"Shining?! Where's the baby?! Do you have the baby?!" Cadence screams.
"No, do you???" responds Shining.
"No," responds Cadence. The two then run into the throne room and see Sombra dangling her by her hooves with his magic.
"Don't come near!" hisses the King. "Or the baby gets it!"
"Mama!" cries Flurry Heart.
The conversation, this moment, continues to play over in Cadance's head as she lets out a sigh. "Hey Shining, do you think she's safe now that she's out of the empire?"
"I don't know, but she's probably definitely happier," responds Shining as he comes over and embraces the crying mare in his hooves.
"Do you think she forgot about us?" responds Cadance. The two then hear a knock on their door and open it to find Twilight Sparkle at their door.
"Flurry would never forget about her parents, big brother, Cadance," responds Twilight trying to reassure the pair.
"Twily! Why are you here?" inquires Shining.
"It's our annual sibling lunch date, don't you remember?" responds Twilight.
"Oh, right, that," responds Shining. "See you in a bit hun!" he kisses Cadance then heads off to lunch with Twilight in the crystal village.
As they are enjoying their lunch, Twilight notices her brother is bummed out a bit. "What's wrong big brother?" she inquires.
"We, we miss our Flurry Heart. We know sending her away was the best and safest thing to do, but the pain of not having her around hurts, especially for Cadance. She woke up in tears again this morning, from the nightmares of what happened at Sombra's return."
"Yikes, that's really yikes," responds Twilight. "But I got a note from the family that took her in this morning, she's doing fine. The mare says that she misses you and Cady so much."
Elsewhere in Equestria, in a small nowhere town called Saddle Ridge, a now five year old Flurry Heart happily helps her princess protection program assigned family tidy up their house and plant their garden. "Mist Garden?" asks Flurry Heart. "Do you think mom and dad forgot about me or do you think they miss me?"
"Hmm?" responds Mist. "They miss you very much, Heart Song."
"Why don't you just call me Flurry?" asks the filly. "That's my name."
"I know, but using a pseudonym or false name is better for your protection, princess."
"Okay, good to know," responds Flurry Heart. The young princess then flies back inside and up to her room.
After awhile, she is called down by Mist and Mist's husband, Charcoal Ink down to dinner. At dinner, the princess looks glumly as she picks out her food with her fork.
"She misses her real parents," sighs Mist. "And nothing I've done to get her mind off it or make her happy has worked."
"Let her write them then," responds Charcoal. "It'll help."
"Okay," sighs Mist. After dinner, she and Flurry sit down and write a letter that they then have the mailmares fly to the Crystal Empire. A few days later, the letter arrives and Shining and Cadance read it.
"Dear mom and daddy, this is Flurry. I just wanted to let you know I miss you and am homesick. Mist and Charcoal are nice and all, but they're not you. They'll never replace you. Flurry Heart." Cadance's eyes well up in tears and she begins to cry. Shining gives her a hug.
"What did I tell you? She'd never forget about us."
"Yeah," responds Cadance, "I still miss our baby girl though." She leaves her husband and goes inside and continues to cry. As Shining tries to run after her, he hears a roar and a thunder.
"It, it can't be," cries Shining in shock. "Sombra's back." He runs off to tell Cadance and they immediately shoot a magic forcefield into the sky around the empire. Everypony then goes into the house, slams the door, closes the windows, and hide.
"How? How is he back?!" panics Cadance in a frenzy.
"I...I don't know," responds Shining. "I thought he was destroyed by Twily, her friends, and the elements."
"So...so did I," cries Cadance as her ears pin down to her head in fear.
"Where is the infant princess?" hisses the smoke cloud. "Where is she?!"
"She, she's not here," responds Shining as Cadance continues to shake in fear behind him. "And you'll never find her!"
"Really?" responds Sombra. "My crystal gremlins are already looking over every part of Equestria for her. She's more than a princess you know, you fools? She's the savior set to destroy me, but we'll see about that." He then dissolves back into smoke and vanishes.
"Flurry? Savior? No way?" says Shining in disbelief.
"I'm, I'm not surprised actually," responds Cadance. "I was the quote on quote savior after Amore's passing. Kind of runs in my blood and I guess it also does in our daughter's."
"You have a lot to explain to me then," responds Shining. "Now."
"Fine," says Cadance. "I'll tell you immediately once we get inside."
Once inside and locked into the throne room, Cadance goes on and explains everything to Shining. "Do you know how I was adopted by Celestia not long after Luna's banishment?"
"Yes," responds Shining. "And about how she turned you into an alicorn. What does that have to do with anything?"
"Well, mom was a unicorn princess too, Amore's little sister. Her name was Cora. She told me before she abandoned me that someday I would be princess. She also told me I would someday be the savior of the empire her sister ruled. Now, that same thing is happening to our daughter. Now do you understand?"
"Yes," responds Shining. "Our daughter is truly not safe anywhere we send her. Good to know."
"Come on, Shining, don't be like that," responds Cadance with an angry snort. "It's not my fault our daughter's fate just happens to be being a savior like mine was all those years ago. She must return when she comes of age to save the Crystal Empire."
Meanwhile, the crystal gremlins come across Saddle Ridge and Mist and Charcoal's house. There, they turn to dust and enter the house where they soon find the young Flurry Heart. "Princess..." they whisper. "Princess... Princess..."
"What? Who's there? Who's calling my name?" cries Flurry Heart.
"We're the children of Sombra," responds the dust as it flies into the room and turns into two shadow forms in the shape of mares. "Our names are Wrath and Pestilence. We're the daughters of Sombra. His top gremlins."
"And what does your master want with me?" inquires the five year old princess.
"To let you know he's spying on you, savior, always spying on you. He'll destroy you someday. Give it a few years." The two shadows then disappear back into dust and fly away.
"Well, that was weird," responds Flurry. "But is what they say true? Am I really a savior?" She then hollers for Mist and Mist comes running.
"What?!" asks Mist.
"Is there something you and Charcoal aren't telling me?" demands Flurry.
"Yes," sighs Mist. "We didn't want to tell you until you were older. You're not only a princess but the Savior of the Crystal Empire. It's in your blood Flurry. When your mom had you, that destiny, that fate she was born with, passed on to you. Your mom did her duty as the previous Savior of the Crystal Empire and now it's your turn."
"How?! How could you not tell me this?!" demands a now angry Flurry Heart.
"It was for your own protection," responds Charcoal. "Mist and I were just hiding the truth from you like we were told by your mother to protect you. You have five more years until Sombra's full return. Then, then you'll have to return and protect the empire. Only then, not now. Then."
"Okay," sighs the Princess. "I'm still angry about this. Don't think I'm not." She then commands them to leave before turning over on her bed and looking at a picture of her with her parents and her auntie. "Oh mom, dad, Auntie Twi, I miss you guys so much." She lets out a sigh. "I just wish I had known I was the Savior of the Crystal Empire before now."