Frankie: W-Well it's just- I mean-

Frankie was stuttering on the words, she was blushing hard.

Shady: What? Is something wrong, because if there is, I can help you, just tell me what the pro-

Frankie: No, it's not that.

Shady: Then what is it?

Frankie: There's something I need to tell you about how I feel Shady. When I first saw you when I crashed into you, I could already tell, Shady, whenever I'm around you I-

Shady: I love you too.

Frankie was caught off guard, she wasn't expecting him to cut her off with that.

Frankie: You- You love me?

Shady nodded, blushing. Frankie hugged him, tears of joy in her eyes. Shady smiled and rolled his eyes.

Shady (In his mind): Geez. if this was any more cliche I would call him out... oh wait.

I hate you sometimes, you know that? I know, I just did a cliche or two, but that doesn't mean you have to call me out.

Shady: Well maybe next time don't do a cliche, anyways, we'll finish this up later, back to the story.

Fine, where were we?

Shady: Frankie just hugged me.

Ah yes! Shady smiled, he was relieved, he wasn't sure if he should tell her how he felt, but now that he had, he knew it was the right call.

Shady: We should be going, it's late... even though where we are there is no time where we are, it's late in our universe, let's go.

Shady teleported them back, they saw everypony was asleep, Shady smiled he signaled for Frankie to be quiet, gave her a quick kiss on the cheek, Frankie went to her bed and slept, he stayed awake, both of them were blushing. Meanwhile 'The Beast' was still trying to get them to turn on Shady with dreams.

(Lucky's dream)

Lucky was traveling with her friends, until they heard of this story.

Lucky: Where are we going again?

MP: There's a pony in the woods, I heard he's some kinda killer, we need to stop him if he's real.

Music: Sounds interesting, let's go.

???: I'm coming too.

Music: Who are you?

Stranger: Just call me Stranger, the pony in the woods killed my brother, I want payback.

They enter the woods, the first thing that happens is Shady is there, looking at them with soulless eyes.

Shady: (๏ ͜ʖ๏) 

They try to use magic, but see that there is some kinda barrier that prevents them from using magic but he can.

He teleported behind them, without magic, they didn't have any weapons, except Stranger, he pulled out a shot gun and BANG! A shot rang out, he was knocked down, he blocked the exit with his shadows, they ran into the woods, they found clones of Shady, Stranger pulled out a sword and started slicing them up. Eventually, they found a river, in the river was Shark Pony, he explained that he was stuck because Shady blocked off the exit to the river, and he can't get out.

Stranger: We have to help him, we'll break down the barrier, and then he'll be free, then we can-

Stranger was cut off by an arrow in his head.

Stranger: ⤜(ʘ_ʘ)⤏

Lucky and the others tried to help him, but he didn't make it, his last words were,

Stranger: Please, free Sharky, and then escape, you don't need to kill him, I don't want you all to die too, once you've freed him, just run.

Shady: I'M GONNA GIVE YOU 15 SECONDS TO RUN! EITHER RUN, OR DIE! WHAT ARE YOU BUCKING DEAF? RUN FORREST, RUN!

They all ran different ways, Shady followed Lucky, she was at a dead end. She grabbed a stick.

Lucky: STAY BACK!

Shady: ಠ_ಠ ... Dude, really?

Lucky saw Music and MP behind him, Music had the sword he was about to strike when two clones grabbed them and put knives at their throats.

Shady: Alright, I'm gonna be nice, I'll let one live, so... who do you want to die?

Lucky: Let them live, take me.

Shady pointed a shadow pistol to her head, and then BANG!

Lucky woke up

Lucky: Oh, it's just a dream, was Luna not working today or something?

Shady: My dad used magic to make her think that you were in a nice dream, as you can see, it worked.

Lucky: You're still awake?

Shady: Couldn't sleep.

Lucky: So, I'm assuming it was 'The Beast?'

Shady: Yep, I never asked before, but what was the dream about?

Lucky: You were a killer in the woods.

Shady: (ʘ_ʘ) That wasn't a dream, it was a different universe.

Lucky: What?

Shady: Look, that's a different version of me, not me, I'm not like that.

Lucky: Ok, I believe you, don't worry.

Shady: He's probably doing it to other ponies too, wanna watch?

Lucky: Shouldn't we stop him?

Shady: I know he's being evil and all that, but can't we have a bit of fun? Besides, if he is showing them different universes in their dreams, then we could see we we're like in AUs.

Lucky: Fine.

Shady and Lucky went inside Music's dream, they saw him and his friends except Shark Pony, with Shady, Shady was tapping rhythmically four times. 

Shady: Can't you hear the tapping? Always just onetwothreefour onetwothreefour.

Music: You're crazy, you know that?

Shady: Craziness is good, it makes the world go 'round.

Music: Well we're not here to talk about craziness, we're here to talk abou-

Shady: One second.

Shady put on a gas mask.

Music: Um... Shady, what is-

Shady: Mit's ma mas gask

Music: What?

Shady: *takes off the Gas mask* It's a gas mask. *Puts it back on*

Music: I know, but for what?

Shady: Mis.

Suddenly, poisonous gas filled the air, Shady was killing them.

Lucky: *Cough cough* Poisonous gas

Music: YOU'RE INSANE!

Shady was nodding his head.

Shady: MES, MES I AM!

They all fell to the ground, dead. Shady was still tapping four times.

Shady teleported them out.

Shady: Strange thing is, in that universe, that didn't happen, I know because I've seen it.

Lucky: So he's using 'what if' scenarios to try to get us to turn on you.

Music: Clever.

Shady and Lucky looked at Music.

Shady: I see you're awake.

Music: I just died in my dream, of course I'm awake.

Shady: While I would love to look into different universes some more, I think we should go to sleep.

(The next day)

Shady: Well let's see, there is only two chapters left including this one, so the ones who didn't train yesterday, come with me.

He teleported them all to the dome

Shady: Alright time for more training.

2 MORE CHAPTERS LEFT UNTIL THE BEAST ARRIVES AT EQUESTRIA

Coming up next time: 

"Where did Shady go?"

"'The Beast' is almost here!"

"What if we don't win?"

"We will win, no matter what."

A/N: Ok, before I talk about the chapter, I have to tell you about this, I made a petition recently asking Hasbro to take down Jananimations Studio's C&D. While I know that it might not do anything, I think it's worth a shot, so if you want to bring back Button Mash, Ask the Crusaders, and more, click the link and sign.

https://www.change.org/p/hasbro-take-down-jananimations-ceast-desist

Ok, now onto the chapter stuff. First of all, it fhappened, Frankie told Shady how she felt. Second, of all, the whole tapping thing, and the whole gas mask scene were both from two episodes with my favorite villain in two different forms, 'The Master' from one of my favorite TV shows, Dr. Who. Anyways, that's gonna do it for this chapter if you liked it and want more s-s-samurai slice that follow button and until next time.