Visitors from above

-Meanwhile in the Time Rift-

Picture a black room, with monitors everywhere, and ... hum ... ok, picture the TARDIS, except with a desk instead of the buttons.

K Psycho sat idly at his desk. He found it weird that he didn't bother to write any chapter during an entire week, and even weirder that he was narrating himself. "Dammit," he said, looking at one of his Matrix-like screens. "Why would I re-write episodes from the show ? It's boring, for both me and the reader(s) !" So he thought for a moment.

"That's it. Imma makin' a good, original aventure for the 'Nauts. Yeah, definitely. Back to work !" He said, as he used his author powers to change the scene.

-Meanwhile, in a giant mansion in the Everfree forest-

The mercs were idling. Not like an unusual hat was gonna fall on their or something, but they couldn't do anything, really. Princess Celestia decided that a bodyguard constantly watching over her faithful student would shorten the development of friendship. She asked the mercenaries' autoproclaimed leader, Voltar the omniscient, if he agreed with this, and in his complete inexperience in business, he accepted.

They wouldn't be paid anymore, since there was nothing else they could do. Crush, burn, exterminate, that was what they were good at. So they were out of job. Sure, they were extremely rich and wealthy, but they really missed their job : unstoppable killing, forever, without any possibility of permanent death. So they wandered.

One day, Clunk the noticeable - which was an understatement since he was almost as tall as Celestia herself - went in town to buy food. Not like they needed it, the healing wave of Voltar fed, too, but Leon was constantly complaining about the lack of 'Rafeenay' food. While stomping through the market place, Clunk noticed a big board, relatively new. On it, a single poster, that immediately grabbed his attention, as much by the face printed on it than by what was written :

'WANTED : Foalnapper, Thief. REWARD : 30.000 bits'

-Later, in Ponyville-

The Mayor had a lot of work. She was the busiest mare in the entire town, actually, since the bane of bureaucracy awaited her everyday : paperwork. She expected the usual, ponies buying land, ponies selling land, ponies renting land ... however, what she did not expect, was somepony to volunteer for the Big White Board's mission. A malefic unicorn, calling himself 'Dark Shadow' - Worst. Name. Ever. - recently foalnapped a bunch of ... eh, foals. The entire town started panicking : this never happened before ! ... well, maybe it did, but after so many years of peace, no one expected any crime to happen. The foals would have been lost, if another unicorn, didn't have the time to hear where Dark Shadow was taking them : the Everfree forest. That one Everfree forest, that no one dared to approach.

The criminal scum also gave a price : if a thousand bits were put in a bag near the cottage at the entrance of the forest, the foals would come back safe and sound. Unfortunately, Ponyville being the poor town it was, couldn't afford that amount. So they waited for a classic bar hero to present himself. They didn't get one, but six heroes. And they were ready to kick butts and chew tobacco. ... actually, forget about the tobacco.

After a few negociations, mainly consisting of "Are you sure you're strong enough" and "Yeah, now let us go", our six protagonists bravely defied danger, wherever it was hiding. And out of all the hideaways they saw, this one wasn't really hidden. Right after they stepped into the forest, they saw the old castle where they fought the shadow ponies, with a jolly roger flag yelling 'HAI WI R HEER' to everypony on it. Without any hesitation, they stepped in, the door closing behind them.

"Finally, you came, citizens of Ponyville ..." said a muffled voice from inside. "I hope you have the money, otherwise you'll never ever see your precious fo-"

A dynamite to the face rudely interrupted him, as he cowered back, letting a girly scream ring through the castle. "Yeah, ah heard dem villain speech tons o' time already !" Said the pegasus responsible for his demise.

He got back on his hooves, and yelled "Seize them !" But nothing happened. Taking a look around, he noticed all of his associates ran like hay as fast as possible. The leader of the group facing him floated forward. Yes, floated, as in, no hooves. His head wasn't very reassuring neither, since he was a basically a three-eyed brain in a glass bulb.

"Ve can do this vhe easy way." He said, despite not having any mouth. "You can eivher give uns vhe foals, and come with uns in town so you can have a judgement."

Dark Shadow drew a cocky grin, the foals behind him surrounded by a black aura. "Or else ?" He said, taking a step backwards. "I've got hostages, if you try anything, they die !" He felt confident for the first time since these weird ponies entered the castle.

Voltar just laughed. In his machiavelic, german voice. No offense. "Ah, nein, nein, nein nein ... alas, mein Freund, would you mind showing me vhese powers of yours ?" He hovered forwards. Dark Shadow frowned, the aura becoming more intense. "Ich habe already analyzed your magical strengvh." Said Voltar, a small hovering eye-bot coming from his cloak. "Vhey are close to vhis filly's." the bot floated towards a white coated foal.

Dark Shadow stopped. His hooves stopped. His entire body stopped. His darkest secret was revealed : he sucked at magic. A lot. But he couldn't let go now : he was so close to becoming rich enough to enslave every unicorn he met ! He was going to be a big pony, high in society, the type of villain you only meet once in a blue moon. "You've got me this time ..." he declared, all of his confidence back in a blink of an eye. "BUT I'LL BE BA-"

BLAM

"Clunk is annoyed by little black pony." Said the bulky earth pony who's heavy hoove landed on Dark Shadow. "So little annoying pony will remain silent for entire trip".

"I feel pe pack !" Repeated the unicorn, who lost half of his teeth.

This was a good day for the Awesomenauts, but little did they know, a Draca- a Drago- a Drak- SCREW THIS, Discord was lurking in the dark, watching them cautiously. "So much chaos," he muttered under his breath. "At least it was enough to free me ... now what evil deeds could I do ?" He layed on his back, a sofa appearing out of nowhere. "Let's see ... kill them all ? Nah, overused ..." he took notes of his ideas. "Spread corruption ? ... mmh, nah, boring, nothing exciting happens when ponies are corrupted." He flipped through his notebook, finally finding an entertaining concept. "Ha-ha ! There ! 'Create an evil castle of evil with minions everywhere, occasional mini-bosses and me as the final boss of it, then foalnap the Elements of Harmony, then wait for these crazed ponies to try and save them !' This is perfect ! And there will be so much chaos !"