Tribal disputes

by Cadances Paladin

Rating: everyone
Tags: Adventure
Length: 9069

Twilight's friends have gone missing!

When Twilight Sparkle's friends go missing, it's up to her and a new friend her mentor made(literally) to find them and bring them home.

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2013-09-01 12:48:26 UTC

Where is everypony!?

The day was soon coming to a close, as the sun had begun setting, and the moon had begun it's rise, and Twilight's friends were off from their party at Twilight's house. As they each left, they began to think about what had happened earlier that day.... They just saved Equestria, and Ponyville, from being filled with chaos. They defeated Discord, the embodiment of chaos, with the elements of harmony, and they were each tired from the party they had, thrown by pinkie pie, at Twilight's house. They each said their good nights, as they all went home.

"Uh, Rainbow..." A yellow Pegasus mare said "I think you should stay on the ground for tonight, you don't seem like you could fly all the way up to your house tonight.

"Fine Fluttershy, I'll sleep at your place tonight." The cyan Pegasus mare, with a rainbow mane and tail said to her friend.

"Well, Ah'm headin' home. Night y'all!" An orange earth pony mare said to her friends, yawning all the while.

"See you girls tomorrow!" A white unicorn mare said, as she headed for her boutique.

"See you guys later, I gotta feed gummy, then I'm going to bed. Night!" A pink earth pony mare said, bouncing towards the local bakery.

Twilight considered herself lucky to have such great friends. Just like her 5 best friends, she went to bed, wanting to sleep the events from earlier away.

Over at Fluttershy's, Rainbow Dash got a blanket from the linen closet, and went to sleep on the couch. "Oh Rainbow.... Are you sure you wanna sleep on the couch? Cause I do have a guest room you could sleep in. That is if you don't um.. mind." Fluttershy said.

"I'm good Fluttershy." Rainbow Dash said "Besides, I'm already tired enough. Night!" And with that, Dash immediately crashed onto the couch.

Seven hours later....

"There she is, the goddess of loyalty." A pony said to herself, in a whispering tone, so not to wake up Rainbow Dash. "I shouldn't do this, but I can do what I please, I don't need anypony telling me what to do. Who cares if I'm not loyal to the tribe anymore?" And with that, the unknown pony got a bag, and sacked Rainbow Dash, and left Fluttershy's cottage.

"Hmm, there she is." Another pony said whispering. "The goddess of kindness. Hehe, well, my rudeness will probably get me kicked out of the tribe... if I'm caught." the unknown pony said, tying up and gagging Fluttershy, also putting a blind fold on her, so she couldn't see who was taking her.

Over at Sweet Apple Acres....

"Hmm, so it's true, this is the goddess of honesty." A pony said "Father knows this is something I'd do, but I've been dis-honest about a lot of things, so this'll be easy." Then, the pony took out a small bag of blue dust, and put some on her hoof, and blew it onto Applejack and herself. They were transported away from Sweet Apple acres.

Meanwhile, at Sugar Cube Corner...

"Stop giggling, goddess of laughter." An angry looking pony said, looking at a sleeping Pinkie Pie. The pony took some rope, and tied Pinkie up, then bounced out the window nearby, heading for his tribal village.

Over at the local boutique....

"Oh great goddess of generosity, please do forgive me for being so greedy." A crazed pony said, after putting Rarity in a box big enough to hold her. She left the boutique, but dropped something, much like the others that kidnapped the other element bearers...

The next morning came, and Twilight was awoken by a couple of knocks at her front door. She went downstairs, and opened the door to see Sweetie Belle, Applebloom, Mr. and Mrs. Cake, Angel Bunny, and Dash's stallionfriend Soarin. "Hey everypony, what's wrong?" Twilight asked,

"Applejack wasn't home this mornin'!" Applebloom stated.

"Rarity wasn't home either!" Sweetie Belle said.

"Pinkie wasn't at the bakery this morning, or in her room." Mr. Cake said.

"Dash said she would be home by this morning, but never showed up." Soarin said.

Angel bunny just hopped up and down, so Twilight used a spell that would allow him to speak. "Thank you Twilight. Fluttershy wasn't home this morning either and-" but he was cut off, as the spell wouldn't last long.

"So, what you're all saying is that Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Applejack, and Pinkie Pie aren't anywhere to be found?"

"YES!" The five ponies at Twilight's door said.

"Did they leave something that might've hinted where they'd be?" Twilight asked.

Then, each of the ponies, and Angel Bunny handed Twilight something they found. Soarin handed Twilight a piece of burnt fire wood, Angel Bunny handed Twilight a bandage, Sweetie Belle handed Twilight a ripped piece of wrapping paper, Mr. Cake gave Twilight a party horn, and Applebloom handed a small bag with a quill and piece of paper sewn into it.

"Hmm, I need to study these things you've each handed me, they could be important." And with that, Twilight closed the door."Spike, where's the letter Princess Celestia sent to me to this a couple months ago?"  She called to her assistant. Th little terra dragon then came into the room ith what was left of the robot that Celestia found in her room at one point that she sent to Twilight with a letter instructing her to fix it. "Ok, let's re-read the letter." Twilight said to herself.

"Dear Twilight Sparkle,

I've know somepony that might help you whenever you need it. He's my son, V-Two. I adopted him, and he's a Pegasus. But remember, you can't get him wet, or else he'll flip out like a mad mare. So remember, don't get him wet. Also, here's the spell you'll need to use to get him.

Princess Celestia."

"Ok, let's see...." Twilight used the spell that summoned Celestia's brother. He appeared before Twilight, but he as in the air, and fell to the library floor. When he got back up, Twilight noticed everything about him. His light red coat, his purple eyes, blue and yellow stripped mane and tail, and Celestia was right, even though Twilight would never question her teacher, he was indeed a Pegasus.

"Are you V-Two?" Twilight asked. The Pegasus got up, and brushed himself off a bit.

"Yes, I am. I'm going to assume that you're Twilight Sparkle, and you need my extensive knowledge on everything that has happened, will happen, or is happening on Equestria?" V-Two asked. Twilight was astounded to find out that he could know about the future.

"Yes, I do. But how do you know what WILL happen in the future?" Twilight asked.

"Huuhh.... Mom told you about me, yet she doesn't tell you how I was made. I wasn't born Celestia's son, she adopted me. When she adopted me, she gave me the knowledge of knowing everything that is happening, that has happened, and everything that could happen. I know everything that is happening, everything that has happened, and every possible future." V-Two explained. "Any questions?"

Twilight was confused beyond her own belief. "Uh, not really. I just need to know about some of these things right here." Twilight said, pointing at the scattered objects she got that she placed on the table.

"Hmm..." V-Two began. "This is very peculiar.... My conclusion is, that you've gathered garbage, and a bandage for no reason, and have wasted my time Madame." V-Two got out a bag, and was about to use it's contents to teleport back to his room in Canterlot castle, but was stopped by Twilight.

"Wait, my friends are missing, and these things were found where they were last night!" Twilight said.

"Wait, your friends, the bearers of the elements of harmony?" V-Two asked, believing he may have found out another answer.

"Yes, these items were found by the place they were last seen." Twilight repeated herself.

"Hmm. Wait a minute." V-Two said. "This fire wood is that of an Elm tree's wood, this bandage has a blue cross on it, the wrapping paper has a special pattern, the party horn has red balloons and pies on it, and the bag has a piece of paper and a quill on it." He realized what the items came from. "Ms. Sparkle, what can you tell me about the Tribes of Harmony?"

"I'm sorry, but I have-" Twilight said, but was cut off.

"No knowledge of them, yes. Only three ponies know about their existence. Me, Celestia, and the tribes themselves. You see, each tribe worshipped a different element of harmony, and they considered whoever the bearer of the element they worshipped, a god or goddess. The tribes turned against one another, and were thought to be destroyed when Luna was sent to the moon, which is also the time I was born. Mom made it so that I can live like and Alicorn, and use magic without the aid of a horn, though I don't use it that often." V-Two said.

"Ok, but what do they have to do with my friends?" Twilight asked.

"Ms. Sparkle, it's also prophesized that each tribe would come back when the bearers were discovered once more. When you and your friends defeated Nightmare Moon, the tribes came back. These native ponies once were great in numbers, but as they died out, their cities became small villages. Now, they're back, and  some pony from each tribe has found their god/goddess. Each tribe is very different." V-Two went on explaining.

"Can you tell me their names then?" Twilight asked.

"Yes." V-Two said. "The tribe of loyalty, are known as the fire stalkers. The tribe of laughter, are known as the Funny Bones. The tribe of kindness, are the Caring Souls. The tribe of generosity, are the Generous beings. And the tribe of honesty, are the Truthful minds. They have your friends, so we must find them, if we are to keep the elements together."

"Ok, let me get ready first." Twilight said, going to her room to pack, for what was obviously a long trip.

The Fire Stalkers.

"Are you ready Ms. sparkle?" V-Two called out to Twilight, wanting to find the bearers of the elements, worried about Equestria's peace, even if he couldn't feel emotions in general. "Yes, come on spike." Twilight called to her assistant. "I'm sorry Ms. Sparkle," V-Two began taking off his small grey shades "but the dragon can't come, he will only weigh us down." Spike had came into the room "Why would I weigh you guys down?" Spike asked, wondering why he couldn't come with Twilight.

"Of course you can come Spike." Twilight said "V-Two, while we're on this journey, YOU'RE going to listen to me! Got it?" V-Two looked emotionless, as he always seemed to appear to Twilight "Fine, but if anything happens, I'm doing what I deem necessary. And that's usually to attack any thing that seems, or is hostile." V-Two said, putting his small shades back on. "Uhh, V-Two. You know that those barely cover your eyes, right?" Twilight asked.

"Do I look blind Ms. Sparkle?" V-Two said, showing some anger. "Sorry.... Hey, before we go, can I ask you something?" Twilight asked. V-Two turned to Twilight, showing some more anger "Yes, what is it?" V-Two said. "Well, you said that Princess Celestia made it so that you knew everything, and that you could live like an Alicorn. Why take did she do that?" The Pegasus stopped right at the door, as he was turning the handle "... I'll tell you later, that right now isn't important." V-Two said.

The three left on their adventure, and went to the southern plains.

"Ms. Sparkle, we're coming up on one of the villages! They're the Fire Stalkers, they won't attack, so long as any of us makes any threats!" V-Two said to Twilight. They finally made it to the village, which held a bon-fire in the middle of the village. "Halt!" A guard said "What is your business here out-siders?"

V-Two walked closer to the guard. "We come to see your chief, Smokey Wind. May we have an audience with him?" The guard stood there for a minute, thinking on what he should do. "Fine, follow me." The guard then took V-Two, Twilight, and Spike to the Fire Stalkers' chief.

"Welcome, children of loyalty. What brings you here?" Chief Smokey Wind asked. V-Two was about to say something, but Twilight said something before he could. "Ma'am, we're looking for my friend Rainbow Dash, a cyan Pegasus mare with a rainbow mane and tail. Do you know where she is?" Twilight asked. "Oh, you mean the Goddess of loyalty! She is here in the village, she lays in the hut with the most guards around it. You'll find my son over there, protecting the Goddess of loyalty with his life." The chief said.

"Thank you ma'am, we'll be on our way." V-Two said, taking Twilight with him. "Ms. Sparkle be careful. I sense that one of the Fire Stalkers is not like the rest. I believe he betrayed his village by taking your friend, and bringing her here. I'll be back." V-Two then took out his small bag, and used the yellow dust to go to Canterlot Castle.

"Oh, V-Two it's great to see you back so soon. What did Twilight need?" Celestia asked her son. "Hello Mother, it's great to see you as well. Your student Twilight needed, and still does needs me, to help find her friends, who mysteriously disappeared last night, after they turned the Draconequus to stone." V-Two said to Celestia. "Really? That's odd, who would've taken them?" Celestia asked. V-Two looked disappointed in himself "I'm sorry mother, all i know is that it was one pony from each of the Tribes of harmony. I have no knowledge of who it was, each of the ponies was cloaked in some form of masquerading clothing. I beg for your forgiveness!" V-Two said, hoping his mother would forgive him for failing on helping Twilight so far.

"It's ok my son, there's no need to beg for my forgiveness, I'll forgive you no matter what." Celestia said, then used her magic to levitate V-Two over to her, and hugged her son. "Now, why don't you go back to Twilight Sparkle?" she asked, giving V-Two a new bag, with purple dust. "When you blow this onto yourself, you'll be teleported to my student. Now go." Celestia informed V-Two. "Yes mother, I-...I love you." V-Two said, hugging his mother. V-Two broke his hug, and walked in front of Celestia, then teleported back to Twilight.

"So, that's how I found you Rainbow. Anything you wanna know?" Twilight asked Rainbow Dash. "Yeah, how come you had the chance to know where the elements of harmony were, when Discord hid them yesterday!?" Dash asked. "I'm sorry Rainbow, I didn't remember about him." Twilight apologized. "Well, I'm glad to see you two are talking about me." V-Two said, having arrived back next to Twilight "Ill be right back, I'm going to talk to the chief."

V-Two walked outside, and ran the chief's hut. "Excuse me sir, may I have an audience with you?" V-Two asked the chief. "Well of course, you are welcomed to have an audience with me." Smokey Wind said. "Thank you sir. I believe someone in your village may have been disloyal, and actually brought Rainbow Dash here. I don't know who, but it was a stallion, be careful sir. There's a traitor amongst your ponies." V-Two informed Smokey Wind. "Hmm, well, the bon-fire has decreased in size. And the bon-fire grows, as the loyalty of any Equestrian gets stronger, and when their loyalty weakens, the bon-fire goes out. So you are right, somepony must've brought the Goddess of Loyalty here. We know, that the bearer of the element of loyalty wouldn't just show up here on their own, they'd have to choose to come here, and your cyan friend was confused as to why she was here."

"Ah, thank you Sir, I must be off now, we need to find the other bearers, for you know as much as I do, that the bearers must stay together in one place, at all times if anything threatens Equestria's peace." V-Two said, then left the hut, and went back to Rainbow Dash, Spike, and Twilight.

"Ok V-Two, where are we heading?" Twilight asked the Pegasus, wanting to know which friend was next to be found. "Well Ms. Sparkle, we are to go north-west, to find your friend Rarity." V-Two said, as they all departed the Fire Stalkers' village.

The traitor that was known about saw them all leave. "Buck, it didn't work, she was supposed to stay here!" He said to himself. "Hmm, perhaps the others will not be so easy to convince on leaving the other villages?" He said to himself, whispering.

The Generous beings.

It took the three ponies and baby dragon a couple of hours to get the to the village they were looking for. "Ms. Sparkle, we have arrived here, at the Generous beings' village. Please hold on a moment..." V-Two said, walking towards the front guards.

"Halt, why does thou commith over to our village, knave?" One of the guards said to V-Two. "I come to see the bearer of the element of generosity." V-Two informed them "And, I bring these gifts for the chief of your village. This book on every medicine, and this manticore claw." He then pulled out the two items he promised the guards about. "Hmm, fine. Thou may enter." One guard said, moving aside for V-Two.

"Come on, I haven't all day Ms. Sparkle!" V-Two said, waving his hoof over to Twilight, Rainbow, and Spike. The two ponies and baby dragon went over to the village with V-Two. When they entered, every pony seemed to be preparing gifts for one another. "Why are all these ponies wrapping presents?" Spike asked. "Uhhh... You really are simple minded, even when you live with the second smartest pony in Equestria." V-Two said. "These ponies are the Generous beings, a tribe of ponies who worship the bearer of the element of generosity like a god or goddess. You'd make a good tribe member, if it weren't for your dragon greed." V-two explained to Spike.

"Wait, second smartest pony? Twilight IS the smartest pony in Equestria!" spike said. "Second to me, little Spike." V-Two said. "HUUUUHHHH!" A lady like gasp was heard throughout the village "Twilight, Rainbow, AND Spikey Wikey!" a familiar voice said, as she ran towards her friends. "Rarity!" Twilight said. "Are you alright, were you hurt?" Rarity had finally made it over to her friends "Oh don't worry Darling, I'm alright, though I don't know how in Equestria I got to this place." Rarity said.

"Perhaps I could explain that Madam." V-Two said. "Huuhh, Twilight, who IS this stallion? Don't tell me you two are dating!" Rarity said. "No Rarity, it's not like that. V-Two is Princess Celestia's son. He's the reason on why I found you." Twilight explained. "Yes, I am the reason, and she needs my help, she doesn't know about the Tribes of Harmony. Apparently mother never said a thing about it to her. Without me, she wouldn't even know where to begin her search." V-Two explained. "Oh, royalty here to rescue me! Oh, I feel absolutely in your debt! But, how did you know where to find me?" Rarity asked.

"Look, I'll explain later, just for right no, we need to find the greedy pony in this place." V-Two said.  "What, all these ponies are very generous!" Rarity said. "Oh beautiful Goddess of Generosity, here is your banana grapes poor Voo don here promised you!" A crazed pony, wearing animal furs said to Rarity. "Oh, I thank you for your generous offer, but I need to head home, I truly am sorry." Rarity said, trying not to upset the pony. "Oh yes, Voo don understands beautiful goddess." Voo don said.

"Let's go, that mare is creeping me out a bit." V-Two said. "Wow, never knew you could show any emotion besides either anger or- well, no emotion at all!" Twilight said. "Well, Ms. Sparkle, I assure you that I'm like any other pony. I just choose to not show any emotion." V-Two explained. "Now, let's head for the village of the Caring Souls. Oh wait, i promised I'd give these things to the chief. Be right back, you four gather outside the village." V-Two said.

V-Two went to the chief's hut. "Sir, may I have an audience with thee?" V-Two asked. "Why of course my boy. What chief of generosity would I be if i said no?" The chief said. "Thank you, kind sir. Now, I brought this book, of every medicine ever made, and this manticore claw, as my way of saying 'thank you' for allowing me to enter your village." V-Two said, giving the chief the items he described. "Why, that's generous of you my boy. would you like to become one of our villagers here?" The chief asked. "Thank you for the offer sir, but I must decline the offer. As much as I want to learn abut your pony's culture, I have other work that must be done. But, there's something you need to know." V-Two said.

"Yes, what is it my boy?" The chief asked. V-Two sat down. "There is a traitor amongst your ponies. She became greedy when she learned of the bearer of the element of generosity's location, and went to steal her and take her here. Be warned, this pony is crazy, and refers to herself in the third person when she can." V-Two explained. "Sweet Celestia, that's horrible! I'm sorry to say, but I know of no pony here that is crazy, who refers to themselves in the third person here in the village." The chief said. "I understand sir. I'm sorry, but I must go now." V-Two said leaving the hut.

V-Two went out to the field where the three ponies and baby dragon were waiting. "OK, before we go, I must report this to mother, I'll be right back." V-Two said, taking out his bag of transportation dust, then blew the yellow dust onto himself, teleporting to Canterlot Castle.

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V-Two finally came arrived at Canterlot Castle. "Mother, I'm here to report that we've found Ms. Sparkle's friend, Rarity. We are now going to go find her friend Fluttershy." V-Two said to Celestia. "Thank you for informing me V-Two, I wish the best of luck on your journey. Oh wait, before you go, remember. The Caring Souls' village is in a swamp, filled with many animals that could eat you in an instant." Celestia explained. "I understand mother, I shall return when I can." V-Two said, using the purple transportation dust to teleport to Twilight.

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"So Twilight, while V-Two is gone, can you tell us how he knew about where I was?" Rarity asked. "I'm sorry Rarity, but I'm afraid she can't." V-Two said to Rarity, now where Twilight was. "Now, we need to head for the village of the Caring Souls. So, we need to head.... Oh yes, east." V-Two said. "Let's go!" Twilight said, heading east of their direction.

"Oh, they left me here all alone. Oh what to do, what to do, what to do!" The traitor of the Generous souls said. "OH yes! I'll tell the others, maybe they can stop them taking the other bearers! Oh wait, I need to tell Burnt Wood to tell his chief that those ponies, and their dragon were from the Caring Souls' village, and that they were sent there to take away the bearer of loyalty!" The Crazed pony said. "Now, where did Voo don put her quill, parchment, and ink well?" She said, heading for her hut.

The Caring Souls.

It was mid day when V-Two, Twilight, Rainbow Dash, and Spike had made it close to the village, but still had a ways to go. "AWH! You never said anything about going through a swamp!" Rarity scoffed to V-Two, who was ahead of everypony else. "Look, I know the way better than anypony else, literally, and we'd have to go through a swamp anyways. So, please just shut up and tough it out until we reach the village." V-Two replied.

As they got closer to their destination, something didn't feel, or smell right. "You smell that?" V-Two asked, sniffing the air around them. "Yeah, I smell it to." Dash said. They traveled towards where the smell was coming from. When they reached their sub-destination, they found out where the smell was coming from....

The smell was smoke, coming from a fire.... The village of the Caring Souls was on fire! The group couldn't believe what they were noticing, ponies on fire, ponies crushed from falling huts and falling trees, and ponies who had arrows sticking out of them, while on fire! "No, this wasn't supposed to happen!" V-Two shouted, then spotted Fluttershy, and ran to her screaming "Ms. Shy, we need to go, I'm friends with Twilight!" then began pulling Fluttershy out of the hut she was in, which like everything else, was on fire.

The chief had made it out, as well as a strong looking stallion wearing warrior's armor. "NnnnnNNNNNNOOOOOOO!" The chief shouted, as an arrow flew into his shoulder, then more into his legs. V-Two made it out with Fluttershy, and took one of the arrows from the chief's body. V-Two took Fluttershy to the group, and began examining the arrow.

"Oh, Fluttershy darling, are you alright?" Rarity asked. "Yeah, you hurt or anything?" Rainbow Dash asked as well. Twilight and Spike asked similar questions. "Oh, don't worry girls, I'm quite alright. These ponies were so kind to me, they said I was tied up and gagged! So they helped me back to a full recovery!" Fluttershy explained "But I have o idea how I got here!" She said, and when the stallion in the warrior's armor heard that, he disappeared into the swamp, without any pony realizing he left the area. "Oh, well you can ask V-Two over there. He's Princess Celestia's son and he helped me find you girls, and he knows where you were at because- Uh, V-Two, what are you doing?" Twilight said.

"Examining this arrow, Ms. Sparkle." V-Two began "This arrow's shaft was made from the wood of an Elm tree. "Ms. Sparkle, this attack on the village was done so by the Fire Stalkers!" V-Two then explained. "What, why would they do that?!" Twilight demanded to know. V-Two took of his small, light grey, circular shades and said "Ms. Sparkle, I told you that the tribes betrayed one another, and kept to their own kind. So, if they believed that somepony from another village did something to them, they'd attack the village that attacked them first." V-Two had finished explaining. "Let's head for the plains, we'll be safer there!" Twilight said, as she left the swamp with the group following her.

When the stopped outside the swamp in the plains, everypony but V-Two caught their breath. "I'll be right back Ms. Sparkle, I must report this to Princess Celestia." V-Two said, pulling out his bag of the transportation dust, before being stopped by Rainbow Dash. "Whoa! You're not going anywhere until we get an explanation as to who you are!" Twilight looked confused at why Rainbow Dash said that. "Rainbow, I already told you how we found you. Why are you asking him to explain all over again?" Twilight asked. "To be honest Twilight, I wasn't paying attention." Dash admitted. "Look, we haven't the time for another explanation!" V-Two shouted "Look, I know the next nearest village.... We must head to the village of the Funny Bones!" The group left for the village, as a certain armor wearing stallion was watching them.

"Uggghh! Could those Fire Stalker idiots not hit the unicorns, pegasi, and the dragon?!" Brute force said. "Oh well, the Caring Souls village is destroyed, as well the tribe themselves. Well, except for me of course." Brute force said with an evil smile. "Until next time, bearers of the elements." Brute force said, heading away from the swamp, in the opposite direction V-Two and the group were heading.

The Funny Bones.

The group had begun the journey, but before they could reach the village, night fell onto the group, so they made a camp right where they stopped. They ate dinner, and finally, each of the ponies began to go to bed. "Hey V-Two, I'm going to bed. You gonna be ok being up all night?" Twilight asked.

"Don't worry Ms. Sparkle, I'll be alright. Sleep isn't a bother when you're pretty much immortal." V-Two said, bumming Twilight out a bit about his outlook on life.

"Ok, goodnight V-Two." Twilight said, then planted a kiss on V-Two's cheek.

A couple of hours went by, and V-Two had still looked at the fire, remembering how he came to be in this world. But this was short lived, as he sensed another presence coming to him. He knew the presence well, he couldn't forget it. He knew this presence, a mare's presence, as his Aunt Luna's presence. "Aunt Luna, please show yourself." V-Two said.

The Princess of the night did as requested, and revealed herself to V-Two. "Hello my nephew, how have you been?" Luna asked.

"Aunt Luna, may I suggest we have this conversation over there?" V-Two said, pointing to a hill top. The two royal ponies then flew over to the area. "Now, Aunt Luna, what is it you request from me?" V-Two asked, bowing to his aunt.

"I wish to now why you didn't report to Celestia after you left the Caring Souls village. My sister saw the smoke and thought that she  might've lost you again." Luna said to V-Two, showing an expression on her face that showed she might've lost her nephew.

"I didn't report to mother, because I was stopped by Ms. Sparkle's friends." V-Two said. "And on my way to our current camp site, Ms. Sparkle asked to hold onto my bag of transportation dust. And, yesterday morning I agreed to listen to her, and said I'd do what I deemed necessary if anything bad happened." V-Two explained.

"Well then..." Luna began. "Will you give me the report, so that I may tell my sister?" Luna asked.

"Aunt Luna..." V-Two began. "They're all gone, the Fire stalkers destroyed the village!" V-Two said.

"It's ok my nephew, you probably didn't know it would happen." Luna said.

"You're right, I didn't..." V-Two said. "There was no possible future that showed the destruction of the village, and the ponies of the village!"

"V-Two, there is one more." Luna began "The traitor, his name is Brute Force. I advise you to be cautious."

"Ok, good night Aunt Luna." V-Two said, before heading back to the camp site.

When V-Two had landed back to the camp site, the sun began to rise. V-Two looked at the rising sun and said "Good morning mother. I love you, very much!" After some time, he screamed "AAHHHHHH!" and everypony, and the young dragon, woke up. "Mornin' lazy folk. Let's head out, we've still some ground to cover." V-Two said.

The group had traveled a couple more miles, and V-Two stopped. "Hang on... something's coming this way!" V-Two shouted, and he was right. Pies began to bombard the group. They had done well to dodge for a bit, and V-Two found out where the pies were coming form. "This way!" V-Two commanded, running in the direction of the flying pies.

As they headed for the flying pies, the group was hit by pies at random, and they began to hear laughing as they got closer to what they thought was the destined village. "Here they are everypony!" V-Two said, covered in pies. When the group entered the village, the tribe began to laugh at the visitors. V-Two finally had enough, and shouted "Where is Pinkie Pie!?"

The pink mare had heard her name, and bounced over to V-Two. "That'd be me Whadda ya need?" Pinkie pie asked.

"Look, I'm here to take you home. I brought your friends here as well." V-Two explained. The pink mare agreed immediately, after she saw her friends behind V-Two. "Ok, so let's head for the nearby village... the Truthful minds!"

"Wait, surely they can not be from their village!" A pony said, showing himself. "What if they're here to take our goddess!"

"Oh yes, cause we want to take her away to the Truthful minds." V-Two said, in a jokingly sarcastic tone.

"SEE!" The stallion shouted. "They want to take her away, I say we burn them on a stake!"

"Calm down Serus." Th village chief said. "This stallion was obviously joking. His sarcastic tone didn't help his case here though. You must learn to take a joke. Learn to laugh for once."

"Sorry father." Serus said.

After that, the group left, and V-Two noticed the clouds above them. "Oh no, it's about to rain..." V-Two said. "Ms. Sparkle, I need you to teleport us exactly 126 miles to the east, now!" Twilight looked confused. "Why?!" Twilight shouted.

"No time for questioning, just do it now!" V-Two shouted. Twilight, and Rarity surprisingly, had both used their magic to make the long journey possible. V-Two was glad, as he began to see what was happening at the Funny bones' village, it had started to rain, and he was glad he was far from it.

"Hmm..." Serus said to himself. "It seems that we need water to stop the male Pegasus from taking the last goddess... I'll inform Snake tongue of this." Serus said, then went to go to his hut to get his quill, and other needed supplies for the letter he was going to write.

The Truthful minds.

The group was successful in their journey to the Truthful minds' village, but appeared right in the middle of it.

"Halt there intruders!" A pony said, revealing herself out of a giant crowd around the six ponies and one dragon. "Come with me, or be killed!" The mare said.

"Hold, what is the matter Snake Tongue?" The chief of the village asked his daughter.

"Father, these ponies broke into the village,, and their here to steal the goddess of honesty and use this dragon of theirs," Snake tongue said, pointing a hoof at spike "to burn down our village!"

"Please, I assure you chief, that we are not here for those reasons, other than to get the bearer of the element of honesty." V-Two began, pushing his small shades up. "What if Equestria was to be attacked by Discord again, or somepony like Nightmare Moon? All the bearers are needed, Applejack needs to come with us!"

"She needs to stay with us!" Snake tongue argued.

"Now hand on y'all!" Applejack said, as she walked into the crowd. "These are my friends, and I want to go with them!" Applejack walked to each of her friends and helped them up. "Well, Ah don' know this feller right here though." Applejack said, looking at V-Two.

"My name's-" V-Two began, before remembering that he was about to reveal his real name. "My name's V-Two." He then lied. "They wouldn't remember me, not for who I was, but for the legend." He thought to himself. "Let's go, we've a long journey ahead of us to get you seven back home."

Snake tongue had heard this, and grew angrier at the current actions, then disappeared to her group's hideout....

"I'm sorry to report, that the bearer of honesty has been taken away from our grasp." Snake tongue said.

"Well then... this is upsetting, even for Voo Don" Voo Don said, rubbing her head.

"Hmm, I say we take 'em by force!" Brute force said, slamming his hoof on the stone table before the group.

"No!" Serus began "With brute force comes physical damage, and we need the bearers well and live to take Equestria for ourselves! That was our plan in the first place anyways!"

"Hush now my friends." Burnt wood began "I didn't decide to protect the bearer of loyalty when she was at my village for nothing! Even if we did betray our villages, we can still take over Equestria, even without the bearers at the villages!"

The group stood silent, until somepony spoke up. "I've got a plan." Burnt wood began. "We'll take them by force, but without hurting them, and we'll keep them here, until time ends." Burnt wood said, getting five burlap sacks. "Let's go."  The group of traitors then left their cave

"Ok, so now can you tell us how you knew where we were?" Rainbow asked, giving V-Two a stern look.

"No, not until I report to mother that I finally found you five." V-Two said, looking at Twilight, hinting he wanted his transportation dust back.

"No V-Two, not until you tell them how you found them!" Twilight said. "Remember, you agreed that you'd listen to me."

"Fine, here's how...." V-Two began, before being tackled by a crazy mare.

"Hi there, Voo Don is now going to eat your brain!" Voo Don said, the grabbing V-Two's head.

V-Two pushed the mare off of him, then noticed the other ponies coming at him.

Brute force went after Pinkie and Applejack, throwing them into one of the sacks. Voo Don kept going back to  V-Two, trying to keep the promise she made herself on eating V-Two's brain. Burnt wood had been staying back a bit, watching everything happening, laughing like a crazy pony. Spike noticed the crazy stallion, and decided to take matters into his own claws. Meanwhile, Voo Don and V-Two began to fight in the air.

Spike ran towards the laughing stallion, then jumped onto him and bit his neck, not letting go. "UGHH.... Snake tongue, Serus, get this dragon off of me!" Burnt wood shouted, as his colleagues came to pry the dragon off, then threw him into a sack. Burnt wood readied his wings, and shouted to the fighting ponies on the ground, and pony above him "Voo Don, Snake, Brute force, Serus, let's go!" The four ponies did as they were told and left, even without the ponies they were there for. "Oh, and Ms. Sparkle...." Burnt wood said, getting Twilight's attention "Unless you want to your dragon alive again, you better give up your friends, and give THEM to US!" Burnt wood said, then began to laugh even more, then flew off.

V-Two landed next to Twilight, and couldn't hold his anger any more. "I told you..." V-Two began "HE SHOULD NOT HAVE COME! LOOK AT WHAT YOUR STUPID BROTHER DID, HE GOT HIMSELF CAPTURED, LIKE THE IDIOT HE TRULY IS!" V-Two shouted.

"Hey, it's not his fault that those ponies were bigger than him!" Pinkie began. Come on, put a smile on your face, we'll get him back!"

"Oh, put a smile on so you can then what?" V-Two began, asking a rhetorical question "So that you can become my friend? Well to be honest Ms. Pie, I'd rather not be friends with you, in fact, I don't wanna even be anywhere near you for that matter!"

"AWH!" Pinkie pie scoffed. "How dare you!"

"Hey, stop being jerks to my friends!" Rainbow Dash began. "Not even Gilda was this much of a jerk!"

"Ah yes Gilda." V-Two began, now looking at Rainbow Dash. "The first friend you ever made, the one with the anger issues, the one who couldn't take a simple prank. Last time I checked, you were being loyal to HER and not your other friends! You ditched your friends whenever Gilda did, you were being disloyal!"

"Oh well. But Rainbow, you're very wrong here. V-Two is worse Gilda, but he's far worse." Rarity began. "He's worse than Blueblood!"

At this statement, V-Two finally snapped, and had completely gotten enraged. "Oh, so i's worse than my spoiled cousin, who was always pampered when he was a foal, and was never taught how to deal with things head on, or how to be a gentlecolt? Is that what your saying, that I'm worse than somepony who didn't get to learn anything as a child?" V-Two asked.  "You know, I chose to help Ms. Sparkle find you, not because I had to help her, but because I knew it was the right thing to do." V-Two said, now spotting his bag the Twilight took from him, lying on the ground.

V-Two ran to his bag, picked it up and flew high into the sky, higher than any pony could ever reach. "Now, I bid you all adieu, bearers and Ms. Sparkle!" V-Two shouted, dropping his bag as he got some of the transportation dust ready. V-Two blew the dust onto himself, and was teleported to his room, his desired location in Canterlot Castle. When V-Two's bag landed on the ground, Twilight began to write a letter, hoping her idea would be successful.

V-Two had finally appeared in his room, and he was happy. Meanwhile, Celestia was awaiting her son's return.

"Where is he?" Celestia asked herself, then noticed that a yellow ball of light was forming before her throne. However, it wasn't V-Two that came, it was a letter.

"Dear Princess Celestia,

YOUR SON IS A JERK TO ME AN MY FRIENDS, AND HAS NO NEED FOR IT!

Your student,

Twilight Sparkle."

Celestia read this aloud to herself, then went o V-Two's room to find out what he did. "V-Two, why have you been a jerk to my student and her friends?" Celestia asked, as she walked into V-Two's room. V-Two looked up from the book he was reading on Equestria's history.

"I don't wanna talk about it mother." V-Two said, as he went to his bed, then buried his face into his pillow.

"V-Two, I want to know why you were being a jerk. Please tell me." Celestia said, stroking V-Two's mane with her front right hoof, after she went to his side to comfort her son, who was now sad instead of angry.

V-Two said something that was very muffled in his pillow. "I'm sorry my son, but I need you to say that once more." Celestia said. V-Two lifted his face, but his answer was still muffled. "Once more please." Celestia said.

V-Two lifted his face completely from his pillow and said "THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND MOTHER!" with tears running down from his eyes. Celestia was startled by her son's sudden change of emotion, and his screaming.

"They don't understand what it's like, to have died, then be brought back to life, to have knowledge of everything happening, everything that has, or will happen! I can't do any of the things I liked doing anymore mother! I can't swim, I can't even sleep on a cloud! I can't even drink water, or be in water any more! Please mother, tell me why this blessing is also my curse?" V-Two said. "I thank, and praise  you for giving me a second chance at life, but no pony remembers me for who I once was! Everypony remembers me as 'V-Two' now, no pony remembers my first name!"

"I'm sorry my son." Celestia said with a tear forming in her eyes, as she began to hug her son. "I just didn't want to lose another family member, you were and always will be very dear to me. No matter what, I love you son, never forget that!" Celestia said to V-Two, who now was hugging his mother back.

"Do you think she got the letter?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"I'm not sure, but look at this." Twilight said, now realizing something nearby. "Look at this, there's a trail of feathers leading south from here... where ever those ponies went with Spike, they just gave us the way. Let's go girls, it's time to rescue some family." Twilight said, as she began to follow the trail of feathers to the cave in the south, with her friends following her.

The traitors.

Twilight and her friends had traversed the plains of Equestria, following the trail of feathers left by some of the pegasi that attacked them earlier that day. They finally made it to the entrance to the cave that they were led to.

"OK girls, let's go get Spike back!" Twilight said, getting ready for another fight.

As the six mares went into the cave, they saw a green light grow bigger and bigger, and ran to it, believing it to have been Spike. As the light subdued itself, the mares found out where the light was actually coming from.

"V-....V-Two!" Twilight said, throwing herself towards the stallion and gave him a hug, glad that he had come back.

"Yes." V-Two said, returning the hug "I'm back to say I'm sorry, Ms. Sparkle. I'm sorry for being such a jerk to you and your friends. But more importantly, I'm here to save Spike, and get you mares home." V-Two then broke the hug. "But, there's something else, Ms. Sparkle."

"What is it V-Two? Please, tell me." Twilight said, looking into V-Two's small grey shades.

"I'm going to tell you a story, more importantly, my story." V-Two said.

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It was just about during the time Discord was ruling Equestria, with his chaotic mind, using it like his playground of chaos. I was just a foal, from what mother told me. After mother and Aunt Luna defeated the Draconequus, this had happened....

"Princess Celestia, this was at your door, and there's a letter for your eyes only!" A guard said, bringing a basket to the princess' throne.

Princess Celestia picked up the letter with her magic.

"This Pegasus colt, he will do you great services, trust me.

~nopony."

Princess Celestia was confused at this, but she took the colt in anyways, and named him Hist. As time went by, the Pegasus  colt grew older, and he became a better flier and historian as well. One night, though you'd never think this to happen, Princess Luna became tired.... tired of the fact that she couldn't get ponies to enjoy her night. Now, by this time, the colt grew up to be a stallion. Now, Hist had knowledge of all of recorded history, but he wanted more. He begged his mother to give him the knowledge by using a spell. She could no longer deny her son's pleas, as he did know every bit of recorded Equestrian history. But the spell had backfired, immensely. Hist now had knowledge of everything in the past, the future, and present.

Now, Princess Luna never knew about this, but even if she did, she wouldn't care. Luna had decided she had enough of the dejection she was given, she decided that if ponies wouldn't love her, then they will fear her instead. Luna rose the moon, and caused a solar eclipse, and she began to change into Nightmare moon.

The two princesses began to fight, and their fight led all the way to the ancient ruins in the Everfree forest. Hist, against his mother's orders, went to help his mother, by telling her what would happen. But when he arrived at the ruins, it was already to late, his mother banished her sister. Hist had went to comfort his mother, but he wasn't paying attention to where he was flying, and he crashed into a wall, causing it to break and fall.

The wall he hit was above his mother, and he did the only thing he could do. Hist flew down and pushed his mother out of the way, and tried to escape the wall as well. Luckily, he saved his mother, but the wall crashed onto him before he could escape the wall's grasp. The wall crushed Hist's body up to his front shoulder blades. His mother wen tot rescue him, but she could barely do anything. She began to panic, and used her magic to teleport herself and her son to the castle.

Hours went by before anything was heard about Hist, according to mother. When the doctor came out, he said "It's done ma'am, you may now see your son.", after this, the engineer came out of the room. Princess Celestia went into the room.

"Princess Celestia, your son couldn't be saved, except his brain, that was saved. So, we made a robotic replica of him. I call him V-Two." The engineer said to the princess.

"Name verification initializing..... New name 'V-Two' accepted." The robotic replica said.

"My son, I'm so sorry." Celestia said, hugging her son, as tears drained from her eyes, like rivers forming waterfalls at the end of a cliff.

"Mother.... I still know everything, I mean EVERYTHING! Why is that?" V-Two asked, confused about his current situation.

"My magic effected your brain my son, and your brain is inside this robot body of yours. I'm so sorry I caused this to happen!" Celestia said.

For the next couple of decades, V-Two stayed away from public eyes, and stayed locked up in his room, no matter how much his mother wanted him to attend any public events she'd be going to. V-Two knew that he could no longer have any friends, so he thought that he might as well spend his time alone. During his self induced isolation, he learned how to speak like a normal pony would.

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"And now, here we are today." V-Two said. "Come on, let's go, we've gotta dragon to steal back."

"Wait... So you're actually a robot, is that why you said to teleport us to the Truthful minds village when it was about to rain?" Twilight asked.

"Yes, now please, let's go." V-Two said, with the group following his departure.

They traveled farther and farther into the cave, and finally found the hideout that held the five traitors. As they walked closer to the five, V-Two noticed a deck of wood. "Stop," V-Two began to whisper to the six mares. "I'll handle negotiations right now, please step off the deck." V-Two then stepped closer onto the deck.

Burnt wood began to laugh, as he learned yesterday about the teleportation V-Two had Twilight and Rarity do to get them to the Truthful minds before it rained. "Oh, you pitiful FOOL!" Burnt wood said, pulling a lever which activated the deck, which was actually a trap door to a pool of water.

V-Two fell into the water, and had begun to fidget and began to start shot circuiting. "Guh-Guh-Guh-Go g-g-g-g-g-get the d--d-d-d-dd--dragon! I'll be--eeeee-e-e-e fine!" V-Two said, as the mares jumped over him, with Twilight trying to pull him out of the water.

The six mares went to get the small purple baby dragon that was their friend. Voo Don began to laugh insanely, Serus got, well, serious and mad, Brute force readied a fighting stance, Snake tongue had stood perfectly still, and Burnt wood issued the attack. They all fought with many blows hitting one another.  Brute force had thrown Rainbow Dash above spike, which cause some dust to fall off of the walls and drop in front of Spike. Spike couldn't resist the coming urge. "Twilight, everypony, get down!" Spike said.

Twilight turned and saw what Spike was about to do, as well as her friends, and they all ducked onto the ground. Spike had sneezed, and it was a big sneeze, causing giant green flames to cover the traitorous ponies. Though they weren't completely dead, they were each close to death.

V-Two noticed this, and forced himself out of the water, and proceeded to cut the heads off of each of the traitors with a sharpened rock he picked up after he left the water.

"V-Two, why did you kill them?" Twilight asked, confused as to what would make V-Two kill five ponies.

"I was told... th--th-th-that death was imminent...." V-Two said, dripping water. "Ms. Sp-Sp-Sparkle, I won't make the journey back.... here, take this bag." V-Two said, as he tossed a bag of green dust over to Twilight. "I was able to throw it to dry land before I hit the water.... The dust transports you anywhere.... use it to go home.... I'm gonna need my other transportation dust now please." V-Two said, pointing at his bag of yellow dust that Twilight still had.

Twilight gave V-Two the dust, and used the dust he gave her to take herself and her friends home(to V-Two's knowledge). V-Two decided it was best to head home himself. V-Two used his transportation dust to head to the throne room in Canterlot Castle.

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When V-Two arrived to tell his mother the good news, he couldn't believe what he saw. Twilight and her friends used the dust to come here instead. "Ms. Sparkle? I'm surprised to see you here." V-Two said.

"As am I, my son." Celestia said "Twilight and her friends were telling me about everything that happened in the traitors' cave. Are you alright now?" Celestia asked her son, as V-two walked over to his mother.

"Yes mother, I'm alright. I just had a bath is all." V-Two said, laughing at his little joke he made.

"But wait!" Twilight said "There's one thing I don't understand. Why is V-Two a robot, couldn't you have used a resurrection spell?" Twilight asked her teacher, curious as to what made Celestia make her son robotic.

"Well my student, I have no knowledge of one that exists." Celestia said "But, if you found one, and learned how to use it, then that assignment will be an automatic A for you." Celestia said, giving her student a task, that even she knew was impossible to do.

Twilight, excited about learning some more, had immediately left the room, as well as her friends, to head home to Ponyville to do her research. After everypony left, and when the main doors were closed, V-Two asked his mother "Mother, is their really a resurrection spell?"

Celestia blushed, and laughed saying "Not really, I made that up to keep my student on her studies. You never knew this, but she can distracted from her everyday studies on a daily basis. But now, a new threat is coming, one that even I know will probably destroy Canterlot." Celestia said.

V-Two, curious as to who the new threat was said "Queen Chrysalis?"

Celestia stood still for a minute, not saying a word, then said. "Yes, my son."