The Ultimate Lifeform In Equestria

Shadow stood inside the space colony ARK, looking out to the stars. Dr. Gerald Robotnik, Maria, and Shadow were all in a picture he clutched in his hand, his family. With a quiet sigh he looked at the picture as he finalized in his head what he was about to do.

"Goodbye forever....Shadow the hedgehog." he said as he turned and tossed the photo, putting everything behind him as he went toward the transporter to head back to Earth. Once in however he realized something was off, it was sparking, it never sparks.

"What the?!" He exclaimed as he was engulfed in a bright light and whisked away to somewhere.

Twilight looked at Nightmare Moon with renewed vigor, "You think you can destroy the elements so easily? Well you can't, for the spirits of the Elements of Harmony are right here!"  she proclaimed as 5 other ponies arrived and stood near the lavender colored unicorn.

"Wh-what?!" Nightmare Moon gasped as the shards began to float and gather.

"Applejack, Fluttershy, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, and Rainbow Dash. Represent Honesty, Kindness, Generosity, Laughter, and Loyalty." Twilight said as the shards encircled each of the five distinct mares.

"These five ponies got us through every challenge you threw at us!" Twilight said triumphantly. Nightmare Moon was taken aback, knowing this looked bad she quickly thought of a way to reassure herself of her victory.

"You still don't have the sixth element. The spark didn't work!" The black alicorn stated, feeling more confident.

"But it did." she said as she turned to the others. "If it wasn't for you girls, we wouldn't even have gotten this far, I wouldn't have gotten this far." She smiled happily "When I heard your voices calling to me I could feel this rush of magic well up inside me. This spark I felt was ignited within me when I realized you girls are all my friends!" She proclaimed with gusto.

"You see nightmare moon, when this spark ignites in all our hearts it creates the sixth element. The element of Magic!" the six mares were engulfed in a bright light, each gaining a necklace with a gem in the shape of their cutie mark on it. Save for Twilight, as she was given a crown. They bodies began to float as pure magic seeped out of them, creating a rainbow that engulfed nightmare moon in a torrent of bright colors.

"No!" Nightmare screamed as she was finally defeated. The room soon dimmed as the light show ended, the girls all on the floor and slowly picking themselves up. They soon realized they had the elements around their necks, each one ecstatic about it.

"Gee Twilight, I thought you were just spouting a lot of hooey, but I reckon we really do represent the elements of friendship" Applejack said

"indeed you do." a regal voice said as Princess Celestia arrived along with the sunrise of the new day. The five ponies bowed to her as Twilight ran up to her.

"Princess Celestia!" she exclaimed happily as she went up to her mentor and they exchanged a small hug

"Twilight Sparkle, my faithful student" Celestia said with pride. "I knew you could do it"

"But you told me it was all an Old Pony Tale." Twilight said confused.

"I told you that you needed to make some friends, nothing more" she clarified "I saw the signs of Nightmare Moon's return, and I knew you had the magic inside to defeat her, but you could not unleash it unless you let true friendship into your heart"

"That makes a lot of sense when you think about it." Twilight said, smiling happily.

The girls all looked at each other with smiles. "Now if only another will as well" Celestia said as she approached a pile of armor where a blue alicorn was. "Princess Luna" at the mention of her name Luna gasped and tried to make herself as small as possible as Celestia knelt down beside her. "It has been a thousand years since I've last seen you like this. Time to put our differences behind us. We were meant to rule together little sister."

"Sister?" the six mares each asked in shock at this revelation.

"Will you accept my friendship?" Celestia asked as she stood up. The girls all watching with held breath, hoping she would accept the offer of friendship and patch things up with her sister.

Luna thought for a moment before jumping up and nuzzling her sister as she cried in joy. "I'm so sorry. I missed you so much big sister"

Celestia with tears in her eyes could only smile, "I missed you too."

Pinkie began to cry before snapping back to her happy self "hey you know what this calls fo-huh?" Pinkie said, noticing something a few feet away. Twilight and the others turned and felt their eyes widen as they gazed upon a creature they had never seen before. It was wearing gloves and strange footwear. it was black and crimson and seemed to be unconscious.

"What in tarnation is that thing?" Applejack asked.

"I have no idea, but we're going to find out" Twilight said. Celestia looked to her student with concern.

"Twilight, are you certain?" she asked, not really sure why Twilight would even consider taking something potentially dangerous back with her. Yet she had confidence in her student, awaiting her answer.

"Well it wasn't here before, so I'd like to find out what this thing is and why it's here" she said, her mind displaying that deadly curiosity of hers. Celestia nodded in understanding.

"Very well, then I will assist you in getting it back to your library." she said as she used her magic to gently lift the figure, making sure not to jostle it around.

"My library?" she asked curious as to what she meant by that.

"Of course, that's where you'll be staying while you discover all you can about friendship" Celestia said. Twilight began to jump around happily, feeling ecstatic that she was going to stay in ponyville with her friends. Once that was taken care of Celestia left with them all, returning to Ponyville where she set Shadow on the couch of the library before Pinkie began setting up a celebratory party for all that had transpired.

A few hours later Twilight returned home, exhausted from partying. "Whoo, that was some party. It's good to be home though" she said

"Wonderful" a voice said from behind her, masculine and quite chilling since she never heard a voice like it before. "Then perhaps you'd be the right one to ask where I am?" Twilight turned, shaking a bit, her gaze meeting the intense firey ruby gaze of the very creature that was put on her couch. he was awake, and he didn't look happy.