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Ever since the reveal of Alicorn's backstory being the real thing and not made up like all the other superhero backstories, the headlines have been nothing but events happening in Equestria. Alicorn now the princess of her kingdom with her aunt and cousin aiding her, opening up trade deals with the different governments all eager to get their hands on magic. The magic gemstones that grow on their own and could be farmed are being shipped to different research centers where the gems and other magic items are being studied.

The ponies retaining their pony forms using the Earth made portal unlike the mirror portal, have been showing up here and there. After some testing the pegasus ponies aren't able to control the weather like they do back home, with them unable to walk on the clouds like they do back home, which Alicorn tried to do when she transformed into a human alicorn. The unicorns can cast spells but it's much harder for them to do so. The earth ponies are able to help grow plants but not at the supernatural rate back in their magical world.

The magic potions that the ponies make and the ones the zebras are big trade items, thanks to how simple they are to use. The potions are still being tested before they could be sold in the human world but there are plenty of tourists who come over to take a potion in Equestria, after signing the legal forms. Magical cures, weight loss, and improving bodies are just the tip of what the magical world has to offer.

"According to this with how magic crystals are a new source of energy that is renewable," Hughie said reading the news online. He and Butcher are the only ones in the office with Terror sleeping on his bed.

He and the other members of The Boys have been keeping up with the news of the going ons with Equestria and their new ruler Sunset Shimmer known here as the superhero Alicorn. Who has shown she knows how to deal with the world of politics and people in power. Everyone wants what she has and she's the only one who controls the gateway to her magical world.

"Interesting," Butcher said reading up on old reports on Alicorn. With how everything she said about herself being a magical princess from another world that has magical talking ponies and other creatures of myth and legends is true, has caused them to look back on old reports to see what else is true about her.

The director of the CIA, Susan L. Rayner has her hands tied with dealing with Alicorn. With Alicorn actually being a real superhero who actually went around helping where she could and saving one of the planes on 9/11, makes her all but untouchable. And with her being a ruler of her own kingdom now and her controlling the portal to the magic world, people are doing their best not to get on her bad side. Which is why she wants all the old reports on her reviewed, seeing how she's the real deal also means that some of her comic adventures are actually true as well.

A phone call came and Butcher put it on speaker, seeing its from Mother's Milk.

"Found anything?" Butcher ask.

"There was a Megan Williams and from what I found out, she and her siblings did say they went to a magical world with talking ponies during the 60's. Talk with her brother and sister about it and it all fits, with them remembering her being buried with the locket with the Rainbow of Light in it. And if the story Alicorn told about the demon goat is real, she dug up the grave to get the locket," Mother's Milk said.

"Knowing the comic writers of Victory, they added and change a few things to make the story more interesting," Butcher said.

"I would think that she kept the Time Twirler and Memory Stone, instead of destroying them," Hughie said.

He had read and watch the adventures of Alicorn look to see what's real and what the comic writers made up. The only ones that would be based on real events would be the ones under the Equestrian brand, but the books are ghost written by others with Alicorn giving the main plot and key points in what happen, with the writer filling up the blanks and changing a few things. (1)

Hughie heard that people who try to change something big or add things that make no sense are quickly drop from the project. Alicorn is also known for pulling out completely and shutting down projects when scenes are cut from films because of a producer cut it from the film. Like the live action film produced by Lenny Turteltaub who took the tone of a hard hitting film of how life isn't easy and even with powers, into a less serious film. Alicorn just walk off and made her own film using her own money, which was released on the same day as the one she walked off on and was a big hit.

After that Turteltaub couldn't get any big projects done anymore after Alicorn talk about what he's like and how he kept changing the tone of the film in an interview. Alicorn also in said interview that she won't do any more live action films or allow them to happen with her Equestrian brand and go with animation instead. No more delays on set or having to work with people who are just hard to work with, as the only actors are voice actors. That resulted in a big boom in animation.

"A magic item that allows someone to replay the same day over and over again would be useful," Butcher said.

"There is a spell that allows someone to travel back in time but it only last a few seconds before the user goes back to their time. It's a one time thing that can't be used by the same person twice. And according to Alicorn that spell doesn't change your past as it just makes a new timeline where the users ends up in," Hughie said.

"Time travel is just too much trouble," Butcher said his head hurting already.

"It's a reason why she went and outlawed time travel. Even Discord knows better to mess with time travel, or he would had done it centuries ago," Hughie said.

"Speaking of which how long are we be looking into Alicorn's past adventures?" Mother's Milk ask.

"We need to see which of them are real and which of them have magical items still around," Butcher said.

"Not to mention the villains, I still can't believe that goat demon Gorgar or however you say his name was real. Both of Williams brother and sister and their families confirm that they were all taken prisoner by that goat. Which is why Alicorn dug up their sister's grave to use the rainbow on the goat and their sister's ghost did appear. The film and story doesn't show everything that happen and change a lot of things but the main plot is what happen," Mother's Milk said.

"Don't forget Squirk and Crank who somehow found themselves on Earth and were frozen by Alicorn," Hughie said.

"Both of them are now kept in a aquarium in death valley so that even if they do escape, they're in the middle of a desert and would die if they did," Butcher said having seen the octopus-like monster and giant lobster who despite being a crustacean, he sports an impressive mustache and set of eyebrows.

"Erebus the cloud demon that feeds on shadows, Lavan the ruler of the lava demons, Somnambula the old sorceress who drains the life-force of living beings through their dreams to retain her youth and power. All are now either in a research lab or kept somewhere safe," Butcher said. "And those are the ones we know about are real, The Flories according to the book were killed off after Dragonfire burn them to ash."

"Which means N could be real as well," Hughie pointed out thinking about the non Equestrian villains who traveled to Earth either by the rainbow bridge when it was still around or something else.

"At this point, I wouldn't be that surprised," Mother's Milk said as what he and the others had thought to be nothing but staged fights were the real deal.

"Finding magic items and creatures are now part of the job," Butcher said seeing how Alicorn was a superhero its part of their job to handle her past adventures.

While Robert "Dakota Bob" Shaefer does have a good relationship with Alicorn with her saying he gets the job done, the government like all the other governments are now in a race to get their hands on magic. Which is why The Boys are reviewing all of Alicorn's old adventures. Many of the adventures Alicorn had in her stories and films, dealt with magical villains and groups who had hidden themselves away, running crime rings or cults like the one Somnambula was controlling before Alicorn took her down. The risk of someone getting their hands on a magical item and using it for crime or a villain using magic, has become all too real.

Butcher knows that Alicorn gave the Superdupers magic items to enchance or give them better control of their powers, thanks to the bugs they had planted at the estate. Which they had to removed after it was made into the Equestrian embassy. Alicorn still owns her estate but has signed over control to her right hand woman Becky Rockler, who runs her businesses and the Equestria brand on Earth. With Alicorn now a leader of her own country, she's too busy dealing with politicians and having talks with world leaders to go around being a superhero anymore. She did say that when there's a big threat she will help unlike her mother.

"Well it be hard to find seeing how Alicorn has probably found the easy to find ones already. Or the Dazzlings have collected over the years," Mother's Milk said.

"True," Butcher said remembering the Dazzling who like dragons in stories have hordes of treasure they had collected over the centuries. Making them very rich and they also would had centuries to collect any magical object they learn about. Which they said in an interview that with the witch hunts and how dumb people are in blindly following anyone holding a holy book, the art of human magic is now a lost art. (2)

"Well there are the magic books that Alicorn says is how to learn magic but it's for Equestrian magic with beings who already can use magic," Hughie said.

"And it's all high level mathematics just to be able to do it," Mother's Milk said.

"Best thing would be learning how to make potions and using magic items," Hughie said.

"Wouldn't mind a magic wand," Butcher said.

"Yeah," Mother's Milk said thinking about when he asked about a potion or spell to make his daughter Janine, her real age of 12 and not as a young adult. But was told that because of her power, even if she did had a spell used on her, it's more than likely she would still have the accelerated aging. And that spells use to make one younger work by returning a body to how it was when it was younger, and seeing how Janine is 12 but has the body of a adult, making her 12 would just make her look as she is now. "I call later."

Mother's Milk hanged up and thought about the other way to make Janine into a normal 12 year old.

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Vought-America HQ -

In his office Stillwell was busy looking over the business reports of the new revenue coming in from marketing products from Equestria. With her business ties with the company already established, she used the company resources and connections to market the products from Equestria, lobbying, greasing hands to get into the Earth market. Not that it's that hard as magic potions are in high demand, but the food and drugs agency are still testing them. Which Alicorn is all for as she points out that potions do have different effects on different races and like medicine and drugs of Earth.

Like with the Equestrian brand Alicorn is keeping a tight lease on what magic produces are coming through the portal in Lost Springs, Wyoming. The portal machine is now in a large building overseen by government agents, who oversee what comes and goes out of the portal. With the portal being the only link to this world, it's heavily guarded on both sides. Alicorn made it clear that she can close the portal anytime she wants in her side and the statue is the link to Earth. She wants to improve her world's standard of life but she's not going to let humans just do what they want.

Alicorn also privately told him that any produce that the company deals with, if they do any bad testing or cutting corners she will just cut them off. She doesn't want Equestria products have a bad name because of a company doing something to mess with them. She doesn't care if they buy raw materials and make their own, but any of her country's products aren't to be messed with.

Stillwell already has the department that makes the v compound to look into mass production of potions. Alicorn did managed to use ingredients from Earth but magic potions did need a bit of magic know how to make them work. He either had to wait for one of the people who study magic in Equestria to come back or hire a magic user from Equestria. Which comes with its own headaches, seeing how what works with humans doesn't with the Equestrian races. And they're more likely to talk about what happens at the company and making them disappear would cause Alicorn to cut ties.

"You made things much more problematic," Stillwell said looking at the latest news report on Alicorn.

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Author's Notes -

1 - Stories that are base on real events do have some edits to make it more readable or flow better. Not to mention changing names and people in the story.

2 - If there is magic in real life, I would think it's a lost art thanks to people seeing magic will claim it's the work of the devil.

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