, let's dive back into Sunlight's adventure.

Sunlight looked at her formerly deceased sister in a complete rage. Her bloodshot eyes narrowed and she gritted her teeth in anger. "Let…her…go," she said. Her tone was not her own anymore. The animosity between herself and Midnight had grown to such a point that it had caused her internal pendulum to fall completely off of its supports. It came crashing down upon her heart, nearly crushing it. The sight of her beloved cousin trapped in a cage caused an avalanche of heartbreak and fury to run rampant throughout her small body.

Midnight looked at her and laughed. "Why should I?! I now have your friends and all your family in my grasp! Look! I have Celestia, Luna, Twilight, Flash, Starlight, and now Flurry! I have every single royal pony in Equestria…except for you."

"But, that's not Flurry," Sunlight said, continuing to play up Flurry's disguise, "that's Mommy's human friend, Sunset Shimmer!"

"Sunset Shimmer? Oh, please! We saw right through Flurry's disguise, Sunlight! We're not brain dead," Midnight said, and then added under her breath, "even though so many villains are these days."

"But…how?"

"How?! Do you really think that our mother's human friend would make a special trip to Equestria just to try and seduce my husband?!"

Sunlight cursed herself silently. She had forgotten all about the fact that Sunset would never make that kind of trip. In fact, Sunset probably had no idea about who Midnight was or the danger Equestria faced. She would be nestled back in the human world, comfortably doing whatever it was that humans did. She didn't have to worry about her safety. Sunlight did, and in doing so, she had put the worst disguise ever on Flurry Heart. She should have just created a completely fictitious mare and disguised Flurry as that.

But she knew that she had to keep going. So, she gritted her teeth once again and stood her ground, refusing to give in to Midnight and her cackling. "I'm not scared of you," she squeaked defiantly, "and I will rescue my friends and family!"

"Oh, you will, will you? Well, let me tell you something, Sunlight Dawn. I know I am not the thing you fear the most. But, considering the fact that I hold Equestrian fright in my very hooves, I do know the thing you fear the most. But first, let me finish with our family."

She walked over to Starlight, who was still entranced by her worst fear. "Aunt Starlight…poor, pitiful Aunt Starlight. The newest princess of Equestria, and a former evil dictator. She's always held reservations about her position in Mother's school and in the country. She's always been scared that, one day, her former self will surface yet again and come to do battle with cutie marks. She's always thrown herself full tilt into friendship so as to combat those inner machinations."

Midnight smiled wickedly as Sunlight realized that her aunt was seeing a continuous loop of her old village. What was happening in there, she couldn't say, but she knew it was far from the happy reunion that her aunt had with the ponies there every time she returned. The vision Starlight was being forced to watch must have been absolutely terrible.

"What is she seeing, Midnight?"

"Oh, nothing much…just the destruction of her entire life at the hooves of somepony who knows her very well…her own self. She's watching her old self burning the School of Friendship to the ground, wreaking havoc on your castle, and commanding armies of cutie mark-less ponies to spill rivers of blood from their own kind. Oh, it's so beautiful."

Sunlight swore she saw Midnight wipe a tear from her eye. How cruel and mean a pony Midnight was! How utterly evil and viciously sadistic to cry at a vision where ponies everywhere are dying in their thousands! But…why am I surprised? Sunlight asked herself, I mean, this is Midnight we're talking about. She is the most evil force Equestria has ever faced. She remembered reading in some of the human literature that Twilight returned with about someone called "the devil." She figured that Midnight was the pony version of that creature.

"NOW!" Midnight suddenly screamed, yanking Sunlight out of her reverie, "FOR FLURRY'S WORST FEAR!"

Flurry, who to this point had been silent, suddenly began beating on the door of her cage. "LET ME OUT OF HERE, YOU BUCKING WITCH!" She cursed. Sunlight was a little shocked at the harshness of Flurry's language, but she figured that the situation pressed her into it.

Midnight sneered at Flurry. "Oh, precious little Flurry Heart. The cousin who always got all the attention at those worthless and noxious parties we used to attend together. 'Oh, look at little Flurry Heart! Isn't she cute?!' Nopony noticed me all night!"

"So that's why you hate me?!" Flurry challenged, "because of some stupid party?! Come on, Midnight! I didn't know you could be so petty!"

"Petty? Oh, I'm not being petty. I hate you for the exact same reason I hate Equestria…the so called magic of friendship." This declaration extracted a gasp from Sunlight before the evil one continued. "It's not magic, it's garbage. Did any of my mother's friends care about me? Not a one! Would any of them come to my aid when my parents were treating me so unfairly? No! They say loyalty is an Element of Harmony, well I call bull on that! BUCK THE ELEMENTS OF HARMONY!"

Sunlight nearly attacked Midnight. How dare she speak that way about the Elements of Harmony?! They were what controlled Equestria, they were what brought the wonder and magic of friendship to the land. Without them, Equestria would be a friendless, desolate wasteland. In other words, without them, the country would be exactly what Midnight envisioned it being.

But Sunlight stood her ground. She knew that now was not the right time to go on the offensive. Midnight looked at her and smiled viciously. She slowly walked over and put a sarcastic hoof on her sister's shoulder. "If you know what's good for you, you'll remove that hoof at once," Sunlight growled.

"Oh, little Sunlight. I haven't told you what Flurry's worst fear is…"

Suddenly, Midnight shot a blast into Flurry's heart. "NO!" Sunlight shrieked as her cousin convulsed on the floor on the cage. Blood spurted from her mouth and she screamed horribly. Sunlight couldn't believe it. Her best friend was dying in front of her! But then, suddenly, Flurry sat right up. Her Sunset disguise was destroyed and her eyes glowed the same awful green as everypony else.

"I wouldn't kill her right now," Midnight said as she cackled again, "that would be too easy! No, I wanna have some fun. I wanna torture both her and you. She's seeing her worst fear, the fear of losing the love of her parents!"

Sunlight realized that Flurry's recent punishment contributed to that fear. Even though it was completely groundless and totally wrong, Flurry was scared to death that her parents would turn their backs on her. Sunlight knew it was up to her to make her cousin see that her parents would never betray her. They would always love her, even though they had to punish her sometimes. I guess my little talk on the train with her didn't do any good, she thought sadly.

Midnight laughed so evilly, Sunlight swore that all of Tartarus was bursting forth from her tiny lungs. "Oh, this is too much! Just seeing you distraught for that cousin of ours makes me happy!"

"Midnight, you really are the worst thing to ever happen to Equestria. I am completely sickened by what I'm witnessing here this day. But I swear to Celestia, I am going to defeat you! I will restore Equestria to its former glory and friendliness! Celestia and Luna will be reinstalled as the rulers of this land! I swear it! Your malodorous malevolence will be driven from this land, forever and ever!"

"You'll have to kill me to beat me! I'm not going anywhere!"

"Then so be it!"

Sunlight prepared to lunge on her sister and fight her to the death, but Midnight beat her to the punch. She shot a blast around her that caused her to be trapped inside a small magic bubble. "Oh, little Sunlight," Midnight said mockingly, "I haven't gotten to your worst fear. The fear of complete and eternal separation from Flurry Heart. You two have a special connection, one that runs deeper than any friendship in the history of Equestria. But if that connection is severed, then you aren't nearly as powerful. Now…watch as I sever that connection!"

She turned and prepared to fire a lethal blast into Flurry Heart, but Sunlight managed to work up a spell of her own and broke free from her small prison. She threw herself on Midnight and began one of the greatest battles in the history of Equestria. A battle to save the land, and a battle to save the very future of friendship.