Attack of the Starbridge

The sound of hooves against the stone floors of the castle was the first thing that I remember hearing. I glanced up from my bed, seeing Luna was waiting for me.

“Sister, I have some grave news for you.”

I got up and walked to the threshold where my sister was waiting. This marked the year anniversary since we put Discord into stone. What could possibly be going on?

“What is it Luna? Has somepony broken in?” I asked Luna.

“No, it is something far greater then we could ever have imagined.”

I frowned, knowing that Luna does not lie about these sorts of things. She then led me to the west tower, where we watched from an open window. I did not know what we were seeing but I knew that it would not be good, not Canterlot, or Equestria.

“What is it?” I asked my sister, her face laminated by the light that was being made.

“We know not, but we do know that they are dropping invaders. Should I send a guard to get the elements?”

“Yes, at once.”

I watched her run out of the room, then turned back to face the window. A beam of light was shining from above the clouds and hitting the ground. The moon was high in the sky and I decided to fly up above the clouds to see where the light was coming from. I broke through the clouds and my eyes widened. The light was coming from space; I tried to follow it with my sight but could not see where it led. I only knew that these ponies were not from any planet near us nor anything like us most likely.

I dropped back into the room and I got to see what these creatures were, the were grotesque figures, standing on two legs with two legs sprouting from the sides of their chest and walking up right. They were bearing swords and shields and a man, taller and broader than the rest, was leading them. He had a hammer in hand and was calling out to the men, with the beam behind him.

“This land is weak, recently overthrown. Rise men! Rise and take this land for all the Asgardians!” And the men responded with chanting one name, “Thor! Thor! Thor! Thor!”

My spirits dropped, this was an army meant for destruction, we had no choice but to fight back and most likely have to kill them.

“Sister! I have the elements! We need to activate them now if we want any chance to destroy them.”

“Wield your three and give me my three; spare the one that is their leader, we need information from him.”

“Very well sister.” Said Luna, tears starting to well up in her eyes. “I didn’t want to hurt anypony.”

I flew to her, our elements spinning around us now. As we went out of the window of the west tower I put my hoof around her and said, “It is for the protect of our land, Equestria.” I dropped my hoof and we aimed

We then shot the beam that could defeat an army of Ursa Majors and told the beam to spare the one with the hammer, the one that the men called Thor.

The beam started with the men on his left, and like a wildfire it spread to the other side and killed every single creature that came to our plant that day. The light that was hitting the ground abruptly stopped, letting Thor know that he was alone. We left the Elements spinning around us, ready fire again if needed, and flew down towards Thor.

“What sorcery is this? I could not even fire off a shot; we thought that the creature that ruled before was powerful but you have put his might to shame. What are your names?”

“Do not try and tempt us with your words,” Said Luna, “we have defeated the last ruler and put him in stone. Now your army is destroyed, and you are our prisoner. Do not make us angry or we will unleash the power given to us by these Elements of Harmony.”

He was stunned. He dropped his hammer and I tried to pick it up with my magic but it wouldn’t work. “Why can’t I pick up your hammer?”

“Only I can. And it isn’t just a Hammer it is Mjölnir. I am the only one that can wield it, and it’s powers, not even I know its fullest potential.”

I saw his expression shift slightly, almost to a safe look. I immediately went to shut it down, “We know the Elements fullest potential, and it is able to destroy anything, nothing can stand in their way. Not even Mjölnir could have a chance at defeating them.”

“We’ll see about that.” He said and grabbed the hammer from off of the ground and threw it at us, the Elements easily blocked it and it ricocheted and broke a wall of our castle.  Mjölnir went back to its master’s hand and he looked even more shocked then before. We then flew into the air and readied the Elements; then Thor spun his hammer and flew up to us and slammed downward upon the Element shield that was created by the swirling of the Elements.

“It is time for you to go back to where you came from Thor.” The beam shot at his chest. “Be gone!” Luna and I said at the same time and then in a flash of light he was gone.

Before I could say anything to Luna she went back to the tower and started to weep. I went over to her and folded my wing over her side, “Sister, it is late. I can take tonight’s watch. Get some sleep darling.”

“Are you sure you’ll be alright with raising the sun too?”

“Yes, I’ll be fine. Sweet dreams Luna. All is well now.”

But what we didn’t know was that everything wasn’t well. While we were distracted by the forces coming towards us, but there was one man who decided to not face us head on, instead he focused on poisoning the mind of my sister, and ended up driving her to wanting to overthrow me. This man, and story, is not in our history because we need ponies to believe that nothing can break the bonds of friendship, but in reality there is only one thing that can. Discord’s counterpart, Loki; the god of Chaos

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“Twilight!” Yelled Rainbow Dash as she was flying towards her friends just outside the Library. The group looked up just in time to see Dash go through a cloud and continue on her path, something she doesn’t normally do.

“What’s wrong?” Said Fluttershy in her nervous voice, more common than her normal voice though.

“I’ll tell you what’s wrong. Look.” Said RD, pointing towards the remains of the cloud that she busted through. What was behind it though, in the distance about 10 miles into the Everfree Forest was a beam of light streaming from the sky.

Twilights jaw dropped, “What the hay is that?”

“I have no idea, that’s why I came to see you.” Said Rainbow Dash in reply. “I don’t think it is something that Discord could summon up, but I do know that we are going to need to talk to the Princess”

“Okay, come inside everypony. We are going to need to go Canterlot.”

“Twilight,” Interjected Rainbow Dash, “There’s one more thing you should know.”

Twilight turned around, a fearful expression on her face, what could be MORE than this? “What is it?”

“They aren’t ponies, they seem to be like the creatures that you described when you went through the portal to the human world to get back your Element of Harmony.” Said Rainbow Dash, almost sorry that she knew.

Twilight physically stopped putting on her crown. “What?!?!?”

“Yeah, and they have armor like the old pony armor in the old castle in the Everfree Forest. There was also a man shouting, ‘off with the heads of the Two Sisters!’ He had thousands of troops, coming from that beam, all wanting revenge by the looks that they were returning to their leader. They started chanting, ‘Thor! Thor! Thor!’ as I left. This doesn’t seem to good Twilight, we need to get to Canterlot as soon as we can.”

“Okay.” Said Twilight as they were running out the door towards the train station. When they got to the station they heard a sound like a wave crashing onto the sand but muffled. They turned and saw the beam go back into the sky and then Zecora coming out of the Forest, running towards them. “Twilight I need to have a word with you and all ponies, these people that have come are not like us and have my worries. Their leader has a strong heart; he will no doubt tear us apart. There is only one thing we need, the Elements of Harmony.”

“I know about the Elements Zecora, but right now we need to get to Canterlot and inform the Queen. And besides we had to give them up to the tree of Harmony.”

“No potion or brew I cooked had an affect on them, they are like lion straight from their den. I had to flee, but my house burning down I did see.” Zecora said with sadness in her voice.

“I am sorry Zecora, honestly, but right now we need to leave.” Said Applejack.

“Well I see that it is your duty to protect Equestria it is your vow, and I say goodbye for now.” She then turned to run toward Mayor Mare.

“Let’s go girls.” Then the ponies hopped onto the train and told the conductor to go as fast as possible. We made it to Canterlot in just under a half hour. They ran all the way into the castle hall where we saw Princess Luna and Princess Celestia talking. Then the girls jogged the rest of the way into the hall and stopped at the foot of the throne when the turned around.

“Oh, Twilight, what is it that brings you to Canterlot today?” said Princess Luna.

Before Twilight could start to explain why she was there a guard came in, “Your highnesses, I have grave news from Ponyville. There was a beam of light that came from the clouds, it was pure light and then Mayor Mare said that Zecora saw an army amass outside of your old castle.”

Celestia’s face grew pale, “Get the army together, now!” Celestia said to the guard, turning to Twilight she said, “I have little time, what is you need to tell me?”

She spoke up, “I was going to say the same thing, and that the men were chanting a name, Thor I think it was.”

Rainbow Dash spoke up too, “I saw them with catapults and swords and shields and crossbows. They also had giant crossbows that were able to tear through the walls of the old castle. I would suggest that you send in an elite group to capture their leader.”

Celestia glanced over at Luna then back at the little ponies, "We are facing an enemy that is not unknown to us.”

“WHAT?!?” All of the girls yelled at once.

“I want to explain but there isn’t any time. I will see you at the end of this, whether in life or death.” She and her sister then turned away and galloped towards the end of the castle hall, past the girls.

“Well, it looks like we have our work cut out for us,” Said Rarity, “and there isn’t enough time to make outfits, so we’ll have to make do without that.”

“Alright ponies, I do need to make sure that we all know what to do, “ Twilight interjected, “We are going to head back to Ponyville, I need to get some information on these guys from the library. While I’m at the library, you ponies will have gone from the train station to the Ever-free forest; try and get some information on these guys.”

“Okie dokie loki!” Started Pinkie, “But what exactly should we look fo-“

“Did someone say my name?” Said a voice like sounded like smooth ice, taken right out of a lake in winter; still having its chilling qualities. Everypony stood still, and the first to turn around was Applejack. And what she saw was a man in green and gold armor and a green tunic cover the armor, his black hair slicked to the side and white teeth shining, forming a cunning smile. “I could have sworn that someone said Loki.”