Martin's Unreal Life

Chapters

Chapter 1: Break on Through
Chapter 2: Earth
Chapter 3: Operation Washington
Chapter 4: Ponies & Brony's
Chapter 5: We Built This City
Chapter 6: Superhero
Chapter 7: Busted
Chapter 8: A New Development
Chapter 9: The Last Run
Chapter 10: An Old & New Face
Chapter 11: Making Sense
Chapter 12: What A Girl Wants
Chapter 13: What A Girl Needs
Chapter 14: HBK
Chapter 16: Eris Rising
Chapter 17: Agent Of Chaos
Chapter 18: Battlefield Earth
Chapter 19: Resolution & Banishment
Chapter 15: Join The Darkside We Have Cookies

Chapter 1: Break on Through

The sun was high above the Equestrian Mountains shedding its warm glow over a winter laid land; all the ponies were prepping themselves for winter wrap up that was scheduled for the following day. Sitting on a park bench wrapped in a thick grey winter coat complete with black snow pants and boots along with a scarf wrapped around his neck and black gloves was Martin Fairbridges, who was currently staring at Twilight Sparkle with envy.

Martin shivered slightly as Twilight gave him a confused look, “Martin, I still don’t see why you have to dress in so many layers”

Martin just spoke through clenched teeth so to prevent them from chattering, “I already told you I have to or I’ll freeze to death”

Twilight just gave a half smile, “But surely earth winters are just as cold”

Martin shook his head frantically, “Not even close, this is like advanced winter, how do you even stand this…”, he then remembered Twilight was a PONY, “Oh….right”

Twilight just laughed in response, and then a snow pony behind both of them exploded revealing Pinkie Pie hiding within, “Hi!”

Martin jumped slightly but smiled, “Hey Pinkie, what’s up?”

Pinkie reflected for a moment on the comment, “The sky, the clouds, OH! And the birds, the bees, the sun…”

Martin just chuckled as he turned to look at Twilight as Pinkie carried on, “So tell me more about winter wrap up”

Twilight nodded, “well as you’ve heard, winter wrap up is when the citizens of Ponyville work together to wrap up winter to bring in the spring by getting rid of all things that are pretty much winter related, waking up the hibernating animals, building new nests for the birds when the pegasus ponies retrieve them and cleaning up all the snow and planting new plants”

Martin nodded, “so it’s like spring cleaning”

Twilight thought for a second, “If you put it that way, I guess so”

Martin smiled, “so where do I sign up?”

Unbeknownst to either of them, the rest of the six had been looking for Pinkie and had come across Martin and Twilight’s conversation, Rainbow of course put her two cents in, “Well you can help if you want, I just don’t think you could handle it”

Martin just stared at Rainbow, “Excuse me, if you forgot I fought an Aspect of creation…”

Rainbow rolled her eyes, “with our help…”

Martin then raised a correcting finger, “but not before I did some fair amount of damage on my own”

All the ponies sighed as Rainbow and Martin got into an argument which seemed to not have a conclusion. This wasn’t the first argument they had, Martin had been coming back and forth between his world and Equestria for two months now, and they had all become close friends with him and he would always help them out when asked be it helping them with errands or just hanging out and chatting. None the less, the one thing the ponies had grown accustomed to was him and Rainbow Dash duking it out on the verbal battleground. Breaking up the arguments was easier said than done due to the fact that when both of them started, their stubborn attitudes prevented them from reaching a conclusion or backing down from each other.

Rainbow Dash then said bluntly, “I have an entire weather team on my side!”

Martin then for some reason blurted out, “So, I can do the work on every team”

Rarity spoke in a calming tone, “Now now you two, let’s not make any promises we can’t keep”

Martin looked straight at her, “OH, I can totally keep it!”

Rainbow then took on a cocky grin, “Prove it then smart guy”

Martin stood with a determined smile, “I Martin Fairbridges shall be the best damn winter wrap up person you have ever seen!!”, Rainbow just scoffed, but stopped when Martin pointed at her, “and I won’t even break a sweat!!”

Martin had discarded his winter coat and layers in favor of the loose fitting black muscle shirt that was underneath, winter wrap up went by without a hitch, there was the odd occasion somepony would “accidentally” throw a snowball. When it had ended, Martin was absolutely winded, he was still wearing his black snow pants and boots along with the muscle shirt, when he collapsed under a shady tree in exhaustion, almost all the ponies there applauded his hard work where as others just smiled and shook their heads.

Rainbow flew over to where he was passed out along with the rest of her friends who had long discarded their vests, “Told ya so”

Martin then uttered a weak, “Shut up Dash”

Rainbow just smiled in triumph as he reluctantly stood up and started walking toward the town with the six following close behind, “Hey Rarity, you don’t mind if I open the bridge using your front door do you?”

Rarity just smiled, “Not at all Darling”

Martin nodded as he approached The Carousel Boutique and pulled the key from his pocket, he then touched it to the door knob and there was a loud clicking noise.

Martin was about to grab the knob when Rainbow spoke again, “Okay I have to say it, I have been as patient and understanding on this subject as the next pony…”

Applejack just rolled her eyes, “Oh please Dash, ya haven’t stopped talkin about it since you made the promise”

Fluttershy then added, “And complaining”

Pinkie then said, “And whining”

Twilight nodded, “And praying”

Rarity then added with a slight bit of amusement, “And yelling at the sky”

Rainbow waved her hooves frantically, “Ok, Ok I get it, but seriously Martin, what about all those promises you gave us about seeing your world and its various attractions”

Twilight sighed, “I hate to admit it, but I’m also a bit upset that we won’t be able to experience your world as you do”

Martin looked at all of them, “Do you all feel this way?”

All of the ponies reluctantly nodded, Martin looked at the ground for a second as his hand was hovering near the doorknob, and he then looked up with a sly grin, “Well if that’s the case you all might want to cover your eyes and get close because it’s going to be a bumpy ride”

All of their eyes lit up instantly as they all crowded close to their human friend, Fluttershy spoke, “Won’t Sortitus be mad when he finds out that we broke our promise”

Rainbow put her for leg around her friend’s neck, “You mean, IF he finds out, I mean come on he can’t see EVERYthing from that window of his”

Fluttershy was about to say a rebuttal when Martin opened the door and the light engulfed them all, a few seconds later after the door shut, the sound of an earthquake like explosion was heard throughout the very fabric of the universe.

Martin’s the door to the living room closet opened by itself with a loud boom as he, along with six shapes, hurled through the door and onto his living room floor. Martin held his head as he saw actual steam seeping through the open door; his vision was swimming when he stood up.

He turned to face the living room window that had the curtains drawn, “You girls alright?”

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!”

The collective scream caused him to turn on instinct to quiet them, he then regretted doing so, for lying on various sections of the floor were six women about his age, (one looked a year younger), with very distinct eye color and hair styles…along with the fact they were naked.

Martin just couldn’t help but stare, each one of their hair style’s reflected a humanized version of their manes, and their hair lengths varied, Twilight’s was by far the longest reaching her waist, and their figures pretty much reflected their personalities perfectly.

Martin then snapped out of pervy mode and went to gentleman mode as he looked away, “OOOOOH this is bad”

Rainbow looked straight at him, “What the hay did you DO!!!”

Martin turned back, “HEY!, I did not do a damn…”

Pinkie then picked this opportunity to smoosh her new “additions” on her chest together, “OOH, there squishy!”

Martin’s face burned red, “DON’T DO THAT!!”, he looked away immediately

Rarity was examining her new fingers when she looked at Martin curiously, “What’s wrong?”

Martin was staring at the ceiling trying his damnedest to not look at Rarity because he knew that if he did he wouldn’t be able to look away, “On my planet, you wear clothes all the time so you’re not naked in public because its indecent”

Rarity upon hearing this crawled with great quickness behind a nearby couch while yelling, “DON’T ANYPONY LOOK AT ME!!!”

Martin was hopping in place trying to think, “Ok girls, this could be worse”, there was a knock on the front door

Rainbow chuckled a bit trying to make light of the situation as Fluttershy went behind a recliner, “Yeah, imagine if Sortitus found out”

Twilight gave a weak smile as she looked at Martin, “He would be mad”

Fluttershy added as she peeked out, “Furious”

Rarity spoke still hiding, “Enraged”

Martin opened the door and stared straight into the angry face of Sortitus, “ooooh crap”

Chapter 2: Earth

Martin and the now human ponies were all petrified in fear; Sortitus just continued to stare at all of them with a look of anger as he stepped past Martin and into the living room.

Rainbow tried to stand and failed miserably and fell flat on her face, she looked up with an awkward smile, “Heeeey Sortitus, how’s it going”

Sortitus fixed her with a glare that caused her to shrink away from the cloaked individual; he then turned to Martin and spoke in a calm voice with visible effort to keep himself from not losing his temper, “Do you all have any idea what you have done?”

Martin nervously smiled, “Um, I brought Twilight, Fluttershy, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Applejack and Rainbow Dash to Earth?”

Sortitus was in front of Martin before the human could even blink, “Yes, and all of you have broken the promise you have made to me”

Twilight managed with great effort to crawl over to Rainbow to see if she was alright, she then looked at Sortitus, “We all understand that we broke our word and we are deeply sorry”

Rainbow nodded, “Plus I really don’t see what the problem is”

Sortitus reeled on the two and lost it, “THE PROBLEM IS THAT YOU HAVE SUCCESSFULLY DOOMED THE UNIVERSE!”

His words made the very house itself tremble and cause Fluttershy to freeze up and fall on her back, Sortitus noticed their various reactions and inhaled deeply to calm himself before continuing, “Apologies, I’ve just been under a lot of stress of late and this incident isn’t helping my mood in the least”

Martin nodded then addressed the elephant in the room, “What exactly do you mean we’ve doomed the universe?”

Sortitus sighed as he sat down on the couch, only for Rarity to yell at The Aspect to move, to which he complied and stood up, “I’m afraid I must deliver more bad news, when the six of you came through The Bridge with Martin, you destroyed it”

All of six girls gasped in unison, Pinkie then yelled in anguish, “We’re never going to see Ponyville or our friends again!”

Sortitus raised his hands, “let me explain before the hysteria starts alright?”

Pinkie stopped immediately and smiled, “Okie Dokie”

Sortitus nodded, “Alright, to start off, the reason the bridge collapsed was because it was only fashioned for Earth’s inhabitants to use, not Equestrians”, he then gestured to the still steam producing door, “Since Earth has no natural magic energy, the bridge was stable for any earthling to use but since the six of you come from a world practically irradiating magic, the foreign energy that all of you exude caused the bridge to rupture and collapse when the energies were introduced into it”

Twilight nodded in understanding but raised another question, “But why are we now in the forms of humans instead of ponies?”

Sortitus just stared at her, “It’s a side effect from the bridges natural energies, sort of like what happens to Martin when he goes to your world and gains those abilities”

Pinkie nodded, “Makes sense”

Everyone, except Sortitus, looked at her and asked, “It does?”

She gave them all a look, “Isn’t it obvious?”

Sortitus continued as attention once more returned to him, “When the bridge collapsed not only have you officially rendered your way home inert for the time being, but you have also weakened the dimensional barrier between your worlds, which if left unchecked could cause a disaster of biblical proportions”

As they all looked at Sortitus, he sighed as he walked toward the front door, “well I must get to work on making a new bridge immediately”, he then added with great annoyance, “that both Humans and Equestrians can use from scratch”

Martin stopped him, “How long exactly will it take?”

Sortitus then looked at him and spoke in a still annoyed tone, “Well the one I made for you took me about a year, but since it’s destroyed and remnants still remain the process will be shorter, I would say six to nine months at the most”

Martin raised his voice a few octaves, “SIXTEY NINE MONTHS!!!”

Sortitus shook his head, “No, six to nine months, also I would suggest keeping them out of trouble can you handle that?”

Martin was flustered, “Why me?”

Sortitus opened the door as he stepped out onto the doorstep, “Because you brought them here, oh and Martin”, Martin looked at The Aspect, “Find them some damn clothes”

Sortitus shut the door as he leaned against it, “I just pray that my vision does not come to pass, out of all the things in existence, Martin would not be able to handle HIM in his current situation”

Back in Equestria, a statue of a Draconequus with a look of horror on its face cracked until the stone fell from its form. The creature stretched and yawned, it then looked around frantically noticing just at that moment that it was free once more, it immediately snapped its fingers and spawned a radar screen which it tapped a few times. No blips of any colour appeared which caused the creature to smile evilly as it laughed.

Discord then made the screen disappear as he stopped laughing and looked a bit sad, “It seems Twilight and her merry band aren’t anywhere in Equestria”, He then smiled mischievously as he rubbed his lion paw and talon together, “While the Elements are away, Discord shall play”

Martin had a blindfold on his eyes, “Just tell me when you’re decent”

Rarity responded with a huff, “Are you sure you don’t have anything for us to wear”

Martin nodded as he addressed Rarity’s direction, “The only women I’ve had over here were my mother and little sister, and that is a visit I prefer to forget”

A few seconds passed before he was told to remove his blindfold, he looked at the six who were still awkwardly seated on the ground but were now wrapped in white bed sheet togas, he then smiled, “Plus, Roman royals used to wear these”

Rarity then took a whole new appreciation for her “outfit” as Martin began to pace, “Ok first off, you all have realized that you have lost your wings and horns”, when this was said, the former pegasi and unicorns instinctively touched where their horns and wings used to be, “And you all have new bodies you need to adapt to on a planet you know little to nothing about, so as your friend I’m going to help you all blend in until the bridge is repaired, but we must first tackle the greatest challenge you will face here”

Fluttershy then asked, “What’s that?… if you don’t mind me asking”

Martin stopped and dramatically stated, “Walking”

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Sorry for the short chapter, the next one shall make up for it

Chapter 3: Operation Washington

At the same time of Martin’s training reveal, a charter bus had pulled in at the station on the far side of the city; the driver turned his head to the only remaining passenger in the back who was currently watching Casshern Sins on his I-Pod, “Hey, your stop kid”

The kid had dark brown hair and dark blue eyes, he was lanky in build and was currently wearing a white shirt and dark blue jeans, and he was also wearing black runners and a black leather casual jacket. He nodded at the driver and grabbed his suitcase and walked to the steps of the bus and stared out at the familiar city, he checked the sports watch he wore and it read, 9:00am.

As the kid stepped off the bus, the driver then addressed him, “So you have anything in mind now that you’re here”

The kid turned and looked at the guy, “Yeah, I’m going to move back into my apartment, and then I’m seeing a friend”

Martin face palmed for the second time as Rainbow Dash smacked into Rarity and both tumbled down, Fluttershy was still hugging the wall trying to keep herself steady, Twilight was currently leaning on Pinkie’s shoulder for support and out of all of them Pinkie was practically skipping across the floor. A few minutes after he had said that there training was walking, he was expecting to take all day, Pinkie got it in less than ten minutes, it was currently 9:10 in the morning and he was still baffled how the pink haired human had managed it.

Martin then yelled at Rainbow who Pinkie was helping up, “Remember Dash, you’re figure and body are different now, so you need to readjust your centre of balance”

Dash just huffed as she stood, “Maybe this could be easier if I had my WINGS!”

Martin just rolled his eyes; he knew this would be a really long day, so he stood and walked into his kitchen and began to make himself a BLT while the six continued to stumble and fall and Pinkie continued to offer advice and words of encouragement.

When he came back, he just stared at the spectacle before him, “Uhhhh”

All of the six had their eyes closed and were locking hands and were currently standing on one foot in the crane style pose from The Karate Kid, “did I miss something?”

Pinkie opened one eye, “it’s nothing really, I’m just teaching them how to find their center, and I say after the next time-lapse we’ll have walking down”

Martin just raised an eyebrow as Rarity then opened her eye, “And Darling, could you please go out and get us some proper clothes, these ones are a little out there”

Martin was about to object but he tripped over his words, then he gave up and walked to the door and grabbed his coat, “Please don’t touch anything while I’m gone”, they all nodded in unison as Martin left and shut the door.

The kid was currently in his one bedroom apartment after the last guy from the storage depot dropped off his last box of stuff in the living room; he thanked the guy and proceeded to unpack his stuff. He pulled out a lot of DVDs, a few CDs and books, and a bunch of manga along with some anime season box sets, he then pulled out a picture of two fourteen year old kids on a stage of a talent show, he was on a drum set where as a dark auburn haired kid was shredding on an electric guitar and both wore smiles.

The kid just smiled at the memory as he continued to unpack his things, he then stopped for a second and popped a CD into his stereo which he had already set up as one of his favorite songs started playing .

Martin was completely stone faced when he opened his front door with many bags in his hands, the six all walked to meet him as he shut the door, “I got the clothes for you”

Rarity approached him, “why do you look so serious Martin?”

Martin then answered flatly, “When you shop for underwear of the opposite gender, the stares you get from said opposite gender causes you to look over your shoulder a lot while walking home”

He then handed individual bags to each of the six, when he handed rarity hers he motioned to the bag, “I bought one of everything in terms of makeup I could find, there’s eyeliner, eye shadow…”

He was cut off as Rarity brought him in for a tight hug; his face was burning red when his body made contact with hers, “Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!!”

Martin was released from the hug as he just stood in place as all the smiling six walked into the bathroom leaving Martin with a completely red face responding with a weak, “your welcome”

A few seconds later the six walked out into the living room in there new clothes, Twilight wore a deep purple turtleneck sweater with black loose looking stretch pants, her hair had also been trimmed down to a few inches below her shoulder blades giving her a more bookish look. Fluttershy had on a loose dark lemon long-sleeved shirt and a dark brown skirt that reached down to her ankles and her hair had been neatly trimmed so it looked a bit more presentable instead of inhumanly long. Applejack wore dark blue jeans and a dark orange button up shirt with T-Shirt sleeves, she even wore a red band to keep her hair in a ponytai along with a dark brown stetson. Pinkie Pie was wearing dark pink jeans with a white T-shirt complete with horizontal red lines; her hair was shorter but still looked the same way it always did. Dash was sporting a whit muscle shirt with dark navy blue sport pants with white vertical lines going down the center of each pant leg; she was also wearing black fingerless gloves that martin had found on his way out of the store, her hair was shortened only slightly, but maintained its look. Rarity wore a white cotton button up dress shirt and black bell bottom pants, the make-up she had on perfectly reflected the way she wore it as a pony, she had also trimmed her hair as well to make it shorter and presentable along with styling it the way she wanted, which was exactly the way it had been when she first arrived.

All of them twirled and struck a pose while saying at once, “What do you think?”

Martin nodded with a satisfied smile, “you all look fantastic”

They all surprise hugged him as Martin raised his hands in the air to maximize his new “NO TOUCHY” mantra. As they all shared a laugh at the expense of the blushing Martin, there was a knock on the front door. The girls got off of him as he stood up and motioned for them to hide, to which they all reluctantly did.

Martin was confused to say the least, he wasn’t expecting anyone today but he might as well answer the door as not to seem rude, when he opened it a familiar face was smiling at him.

Martin just stared at the kid in the casual leather coat that was his exact age, “Alan?”

Alan smiled back at Martin, “Hey dude, what up?”

Martin raised his fist to which Alan bumped his own against, “I thought you had to work in Detroit because of your job, what happened, you get fire?”

Alan shook his head, “Got promoted to the shipping department, I got to choose which branch to operate from and I chose this one”

Martin nodded, “sweet, I’m current supervisor of my job and I’ll take over the business when my boss retires”

Alan gave a nod of respect, “Well look at you Marty, moving up in the world”, he then scratched the back of his head, “So what have you been up to as of late?”

Martin paused for a moment and reflected, he then grinned slightly, “you wouldn’t believe me even if I told you”

Alan raised an eyebrow, “Riiiight, so can I come in or what?”

All of a sudden there was a bang as all six girls rolled into view behind Martin, they were hiding at first but when they heard Martin talking to Alan they all wanted to see what he looked like.

Pinkie sat up and waved, “HI!”

All of the six immediately grabbed Pinkie and ran back into the living room as Martin leaned against the doorway pretending that what happened didn’t happen, “So, nice weather were having huh?”

Alan just gave him a stern look, “Dude, why didn’t you say anything before”

Martin frantically waved his hands, “It’s not what you think, and I’m not into that sort of stuff”

Alan shook his head, “No, I meant why you didn’t tell me you had The Mane Six in your house, I mean I’ve heard of cosplayers hanging with brony’s, but dude”, he raised his hand, “welcome to the herd you’re going to be legendary”

Martin just looked at Alan’s hand, “What the hell is a Brony?”

Alan lowered his hand and rolled his eyes, “You really don’t know do you, it’s all over the internet, IT’S A freaking lifestyle!”

Martin just shook his head, “You know I don’t go on the internet for that kind of stuff, or meme’s or new lifestyle choices, I only look for intellectual stuff”

Alan responded very flatly, “A cat with a pop tart for a body leaving a rainbow trail and going Nyan for ten hours is not intellectually stimulating, it kills brain cells”

Martin just answered quickly, “Hey, it totally is!!”

Alan waved the comment off, “Whatever, when do I get to meet ponies”

Martin started to sweat a bit, “What ponies, there are no ponies here, just six girls I met in a Starbucks”, Alan just stared at him, “WHO LOVE BRIGHT COLOURS AND UNIQUE HAIRSTYLES!!”

Alan’s expression turned to a “not buying it one”, “you made me do this dude”, Alan then inhaled deeply and yelled into the house, “You reach your right hoof in, You reach your right hoof out, You reach your right hoof in And you shake it all about, You do the Pony Pokey meeting lots of folks with clout!”

Pinkie then jumped passed Martin and landed on her knees in front of Alan as she sang the last line, “That's what I'm talking about!!”

Alan gave a satisfied smirk at Martin as Pinkie stood up and began to shake Alan’s hand, Martin sighed in defeat as he ushered Alan inside, and soon both Martin and Alan walked into the living room with Pinkie in tow.

Alan just stared wide eyed at the humanized ponies, “By the powers that be, this is cool”

Martin gestured at Alan, “Girls allow me to introduce Alan Washington, my friend I told you about”

Alan looked at Martin with surprise, “You told them about me?”

Rarity walked to Alan and shook his hand, “I am Rarity, and it’s so nice to finally meet you Alan”

Fluttershy did the same, “I’m Fluttershy, and any friend of Martin’s is a friend of mine”

Twilight was next, “I’m Twilight Sparkle, and it is very nice to meet you”

Pinkie Pie was still shaking Alan’s other hand, “Pinkie Pie’s the name, parties are my game…well that and twister and scavenger hunts OH! And pulling pranks…”

She was silenced by Rainbow, “Yeah, if you didn’t realize it by now her names Pinkie Pie”, she then pointed to herself, “But my name is the ever so awesome..”

Alan finished for her, “Rainbow Dash, the fastest and most coolest and awesome flyer in Equestria”

Rainbow nodded a bit confused, “you’ve heard of me?”

Alan smiled, “Who hasn’t”

Rainbow examined her nails, “I know right”

Alan turned to look at Martin, “Dude how in the name of Celestia’s flowing mane did this happen?”

The ponies looked really confused at the human when Martin answered, “you might want to sit down, it’s a long story”

Chapter 4: Ponies & Brony's

Martin had been explaining his situation to Alan all day; soon night had fallen by the time he had finished, “…and that’s pretty much it”.

Alan just rubbed his chin in thought as he nodded, “seems reasonable enough, although I just have one question”

Martin just leaned forward, “Yeah?”

Alan then whispered in his ear, “Have you hit on any of them yet?”

Martin took on a confused and shocked expression, “WHAT!?”

Alan smiled, “just messing with you dude”

Martin just stared at his friend with a completely neutral expression as Alan stood up, “not cool”

Alan regarded his friend and the six for a moment, “I believe its time that I fill you in on what exactly a brony is”

Alan gestured for the six to follow; he had read enough Fanfics to know that it was best for them to discover the truth of their existence on Earth sooner rather than later.

Martin gestured for the six to enter his room first as he stopped Alan, “I’m just kind of curious dude, how exactly did you instantly know that the girls were six ponies?”

Alan just shrugged, “I have watched the show enough to pretty much know their individual quirks and personality traits along with their voices, and trust me when I say, no one on earth can do THAT good of an impression of their voices”

Martin was about to ask something further but Alan stopped it, “Also, I’ve also read enough, “Mane Six gets turned into humans” stories to get a pretty good idea of what their appearances are like in human form”

Martin gave a half smile, “so you’re saying that no matter what I said at the door, you knew it was them immediately upon seeing them?”

Alan then replied in a low voice as he entered Martin’s room, “eeyup”

Alan booted up the computer and began to explain what the internet was and essentially what its main function was, this caused Rainbow to yawn in both boredom and in exhaustion. Soon Alan pulled up a webpage he used to watch all the seasons of MLP, but first he cautioned them that viewing episodes may be a little…odd. He then showed their fight against Nightmare and then the one with Discord, Alan then further explained that a woman by the name of Lauren Faust created the show and it’s been running for a while now. All of this caused the six to go silent at the fact that their adventures, their very lives, were all just a fictional story that was shown to all on Earth.

Twilight broke the awkward silence, “so what you’re saying is that in your world, our daily lives and struggles are nothing more than entertainment to you?”

Alan took on a slightly hurt expression, “When you say it like that you make humans sound like jerks, but that’s sort of how it is here”

Twilight and the six took on hurt and annoyed expressions at this revelation, Twilight was about to say something until Alan raised a quick hand, “STOP!, wait a second”

He then pulled up Equestria Daily and showed them various discussions and votes that took place concerning the six and all other things in Equestria. Alan went on to explain that their lives and the lessons they had taught each other had inspired an entire new generation of people and a new fandom which was currently taking the world by storm.

Alan gestured to a board he pulled up that described various people’s opinions on who their favorite pony was, “Plus, many people think all of you and your friends are amazing and express this through different ways be it in literature”, at literature he pulled up FiMfiction and was sure to turn off the mature filter as not to make them feel more awkward, “or through art”, he then pulled up very well done pictures of various ponies.

Rarity just looked in amazement, “So many admirers and fans, dear me, I feel so…I don’t even know words to describe it”

Rainbow was jumping up and down, “YES! Even on another world I’m STILL as awesome as ever!!”

Fluttershy was smiling as she read various reasons why she was adored by fans of both genders, luckily there was no explicit post

Twilight was very intrigued by one post she read, “What does it mean by “Twilight is totally bookish cute?”

Alan just smiled, “Its just another way of saying you’re an awesome pony”

Twilight blushed slightly as the full meaning was made clear to her, AJ however was looking a little insulted at one post, “What in tarnation does this feller mean, “Applejack’s cuteness factor is the fact that she is country and has an accent”

Alan just meekly shrugged, “some people are weird like that”

Pinkie was busy writing down different party ideas on a notepad that people had posted, “Hmmm, load the party cannon with cupcakes, WHY DIDN’T I THINK OF THAT!!! “

After a while of reading, they all agreed to call it a night and soon Alan shut the computer off, they all then gathered in the living room as Martin addressed the matter at hand, “Alright, now we need to figure out where you all can sleep”

Alan spoke first, “I would offer for a few of them to sleep at my place, but I don’t have enough room"

Martin nodded, “Ok, now I know all of you are scared being on a new world and all, so I won’t make you all sleep in a dark room, for now I’ll move a few things around out here so you all have room, you all see the pajamas I got you in the bags?”, The Six nodded as Martin continued, “Ok then, I’ll go grab some sleeping bags and the two inflatable mattresses in the upstairs hall closet while you all change”

Rarity looked slightly offended, “You’re going to make me sleep on the floor like a common house pet?”

Martin gave her a reassuring look, “until I figure stuff out”

Rarity sighed dramatically as she walked off to get changed with the rest of the girls except Rainbow Dash who stayed behind as Martin walked upstairs leaving her and Alan alone, she looked Alan straight in the eye, “So you’re a Brony right?”

Alan nodded with a nervous smile, “ummm…yeah, why?”

Rainbow smiled slightly, “Oh no reason, I just wanted to ask who your favorite pony was”

Alan was looking a little nervous at the question, but he looked into the eyes of the rainbow haired girl and the way they looked into his seemed to calm him, “well truthfully, when it comes down to it, my number one favorite is…”

Rarity then yelled from the other room, “Rainbow Dash, you’re not going to sleep in your new clothes are you?”

Rainbow raised a finger at him in an “I’ll take a rain check” gesture as she walked into the other room leaving Alan who then let out a sigh. Soon Martin walked down stairs with the sleeping supplies and began to set them up with Alan’s assistance. After they finished, the girls came into the living room and were all dressed in plain white pj’s that looked exactly the same. Alan soon bid them a fond farewell as he departed, leaving Martin with the six girls who were already preparing to sleep, some of them had sleeping bags, and the others had spare comforters.

Martin looked at them all as they all sat in their make shift beds, “Ok, since you girls are going to be staying here for a while, I’m going to show you all the things I promised starting tomorrow”

All of them smiled at their human friend as he turned out the lights and began to head upstairs, “if you all need anything, I’m upstairs, okay?”

They all nodded as they all laid down and began to slowly drift off to sleep, dreaming of Equestria and all of their friends that they missed.

Martin had gotten up early the next morning to make the six and him some breakfast and to get started on showing them around town. As he came into the living room, he noticed all of the human ponies fast asleep, some were resigned to regular sleeping positions; Rainbow, AJ and Pinkie however were splayed about as limbs poked out of various sections of the comforters that covered them. Martin began to gingerly wade his way through the sleeping girls, until he tripped on Dash’s foot and fell into the kneeling position as to not awaken them. His sigh of relief was cut short as he was booted in the backside by a sleeping Applejack which caused him to tip over; he instinctively shut his eyes as he hit something.

Martin opened his eyes… and realized he was currently face down in Rarity’s chest, he immediately locked eyes with a now shocked and embarrassed Rarity, both of their faces were burning red when he spoke, “uhhh… good morning”

Rarity sat up which caused Martin to get to his knees in front of her, she looked him dead in the eye, “Darling, I didn’t realize you were so forward, but you must know that I have a reputation to uphold as a lady, therefore I will ask you not to breathe a word of this to anypony”

Martin nodded quickly as he stood up and ran into the kitchen and dialed Alan’s phone number, Alan picked up immediately and said, “Welcome to the herd bro”

Chapter 5: We Built This City

Canterlot

Discord was having an absolute thrill ride of fun, without the elements influence around he had managed to escape his prison with ease. After he had accomplished this, he had immediately set his sights on eliminating two very annoying threats that were still present in Equestria. He soon made his presence known to the two princesses and for the first time ever; he was all business in terms of the encounter.

After he had arrived before the princesses they of course asked him how he got free, “Well its quite simple really, I got rather bored of being stone so I thought I would pop by for a visit and spread some chaos here and there to liven things up”

Before the princesses could even object, Discord snapped his fingers and summoned a bazooka type gun labeled, “Princess Away”, and fired a black magic ball laced with purple smoke that smacked into both of The Alicorn’s. When the smoke cleared, a stained glass window had two new additions to it in the form of two Alicorn’s with looks of horror on their faces.

Discord regarded the window for a second, “Hmmmm, the artwork isn’t half bad”, he then summoned up a beret with a silk scarf, “the message it purveys is quite extraordinary, it depicts the eternal struggle between the sun and moon, though minor as it may be”, he then shrugged as the articles of clothing vanished, “or maybe I just don’t know art”, he then appeared atop of the tallest tower on the castle and began to laugh like a maniac as cotton candy clouds appeared, “time for chaos to reign!!!!”

At that exact moment, Twilight Sparkle shivered slightly as she was held a spoon full of cheerios which caused Rarity to look at her with confusion, “Something wrong Twilight?”

Twilight shook her head slightly, “It’s nothing, just had a weird feeling something bad just happened”

Pinkie approached the table the six were sitting at, “I’ll say”, Pinkie then produced an empty carton of orange juice, and “we just ran out of orange juice”

Martin walked into the kitchen dressed in a loose black shirt and grey sports pants, “I’m surprised all of you aren’t dressed yet”

Rainbow put down her bowl after she finished drinking the milk, “What do you mean?”

Martin just looked at them all with a surprised expression, “I said I was going to show you guys around town remember?”

The second he said that, all of them immediately finished their food and ran off to get dressed. Martin picked up the phone the second they left and dialed Alan, after a couple of rings he picked up, he regretfully said he wouldn’t be able to go with Martin due to the fact that he had to work a shift that would take almost all day, but they both agreed to meet at Martin’s later when he was off work to have a get together with the girls.

Soon all of the six met him at the door, wearing some shoes he had also managed to buy, amazingly he had gotten the sizes right. He then gestured for them to exit ahead of him as they all embarked onto the front lawn. The six looked around in amazement at all of the new buildings and especially the cars that were parked on the street.

Twilight was currently examining a van with a look of utter scientific curiosity, “Martin, is this one of those cars you mentioned?”

Martin nodded, “yeah, pretty nice right?”

Twilight looked at him with a smile, “yes, I would love to examine one more closely, the things I could learn could put Equestria into….what was that term you used when you told me about them?”

Martin thought for a second, “Industrialization”

Twilight smiled with a gleam in her eyes as she began to think of the possibilities, but her moment was interrupted by Rainbow Dash who mock covered her ears in pain, “Your big words are hurting me, can we get a move on please?”

Martin smiled as he looked back at an annoyed Twilight and scratched the back of his head embarrassed, “Right”, he then clapped his hands together, “Let’s get underway”

They walked for a about a half an hour until they reached downtown, Martin made a sweeping gesture, his cities downtown district was essentially like times square, neon billboards and tall buildings complete with stores adorned the scene, “Welcome to the city ladies”

(Play this during the following until "End Montage" appears, if you want)

Martin first took the girls to the local mega mall, the second Rarity saw all the clothing stores her eyes lit up with glee, Twilight noticed a book store and followed her reaction, same with Pinkie Pie and Rainbow when they saw a novelty store, Fluttershy noticed a pet store with open playpens for the animals and went squee, AJ readjusted her hat when she noticed an arcade with pinball and various other competitive games. Martin noticed their reactions and sighed, he then handed them spending money to use, but he warned them that they would have to make it last for the entire day until he got paid at the end of the week.

They all agreed to meet in back at the entrance in two hours, and then they all walked off to their various places that caught their interests leaving Martin to sit on a bench, this lasted for a few seconds until Applejack grabbed his arm and dragged him toward the arcade with a determined smile, “Cmon Martin, you need ta show me how these things work”

(Pinkie Pie & Rainbow Dash)

When the two girls entered the establishment, they both smiled as they began to look through each isle at the various objects that adorned the shelves. Pinkie Pie turned around wearing a goblin mask and scared the hell out Dash who was busy examining the different variations of joy buzzers they had. They both shared a laugh as they continued looking at various other items of mischief and merriment.

*
(Fluttershy)

Fluttershy was currently sitting in a play pen with four happy husky puppies; she was petting each one and humming a tune which was causing them to become very obedient.

However one of the larger puppies was picking on a smaller one which caused Fluttershy to scold it, “Now stop that right now”, the puppy looked straight at her….and obeyed which caused a great amount of confusion from one of the stores staff. A few minutes passed and the puppies were taken to the back for a bath, Fluttershy was about to leave when she felt several things grabbing at her ankles, she looked down and saw that one of the staff had put several small kittens in the pen when she wasn’t looking. She picked up a very fluffy white one with big blue eyes and looked right at it as it let out a soft “mew”, she then smiled as she gently nuzzled its nose with hers.

(Twilight Sparkle)

Twilight was currently browsing various sections of the bookstore looking at all of the books they had in all of the genres. She then settled on buying something known as the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini, it consisted of four thick books. A friendly store member showed her she could buy all four in a box set to which Twilight did immediately, as she walked out of the store with the box set in the bag, a nine year old bumped into her legs causing both her and the child to drop.

Twilight immediately grabbed the contents of the bag that the girl had held, she gasped when she saw all of her friends including her brother and Cadance along with the words, “A Canterlot Wedding” on the cover of the DVD case she held, and the little girl had already grabbed Twilights boxset and was holding it up to her while apologising.

Twilight smiled at the girl as she handed the DVD back and the girl handed Twilights box set to her, Twilight then said with a kind tone, “This was a good choice, I hope you enjoy it”

The girl then looked up at her, “You’ve seen it?”

Twilight smiled back as she turned to walk, “You could say that”

(Rarity)

Rarity was shaking her head as she looked at the sixtieth dress that the store she was in had to offer, this caused one of the female store clerks to walk over, “is there a problem miss?”

Rarity nodded as she pointed at a very nice white blouse which she pulled of the hanger, “yes, you see I want to buy this by I simply can’t”

The woman just looked at it, “miss, it’s perfectly fine”

Rarity just lightly chuckled, “darling, clearly you aren’t looking at it right”

Rarity then tapped right where the stitching for the sleeve met the shoulder, “see here, the stitch is doubled over”

The store clerk looked closely and a shocked expression appeared on her face, “well I’ll be damned”

(Martin & Applejack)

Martin was just staring wide eyed as AJ was stacking up points on the arcades pinball machine, and she was still on her first token. This amazing feat had gathered a small crowd of gamers who were egging her on to keep going, after about a few minutes, the ball finally plinked out and when it did several lights went off signaling she had broken the high score by several million points. She then was greeted by kudos from everyone present, as she inputted her initials.

Martin fist bumped her as she approached him, “Nice one AJ, truly you are the Pinball Wizard”

Applejack just shrugged, “wasn’t that hard, ah just kept hitting the ball in rhythm with the paddles, just like applebuckin back home wasn’t much of a challenge”

Martin then gave a sly smile, “well if you’re so confident, let’s see how you handle DDR”

After the two hours subsided, the group met up at the entrance and showed their individual purchases; Rarity had bought six different changes of clothes for the girls, Pinkie Pie had bought some prank supplies for her and Dash along with cake mix and an ice cream cake, Rainbow Dash on the other hand had bought some Marvel comic books with a bit of DC to mix things up. Fluttershy had only spent some money on an ice cream cone and a chocolate chip muffin. Applejack had a victorious stride which left a shocked Martin behind her at a much slower pace; he then informed them that it was time for a promise to be fulfilled.

Soon they were at the local movie theatre with tickets bought and snacks purchased, as they found their seats. It had taken them a while to decide on what to see, but eventually they came to a decision on seeing The Avengers; however Fluttershy bowed out and used her money to go see The Lion King 3D. Several factors contributed to them seeing The Avengers, Twilight wanted to see it because of the science and magic that would be feature, Rarity was in awe at the costumes, Pinkie wanted to see “the green guy”, Rainbow just wanted the action. So they all sat down and watched the opening scene.

(End montage)

After the movie ended they all left in high spirits and did more around town until the sun had set signaling their departure to home. However unbeknownst to any of them, three very nasty individuals had been tailing them waiting for the right opportunity to strike. Soon, the three men rushed up behind them and grabbed Martin and threw him to the ground, the six could only watch in shock as their friend was attacked. Applejack however snapped out of it and rushed up to the nearest one and grabbed a hand full of the thug’s shirt…and threw him clear across the street and into a parked car effectively denting it. AJ just looked at her hands in amazement, the second one went to attack her, but was stopped by a lavender colored aura which suspended him in mid-air, Twilights hand was covered in it for a few seconds until it extinguished, effectively dropping the thug on the pavement .

The third thug however managed to grab Martin’s wallet with a quick “screw this” and bolted as the six bent down to help their fallen friend. Martin pointed as the guy was reaching the end of the street; Rainbow immediately was in hot pursuit…and became a blur which slammed into the thug and zoomed back to her friends. Martin was at a complete loss for words at what just transpired, he suggested they just head home to sort things out.

After a long while of walking they saw Alan on the front door step of Martin’s house, “hey, what up everypony, took you all….what the hell happened?!”

After they all explained the situation, Alan just nodded, “So it seems that the energy of The Bridge did more than just turn you all human, AJ has maintained her freakish…”, AJ just fixed him with a look, “…I mean her incredible strength, Fluttershy seems to have maintained her ability to commune with animals, Twilight and Rarity can use magic, and Rainbow Dash is a speedster”

Rainbow just looked at him confused, “A what now?”

Alan sighed, “A speedster, a being with the ability of super speed, like The Flash”

Rainbow nodded with a smile as she leaned back, a plate of Pinkies ice cream cake levitating into her hand thanks to Rarity. After all the unpleasantness that had accrued, they all agreed to enjoy a nice night of watching a TV movie while eating Ice cream cake. When it was time for them to all sleep however, Dash was sitting at the kitchen table reading one of The Flash comic books she picked out, after she finished she tapped her fingers on the table as she became lost in thought. Eventually this transitioned to her finding some pencils and some loose paper, and she began to draw something, she may not be good at drawing as Rarity, but she always cranked out fan artwork of the wonder bolts back home. Soon she drew her human self the way it was now and hummed to herself, a thought of those thugs came into her mind as she remembered The Avengers movie and then she looked at the cover of The Flash.

A light bulb went off in her head, “Of course”, she then began to make some modifications to the sketch of herself, and she knew if she was going to stay on earth for a long time, it was time to take up a secret hobby…and she knew just what it was.

Chapter 6: Superhero

Two days past after the incident on the street and everyone had begun to adjust to the new variable of The Six maintaining their unique talents, but Rainbow had been acting very odd the day after the incident. She would talk to all of them as her usual self, but she kept insisting to go to the local park to keep in shape. Everyone had no problem with it until Rarity noticed her coming home with bags of clothes and some very odd supplies, but she dismissed it as her taking up a hobby.

Rainbow was hard at work, the day had past normally as it always did, she had hung out with the girls, Martin and Alan but the whole time her mind was pulled back to the secret project she was doing in the garage. She looked down at the aviator goggles she had bought, the black leather holding the tinted lenses in place would provide the perfect cover, she cast a glance over to the black boots and matching leather gloves that fit and covered her hands perfectly. She had also bought black jogging pants which had two white stripe going vertically down the center of each pant leg. She then looked at the snow white hoodie that she would wear after she finished the final thing. She looked down at the black sports jacket she was currently working with; it was plain with no designs on it except for the ones she was applying at the moment, Rainbow was never really good with sewing and fabrication, but she did make her own costume during the Nightmare Night that Luna first showed up at, and she had progressed very far ever since then. She then held up the finished product with a smile, on the sleeves of the jacket stretching from the shoulder down to the cuff was a single white lightning bolt, and on the back was a large white star. Rainbow then pulled out the finishing touch, a black ski cap to cover her hair so no one could fully recognise her when she went out at night.

Martin at that current time was sitting in the living room with the girls waiting for Alan to bring Inception over; Twilight was currently immersed in Eragon not looking up once when addressed. Soon the door leading into the garage opened revealing a smiling Rainbow Dash with a black backpack.

Applejack just gave her friend a look, “Rainbow Dash, if ah didn’t know any better I would have ta say it looks like yer hidin something”

Rainbows smile turned to an innocent one as she placed a hand on her chest, “Me?, never”

Rarity raised a skeptical eyebrow at this which caused the rainbow haired girl to sweat slightly, “I have to agree with Applejack; as of late you have been spending a lot of time in the garage, what exactly have you been doing in there?”

Rainbow was becoming desperate as she thought of different things to say, she then gave a relaxed smile as she spoke, “Reading some Earth books”

Martin just looked at her, “in the garage?”

Rainbow nodded, “Yeah, its quieter in there then out here”, she then looked at the clock that read 8:00pm, “Oh horsefeathers, look at the time, I better get going”

Pinkie then quickly yelled after her, “But Alan is bringing a movie over”

Rainbow put on her shoes, “I’ll have to take a rain check”

Martin turned to look at her, “Just don’t stay out too late young lady”

Rainbow nodded as she literally sped out the door which slammed shut, Twilight looked where Rainbow Dash had been, "why was she in such a hurry?”

Rainbow Dash was several block down the road in an alleyway when she donned her clothes, she tied the boots up after she put on the pants, she then slipped on the hoodie. After that was done with that she put on the jacket and zipped it up to her neck, she then she tightened her grip in the gloves she now wore. Finally she put on the ski cap and put the hood up; she looked at herself in a puddle of water and smiled in satisfaction at who smiled back.

She then put the aviator goggles over her eyes as she took on a confident smirk, “Alright, let’s find some trouble”

At the same time this happened, Martin had finished explaining Rainbow’s absence to Alan who had immediately fired off a suggestion, “Maybe we should look into this secret hobby of hers by checking the garage?”

Twilight put a bookmark on her page, “I agree, we all know when Rainbow acts like this she is doing something she doesn’t want us to know about”

All of them nodded as they walked to the door and opened it, within the garage was a mess consisting of comic books, various supplies of clothing fabrication and a few drawings of designs.

Martin looked down at an open copy of The Flash, “You don’t think she…”

Alan held up a sketch of Rainbow in her completed costume, “She did”

Rainbow was running at a speed which made her look like a black and white blur, she was filled with utter exhilaration at this new feeling. The feeling of speed always made her feel exhilarated, but the feeling of anonymity added to this making her feel freer then she ever did, she then stopped outside of a gas station to regain her surroundings. She was leaning against a street light when she noticed an elderly man being chased by two twenty year olds with bats in their hands. They cornered him outside of the gas station and knocked him to the ground mocking and insulting him all the while.

(epic music)

Rainbow approached them and placed her hands on her hips, "Hey!"

One of the thugs looked up at this stranger, “Who’s this clown?”

The other thug turned his attention to the stranger and brandished the bat, “Listen here, back off before you get hurt”

Rainbow just pointed to the downed man, “Not until YOU back off”

Both thugs were now turning their full attention to her, the one that threatened spoke in an arrogant tone, “Why don’t you make us little girl”

Once more, if the universe could put a musical score to a situation, a heavy cord would have just been struck as Dash spoke in an annoyed tone, “WHAT did you just call me?”

The thug then smiled and spoke each individual word, “.LITTLE.GIRL…Agh!!”

The second the word girl left his lips, Dash sped up and delivered a haymaker to his jaw, the super speed mixed with the momentum she had caused the guy to fly back a few feet. The other guy immediately swung at her head, Dash liked her speed in this situation for one good reason, whenever she went superfast everything for some reason moved in slow-mo. She dodged under the swing, wrenched the bat from the thug’s hand, and smacked him hard enough on the back to cause him to stumble.

The thug whipped around, “Who are you!?”

Dash grabbed his sleeve and ran in a super speed circle and let the guy go as he fell on his back, “My name is…”, she then remembered the word speedster and the symbol on her back, “Speedstar”

The elderly man stood up, “Thank you very much young lady, how can I repay you?”

Speedstar smiled and was about to speak until she remembered the lesson she learned during The Mysterious Mare Do Well incident, “It’s no problem dude..”, she heard the click of a cellphone camera behind her at the gas stations door, “just helping where I can”

She then sped away leaving a very grateful man to discipline the thugs while the cops showed up a few minutes later. Dash was laughing the whole time she continued her hyper speed patrol well into the night, at midnight she decided to quit. When she sped home she quickly changed back into her normal clothes and snuck in the house, however the lights flicked on revealing seven unimpressed faces in the living room.

Dash scratched the back of her head, “Hey, what’s up?”

Martin raised the sketch, “You tell me”

Chapter 7: Busted

Rainbow Dash was standing in the living room with a look that was both nervous and shocked as she stared at the very un-amused faces of her friends. The tension was so thick that it could be cut with a knife, Dash was even afraid to take a breath under the suspicion she might screw things up worse than they already were.

Rainbow finally spoke after three minutes of the awkward silence subsided, “Okay, ummmm….would you believe that I am really good at drawing”

Her bag was wrenched from her back by Twilight’s magic as Rarity soon levitated the contents from it and revealed them to all who were present. Rarity examined each one of the articles of clothing with a skeptical eye as Martin shook his head in disbelief.

After she was done, Rarity placed the costume on the table, “Before we start, I must say that this costume was a fine piece of work Rainbow, it seems you took a few pages from my book as it were”

Rainbow chuckled slightly, “Yeah, I picked up a few things watching you work on your various “projects” whenever I was in the shop…or if I was REALLY bored”

Rarity was about to say a rebuttal when Martin stopped her and spoke, “Could you tell us exactly what you were thinking when you decided to fabricate this persona of yours?”

Rainbow took on an annoyed look, “I was thinking that maybe your world needs a hero, and also the fact I was bored out of my mind”

Martin stood up immediately, “Do you know what could have happened to you if something went wrong?”

Rainbow just rolled her eyes, “Um hello, I have super speed”, and in a blink of an eye Martin was pantsed by Rainbow Dash before she continued, “Plus I was too fast for any of them”

Martin quickly pulled up his pants as he heard giggling behind him, “So you DID encounter people tonight”

Rainbow blinked a few times, “Horsefeathers”

Martin continued his lecture, “I hate to burst your bubble Dash, but many people here don’t overly like vigilante’s, especially the local law enforcement”

Dash looked a tad confused at this, “won’t they appreciate the help?”

Martin sighed, “They don’t mind people helping they just don’t like people taking the law into their own hands due to the fact that the people in question could cause more harm than good, which is the exact reason why they made vigilantism ILLEGAL”

Rainbow just stared at Martin as he rubbed the bridge of his nose, “until I figure out how to approach this, there will be no going out by yourself, no use of your super speed, and absolutely NO more crime fighting”

When Martin finished talking, Dash just pointed at him, “You may be my friend, but you are NOT the boss of me”

Martin just narrowed his eyes, “I am not trying to be the boss of you, I just care about your wellbeing, something you obviously ignore on a daily bases”

Everypony behind him gasped as a look of anger appeared on her face, she got right up to Martin and looked him straight in the eye, “Who in the HAY do you think you are?!”

Martin responded with an equal tone of voice, “I am your friend and I think what you’re doing is stupid and reckless!”

Rainbow then stood back with a smirk as she crossed her arms, “Wait a minute; I see what’s happening here”

Martin raised an eyebrow as she continued, “Your jealous”

Martin looked at the rainbow haired girl, “Excuse me?”

Rainbow Dash spoke in a know it all tone that Twilight sometimes used, “Since we are the ones with power, you still want to be good old heroic Martin even though you have nothing”

Martin got annoyed at this, “That’s irrelevant right now”

Rainbow shook her head, “Nuh uh, you’ve been avoiding this subject for two days now, even though you say you don’t mind it, your jealous beyond belief”

Martin shook his head as his anger started to rise, “You don’t know anything”

Rainbow just pointed, “See right there, your angry because you know I’m telling the truth and your trying to avoid it, you know full well we are bar none here, and your just regular old Martin Fairbridges”

Martin’s anger finally boiled over and he said something that caused everypony to immediately fall silent, “AND YOU ARE A LAZY GOOD FOR NOTHING SPORTS FREAK WHO IS NOTHING MORE THEN A GROWN CHILD!”

Martin and Rainbow’s eyes widened in shock at the words that left his mouth, Rainbow then walked right up to Martin and raised her fist. Martin shut his eyes as he waited for the well-deserved blow, but what followed was a sniff. Martin opened his eyes as he looked at the teary eyes of the rainbow haired girl, Martin was about to say something, but he was treated with a blur and a gust of wind.

Martin just looked at the six who had a mixture of shock and sadness on their faces; he then sank onto the couch and put his face in his hands, “What have I done…”

(Pegasister’s & Brony’s, the remainder of this arc shall be focused on Rainbow Dash and Alan Washington, why you might ask? I guess you shall have to wait and see)

Alan was currently sitting in his room looking over a few things on his computer, he had gotten home a few hours after the movie had ended and had decided to read some of his favorite fan fictions off of FiMfiction. Currently he was starting to read his favorite fic when he heard a knock on his door, he looked away from his browser which had the cover image of a filly Rainbow Dash in a cardboard box and walked to the door.

He opened it and stared straight at an elderly woman who lived down the hall from him and she had a very saddened rainbow haired girl beside her, “Excuse me dear, this young lady says she knows you”

Alan looked at the girl first, and then at the old woman in concern, “where did you find her?”

The old woman looked back at him with equal concern, “she was sitting on the curb four blocks down and asked if I knew how to find Alan Washington, I told her I lived in the same apartment building as you, is it true that she knows you”

Alan nodded, “Yeah, she’s a friend of mine, thank you for helping her”

The woman nodded as she took her leave, “Rainbow what are you doing here”, Dash didn’t respond, “Is everything alright?”

Rainbow Dash then hugged Alan in response and trembled slightly as she sniffled into his shoulder, Alan slowly raised his arms and hugged her back, “Let’s just sit down for a second and talk about this okay?”

For the next twenty minutes Rainbow Dash retold all that had transpired, she gradually began to calm down with each spoken word. After she finished with her tale, she looked at Alan; his reaction had changed from a concerned one to a relaxed and understanding one as he leaned back and looked at the ceiling.

Rainbow rubbed the back of her head nervously as Alan looked at her once more, “You know he didn’t mean what he said right, the insult I mean”

Dash nodded slightly, “Yeah I know, although I kind of deserved it”

Alan just gave a half smirk, “No doubt, but his anger wasn’t from the insults”

Rainbow looked up surprised, “Really?”

Alan crossed the room and placed a hand on her shoulder, “He’s really worried about you Dash, he got mad because you practically told him to…”, he thought for a second, “…to buck off and that you didn’t care”

Dash immediately looked at the floor, “Horsefeathers, I’m such an idiot!”

Alan shook his head, “No you’re not, everypony makes mistakes Dashie, even the most awesome of us all,” she then stood up and stared at him, “but we all learn from them”

Alan was once more looking into the rainbow haired girl’s eyes, the red like eyes looking into his own dark blue ones, unknown to either of them they were both starting to lean closer to each other at a snail’s pace.

Dash then spoke with a slight blush, “you… never told me who your favorite pony was”

Alan was nervous and had a slight blush as well, “Well…uh…my favorite is…”

All of a sudden a blaring sound of his cellphone ringer cut through the silence and brought them back to reality, both of them backed up in unison and mirrored the exact same gesture of scratching the back of their heads. Alan walked over to his cell as he checked the caller ID, he chuckled slightly as he hit the answer button.

Alan placed the phone to his ear, “Hey dude, yeah, she’s here”

Rainbow looked at Alan as he turned around, “Martin wants to talk to you”

Dash nodded, “Okay”

Chapter 8: A New Development

Alan walked into his kitchen at approximately 8:00 am and turned toward the living room noticing immediately that NASCAR was playing, “Hey Dash! I was thinking of making some French toast for breakfast, you want some?”

Rainbow looked over the back of the couch, “sure, HOLY MOLEY THAT CAR JUST DID A BARREL ROLL!!”

Alan just smiled and shook his head as he opened the fridge and began to rummage through its contents until he found what he was looking for. As he began to assemble the various ingredients and utensils, he thought back to the previous night’s events and the end result that had altered his usual routine.

(Previous Night)

Rainbow walked over to the phone and took it in her hand greeted the voice on the other end, “Hey Martin, sorry for running off like that”

Martin sighed in relief when he heard her voice, “It’s alright, I’m just glad you’re safe at Alan’s,” Martin then turned away from the receiver at the sound of Twilights voice then came back, “Listen, we’ve all discussed it and we’re going to let you fight crime…”

When that was said, Rainbow immediately whooped for joy but this was cut off by Martin, “…WITH some conditions”, Rainbow ceased her merriment immediately and listened with a straight face, “you can’t let yourself be caught live on the news which means NO interviews,” Rainbow nodded, “No fighting crimes that are WAY out of your league and if things get way too intense or out of control you quit…”, then the sound of the phone being taken was heard and then Pinkie’s voice was heard, “FOREVEEEER!!!”

Rainbow Dash thought it over for a few seconds and smiled, “Okay, I can live with that”

Martin was surprised at the answer, “really?”

Dash nodded as she looked at Alan who was currently fiddling with the stereo, “Let’s just say, I understand your concern now”

Martin then spoke, “You want come back here? I mean its late and all”

Rainbow looked back at Alan, “actually I was thinking, if it wasn’t too much trouble, if I could spend a few nights here”, Alan looked up surprised as she continued, “Just for a change of scenery, plus Rarity snores”

Rarity seemed to have a sixth sense on that matter, “I HEARD THAT DASH!!”

Rainbow just laughed in response as she turned to Alan, “That ok with you?”

Alan gave a nervous smile but nodded

Alan and Rainbow were both sitting at the kitchen table eating the French toast that he had made for them as the TV continued to drone on. Eventually they both finished and sat on the couch to chill out.

Alan turned to Dash, “so are you going out patrolling tonight?”

Rainbow nodded with a smile, “Pinkie is dropping off my gear at noon today, and it’s going to be awesome”

Alan looked at the TV, “I’ll bet”

Rainbow then took on a sly smile, “You want to come out on patrol with me don’t you?”

Alan smiled sheepishly, “Is it that obvious?”

Rainbow raised an eyebrow, “if I do take you, what exactly can you do?
”

Alan stood up immediately and ushered her into his room, the walls were adorned with posters and above his doorway was a black belt draped over a plaque, “well there’s that for one”

Rainbow nodded in respect as Alan rummaged through his closet until he pulled out a chrome bo-staff, “and then there’s this”, Rainbow just looked at the staff as Alan continued his explanation, “I chose to train with one of these in my lessons and I’m pretty good with it, this staff however was built by a guy in San Francisco”

Rainbow continued to stare, “Okay but why?”

Alan just smiled as a click was heard and the staff slid down like a night stick which caused Rainbow’s eyes to widen, “Okay, that is cool”

Alan nodded, “The guy I bought this from makes weapons then tests them out on dummies then uploads the test video’s on YouTube, he made this because of a Robin DLC for Batman: Arkham City and he was selling it so I thought “sure I got money to spend”

Rainbow just stared at him, “What the hay is Arkham City?”

Alan just smiled as he placed the compressed staff on his bed, “I think I should introduce you to video games”

Time flew by as Alan began compiling a list of clothing items while Dash played Arkham City in the background like a boss. Noon rolled around and Pinkie showed up with Rainbow’s gear and some changes of clothes, she stayed for a few minutes to watch the game then decided to leave bidding farewell to both of them. When midday transitioned into late afternoon, Dash turned off the game and approached Alan who was currently examining a black hooded cloak that would reach his ankles and easily conceal the entire front of his body when closed.

Dash picked it up, “where did you find this?”

Alan took it back, “Old Halloween costume piece, could you do me a favour and pop by them mall to pick up some things for me?”

Rainbow looked a bit annoyed at being an errand girl but took the list, “Okay I think I can work with this, do you need me to get you a mask?”

Alan shook his head, “already got one”

Rainbow took the money and sped out the door as quick as Alan could blink; he then walked into his room and pulled out a white full face mask that was featureless and completely smooth. The only thing it had on it was a pair of oval eye holes; he then smiled as he took it to the table and began to paint it black.

Rainbow returned at night fall and presented the items to him, Alan first pulled out a vest that matched his needs,"nice find Dash", he then pulled out the things he would wear on his arms,"these are perfect!"

He then took the other bag that contained a pair of black pocket pants and black hiking boots into his room to suit up. Soon Dash was suited up and waiting for Alan beside the door, he then walked out and reviled his new look. He was currently wearing a skin tight black shirt and the vest was securely fastened over it. The arm gear was in place along with the cloak which was currently closed, the mask was on top of his head, and he then slid it over his face and put the hood up.

Rainbow nodded in awe, “Okay that’s pretty cool, but what’s your name?”

Alan then whipped out the staff in its collapsed form and it snapped to its full length as he began to do some impressive spins and flourishes, he then ended with an impressive thrust at Rainbow’s goggles but stopped by an inch as he responded with one word, “Umbra”

Speedstar nodded as she opened the door and Umbra collapsed the staff as she smiled, “Okay Umbra, ready to fight crime?”

Umbra smiled under his mask, “Hell Yeah!”

Alright folks, there is an explanation for this short chapter. The reason is because the Arc ending chapter is next, and this one has set the stage. Enjoy the show 

Chapter 9: The Last Run

Umbra was clutching onto Speedstar’s back for dear life as she ran through the streets of his home city at such speeds that he had to tilt his head toward the back of her neck, he then proceeded to yell over the wind that was hitting his face, “HOW ARE YOU CARRYING ME SO WELL!? THIS IS CRAZY COOOOOL!!”

Speedstar laughed as she addressed him, “TRUST ME! I HAVE CARRIED WAAAAY HEAVIER!”

Umbra just laughed along with her as they stopped in the local park for a rest, in truth they had been patrolling for two hours in total but turned up nothing so far in terms of crime. Umbra raised his mask and wiped some sweat from his brow as he turned and looked at Speedstar who was panting slightly, he smiled as he felt his chest become a tad warm at the sight of his partner in justice. Speedstar then looked at him which caused blush to appear on Umbra’s face; he then yanked his mask down quickly and looked away.

He then uttered quickly in a gravelly voice, “I’m Umbra”

Speedstar just grinned as she playfully punched him in the arm, “Alright Umbra let’s get the lead out, if we leave now we can get to the south side in thirty minutes”

When they both stood they heard chuckles behind them, “Well well well, what have we here…”

Both Umbra and Speedstar turned around fast and revealed the very same thugs that had attempted to rob Martin a few days prior, “…Little late for Halloween kiddies”

Speedstar walked took a step forward at being called a kid but a firm hand on her shoulder accompanied by a slight shake of the head from Umbra stopped her from advancing further. Umbra came beside her as he slowly removed his staff in its collapsed state; one of the thugs noticed this and whipped out a knife in response.

Knife Thug then addressed Umbra, “Ya think you’re so tough you Batman wannabe? Well news flash, this isn’t the comic books this is real life”

Knife Thug then lunged straight at Umbra…who then dropped down to waist level and knocked Knife Thugs feet out from under him. He then followed through by raising his staff in the air with both hands and extending it to full length and bringing it down vertically on the guy’s body, a crack was heard as the Knife Thug held his face crying in pain and anger as his buddies jumped toward Umbra.

Speedstar then rushed forward as time slowed to a crawl thanks to her super speed, she then went for the first guy and delivered a swift kick to his ribs and followed through with an uppercut and Umbra brought his staff into the other Brawler’s groin. The Brawler squeaked as Umbra collapsed the staff and smacked the stunned Brawler in the face and he then followed through with a powerful kick to the Brawlers midsection effectively knocking him down in time with Speedstar’s victim.

The Knife Thug reached for his weapon only to have Umbra’s staff extend into his palm causing him to yell in pain as he looked at a smiling Speedstar and Umbra as they both said, “You were saying?”

After a few more encounters in the city both of the hero’s traveled back to Alan’s apartment and removed their suits as they dawned their night wear. Alan was wearing a loose grey t-shirt with red plaid pajama pants as Rainbow walked out in a blue t-shirt with knee long black pajama shorts. They were both silent for about thirty seconds until they broke into excited conversation.

Alan was smiling widely, “That was awesome!”

Rainbow nodded frantically, “I know! It was so AWESOME!!”

Alan then made gestures in the air, “The way you handled those muggers on the beach after we left the park!...”

Rainbow smiled wider, “That was nothing!, how about those graffiti painters down on the west side you kicked the hay out of with me barley getting a move in!.....”

They both then turned to each other and yelled at the same time pointing, “YOU WERE SPECTACULAR!!”

Rainbow then playfully punched Alan in the shoulder again; he then took on a mock evil grin as he grabbed Rainbow in a head lock and began to give her a noogie. After much protest by Rainbow she finally managed to break free and tackle Alan to the ground, they both wrestled for a few minutes until they were both sweating and panting.

Rainbow was on top of Alan pinning him down with a victorious smile, “Gotcha…”

Both Alan and Rainbow stared at each other’s smiling faces; Rainbow looked at Alan for a long time as her grip began to loosen slightly as she relaxed. Alan’s face softened slightly as she did the same, Rainbow’s mind was focused on her victory and maintaining it, but her body moved on its own as she began to lean forward. Alan’s hand slowly slipped onto her back as she got closer, soon she and Alan’s faces were inches from each other and then….Alan pulled a reversal.

Alan heaved himself sharply to the side and managed to get Rainbow on her belly as he pinned her WWE style laughing in triumph as the emotions they felt before vanished, “HA! Who’s got who NOW!?”

Rainbow looked at the clock and sighed in defeat, “fine…you win”

They both stood up and shared an equal blush and nervous laugh as they bid each other goodnight and headed to bed.

At the same time as this, the Knife Thug and the Brawlers were approaching their hideout grumbling in anger and pain. The Knife Thug then sat on the rotted couch on the far right wall thinking hard on how to get revenge on the costume freaks.

Brawler 1 spoke first as he rubbed his broken nose, “I say we track the bitch down and torch her on the beach like they used to do to witches in ye old times”

Brawler 2 nodded, “Yeah, then we hook that guy in black up to a car battery and leave him to fry with her”

Knife Thug shook his head as he reached under the couch, “Boys boys you think to small…”, he then pulled out a glock and yanked the slider back and then let it snap back in place, “…let’s just blow both of their brains out”

The Six and Martin were chilling at Alan’s as he and Dash retold their night of escapades, Martin just shook his head when they finished, “Dude, I would expect this from Dash but why you?”

Alan looked at Rainbow as she was spinning a tale of grandeur to her friends at the kitchen table, he then smiled, and Martin took notice of this and grinned as well, “Mr. Washington if I didn’t know better I think you li….”

Alan interrupted him, “Shut it!”, he then quieted when he noticed the six looking at him and turned to Martin, “I just…care about her you know?”

Martin shrugged and leaned back on the couch and changed the subject, “I got to say though you both make pretty bad ass heroes, but I still think Dash AND you should stop. These kind of escapades never end well”

Alan just waved the comment off, “What’s the worst that could happen?”

Martin stood up and walked to the fridge as he left Alan with an ominous answer, “You could end up like Big Daddy from Kick-Ass”

That night Alan stood before his mirror wearing his costume all except for the mask as he looked at the person staring back at him. He had been contemplating hard on what Martin had told him and was beginning to have doubts; he donned his mask as Umbra stared back from the mirror. Speedstar shouted from the living room to hurry up to which Umbra immediately complied and left his room unaware of what would befall the duo.

Speedstar and Umbra were both currently resting on a street corner after a busy night of crime busting. Both of them were absolutely baffled at the fact that for some reason there had been more criminal activity than the previous nights.

Speedstar turned to look at Umbra who was currently rotating his left arm, “you okay Umbra”

Umbra nodded, “I’m fine, that gangster back there was built like a linebacker and took me by surprise, its nothing major just some pain which could have been avoided if you were fast enough”

Speedstar had a smirk and was about to give a smart aleck retort when both of them heard a scream and immediately stood up. Speedstar then grabbed Umbra and sped down the street in the direction of the scream, as the buildings whipped past them both, Umbra tightened his grip slightly on Speedstar.

Umbra spoke over the rushing air, “Speedstar I’ve been thinking about how we have been going about crime fighting, and maybe we should stop before we get hurt”

Speedstar looked over her shoulder at him as she began to slow down, “we’re on a roll now why do you want to stop?”

Umbra hopped off of her when they stopped completely, “well like I said, we could get hurt and I care about…”

Umbra stopped when Speedstar turned his attention to the task at hand which took the form of the three thugs holding a woman hostage at gunpoint, Umbra took notice of this as he stood defensively along with Speedstar.

Umbra then pointed at Knife Thug, “Let the woman go, no one has to get hurt”

Knife thug tightened his grip on the woman as the gun pressed into her temple, “that’s where your wrong, take one step forward and I’ll blow her brains out”

Speedstar just looked at the weapon he held like it was nothing, “Right…how about this, you drop the weapon and I won’t wail on you as bad”

Knife Thug just laughed at her, “You don’t get it do you? I hold all the cards and you’ve got nothing little girl”

The second the Knife Thug finished his sentence Speedstar sped up in the blink of an eye and grabbed his wrist and forced it upwards, the gun went off and the bullet clanged against a fire escape ladder as she then disarmed him and knocked him upside the head with the gun which she threw aside. By the time she finished with Knife Thug, Umbra had just finished incapacitating both Brawlers as the woman thanked them and ran away to get the authorities.

Speedstar turned around and fist pumped, “Alright! We win!”

Umbra walked up to her, “Nice job, let’s get going and leave these idiots for the cops”

Knife Thug just chuckled as a click was heard which Umbra picked up immediately before Speedstar, “I told ya I have all the cards”

Everything slowed to a crawl as Knife Thug leveled the gun with Speedstar and pulled the trigger, Speedstar turned around slowly as her eyes widened in horror. But this horror was not because of the gun, it was because Umbra threw himself in front of her and took the bullet right in his side as he dropped. In a blur, Speedstar kicked Knife Thug clear in the face as he let go of the gun which she then threw in a dumpster that was beside her.

She then came over to Umbra as he was gasping in pain and holding his now bleeding wound, she immediately bent down pulled his mask off and began to frantically speak to him, “Alan! Don’t pass out! Please stay awake!”

Alan looked at her weakly, “to answer to your question...,” Dash looked at him confused and worried, “my….favorite pony...,” He then placed a hand on her arm, “is…you”

Alan then lapsed into an unconscious state

Chapter 10: An Old & New Face

Everypony in Equestria was gathered around Alan Washington brandishing cheese graters and made up to look like evil clowns, Trixie walked through the crowd dressed like the queen of the mimes and pulled out a rubber band along with a cattle-prod.

She then smiled evilly and spoke in a Microsoft Sam voice, "enin retfa semoc etalocohC"

Alan’s left eye twitched at this comment, but then a look of complete terror appeared on his face as all of the ponies advanced on him as Rebecca Black’s "Friday" played in the background….

Alan immediately sat straight up in the bed he was currently taking residence in, he then grabbed his side in absolute pain and was pulled backwards into his pillow by a purple magical aura. He immediately turned his head and saw the worried faces of the six and Martin; Alan weakly smiled as he noticed that he was lying in a hospital room with an IV hooked into his arm along with a hospital gown and a heart monitor which was steadily beeping.

Alan stared at the ceiling as he addressed his friends, “You can all say I told you so…”

Rainbow stood up and walked over to Alan’s bedside, “they already did while you were out…”

Alan was about to speak but stopped when Rainbow bent down and hugged him, “you saved my life dude…thank you”

Alan smiled as he returned the gesture with equal gusto, “Hey it was no big deal… you’d do the same for me Dash”

She let go of him and smiled at him before she walked back to her chair, Rarity addressed Alan with a concerned tone, “I must ask Alan, why were you thrashing around a few minutes ago?”

Alan shivered at the memory, “let’s just say painkillers mess with your head when you sleep”

Martin spoke next, “Well dude I got good news,” Alan looked at Martin with a raised eyebrow, “The doc’s say the bullet passed through you and thankfully didn’t damage any of your organs, however they say they have to keep you here about three weeks along with an extra two days for observation”

As Martin talked, he noticed Alan grab his beds recliner controls and elevated himself to properly look at all of them with a mock dramatic voice, “Oh god, three weeks how will I survive!....maybe I’ll take up reading”

When he said this he looked right at Rainbow Dash with a smirk which she returned with an eye roll as Pinkie Pie approached very fast, “Alan, when you get out of the hospital can I throw you a welcome back party?”

Alan nodded, “What kind of a brony would I be if I said no”

Pinkie was immediately all smiles as she began to fire off ideas on what she would do for the celebration. The conversations that followed lasted for several hours until they were asked to leave by one of the nurses to which they complied with no struggle. Martin looked back toward the hospital as all seven of them boarded the bus that would take them back to his house and sighed.

Rainbow tapped Martin on the shoulder; Martin read her mind almost immediately, “It wasn’t your fault Dash…”

Dash’s eyes were watering, “I just want to know why he did it for me, and I understand I’m his favorite pony but…why?”

Martin put a comforting hand on her shoulder, “It’s because he cares about you Dash”

(Three Weeks and two days later)

Pinkie Pie was holding a clip board in her hand as she observed the decorations being suspended from Martin’s ceiling; she nibbled slightly on the cap lid of the pen she held as she saw Rarity put several streamers on the roof and spread them out evenly. She then checked off streamers as she saw AJ finishing of a cake she and Pinkie had made prior to the decoration of the home that spelled out in white frosting, “WELCOME BACK ALAN!!”, and finally she checked on Fluttershy and Twilight who were currently on lookout duty.

Pinkie approached after checking off the cake box, “Is he here yet?”

Twilight looked away from the window, “Not yet”

Pinkie pouted as she turned to face Martin who was munching on a chip from one of the snack bowls to which she threw the pen at his hand yelling in a strange voice, “NO CHIP FOR YOU!!”

Martin crossed his arms after shaking his hand a few times as Rainbow chuckled beside him, “Rule one about Pinkie parties Martin, never eat snacks before the party starts”, Rainbow shivered slightly, “it never ends well”

Pinkie then made an “I’m watching you” gesture toward Martin as she sat down on a chair and turned back to Twilight, “Is he here yet?”

Twilight shook her head without looking away, “no”

Pinkie leaned forward, “Is he here yet?”

Twilight sighed sounding a bit annoyed, “no”

Pinkie then appeared beside Twilight hopping impatiently, “is he here YET?”

Twilight was now very annoyed as she turned to Pinkie, “No….”

Pinkie paused for a second, “ISHEHEREYETISHEHEREYETISHEHEREYETISHEHEREYET?”

Twilight was about to yell her answer when Fluttershy gave a calm, “Yes”, and pointed out the window to reveal Alan dressed in jeans and a white shirt with his casual leather jacket draped over his shoulder. The second Alan raised his hand to knock on the door, it was opened extremely fast and a pink haired girl grabbed him with a large smile on her face and pulled him in.

*
(Meanwhile in Equestria)

Discord was reclining on a cotton candy cloud literally playing yoyo with the sun and moon as he began to look around. All the buildings were either floating on separate pieces of land off the ground or were just suspended upside down, ponies were running around in utter panic as the streets were covered in soap or in some cases grape juice and water was levitating into the sky whenever it was poured, he had his chaos in all of its unbridled glory. Yet for once in millennia….he yawned in complete boredom which actually caused him to sit up and look around in complete confusion at this action which also caused the sun and moon to drop out of site.

Discord looked around the darkened landscape as he snapped his talon and summoned a lamp which he flicked on to examine a checklist with a pair of horn rimmed glasses, “Let’s see here… wake up dramatically…Check, take care of annoying royals…check, cause complete and utter chaos…”, he then looked once more at the landscape with a grin, “checkaroo”

Discord sat in silence for a few seconds contemplating; he had everything he had ever wanted but why oh why did he feel bored, he then threw the clipboard in the air which then flew away like a bird as he sighed in frustration, “WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH ME!?”

He then looked toward the castle and appeared in front of the stained glass window that depicted the frozen princesses, “What do you think Celestia”, he shrugged as he looked sideways for a second, “I have my glorious chaos”, he then gestured indicating the outside world from within the throne room, “All of Equestria is under my heel once more”, his shoulders sagged, “And yet I feel bored…almost like I’m missing something”

Discord then leaned against the wall beside the window and spoke in a slight feminine voice, “Maybe it’s more than that”

Discord warped to the opposite wall with a sarcastic tone, “Oh please Celestia do go on”

He went back to his original position a “Celestia” continued, “Think about it, you’re at the top of the mountain with everything you ever wanted, but isn’t it lonely up there?”

Discord thought on this, “Hmmm, whats your point?”

“Celestia” then chuckled, “Isn’t it obvious?”

Discord then responded very flatly, “If it was obvious, would I be asking you”

“Celestia” then huffed, “alright fine I’ll tell you since your completely incompetent”

Discord grinned slightly, “Well well Celestia, it seems somepony is a little agitated”

“Celestia” ignored this, “You climbed all the way to the top and claimed victory, but let me ask you something, what was missing”

Discord answered immediately, “A fanfare?”

“Celestia” sighed in agitation, “NO! A CHALLENGE!”

Discords eyes widened in realization, images of the princesses defeating him appeared along with the one of Twilight and her friends stopping him, “Of COURSE!,” he then began to pace, “Sure I have everything I want at my disposal, but there’s no fun in it if no one tries to stop me”

He then took on a thoughtful expression, “come to think of it…I’m curious to where the Twilight and her merry mares wondered off to”

Discord then conjured up his radar screen and adjusted the dials to only seek out the six’s magical energies, no blips appeared in Canterlot or the surrounding areas, “Odd”

Discord then appeared in Ponyville and began to look around with the radar only to be met with the same result, “this is truly odd”, and he then expanded the search margin all over Equestria to be met with nothing.

He paced once more, “Where could they have gone”

Discord then heard a mumble to his right and noticed a pony by the name of The Doctor stuck inside of an hour glass that was filled up to his neck and never rose above that level but sand continued to pour in on his head.

Discord approached The Doctor, “I’m sorry, what was that?”

Doctor just stared at him in response

Discord just sighed as he snapped his talon and levitated the hourglass and flipped it upside down causing The Doctor to land on his head as the hourglass started to fill up, Discord then leaned against it as he examined his lion paw looking for imaginary dirt, “If you know anything I suggest you spill it now before your head is buried”

The Doctor yelled something before his mouth was buried; this caused Discord to flip the hourglass again, “Say again?”

The Doctor spoke in a defiant tone, “They went with Martin”

Discord blinked a few times, “Who?”

The Doctor smiled, “Oh you don’t know do you?”

Discord shook his head, “afraid not, could you fill me in?”

The Doctor just laughed, “You think I would tell you anything?”

Discord looked downcast immediately, “No”

Discord snapped his fingers and Ditzy Doo appeared in front of him, “But she might”

The Doctor was about to yell something when duct tape appeared on his mouth and he was immediately buried up to his neck, Ditzy immediately reeled in Discord, “Let him go right now!”

Discord pondered this for a moment, “I will let him go on the condition that you tell me about who this “Martin” is…”

Ditzy was about to object, until Discord tapped her on the head causing her colours to become grayish and her eyes to straighten out, he then conjured a box of muffins, “I insist”

Ditzy immediately spilled the beans on everything that was Martin Fairbridges, when she finished, Discord turned her back to normal and turned to leave, Ditzy immediately yelled after him, “you said you would let the Doctor go”

Discord stopped for a second, “funny thing about that…”, he snapped his fingers as Ditzy was strapped to a hypno disc which began to slowly rotate, “…I lied”

He then teleported in front of The Carousel Boutique and examined the door, he then ran his claw along the wood of the door and lightly licked it, “Hmmm…marzipan with mint, oh and a slight hint of ripped dimensional barrier”, Discord placed his lion paw on the door and snapped his talon, the door then erupted in white energy which forcibly swallowed him.

Alan was on the couch playing a guitar controller as Rockband 3 played on the TV, Rainbow was on drums as Twilight sang the lines for The Power of Love by Huey Lewis & The News. Martin was clapping in tune with the beat as Fluttershy, Rarity and Pinkie danced along, Applejack was munching on a nacho sitting beside Martin on a kitchen chair.

AJ turned to Martin, “Hey Martin...”

Martin took a sip of his coke as mumbled a yes, AJ then blushed slightly as she thought hard on her question, “Ah’ve been thinkin about what you said after me Rarity and Rainbow went a bit cuckoo…”

Martin raised an eyebrow as she continued, “ah mean we ARE stuck here an all…”

Martin was getting a little fidgety when she finally dropped the bomb, “…Would you do what you said an be our special somepony if either if us asked”

Martin choked slightly as he looked at her completely surprised, “Wh...What!?”

Alan looked over after the song had finished and gave him a smile as Martin tried to form words; AJ immediately waved her hand frantically, “It was nothin! It was just a….”

Twilight helped her, “rhetorical question”

AJ nodded with a smile, “Yeah, what she said”

Martin was about to answer only for the doorbell to ring, he stood up and walked to the door with eyes following him. When he opened it a women about the same age leapt through the door and hugged him, Martin and everyone else was taken completely by surprise.

The woman’s left eye was electric blue where as her right eye was forest green, she had copper coloured hair that was naturally curly that cascaded to just below her shoulders, she also wore dark blue jeans with a grey shirt and black heel shoes complete with a black winter coat.

She stared at Martin with a smile, “Hey Martin, long time no see”

Martin looked at here very confused, “Uh”

She raised an eyebrow, “It’s me, Lupe Stewart”

Martin just stared blankly at her to which she rolled her eyes with a grin, “I was in your grad class, we didn’t talk to each other until 12th grade in history class”

Martin looked very embarrassed when he finally remembered, “Sorry about that, I haven’t seen you since the grad dance”

Lupe shrugged, “Yeah sorry about not keeping in contact, I have been WAAAAY busy with family and work stuff”

She then noticed Alan who waved at her with a welcoming smile, and then her eyes fell upon the six, “Who are they?”

Martin smiled, “My friends, just met several months ago, wanna come in?”

Lupe continued to stare at the six girls until the one with the pink hair grabbed her hand and pulled her in, “Come on in Lupe, the more people the merrier the PARTY!!”

Discord appeared in an alleyway looking around intrigued, “Interesting”, he then walked down a side walk and saw a trench coat in a window. He looked around and noticed a 20 year old guy speed past him in a sports car, “Hmm… I may have to blend in”

Discord then snapped his finger and transformed into a twenty year old clean shaven guy with grey hair and red irises with yellow sclera, he wore a black muscle shirt with black casual dress pants complete with black loafers. He then looked at the trench coat and tiled his head; he then snapped his new fingers and a trench coat made of every known fabric sample appeared on him as he rotated to look at the new him, “nice”, he then covered his mouth as his voice matched the age of his disguise. Discord then proceeded to strut down the sidewalk, “A new world”, he saw more humans, “new inhabitants”, He then smiled evilly as he caught sight of himself in a window, “and a new Discord”

He then summoned a snapshot of Twilight fighting with her corrupt friends, “Where are your elements now Twilight?”

Chapter 11: Making Sense

Lupe sat down and began to exchange pleasantries with the six as Martin and Alan stood in the kitchen observing the events unfold before them.

Martin turned to Alan, “I got to say she’s hitting it off pretty well with the girls

Alan gave him a mock surprised look, “And you doubted this?”

Martin shook his head, “Nah, it’s just that back in high school I remember her giving me the eyes sometimes, I thought she might be a little hostile or jealous”

Alan scoffed at the comment, “Dude that was high school, she’s probably seen the error of her ways”

Martin narrowed his eyes, “did you just insult me?”

Alan smiled innocently in response; soon the party began to wind down around midnight as Alan and Lupe bid Martin and the six farewells and headed back to their individual homes. Martin assisted the six in cleaning up the party decorations all the while focusing on Lupe’s arrival and the question Applejack had given him, would he ask one of them to be his special somepony? The thought of it was too confusing and mind boggling so he put it in the back of his mind as he continued to clean.

Lupe walked in silence as she thought about Martin as his new “friends”; there was just something odd about them in general…especially the pink one. She then stopped near a street corner and sighed, she knew thinking bad things about other people was a bad habit one should not get into, but she just knew something was off about them.

Lupe leaned against a street sign, “Should I tell him that I still…no, that would just be to awkward…,” she smiled, “Besides he’s probably found someone already, maybe it’s one of those six girls…”

Lupe then continued down the street mumbling to herself completely unaware that a certain individual with white hair and a weird trench coat had been listening to her monologue and became very intrigued when she mentioned a guy that had six girls with him. The person chuckled slightly as he began to follow the woman with a renewed spring in his step.

Lupe unlocked the door to her apartment and looked around her living room; she deposited her coat on the rack by the door and sat down on the couch and flicked on T.V.

“So this is what passes for a home here…doesn’t seem like much”

Lupe jumped out of her skin as she looked in the direction of the voice and gasped, a slender twenty year old guy with white unkempt hair was reclining casually on her windowsill looking down at the street below, and this surprised her more since she was on the twentieth floor. Her eyes were drawn to the trench coat he was wearing that was made of patches of every known fabric and the fact he wore black loafers along with matching dress casual pants and a muscle shirt, he had to be a gangster or something. He then turned to look at her with the weirdest eyes, yellow sclera with red irises, which caused her to jump back in fright.

The Stranger just laughed, “Yes, I have that effect on beings”, He then hopped down onto the floor and looked around with interest at all the strange items then at Lupe, “such odd things you have here miss?”

Lupe hesitantly spoke at Discord, “L..Lupe”

Discord approached Lupe and looked at her eyes with great intrigue, “My my, what nice eyes, one blue and the other green”, he then smiled, “It’s so unique”

Lupe took a step back, “Yeah…it’s more of a birth defect, who are you?”

Discord had ignored her and walked over to her computer and began to tap random keys until a window opened and began to play a song.

He then turned toward her and smiled almost evilly, “I am known as Discord”, he then snapped his fingers and a glass of chocolate milk appeared in his hands as he drank the glass and crushed the milk against his head like an aluminum can and tossed it out the window.

Lupe was still fearful of this new stranger, “What do you want with me?”

Discord thought for a second…then reverted back to his true form which caused Lupe to fall over the back of her couch with a yelp as he spoke, “Well, I need a guide to show me around this world and a place to stay”

Lupe came up from behind the couch, “and why the HELL should I help…whatever you are?”

Discord then took on a sly grin and appeared beside Lupe in his human form, “Because I can help you Lupe”

Lupe looked at the completely strange being as he continued, “You want a special somepony to call your own and I can give you what you want in a snap”, to emphasize this, he snapped his fingers and conjured forth a heart shaped card that had “Lupe + Insert name here”

Lupe just stared at him, “Why should I believe you…wait, why am I even talking to you, this doesn’t make any sense”

Discord then levitated in the air and laid on his back, “Now my dear Lupe, where is the fun in making sense?”

Lupe was about to answer when Discord landed, “I overheard you talking about a guy with six girls, by any chance would this guy be by the name of Martin?”

Lupe shook her head, “No, what of it?”

Discord shrugged, “no reason, it’s just that I know those six “girls” and I’ve been looking for them”

Lupe looked at him skeptically, “really”

Discord nodded and snapped his fingers and conjured a window revealing a view portal looking at Martin and the six finishing up the cleaning, “does this answer your question?”

Lupe looked at him then the window, “how did you know where Martin was even though I didn’t tell you?”

Discord smiled in victory, “because you just told me I was right”

Lupe cursed under her breath as she looked at the window in two minutes of silence, “are those girls like you?”

Discord nodded, “hiding under a false appearance and walking among your kind? That would be a big fat yes”, Discord then tapped the window and ripples went through it and revealed the six’s true forms for a mere instance which shocked Lupe entirely

Lupe just shook her head, “It’s not possible”

Discord nodded, “Oh, it’s possible my dear”

Lupe looked at him, “What exactly do you mean by you’ll help me get Martin?”

Discord clapped his hands in glee as the window vanished, “well it’s quite simple, you see those six ponies have a tendency to snare others with shows of magnificence, kindness, beauty, skill and fun”, he then gestured to Lupe, “unfortunately for you it comes natural for them, but I can fix that”

Lupe looked slightly intrigued which caused Discords smile to get more devious as he realized he had caught her attention, “well I can give you something that can trump all that with ease, all you need to do is allow me to take up temporary residence here, do we have a deal?”

Lupe looked at him with a neutral expression, “how do I know you’ll keep your word?”

Discord then mumbled something about remembering a phrase, he then made gestures with the next words he spoke, “Cross my heart and hope to fly stick a cupcake in my eye”, he then raised his hand, “Shake on it?”

Lupe looked confused for a second then sighed, she still doesn’t know why she did what she did, maybe it was the way he worded his proposal or maybe deep down she desperately wanted Martin by any means, but she raised her hand to shake Discord’s. When her hand made contact with his, an electric shock ran through her entire body causing every one of her nerves to spike in activity for a second and then it subsided.

Lupe pulled away and looked at her hand, “what did you do to me?!”

Discord threw her pencil from her computer desk which she caught, then the pencil transformed into a snake and Lupe dropped it with a gasp. Discord then picked it up and transformed it into a gummy worm and ate it, he then picked up another pencil and pointed it at Lupe.

Discord then spoke in a tone a teacher would to his student, “I have given you the ability to alter reality”, Lupe was about to talk until he cut her off, “But only to an extent, I have limited you to only alter objects that already are in existence into whatever you see fit, give it a more practiced try”

Lupe took the pencil in her hand and transformed it into a spork, then a letter opener and finally a rose, “THIS IS AMAZING!”

Discord smiled in satisfaction, “glad you like it”, he then looked around, “so where do I sleep?”

Lupe pointed down the hall, “guest room is the second door on the right and it’s a bit cramped though”

Discord nodded and left to his room leaving Lupe to further practice her abilities.

Martin awoke the next morning to Rainbow Dash shaking him, “Uhhh…What is it Dash?”

Rainbow looked concerned, “come downstairs and see for yourself”

Martin then quickly got dressed and ran downstairs to see Sortitus sitting on his couch with the six sitting across from him, upon seeing Martin entering he stood up and spoke in a serious tone, “I have news”

Chapter 12: What A Girl Wants

Sortitus stared at Martin with a deadpan look which Martin returned with a serious one. Martin had become accustomed to Sortitus and his uninvited visits from time to time over the course of the two months he had been going back and forth between Earth and Equestria. Usually it was him either asking about how Martin was adjusting or talking to him and the six about the days of the past when he helped Celestia and Luna in their youth alongside his brother, but the strange thing was the fact he never REALLY got into much detail on the subject. But judging by the way he was looking at him, Martin had a feeling he had news of a most unfortunate nature but this theory vanished almost completely when a small grin appeared.

Sortitus gave Martin a slap on the back as he led Martin over to the couches, Martin sat with the six as Sortitus sat on the adjacent couch and addressed them with a the same grin, “the looks on your faces are most amusing”

Everyone just looked at the aspect confused as Sortitus chuckled, “You know sometimes when I show up I don’t always bring prophecies of doom and gloom, this news is actually good with a slight bit of bad which isn’t really anything”, he then waved his hand, “But I digress, I’m here concerning the new bridge”

Twilight smiled instantly, “What’s the news?”

Sortitus leaned forward, “It seem there are some fragments from the old one still lingering around which will make construction much easier, all I have to do is fill in the blanks with equal size shards and…I’m not really going to get into it because trans dimensional mechanics is beyond comprehension “

Fluttershy raised her hand, “Um but what does it mean...if you don’t mind me asking”

Sortitus smiled at her, “not at all, it means the bridge will most likely be done in two months’ time and as I said, this one will allow Equestrians and Humans to travel back and forth between worlds without fear of collapsing”

All of the six got up and began bouncing in a circle whooping with joy, Martin however stayed put and addressed the elephant in the room, “so what’s the bad portion you mentioned?”

Sortitus sighed, “As I said it’s nothing to be concerned about, but if you must know, the fragments of the old bridge flared on both sides for an instance and nothing more”

Rarity cast him a concerned look, “But didn’t you say that the bridge was supposed to be inactive?”

Sortitus just leaned back, “As I said it’s nothing, the last of the energy’s present are merely firing off with nowhere to go”

Martin just nodded, “and you’re not concerned about this?”

Sortitus shook his head, “As I said, it’s nothing to be concerned about if something had happened I would have sensed it”

Martin stood and approached him, “I appreciate you coming to tell us this dude”

Sortitus nodded, “Don’t mention it…dude”

Martin chuckled as Sortitus used traditional slang, the way he had said it could only be described as someone learning a new word in a foreign language and used it for the first time.

Pinkie immediately brought the aspect into a friendly hug, “You know what this calls for?”

Rainbow grinned, “I can guess”

Lupe was walking side by side with Discord, who was currently drinking back a bottle of Mountain Dew and wearing black wrap around sunglasses, “I must say this beverage is delicious”; he then made a mental note to make a set of cotton candy clouds to rain it during his take over.

Lupe was too busy practising on transforming a rock she was holding into, so far she just finished turning it into a diamond ring when they approached the driveway of Martin’s house, it was currently eleven forty-five in the morning when they both noticed lights going off in the house.

Martin hung up the phone after inviting Alan to the party; Sortitus had to leave because he had to continue the bridges construction much to Pinkie’s disappointment. It still amazed him how fast she could organize a party out of thin air, but he just reasoned it was because that it was just Pinkie Pie being Pinkie Pie. He then heard a knock on the door which interrupted his train of thought; he opened the door to reveal Lupe and a strange man with her.

Martin just raised an eyebrow at the man in the weird coat, “Hi Lupe, who’s this?”

Lupe thought quickly, “Oh this is…”

The Man answered quickly, “Desmond Dew at your service”

Martin looked a bit confused, “….”

Lupe then gave “Desmond” a “you really went with that as your name?” look then addressed Martin, “Just wanted to come by to talk if that’s alright?”

Martin looked into the house then back at Lupe, “sure”, he then gestured for Desmond to enter, “We’re having a party, care to join us?”

Desmond smiled, “I’m always one for a good party”

Martin then shut the door as he stepped onto the doorstep, “what’s up?”

Lupe blushed slightly, “I wanted to know if you maybe wanted to go see a movie later this afternoon?”

Martin took on a very surprised expression

The six turned their heads when they saw a new face enter the living room wearing a very odd coat which Rarity immediately got queasy by just looking at it, the stranger then plucked a cupcake from a plate as he casually leaned against the wall regarding the girls with a smile.

Twilight approached him first, “Hello and welcome to the party”

The Stranger nodded, “thank you for your hospitality Twilight, most appreciated”

Twilight froze immediately and all of the girls turned to look at him, “how did you know my name?”

The Stranger finished his cupcake and ignored the question, “did you do know you are the most polite and giving ponies I have ever met?”

Rainbow immediately zipped up to the strangers face, “How do you know…”

The Stranger cut her off by taking off his glasses which caused each girl to gasp as he continued, “you gave me Equestria and allowed me to be released, and I am really grateful for that”

All of the ponies instinctively got into formation only to remember The Elements of Harmony were back on Equestria, much to Discord`s amusement, “Well, well, well, guess your regretting not packing correctly eh?“

Applejack cracked her knuckles, “Give me on good reason why ah shouldn’t throw ya out the door”

Discord took on a frightened expression, “Oh no please don’t hurt me I bruise easily”

Twilight stepped toward Discord, “I think the bigger question is why you are even here in the first place”

Discord straightened up, “well its quite simple actually, you see I was bored with Equestria and I decided to move into a new place and low and behold”, he then spread his arms out, “this place fit my expectations”

Twilight pointed at Discord in as the girls took on defiant stances, “We won’t let you, we stopped you on Equestria and we’ll stop you here!”

Discord laughed in response to this threat to which Rainbow angrily asked, “What’s so funny?”

Discord stopped, “It’s funny because back on Equestria I was merely fooling with all of you”, he then put his shades back on, “But now I mean business and I have back up”

Fluttershy came to the conclusion first, “Lupe”

Discord nodded, “Very well placed answer my dear Fluttershy, you see Lupe has the potential to be so much more than what she is now and I have given her the tools necessary to become my instrument of chaos, all I need to do is bide my time until I can pull her out of her case and play my new anthem”

Rainbow Dash shook her head, “not if we tell Martin first, he and us have friends in…”

Discord then snapped his fingers and a silver tube appeared in his hand, “THINK SLOW!!”

There was a flash and all of the six wore blank looks, “so Pinkie that was a nice conversation about various cupcake designs, but I have to go now”

Discord walked out the door as Martin walked inside after bidding Lupe fair well, “hey girls, I’m going to have to cut my party time short”

Rarity looked at him slightly confused, “Whatever for Martin?”

Martin shrugged slightly but spoke with a slight smile, “I’m going to a movie with Lupe in the afternoon”

Rainbow Dash approached him, “Afternoon, as in THIS afternoon this afternoon?”

Martin nodded, “Yeah”

Pinkie perked up, “Then we’re going to have to party extra hard”

After Martin left to meet Lupe, The girls were killing time until Alan would arrive by playing Truth or Dare, currently Pinkie was wearing a balloon hat and Rarity`s hair had the appearance that she had stuck a fork in the electrical socket much to her chagrin. Rainbow was sitting cross legged with a pout until Applejacks spin landed on Rainbow.

Applejack then asked, “Truth or Dare”

Rainbow then said, “Truth”

Applejack nodded, “Alright, why have you been pouting this whole time”

Rainbow straightened, “because I want to take Martin on a date!”

Applejack and the girls were surprised at this, but Rarity casually responded, “Please Dash, I don’t mean to sound rude but you wouldn’t be able to”

Rainbow glared daggers at her friend, “What are you talking about”

Rarity looked to the side, “Well I mean he did say he would wade through suitors just to talk to me remember, plus I am more ladylike”

The other girls backed out slightly as Applejack joined in, “Wait a gosh darn minute here, why are yall leaving me out, he said he would go for me to!”

Rainbow stood, “Ladies, Ladies lets settle this like civilised mares, whoever gets a kiss from Martin gets to have him all to themselves no questions asked”

All three humans took on a determined look as they all proclaimed, “DEAL!”

The rest of the six facepalmed

Chapter 13: What A Girl Needs

While a plan most weird was devised at Martin’s house, Lupe was getting herself ready for the afternoon’s events while Discord merely watched the television with intrigue. Soon Lupe was ready to leave and sat next to Discord and began to wait for Martin’s arrival.

Discord cast a quick side glance then looked back at the TV, “looks like somebody is waiting for their special someone”

Lupe blushed slightly, “No, it’s just a friendly get together to catch up on old times”

Discord smiled, “suuuuure”

Lupe looked with annoyance at the humanized Draconequus, “What’s that supposed to mean?”

Discord waved the comment off, “Nothing, I’m just thinking how you’re going to win his affections with the power I gave you”, Lupe was about to object until she was silenced by Discords next comment, “I’ve seen how you’ve been practicing, you say no now but deep down you yearn to test the power and to see how far it will take you, and trust me my dear it will take you places”

Lupe’s buzzer went off to signal Martin’s arrival, “Whatever”

Discord turned to her just as she was about to leave and appeared before her in his true form to block her path as he raised his talon in a warning gesture, “mark my words Lupe, if you do not seize the opportunity when it presents itself, one of those ponies will take it before you can blink and then what will you do”

A look of doubt then appeared on the girls face as she looked at Discord, but it soon vanished, “that won’t happen”; she then walked past Discord and out the door leaving The Spirit of Disharmony to smile in a fashion that resembled that of someone who knew the punch line to a joke and wouldn’t say it outright, “that’s what you think”, Discord then transformed into his human form and watched a direct feed of Martin’s living room to which he had muted the volume, he then unmuted and watched the show.

Rainbow Dash then proceeded to lay down the rules of the bet, “Alright first off, no using your…abilities and second nopony is to tell Martin what’s going on”, she then cast a glance at Twilight who merely rolled her eyes before nodding in agreement

Rarity then nodded with a confident smile, “even though this is rather juvenile, I shall stick by it for the soul reason to prove that I as a lady can win Martin’s heart with a gentle demeanor and a flawless sense of class”

Applejack straightened up, “Ah’m just doin it to make sure Dash eats her words”

A cocky expression appeared on Rainbow’s face as she smugly crossed her arms, “I’d like to see that”

Applejack just raised an eyebrow, “Ah’ve done it before Dash”

Rainbow scoffed, “name four in chronological order”

Applejack sighed and then cleared her throat

Martin and Lupe were sitting in the lobby of the theatre waiting for their show to start; Martin had just finished bringing her up to date on his life, omitting the really magical parts, “And that’s pretty much it”

Lupe smiled as Martin looked at the clock, in the lighting of the lobby he gave off a sort of caring yet strong glow. Martin looked back at her which caused her to look away slightly embarrassed at being caught staring.

Martin smiled mischievously, “Am I really that attractive?”

Lupe then mumbled a quick, “no”

Martin took on a mock pained look, “I’m not?”

Lupe then realised her mistake, “I mean YES…wait I mean in a friendly sort of way-“

Martin laughed as Lupe stopped and realised she had been pranked and joined in the infectious laughter after a while the usher told them that it was time to pick their seats. It was nostalgia night at the theatre and they both agreed to see the movie Labyrinth out of surprising favoritism of the film, Martin said he liked the concept and the story whereas Lupe liked the characters and visuals. The lights dimmed as the film started, both Lupe and Martin sat in silence staring at the screen for a good half of it until someone leaned down to whisper in Lupe’s ear.

“Good movie eh?”, Lupe turned around to see the human Discord giving her a toothy grin holding popcorn in one hand and a large soda in the other. Lupe looked at Martin then back at Discord and spoke in annoyance, “What are you doing here? Can’t you see I’m trying to watch a movie here?”

Discord took on a small grin, “I merely came by to see how the date was going. From the look of things it’s about as bland as the moon”

Lupe quickly looked back to Martin and back to Discord once more, “I don’t need your help and it’s NOT a date!”

Discord raised his hand defensively, “Alright I’m just saying now would be good time to lean against him and feign being tired. Works every time in books”, he then leaned back and watched the movie as Lupe turned back as well.

As the movie continued, Lupe thought for a second on what Discord had said and laughed inwardly that such an old move could work. She then looked sideways at Martin, the light the screen cast on him revealed an almost mature look to the otherwise young man. She sighed as she decided to give the stupid move a try; she slowly and carefully leaned onto Martin’s side which caused him to tense in surprise as he looked at Lupe. He half smiled as he put his arm on her to help her relax a bit more which caused Lupe to blush at the sudden contact, she looked at the human Discord who mouthed I told you so.

Soon the ballroom scene started an Lupe looked at Martin as the music played. Martin looked at the copper haired woman as well, both Martin and Lupe stared into each other’s eyes. Martin’s dark green eyes stared into Lupe’s mismatched yet exotic eyes with a calmed smile; Lupe looked away with a slight blush as Martin slowly followed suit. But soon a hand touched the side of his face which caused him to turn and look once more at Lupe’s face which soon pressed against his in a light kiss. This action lasted for a few seconds until Lupe pulled away with a shocked expression and then bolted from her seat and out of the theatre.

She was in the ladies room panting in horror at what she just did; she looked at her reflection with a glare of self-loathing as if it was mocking her. She then jumped in surprise when Discord in his true form popped into existence in her reflections place.

Lupe pointed at him, “YOU! You did something to me didn’t you?!”

Discord shook his head, “Nope, that was all you and might I say nice one with the kiss, a little risky but effective”

Lupe looked away in shame, “I shouldn’t have done that”

Discord literally melted out of the mirror as he put an arm around Lupe, “Of course you should have. After all you do like him don’t you?”

Lupe twiddled her thumbs awkwardly, “Well….I sort of do…it’s hard to explain”

Discord sighed and shook his head, “well when you figure it out there’s man candy waiting for you outside that door, carpe diem Lupe and as I said get him before they do”

Discord then vanished as Lupe stared into space for a few seconds and then walked out to face the music.

Martin and Lupe walked back to Martin’s house in silence after the movie had ended trying to figure out a way to explain what had happened. Martin approached his street corner as he turned to Lupe.

Lupe the quickly stammered out, “I’m sorry for what I did back at the theatre, I was caught up in the moment-“

Martin stopped her, “It’s alright I understand”, he then gave Lupe a friendly hug, “See ya later and have a goodnight”

Lupe smiled as she waved goodbye and headed down the street, Martin soon arrived at home and opened the front door. As he walked past the living room, Dash was sitting on the couch wearing a loose fitting shirt that reached to her knees along with no pants but just underwear.

She had a sultry smile plastered on her face as she spoke in a seductive tone, “Hey Martin”

Martin didn’t even look as he headed upstairs, “hey Dash, I’m tired as hell and could you tell Pinkie I’m sorry for missing the party”

When Martin soon vanished from sight as Dash muttered a frustrated, “Darn it I thought I had him”

Apologies for the lateness, i have been working on other stories i shall be submitting soon
Also just a warning i'm going to be deleteing stories that i deem a waste of space. Also i have been noticing alot of this cheesgame of the gods stuff and i got to say i'm impressed. I will give my full explanation on this in my new blog post

Chapter 14: HBK

When Martin awoke the next morning he was greeted by the smiling face of Rarity who was holding a tray of breakfast food. Martin raised a skeptical eyebrow but took the food with a smile and a thank you. Rarity smiled as she turned around and slowly walked out of the room, Martin could have sworn she was purposely swaying her hips before she shut the door behind her. Rarity turned and looked at Applejack and Rainbow Dash who were both lingering nearby with a satisfied smirk and walked down stairs.

Rainbow Dash huffed in frustration, “Breakfast in bed, now she’s just not playing fair!”

Applejack nodded, “I gotta give it tah Rarity she knows the game.”

Rainbow Dash smiled, “Well if she wants to play hard I can play harder!”

The rainbow haired girl then walked downstairs with a confident stride leaving Applejack to ponder her approach. Soon Martin walked out of his room with the now empty tray and a calm look on his face. He then turned his head and bid Applejack a good morning which she returned as he headed to the living room for some Saturday morning TV. Fluttershy was already on the couch watching The Time Travelers wife with Twilight and Pinkie Pie who were currently munching on popcorn when Martin entered.

Fluttershy looked at Martin, “Oh I’m sorry, did you want to watch the TV?”

Martin shrugged with a smile, “Nah it’s okay, first come first serve I always say.”

Pinkie chuckled at the rhyme Martin did and went back to the movie except for Twilight who looked around and took Martin aside, “I need to tell you something.”

Martin looked at Twilight slightly confused, “Whats up?”

Twilight sighed, “Rainbow, Rarity and Applejack are…”, she stopped when she noticed the girls in question giving her warning looks, “…are the BEST at what they do hehehe.”

Martin smiled a bit confused and then nodded, “Yeah…I guess they are.”

He then walked off toward the hall closet to grab something as the three contesting girls turned away from the frustrated Twilight who reluctantly sat back down. She wanted to tell Martin exactly what the three girls were planning but deep down she had conflicting feelings of seeing the end result and what could happen if she betrayed her friends trust to be quiet. So she had decided to take the middle ground and keep her mouth shut and at the same time watch the end result but she would not enjoy it in the least.

Within the white atrium sized domed marble home known as The Sanctuary, Sortitus tensed up slightly as he was in the middle of weaving what could only be described as pieces of cloth made of light together and repositioning them. Aequivalere was sitting at the large circular marble table examining the table top which was composed of nothing but darkness and stars and sitting across from him was a man with ash colored hair that was smooth and medium in length. He also had snow white irises, pale skin and his cloak seemed to have the consistency of oil and the appearance/colour of darkness. This individual had a very depressed look on his face as he did the same thing that Aequivalere was doing until The Spirit of Balance looked to Sortitus.

Aequivalere stared at Sortitus with concern, “Is there something wrong brother?”

Sortitus scratched his head with confusion, “I’m not sure, I’ve just been having this odd itching feeling in the back of my psyche”

Phobos was still staring at the table when he spoke in a calm voice, “Perhaps it’s a disturbance we overlooked”

Aequivalere fixed a look upon his restored brother, “Phobos you have seemed troubled ever since we restored you what is wrong?”

Phobos didn’t respond but continued to stare at the tabletop as Sortitus rubbed his chin in puzzlement, “Phobos raises a good point though, I did say my vision foretold of Discord’s return yet I have not sensed his presence anywhere.”
Aequivalere thought for a second, “Maybe it is not time for your vision to come to pass”

Sortitus waved his hand causing the various cloth like pieces to vanish as he walked toward his brothers, “Be that as it may I would feel more reassured if we went to Equestria to check”

Aequivalere sighed, “very well, if we must”

Sortitus turned to Phobos, “Brother, come with us please you can’t stay in The Sanctuary forever. What you did was not your fault-“

Phobos sadly cut him off, “It was because I could not stop myself”

Sortitus put a reassuring hand on his brothers left shoulder, “They will forgive you if you are truly sorry”

Phobos reluctantly stood but put his hood up and the darkness it cast over his face seemed to swallow his face from view as Sortitus fired up his teleporting spell with a smile, “Trust me, everything will be as it was when we first saw Equestria blossom”

When all three aspects arrived they all stared at the scene before them with gawking mouths and shocked expressions. Phobos sighed, “it seems the game is afoot.”

On Earth in Lupe’s apartment she was pacing in front of a bored Discord muttering to herself. The reason for this arose when she had been walking home a few hours earlier and had seen the one known as Rainbow Dash hanging off of Martin’s arm with a dreamy look in her eye. She had started panicking at being noticed and had decided to run home and think on the matter and she couldn’t come up with a rational conclusion.

Discord sighed, “If you’re in such a tizzy over this go and get him”

Lupe stopped pacing, “Why should I, he already knows my feelings…I think”

Discord rolled his eyes, “your hopeless you know that”

Lupe sat next to him, “Then what do you propose I do”

Discord thought for a second, “Go ask him on an actual date”

Lupe looked at him, “you think that he would go for it?”

Discord nodded, “positive“

Lupe didn’t know why she did what she did, maybe it was the fact she saw another girl hanging off of Martin’s arm or maybe she really REALLY wanted to tell him how she felt, Lupe looked at Discord, “You know what I WILL ask him RIGHT NOW!”

Discord smiled, “At a girl go get him”

Lupe picked up the phone and dialed Martin’s number, a few minutes later she ran out with a victorious smile, “HE SAID YES!”

Discord nodded as he leaned back and examined his finger nails, “Told you he would”

Lupe’s excitement vanished the second it came replaced with stress, “What do I do?! I don’t have anything to wear!”

Discord looked at her, “Remember that little gift I gave you?”

Lupe thought for a second and her clothes transformed into a black cocktail dress much to her shock, “I didn’t mean to do that!”

Discord looked at her, “The only limit to your ability is your mind but it felt good didn’t it?”

Lupe did a twirl, “Actually…it kind of did”

Discord gave an evil grin which vanished when she turned back to him, “so I can have anything?”

Discord nodded as Lupe squeed and ran into her room, leaving a laughing Discord to do a victory shuffle for the fact that he was starting to sink his teeth into Lupe. It was only a matter of time now; he just had to wait for an opportunity.

As the days progressed, Martin’s suspicion concerning three certain girls began to grow as they got more…needy and slightly clingy. After his first date with Lupe however all these things seemed to vanish, her attitude had changed to a more impulsive slash braver personality. She even once pulled up in a silver corvette to take him to one of their dinner dates which surprised the hell out of him more than the fact she seemed to show up with a more expensive looking wardrobe. The kiss they had shared in the movie had caused Martin to become closer to her and he even started to feel something more.

However all of these things would matter squat thanks to a fateful event that would change everything for the auburn haired male. It all started the morning of Valentine’s Day when Sortitus showed up at his home looking a bit tired and distraught.

Martin raised his hand, “Slow down dude, ENUSIHATE.”

Alan was standing nearby with the girls when Sortitus spoke more clearly, “Discord…has left Equestria.”

Every person present except for Sortitus took on shocked expressions which he noticed, “I know…I reacted the same way to”

Martin ushered the tired Aspect inside as he sat down on the couch, “the worst part is he left Equestria in shambles before leaving I had to fix it with help of course”

Rarity sat next to him, “You look like a wreck darling, as another friend of Martins I insist you take a little down time”

Pinkie nodded, “Yeah! Have some fun and take a load off!”

Sortitus looked at her, “What is this fun you speak of?”

Martin gave him a look, “You know relaxing, taking a siesta, a vacation”

Sortitus shook his head, “Out of the question, if I slip for a moment catastrophe could befall all of existence”, he then stood up, “thank you for the offer though.”

Sortitus then walked briskly past him and down the street until he vanished from sight. Martin nodded as he walked into the kitchen to fix himself a snack.

It was late afternoon and Lupe was happy as hell as she fixed a gold necklace around her neck and grabbed her key as she looked at Discord, “I’m going to do it.”

Discord looked away from Shutter Island for a second, “Huh?”

Lupe jumped with glee, “I’m going to ask him if he wants to go steady.”

Discord made a phone appear, “The fifties called and they want there saying back.”

Lupe shook her head, “Whatever.”, she then grabbed a rose and turned it into a bouquet of roses and set out the door. Discord turned to the TV and flipped it to look at the now chaos free Equestria and the princesses scrambling to figure out where Twilight and the elements were. He then flicked it to a channel revealing the six in Martin’s house, “Game on”

Martin was sitting on the roof of his house looking at the city in silence; Alan had taken Twilight, Rainbow, Rarity, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie to see a baseball game leaving him and AJ home alone. At the thought of Applejack she appeared with glasses of juice and a smile.

Martin sat in silence as they both watched the horizon until Martin asked Applejack something, “Why have you, Dash and Rarity been super clingy with me as of late?”

Applejack sputtered slightly as she put her glass down, “uh…we were jus repayin yer hospitality is all”

Martin raised an eyebrow as he noticed her face take on a very unconvincing look, “You know you’re a horrible liar right?”

Applejack huffed, “Horseapples ah know”, and she looked at Martin, “Suppose there is no use hidin it now.”

Martin looked at her, “Hiding what?”

Applejack then spilled the beans on the wager and why it was made. After she finished, Martin stared at her for a second and then laughed.

Applejack just stared, “What’s so funny?”

Martin smiled, “If you felt that way you girls could have just said something you know”

Applejack blushed in embarrassment at her folly, “Ah suppose we did make ourselves look like complete weirdoes huh?”

Martin waved it off, “Nah, you were just acting out”

Applejack smiled at her human friend and noticed something she hadn’t really noticed before. Looking at him in Equestria always made her feel safe and have a sense of another person to talk to as an equal but now that she was sort of on the same level as him, she felt much different. The warmth she felt being around him was softer yet fierce and her heart seemed to beat faster then normal.

Applejack took her hat off and laid it next herself, “Back when Phobos got me, the girls told me ya jumped straight at him like a wild Dragon looking for blood”

Martin nodded, “Of course I did, he hurt you and he had to pay”

Applejack looked at him with a touched expression, “Ya did that fer me?”

Martin nodded once more, “well I’d do it for any of you”, Applejack looked at his now nervous eyes, “But when he attacked you I just lost it since he attacked someone I lo…”

The word caught in his throat when Applejack placed her hand on his, “Ya want the truth?”

Martin nodded hoping to distance himself from the potential slip up as AJ continued, “Ever since ah met you ah felt safer than ever before, you helped out on the farm and bonded with the family. You were kind and helpful to everypony in Ponyville along with mah friends”

As she spoke she was inching closer and Martin subconsciously was too as she continued, “But bein here with you has…caused me to feel something new toward you”

Martin and she were nose to nose with half closed eyes as Martin asked, “What’s that?”

Applejack answered softly, “Love”, she then pressed her lips softly to his with passion as he returned the gesture.

Truthfully Martin had been feeling the same way toward Applejack during his stay in Equestria and when she said being here had turned her emotions into love he had trouble figuring out what he felt but the kiss had finally given him the answer he was looking for, she loved him and he loved her.

However, down on the street stood Lupe staring at the couple in absolute shock. She had walked all the way to his house with the roses in hand and was now completely still. After a few seconds her grip on the flowers gradually tightened as her face slowly contorted from a shocked and saddened one into one of betrayal and fury. The flowers then caught fire in her hand as she turned around on her heel in anger and threw them down as she ran down the street.

Chapter 16: Eris Rising

|You all have been saying it and predicting it. Here is the shit storm that shall span three chapters

Martin was walking side by side with AJ as they went to the movie theatre to see The Dark Knight Rises with Alan and the rest of the six in tow. It had been close to a full week since Applejack and Martin shared their first kiss and Martin could not be happier. Deep down however he felt concerned for Lupe because ever since he had last talked to her she had been appearing out in public less and less to the point of only appearing with that Desmond Dew guy at her side. Worse still was whenever he tried to talk to her or say hi she looked through him and went about her business. What disturbed him more was the fact that she seemed to have developed a much darker side to herself which manifested in different ways. She usually looked and spoke to individuals as if they were below her and treated them with hostility and possible paranoia.

Applejack noticed Martin’s concerned expression and looped her hand in his, “Sumthin the matter?”

Martin nodded, “I just…have you seen how Lupe has been acting the last week?”

Applejack thought for a second on this, “Actually ah have noticed she’s been very distant lately especially whenever she sees me and the girls shopping”

Martin looked at her, “What do you mean?”

Applejack took on a look of concern, “it’s not that she’s distant, it’s more like she lookin at all of us under a magnifying glass, especially me.”

Twilight nodded, “Applejacks right, the other day I approached her to see if she wanted to eat with me at an ice cream shop and she just…glared at me and walked off.”

Rarity huffed, “How rude, if she didn’t want to eat with you she could have just said so”

Rainbow Dash looked rather frustrated, “So what? She thinks that she’s SO better than the rest of us she can’t take time out of her busy schedule to hang out with us?”

Alan interjected quickly, “maybe she’s just a little sore that Martin isn’t single anymore and doesn’t know how to deal with it right now.”

Pinkie nodded, “Exactly, but you can’t run away from something that’s bothering you because it could catch up with you”, she then brightened up, “Ooh I know, Applejack why don’t you spend the day with her and clear the air on this whole business.”

Rarity smiled, “Pinkie has a point, why I dare say if you two get to know each other better I think she’ll come out of her shell.”

Martin thought hard on this, “Actually…that could work!”

Applejack then took on a confident smile, “Then it’s decided, ah’ll call her this afternoon tah set something up for tomorrow.”

Lupe hung the phone up with annoyance, “Of that… do you know what she just said?”

Discord looked at her from the windowsill, “I am all ears”

Lupe huffed as if she had been insulted, “After stealing Martin away she has the gull to call me and say-“, she then did a mock accent, “-Hey ya wanna hang out tahmorrow?”

Discord rubbed his hands together as he blinked out of existence and appeared beside Lupe in his true form, “this is PERFECT! All you need to do to get Applejack out of the equation and Martin is all yours!”

Lupe smiled deviously, “and I just thought of a way to do it.”

Soon the sun had crested the horizon and Applejack was ready and raring to go. She bid everyone in the house goodbye as she headed out to meet Lupe outside who was currently sitting in her car.

AJ hopped in the passenger seat very reluctantly, “Hey ya Lupe.”

Lupe looked at AJ over her shades, “Morning.”

The car then took off down the road with a squeal and as they drove Applejack was thinking of what to say to Lupe to break the ice. As they drove through the city both girls were smiling in nervous anticipation as their destination approached. Soon they disembarked the car and entered the mall and pretty soon they both talked and shared various stories.

Applejack had finished her story as they entered Lupe’s car, “…And ah said to mah brother ya would ferget your own head if it weren’t attached to yer neck”

Both girls shared a laugh as Lupe drove down the road toward the city limits which AJ took no notice of, “Tell me Applejack exactly how is it you pick things up with hooves”

Applejack laughed, “Well it’s not ahs hard as…wait what did ya say”

Lupe cast a slight glance at her, “don’t act innocent I know about you and your friends”

Applejack took on a stern expression, “How did ya know?”

The car stooped on a hill where a tool shed was located, “He told me”

Desmond appeared from behind the shed then transformed into his true form as Lupe disembarked the car with angered Applejack at her heels.

Applejack then looked at Discord and at Lupe, “you set me up!”

Lupe rolled her eyes, “no shit Sherlock.”

Applejack approached her, “After ah tried to be yer friend-“

Lupe stopped her there, “REAL friends don’t steal men from one another”

Applejack huffed, “Ah didn’t steal Martin from you, he chose me over you because he loves me and-“

Applejack was then pushed by Lupe who responded by pushing back hard which sent the Lupe flying and then she landed on the ground hard.

Applejack ran over, “are ya done?”

Lupe looked at Applejack and booted her into the car with a well-placed kick which broke the windshield, soon both girls stood up and looked at each other in fury as AJ dropped her hat and rolled up her sleeves. Lupe responded by throwing her shades off and taking off her coat and as soon as it hit the ground Discord conjured up a popcorn bucket and yelled “CAT FIGHT!!”.

Applejack rushed Lupe who ducked under a punch and tackled the blonde girl to the ground, she then pinned AJ and began to deliver a flurry of punches to her face which AJ managed to block and bucked the crazy girl off of her. Applejack then tried to restrain Lupe who then smacked the back of her head into Applejack’s face and throw her off. Applejack recovered quickly holding her bleeding nose and quickly delivered a leg sweep to Lupe who smacked on the ground yelling in fury. AJ turned around for a second only to have a well-placed punch hit her in the back and to be yanked down by her ponytail.

Applejack grabbed Lupe’s arms and planted her knees on the angry girl’s legs as she said, “STOP RIGHT NOW!”

Lupe spat in her face and slammed her forehead against AJ’s dazing them both. Both girls wobbled as they stood and Applejack turned and blocked a punch as she countered with a haymaker which knocked Lupe on her back.

Applejack shook the spots from her eyes as she approached the panting and frightened Lupe, “Are…ya finished now?”

Lupe weakly spoke, “Yes…I surrender”

Applejack nodded as she reached her hand down to help Lupe up. Lupe smiled as she stood up and stared at AJ.

Applejack smiled, “Ah just want tah put this all behind us”, she looked at a smiling Discord, “Get in the car and we can talk this out at Martin’s and-“

SHINK!

Applejack looked down and saw Lupe pushing a letter opener sized blade into her stomach which caused her to gasp in pain as it was removed. The blade then transformed into a watch while Lupe spoke in a cold voice, “game over bitch”

Applejack clutched the wound as she dropped into the fetal position much to Discords amusement and surprise, “Don’t you think that was a little brutal?”

Lupe spat on the ground, “Don’t worry I stabbed in a non-lethal fashion so the wound won’t kill her-”, she gave a wiry smile, “The blood loss is a different story.”

Discord levitated Applejack to the shed and opened the door as he soon let Applejack hit the ground hard, “Nothing personal my dear”

Lupe stood beside him with AJ’s hat, “you stay here and chill and I’ll be back later”

Applejack groaned in pain as the door shut

Martin was greatly worried for Applejack since she hadn’t called in hours. He had sent the six to scour the city in an attempt to find her and so far there had been no word. There was a knock on the door and it was opened revealing a badly injured AJ.

Martin looked at Applejack, “What the hell happened?!”

Applejack merely fainted in his arms, “Oh Martin it was awful, these thugs attacked me and Lupe by surprise and I and her managed to escape”

Martin looked at Applejack confused until she spoke once more, “But the thought of seeing you again drove me to freedom”, she then kissed Martin with more passion then before. As they kissed, Applejacks form shifted to Lupe as she took the hat off.

The sudden movement caused Martin to open his eyes as he then jumped back in surprise and fear, “WHAT THE HELL?!”

Lupe smiled, “Was it good for you?”

Martin sputtered, “W…What’s.”

Lupe levitated the TV remote to her hand, “I have power now Martin and I can make this work.”

Martin ignored this comment, “What did you do with Applejack?”

Lupe shape shifted into Applejack wearing lingerie as she approached him with a sultry look, “Ahm your Applejack now Martin”

Lupe then wrapped her arms around Martin as she shape shifted back to normal except for her attire. Martin began to struggle as Lupe forced him down and tried to straddle him.

Lupe got frusterated, “Why are you resisting?! I bet she hasn’t done this to you yet!”, she then gently said, “Let it happen”

Martin then pushed her off as he angrily stood, “What the HELL is wrong with you!?”

Lupe was on her knees with tears, “I love you Martin.”

The look and the way she said it cut him deep but he spoke with strength, “Lupe where is Apple-“

Lupe stood and flew into a fury, “WHAT IS WITH YOU!! I’M THROWING MYSELF AT YOU AND ALL YOU CAN THINK ABOUT IS THAT PONY TRASH!!!”

Martin looked at her with concern, “how did you know?”

Lupe smiled, “Discord told me so many things about Equestria and the pony’s”

Martin became very concerned now, “Listen to me Lupe, whatever he is telling you is a bunch of lies and-“

Lupe shook her head in anger, “NO! he has been there for me!”, her hair turned a silvery white and became straight as objects began to slowly levitate, “HE has cared for me!”, her irises then became a goldish yellow as the object began to levitate higher as she raised her voice an octave, “AND HE HASN’T BETRAYED ME!!”

Lupe waved her hand as Applejack appeared before Martin, “There’s your stupid horse girlfriend!”

Martin looked up at her as the door opened revealing the six and Alan as Martin yelled at Lupe, “Lupe stop this you’re not acting rational!”

Lupe shook her head, “Oh don’t talk to me about rational. I am the most rational person in this house right now”

Rainbow Dash noticing her friend injured and the most likely culprit in front of her caused her to fly at Lupe with her speed only to have a chair from the kitchen hit her onto the floor. Twilights hands glowed only for her to be sent flying with everyone else as Lupe approached Martin.

Lupe bent down, “FYI, I could have rocked your world”

She then turned toward the living room and stopped in front of the TV which reflected her new look as Martin spoke one last time, “Lupe please..”

Lupe looked at Martin, “Lupe was a sniffling girl who couldn’t even ask a boy she liked on a date. She died outside your home when she witnessed that between your precious pony. But now I’m everything she wasn’t and so much more.”

She then blew a hole in the roof, “Call me Eris”, before flying out of the hole Eris smiled crazily at all present, “You might want to batten down the hatches because a storm is coming and the forecast is chaos with a slight chance of rain”

Martin looked up in vain as Eris flew away into the sky but he soon looked at Alan, “call an ambulance”

Chapter 17: Agent Of Chaos

Martin was sitting in the lobby of the hospital with Alan and the rest of the six as they waited for word on Applejacks condition. It had been two hours since the whole fiasco in Martin’s home and he had to explain to the paramedics AND officers that came about the destruction and injury so Martin used robbery as his fallback.

Soon a doctor approached them both,”Mr. Fairbridges, she’s ready to see you now.”

Martin stood and told the rest of them to wait for him as he walked in to find Applejack lying in the bed with a smile at his approach, “Howdy.”

Martin looked down at her with a mixture of sadness and relief as she spoke, “The doctors say ah’ll be fine but they said I had to stay here for a few days to allow the stitches to heal and tah make sure that they don’t get infected.”

Martin sat down, “It’s all my fault.”

Applejack put a hand on his shoulder, “no it’s not, if it’s anypony’s fault it’s Discord’s.”

Alan was standing in the doorway, “She has a point dude, Discord’s primary ability is to cause lack of harmony and he can do this by brainwashing things.”

Dash was behind him, “I say we go down to Lupe’s house and give both of them a good old fashioned flank kicking.”

Twilight shook her head, “That wouldn’t help matters Rainbow, both Discord and Lupe are powerful and could probably stop all of us with just a wave of their hands.”

Martin thought for a second, “Then I think we should call in the big guns.”

Rarity looked at Martin, “What do you mean?”

Martin looked at Twilight, “Do you think you could send a message through the bridge?”

Twilight thought for a second, “I think I could if Rarity gave me a magic boost.”

Rarity took on a determined smile, “I am behind you all the way darling!”

Fluttershy was a little confused, “What are you planning?”

Martin stood, “If we’re going against Discord we need the elements and some royalty!”

Celestia was stretching and working out the stiffness in her neck after being frozen in glass, “Luna, I now know what it feels like to be made of glass and I do not like it one bit”

Luna was completely still having not worked out all of the kinks in her joints yet, “Indeed sister…OW!”

Celestia looked over and saw that a picture frame had landed on Luna’s head.

Martin looked at Twilight who was deep in concentration in front of the same closet they arrived through with Rarity feeding her magic via contact with Twilights shoulder, “The picture frame got through”

Martin turned to Alan, “You done over there John Hancock?”

Alan looked up, “HEY! I am TRYING to write to the most royal of royals here!”

Martin rolled his eyes, “brony’s…”

Alan rolled up the piece of lined paper, “it’s done how’s it going over there Twi?”

Twilight was gritting her teeth, “The Bridge is closing fast…can barely keep it open!”

Alan threw the paper to Pinkie who immediately chucked it into the open closet that glowed brighter than it already was. After about two minutes the portal flashed and sent them all flying in different directions as smoke rose from within the closet. All present sighed as they realized that their plan had failed.

Twilight looked saddened, “I guess Sortitus was right about trans-dimensional mechanics being highly complex.”

Martin stood up and walked into the living room, “Don’t give up yet, we can still win we just need to reason with Lupe and get her back to our level and I’m confident-“

All of a sudden thunder was heard and mountain dew rained down upon Martin’s head because of the hole in the roof he just happened to stand under.

Alan sighed, “We’re doomed”

Discord was sitting on the roof of Eris’s apartment building looking at the now cotton candy clouds, “Magnificent isn’t it?”

Eris was now wearing a white cocktail dress with gold trim and a gold circlet on her head as she smiled, “Feels like it’s missing something…”

Eris then looked at the ground and transformed the cars on the block into pure chocolate and the street into marzipan, “now that’s a sweet scene.”

Discord nodded, “indeed my star pupil!”, both the Draconequus and woman shared a collective laugh as the sun set immediately plunging the city into darkness.

Martin finished toweling himself off as he appeared in the living room as the others stayed away from the hole so not to get drenched by the soda which was coming down in a downpour outside the house much to the confusion and panic of the people outside.

Martin was actually frustrated now, “we had better do something quick before it starts HAILING IN MY HOUSE!!”

Alan was sitting on the couch formulating a strategy along with Twilight, “I hate to say it but the elements are the only known things that can stop him and without them we are pretty much powerless.”, he then smiled, “All that aside I have to say that this is pretty cool formulating an ACTUAL plan with the mane six to defeat Discord!”

Everyone just fixed him with a look, “Sorry, that was my inner brony talking.”

Martin began to pace, “well Discord has Lupe…Eris as his weapon and were down one pony-“

Pinkie pointed at Martin and laughed, “Marty you have a raccoon on your head HAHAHAHAHA!”

Martin looked up in time to see a raccoon that was pulled from his head by Rarity’s magic and thrown out the window as he voiced his thanks, “well….that happened. Like I was saying we need help.”

Fluttershy looked through the hole in the roof and saw a pony wearing a beanie hat fly over the house, “Why hasn’t Sortitus shown up?”

Martin thought for a second, “I’ve been wondering that myself actually.”

Twilight looked at Martin, “Maybe Discords abilities are blocking him somehow.”

Alan was confused at this, “But didn’t you all say he was like some kind of omnipotent deity guy?”

Martin nodded, “he is, that’s what makes this strange.”

Rainbow Dash was pouting on a nearby chair, “Well we can’t just sit here and do nothing!”

Martin looked at her, “Dash we don’t have a plan.”

Twilight then sadly added, “Or the elements of harmony.”

They all perked up at the sudden sound of the hallway door exploding outwards in a shower of white light that blinded them all as Alan yelled, “By all things holy I’M BLIND!!!”

Applejack was trying to sleep but couldn’t even close her eyes for a few seconds before a loud sound woke her up. However after a while she managed to shut her eyes and lapse into the realm of dreams. She saw herself back in Equestria under a white archway dressed in a wedding dress, both of the princesses presided over the occasion as she turned her head to look down the aisle past all of the smiling ponies of Ponyville to find a unicorn colt with a reddish mane and a chrome colored coat wearing a tuxedo. He approached her and stood beside her with a smile and his dark green eyes locked with her green ones, his cutie mark was that of gold and silver shield with white wings crossing it in an X.

The vows were said and Applejack said, “I do”

The Colt smiled and spoke in the voice of the one she loved, “I do”

Right as they moved in for a smooch Applejack jolted awake at the feeling of something slithering over her ankles and wrists. She looked up and down and saw the bars of the bed frame had bent around her ankles and wrist in a snake like fashion she then looked up at someone leering down at her.

“Sleep well redneck?”, Eris sneered at the last word as Applejack started to writhe in her bonds at recognizing the voice.

Applejack looked with anger at the woman, “You got some nerve showin up here! When ah get outta these im gonna-”

Eris smiled and shook with mock fear, “oooh I’m so scared!”

Applejack continued to force her hands and feet to bend the metal but to no avail even with her strength. After a while she stopped struggling and watched Eris walk over to the light switch and flicked it on as she walked back to the edge of AJ’s bed.

Eris then took on a thoughtful expression, “You know…I’ve been trying to think of ways to torment you…”, she then raised her fingers, “At first I was going to steal Martin from you and leave you with the pain of loss…that and the stab wound”, she then lowered one finger, “Then I thought I would throw you in a fiery pit of despair for the rest of your days.”
Eris the ominously leaned over the blonde haired girl as she pressed the stitched wound hard causing AJ to yell in pain, “But then I came to the conclusion of ending this in a simpler fashion.”

Without hesitation or warning Eris wrapped both of her hands around Applejacks throat and began to squeeze with a look of murderous glee. AJ could barely breathe as her vision began to swim and churn all the while staring into the gold eyes of the murderous woman hell bent on ending her life. As her eyes began to roll, there was a tremendous flash of white which caused the window overlooking the city to explode outward as a white blast plowed into Eris ripping her from Applejack and hurling her through the wall and into the hallway.

AJ was on the verge of passing out when a glowing shape leaned over her and pressed a warm hand to her forehead as Applejack muttered a weak, “Princess?”

The glow faded revealing a youthful looking woman with flawless skin wearing celestial gold and white royal armour with a pair of white wings made out of light on her back and she even wore a humanized version of her crown. Her hair was a mixture of light colours and seemed to flow via an invisible wind which looked rather odd for a human, her pale magenta eyes looked into AJ’s as a kind smile appeared on her face.

Celestia spoke in a gentle tone, “Rest now, I have healed your wound and-“

Celestia was then blasted by a telekinetic wave into the next room by smashing through the wall as Eris landed, “Great, more of you!”

Celestia walked through the hole with a serious face, “You will not harm one of my subjects Lupe.”

Eris’s left eye twitched at the mention of her old name, “So you came to Martin first before coming here, eh?”

Celestia took a step forward, “Yes, he asked me to try to reason with you or stop you if need be.”

Eris smirked, “look around Princess you aren’t the big cheese here! This is Discord’s world where he is the king and I am the queen!”

Celestia then shot a beam of solar energy from her armoured hand which hurled Eris through the ceiling, “Consider yourself dethroned your highness.”

Luna was armoured in black and azure royal armour with wings of black light on her back as her starry hair blew gently as she looked down at the kneeling Alan, “greetings…strange one.”

Martin booted Alan in the side which caused him stand up straight as Luna placed the elements box on the table, “I brought them as the note requested but I am not sure how the travel affected them.”

Twilight opened the box to reveal the elements had been transformed into rings with the gems fixed in the center of the gold bands. Twilight distributed them to their respective users except for one.

Martin nodded, “Alright lets go get Applejack”

Alan raised his hand as they walked outside, “Let’s take my van!”

Martin looked at him, “You have a van?”

Alan just stared at him, “Walking Is a healthier way to travel.”

Alan approached the lime green minivan that was parked outside as Martin climbed into the passenger seat, “So THIS is how you got back here so fast.”

The moon came up again which scared the crap out of Martin as Alan flicked on the headlights, “This happens when Discords around dude, don’t sweat it.”

Luna and the six were very suspicious about the van as it suddenly jolted backwards, “Whoops had the thing in reverse…”, he then shifted gears, “Let’s roll!”

Celestia and Eris flew higher in the air exchanging blow after blow and spell after spell at each other much to the amusement of Discord, “OH THIS IS PERFECT!”, he began vibrating in excitement, “My prodigy is fighting one of the royal sisters and the elements are completely indisposed and-“

He then noticed a van screech to a halt down below as Luna flew from the seating position into the sky to assist her sister in her fight whereas the six with Alan and Martin in tow ran into the hospital.

Martin got into the room first and witnessed AJ putting on her hat as she turned to face him with a big smile. They both ran at each other and embraced with smiles as Martin looked into her eyes for a few seconds until the six “awed” which caused them to release each other. Alan threw the ring to AJ who caught it and put it on as it glowed for a few seconds.

Then they all heard a laugh coming from the roof which they immediately ran to intercept. They came up the stairs to find Discord doing a slow clap.

Discord smiled, “Congratulations you’ve made it to the final encounter!”

Twilight pointed at Discord then at Eris, “why did you do that to Lupe, Discord!”

Discord then whined, “It’s because Celestia has a student and I don’t! It’s not fair!”

Everyone looked confused for a second until Discord smiled, “plus what can I say I know how to pick em”, Eris then transformed a tanker into a giant serpent which she hurled at the royal sister as Discord took notice and shed a tear, “My little girl has grown up into an agent of chaos…makes me so proud.”

Martin then planted his foot firmly on the ground, “you won’t get away with this Discord!”

Discord laughed, “Perhaps I didn’t make myself clear…”, he snapped his talon turning the roof beneath Martin’s group into mud which they sank waist deep into, “I have the power now and here I am KING!”

Discord’s rant was cut short by two bolts of white and black lightning touched down in front of Martin’s group revealing two cloaked figures.

Sortitus stepped forward, “Not while I’m here.”

Discord broke into a smile as he appeared before both aspects and…hugged them, “BROTHERS!! IT’S BEEN TO LONG!!!”

Everyone except Alan yelled, “WHAT!?”

Alan nodded, “Makes sense.”

Martin and the rest looked at him, “HOW!?”

Alan shrugged, “Well it’s never really explained where Discord came from or why he’s so powerful but now his whole being The Spirit of Disharmony makes sense.”

Twilight got what he meant immediately, “OF COURSE! Sortitus is Destiny which needs balance and balance needs chaos to even out the scales!”

Discord placed Sortitus and Aequivalere down as Sortitus regarded him with a serious face which Discord looked offended at, “You’re not happy to see me are you?”

Sortitus spoke in a cold tone, “I will only give you one chance to reverse everything.”

Aequivalere walked to Sortitus’s side, “If you refuse you will have to deal with both of us”

Discord shook his head and tsked, “Still as serious as ever I see Aequivalere”

Aequivalere responded quickly, “for good reason.”

Discord sighed as he crossed his arms defiantly, “I’m not moving from this spot.”, he then pointed at the ground to emphasize the fact.

Sortitus nodded, “so be it.”

Both aspects blasted Discord into a nearby skyscraper as Sortitus quickly turned to Martin, “Are we late?”

Martin then sarcastically commented, “Few hours ago would have been nice.”

Sortitus nodded, “I WOULD have been here earlier but Discord blocked my vision the thing that tipped me off was when a familiar magic signature passed brought the bridge…”, he then blinked, “Which is complete by the way.”

Martin smiled but noticed they were still stuck, “Could you possibly?”

Sortitus lifted them all out of the mud with a white aura spell before turning toward an annoyed Discord, “You eight get down to ground level and prepare the elements, we’ll handle Discord.”

Rainbow pointed toward the princesses, “What about the Princesses?”

Sortitus quickly looked back, “They’ll be fine NOW GO!!”

All of them nodded as they ran back down into the hospital as The Aspects prepared for battle.

Chapter 18: Battlefield Earth

Sortitus and Aequivalere took flight after Discord in the immediate moment he reappeared; Sortitus shot a white bolt at Discord who dodged it only for Aequivalere to send a slash made out of black energy at the draconequus which plowed him into a wall with a grunt.

Discord looked at his brother in black, “That was a cheap shot!”

Sortitus responded by binding Discord in chains of white energy whereas Aequivalere surrounded Discord with black fire that formed a dome. Both of the Aspects hands were encased in white and black auras respectively when the dome exploded into shards along with the chains as Discord dusted himself off.

Discord looked mildly annoyed, “Still using parlor tricks I see. Why don’t you both cut loose like me!”

Discord then blasted both Aspects with well lined up finger blasts of acid yellow energy which sent both of them flying.

Martin dodged around a random car which dropped out of the sky and almost crushed him, “This place is turning into a war zone!”

Alan ducked as a shard of metal missed his head, “Tell me about it, reading about battles like these in fanfiction is one thing but experiencing it is a whole other ballgame!”

Pinkie Pie poked her head out of a bush nearby and looked into the sky, “LOOK!”

Everybody looked up into the sky as the saw Eris right hook Luna only to be blasted into the hospital.

Eris dusted herself off as a security guard ran in front of her, “FREEZE!”

Eris then poked him on the head as the guard got encased in ice, “freeze…”

She then grabbed a piece of a broken bed frame and changed it into a nasty looking scythe as she flew out of the hole and straight toward Celestia, “A LITTLE OFF THE TOP YOUR HIENGOUS HIGHNESS!!”

Celestia managed to dodge around the first swing but the second swing destroyed one of her pauldrons like it was made of glass. Luna took notice of this and plowed into Eris back and pinned her against the side of a building. The sheer force of impact created a miniature crater which Luna and Eris were at the center of as they both tried to outdo the others might.

Celestia hovered nearby as she prepared a solar beam.

Martin and the Six looked at both battles as Alan tried to find a safe place to set up the elements to fire at Discord. Soon he found a small park that wasn’t too far away but at the same time not to close to both battles, soon they all stood and watched the six get into formation.

Twilight focused, “Alright girls, we only have one shot at Discord MAKE IT COUNT!”

All of the six nodded as the stones on their rings began to glow brightly, Alan just stared as he took out his cellphone, “This. Is. AWESOME!!”

Martin just looked at him as they six were bathed in white light soon the elements began to light up with their respective colours and…fizzled out.

All of their jaws dropped as Alan dropped into a puddle of chocolate milk after the sudden change, “fudge…”

Sortitus’ vision was swimming when he sat up and looked around, the sky had reddened and was riddled with cotton candy clouds and there was the stink of smoke and burnt salmon for some reason. He was currently sitting on the ground and noticed concerned citizens were seeing if he was alright.

Sortitus raised his hand and spoke one word, “oblivisci.”

A white aura then appeared around every the citizens heads as they seemingly turned away from him and resumed their panicking like they never found him. He looked around for Discord and Aequivalere but to no avail. He then heard the destruction of pavement nearby and ran to investigate its source. He found Aequivalere pinned under an anvil with a smiling Discord sitting on top of it with a smirk.

Discord casually waved his hand with a bored look, “Why do we fight Sortitus? We are family after all.”

Sortitus stopped his advancing, “You stopped being our family when you almost destroyed Equestria the first time.”

Discord smiled at the memory, “Oh I remember that day well. Oh the fun I had!”, his smile vanished, “Until the princesses imprisoned me in a statue and all of you just stood by and watched!”

Sortitus began to berate Discord immediately, “WE HAD NO CHOICE! You were a loose cannon and you disobeyed the rule that…”, he immediately silenced himself.

Discord gave a sly smile, “So my senses weren’t deceiving me. When I first escaped I searched for you all again but could only find you and mister negative here.”, he then hopped down from the anvil and approached Sortitus as he shifted into his human form, “Tell me what you did to them oh mighty one.”

Sortitus looked him straight in the eye, “They almost did what you did…”

Discord walked around Sortitus and converted back into his original form, “You both act all righteous and brave but deep down you’re the same as me. You both are ticking time bombs just waiting to go off and you now know firsthand what happens when an Aspect goes bad.”

Sortitus looked at Aequivalere as his brother returned the stare. Truthfully both of them feared the day that they might become like their siblings and both knew if that time came the other might not be able to prevent what might follow.

Sortitus turned away from Discord, “Discord how long has it been since we’ve seen each other?”

Discord thought for a moment, “100 eons give or take, why?”

Sortitus’ silver hair began to glow as it began to levitate a bit as he was surrounded by a white aura, “Because I have been waiting a long time to find a reason to use my divine form for a few seconds.”, he then turned around as his irises became burning bright blue discs.

Celestia, Luna and Eris heard a massive discharge of energy as an explosion of flawless white energy sent Discord flying through the cloud line. Eris took this opportunity to wrench Luna from her back and slam her face hard into the wall; she then grabbed the princess by her starry hair and hurled her into Celestia who instinctively caught her only to be blasted in the face by a powerful magic discharge. The smoke cleared to reveal Luna had erected a barrier around both of them much to Eris’s annoyance.

Eris hurled the scythe into the ground below and bellowed at both of them, “WILL THE BOTH OF YOU JUST DIE ALREADY!”

Celestia responded with her charged solar beam which hurled Eris into the ground and into the sewers below.

Luna looked at Celestia, “Sister, so you think she is defeated?”

Celestia shook her head, “I’m afraid not, I seemed to have made her angry.”

Eris shot out of the hole like a bullet and plowed into Celestia with tremendous force which completely destroyed the armour protecting the princess’s torso to reveal a white robe like top underneath.

Luna flew straight at Eris only for Eris to raise her hand and catch the princess of the night in a telekinetic grip.

Martin, Alan and the six were panicking massively as they tried to find a way to make the elements work.

Alan then blurted out, “Maybe you need to say an incantation to activate them here!”, he then spoke at the six’s hand, “Uh…in brightest day in blackest night no evil shall escape my sight, let those who worship chaos’s might beware our power harmony’s light!”, nothing happened.

Martin gave Alan a half look, “Nice one Hal Jordan.”

Alan pointed at him, “At least I’m trying something!”

There was an explosion behind them as they saw Luna land hard with Celestia in her arms with Eris in hot pursuit.

Martin took on an overwhelmed look, “OH this is going to suck!”

Discord was dazed as he lay on the floor of the underground parking garage he had smashed down into from the sky, “I forgot how powerful he was in that form.”

Sortitus and Aequivalere teleported into the garage with Sortitus looking as he normally did, “Will you surrender now?”

Discord thought for a second, “Uhhhh…no.”

He then blasted both Aspects who locked both of their blasts with his as the garage began to tremble and crack at the foundations.

Eris was hurling cars and various other projectiles at Luna and the now conscious Celestia as they deflected them away from any innocent bystanders. One of the cars had lodged itself into the side of a building and fell onto the street almost crushing a group of fleeing people, which was the last straw for Martin.

Martin ran near the battlefield and yelled at Eris, “LUPE STOP!!!”

Eris stopped throwing the cars as she landed in front of Martin, “What do you want?”

The princesses were about to intervene only to smack into a barrier that had trapped them as Martin continued speaking, “I know I betrayed your feelings, I should have told you the truth from the very beginning but I was confused and overwhelmed with…everything.”

He then placed a hand on Eris’s shoulder, “But you have to understand that what you’re doing is endangering innocent lives. It’s not that I don’t like you, it’s just that I have feelings for someone else but that doesn’t mean we still can’t see each other, you understand right?”

Eris looked at the ground for a second the back at Martin as she gingerly took his hand off of her, “I understand.”, Martin exhaled as she squeezed his hand, “And you can understand this that if I can’t have you, NOBODY CAN!!”

Eris then tossed Martin clear across the way and into the side of a minivan which dented massively Martin however didn’t move.

Applejacks eyes widened in absolute horror as Eris laughed hysterically signifying that the last bit of sanity had left the woman and in its place was what could only be described as Discord Insanity.

Alan looked at the ground and found a piece of broken pipe and picked it up, “this should do it.”

Rainbow stopped him from walking off, “What are you doing!?”

Alan looked at her for a second and gently grabbed her chin and planted a minute long kiss on her lips before pulling away with a grin, “Buying you girls some time.”

Rainbow was too shocked to keep her grip as Alan rushed Eris with a yell.

Eris took notice of this, “you’re kidding…you’re kidding right?”

Alan was a foot away from her as Eris snapped her fingers and transformed him into a statue.

All of the girls at seeing their friend’s predicaments yelled in unison, “NO!!”

Eris turned toward the girls and advanced threateningly on them, “Game over my little ponies.”

Chapter 19 is the last chapter of this story. Hope you have enjoyed it

Chapter 19: Resolution & Banishment

Sortitus and Aequivalere were still pushing their individual beams into Discords own beam which caused the already damaged garage interior to crumble and break. All three of the combatants noticed this bit made no move to cease their power struggle; soon the foundations began to succumb to the stress and began to break along with the roof which began to break apart.

Martin could barely breathe or see straight, his body was in complete agony and every breath hurt his ribcage to the point of his vision flaring brightly. Sounds came to him in a mixture of loud and quiet in quick succession and he could taste copper which he knew was a REALLY bad sign. He managed to see Eris advancing upon the six who were actually trying to keep her at bay with various techniques and he hoped what he saw was not a dead Alan. Eris threw the six aside with a telekinetic wave of her hand and levitated the same pipe that Alan was using and transformed it into a spear.

Eris then began to speak in a maniac sing-song voice, “All the little ponies lying on grass…”

Martin felt something cold next to his hand and saw a handgun, he soon realized that the car he had crashed into was a squad car.

Eris raised the spear toward Rainbow Dash, “…didn’t know how long their lives would last…”

Martin picked the gun up with as much strength as he could muster and leveled it with Eris’s back.

Eris smiled maliciously as she raised the spear above her head, “…while they lay praying their hope would last…”

Martin put the safety off with a heavy heart and inhaled.

Eris then yelled in glee, “…Eris ended their lives FAST!!”

Martin fired the gun.

Sortitus looked around as the garage began to cave in around all of them, “AEQUIVALERE! We must take this bout to a different local lest we be crushed!”

Discord saw this as well as he disintegrated in a flash of light, Sortitus on the other hand fired upwards and flew through the hole he made with his brother at his heels. Soon both Aspects were above ground and in the sky when they heard a loud explosion coming from where the battle between Eris had moved.

They say the things that are the worst happen in slow motion almost like the universe itself wants you to witness them in every detail. When Martin fired the gun Eris heard the shot and turned around to face it. She raised her hand and deflected the bullet into the damaged car that fell out of the building that was a few feet from her. Unfortunately the engine was exposed and was leaking fluid which immediately combusted and exploded. Since Eris was coated in sewage and the explosion took her off guard the sewage combusted on her as the fire nailed her full and sent her flying into a tree very hard.

The barrier disintegrated freeing the princesses who saw that Twilight had erected a shield to protect them from the explosion. Celestia immediately flew over to Martin and bathed him in a magic light which began to heal him immediately when the battle had ceased various on lookers that were hiding came to look at what had transpired.

Martin stood up and inhaled deeply, “Magic is the best medicine”

Celestia smiled but her expression turned grim as she turned around and saw the prone body of Eris.

The six and both princesses walked to her and stared in sorrow as AJ bent down and examined her. Eris’s dress was now burnt tatters and her skin was badly burnt in some sections and she wasn’t breathing.

Applejack took her hat off in respect, “ah’m sorry Lupe. I didn’t mean fer all of this tah happen.”

All of a sudden Eris moved sharply and inhaled sharply as she levitated herself into the standing position and stood on uneasy feet. She shakily shambled to the left and then the right like a drunk before looking at AJ with cold eyes that seemed to stare into the blonde haired girl.

Eris then said quietly, “redneck…”

She then grabbed AJ and flew into the sky with her at breakneck speed.

Martin stared after them both and yelled in frustration until Celestia placed a hand on his shoulder, “You’re not done yet.”, her hand then glowed with the power and brightness of the sun as Martin was bathed in its glow which soon subsided and he felt energised and felt something familiar.

Martin looked at Celestia, “How long?”

Celestia stared at him, “An hour, so make it last.”

Twilight looked at Martin seriously, “go save Applejack, we’ll be right behind you.”

Martin nodded as he shot into the air like a bullet, “IT”S GOOD TO BE BACK!”

Eris was levitating Applejack in front of her and was muttering incoherently as AJ looked at her with fear, “Lupe, SNAP OUTTA IT!!”

Eris regarded AJ for a moment and until she noticed Martin fly up, “Lupe, stop this now! This isn’t you!”

Eris looked down and noticed several bystanders below then looked at Martin, “why do you care for her so much…”

Martin stared at her, “I love her and I don’t want you to go down the road you’re going down now because there is no turning back from it!”

Eris dropped AJ immediately and hurled herself at him as they flew through the air in a grapple and crashed through several buildings.

Sortitus flew in from the east and caught AJ, “What’s it with you ponies and falling off of things?”

AJ looked off where the melee was taking place between Martin and Lupe with worry, “Sortitus you need tah help him!”

Sortitus shook his head, “It’s his fight and he MUST face her alone.”

AJ was let down onto the ground as the group assembled before them.

Celestia brought Sortitus into a hug, “Thank you for your help master.”

Sortitus smiled and hugged her back, “Anytime.”

Celestia let him go with a bashful look, “Sorry about that.”

Sortitus nodded, “You seem troubled.”

Pinkie ran to him, “THE ELEMENTS AREN’T WORKING!!”

Sortitus thought for a second, “It’s not that, the bridge just disrupted them slightly because it changed their shape.”

Aequivalere stared at them all, “do not despair; they just need time to warm up. I say about two more minutes at best.”

Discord appeared behind them all, “Question is will you still be around for that long.”

Eris and Martin crashed into the ground and stood immediately as Eris looked at him with rage, “STOP GETTING IN MY WAY!!”

Eris then hurled a pipe at Martin which he caught and threw aside, “I won’t fight you…”

Eris shrieked in absolute hysteric rage as she levitated objects in varying size and continued to hurl them at Martin who kept deflecting, dodging and catching them. He slowly began to advance on her as SWAT vans pulled up around them as officers piled out and leveled their weapons with both Martin and Eris.

Eris looked around and saw all the officers and civilians and snapped, “LEAVE ME ALONE!!!”

She then raised her hands and ripped shards of glass and metal from the ground and created a cyclone that began to expand slowly outwards ripping more sharp objects and causing more damage and injuries to unfortunate bystanders and officers. Martin broke through the wall of the cyclone as Eris stared in his direction but not AT him.

Eris seethed at the sight of him as she hurled a tide of shrapnel at Martin which shredded his clothing and caused cuts on his skin as he tried to force his way through the continuous tide.

Eris yelled at him through tears, “I’LL KILL YOU!!!”

Martin forced his way through her attack as she pulled off her circlet and transformed it into a bowie knife and went to stab him. Martin grabbed her wrist and squeezed causing her to let go of the knife, he then embraced her in a hug which caused her eyes to widen in surprise.

Martin then spoke in a quiet voice, “Lupe, I may not feel the same way as you do toward me but I care too much for you to stand by and let you become a monster.”

Eris’s eyes flickered back to their original colour for a second as Martin continued, “Lupe Stewart, remember her and how she was caring, laughed and had the prettiest eyes and hair. She would never have done all of this…”, he hugged her tighter, “…Please stop.”

Eris looked around at what was around her as her head seemed to feel like it was about to split in half. She saw all of the frightened faces staring at her in fear as she remembered something from a while back.

Martin and Lupe stared into each other’s eyes. Martin’s dark green eyes stared into Lupe’s mismatched yet exotic eyes with a calmed smile; Lupe looked away with a slight blush as Martin slowly followed suit. But soon a hand touched the side of his face which caused him to turn and look once more at Lupe’s face which soon pressed against his in a light kiss.

Eris…no, Lupe was the name she was born with. Lupe’s eyes and hair transformed back to what they were originally as the cyclone dropped and she broke down into sobs of anguish and pain for what she almost did and because of her injuries.

Lupe looked up at Martin as she fell to her knees, “I…I…I’m sorry.”

Martin hugged her close as he flew into the air, “it’s alright…we’ll get you help.”

Sortitus and Discord blasted each other as Aequivalere and the princesses shielded the six from Discord to buy them some more time.

Discord smiled, “You are always so serious, you never laughed at my jokes!”

Sortitus countered immediately, “Because you were never funny.”

Discord gritted his teeth in anger as he intensified the blast which began to push its way toward Sortitus. It eventually reached him as it blasted The Aspect of Destiny off of his feet as he landed hard on the ground.

Discord looked down in surprise then a look of glee appeared on his face as he jumped and yelled, “I’VE WON!!!!”

Sortitus looked at him, “sorry to burst you bubble, but our most powerful move has yet to be made.”

Upon saying that to him, Discord looked in shock at the shield which was giving off a familiar glow, “no…”

He turned his head as he saw Alan with Martin and Lupe behind him, “No!”

The six leveled their fists with Discord who was immediately held in place by the combined efforts of Martin and Sortitus as they both yelled, “DO IT!”

Alan smiled, “no way!”

The elements fired and plowed into Sortitus, Discord and Martin. Discord screamed as he began to turn to stone once more.

Discord looked at Marin, “I WON’T FORGET THIS!!”

Martin looked at him, “next time I see you I’m gonna deck you for what you did!”

Discord froze into stone once more with the depiction of still being held and with a look of horror on his face.

Alan ran to the ponies, “THAT WAS AMAZING!!”

Rainbow slapped him across the face, “OW!”

She then grabbed his shirt collar, “If you do that again, I WILL hit you harder.”

Alan looked down but Rainbow smiled, “I meant that stupid stunt you pulled.”

Alan smiled at the Rainbow haired girl only for Sortitus to clear his throat, “This is a good moment but I’m afraid we must fix this damage and get Lupe some medical attention immediately.”

Aequivalere raised his hand, “I guess it’s my turn to fix things?”

Sortitus nodded as The Aspect of Balance walked a little forward as he raised his hands only for Twilight to raise her hand, “Excuse me.”

Aequivalere regarded her, “Yes Twilight Sparkle?”

She shuffled a little in embarrassment, “Could we…see your face?”

Rarity nodded, “Indeed, we have seen Sortitus’ face but not yours.”

Aequivalere didn’t respond, he merely pulled his hood off in a quick motion and everyone gasped in wonder. His head was humanoid but he was completely different from his brothers in appearance, his hair was shoulder length and looked to be made out of white starlight that was in constant fluid like motion. He had no features and his skin was black as a void but within the void were numerous stars in varying colours and size. And his eyes were something to behold for they were both miniature quasars that were constantly spinning at a snail’s pace.

Applejack whistled, “I gotta say Princess Luna, he is DEFINATLY yer teacher”

Luna nodded, “indeed.”

Aequivalere raised his hands as they were revealed to be gloved in black but they all knew if they were uncovered that they would look the same as his skin on his face. He then warned them all to cover their eyes which they did. Soon his voice informed them that they could open them, Sortitus was gone along with the statue and Aequivalere.

Martin looked at Lupe who groaned in agony, “Come on…we have to get her help.”

One Month Later

Martin was sitting in his house with Applejack and the six who refused to leave because they wanted to stay with him until Lupe came back from the hospital. Soon a van pulled up outside and Alan disembarked with both Princesses and Lupe in tow. When they door opened Lupe walked in with much shorter hair and a small smile. Celestia mentioned that she healed the burn tissue as best as she could, this was revealed to be true because a few patches of Lupe’s skin were lighter than the rest of it.

She smiled as she sat down, “hey girls.”

Applejack placed a hand on her shoulder, “Before ya ask, ah forgive ya.”

Lupe looked at her, “really?”

AJ nodded, “You weren’t in yer right mind so no hard feelings.”

Lupe looked at her and Martin then smiled, “Just treat him right and make him happy.”

AJ nodded, “Alright.”

All of a sudden the front door opened as Sortitus and Aequivalere entered quietly. Soon they all noticed their entrance and smiled at them and were about to greet them until they noticed that Sortitus wore a grim look.

Martin looked at Sortitus, “what’s wrong?”

Sortitus sighed, “Lupe’s power trip caused the holes that were already present in the dimensional wall to become larger.”

Alan stared at them, “That’s bad right?”

Aequivalere nodded, “It gets worse unfortunately. Lupe has become an anomaly in the natural order that must be corrected.”

Martin stood up, “What?!”

Sortitus stepped forward, “Not only that but she must serve penance for what she has done. That is until the time is right.”

Sortitus approached Lupe and placed his hand upon her head which soon caused her to drop in pain as she grasped it, “AHHHHH!!!!”

Sortitus regarded her with a cold glare and pointed at her as she vanished in a flash of white.

Martin grabbed The Aspect by his cloak, “WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO!?”

Sortitus stared unflinchingly at Martin, “I banished her from Earth to Equestria until the damage she did is repaired. Until that time she will never be able to use the bridge and for her punishment I have given her a powerful gift of empathy. She will now feel the emotions of all things around her until I deem she has learned her lesson-“

Martin threw Sortitus into the wall as he stumbled, “SHE APOLOGIZED FOR WHAT SHE DID!”

Martin then seethed at Sortitus, “I thought you were my friend but now I see what you really are. You treat all of us as nothing more than game pieces on a board being moved by your will!”

He then pointed at The Aspect, “I am tired of your condescending attitude to everything and you’re RIDDLES! DON’T YOU EVER ENTER MY LIFE AGAIN!”

Sortitus said nothing which irked Martin more, “do you hear me! DO YOU HEAR ME!”

Sortitus nodded, “Very well, I shall not bother you again. But I will assist you if you need me.”

Sortitus turned to leave with his brother as he said two words before vanishing, “I’m sorry.”

Martin sat down as Celestia walked to him, “I shall take Lupe to Canterlot so we can help her to adjust.”

Twilight looked after her teacher as she walked to the closet to open the door, “come on girls, let’s go home for now.”

They all nodded as they followed the Princesses through the bridge but AJ lingered, “I’m here for ya Sugercube.”

Martin smiled at her as he gave her a quick peck, “Thank you, I’ll see you all in three weeks.”

Soon the house only had Alan and Martin within it as Alan looked at Martin.

Alan smiled, “Hey dude can I ask you something?”

Martin looked at him, “Sure dude.”

Alan spoke with determination, “Can I go with you to Equestria?”

Martin thought for a second, “Sure, wouldn’t be a party without Alan Washington.”

Alan pointed at him, “Damn right!”

Epilogue

Sortitus sat in The Sanctuary troubled as Phobos and Aequivalere stared at him.

Phobos asked first, “You stopped Discord why are you troubled?”

Sortitus sighed, “Because that was merely a fraction of my vision.”

Aequivalere stared at him, “But you said the vision depicted the Martin being attacked by an unknown assailant, Earth being in chaos and-“

Sortitus shook his head, “THOSE parts of my vision have not come to fruition yet.”

Phobos’ eyes widened, “Which means Martin-“

Sortitus nodded once more, “they are ALL still in danger.”

continued in Martin: Dark Inferno

Chapter 15: Join The Darkside We Have Cookies

Martin was sitting on the couch along with AJ when the rest of the six arrived home along with Alan. Martin and AJ shared the good news of them being a couple which caused the girls to become exceedingly happy, Rarity and Dash congratulated the humanized pony on bagging Martin and wished both of them great happiness into the foreseeable future. Alan gave his buddy kudos on his accomplishment and informed him he was now living the dream that all brony’s would envy him for.

Fluttershy suddenly realised something, “Oh Martin I found these outside”, she then produced a severely burnt bouquet of roses.

Martin raised an eyebrow at the strange thing before him, “Who do you suppose those were for?”

Rarity examined them, “I’ve seen this once before. It’s the sign of a woman’s advance to further a relationship into the territory you’re in currently with Applejack to be rejected. And everypony KNOWS the old saying of Tartarus hath no fury than a mare scorned”

Alan chuckled, “I feel sorry for the poor sap who’s going to suffer that wrath”

Lupe was pissed beyond comprehension but she had let it all out by throwing random objects around her apartment. And during her little spat Discord had a projectile vase hit him square in his jaw after asking how it went.

Currently Lupe was channel surfing randomly with her hair dishevelled and her mascara smearing her face in streaks. She was purposely channel surfing to take her mind off of everything which was working so far except for the fact that her mind always drifted back to that scene she witnessed on Martin’s roof which furthered her anger.

Discord took notice of this and asked in a nonchalant tone, “Looking for something to watch?”

Lupe then responded in a monotone voice, “No, channel surfing helps me think”

Discord could sense her growing rage and spoke in a much more devious tone, “So what will you do now?”

Lupe stopped channel surfing for a second and tensed up at the practical “I told you so” then continued surfing faster with gritted teeth.

Discord then casually added, “I mean do you have a plan on breaking them apart?”

Lupe stopped for a second, “I don’t want to just break them apart…”, she then turned to the spirit of disharmony and spoke with a cold and calculated tone, “I want to take HER apart”

Discord smiled and shivered in excitement, “Now you’re giving me the tingles”

Unbeknownst to Lupe in that second of anger her once two different colored irises had flashed a goldish yellow and stayed that way for a few seconds until she turned away from Discord. Discord sensed she just needed one more little push before she was brought down to his level and then the REAL fun could begin.

Discord looked at her once more, “so like I said, what’s your plan?”

Lupe shrugged as her anger subsided into the realms of exhaustion, “I don’t know yet”

A day passed by after the kiss and the following morning Martin woke up with a slumbering AJ beside him in bed. He concluded she must have come upstairs during the night and brushed some of her blonde hair from her face as he quietly got out of bed. He had decided that after much thought to go and inform Lupe of the current situation concerning his relationship status so she wouldn’t be disappointed by just discovering it without warning. After he had gotten dressed and ate a quick breakfast he headed out in the direction of Lupe’s apartment all the while thinking of how he would word what he was going to say.

Before he knew it he was outside her door staring at it the gold doorknocker in nervousness. He was about to knock when he heard a voice that sounded like it belonged to a much older man, he then shook his head as he raised the knocked quickly and waited for a response. After a while the voices stopped and the door opened revealing Lupe who wore a straight face when she saw who it was.

Martin awkwardly smiled, “Hey Lupe…”

Lupe responded by narrowing her eyes to which Martin scratched the back of his head at before he continued, “I just came by to say that…well…I’m seeing someone now and not that it’s not been fun for the time we saw each other but….i just hope I didn’t hurt your feelings is all I’m saying”

Lupe leaned forward and smiled, “nah it’s okay I understand”

Martin sighed, “well as long as you’re not ma-“

Lupe slammed the door before he finished his sentence which caused him to cringe, “Oh yeah she’s mad.”

Lupe paced angrily as Discord watched from the couch until she stopped pacing and looked at Discord, “Teach me how to use the power more than I can now."

Discord smiled as he drummed his fingers on the couches armrest, “certainly my dear student”

Martin had been sitting in silence on a bench ever since he had finished talking with Lupe. Deep down he felt lower than dirt because he made her mad over the sudden shift in priorities without even considering her feelings first.

A familiar voice was heard beside him, “Something troubling you?”

Martin didn’t even look up but knew who it was, “Hey Sortitus”

Sortitus leaned forward slightly, “girl trouble?”

Martin sighed, “Yup”

He looked up and saw the aspect dressed in a white long sleeved shirt complete with dark navy blue jeans and white urban loafers which really made him stand out on the bench. He merely smiled at Martin who couldn’t help but smile back.

Sortitus stood up, “Walk with me”

Martin followed his pace as Sortitus spoke in a slightly exhilarated fashion, “The bridge is almost finished”

Martin looked at the aspect, “Really?”

Sortitus nodded, “It seems I misjudged the size and number of shards from the old one. I would have to say it will be finished in about a week give or take a few days.”

Martin smiled, “The girls will be so happy to hear that”

Sortitus thought for a second, “Perhaps I should bring the princesses here one day to show them around and show how the other half lives.”

Martin shrugged, “maybe”

Sortitus took on a concerned expression, “What’s going on?”

Martin sighed and explained the whole situation to the Aspect who nodded until Martin finished.

Sortitus placed a hand on Martin’s shoulder, “Martin, I have been one of your friends ever since all of this began-"

Martin smiled, “yep, my entire unreal life”

Sortitus chuckled before continuing, “But I will say this to you, if you are truly unsure on what to do just follow your heart and love will find a way”

Martin then sarcastically responded, “What fortune cookie did you pull that out of?”

Sortitus produced a broken fortune cookie, “This one actually I had kung pao chicken for lunch a few minutes ago”

Martin laughed along with Sortitus as they continued to chat the day away until they reached Martin’s house. Sortitus bid him farewell as Martin went in to deliver the news on the bridge which was soon followed by excited squeals of joy.

Meanwhile at Lupe’s Apartment

Lupe sat focused on the ground as she began to levitate objects around herself while Discord napped on the couch. As she shut her eyes in concentration something happened, her hair turned a silvery white as she opened her eyes which flickered briefly between goldish yellow and their original colours before her hair and eyes reverted back to normal.