Chapters It was a normal day in Pony ville… well other then the massive rain clouds that the weather ponies can’t control, the rampaging animals, and so on and so forth.--- Twilight’s house
The door opens as a silver coated stallion walks in. Agh I hate book's why does she have to live in a library. Huh for a librarian she does not keep well organized... well there all book about magical storms maybe she's been trying to stop the storm, the stallion walks over and opens a book. Oh this book tells you the spell to start a magical storm, eh like I need that. Oh crud I almost forgot why I was here.
“Uh, hello! Is anyone here?”
“Yes, how may I help you” Twilight replies walking down the stairs
“Um, yes I’m looking for a pony named… oh what was it. Um day …light. No, no that’s not it um moon light then… uh that could be-”
“Is the pony you’re looking for Twilight Sparkle?”
“Oh yes that’s it, do you know where I can find her.”
“Well sure, I’m Twilight Sparkle” This guys not too smart is he?
“Oh, perfect. Well, Miss. Sparkle I was sent by princess Celestia.”
“if she needed to get a hold of me why did she not send a note to spike?”
“All of the stuff going on is interfering with her ability to do so. That is why I was sent. We need to gather the 6 envoys of friendship”
“Envoys of friendship?”
“Oh sorry that’s what we called the other incarnates of friendship, I knew all of them!”
“There where others? Wait so how old does that make you?”
“… Uh… There’s no time to lose hurry and take me to the other envoys”
"Wait would you at least let me clean this place up, I don't want to leave spike in a mess" A giant flash occurs and the house is put back in order. What did he just do... I've never seen a spell like that, just who, or what is this guy.
"Now lets go! we have no time to lose."--- Pinkie’s house
As twilight and the unknown pony walks in… come to think of it I have yet to tell you readers the name of this pony. Well… LIVE WITH IT! Anypony, as Twilight and the silver stallion walks in they are greeted by Mrs. And Mr. Cake
“hello, ma’am, I’m looking for a pony name… oh crud what was it again. Uh blueie cake, uh” Twilight face hooves
“It’s Pinkie pie!”
“Oh, yeah… my bad.” Pinkie pie comes bounding down the stairs
“Oh Twilight and-” *GASP* “A new pony, This is cause for a PARTY!”
“No, sorry but now is not the time for a party miss. Pie” after a quick explanation the three head out to get the other four ponies.--- On the road to sweet apple acres
*Boom* *Flash* *Flash*
"Oh, no this is not going to be good." *Crackle* A lightning blot just barely misses Pinkie the static de-frizzed her hair, but if you've seen 'The best night ever' you know what happens next.
"Ah, Pinkie are you alright!"
"Okie Doki Loki."
"Believe me on our quest lightning is the last think that's gonna be on you mind" A large downpour starts to happen but before it hits any of them the rain is repelled.
"Wow that's amazing, how are you doing that sir?"
"Doing what?" Wait but I'm not doing this. it has to be him, well or pinkie, but that impossible. I think, with pinkie pie you never know.
After a little a little the stallion starts to look tired. *Huff* *Huff* *Huff*
"Are you going to be OK?"
"Oh I just don't walk much." Oh, man is he still gonna lie about that spell. Wait a second, Not that I would know but this spell is not nearly as powerful as the one he pull off in my house, could it just be that he was tired after the spell? No it did not look like he was tired, plus he knew that he was going to have to go on a long trip, is he really that stupid, or... is he faking it. Now that I think about it he seems a little... off.
"Oh I know what will help sarsaparilla!"
"Ma'am, *Huff* not to be rude but.. you do know that would just have a... diuretic effect on me right. *Huff*"
"Di- ru what?" the stallion chuckles a little.
"Diuretic; it mean it would dehydrate him" Finally they get to the Apple family barn, it looks like it's mostly in one piece but it does have a few shillings missing, the whether vane was torn off, Oh and the cow that went though the side.--- Applejack's house
The ponies go into the barn to take cover from a the ever strong downpour.
“*Huff* *Huff* Well I’m glad where out of the rain… but now we have to wait for the storm to pass to find… oh um… frosted flakes, cocoa puffs, hunnynut-” Well that was a quick recovery..?
“APPLEJACK! Woo I win I love games let’s play again!”
“You girls looking for me”
“Hay, I may be small but I’m a guy”
“Oh, sorry sugercube.”
“Yeah anyway if your Miss. Applejack then I need to explain something to you.”--- Just outside Fluttershy’s cottage
“Wait, No please calm down, no Angel don’t kick the fox.”
"Excuse me but are you flutter... uh rage,"
"Agh, Fluttershy"
"Oh, yes thank you again Miss. Twilight. but Miss. Fluttershy we need to speak-" Angel starts to run off Applejack stands at ready as the bunny start to hop to her, Just as angel get's in range of applejack's jump attack (whoops this is a story not a game my bad anyway) applejack lunges, but angel jumps back, after Applejack hit's the ground Angel leaps on her head. All of the ponies try valiantly to catch the slippy hare, all but the silver stallion. He stands there completely still, with his eyes closed. Damn these ponies can't do anything can they. When he opens his eyes the cattails around the pond start to fly and bind Angel.
"Now let's get a move on! we don't have time to play with the wild life!"
"Um, uh sorry, then what where you looking for me for?"
"I'll tell you on the way we've already lost to much time."--- Rarity's house
"Welcome to carousel boutique, where ever garment is sheek, unique, and magnific."
"Miss. Rarity is now really the time to be selling garments?"
"Any time is a good time good sir."
"Wait, how can you remember her name but now any of ours?"
"Well uh, it's three syllables"
"So is pinkie pie, well come to think about it I'm the only one who has over three."
"Well, I ... uh... then I have no idea. Uh back to the matter at hand, Miss. Rarity there is something that I need to talk to you about." After a brief explanation of about 2 hours
"I see, then we mustn't wait lets go." Twilight rolls her eyes Was I the only one who realizes that explanation took longer then the other, well at least he did not go into his life story, that would have taken forever, who knows how old he is.
As they walk out of the boutique Rarity looks up it the tree and sees Opalescence there "Opalescence darling what are you doing in that tree" Oh dear god not again, maybe I should just skip to the end and blow the cat out of the tree... oh that might hurt the cat... I like cats. after a little bit they manage to get the cat out of the tree.
"You know I wonder why Opalescence is the only animal not to be effected by this... this."
"Distortion the word you looking for Twilight?"
"I guess that works."
"Well let's go! Dashie's the only pony left!"
"Miss. Pie is right we almost have all of the envoy of friendship."--- Rainbow's cloud house
"Miss. Fluttershy only you can fly and walk on clouds, would you mind going and getting...Uh..."
"Rainbow Dash..."
"Thanks... again. would you mind getting Miss. Dash" after Fluttershy flies and lands on the cloud she knocks the door... no response, she knocks again still no response.
"Agh I'm losing time."
"Don't you mean were losing time"
"Um yeah that's what I meant to say"
"If I were her I'd be at sugar cube corner! of course if I was anyone I would be at sugar cube corner"
"Miss. Pie I highly doubt she's at sugar cube corner, being that's where you were"
"You ponies looking for me, Oh whose the new girl," the stallion turns around in frustration
"I'm a guy! Anyway now that all of the envoy of friendship is here I ca-"
"Dude, what's the envoy of friendship"
"Just shut up and listen Miss. Dash!"
"No pony talks to me like that" Rainbow dashes at the silver stallion, his horn starts to glow. She flies right though him and smashes into a rock, some rope on his side starts at her, it hog ties and gags her, he wipes his hooves "That should take care of the problem, now sit there like a good pony and listen. now, not that you could miss it but there's been a lot of weird things happen around pony ville, we believe the source is a magical conductor somewhere in the Everfree forest it's our job to go find out if that is really the problem and put a stop to it if it is." They all look at rainbow still bound and gagged "Now I can unite you if you promise not to attack me again, or of course though I could just carry your across the ground for the whole trip" he smiles a little and then ungags her.
"Looks like I have no chose do I?"
"Not really Miss. Dash"
"Fine just untie me!" he unties her. after standing up she growls at him, the stallion just laughs and starts for the Everfree forest--- The entrance to the Everfree forest
"Well ladies should we go"
"Yes" they all say in their own way
"Oh wait" the silver one draws a clock on his wrist (Do ponies have wrists) "Would you look at the time, it's time to break for the next chapter"
"Who are you talking too?" Pinkie pie turns and answers for the stallion
"The audience silly, well you all have a nice day and we hope to see you in the next chapter. Oh and guys don't you think there's something kinda creepy with silver guy, it makes me want to laugh!"
"did you just call me creepy?"
---Just inside the Everfree Forest
"Ah the Everfree Forest, Glad to be back," The silver stallion take a deep breath, "Same great smell. Well remember girls The Everfree Forest can be a very dangerous place." Just as he finished a humongous wave of fire fly's by and singes of part of Rarity's mane
"NNNNNOOOOO!!! OF ALL THINGS THIS IS THE. WORSE. POSSIBLE. THING!!!!"
"Now is not the time to- Crap" Another wave, this one would have burnt the whole cast- or party sorry, if not for the barrier made by vor- (Oh, almost gave away the name... well to bad you have to wait a little longer) tossed up.
Rainbow puts her dukes up "What ever it is I'll turn it into mince meat!"
"No miss. Dash-" *pant* *pant* "I think it's a dragon," *pant* "I just hope- hope it's not a onyx back"
"An onyx back, I read about that once, It's the strongest and most aggressive dragon to ever live, if it is were all dead." A golden dragon with a black back raises above the tree line, starting to beat her wings, massive torrents of wind push the trees down like they were twigs, The stallion and other pony's soon realize that there worst fears just came true. the onyx back gets ready to launch another fire ball,
"Darn it, I might not be able to hold this one back!" Well what's it to me, I'm not going to die, wait, but the envoy might! Man, this sucks! He puts up another barrier. The fire strikes it, at first it hold, but then starts to wavier. more and more time passes and the dragon does not let up, soon cracks start to appear in the barrier, it starts to implode. but then the barrier starts to return to full. Twilight and Rarity stand next to there savior, horns aglow, he falls to the ground.
"Hold... that... for a" he starts to cough up blood, "for a... little, I can stop the dragon... just hold" the dragon stop to catch her breath, but soon starts up again. "O- Ok I think I'm ready," the stallion gets up unsteady and starts to cast a spell. A beam of black comes out of his horn pierces thought the barrier. the fire dissipates and the dragon is seen with a hole in the right side of the chest. Oh, crap I missed the heart... this is going to hurt. with the last of her Strength the dragon readies one more shot. and fires, it was only strong enough to toast the stallion, but it was still strong. After that the dragon bursts into flames
"Wha-what just happened twilight? Why did he kill it," Fluttershy starts to cry.
"If he did not put his life on the line, and sacrifice him self then we would have died, and don't worry about the dragon. Like the phoenix, it is reborn, but it will take 3 million years for it to get as strong as that one."
"So then sugarcube, that was an adult." a weak laughter starts.
"No... miss. Applejack... that was... but a baby, it takes about..." the group surrounds the stallion, as the front of his black mane turns silver. Twilight barks, "Stop talking save your strength, and-" Rainbow interjects "Dude! that was wicked, how did you survive that!" before he could answer he passes out. the stallion wakes up to a strange smell, looking around he sees weird masks. Ah zecora's right... wait crap, she'll know, I've got to get out now. Popping up the stallion quickly says
"Were running out of time, we need to move out now"
"Sugercube, yah need your rest."
"I'm fine, lets go!" the six look around, then look to Twilight. Twilight sighs
"Fine, Ponies lets move out!"
---Somewhere deep in the Everfree Forest
"You know, it's bugging me, we've be following you for sometime now, and we have yet to even know your name. I'm not gonna take a single step until you tell us your name."
"I could just hog tie you again." rainbow hovers slightly.
"I wont miss this time"
"Some how I don't believe you, but I suppose I see no harm in me telling you my name... It's Vortex. Now would you please get a move on." Rainbow glares at Vortex
"What ever, but don't think this means I accept you or any thing."
"Good, I would hate to be accepted by a brute like you."
"Agh! that's it!" Rainbow dashes at Vortex, yet he steps to the side and Rainbow crashes into Pinkie pie, they start to roll down a hill, then fall down the side of a large cliff, all of the ponies except Vortex go running for the hills.
"Do you think there going to be alright?" Rarity asks. Twilight falls to the ground and starts to twitch.
"What are we going to with out them how are we going to stop what's happening in Pony Ville, it's going to have a vortex of doom over it for ever...." Wait, vortex... no. no way he's with Celestia right... well he definitely has the power to do something like that. Agh I have no time to think about that now, I have to help Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie!
"Miss. Twilight, we can make it down over there, and don't worry I'm sure a brute like that would survive that, and miss. Pie, well for all I know she rip a hole in space and time to save herself"
the two ponies start to hop down on rocks that are protruding out from the cliff side. They get down, luck fully they ended up very close to where pinkie and rainbow landed, Rainbow dash seemed find but pinkie was unconscious. Vortex walks over, and after a quick analysis, "She'll be fine, but she needs to rest. See Miss. Dash, what your recklessness can lead to."
"I meant to toss you down a cliff" she looks to the side, "Not pinkie."
"I can levitate and teleport, how would tossing me down a cliff hurt."
"What if I knocked you out."
"Well~ that might work, but it's beside the point, we need to get pinkie to a better place." His horn starts to shimmer, and poof, the four ponies are teleported up the cliff and to safety. after sometime pinkie wakes up,
"Oh thank Celestia, your all right." the ponies say in unison, even vortex.
"Wow, my head feels funny."
"It will for a little, but you'll live. well you better, I need you."
"Ah, Vortex that creepy, you just met her."
"Shut up you brute, that's not what I meant!" But her flank is q- Vortex this is E rated careful what you think Wait you can read my mind Well of course this is omniscient 3th after all. that make's no sense to me
"Hey mister narrator, can we get on with the story" Ah Pinkie you can hear me! "Well yah, can we all" Pink and Vortex look at the other five as they shake there head
"Guess where 20% cooler."
"Hey that's my line!" Never mind, I'm breaking to the next scene.
as there walking Twilight look at Vortex's blank flank,
"So, Vortex, it's been bugging me, why do you have no cutie mark"
"I don't know, I just never got it, It bugged me too for a long time. But I've just been ignoring the fact."
"Maybe you should join the cutie mark crusader you blank flank."
"Rainbow Dash that was rude, apologize."
"Oh no it's quite all right, I'll just gag her again if she starts to bug me." man Vortex you have some scarey fetishes Hay, you were the one that told me to keep this E rated!
"I'm gonna kill you" this time Vortex has no time to cast the spell, No wait I have time, wait don't do this to me! Rainbow crashes into him with two hoofs and knocks the wind of him.
"You bitc-" Rainbow sends one more hoof into his face before Twilight and the gang have the time to pull her off. Vortex spreads out and catches his breath. Getting up you can still see the hoof prints on his chest and face. but despite that the gang heads out with out another word. Not much happens here, they run into the blue curse flower, Rarity gets her mane dirty and eveypony has to stop for her to clean it, there attacked by snakes. you know the usual stuff that has no action at all... that's right, I said none, so deal with it, because I'm wasting away your life with my random talking and there's nothing you can do about it, well other then stop reading...... but let's face it you've come this far, why would you leave n- Oh look a cave.... I don't have ADD, I swear. damn it narrator, or what ever pinkie called you, would you stop with the filler, and get to the story. What do you mean filler all of this is release... well not really... fine on with the story
"Well girls this is the cave that we is the most likey position of the magical.... thing-a-migiger"
"Uh,"thing-a-migiger" is the best you could come up with"
"Well, yeah, kind of I can try aga~" *BUZZ~* pinkie turns to the screen.
"Well fillies and gentlecolts we'll be back after a word with or nonexistent sponsors... and narrator" What, I'm I doing something wrong?
"Ok girls this could be a very dangerous cave so stick close" just after saying this Pinkie bounds off to some random part of the cave
"Wait what did I just say!"
"calm down sugercube, this is Pinkie were talkin' bout."
"Uh, ya she should turn back up sooner or later,... I hope."
"We really should get a move on." Twilight interjects.
After a little bit of walking the grounds starts to shake, A huge roar echoes though out the cave, a stalactite falls above Rainbow Dash, before it hits shes pushed out of the way by none other then Vortex
"Can't let you get done in by falling spikes, that's my job!" Rainbow glare at him and gets ready to jump him.
"Now's not the time, I think we might have a Chimera on our hands" from around the corner a huge lion with the head of a raven and snake growing beside the lion head. "Damn I was hoping it was just rumors" the raven head attacks Applejack, but Vortex jumps in front of it and it strikes an invisible shield and starts to gnaw at it, but then it with a powerful force it's pushed off and then dissipates into thin air. Leaving the Chimera with only a snake and Lion head. a green liquid starts to drip of the snake head, when it hits the ground, the ponies realize that it is an acid,
"Girls! get beside me now!" the five do just as the snake launches a ball of the acid that was built up, the acid bounces off hit the snake head. The Chimera now starts to writhe in pain, Vortex's horn starts to glow a deep black, and a hole to another dimension opens up, and starts to pull the Chimera in. He hooks his massive claws into the ground, but in vain he gets pulled into the gate, then the gate closes. Vortex collapses onto the ground. he wakes up to Fluttershy crying,
"Oh, what wrong now."
"Wh- why did you hav- hav- have to ki- kill it!"
"I didn't I merely sent it to another dimension." granted I had no time to pick the dimension so he could be in one with no oxygen
The ponies continue, the walk pass a metal bared door. suddenly it slams shut. "Ah ha ha ha ha!" Vortex disappears in a black fire and reappear behind the door in of them, "Now that I have all six of you- Wait damnit wheres Pinkie" On cue Pinkie hops up to the door
"Here I am!"
"Agh" the door opens "Get in there!"
"Okie doki loki"
"Whats going on Vortex" Twilight demands. A cutie mark of a vortex appears on the flank.
"Well, as I'm sure you would have figured, I'm the reason for all the happening, it all started years ago, I was... the right hand horn of Celestia, but I wanted more. More... So I staged a coup, or at least tried, turns out I was set up from the start. Celestia unfortunately noticed my want for her power, and set up an... anti-coup, however." Vortex starts to smirk "I'm stronger then her, so the best she could do was to seal my power, but sometime later I found that... well I think you'll just have to see"
"I'm not going to let you do anything!" Twilight's horn starts to glow
"I'd stop that if I were you" A ball of energy forms from Twilight's horn, but then implodes and explodes slamming Twilight into the wall "I warned you, I've already put a stop to your powers, I know your way to powerful, every for being but a kid to me. Now Rainbow dash I think I'll start with you." A power flows though everypony and rainbow is lifted and and teleported to vortex and then dragged off deeper into the cave.
"What is going on here, what..." Vortex comes back alone with a single light blue wing.
"Rainbow, No don't tell me you-"
"That's right I absorbed her energy, her power now runs though me!"
"Next will be lets see, oh I know I'll make Twilight pick! oh that's will be fun!"
"What!" the five ponies gasp in unison
"Now Twilight the first one that comes to mind please..." Vortex cocks his head and smiles mockingly.
"But how do I chose! there all my friends I cant pick one of them to die."
"Oh no they don't die, they just become part of me. however they will start to fade after time. Yet that's no matter!"
"Twi pick me"
"What no Applejack I cant." Applejack walks up to the door.
"Twi picks me"
"I did not pi-"
"Sush Sugercube just find a way to stop him."
"Unlikely. Well that's no fun picking for her. Whatever it will all end the same" Applejack is then dragged away. Vortex comes back with a cowboy hat on, and now has a black front mane. Twilight is hunched over crying in a corner along with the other four. "Well it seems your in no condition to pick so, eeny meeny miny Fluttershy," one again the pony is taken to the back.
*Sniff*"Girls I have a plan, we will all hide near the door when he comes in to check were we are will jump him."
this Time Vortex comes back with a yellow wing, then both the wings turn back to black. Vortex looked around and sees none of them They do know I can feel there energy, it's just too bad I can't pin point it yet. Then I could take them straight from there hiding spots, I guess I got to go in Vortex opens the door and walks in.
"now girls" Rarity and Twilight come from the sides,
"One, Two... wait wheres the other one" Pinkie drops on him like a rock, making him fall Above, didn't expect that. Vortex coughs up a little blood.
"DAMN!" Vortex blows Rarity and Twilight to the side and drags Pinkie back.
"Wait no Pinkie!" Vortex comes back with a black puffed up mane, and the girls can't help but laugh.
"Sh- shut up, This is not the time to be laughing, I'm done with this!" He takes Rarity and takes her back. When he comes back the door is broke down and Twilight is standing there with a fiery look in her eye.
"Vortex give me back my friends!"
"Well although I'm not sure it would be possible, you can try as hard as you like! But there nothing you cant do with other your friends, your worthless with out your friends. Even with your friends you were nothing that grand! So come at me with all your might" Vortex spreads his new wings now the size of Twilight herself.
"There's no way I'm letting it end like this!" Twilight charges a bolt and fires directly at Vortex but it reflects of an invisible wall and hits the ceiling, causing a slew of stalactites to fall covering Vortex from view "Damn where did he go!"
"Over here." calls a voice from behind, quickly Twilight looses another bolt "Because that worked... so well last time." once again the blot reflects this time hitting the floor, puffing up smoke. Alas once more Vortex was hidden in smoke. From every direction Twilight hears laughter "I could just kill you now you know, but this is so much fun."
"Show your self!" Vortex appears right in front of Twilight almost touching nose to nose.
"Boo!" Twilight jumps back several feet, staggers on a rock and trips. "Well now, back to business, any last requests, no... never mind I don't care, I'm not going to honor them anyway." Vortex starts to chant as three black lights begin to swirl around Twilight. One of them hits Twilight knocking her to the ground, another one goes for her.
"No!" a barrier forms around Twilight reflecting the orb at Vortex
"What?" it hits, Vortex falls on a knee "How, how did you do that? That's impossible! Ugh no matter, that was just for show, and to stop resistance, oh and numb the pain. It seems now where going to have to do this the painful way." A darkness starts to envelop Twilight as she can feel the energy being suck from her body "ha ah ah, now I've won and there's nothing you can do with out your friends."
"No..." I- I'm sorry everypony I failed you all... No! No we've been though to much to let it end here, all the good times, for once in my life I had some friends, and I'm not going to let some power hungry pony take that away Twilight starts to glow a burst of light is loosed it starts to pulse out ward growing every time. It covers Vortex and five lights start to spin around him, A pink one, white, sky blue, yellow, and orange.
"What are these damned things" Twilight gets up now unaffected by Vortex's magic "What, no that's impossible"
"I- I get it, you may have absorbed my friends energy, but not there soul. Your body's now like oil waiting to go, now I just need to give it a spark."
"What? What are you talk-" Twilight's horn glows and the lights fall on Vortex when they hit a bright light is cast "Agh~!" When the light falls back, the five pony lay on the ground unconscious, and Vortex is nowhere to be found.
"Thank Celestia it's over" *Yawn* "I'm so tired"
"H- ha don't... you go thinking.. ah..... it's over. Huh, she fell asleep... that will just make it all the more fun if she does not know. Remember now, I'm immortal."
To be continued