Everyone stood staring at the monster that just showed up in the clouds.

" Long time no see, Twilight Sparkle. Oh yes, it's princess Twilight Sparkle. Pardon me, your majesty," Sombra said in his low rumble of a voice.

Twilight frowned deeply at the King.

" What do you want, Sombra!"

The King sniffed.

" Getting right to the point, I see. Well! Ever since you defeated me at the Crystal Empire, I had been devising a plan. I needed a big one just for you! In the meantime, I watched you defeat Tirek, Discord, and I was told about the defeat of Queen Chrysalis."

Sombra let out a low laugh.

" Oh believe me, she's still mad about it."

Twilight glared at him.

" What're you getting at."

With deep aggravation, King Sombra snarled," What I'm going to do is take all the Equestrian magic out of you ponies and rule over this place and Equestria!"

" That's so unoriginal. Tirek already tried that," Pinkie said.*cough, cough! You should notice something here...*

" Shut it and let me finish!" Sombra snapped. " I found this place while eavesdropping on your conversations with princess Celestia. I thought about Tirek's plan to consume all the Equestrian magic and realized there was one flaw. There was no way he could ever get away with the magic in Equestria. Not with you ponies around. So I came up with a new idea.

" I thought that if I could transport some of her subjects to this dimension which she has no control over, I can drain their power and use it to conquer Equestria!"

Twilight frowned. " Well you've made a terrible decision. As princess, I'll stop you!"

King Sombra rolled his eyes. " I bet you're not even used to the alicorn magic you possess, which actually makes my plan better! I can now drain you of the most powerful magic! Alicorn magic!"

He chuckled and looked down at her with a challenging expression.

" Alicorn magic isn't the most powerful magic, it's the friendship of magic, and you can never take that away from us!" Twilight shouted.

Her friends stood by her side supportingly. King Sombra shrugged.

" Oh, I wouldn't stick to your claim."

Suddenly a purple light lit around Fluttershy and she was lifted into the air.

" Fluttershy!" her friends cried.

She squeaked and shook with fear as she rose higher in the air toward Sombra.

" You know, princess...There's a big mistake you've made. This here pony is the Pegasus Fluttershy, the element of Kindness. This pony is the element herself, not the replacements you've got there who only wield a small portion of the magic," King Sombra began.

" Replacements?! You evil jerk!!" Rainbow Dash yelled.

" Oh come on, 'Dashie'. Surely you didn't think you could match up to the REAL Rainbow Dash. She's the one who has the element, not you. You're just in place of her absence, a double. Just like all you humans!"

He pointed an accusing finger at the CHS students.

" You're all fakes! The real ones are here with me. You have no magic. You are useless!"

He looked back at Fluttershy, who cowered in fear.

" You should've sent her back home, Twilight. You had the ability to open a portal with her element. But of course, you were too slow to know that the magic you were trying to possess earlier was already there with you in the first place. You just had to be with Fluttershy and use the magic of her element and yours for any magic to happen and poof! A portal would appear and good cheers and you both went home. You're dumber than you look."

Twilight stood there in confusion. " Used her element as well as mine? But I would need all the elements together in order to open a portal..."

King Sombra looked surprised. " You didn't know that you only need the key element of magic and the element you're trying to draw power from in order to do that? You really thought that you had to have ALL the elements in order to do ANYTHING??"

The king let out a laugh that roared through the sky.

" Looks like princess Celestia didn't teach you well enough!"

Twilight and the others felt pale and gulped.

" With the element of Kindness herself, I have magic stronger than yours! Friendship! Ha! You wouldn't dare do anything to me as long as I had one of your friends, would you?"

The girls stood frozen to their spots. He just used their own source of power against them!

" Alicorn magic isn't the strongest magic, it's the magic of friendship, and you can never take it away from us!" Sombra mocked. " I just did. I took a part of it. And without all the elements, your power isn't nearly as strong. It's absolutely nothing to me. That's the price of having friends. You have to count on them to help you all the way through. Ha! Well now your dear Fluttershy can't. How do you like me now?!" King Sombra cried.

They were stuck in a trap.

" Darn him," Applejack muttered.

" Hey, Sombra!" a voice cried.

Everyone looked to see who it was.

It was the boy Twilight had noticed earlier, the boy that didn't belong because he was so out of place.

Sombra frowned and squinted at him. " And who might I have the pleasure of being stopped mid-enjoyment..?"

" I'm prince Feather Flyer of Marelin!" he yelled.

Sombra's eyes widened. " Son of King UpperCrest the Conquerer?"

" Yeah, he darn is!" the girl who everybody also didn't know and was quite random in that setting said.

Sombra gulped.

" Then you must be..."

" It's princess Crystal Gem of Hoofindale to you!" she shouted.

" Daughter of Roland the Sorceror..." the evil being whispered. Sombra quivered in terror. These beings...they were the worst he could ever have encountered.

In anger and fear he glared at the elements and the pony people.

" You're lucky. But I won't give up so easily. You have three days, Twilight! Three days to face me and surrender. If you don't do so, your people will be drained of their power and you as well and there's nothing you can do about it. And..."

Sombra glanced fearfully at the two people who bellowed out to him before.

" To make things fair, none of you will have magic. You will have to be completely clean of any magical trace. We don't want to have an unfair, crazy uproar of ponies on me, now do we? Especially if I'm going to take your Pegasus friend here as a prisoner of war."

Twlight and the others couldn't believe what they just heard.

" No, give her back!!" Sunset Shimmer cried.

" Funny you are the one opposing of this plan," Sombra chuckled.

Sunset Shimmer clenched her teeth tightly and felt the rage boil inside of her. But no. She couldn't let it show. It'd be bad to show that his comments were getting to her.

Sombra just laughed maniacally as the clouds turned dark and swirled around him. Lightning flashed and Fluttershy's screams could be heard as the enemy began to disappear.

" You're oh so lucky, princess! You may have got away this time, but your fate is sealed! Since you are obviously an amateur at magic, I'll give you a hint. Magical Imbalance. Tell Celestia she should try to teach her students everything and not only a little!"

And with that, everything was silent.

Author's Note

Ok, so before you blast me or anything just hear me out. This plot with Tirek's plan being recycled is not the most original, but I had it in here because this is my take on how Tirek should have gone through with his plan in the show. Now I know Equestria Girls wasn't out(or was it..?) at the time. But ever since I watched that episode with Tirek taking everyone's powers away, I always felt there was something he could've done to have made it more effective.

As for the two random ponies I just popped up in the story(Feather Flyer and Crystal Gem), their story will be explained in the next chapter and it will also explain why Sombra was quick to leave.

And lastly, Pinkie. You know the part where I put those stars at next to Pinkie's one line in this chapter? Well, you should've noticed that Pinkie couldn't have possibly known that Sombra's plan was Tirek's, only improved. That Pinkie is human, not the pony Pinkie that was actually there...But you know, it's Pinkie. So she knows everything.