Super Duper Ponyville Holiday

“Well,” instructed Bob to you with a smile beside his equally chipper partner, “nothing beats going to a new place and learning about its culture.”

“And what better way to do that than your local librayray?” Stacy stated.

Both of them motioned an arm behind them, showing a building made entirely from a tree. Unbeknownst to them, a lavender alicorn appeared on the top observatory, looking out through a telescope with fear on her face.

Resuming their lesson, Bob and Stacy turned around and began to walk towards the building, only for a large, fiery red-and-orange beam to launch itself into the library. The resulting explosion blew the entire tree to smithereens, hurling Bob and Stacy back, as well as the alicorn and a brown owl that she held in her arm.

The two human men stood up and looked upon the devastated library, their polos and plaid shorts scuffed, ripped, and dirtied. Awestricken at the tragic event, Bob and Stacy removed their sunglasses to better see the awful sight, an identical pair of glasses appearing from underneath right in their place.

Bob and Stacy turned back to the source of the beam, only to see a large black centaur-like creature with red arms and a red, beastly face. The two turned to each other and nodded, sprinting out to the creature’s location on bandy legs.
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The centaur laughed maniacally as he awaited the purple alicorn in a field. Looking back down, he saw Bob and Stacy standing before him, each of them sporting a dumb expression with their upper lips curled in disdain. The centaur looked at them with a lack of seriousness as he began to tense the muscles in his face.

Bob and Stacy looked at each other quickly before splitting up, just as the centaur thrust its head forwards and shouting as he exerted his energy, accompanied with a launching sound. While nothing looked to have happened, Bob and Stacy leapt out of the way of seemingly nothing as if a magic beam was fired right at them, despite the sound of a loud explosion that cracked the air.

Bob rolled onto one knee as he held a non-existent pistol up, aiming it at the centaur. While it was confused at its lack of producing a spell, it looked down at Stacy, whose arms were positioned so that he was holding an invisible rifle.

With a squeezing and flicking of the triggers, Bob and Stacy open fired on the creature, the sounds of the bullets firing from the muzzles in both single shots and automatic repetitions. Despite there being no bullets to be seen, the centaur shielded his body as best as he could as he was riddled with the sounds of metal piercing his flesh.

At that moment, a sound of a magical zap occurred as the centaur turned around to face the oncoming purple alicorn. With a rearing of its head, the alicorn thrust forwards, the noise of a powerful surge erupting from her horn with nothing to see coming out. The centaur shielded its face as the spell struck an invisible barrier, mixing a booming sound into the air. The centaur stepped backwards it was supposedly forced back by the strength of the alicorn’s spell.

The centaur reached out for the alicorn, who was now seemingly bound by the centaur’s magic despite her being able to fly on her own. With a twirling wind, the centaur threw its arm out, the alicorn flying beside it to follow it, soaring herself towards a mountain’s face while she screamed as if she was thrown herself.

Before the centaur could follow the alicorn, an invisible explosion struck it in the back, turning around to see Stacy squeezing the air in front of him like he was holding a rocket launcher. Bob was beside him shooting unseen rounds from an invisible assault rifle as Stacy loaded another round.

Ignoring the imperceptible pelts it had on its skin, the creature leaned its head towards Bob and opened its mouth and breathed in. Stacy immediately dropped his weapon and shoved Bob out of the centaur’s path, throwing his arms out as if his life was being drained from him by some unseen spell.

Bob screamed for Stacy as he fell limp to the ground, his sunglasses fading away from his body to reveal his shut eyes. Bob tore his glasses off his face only for another pair to appear, and he buried his hands in his face and cried. The centaur turned to Bob and prepared to drain him as well, only for it to stumble forwards for absolutely no reason as the purple alicorn encircled it.

Bob, seeing this as his only chance, ran away from their battlefield and his fallen comrade.
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Bob descended a stony flight of stairs into a canyon to a tree made of crystal with six gems embedded in its branches. Before the tree was a hexagonal crystal box with six distinct keyholes on the top sides, five of them already containing a key inside. Bob slid to his knees desperately beside the flower and flipped open an invisible laptop.

Typing in nonexistent keys as he wept in anxiousness and pressure, he wasn’t aware of six mares, a small, bipedal purple, and a brown-and-gray creature composed of parts of several different creatures descending the stairs as well. The purple alicorn, now wearing a gold amulet, the orange earth pony, a sky-blue pegasus with a rainbow-colored mane and tail, the yellow pegasus, the white unicorn, and a pink earth pony with a puffy pink mane and tail all looked at the human in a peculiar and uncertain fashion.

Putting in the final commands, the human pressed the invisible enter key on his invisible computer and ran around behind the tree, getting to his knees and ducking for cover. The ponies, unsure of the human’s purpose all walked up to the box by the crystal tree.
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Outside, the centaur looked up at the sky as the sound of a plane could be heard overhead, but not seen by it. Just then, the six ponies rose by an unseen force from the canyon, each of them in a supercharged state with their appearances much more flamboyant and colorful than before. Undaunted, the centaur hurled an invisible beam at the six ponies, only for neither of them to react.

As the centaur pondered its failure, a muted boom sounded out several miles from their spot, making them turn around to face it, each of their mouths dropping in absolute shock at what they saw: a clear blue sky and a flawless green plain. Despite this, the ponies and the centaur shielded their faces from the oncoming bang quickly traveling across the land.

There was no time to react; the invisible shockwave blew into the ponies and centaur, felling them like trees at its absolute might. Below, Bob shouted out loud as the canyon shook and the deafening boom from the shockwave sounded overhead. Further down the plain, Stacy was struck by the shockwave, jumping to his feet and throwing himself back onto the ground limply, lying still once again.

Once the shockwave had passed, Bob ran out from the canyon and past the unconscious ponies and centaur, making his way to his fallen friend. Upon finally getting there, Bob looked stoically upon Stacy in honor of his bravery. Bob shed one single tear from his left eye as it dripped from behind his sunglasses's lens onto Stacy’s cheek, making him twitch and wipe his face with his hand before ceasing his motion.

Bob picked Stacy up with his arms under the back of his knees and wrapped around his upper back. With the battle over, Bob made the long trip back to Ponyville, his steps slow and hard.