Azure Island: Eclipse of Destruction

by Chaos Knux

Chapters

PROLOGUE - The Pinkie Future
Chapter 1: The Beginning
Chapter 2: Everfree Forest Trouble
Chapter 3: Pink-a-Mania
Chapter 4: Twilight of Ponyville
Chapter 5: The Deadly Present [NEVER FINISHED]
Original Version. NEVER TRYING THIS AGAIN.

PROLOGUE - The Pinkie Future

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Azure Island Chronicles

:The Pinkie future:

My Little Pony Lock-On Story

[Crossover] [OC] [Sorta-Creepy?]

It was about 2 o’clock at night, and Knockout, a young echidna boy that had just turned 8 years old, was fast asleep in his house in Redwood Valley. While he was sleeping the phone rang from the kitchen. The young echidna waited in bed for awhile expecting his parents to pick it up. After it rang for several minutes he slowly crept downstairs trying to be quiet and picked up the phone.

“Hello? Who’s this?” Knockout asked worried by the fact that someone was calling this late at night.

“HI! I’m looking from somepony by the name of Knockout Steel Coatrack, I have some important news for him!” A female voice said over the phone in a bright and happy tone.

Knockout was scared out of his life at the fact the person knew who he was when he hadn’t even heard their voice before. “Uh, I don’t give my name out to people I don’t know... Do you want me to get my parents on the line?” Knockout said trying to keep calm.

“Su- I mean, no. You see, well, this is hard to explain...” The voice said trying to think of a way to explain what it was about to say. “It’s going to be like a surprise party, and only you can know about this! A-a-and I already called your parents and let them know earlier!”

Knockout was still a bit uneasy about the whole deal, but the thought of a party got into his small little mind. And like all other echidnas his age, he LOVED parties. “Well... I- yes, I am Knockout Steel Coatrack. But who are you?”

“My name doesn’t matter right now, but here’s what I need you to do. There is a box outside of the door of your house, I need you to go get it and keep it at your house until I call you again, okay?” The voice said over the phone in a bit of a panic as stuff shuffled over the phone and you could hear someone else in the background. “Look, I got to go now. I’ll make sure to call you back when everything set up! And remember, this is all a secret! And I pinkie-promise that nothing bad will happen!” The voice said as the call disconnected.

After the call ended Knockout turned around and was heading outside, but after he reached the hallway he saw a tall package waiting in front of the door, with a note on it saying:

“Oh silly me, I should have remembered, you are only 8! It would scare your parents if you would have went outside at this time of night. So I put the package here instead! ;) ”

After staring at the package for awhile trying to figure out if it was really moved, or if it had always been there, trying to take his mind off the thought he carefully and quietly Knockout took the box back to his room and looked for a place to put it, his closet? No, he kept a lot of his clothes and toys in there, it would be to hard to hide it there. Under his bed? No, EVERY young echidna hides stuff under there, it would be a stupid place to put it. He looked around the room and saw another note posted onto a wall near a bookshelf. he was starting to get a bit creeped out by now. First a phone call in the middle of the night, next a package in their house that wasn’t there before the call with a note on it, and now another note? How did could have it got here, He knew there wasn’t one when he got up to get the phone. Carefully walking up to it he read what it had to say.

“Oh, I guess I should have told you WHERE to put it now shouldn’t I? Oh silly me, okay here’s what you have to do. The bookshelf next to this note should have a book that is sticking out. First, push it all the way in and then pull it back out. It should open up to a hole where you can stick it in, and then put the book back in to the place it was at. :) ”

Slowly he looked at the bookshelf seeing a green book sticking out that was one of his favorite stories “Clash of Two Worlds” a book about aliens attacking his planet Earth, and a war breaking out. To his shock, after doing what the note said the bookcase slid out of the way and small room opened up that was just big enough for the package, and on the wall had another note that he pulled off from the wall and read.

“Remember! Nopony must know about this, in fact, it might be best you forget about it. but I will still call you back when everything is ready! It’s a Pinkie-Promise! ;D”

After reading the note Knockout carefully pushed the box into the small space and he put the book back into the shelf and watched as the bookshelf moved back into place, he then crawled back into his bed and went back to sleep.

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Knockout woke up to the sound of his alarm going off. It was a nice summer day but he didn’t want to get out of bed. He had a strange dream last night about him being a young kid again and having had been awoken by a phone call in the middle of the night with a package at the door. Shoving that off he slowly got ready to go about his daily business, he was going to meet with his small group of friends to meet a person that was found on the outskirts of Skyrise Metropolis near a blue police phone booth, where they fought one of Knockout’s old friends, Blackout, better known to them as Oscuridad. He was hoping that with here they could find out why she got into a fight with Blackout, and also to find out about her strange abilities, he had never seen this kind of energy before in his life, save from when Blackout used it.

After walking to the meeting place for where the team meets, his old home in Redwood Valley, Knockout started to make sure everything was set up.

“Okay, let’s see what we have here...” Knockout said to himself as he pulled up a clipboard with a checklist. “Wide screen TV with a PS3, XBox 360 and Wii? Check! Mini-fridge filled with soda and other stuff? Check! Computer with tons of awesome games and stuff? Check! Last but not least, killer sound system with over one thousand songs? Check! Looks like everything’s ready!” he said looking around what used to be the living room of his old house, turned into a hang out for all of his friends. Fond memories of his childhood came into his mind while looking at the room. Blackout and he used to love to reenact stories from the books they read and make
up their own when they played together. Unfortunately those days came to a end a long time ago, and he was now fighting against him for real in a long and seemingly endless warfare that has torn the once safe island apart. But it had been peaceful for awhile after they had managed to trap him into the Dark World after his last attack, at the cost of one of his friend’s lives that stayed with Blackout to keep him still as they trapped him in there sealing both of them in. But after Blackout showed up again fighting with the girl the whole island went back into panic at the fact Oscuridad was free again, so Knockout had called his friends together again to reform the Azure Island Protectors team to stop any attacks that might be made.

“Knockout, are you there?” A voice came from outside as there was a knock on the door breaking him away from his thoughts.

“Yeah, I’ll be there in a second Ryan!” Knockout called as he walked to the door and opened it, outside was a short brown fox dressed in a white lab coat and black pants with a large pair of glasses.

“Neo and Violet are going to be here soon, they are getting the new girl a bite to eat first though seeing she was rather weak this morning, she must not have eaten in awhile.” The fox said as he walked in and set down his backpack on a table near by. “So this is the new hangout you’ve been working on for us? Seems sorta run down, like it hasn’t been used for awhile.”

“Well Ryan, I lived here in my early childhood with my parents. And I moved out to Skyrise Metropolis when they had to move off to the Radiant Mountains, but luckily this place wasn’t torn down by people looking for anything over the years. It should serve nicely until we can afford a new place, and who knows, we could just do a small fix-er-up on this place and keep it!” Knockout said leaning on a wall as it cracked a little bit.

“Yeah, a small BIG fix-er-up at least.” Ryan scoffed as he started to unpack some stuff from his backpack, most of it was papers and info he took from the old hangout they used before they disbanded a few years back. “Are you sure this is going to work though, the whole recruit-someone-who-popped-out-of-a-hole-in-the-sky-with-Oscuridad thing? I mean, it could be one of his evil minion things...”

“Stop being such a worrywart Ryan, what’s the WORST that could happen?” Knockout said slapping Ryan on the back.

“Besides her turning on us and killing us all, or her killing us all in this meeting, or...” Before he could finish they was interrupted on another knock on the door. “Oh, it looks like Neo and the rest are here. Well, let’s hope this goes over smooth...”

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After the meeting Knockout and Ryan decided to spend the night at Knockout’s old house since Ryan was still had to finish getting everything ready for them to use, since they had decided to keep this as there meeting place. It was about 2 o’ clock at night, and they were both in their own rooms fast asleep. Knockout was awakened in the night by his cellphone ringing, he tried to ignore it, but it kept on ringing. So still being half asleep he picked up the phone to see who it was and yell at them for waking him up.

“Hello, who is this?” Knockout mumbled half asleep.

“Hi again, it’s been awhile since I’ve talked with you Knockout!” A female voice chirped happily on the other side.

“Who are you, and how on Earth do you know my name?” Knockout said, a bit more than scared by the fact that the stranger knew his name.

“Awwww.. Don’t you remember me Knockout? Oh wait, I told you to forget about it didn’t I? Silly me!” The voice on the other end said while there was some sounds of some sort of blender in the background. But before Knockout could say anything the person on the other side started talking again. “Okay, remember back when you was about 8 years old you lived in this house and got a phone call at about this same time?”

Upon hearing that his blood ran cold remembering the dream he had last night, it was him when he was a young echidna, 8 years old, and being woke up by a phone call. “How do you know abou-” Knockout tried to say something, but was quickly cut off.

“Oh goodie, you DO remember! Now, here’s what I need you to do, go to your bookshelf and pull out the book called “Clash of Two Worlds”, just like you did last time. Get the box and come to the dining room, I’ll tell you the rest once you get there.” The voice said in a more serious tone this time. “Oh, I gotta go, do as I say and I’ll talk to you again, okay? Bye!” and with that the call was ended.

Knockout slowly got out of his bed and thought about what had just happened, he was about to just forget it and go back to bed when he looked up at his door that was closed, but was now open and saw a note on it. He slowly got up and read the note.

“Oh silly Knockout, I TOLD you I was going to call you back, I pinkie-promised even! Why would I break a promise to a friend, now go get the box and come down to the dining room!”

Knockout just stood there, he was shocked and scared out of his life, how could someone have opened his door while he was on the phone without him hearing them? He turned around and headed over to the bookshelves that were in his room and looked for the book he was told to remove, and sure enough, the same book was there just like in the dream he had the night before. Slowly and carefully he removed the book and the bookshelf groaned and creaked as it slid open revealing a old box that looked to be about five years old, the wrapping-paper and the ribbons had faded and were all raggedy. He slowly removed the box, by now he was scared out of his mind, almost to the point he was wondering about his sanity. He went over to the closet and opened it up to get his coat, and something to use for self-defense, his Emerald Ax. But to his horror in the place the ax should have been, there was another note.

“Aw, why are you going to bring this sharp ax down with you? I thought we were friends, you act like you are in some sort of horror movie or something!”

There was suddenly a loud crash from down stairs, Knockout jumped and was bout to dash across out side of his room when he took one last glance at the note. And he note had a new line written on it, how did it get there? Did he miss it, was his hand blocking it, or was something horrifically wrong going on? He didn’t want to know, all he wanted was to see what it said and get down there.

“Oh, and don’t worry about the sound you heard. Just get the box and come down here, the party is ready! You DO remember the party, right?”

Knockout grabbed the box and slowly walked down stairs, once reaching the bottom he turned and saw a light on in the dining room and slowly walked into the room. The room was filled with party decorations, streamers hug from the roof, balloons floating everywhere. On the table was a party table cloth, and on top of that was a plated with two cupcakes, a pink one, and a blue one, the same shade of blue as his own fur. Between the two cupcakes was another note, that Knockout read as his heart was pounding from fear.

“Glad to see you made it to the party! Now all you have to do is set the box behind the chair on the side with the pink cupcake, and take a seat on the side with the blue cupcake!”

Following what the note said to do, he put the box on that side of the table and turned around and walked to the other chair and sat down and looked up to a balloon that, of course, had a note on it.

“Turn around”

Was all that the note said, slowly Knockout turned around in his chair and nearly jumped through the roof at the sight he saw and heard.

“HI!” A pink pony sat in the chair right across from the table said with a big grin on her face. “I’m so glad you didn’t chicken out, It took me forever to get this all ready after all. I mean, jumping through dimensions is hard to do.” She said spinning around in her chair.

Knockout just sat there in dead silence, trying to figure out what was going on. Was this a dream, some twisted prank, or was it real? Before he could say anything else the pink pony started talking again. “Oh silly me, I guess I should tell you my name like I said I would! I’m Pinkimena Diane Pie, but just call me Pinkie Pie! Of course, now would be the part where you would say your name, but I already know your name, sooooo.”

“So what are you doing in MY house!” Knockout finally screamed, he couldn’t take it any longer. If this was the same person who had called him when he was young, and now she called him again, he wanted to know just WHAT was going on and WHY she didn’t tell him in the first call.

“Whoa whoa whoa, cool down Coaty, here have a cupcake!” Pinkie said as she stuffed a cupcake in his mouth. “I know this whole thing might have seemed odd, but I have my reasons of why I didn’t, or rather couldn’t tell you the first time I called.”
After chewing the cupcake up enough he could talk Knockout was just about to lash out again, but couldn’t for some odd reason. “W-what have you done?” He ask in a calm tone although on the inside he wanted to scream.

“Silly, I didn’t want you to wake up your friend with your yelling, I TOLD you it was supposed to be a secret that only you could know. So I put some special chemicals in the cupcake to make you relax a bit, there is no reason to be afraid. After all, I am only here to warn you about what’s to come, and how you can save this world, and my world from their untimely ends.” Pinkie said in a voice that kept her normal chirpy tone, but at the same time it took on a serious tone.

“Okay, fine. but I still want to know why you couldn’t tell me the first time you called me. This whole thing scared the living daylights out of me!” Knockout said finally chewing the rest of the cupcake and swallowing it down.

“Okay, I’ll tell you why. You see, well. Hm, I don’t know why I didn’t tell you the first call. Maybe it is because it would ruin the plot of this chapter...” Pinkie said scratching her chin.

“The what?” Knockout asked blankly trying to figure out what she meant to say or if she was just blabbering.

“Oh never mind, that’s for the next time we meet. Anyways, about the box. It’s something I’ve been building for an adventure that you will be going on tomorrow. It’s a trans-dimensional teleporter that links my world to your world, when you use it you will follow somepony who looks like me, but is yellow with a pink mane. Of course we won’t be the same pony since there can’t be two of me. Save for that one time when me and Applebloom was making cupcakes, then I could make clones of myself while I was singing the cupcake song. Save we burnt the cupcakes, oh well back to the teleporter thing! The yellow pony will need to use this to bring you to my world so you can save both worlds from Oscuridad.” Pinkie said while trying to keep from going off on her pinkie-rants.

“Whoa whoa whoa, wait up one second.” Knockout said stopping Pinkie before should could go on. “How do you know about Oscuridad, have you been spying on me my whole life?”

“Nope, only for the past two days! Well, at least for the past two days in my world. You see, this Oscuridad came to me when I was asleep one night and gave me this strange chip thing, I think it was called a microchip. He put it in my ear and then knocked me out cold, when I awoke I found myself in a small cave somewhere with a metal door in front of me. I walked over and put my hoof on the door to see if it would open, and it did! On the other side was something AMAZING, a huge room filled with machines and robots, and all sorts of stuff!” Pinkie said full of excitement and paused for a moment and took a bite out of her cupcake before going on. “Wow, the ingredients here sure are different from the ones back home, but anyways! I looked at all of the things in the room, and each one of them I some how remembered how I made them, and how they worked. I quickly decided to try to look on one of the huge computers to see what all files there was stored on there to see if I had finished all of them, the only one I could find was this dimensional gateway that not only travels to worlds, but across time too! Something inside me made me want to build it, and before I knew it I started gathering the parts and making it like it was nothing! once I finished it I decided I would test it and set it to go into the future, and that’s when I saw what was going to happen. I would LOVE to tell you, but it would ruin the next two chapters of this story, so I’ll just say that I knew you would be needing this. So I went back to my normal time and made another so I could set things up so I could give you this one, now all you have to do is go put this teleporter in the hole behind the bookshelf and keep it turned on, what you will need it for will have you in a pinch for time!” Pinkie finally stopped talking, Knockout was now trying to grasp what was going on and what she was trying to tell him. After spending a bit of time sorting it all in his head he gave up.

“Okay, yeah. but I still don’t see how I can trust what you said, I mean you sorta poisoned my cupcake and all...” Knockout said tiredly and sleep deprived, he had been up since 2 at night, and the sun was starting to rise.

“Oh no, it’s already sunrise? I guess I forgot you guys don’t control the sun here, well it’s been fun, but I need to leave now. Maybe we can have a party after the next time we meet?” Pinkie said with a small little smile on her face.

“Uh, yeah, sure whatever.” Knockout mumbled getting out of the chair.

“Okie-dokie-loki! It will be a super fun one too. And trust me, you will see me again, it’s a pinkie-promise!” After Pinkie finished her last word she slowly started to fade away as she hopped past Knockout heading to the door. Leaving him just standing there staring at the party decorations and the empty plate that used to have the cupcakes on it with a small note. “Oh, and don’t worry about the teleporter, I already set it up. see you soon!”

“Well, I should REALLY stop eating Ryan’s burritos before going to bed.” Knockout said slowly while walking back to his room to go back to bed. He then fell into a deep sleep that he really, REALLY needed.

The End?

“Hey, are you still here? You’ve just read a prologue chapter to a super-duper fanfic! You should really see the rest of it!” Pinkie Pie said while she grabbed you mouse cursor and pointed it to the “Next Chapter” button.

“There, just click that and off you go!” Pinkie paused for a moment. “OH! And don’t bug the authors about finishing it, not happening, they Pinkie Promised on it! BYE NOW!” she said cheerily before closing the monitor back up.

Chapter 1: The Beginning

DISCLAIMER THINGY
I do not own any of the ponies, they are all owned by Hasbro/The Hub/Lauren Faust.
Coat Rack owns Knockout, Dr. Ryan Maxwell, Neo, and Violet.
Shandra is owned by me.
No profit is being made from this work.
Azure Island Chronicles
:Eclipse Of Destruction:
My Little Pony Lock-On Story
[Crossover] [OC] [Grimdark] [Comedy][Adventure][Random]

[We clearly have no grasp of the TAG concepts, huh?]

Azure Island, July 11th, 2011

It was a nice summer day, and a teenage, steel blue echidna with black stripes that marked his six dreadlocks had just woken up from a nice, long sleep. This echidna was Knockout, Knockout Steel Coatrack. After getting freshened up he headed down stairs, once he got to the bottom he looked to his right and took note of the dining room, it seemed like a party was held sometime yesterday since there were leftover decorations in the dining room. He then looked to his left and saw three of his friends talking about something one of them had brought over in the den.

“So let me get this straight, this is a device you call the ‘Chronic Watch’ is powered by a small shard of a old relic that can bend time and space?” Ryan, a beige fox wearing a lab coat and black pants inquired examining a very high-tech looking watch in his hand while sitting in a chair. “And that the machine hardly even taps the surface of the relic’s power, so that the real power has never been seen?”

“That’s right, Doc, and if it was to fall into the wrong hands it would spell disaster for everyone.” Confirmed a black hedgehog and echidna half-breed, her quills were styled in a star shaped pattern. She sat on a couch to the right of Ryan facing to a TV against the wall. Her name was Shandra, and she was found just a few days ago when she was seen fighting with one of the villains Knockout and his friends were used to fighting, after they popped out of a worm hole beside a telephone box.

“Well, this thing might come in handy sometime. But if one of our enemies were to get a hold of it, we will all be dead seeing they all have powerful abilities of some sort...”

“Hey guys, what’s going on?” Knockout asked as he walked into the room and sat down in the open chair to the left of the couch in the light-grey room. “And what’s that you’re holding Ryan, a new watch of some sort?”

“It’s a Chronic Watch, a watch that can bend time and space with a magical relic with unknown amounts of power.” Ryan said handing the device to Knockout. “We should keep it in a safe place so our foes won’t use it for one of their evil plans, if they got a hold of it, we would all be as good as dead.”

“Well, we could just keep it here in Knockout’s old house.” Colson, a green-colored fox, that was sitting beside Shandra said taking his eyes off a book he was reading for a moment. “This place is pretty well-hidden after all, it would take them forever to find it!”

“I guess it could work, but we would need some sort of security system to keep it safe when we aren’t here...” Knockout pondered aloud while scratching his chin thinking of some sort of trap he could make out of household items. “Maybe the old bucket of water triggered by opening the door?”

“Knockout, this isn’t some kid trying to get into your room, this is trying to keep a evil villain and his friends away from a relic with unimaginable power. We are going to need A LOT more than a bucket of water.” Shandra deadpanned while crossing her arms looking rather annoyed. “And I TRUSTED you guys to let you see the watch, what was I thinking?”

“Oh relax will you, Knockout and Ryan are good at keeping things safe most of the time. Sure they lose their keys to this place sometimes, but other than that they are fine!” Colson said, jabbing Shandra with his elbow.

“Well, I am better at keeping track of stuff, but Knockout seems to misplace something EVERYDAY.” Ryan scoffed while looking at Knockout with a hint of annoyance. “Anyways I’m going to head out to buy some stuff for a REAL security system, you two keep Shandra company here by watching that DVD we found outside our door.”

“Wait, you guys just watch DVDs that you have no clue where they came from that are at your front door?” Shandra asked while blankly staring at them. “You GOT to be kidding me.”

“Hey, it’s free! What better price can you find for DVDs out there?” Knockout reasoned as he pulled up the blank DVD case. “I’m sure it will be fine, I mean, when was the last time I got us into a big mess?”

“Are we counting last night or not?” Ryan asked, rolling his eyes.

“Hey! You can’t blame me for happening to trip on the wire you had on the floor causing the machine you were setting up to go haywire!”

“Here we go again...” Colson sighed as he slumped back into the couch. “They go through this every time the question is asked.”

“Oh never mind. Just do whatever, I don’t even care anymore.” Ryan mumbled, not feeling like getting into another argument with Knockout. “Just TRY not to get into anything that is way out of this world.”

“You too Ryan, after all. YOU are the scientist, not me.” Knockout scoffed while opening the DVD container. “Huh, no name on the DVD...”

“I am not THAT kind of a scientist Knockout, I am a medical one.” Ryan corrected as he walked out of the house, closing the door behind him while mumbling something under his breath.

“Wow, and I thought SHANDRA was grumpy.” Colson said while grabbing the remote, flipping on the TV as Knockout put in the DVD. “Anyways, Let’s see what this thing is!”

“I’ll go get some popcorn and soda, I’ll be back in just a second. Don’t start it without me, okay?” Knockout called while walking out of the room. It was only a few seconds later that he walked back in with three sodas and popcorn holders filled with popcorn. “Ready?”

“Ready” Colson and Shandra replied at the same time, although Shandra wasn’t quite as interested compared to the others. Colson pressed the play button and started the DVD...

My Little Pony, My Little Pony! Ahh ahhh aahhhhh!

“..What is this I don’t even...” Knockout choked out, staring at the screen. “My Little Pony, Is this some kind of lame trick being played on us by Ryan? And here I thought I was the trickster in the group!”

“Hey look, there is a note on the back of the container!” Colson reported, trying to distract himself from the ear killing music. “It says ‘Skip thirteen scenes over’... What is that supposed to mean?”

“Maybe it is a hint to a secret message about a plan our favorite group of foes are planning sent to us by some random guy?” Knockout said while grabbing the remote and skipping the scenes.

“Maybe you guys are just insane and should hurry up and find a way to get me home?” Shandra responded, and looking even more annoyed than earlier.

“Oh no, my friends don’t like my parties and don’t want to be my friends anymore!” A dark-pink pony that had a grey-tinted blue eyes said sorrowfully on the TV while sitting in a black void with only a single light shining on her, and then everything just froze there and refused continue.

“Okay, seriously, what is going on? The remote won’t even work anymore.” Knockout complained, mashing the play button on the remote. “Can’t we just get to the end of this thing and slap whoever played the prank?”

“Maybe it’s, I dunno, at the end of the DVD?” Shandra said grabbing the remote away from Knockout. “All you have to do is rewind it and re-watch it, maybe your ‘secret message’ is hidden deep in the black void.”
She then hit the rewind button, but nothing happen.

“Yeah, maybe we should replace the batteries you think?” Colson theorized taking the remote from Shandra and flipped it open and checked the batteries. “Okay, this is odd. the charger says they are all good... Maybe I’ll try turning off the TV...”

“That MIGHT be a good idea...” Knockout said as Colson hit the off button on the remote and watched as the screen flashed off. “Okay, maybe we SHOULDN'T have played that DVD after all.”

“You think?” Shandra asked, crossing her arms again. “Now what are we going to do?”

“I donno, Maybe we can...” Colson was about to say something, but got cut off by another voice.

“Make some cupcakes?”

“Uh, what? Did you say that Knockout?” Colson asked, looking at Knockout, who in return shook his head slowly with a hint of fear in his eyes. “And Shandra is too busy pouting to say anything, so who could have said it?”

“Me silly!” The voice called from the TV, the three of them turned around to face the voice as the TV suddenly flashed back on, showing the same pink pony looking right at the three of them while being notably closer to them than before.

“Okay, now THAT is just plain creepy” Knockout said backing up a bit keeping his eye on the pony. “How’d you do that?”

“Oh silly, I just took your remote!” The pink pony pulled up the remote Colson was just holding, causing Colson to quickly look to his hand to find the remote missing. “It’s not nice to turn off a DVD when it’s being played you know, what if your other friends wanted to watch it?”

“Okay, WHAT is going on here?” Shandra asked marching up to the TV and staring the pony in the eye. “WHO are you, and WHAT are you doing, and WHY are you doing it?”

“Don’t be so mean, Shandra!” The pony scolded, quickly whacking Shandra back with her hoof, and causing them all to jump. “I am Pinkamina Diane Pie, and all I am wanting is to find some people to make cupcakes with me! And you three look like the best of helpers!” She said with a grin plastered on her face as Shandra slowly got back up.

“Did she just... slap her from inside the TV?” Knockout asked while walking over to inspect the TV from a side angle, everything LOOKED normal. “Am I the ONLY one who is getting freaked out right now?”

“You’re not alone bud.” Colson said while helping Shandra up. “But I say we need to get Ryan back here FAST before the pony does anything else. I mean being able to slap someone from inside of a TV is bad enough, but what ELSE can she do?”

“I can do this too!” Pinkamina said as she hopped out of the TV and landed on the ground in front of Colson and Shandra, with a knife in her tail. “Isn’t that cool, we can now start to make some cupcakes!”

“Okay, but WHY do you have a knife? I don’t think cupcakes requires a knife to make them.” Knockout said slowly backing up to the rest of his friends who were equally scared as he was.

“Colson? Knockout?” Shandra asked, her voice softer and kinder than before. “Wha... what happened?”

“Okay, uh, did she just get some kindness slapped into her or something...?” Knockout asked turning to face Shandra.

“Oh Knockout, you’ll figure it out by the end of the adventure!” The pink pony half-sang..

“...What? Knockout, do you know something that we don’t know?” Colson asked raising his eye brow.

“Ooop, nevermind.” Pinkamina returned.

Shandra shook her head and then saw the same pony that was in the TV now standing in front of her. This sight shocked her out of the haze and her voice was instantly hardened again. “WHAT THE- HOW’D SHE GET HERE?!?”

“We don’t know that yet, but we plan on finding out.” Colson reported as he walked over to Pinkamina. “I must agree with Knockout, why do you need the knife?”

“You silly filly, I need the ingredients first!” Pinkamina explained, smiling as she flicked her tail back and forth, swinging the knife around. “And you guys have the best ingredients I could find here!”

“Really, what is it? Our sugar, flour, sprinkles?” Knockout asked confused.

“You.” Pinkamina said with an evil grin, as an awkward silence followed. “You have 5 seconds to run to Knockout’s bedroom before I come for you guys, ready?”

Knockout, Shandra, and Colson each gave each other a quick stare before making a mad dash up the stairs to get to Knockout’s bedroom while Pinkamina started her countdown, and no matter how far away they got, they could still hear her voice just as if she was right in front of them.

“WHY did she tell us to come up here?” Shandra said frantically searching the room as they could hear hoofsteps coming up the stairs after she stopped counting. “Is there a gun or a death trap we can use to stop her?”

“As far as I know, no!” Knockout was busy piling stuff in front of the door as the steps stopped and a knock on the door was made. “That should keep her while we wait for Ryan!”

“Maybe, that is if he knew where we are at right now.” Colson pointed out the window to show that they were in what seemed to be, an endless black void. “I have an odd feeling, that instead of her jumping out of the TV, she brought US into the TV...”

“Oh you meanie pants, you blocked the door so I can’t get in!” There was banging coming from the other side of the door as Pinkamina was talking. “Oh well, I can still get in there in a blink of an eye!”

They all gave each other a quick glance and then looked back at the door seeing Pinkamina standing in front of them. “Hi, I told you I could still get in here! Ready to make some cupcakes?” She said as she walked over to a bookcase and pulled out a green book that had Clash of Two Worlds on the front as the title. “Of course, the only good way to make some is if we get to my kitchen!”

“How will we do that if we are in a black void though?” Knockout asked while puzzled by the fact she pulled a book out of his bookshelf for no reason. “Unless you plan on using whatever it was to warp us into the TV or whatever.”

“Oh silly, it’s a gift I gave you last night, don’t you remember?” Pinkamina said as the bookcase slowly moved out from the wall revealing a portal with a swirling purple vortex inside it and slowly begins to drag them into it. “I am not able to warp you guys with me, if I could I wouldn’t have made this thing!”

“Knockout, are you SURE you aren’t hiding something from us!?” Colson asked while grabbing onto a wall-mounted coat hanger. “If it is, you have A LOT of explaining to do!”

“Are you kidding me. I don’t know a THING about what she is talking about!” Knockout defensively yelled while grabbing hold to a battle axe he had hanging over his bed. “And how THAT thing got there is beyond me!”

“I TOLD YOU TWO NOT TO WATCH THAT DVD, BUT DID YOU LISTEN? NOOOOOO, AFTER ALL, I’M JUST SOME DUMB GIRL!” Shandra screamed over the growing sound of the vortex sucking everything in. “AND NOW LOOK WHAT YOU’VE GOT US INTO!”

“WELL SORRY FOR NOT EXPECTING THE DVD TO SUCK US INTO A DEADLY VORTEX OF DOOM!” Knockout yelled back as one of the braces on the wall keeping the battle axe up flew off. “MAYBE YOU SHOULD TRY BEING IN MY SHOES FOR A DAY!”

“Oh you silly fillies, you aren’t going to die when you enter the vortex! You will die after you get out of it, you are coming to my world!” Pinkamina said as she watched Shandra fly into the vortex while she was yelling some choice words that are best-not-repeated.

“KNOCKOUT! WHAT DID RYAN SAY ABOUT NOT GETTING INTO THINGS THAT ARE WAY OUT OF THIS WORLD!” Colson bellowed as he and Knockout both flew into the vortex.

“OH WILL YOU SHUT UP ALREADY, I MAKE ONE BAD DECISION AND I GET HAMMERED FOR IT!” Knockout whined as they were finally sucked in.

“Wow, those guys sure make a lot of noise! Oh well, soon they will be much quieter!” Pinkamina chirped with a happy tone before hopping into the vortex and the bookshelf slid back in.
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“...I leave for two minutes and this is what happens?” Ryan groaned as he walked into the house and saw what kind of a mess the place was in. “UGH”

Chapter 2: Everfree Forest Trouble

DISCLAIMER
I do not own any of the ponies, they are all owned by Hasbro/The Hub/Lauren Faust.
But I DO own Shandra. The Coat Rack owns Knockout, Dr. Ryan Maxwell, Neo, and Violet. Colson is based off a real person, and the fox fursona was made up on the spot. I guess... he owns himself?
This Disclaimer shall only reflect content in the Chapter it appears atop, when further disclaims are needed, and they will be, they will be added on.
No profit is being made from this work. If profit is made from this work, find whomever you paid, punch them out with brass knuckles, and take all their cash.
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Somewhere far away from Azure Island...

After being sucked into the vortex our three friends find themselves lying in a pile in the middle of a thick forest that seemed to go on forever on every side...

“Ugghh... What happen?” Knockout said trying to get up, only to find himself buried by Shandra and Colson. “Hey uh guys, mind getting off me? You are KINDA breaking my back...”

“Wha-what, who is that, are we about to be killed or something?” Colson asked while opening his eyes to find himself on top of Knockout. “Oh, hey KO. Why are we still alive, and why are we in a forest?”

“Urgh, that’s the last time I watch a DVD with YOU idiots...” Shandra said rolling off the other two, Knockout and Colson slowly start to stand up to get a better look around. “What happened to that crazy pink pony, and where are we?”

“I don’t really know, but I DO know is that it is night time in this world and we are in a thick forest. BOTH of those things added together is something I don’t like.” Knockout said looking around, they was surrounded by trees and wild plants on all sides. After looking closer he noticed a small opening of what he thought would be a path way out. “Let’s try this path, maybe it will lead us to a safe place to spend the night.”

“Sounds fine to me, but....” Colson stops for a moment and hears a rather loud breathing sound behind him. “I don’t like the sound I hear behind me...” Colson turns around slowly seeing what seemed to be a cross over of a dragon, scorpion and a lion.

“WHAT IS THAT?!?” Knockout yelped in shock, causing the beast to become hostile and lunge at Colson pinning him to the ground. “Rats, I should have kept my mouth shut. HEY YOU, LEAVE HIM ALONE!” Knockout dashed over to the beast and was about to give it a punch, but was whacked back by it’s tail.

“Oh please, this is just a simple lion! How can you possible fail at-” Shandra was getting her gun out of her holster and a ear piercing scream was let out, her and Knockout quickly turned over to the beast that had stabbed one of it’s huge claws into Colson’s chest while having him pinned against a tree.

“COLSON!” Knockout and Shandra both gave out a yell and were about to run over, but was given a motion to stop by Colson.

“It’s to late for me...” Colson said weakly as he spat out a bit of blood. “Save.. yourselves...”

“N-no, Colson...” Knockout said in a voice of anger and sadness. “WHAT ARE YOU DOING YOU STUPID BEAST!” In his anger, he grabbed a rock on the ground and threw it at the beast, only to have it bounce off and make it give off a warning roar before turning back to splitting Colson open.

“Come on Knockout, there’s nothing we can do for him now. Let’s hightail it out of here before the thing comes after us...” Shandra said grabbing Knockout’s shoulder and trying to turn him around, he resisted for a moment, but went ahead and followed Shandra down the path. As they were walking away they could hear their friend’s screams fill the air chilling them to the bone.

After a couple minutes of sprinting they found a strange house carved into a tree, they looked around and found a path that lead to the door.

“Are you sure this is a safe idea Knockout? I-I-I don’t want to end up like Colson.” Shandra said still shook up at what they had just witnessed.

“Relax, when was the last time I got us into trouble?” Knockout joked in a attempt to lighten the mood as he gave a knock to the door, only then realizing the stupidity of his question. “Er... Don’t answer that.”

“You are going to get us ALL killed before the pink pony shows up again...” Shandra mumbled as the door opened, behind it was what seemed to be a zebra with golden rings around her neck with a large earring on her each ear.

“What strange creatures from the forest to my house comes in such a form? Best not be coming for trouble, or I shall send them back to whence they come from.” The zebra said in a rhyming-song like voice.

“Well, we aren’t from this forest but we do come from another world.” Knockout said while taking a few steps back. “And me and my friend were wondering if would could spend the night here while we wait for day...”

“If rest is what you seek, then you may stay here for the night. If you are in trouble, perhaps I can help with your plight” The zebra stepped aside and motioned for them to come in.

“Oh, I don’t think we’ve introduced each other yet.” Knockout said realizing that he forgot to mention who they were. “I am Knockout Steel Coatrack, but you can call me Knockout. And this is my friend Shandra.”

“And I am Zecora, pleased to meet you.” She said as they made there way into the house, Knockout and Shandra looked around seeing vases and masks lying every where. “I apologize for my mess so uncouth, all you see are items that remind me of my youth.”

“You don’t suppose she knows anything about the Pinkamina character that brought us here, do you?” Knockout asked Shandra quietly.

“I don’t know, but it wouldn’t hurt to ask.” Shandra responded, but before the could ask there was a knock at the door.

“Now who could be here at an hour so late?” Zecora questioned as she opened the door. “Oh, Fluttershy, seeing you is just great.”

“Hello Zeco-” Fluttershy stopped dead in her tracks when she noticed the two other figures inside the hut. “O-oh, I- I didn’t know you had guests over, I can come back later for them if you want...” She quietly said while slowly backing off.

“Oh no, it’s quite alright young one. We were just about to have stew, would you like some?” Zecora asked as she was filling up some bowls.

“I was just coming by to pick up the tea that’s made from the herbs here, but I could stay for a while... If you don’t mind that is.” Fluttershy shifted her gaze at Knockout and Shandra, her expression becoming suddenly very interested. “What kind of animals are those two? I have never seen anything like them before.”

“That I know not, but the food is now hot.” Zecora said while everyone sat down around the pot of stew that was over a fire. “My guests please sit down by the table so near, which of you would like to explain where you came from and why you are here?”

Knockout and Shandra exchanged glances for a brief moment before Knockout spoke up. “Well, my friend is still shook up about something that we saw a moment ago so I’ll try my best to explain.” Knockout took a deep sigh, he was never good at explaining things. “We come from what I am guessing would be a far off planet that we call Earth. There we live on a small island group known as the Azure Islands, I lived on the island that was called Sapphire Isle. We were having a small get-together with me and my two friends, I popped a DVD into our DVD player and we were going to watch it when things started getting odd.” Knockout stopped for a moment to take another breath.

“What is a DVD and what is a DVD player, you are sure you are not playing us for foals?” Zecora asked looking a bit unconvinced about the whole story so far.

“Yes I am telling the truth, and I have proof to go with it.” Knockout said as he pulled up the DVD case he had stuck in his coat’s pocket. “We found this on our doorstep the day before we watched it, and it is because of this thing that we are even here.”

“Uh, hello? Earth to Knockout, that’s probably not going to mean much as proof to them if they never heard of the things,” Shandra informed her echidna companion, having recovered from her earlier shellshocked state, before turning to the rhyming Zebra and yellow pegasus to explain “DVDs are little, flat discs that our worlds use to hold information. Sometimes they hold recorded videos, other times they store other forms of information, like little books. DVD Players are machines that replay the videos, whil the books-type discs can be read with other devices.”

“Very well then, go on with your story, the stew won’t get cold.” Zecora finished her rhyme.

“Thank you, now where was I?“ Knockout ”Oh yes, we just started to watch the DVD when we were met by a ear piercing song that killed my ears in the first few seconds. One of my friends found a note on the back of the case that said to skip to Scene 13, we quickly skipped over to the scene to get rid of the horrible song that was playing only to find a rather depressed looking pink pony rambling on about how her friends didn’t like her or her parties.”

“Oh my.” Fluttershy said, while bringing a hoof to her mouth. “That sounds like what Pinkie Pie said when we were going to throw the surprise party for her, how did you find out about that?”

“Well you see, in the world we come from, you guys are a bunch of... erm, how should I put this...” Knockout stopped and looked over to Shandra. “How should I put this without hurting their feelings?”

“Honesty’s best, Knockout.” Shandra responded, before continuing with a very blunt. “You guys are a cartoon in our world, apparently.”

“How rude of you to say we are fake, here I was giving you a place to take a break!” Zecora gave off a displeased snort at Shandra, who in turn merely glared.

“Uh, don’t mind my friend, she is still upset about this whole thing.” Knockout said sticking his head in between the two to stop a fight from happening. “Anyways, after the pony you call Pinkie Pie quit talking the DVD froze and the only thing we were able to do was to turn off the TV. We were thinking of something else to do while we waited for another friend of ours to get there when a voice came from behind us mentioning to ‘make cupcakes’, we all were a bit shocked when we heard it and made sure none of us said it. Before we could decide if we imagined it or not we heard the voice speak up again saying ‘Me silly!’. We all turned back around to the TV to find the same pony back on, but notably closer this time.”

“--and then she leaped out of the TV, tried to kill us with a knife, and sucked us through to a place where a lion-scorpion-dragon thing killed the friend who came with us. We ran because he told us, now we’re here.” Shandra finished coldly.

“...Thank you for giving them the Reader’s Digest version Shandra...” Knockout said snorting a bit before turning back to Fluttershy and Zecora. “Anyways, I am a echidna, and Shandra is a echinda-hedgehog half-breed.”

“I prefer hedgechidna, and you know it.” Shandra growled.

“Oh... I’m sorry about that...” Fluttershy said sadly looking at the ground. “The Everfree Forest is no place to be at night, there are many strange creatures roaming about here.”

“Its seems you had a bad run in with a Manticore that was hungry, but you were wise not to make him angry. And if it is Pinkie Pie whom you seek, we have not seen her for a week.” Zecora said while standing up. “But going with Fluttershy would be best, she may be able to help you on this quest.”

“Okay, sorry about causing you the trouble.” Knockout said getting up. “Ready Shandra?”

“Yeah, whatever. Sooner we get home, the sooner I can pretend this is a bad dream caused by Ryan’s burritos.” Shandra said as she got up and headed out the door, Knockout and Fluttershy followed shortly afterwards. Upon heading outside, Fluttershy took the lead knowing that she was the only one who knew how to get home. As they walked down the dark path, they found themselves at the spot where they last saw Colson alive and stopped for a moment.

“This is where we were attacked by the beast that killed our friend.” Knockout said looking over at the remains of his friend who had all his flesh and fur ripped off, and on his head was a note. “Uh great, a note?” Slowly he picked up the note and looked at the writing, it matched the writing on the back of the DVD case. “Hey Shandra, check this out.”

Shandra walked over and took the note from Knockout. “Can’t you read, the note says ‘This is what you will all soon look like’ ...” She quickly glanced to KO who then gave a weak nod. “Uh Fluttershy, I think we should get out of here fast....”

“You should really be careful, the Everfree Forest...” Fluttershy was cut off by another voice.

“Hey Fluttershy, what are you doing out here this late?” A deep blue pony said while walking out of a bush, on her back were two saddle bags that seemed to be filled all the way up. “Oh... What kind of creatures are those? I don’t remember seeing any of them in my books...”

“Who are you?” Knockout asked raising his eyebrow at the pony who just walked up.

“I’m Twilight Sparkles, a friend of Fluttershy’s. And I guess you guys can talk like us, that’s nice to know.”

“Yes, we can, and you have star with smaller stars around it on your butt. Now that the obvious is taken care of...” Shandra quipped.

“Uh... Please don’t be rude. She has probably never seen anything like you before...” Fluttershy said before walking over to what she thought was her friend. “Hello Twilight, what are you doing out here?”

“Oh well, I uh... Just came by here to pick some flowers, I was doing some studies and I wanted to get some of the ones that I saw in my books!” Twilight said pointing to her saddle bags. “I might have over stuffed them in here, these bags are rather heavy for being flowers!!”

“Well, I think we should get going now. Have you two seen what that Pinkamina pony did to our friend?” Knockout asked while pointing to the skeleton of his friend, when Knockout pointed they all winced a little besides Twilight who just stared.

“Pinkamina? Who’s that?” Twilight asked while walking up to the skeleton of Colson, regretting that she did. “Oh no.... Did this Pinkamina pony do THIS to your friend?”
“Well, he was attacked by a ‘Manticore’ when we arrived here, I don’t think the beast would have had time to eat him since we’ve only been here for a little while...” Knockout said scratching his chin. “But this note makes me know that what it DIDN’T eat Pinkamina took.”

“I’ll have to hear you’re guy’s story later on, we should get out of here before the Manticore comes back for seconds.” Twilight said walking away from the dead body.

“Sounds like a plan to me, let’s go.” Knockout said as he, Shandra, and Fluttershy walked off leaving Twilight behind for a moment. Twilight just watched them walk off and gave a small giggle. “Okie Dokie Loki!” After she said that she started walking off to catch up with them.

Chapter 3: Pink-a-Mania

DISCLAIMER
I do not own any of the ponies, they are all owned by Hasbro/The Hub/Lauren Faust.
But I DO own Shandra. Coat Rack owns Knockout, Dr. Ryan Maxwell, Neo, and Violet.
This Disclaimer shall only reflect content in the Chapter it appears atop, when further disclaims are needed, and they will be, they will be added on.
No profit is being made from this work. If profit is made from this work, find whomever you paid, punch them out with brass knuckles, and take all their cash.
No profit is being made from this work.

Ponyville Outskirts, July 12th, 2011

After traveling though the Everfree Forest they reached Fluttershy’s home, the sun was already starting to rise over the mountains as the reached the edges of the forest. Tired the group opened the door and made their way inside...

“Here we are everypony, welcome to my home.” Fluttershy said as they walked into the main room. “Please stay here for a while, I have some animals that I need to take care of.”

“Will do, and thank you.” Knockout said as he fell back onto a couch and closed his eyes to get some rest, Shandra simply opted to lean against the wall and close her eyes, though. It wasn’t but a few moments when they heard Fluttershy give out a yelp causing them to snap out of their rest.

“Oh my... Pinkie, you scared me for a moment, when did you get here?” Fluttershy said as she walked into the room followed by a light pink shaded pony with light blue eyes. “Mmm...I quite like your hair, it looks wonderful when it’s all down. It’s like when you tried straightening it down for the Gala, right?

“Yeppers! Oh, and I am sorry I snuck up on you back there. I saw Twilight as she was heading into town and asked her what was up when she told me about what happen when you were in the Everfree Forest. I was going to come over here as soon as I could, but I decided to try out that special mane-styling-spray Rarity gave me at my party.” Pinkie said as she walked into the room, the first person she made eye contact with was Knockout, who stared back at her nervously. “Hey... haven’t I seen you before?”

“What do you mean Pinkie?” Fluttershy asked, but was ignored, Pinkie walked closer to Knockout as something in her tail flashed off the light in the room. Each step she took her color became darker and darker, her once light blue eyes now becoming a grey-tinted blue color. Shandra slowly put one of her hands on the gun she had in her holster getting ready for the worst.

“Yeah... I think I DO know you...” Pinkie said with a grin growing on her face as she had her nose up against Knockout’s face, staring into his eyes as if she was searching for fear. “Fluttershy, you may need to leave for awhile.” Pinkie turned and gave Fluttershy a pleading stare. “Trust me, this won’t be pretty.”

“What do you mean, Pinkie?” Fluttershy’s ears folded back with apprehension.

“Just make yourself a daffodil sandwich or something, hush now!” Pinkie insisted while shoving her friend to the door.

“O-okay...” Fluttershy slowly back out of the room and shut the door behind her, fear was evident in her eyes

“Why yes we- I mean, no, I don’t think we know each other..” Knockout said slowly getting off the couch and walking back towards Shandra, Pinkie following him every step of the way. “Wh-what do you w-want from me, money?”

“Oh you silly little echidna, I already TOLD you what I wanted before!” Pinkie giggled as she stood up on her hind legs getting eyeball to eyeball with Knockout. “I want YOU guys to help me make some cupcakes!” She said, and no less then half a second after she said it she flicked her tail causing a knife to stab Knockout in his left leg sending him to the floor while giving a scream of pain as the knife was still in his leg. “Oh come on Knocky, even Gilda did better then you! Toughen up and be a man will you?”

“LEAVE HIM ALONE YOU MONSTER!” Shandra yelled while kicking Pinkamina into a bookshelf near by. “Knockout, are you okay?”

“Y-yeah, I think the knife only got stuck in the side of my leg...” Knockout said while looking at his left leg seeing the knife on the side and blood dripping out. “Gah, just our luck to be tricked...” While they were distracted by Knockout’s wound, Pinkamina took this as cue for her to strike again. She leaped onto Shandra pinning her onto the ground and gave a slice at her face, leaving a gash above her left eye.

“Oh silly, you thought I forgot about you?” Pinkamina said with a evil grin on he face as she got ready for another blow. “Well, guess what, I didn’t. And kicking a chef into a bookshelf isn’t the polite thing to do!” She scolded, but before she could give her next strike she was punched across the face by Knockout, who had managed to turn himself over to give the hard blow. Followed by Shandra giving her a hard kick sending her into a bookshelf again.

“Gah, This knife in my leg isn’t helping me...” Knockout groaned while looking at his leg, and before he knew what happen, Shandra reached down and yanked the knife out of his leg and threw it out the window. “GAH! Shandra, what are you THINKING?!?”

“If you are going to cry about a knife in you’re leg, then pull it out. Duh” Shandra scoffed as she grabbed a curtain off a window near by and wrapped it around Knockout’s leg. “That should hold off the bleeding for awhile.

“Thanks but, where did Pinkie go?” Knockout asked looking over to where Shandra kicked her to.

“Probably dived out the window to get her knife back.” Shandra said while wrapping another curtain around her head to stop her own bleeding.

"But... she already HAD another knife...” Knockout reminded Shandra by pointing to her eye.

“It’s called dual-wielding, KO, I do it with my laser pistols all the time.”

“I know I know, but she only use ONE on me so that means she could be anywhere...”

“Like right behind you two!” Pinkamina yelled while jumping through a window behind the two and took Knockout to the ground causing him to give off another scream of pain as his wounded leg hit the ground. Upon hearing the commotion in the room Fluttershy peaked into the room by opening the door a bit. “Fluttershy, what are you doing! I told you not to look in here, I don’t want lose both my pegasus friends in one day! Only one of their numbers came up today!” Pinkie sculled Fluttershy, causing her to give out a quick squeal and quickly shut the door again.

“Numbers...? Is this some sort of GAME to you?!” Knockout asked glaring at Pinkamina in horror while trying to get her off him, but was failing.

“Oh silly, of COURSE it’s a game! Although I didn’t make the rules, I just follow them!” She said taking her eyes off the door where Fluttershy was at and staring back at the echidna she was pinning down. “You see, everyone has a number! Well, besides you guys and Gilda. But when Rocky draws it out of his hat... Presto, the next winner is up!” she said waving her arms into the air. “They get to help me make cupcakes!”

“That.. is messed up...” Knockout said turning a bit green. “And who is this Rocky, a crazed nut head?”

“Oh silly me, you never met him, only Rainbow Dash did!” Pinkamina said with a evil grin on his face. “You’ll have to meet him, he’s a great guy. In fact, he came up with this game when my “friends” tried to trick me into thinking they were throwing me a birthday party!”

“Pinkamina, you are SICK!” Knockout yelled in frustration and tried to give a punch to her nose but was blocked with one hoof, and got whack to the side by her other hoof.

“Hey! Learn some manners will you?!” She growled, she then rolled across Knockout and flung him into the wall causing him slump down as if he blacked out. “Man, you guys are nowhere good at this game than the others were!”

“Last I checked,” Shandra countered, slapping the psychotic pony causing her attention to be taken off of the echidna that was against the wall, “none of us ever CHOSE to play this game except you!”

“Oh silly, it’s like life! You don’t CHOOSE to enter in, you just do!” Pinkamina then flicked her tail trying to stab Shandra who grabbed it with her free hand. “Oh phooey, now what am I going to do?”

“Now.” Knockout said leaning against the wall next to her, and gives he a hard blow to the head. “You take a nap.” Pinkamina showed a expression of shock while trying to figure out what just happen, but quickly fainted as she slumped to the ground knocked out. “Think you can get her far away from here Shandra?”

“Yes, since I still have this.” Shandra said looking her watch that she had on her wrist. golden gemstone, which began to shine.

“How is THAT going to help?” Knockout asked puzzled. “Can’t that thing only be used on the person who holds it?”

“There are certain... abilities certain individuals can use if they possess one of these. It can also be used to warp others near by, or just those who I wish to be warped. ” Shandra explained. “Like this. one, CHAOS CONTROL!!” A flash of green light erupted from Shandra’s watch hand, and Pinkamina vanished. After the bright flash faded the door Fluttershy left in creaked open as she stuck her head back out.

“I-is i-it s-safe?” Fluttershy asked looking around, and was soon relieved to only see Knockout and Shandra in the room with no sign of Pinkamina. “where is Pinkie at...?”

“Gone” Shandra answered..

“G-gone?!” Fluttershy squeaked. “Wh-what happened?”

“Well, Shandra here warped Pinkie far away I think.” Knockout said, and then got a worried look on his face. “Where did you send her?”

“I saw a bakery on the horizon on the way here, I sent her there.”

“You mean Sugarcube Corner, that’s Pinkie’s home!” Fluttershy yelped, and was followed by a knocking on the door. Everyone froze stiff.

“D-d-do you th-think that’s Pinkie again...?” Knockout whispered to the others.

“FLUTTERSHY! IS EVERYTHING OKAY IN THERE?” Came a voice that was clearly not Pinkamina’s.

“Don’t worry guys, it’s only Rainbow Dash.” Fluttershy said walking up to the door and opening it, still shaking a bit. “Hi Rainbow Dash.”

“Whoa... what happened in here, and what are those two... things?” Rainbow Dash asked puzzled and somewhat shocked.

“O-oh, well uh. we was uh....” Fluttershy just started to mumble after that while kicking the ground.

“Nothing really.” Knockout lied while limping over to the door with a half-bandaged leg.

“Are you sure.... You don’t LOOK alright.” Rainbow Dash said pointing to his leg.

“Oh, that? We uh, just got back from the Everfree Forest and we uh....” Knockout tried to come up with something, but Shandra interrupted him.

“Run-in with some lion thing in the forest, got KO’s leg, and one of our friends.” Shandra finished for him.

“So, the blue one is called KO? That’s a odd name.”

“Short for Knockout. And I’m Shandra”

“Okay then.... Well I just came over to make sure everything was okay.” Rainbow Dash paused and flew outside as the others followed. “Well, I am gonna go to Sugarcube Corner. Pinkie wanted me to hang out with her today so I gotta go.”

“Rainbow Dash, wait!” Fluttershy called out, but was to late as Rainbow Dash had already left. “Oh no...”

“T-this won’t end well...” Knockout said in fear.

“Rats, I guess warping her there was so good of a plan after all.”

“We better get the others, we have to stop Pinkie from doing this.” Fluttershy said looking over to a farm in the distance. “Applejack is the closest one so let’s go get her first, but wait here while I go get something.” Fluttershy quickly flew into her house, and shortly returned with a golden necklace around her neck, a butterfly like her cutie mark’s emblazoned on its front.

“What is that for?” Knockout asked puzzled. “Are you trying to impress someone there?”

“No, this is a Element Of Harmony.” Fluttershy said looking at her necklace. “Twilight could explain more, but let’s go get Applejack right now.”

“Okay, let’s go and maybe if we are quick enough we can save Rainbow Dash.” Knockout pointed out as Fluttershy started down the path to the farm aways away. “So, what is the place called exactly?”

“It’s Sweet Apple Acres, a farm Applejack’s family runs.” Fluttershy said. “They have the best home-baked apple pies ever!”

“Well that’s good.” Knockout said while his stomach growled. “Because I’m getting hungry after that fight.”

“We’re trying to chase down Fluttershy’s friends, so we can somehow save Rainbow Dash from Pinkie with jewelery, and YOU’RE THINKING OF FOOD?”

“Oh shut it, I am already skinny enough as it is!” Knockout barked back, Besides, if we don’t eat we won’t be strong enough TO fight.”

“Please stop fighting now.” Fluttershy asked flying up in between the two and pushing them back with her hooves up to the entrance. “We don’t want AJ to think you two are always fighting.”

“She started it!” Knockout protested.

“That’s enough.” Fluttershy said while giving him a paralyzing stare. He immediately interrupted himself, and sat motionless on the ground.

“Well howdy Fluttershy, what brings y’all here to mah- WHAT IN TARNATION ARE THOSE THINGS!?” Applejack said while jumping back at first sight of the two.

“Applejack, they are Knockout and Shandra, Shandra and Knockout, meet Applejack.” Fluttershy said while pushing the two forwards.

“A pony wearing a cowboy hat. I’ve seen a lot but this is a first.” Shandra deadpanned.

“Oh stop it, Shandra.” Knockout said rolling his eyes. “I’m Knockout Steel Coatrack, and I am an echidna.”

“An eh-kid-na? What the hay is that?” Applejack asked while tilting her head.

“Well, I am a exotic anteater.” Knockout said. “But I HATE eating ants, go figure.”

“If you say so, and you must be Shandra?” Applejack asked turning to Shandra.

“That’s right, and I am a hedgchidna”

“A whatnow?”

“Echidna Hedgehog Half-breed” Knockout said bluntly ignoring Shandra’s hatred for the word.

Shandra sighs, “Yes... that. Knockout, if you MUST keep listing the individual halves, at least use a different word, like ‘hybrid’, or something.”

“Oh would you give it a rest already?”

“You two don’t get along well, DO you?” Applejack asked staring at the two of them with a raised eyebrow.

“You honestly expect me to get along with someone who popped out of a wormhole?” Knockout asked pointing to Shandra and raising his eyebrow too.

“You honestly expect me to get along with this knucklehead?” Shandra asked simultaneously, pointing at Knockout.

“STOOOP!” Fluttershy yelled causing everyone to instantly shut up and look at her. “Thank you, now Applejack we have a big problem on our hooves.” Fluttershy said walking up to her friend. “Pinkie Pie may have lost it again, and tried killing these two. And she mentioned that one of her pegasus friends was also going to be killed today.”

“--and it’s not her.” Knockout piped up.

“So that means it’s.....” Applejack said staring blankly at the others.

“Rainbow Dash.” Shandra said blunt enough to knock someone out.

Are you all curious what Rainbow and Pinkie Pie are doing while the others are running around?

It’s “Cupcakes”

Oh, and we don’t own that either. We are just linking up this story with its little sub-universe!

Chapter 4: Twilight of Ponyville

Sweet Apple Acres, July 12th, 2011

Upon Knockout and Shandra telling Applejack the story of how they got there and what was going on with Pinkie Pie, they all decided they would get a small bit of rest in the barn before heading off to find Twilight and Rarity. But Knockout, as was common for him, slept in and they got a late start.

“Stupid echidna, thanks ta you sleepin’ in we may never git to save Rainbow Dash from Pinkie!” Applejack yelled in anger as Knockout was waking up, the sun had already started to set again.

“Say what, the french toast is burning and Jimmy fell into the well?” Knockout mumbled still half asleep, and was then smacked across the face by Shandra who was not in the mood for his stupidity, “HEY! WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!”

“For making us late and being an idiot at a very inopportune time,” She replied flatly.

“Guys... Please stop,” Fluttershy murmured, poking her head into the barn.

“We ken fight on the way there, but let’s juss git to Twi’s place as fast as we ken. We got to make up time thanks ta sleepy head,” Applejack drawled as she walked out of the barn and headed down the path leaving the others behind.

“What’s with all the grumpy people in my life? First Ryan, then Shandra, and NOW Applejack!” Knockout complained as he got up, stumbling a bit as he remembered the wound on his leg as he limped out of the barn. “Ow, and I still have this messed up leg.”

“Quit being such a baby, Knockout,” Shandra scoffed as she walked by him rolled her eyes.

“Oh, um... please, can we just go?” Fluttershy muttered quietly, “I don’t want to see anypony else get hurt...”

After a long while of walking they finally reached Ponyville, by then Luna had already risen the moon and everything was silent. They walked down the deathly silent streets on their way to the library where Twilight lived.

“So, this is where the one named after a horrible, HORRIBLE book lives?” Shandra asked with a scoff.

“Excuse me? What do ya mean ‘named after a horrible book’? ‘Ow would y’all like it iffin someone made fun o’ your name?!” Applejack asked in a rather angry tone.

“Uh, where we come from Twilight from what I’ve heard is the title a horrible book, never read it though.” Knockout chimed in. “But if you don’t mind, we should TRY to keep things down a bit seeing as it is rather late and people are trying to sleep...”

“Yeah, like YOU, Mr. Sleep-in.” Shandra barked at Knockout, who in return rolled his eyes.

“Twilight, are you in there?” Fluttershy softly asked while she knocked on the door, no response was heard.

“What part of ‘people are trying to sleep’ did you not understand Fluttershy?” Knockout asked getting the feeling he was being ignored.

“I know, but normally she is up late studying...” Fluttershy said while she gave another knock to the door as it suddenly creaked open a bit. “Oh my, is she home?”

“If she was, whah would she only part way open the door?” Applejack asked as she walked up to the door and pushed it open, and shock covered her face. Inside was a complete disaster-zone: books thrown all over the floor, and several bookcases had been toppled over. There was literally no sign of any life in there, “We were too late? BLAST IT KNOCKOUT, LOOK WHAT YOU’VE DONE!”

“WHY AM I ALWAYS THE ONE BEING BLAMED FOR EVERYTHING THAT GOES WRONG!?!” Knockout yelled back at Applejack, his anger had finally spilled over. “EVER SINCE SHANDRA POPPED UP I’VE BEEN THE BLAME FOR EVERYTHING! WHY ISN’T IT SHANDRA’S FAULT, THIS ONLY STARTED AFTER SHE POPPED UP!”

“Actually, from what Ryan had already told me, you got blamed for a lot before I showed up, too.”

“What in the wide, wide world of Equestria is going on down there!?!” A voice called out from a room above them, they all turned to the stairs they saw when they stepped in as a lavender unicorn walked down the stairs looking a bit annoyed. “I am TRYING to get so- oh, Fluttershy! What are you and Applejack doing here this late at night?” she stopped for a moment and looked and the Knockout and Shandra. “And WHAT are those creatures, if you came here to ask me what they are I don’t think any of my books cover those.”

“Didn’t we already go through this back in the forest?” Shandra asked, finding it strange that the purple pony could have forgotten already.

“I haven’t been to the forest in a week, I don’t know how I could have met you before.” Twilight asked, showing a bit of a shock while noticing the creature could talk. “I guess I’ll introduce myself. I am Twilight Sparkle, faithful student to Princess Celestia.”

“Don’t you mean Twilight Sparkles?” Knockout asked raising a eyebrow. “At least that’s what you said in the forest...”

“What in tarnation is goin’ on?” Applejack asked confused by the whole matter. “Are you sayin’ there was a Twilight in the Forest y’all ran intah that ain’t this Twilight?”

“Well...” Fluttershy started, being a bit nervous. “I did think I hear someone say “Okie Dokie Lokie” behind us, I turned around to see if Pinkie was there and only saw Twilight...”

“So wait, Pinkie dressed up as Twilight, and in the bags was....” Knockout froze mid-sentence and turned a shade of green. “I... think I am going to get sick now.” Knockout said dashing over to a window as he gave the flowers outside his last thing he had to eat.

“Hey Knockout, what are you doing here?” A familiar voice called out. Looking up Knockout saw a Rainbow maned pegasus that he figured must have been Rainbow Dash.

“Guys!” Knockout called out into the libary. “Rainbow Dash is alive!”

“Of course she’s alive.” Twilight said looking at the echidna with a face of confusion. “What do you mean?”

“Long story made short, Pinkie is going around killing people and Rainbow Dash’s number came up today.” Shandra gave the abridged version.

Rainbow Dash flew in and landed in the middle of the group. “Why were you guys so worried about me going over to Pinkie’s place, we had a great time!” Rainbow Dash exclaimed. “She had found a great costume to pull a prank on some ponies that she knew and she had me help her with it!”

“Oh really? What did it look like...?” Fluttershy asked someone nervous if she was really seeing Rainbow Dash or not.

“You sound... different, than before, Rainbow.” Shandra asked, aiming a suspicious squint at the flying fanatic. “Did you inhale helium on the way here or something?”

“Well that had something to do with it, it’s sorta funny really.” Rainbow Dash said thinking for a moment. “The idea was that we would swap places for the day, I would be Pinkie and she would be me. And boy you should have seen the faces when they saw I wasn’t really Rainbow Dash!”

“Wait... WHAT!?” Twilight exclaimed, catching the slip.

“Ooohhh phooey” Rainbow Dash said wings slouching down, the next line the voice changed dramatically. “I was going along so good, but oh well.” The phony pegasus put her hoof on her mane and pulled on it, upon pulling on it the cover came off showing the crazed dark-pink pony staring at them. The rest of the costume fell off rather quickly afterwards, this caused Fluttershy to give out a small squeak and pass out, slumping against Shandra’s leg..

“Now THAT’S just plain creepy!” Knockout said stepping back, having the urge to give the plants another taste of his lunch. “How could you DO such a thing, making horse-flavored cupcakes is ONE thing. But WEARING a pony is just plain wrong!”

“Oh silly, I was going to stuff her but I then remembered the rest of my friends! I didn’t want to come in here like this KNOWING you would beable to catch the second I showed up, so I used this as a disguise!” Pinkie giggled as she brought up her tail, which flashed in the light revealing the knife that was in it. “So! Who’s ready to make ♪cupcakes?♫ Knockout, Shandra, Applejack, Twilight, Fluttershy?” She looked around the room and gave off a evil smile.

“Uh... none of the above?” Knockout asked getting ready to fight when something landed in-front of him, stabbing into his boot barely missing his foot. “My... Battle axe?” Knockout asked puzzled while picking it up.

“Oh you silly-filly, I have to give you SOME sort of a way to play too!” Pinkie said before tackling Knockout to the ground again. “But you are too slow again!”

Knockout quickly tried to grab his axe but the crazed pony quickly took it in her mouth and flipped Knockout over and put in around his neck and got him into a arm lock of some sort. “Gah! How’d you do that?!” Knockout gasped while trying to break free, failing miserably the whole time. “A little help here guys?” suddenly the pink pony froze.

“I think I like this game.” Shandra said as she re-holstered the gun she fired to stun the crazy pink assailant and knocked her off Knockout into the only bookcase still standing.

“What is going on!” Twilight yelled in shock at what was going on in-front of her.

“Well I guess you can say, we are on the verge of a war.” Knockout said while grabbing his axe and standing up. “So get your attack spells ready!” Knockout said while charging off at Pinkie who had started to get up.

“I gave you the short version earlier, Pinkie’s gone nuts and wants to make cupcakes out of everyone. She’s already gotten Colson and Rainbow Dash, and I think we’re next.” After this re-iteration by Shandra, they see Knockout fly across the room after Pinkie gave out a loud scream of pain. Knockout landed in the pile of skin that WAS Rainbow Dash as something fell out of his pocket.

“What was I thinking!” Knockout exclaimed while holding up the strange medical syringe. “Ryan gave this to me in the event someone was found dead or mostly dead, he claimed it would be able to bring them back with some of the magic he was able to gather in one of our battles!” Knockout quickly got up and spread the skin of the rainbow maned pegasus out, he notice a bag beside it, upon opening it bones spilled out along what he feared was a brain.. “Ugh this will be messy. Can you guys hold Pinkie off me for a while, I am not sure how long this will take!”

“And you didn’t pull that out when we found Colson... why?” Shandra asked, facepalming. “Whatever, let’s get going with this plan.”

“HEY! What do you think you are doing snooping around in somepony’s stuff echidna!” Pinkie said from a wall, the noticed that Knockout’s axe had her pinned there but wasn’t going to hold her for much longer. “When I’m out of here I’ll show YOU what it’s like to be pulled open and snooped around in!”

“Like hay you are, Pinkie. Now snap outta this!” Applejack scolded loudly, trying to buck Pinkie in the head. But Pinkie ducked and the kick loosed the ax from the wall and freed Pinkie instead. “Oh, horsefeathers!” was all Applejack could manage before she was pinned to the floor by the pink earth pony.

“I got her!” Twilight said as she set up a magical sphere around Pinkie. “Magic Bubble, that should keep her! Now help me get some more stuff over here to make a small wall around her!” Twilight said while motioning to some of the fallen bookshelves.

“On it!” Applejack quickly ran off to a bookshelf on the ground and got a rope out and tied it onto it and started to drag it over when she heard a popping sound. “Oh what now?” Applejack asked as she sees Pinkie come flying at her with Twilight standing shocked at how she managed to break free.

“Suuurrrppprriiisssseee!” Pinkie said with a smile on her face that quickly turned to a frown that was full of fear as she got a buck to the head sending her to the roof, Twilight took this chance to strap Pinkie up there with some sort of a magic web.

“That should keep her!” Twilight said in a pleased tone as Pinkie squirmed around. “How’s Knockout doing?”

“I don’t know if this will work or not, seeing that I forgot WHERE to place the needle...” Knockout said as the now more-or-less filled skin of Rainbow Dash was laying on the floor. “Where should I put it you think? Near the brain, the heart, in the back?”

“I wouldn’t be so sure, she’s teleported before. Through a wall.” Shandra informed Twilight before turning to Knockout. “Glad he told me about it then, directly to the b--” Pinkie then appeared out of nowhere and kicked Shandra in the face, interrupting her.

“Hey, looks like someone pays attention to me!” Pinkie said with a grin “Now, how about we stop delaying this, hmmm?”
“Better idea, YOU take a nap!” Twilight said as a purple glow surrounded the crazed pony and Twilight’s horn.

“Twilight, I’m not even... tired...zzzzzzzzzz” Pinkie tried to protest, but soon fell asleep.

“Sleeping spell, I knew it would come in handy sometime.” Twilight said as she walked over to the sleeping pony.

“Berry nahs” Shandra said, holding her nose.

“Uh Shandra, it’s not a smell, it’s just a simple alteration of a mind control spell.” Twilight corrected noticing what Shandra was doing. “You see, The mind control spell is a---”

“I dunn really nid to know, bud dat kick really herd is aw.” Shandra interrupted Twilight. “Brain, KO, brain.”

“Well, let’s hope this works!” Knockout said as he injected the medicine that was in the syringe into the core of Rainbow Dash. “Come on........ work work work!”

They all stood there with eyes fixed on the pony as they waited for something to happen, the silence was enough to drive anyone mad.

“Are you sure it was going to work?” Twilight asked looking at Knockout worried.

“...Darn, I kinda liked her too.” Shandra admitted, “She had that tenacity that just screamed ‘Always there to help, always able to.’”

“I don’t know Twilight, the medicine was made in my world so who knows...” Knockout said before turning to Shandra “And Shandra, you only knew for a few minutes. How do YOU know that was who she was?”

“The way she talked, it was arrogant, but not obnoxiously so, like she’d actually earned a few bragging rights.”

“Urrghh, can you guys keep it down, somepony is TRYING to get rid of a killer headache...” A voice mumbled from the middle of the room, they all turned and saw Rainbow Dash move her hooves over her ears.

“She’s ALIVE! IT WORKED!” Shandra cried out, her voice once again losing its steely and cold tone.

“See, I CAN do things right!” Knockout said rejoicing that medicine didn’t fail him. “Now all we have to do is find Rarity!”

“You’re right, I’m sorry I was so hard on you before Knockout. Let’s get go--” Shandra started, voice still noticeably kinder.

“Whoa whoa whoa, did I hear that right?” Knockout asked interrupting Shandra. “You, APOLOGIZING to ME? Did your brain get scrambled when Pinkie kicked you?”

“No Knockout, I guess I never told y--” Shandra once again began, only to be cut off.
“Oh fer crying out loud, don’t blow this Knockout!” Applejack interrupted not wanting a fight to break out. “Twi, can you go get your Element Of Harmony, we may need them to knock some sense into Pinkie here.” Applejack motioned to where Pinkie WAS at, only to notice she was gone.

“Oh bother.” Knockout said quickly looking around. “Twilight, get your thing and let’s hightail it out of here. We will have to find some way to carry Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy too, seeing they are both still out of it....”

“Don’t worry, I got that.” Twilight said before giving out a loud yell. “SPPPIIIKKKEEEE!”

A small purple dragon walked down from the stairs still half asleep. “What do you want, can’t I get ANY rest?” He paused for a moment when he saw the mess that was made in the room and the two newcomers, but didn’t pay much notice to them.

“Spike, get the wagon, we need it to carry Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash. We need to leave here as soon as possible.” Twilight instructed as she walked up to the her room. “I’ll be down in just a second.”

After the others had got the two Pegasi onto the wagon, Twilight walked back down the stairs and gave a look around. “Ready?” Knockout asked as he grabbed his battle axe from off the floor.

“To make cupcakes?” A voice chimed in causing them all to jump.

“YES, WE ARE READY!” Twilight yelped as she dashed out of the room, followed by the rest of the group.

Chapter 5: The Deadly Present [NEVER FINISHED]

After fleeing from the library our heroes find themselves in the dark streets of Ponyville, tired, scared, and hungry they made their way through the town to get to the Carousel Boutique. But upon getting within a few blocks they see a thick cloud of smoke and fire fill the air, as a loud explosion rang through the air followed by a insane laugh. The racket caused lights to start to turn on in the once quiet town, and the streets were soon filled with ponies looking into the wall of flames and smoke in the sky.

“WHAT IN THE WORLD WAS THAT!?!” Knockout yelled jumping at the sight of destruction he saw flash through the night sky.

“Oh no!” Twilight gasped looking to the flames in horror. “That’s coming from the block where the Carousel Boutique is located!”

“BLAST IT ALL!” Applejack yelled while kicking a stone on the road. “We failed to save Rainbow Dash at first, even though we managed to get her back thanks to Knockout’s forgetfulness. And now we are going to lose Rarity, what ELSE could go wrong!”

The group quickly made their way though the crowded streets to the Carousel Boutique to see what caused the destruction, upon reaching it they saw two large spotlights shining through the thick smoke. The lights swept the crowd for a moment before they locked onto the group, then a voice crackled over a extremely loud speaker from behind the smoke.

“Oh look who decided to show up for the closing of the Carousel Boutique!” The voice that was none else than Pinkamina giggled. “I’ve been waiting so long to show you guys something I’ve been working on, of course, Knockout already knows a TINY bit about this, but not all of it!”

“WHAT THE HAY KNOCKOUT! Are YOU the one behind this!?!” Applejack said angrily glaring at Knockout.

“No, I am NOT behind this! I was accused of this before, and I still have no clue what she is talking about!” Knockout barked back, but was interrupted by Pinkamina.

“Oh don’t be silly AJ, he’s telling the truth! But just wait till you guys see this present I have for you all!” Pinkie said with a insane tone in her voice, the following sight sent everypony who was in the streets into a panic fit save for the heroes. They was to busy trying to figure out what they what they was seeing was real, or fake. From behind the smoke and the fire marched a two story robot modeled after the pink party pony that Twilight and her friends used to know, eyes locked onto the group with two rocket launchers sticking out of it’s side. “I would like you to meat my ultimate party gift to everypony, MECHA PINKIE PIE!”

“WHAT THE- HOW ON EARTH DID- PINKIE, HOW ON EARTH DID YOU MAKE THAT!?!” Twilight yelled over the panicked screams of the ponies in the streets.

“Does it really matter, Twilight?“ Shandra responded, “It’s already been made, and it’s going to hurt everyone in this crowd!”

“Ugh! Can’t I get a few more seconds of sleep?” Rainbow Dash murmured while lifting her head up, upon smelling the smoke she slowly opened her eyes and jumped at the tall machine in front of her. “Whoa whoa, what?! What is that thing?”

“We can explain later, right now we have to find a way to stop it!” Knockout said grabbing his battle axe and charging forward, only to have his coat bitten by Applejack to keep him from running off.

“Now just wait one second there eh-kid-na, y’all really think that axe’ll do it any harm?” Applejack said through her closed mouth while pointing to the axe. “That’s like tryin’ to take on a manticore with a stick!”

“Silly, you call THAT a weapon? Let me show you a real weapon!” Pinkamina said, one of the cannons on the side of the robot quickly turned to the group of heroes. “THIS is a real weapon!”

“Uh... guys?” Shandra started.

“May I make a suggestion?” Knockout asked interrupting Shandra. “Run!”

“Sounds fine to me!” Twilight said as a rocket was shot from the robot landing near the group, they all quickly started to make their way though town when Twilight ran into a white unicorn with a purple mane. “Rarity, you’re alright!” Twilight said after the two had bumped into each other.

“Why wouldn’t I be, darling?” Rarity asked getting up from the ground, dusting off her dress.

“Well, your house just got leveled, for one thing.” Shandra said flatly.

“WHA-HA HA! WHAT IS THAT THING!” Rarity yelped jumping back at the sight of new creature. “And what kind of style IS that you are wearing!”

“We would LOVE to explain, but we should REALLY be getting out of town.” Knockout said, pointing to the deadly machine marching up to them. “And I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to die today, or night.”

“What ever do you mean?” Rarity asked, looking up into the eyes of the Mecha Pinkie for a moment, before fainting and falling to the ground.

“Uh... she do that often?” Shandra asked the nearest pony, who happened to be Rainbow Dash.

“Waaay to often...” Rainbow Dash said flying off the wagon. “And if we need to get out of here quickly, then we better get Rarity on this wagon and get somewhere safe!”

“If we all have our Elements of Harmony, we should make our way to the temple in the Everfree Forest to get them powered up! It’s our only hope of stopping this thing!” Twilight exclaimed to the group. “And it’s a good thing you wore yours to whatever it was Rarity, other wise it would have been blown to bits!”

“Oh man, I left mine at my house!” Dash said looking up to her house off aways. “I’ll go get it, you guys can go on ahead!”

“Are you SURE Rainbow, I don’t have any more of that medicine to use on you if you die again.” Knockout pointed out. “It would be best to have someone go with you.”

“I could go.” Fluttershy spoke up while walking up to the group, “After all, only pegasi can walk on clouds.”

“Are you sure sugarcube? Maybe Twi can use the spell she used for the Young Fliers Competition again.” Applejack said, looking at Fluttershy with a worried expression. “I don’t want you to get hurt or anything.”

“Oh friends, come out and play!~” Pinkamina called out as she launched her machine into the air and in a attempt to land on them.

“Do you think this cloud-walking spell will work on me?” Shandra asked with urgency in her voice.

“I don’t know... I have never tried the spell on your type before, only us ponies.” Twilight said unsure while watching the machine fly into the air. “But I guess I’ll have to try it, or get us all flattened.”

Twilight’s horn began to glow as the group’s feet slowly began glow, Within a few seconds a white flash covered them all causing them to vanish to a building a few feet away from where Pinkamina landed.

“What the, I thought you were going to let us walk on clouds!” Knockout said looking at Twilight with a confused look, but quickly changed when he heard the loud crashing of the robot’s landing. “Oh...”

“Okay, now that we are safe I can perform the other spell!” Twilight said, her horn gave off another flash causing the other’s feet to flash at the same time. “Okay, we are all set! Lead the way Rainbow Dash!”

The group quickly made their way from Ponyville to Rainbow Dash’s home, while the Mecha Pinkie was getting up from its uneven landing. Upon reaching the destination Rainbow Dash went into her home and began to look around frantically searching for her Element.

“Come on, I KNOW I put it in here somewhere!” She said looking in her trophy room, after moving aside a few trophies she found a box, a smile quickly formed on her face. “Found it everypony, let’s get to the temple and charge these things up!” She called as she met with the others in her living room where they were helping her look for her element.

“I STILL don’t see how these will help, unless you think giving them to Pinkie as a present of some sort will calm her down.” Knockout said as he joined the group eating a banana from the kitchen in his hand. “So are we ready to go?”

“I’m sure these ponies have a legitimate reason for gathering their jewelery., Knockout. They know what’s what in this world, we don’t. For all we know, bananas on this planet are poisonous!” Shandra scolded Knockout, making him gag on the fruit.

“Hey, Knockout! Who said you could walk into my kitchen and grab a snack!” Dash asked looking at him with a annoyed look. “I don’t even know what you are, or why you are even HERE and you just walk in and get a snack?”

“Um... girls?” Fluttershy spoke up holding Rainbow Dash’s box that contained her Element. “ I think we have bigger problems...”

“What do you mean Fluttershy?” Twilight asked as she walked over to Fluttershy , looking into the box she gave off a gasp. “Dash, your Element has been stolen!”

“What, stolen! Who in Equestria would want to steal my-” Rainbow Dash was quickly cut off by a rocket that flew in through a open window and blew up a section of her house’s wall. “Okay, I think we know who MIGHT have stolen it.”

“We gotta get out of here, gather around girls!” Twilight said as her horn began to glow. “I am not sure if I can get us all the way to the forest, but we’ll see!”

“Hey, I’m a guy!” Knockout said as a white flash covered the area they were just at, followed by a missile impacting the area blowing the floor up.
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[At this point the authors stopped caring and quit. See next “chapter” for the Full story intended.]

Original Version. NEVER TRYING THIS AGAIN.

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