Shadowblade's Revenge

Fluttershy didn’t exactly feel normal. Hearing Rarity scream and say she didn’t have hooves, and Rainbow Dash yelling that she didn’t have wings, made her very scared. she looked at her back which wasn’t normal, and saw no wings. She looked at her hooves. No hooves. She heard a distant voice saying, “Fantastic! I’m human again!” “Again? You were like this first?” Said another voice. “Yes. And now I’m back to normal! And I’ve been here before! We’re in Rome. 79 A.D. to be exact.” “What are these things? What happened to my hooves?” “Those are hands. And if you look down, those are feet.” “Why am I standing on two legs?” “Because humans stand on two legs.” Fluttershy listened to the voices, trying to gain more information on humans, but there was no more talking. “H-hello? Is anypony there?” She

asked. “Fluttershy darling, are you alright? It’s so good to hear your voice.” Rarity said. “I’m fine. Did you hear those voices?” Fluttershy asked. “Yes, I can’t believe we’re humans!” Rarity said. “He said we’re in Rome at 79 A.D! What’s Rome at 79 A.D?” Pinkie Pie asked. “Ah dunno, Sugarcube. Has anypony seen Twilight or Rainbow Dash?” Applejack said. “I’m here!” Twilight said. “Me too!” Rainbow Dash said. Fluttershy stood up, stumbling a little, unused to standing on two legs. She moved towards her friends’ voices, and her friends did the same. After a few seconds they were all standing face to face. Fluttershy was about to faint at the sight of her friends. Humans. Who’d ever believe it?

The Doctor clutched his sonic screwdriver in his right hand. “Well, Ditzy, what do you think of Mt. Vesuvius?” “Mt. What?” Ditzy replied, still confused by the whole ‘human’ thing. “Mt. Vesuvius. The most dangerous volcano to ever erupt.  And we’ve time traveled to the day of the eruption!” “You make that sound like it’s a good thing.” Ditzy said. “Well, really it’s not that bad. We’ll just watch it erupt and then we can jump into the TARDIS and be completely safe. Wait. No, we don’t have the TARDIS.” The Doctor said. “Um, excuse me, but do you know what’s going on?” Fluttershy approached and asked. The other five arrived and stood next to Fluttershy just before the Doctor explained. “You were all ponies before. Well, this is planet Earth, far from Equestria. We’re standing in front of Mt. Vesuvius in Rome, at 79 A.D., which is a time. I’ve got some good news and some bad news. Mt. Vesuvius is deadly and we should run because in a minute, it will erupt. When it erupts, it will take less than 30 seconds for us all to be destroyed by an avalanche of lava and various pyroclastic materials. So we get to have fun running for our lives.” The Doctor was said this as if he was going to a really fun amusement park. Rainbow on the other hoof was not as enthusiastic. “Oh yeah great. WHAT’S THE GOOD NEWS?!” The Doctor replied immediately. “That was the good news. The bad news is we don’t have the TARDIS so we probably won’t escape in time.” Fluttershy was about to faint. Twilight changed the subject to avoid more conversation of them dying. “Well... we haven’t been properly introduced. I’m Twilight Sparkle, and these are my friends, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash.” “I’m the Doctor, and this is my assistant, Ditzy.” He said. Ditzy nodded a greeting, but, oddly out of character, she didn’t feel like talking. Fluttershy wouldn’t accept death as an answer. And, looking at her friends, she knew they had the same thoughts. “I h-have an idea. We can r-ride on the d-d-dragon.” Fluttershy suggested, summoning all of her courage. Even though she was afraid of dragons, she would rather face a dragon than lava. All at once they thought this: ‘Well that’s nice. A dragon followed us here.’ “But he’ll kill us.” Rainbow said plainly. “Well, we can do it without the dragon noticing.” Fluttershy recommended, getting a bit more confident. Her friends nodded, admiring Fluttershy’s bravery and cleverness as they always do when she comes through in times of crisis. “I’ll consider it a good thing and a bad thing that a dragon came with us.” Twilight decided. “It’ll be really dangerous. Fantastic!” The Doctor said. He was smiling with excitement. They prepared to sneak onto the low-flying dragon’s back as Rarity said, “Why must we always choose between certain death and probable death?” “Ah dunno, Sugarcube. But it’s kinda fun sometimes if ya think about it.” AJ replied, lassoing her rope around the dragon’s tail. The eight climbed grabbed the rope and held it tightly, which Fluttershy discovered was easier with hands. But she still wanted to be a pony again. They looked behind them to see the eruption, which was pretty cool besides the fact that it was destroying half the Roman Empire.

Shadowblade sat there watching Luna and Cadence as they destroyed his teleporter. Once they had done a good deal of destruction, he spoke. “Well, great job destroying their only way of getting home. I appreciate it, really I do. I didn’t feel like wrecking it myself.” The terrible truth hit the two princesses. Both had the same thought: how could they have been so stupid? “Guards! Kindly show these ladies to their doom, will you?” Shadowblade ordered the guards standing next to him. The six guards replied in unison. “Yes sir!” They saluted and charged at Luna and Cadence, who easily took them out by simple magic and some kicks. The two dashed out of Canterlot Castle to try and make a plan to get the six back.

The dragon landed and everything went much more smoothly than Fluttershy had thought it would. Mt. Vesuvius was no longer a threat to  them, but there was the matter of the dragon, who had found out they were hitching a ride on his tail. “I’ll get working on a teleporter to get back. Come on, Ditzy.” The Doctor and Ditzy went to make a teleporter, leaving the six in the midst of the dragon. Fluttershy had no idea what to do, so she started to climb up the dragon’s back. The other five were distracting the dragon so Fluttershy could do whatever she was going to do. Rainbow Dash found a knife lying on the ground. She picked it up and threw it to Applejack, who caught it by the blunt side of the blade. “AJ! Get the knife to Fluttershy!” Rainbow yelled. Applejack nodded and tossed the knife to Twilight, pointing to Fluttershy.

Understanding, Applejack’s gesture, Twilight handed the blade to Rarity. “Get it to Fluttershy.” She said. Rarity dodged a fireball from the dragon just before it incinerated her. She threw it to Pinkie Pie, who was closest to the dragon. “Here, Fluttershy!” Pinkie said, tossing the knife up to her. Fluttershy, who was hanging from the dragon’s wing, caught the blade and climbed up the dragon’s neck. Her friends continued to distract the dragon when Fluttershy was on the dragon’s head. She heard Rainbow Dash yell, “Stab him!” Fluttershy was hesitant, she didn’t want to kill an animal but knew she had to do it or it would kill her friends. She brought the knife down into the dragon’s skull. The dragon fell to the ground, making it easy for Fluttershy to get down. They all high-fived Fluttershy for stabbing the dragon and walked to where the Doctor and Ditzy were.

The Doctor was finished working on his teleporter to Equestria. “Well, we did it, Ditzy. We made a teleporter! Brilliant!” “We did it? I didn’t even do anything. I don’t even know what you’re doing!” She retorted, still confused with the whole situation. Just as their new friends approached, they were both struck by some death-like ray. Fluttershy gasped to see that they looked completely unaffected, but weren’t. Shadowblade had turned them evil through the teleporter. The two evil ponies jumped through the teleporter, but the Doctor cut some of the wires as they left, breaking the teleporter. Now the six were truly stranded. They didn’t know how to fix the teleporter. So how would they get home?

Fluttershy didn’t know what to do until she heard Twilight speak. “I can try to fix the teleporter. It’ll take some time but I think I can repair it.” Being a super-smart-smarty-smart- pants, as Pinkie Pie would say, Twilight was perfect for the job. Fluttershy was happy that they were able to come up with a solution so quickly, but Rainbow dashed up, panting. She spoke urgently between breaths. “Guys! Romans! Attacking!” Fluttershy frowned. Romans? Why now? “Twilight, you fix the teleporter, we’ll cover ya. Come on ya’ll!” Applejack said. Fluttershy hid behind the broken teleporter in fright, only to be dragged away from it by Rainbow Dash. Fluttershy was hesitant to step into battle. She watched at first as Rarity smashed one in the face. After a minute she jumped into battle. She knew she had to help her friends. She heard Pinkie Pie, who had an idea, yelling over the fracas. “Rainbow Dash! Applejack! Get to the other side and fight the leader guy, we’ll fight the others!” The two ponies nodded and were off. They flipped over the Roman soldiers and sped through the army to get to the general. Fluttershy, Pinkie, and Rarity were surrounded by soldiers. The three of them stood back to back and fought like never before. Pinkie took a spear to the shoulder. She screamed and fell in pain. Rarity and Fluttershy immediately dropped down to help her, but knowing that they were surrounded, Pinkie Pie chose to remain stoic and keep fighting. She pulled the spear out of her shoulder and stood up. The three continued their brawl.

Applejack and Rainbow Dash were battling the general with the spears they picked up from dead soldiers. The battle was quick and easy for the two, who were not exactly seasoned warriors like the Roman general, but they could put up a good fight. They quickly ran back to where the others were to assist them. When they were back together, they noticed that the Roman archers were taking action. “Well what now?” Rainbow asked, completely open to ideas. “There’s nothing to hide behind so retreatin’ wouldn’t do us any good. Ah say we charge ‘em recklessly.” Applejack suggested. Fluttershy nodded. There were no better ideas. They all ran towards the army, getting showered with arrows. They didn’t stop because the arrows hit them in the arms and shoulders and a few in the legs, but luckily, none of them were hit where any vital organs are. They threw themselves on the army, soon joined by Twilight, who had finished the teleporter. The six beat the crap out of the remaining soldiers. After it was done, they all yanked the arrows out and fell on the ground, extremely exhausted from the battle. “Well that was fun.” Rainbow muttered quietly.

After a while they got up, ready to go home. “Wow. Great job fixing it, Twilight.” Said Fluttershy. “Thanks, Fluttershy.” Twilight replied. The six stepped through the teleporter. They were finally saying bye to Rome. The teleporter worked.

Shadowblade smiled. The six were gone, and their army turned evil. Everything was going his way. He was looking outside a window when he saw another army, fighting his. He grabbed his staff and dashed outside, hitting everypony that he saw. In a matter of minutes he had turned them all evil. “Sir! They ambushed us!” Said a guard, panting from running to tell the news. Shadowblade was not tired of fighting. He followed the guard to the place of the attack. Same as last time, he turned them all evil. Another squad, turned evil. His army was now bigger than ever. But when he went back outside to see if anypony else was there, he saw something impossible. Completely impossible.

The six dashed towards Canterlot. Fluttershy could scream out of excitement. She had hooves and wings. She was a pony again. Rainbow Dash was flying, clearly enjoying having her wings back. They ran extremely fast thanks to the wonder of adrenaline. Fluttershy was ready for Equestria to be fixed. It was almost over. She kept telling herself that they’d win, but she stopped when she saw the size of Shadowblade’s army.