Rainbow Dash was just laying down on a cloud not doing much of anything. Rainbow looked up so she could watch the sky, the clouds were drifting by, a few pegusi flying around, birds chirping somewhere nearby, fish swimming though the sky, everything was just fine. Rainbow decided to take a little nap, and closed her eyes, until she realized what she saw, fish in the sky. She flew off her cloud and looked at the strange sight. The fish just kept swimming onward as if nothing was wrong.
'What the buck?" Rainbow thought to herself. Rainbow Dash took off toward Carousel Boutique hoping that to find some help.
***
Rarity yawned and stretched, waking up from her nap, she rolled out and bed and walked over to the mirror. She smiled as she levitated a brush to comb her mane into the style she usually had it in, she then did the same thing to her tail. She looked back at her reflection, she loved the way she look after she had just woken up. She walked down stairs ready to reopen for the day, and flipped on the lights. As the room brightened her jaw dropped from the image she saw, all of the dresses were eyesores. it was as if somepony had painted all of the dresses to look as ugly as possible.
"Sweetie Belle, get in her right now!" Rarity shouted. She waited for about thirty seconds, but no call back nor the sound of little hoofs rushing towards her. Rarity was about to shout again, when a knock was heard at the door, Rarity wasn't sure if she wanted to open it, no costumers could see her dresses like this. She slowly walked over to the window, and peeked outside, only to see Rainbow Dash waiting at her door looking a little worried. Rarity let out a sigh of relief and opened the door to let her friend in, Rainbow flew in almost knocking Rarity over.
"Rarity have you se-" she stopped when the terrible dresses caught her eye.
"Whats with the bad dresses?" Rainbow asked.
"I don't know, they were fabulous before, then I took a nap, and when I woke up, they were like this." Rarity answered
"Oh....anyway, have you seem the sky lately?" Rainbow asked. Rarity looked at the friend puzzled then walked outside. Outside she could see the sky was red and green and fish were swimming around as if they were in water, along with a few trees floating by. She shook her head, and looked again, but the sky stayed red and green. Rarity slowly walked back in and closed the door.
"Whats going on?" Rarity asked.
"I don't know, I was hoping you might." Rainbow answered.
"Why would I know, as I have already said, I've been asleep for a while."
"So, its not magic?"
"Not any that I've ever seen."
"I wish Twilight was here she might know what was going on."
"She'll be back tomorrow, we can ask here then."
"I think this isn't the kind of problem you can just wait out."
"Why don't we go check on everypony else, maybe they know what happened."
"Good, idea, plus, if there really is something going on there is safety in numbers."
***
Applejack walked out of the house with Big Mac ready to do some apple bucking, but stopped when they notice the apples ,if you could call them that, where different sizes, shapes, and colors.
"What in the-?" Applejack asked herself, She looked at Big Mac "Please tell me I'm hallucinating."
"Nope"
"Well, lets get some of the fruit out of the tree and see what it is." Applejack said as she walked to the nearest tree and hit it. Nothing, but a few leafs dropped, Big Mac walked over and hit the same tree , nothing, but a few more leafs dropped down.
"Lets trying hitting it at the same time, ok?"
"Eeyep"
"Ok, on three...one, two, three!" Applejack yelled as they both hit the tree with all their might, again nothing, but leafs fell.
"Big Mac just stand right there." Applejack said as she got on his back and tried to pick a fruit, but as soon as her teeth touched the fruit it shocked her. She feel to the ground dazed, and she could see red and green swirling around. As she regained her senses she noticed it wasn't a the shock that caused the colors, the sky really was red and green.
"Are you ok?" Big Mac asked. Applejack nodded, and get back on her hoofs. She looked at the tree trying to find out what was going on, but her thoughts were broken by two mares calling her name. Applejack looked toward the road to see Rarity and Rainbow Dash running towards her.
"Applejack are you, and your family,ok?" Rarity asked
"Ya, Big Mac and I are ok, Granny Smith is sleeping and Applebloom and her friends are up stairs doing who knows what." Applejack laughed a bit.
"At least now I know why Sweetie Belle didn't answer back when I called her earlier" Rarity thought to herself.
"We still need to check on Pinkie and Fluttershy." Rainbow Dash said.
***
Pinkie was bouncing a ball around with Gummy, who wasn't very good at it, he just wanted to bite it. Pinkie giggled as Gummy chewed on the ball lightly. As Pinkie watched him, she noticed something out of the comer of her eye...a pink cloud. Pinkie eyes widen as she realized it was a cotton candy cloud. She ran into her closet and started digging though her belongings, she throw some party supplies out of the closet, then some alligator care products, a few toys and finally found her trampoline. She grabbed it and ran downstairs as fast as she could. She got outside with it and positioned it just right so she could eat some of the tasty cloud. She was about to jump up when she thought "Something about this seem awful familiar." She couldn't put her hoof on it, but she did something like this before. She decided to throw caution into the wind and jumped up and took a big bite on cotton candy. The sugary treat disappeared in her mouth, Pinkie loved the taste. She swallowed it and jumped up for another bite.
"Um...excuse me Pinkie" a voice from down below called. Pinkie looked down and saw Fluttershy looking up at her worried. Pinkie got off her trampoline and looked at Fluttershy, smiling.
"Hey Fluttershy, can I help you with something?"
"Well , do you think things look weird today? Pinkie was so happy about the cotton candy cloud she didn't even notice the sky.
"Yep" Pinkie said with a smile after looking up at the sky for a short moment.
"My animals have been acting odd all day as well." Fluttershy said with a worried look on her face. Pinkie gave her a hug trying to clam her down, and gave her a big smile.
"Everything will be ok Fluttershy, don't worry." Pinkie looked back up at her cloud, but notice a rainbow blur coming towards them with her Element of Harmony on. It didn't take long for them to notice it was Rainbow Dash.
"Hey, Dashie, want some cotton candy?" Pinkie asked pointing out her cloud. Rainbow don't answer, and looked very nervous about something.
"Is something wrong Rainbow?" Fluttershy asked
"Something is wrong,but you need to see it I doubt you'd believe me. Grab your elements of harmony and follow me."
***
Twilight was running towards the throne room in Canterlot Castle, Twilights mind was racing with thoughts about what Celestia wanted to talk to her about. Spike had his claws wrapped around her neck as she ran. Twilights Element Of Harmony sat on her head, as she raced towards Celestia.
"What do think Celestia wants to see us about?" Spike asked.
"I don't know, but what ever it is, it must be important, to have guards searching the whole castle for me." Twilight answered. She ran up to the huge doors and pushed them open quickly racing into the room towards Celestias throne. Twilight look up at the alicorn princess, Celestia got up and walked down towards Twilight.
"Princess, is something wrong?" Twilight asked. Celestia didn't say anything, instead she started to cast a spell.
Fluttershy and Pinkie meet their friends at the base of a hill. Rarity put Fluttershy and Pinkies Elements of Harmony on them, they both looked at her confused. They noticed all of their friends had their elements on as well
"Rarity, why do you all have your elements on?" Fluttershy asked.
"Follow us" Rarity whispered as she started to walk up the hill. As they neared the top everyone got down low, Fluttershy and Pinkie followed their lead. They all peeked over the hill. trees were floating, the ground was split in some places, some buildings were halfway into the ground, then they saw him. Sitting on a throne, which was also floating, sat Discord.
A portal formed in front of twilight, she looked into it and saw her friends, and Discord. Twilight ran to go into the portal, but smashed into it as if it were made out of stone. Twilight looked at her friends, they could truly stop him with all six Elements
"Princess, send me there, I have to help them, they can't bet him without all six Elements!" Twilight stated. Celestia shook her head, and Twilight looked at her in shock.
"Please, I need to help them" Twilight pleaded.
'Twilight I know its hard, but if you go, things will be worst" Celestia said trying to clam her down. Twilight ran at the portal again, but bounced off it a second time. Looking defeated she just watched Discord and her friends, hoping nothing bad would happen.
Discord saw the five ponies, and waved at them, motioning for them to come closer. They all looked at him and hesitated, but decided to get closer. They slowly and careful got near him, and glared up at him.
"Well isn't it my favorite ponies, well minus one." Discord chuckled.
"Don't get to comfy, as soon as Twilight gets here your going right back to stone." Rainbow Dash yelled.
"Oh, really, well mind if you give me a sneak peek?" Discord asked.
"Sure we could" Applejack growled. Discord stood right in front of them and poofed a blindfold around his eyes.
"Ok, everypony this won't stop him, but it will slow him down a bit" Rainbow Dash told her friends. They all stood in front of him, aiming their element at him.
"NOW!!" Applejack shouted as they Elements shoot out beams of light going towards Discord. The beams hit Discord, but didn't seem to do anything to him, he just smiled at them. It was at that moment they could see a thin black layer of something around him, it shimmed a little then became invisible again.
"W-what was that?" Rarity asked her voice shaking slightly.
"Oh, that's just a little shield that got after wakening up again." Discard said smirking at them. Discord snapped his finger and five thunderbolts came down and hit all five of them, Discord just started laughing, but then stop when the smoke cleared. All five ponies stood there looking as confused as he was. Discord stood there and thought for a moment, then he realized what had happened
"Now I get Celestia made it to were my magic can't hurt you, but at the same time, other things can" Discord laughed as he snapped his fingers and they disappeared with a poof. Discord sat back down, looking at were the ponies once were.
"What happened to them?" Twilight asked.
"Don't worry they are fine, Discord just send them far away from each other" Celestia said, Twilight looked at her puzzled.
"Why do you look so clam, who knows what will happen if Discord continues." Twilight said panicking.
"Everything will be fine, right after you find the seventh Element of Harmony" Celestia said and she started to cast another spell.
Author's Note
kind of a slow start, but it will pick in the next chapter.
Pony Purple
As Celestias spell was cast Twilight felt weird, like more magical power was flowing thought her than ever before. the light from the spell was so strong Twilight had to close her eyes, and when she opened them again Celestia was smiling at her. Twilight was about to ask what she did, but stopped as she realized she was wearing something, a tight suit of some sort. It was purple and covered her whole body, the only thing not covered was her muzzle, and her element was connected to her though her suit.
"Princess...what is this thing?" Twilight asked.
"Its called a Wonder Garb, its made of a very durable material. With it you should be able to find the last element without to much trouble from Discords magic. With that garb and your element you can "untie" with of ponies to do amazing things." Celestial explained.
"How do I do that?" Twilight asked.
"Its different for everypony, your power is unite magic. Your element will glow on its own and give other ponies some of your own power. After that everything will become clear to you" Celestia answered.
"I understand ." Twilight said nervously, slowly nodding.
"And you won't have to do this alone, your friends will help...as soon as we find them" Celestia assured her.
"I have one more question, where do I find the seventh element?" Twilight asked.
"There are rumors of a cave north if the Crystal Empire, that holds a jewel, witch sound like an element. We don't have a moment to spare, you leave now, I can Feel Discord magic reaching us." Celestia told her. Twilight nodded and headed out of the throne room and down the hall, Spike jumped on her back.
"So, do have any idea on what to do first?" Spikes asked.
"We have to get to the Crystal Empire first, but I'm not sure how we should get there. " Twilight answer.
"We could always use a tr-" Spike was cut off as I giant thorn covered vine burst though the window and pinned Spike against a wall, as more vines crawled in though the hole. Twilight started to panic as her horn started to glow, after a short while a small ball of purple energy shoot out of her horn and burn a hole thought the vine. Twilight smirked as she continue to shoot destroying the vine. It didn't take long until the vine was gone and Spike was free.
"Twilight, that was amazing. How did you do that?"
"I'm not sure, my horn just kind of did it on it's own." More vines started to break in though other windows, some even come though the walls.The vines formed a thorned wall in the hall stopping Twilight for moving forward.
"Now what?" Spike asked. Without a word Twilight pick up Spike, jumped on a vine and fallowed it out the window and down to the courtyard. In the courtyard there were many guards trying to fight off the vines, but they were losing badly. Twilight tried to shoot the energy balls again but they wouldn't form. Twilight continue to try and cast any spell that could help them but she couldn't. She was about to give up as her element let and bight purple light. As the light enveloped the guards they teleported behind her giving off the same bight, purple light and they had saddles on their backs that had the same color in looked like Twilights wonder garb.
"I feel amazing." One of the guards said.
"Me too." Another added
"Me three!" Spike said. Twilight turned to face him, he was glowing as well and he had on a strange mask that match her wonder garbs in color. The vines stated to come towards her she started to back away, but her body moved on it's own. She ran, jumped in to the air, and she shouted "United Magic!". The guards and Spike became some sort of gas, the gas gathered around her horn. The gas hardened forming a giant, purple, transparent horn and a large energy ball shoot from it frying the vines. As the fiery remains the the vines fell to the ground the horn disappeared and the guard's, as well as Spike, reformed behind her.
"Are you all ok?" Twilight asked?
"Yeah I think so, but that felt odd." one guard said.
"I'm not even sure what happened." said another.
"I felt light then ho, then I was right back here on your back." Spike replied. Twilight shook her head, not sure about what happened herself. She wanted to ask a few more questions, but it would have to wait. Celestia had given her a mission and she was going to complete it.
"Ok, everypony follow me." Twilight instructed as she started to head for the front gate, it to was in cased in vines. Even though she didn't want to do it again she had to get out.
"Unite Magic!" Again the horn appeared and a large energy ball destroyed the vines and gate. As she ran though the castle gates her eye widened at the sight. Canterlot was in ruins and there weren't any ponies around. Building had clasped, a fountain was in pieces, a pipe was leaking water everywhere, and a giant metal griffon was above them, letting out a low growl. Without warning it Flew downward and swiped at Twilight and her group but they rolled out of the way.
"Long time no see, loser." The griffon said laughing a little. It took Twilight a few moments to recognize her.
"Gilida? What happened to you?"
"Discord happened and my orders are to stop you right here, right now." Gilida smash her tail on the ground leaving a small crater.
"I have a job to do, I don't want to do this but Untie Mag-ugh!" Gilida headbutted Twilight into a building along with the guards and Spike.
"What's the matter did I hit you to hard?" Gilida joked as she flew in front of the hole.
"Unite Magic!" A giant energy ball came out of the building and was coming right for her. Gilda dodged it, but to her surprise Twilight was hidden behind the ball ready headbutt Gilida back. Gilida hit Twilight with her tail sending Twilight and her group off the mountain.
"That was disappointingly easy. Oh well I'm sure Discord will be happy to know that Pony Purple is no longer a problem."
Author's Note
There's chapter 2, I didn't even think about putting Gilda in until the idea just popped in my head out of no where last night, chapter 3 will hopeful come out soon. I know this took 10 months but I had other thing on my mind at the time so chapter 3 should come out faster, you know like 5 months.
Pony Purple couldn't do anything as her group followed her downward. Pony Purple closed here eyes ready for the inevitable end, but to her surprise she land on something flat and made of metal. Pony Purple got up and realized her and her group were on a moving train she got up and moved around to make sure she had no broken bones. There was a few bruises, but nothing majorly injured. She looked around to make sure the other ponies where ok and they seem to be.
"Are we alive?" one of the guards asked.
"I thinks so ." Another said. Pony Purple looked around and noticed that the train was the same one she took the the Crystal Empire before.
"Good news, this will take straight to our destination.
"Buy what are those?" One of the guards asked pointing behind them. Pony Purple looked where he was pointing and saw something coming up on a parallel track. Three figures were quickly catching up to them. They were made of metal and each had metal blades for arms with round bodies and and train like wheels. They had small cylinder shaped heads with red lights that resembles eyes.
"Untie Magic" Pony Purple called causing the horn to appear and blowing up on of the robots.
"Alright one down and two to go." Spike cheered. His celebration was cut short as one robot cut the cart in half separating Pony Purple and the guards. Pony Purples jaw dropped in disbelieve as now her and Spike were on their own. Pony Purple tried to use the magic attack again but all that happened was a tiny ball of energy came out and hit the machines, and it didn't seem to phase them.
"Come on Twilight, use that big one." Spike said backing off a little.
"I-I can't, I need more ponies." One of the robots used its arms like a pole vault jump onto Pony Purple track and behind the cut car. Its eyes glowed as it rose it's arm ready to finish Pony Purple off. Pony Purple quickly jumped onto the cart in front of her and used all her might to blast the cuff links connecting the two carts. Luckily it blow apart and the robot was hit by the loose car sending it backwards. It tried to jump back to its original track but it wheels were caught on the car causing it to fall on it side and roll off the tracks.
"O-One more to go." Spike said nervously. The last robot started to rises its arms hoping to achieve what it's partners had failed to do. The arms dropped quickly, but Pony Purple simply jumped to the next car, but the robot tried to cut again. Pony Purple kept jumping car to car, with the robot keeping up still cutting away. Eventually Pony Purple made it to the engine room. The robot slowly rose its arms knowing there was no where for her to run.
"DUCK!" Pony Purple shouted as both her and Spike ducked right as they entered a tunnel. The robot being to tall got it's head and arms knocked off as he tried to enter. The body of the robot slowed down to a stop.
"We did it!" Spike said happily as the train emerged from the tunnel.
"Now we just wait until the train stops, it's smooth sailing from here on out." Pony Purple said happily.
"I wouldn't say that, Twilight." A voice said from behind her. Pony Purple turned around to see Discord floating near by.
"That's Pony Purple to you." Spike growled.
"Oh, I'm so sorry, I thought she was celebrating Nightmare Night early." Discord laughed.
"What do you want?" Pony Purple ask.
Nothing really I just want to do this." Discord said snapping his fingers. Pony Purple and Spike braced themselves only to find nothing happened. Pony Purple looked around for anything different, but nothing was out of place.
"HA! Looks like the Wonder Garb stops all of your magic from hurting me."
"Yes, you are right, it dose stop my magic from hurting you directly but it can still do damage indirectly."
"Indirectly? What do you mean?"
"Take a look for yourselves." Discord laughed snapping his finger causing the train to speed up. Pony Purple and Spike looked ahead as the train followed the tracks around a bend. To their shock and horror there was a huge gap where a bridge use to be.
"Tootles" Discord laughed as he disappeared. The train racing towards the gap as Pony Purple and Spike looked for any way off it.
"I don't see any way off this train. It's to fast to jump off." Spike reported. Pony Purple started to try and cast some spell that would help them. Teleport, levitate, stop time nothing she cast seem to work. They held on to each other as the train flew off the track . Pony Purple and Spike started to fall.
Author's Note
Kind of a short chapter. Sorry this took so long, but life has thing it needs me to do. I hope the next chapter comes out quicker.
