The Imagineers

Chapter 2

Ponies, Fenrir wolves, and Manticores oh my.

Twilight and the gang opened there eyes expecting to be by the Tree, but instead, they were in pitch blackness.

“Twilight dear, I don’t think were by the tree.” Rarity said.

Rainbow rolled her eyes even if no one could see, “No kidding Captain Obvious.”

Twilight and the group froze at the sound of snoring. She lit up he horn and they all gasped at the massive wolves.

“W..we better be quiet girls, t..these are..” Twilight gulped, “ Fenrir cubs.”

Applejack walked gingerly back, “I-if these are the cubs, t-then where are…” Glowing yellow eyes opened up. Rarity screamed.

“Girls, move!” twilight yelled. They all ran toward the nearest source of light that they hoped was an entrance. Luckily it was, but now the forty foot wolves were chasing them all. They ran into the bushes and trees in hope that it would slow them down, but as fate would have it, they ran into a manticore nest, now they had three angry manticores chasing them alongside Fenrir wolves. The six ran until they were cornered against a cliff.

“Twilight! Do something,” Rainbow yelled from above with fluttershy who were lucky enough to fly, Twilight on the other hand, wings were shaking so hard she couldn’t get lift, not to mention her failure in the use of her magic, er horn just glitches out of control. I seemed the end was near for four of the six ponies. But suddenly, all of the creatures were lifted off of the ground in a white aura.

. . .

Zecora and Orthodox ran as fast as they could to the source of the screaming, they ran to see four neon color ponies cornered by Giant wolves and manticores. Ortho didn’t know what it was, but a voice in his head told his to ‘Save them’ He put out his hands and thought of lifting them. Zecora looked at him weirdly with a frightened expression, “We have to help them, their my friends we…”she stopped in surprise. His hands glowed white as he lifted the beast up off the ground. The Ponies gasped and looked to his direction in surprise, he was pretty surprised as well. Uh oh he thought, he couldn’t hold them forever, Ortho had to do something to prevent them from harming the ponies. The ponies just stared at the spectacle before them instead of running, which made Ortho groan. But Ortho suddenly got an Idea. It surprised him how free form this was, the manipulation of reality bending to his will so easily, he would have to be careful. He shot a rainbow colored beam from his hands that engulfed the creatures and turned them into kittens. Flying  Pegasi which he didn’t notice flew down toward the other as Ortho gently put down the Kittens. Well, one of them wen’t to see their friends, the other flew down towards the kittens.

“oh, my friends” Zecora said as she turned turned to me, “thank you for stopping them from meeting their ends.”

“Your welcome,” I said as I sighed, “Its been a long day.”

Zecora nodded, “Indeed it has been, Now let greet my friends.”

They both walked together down the slope to the ponies.

As ortho came down, he noticed they looked ver uneasy at his presents, “What the heck.” He said to them, “You could have gotten yourselves killed, why didn’t you run when I lifted them?”

They just stood there transfixed by him except the purple one, she looked really messed up.

Zecora spoke up, “Don’t worry, my friend here is just concerned about your safety and lack of hurrying.”

Twilight spoke up, “Z-z-zecora, do you even know who this is?” the purple one asked. Something seemed to be wrong with her.

“Hmm?”

Pinkie came up, “Yep, Princess Celestia said that he’s something called a Imagineer thingy thing that can create universes and life itself even. Ehh!” She Looked to me. “Canyoumakeanicecreamplanetwithgumballtreesandlolipopswithrainbowjellybeansandcottencandyeoplewhocanmakemarshmello…” Sh was cut off with a loud “Pinkie!” from Twilight.

Twilight came closer to me, “Uh… Hello, I’m Twilight Sparkle…uh, please to meet you.” She held out her hoof.

Ortho grabbed and shook it, “Uh, Hi, my name is Orthodox, I’m from another universe on a world named Earth, pleasure to meet you.”

She was a little hesitant by that answer but took it. Something was very off about her, her unicorn horn seemed to act up and it was clearly affecting her.  The other Unicorn with the white coat and purple hair came up. Ortho wondered now that the ancient of his race knew about this place considering the accuracy of the mythical creatures in this place. “My Name is Rarity Bell, but you could call me Rarity. And thanks for saving us. The yellow Pegasus came up shyly with all of the kittens in her handbag she was carrying along , “uhm, h hello, i-I’m Fluttershy.” With that she backed behind her friends. The orange coated came next, “Uh, howdy, name’s  Applejack, pleased to meet you.” She shook his hand but looked a little disturbed by his digits an backed away. Next came the blue pegasi, “Rainbow Dash at your service,” she saluted. Applejack face Hoofed.

“And of coarse, Pinkie Pie.” Said the pink one.

Ortho looked towards Twilight. “So your Twilight Sparkle.”

“You’ve heard of me?” Twilight said questionably, still looking no better

Ortho nodded his head, “Yeah, that Chimera guy with the horse head who brought me here, called himself Corddis. Said that this world was imbalanced due to the lack of Creation magic.”

Twilight thought to herself, “The description sounds like… Discord, but…”

“But what Twilight?” asked Fluttershy.

Twilight thought for another moment, “Why would Discord try to put the world back in balance. It doesn’t make sense. Unless he’s trying to make up for the time he betrayed us with Tirak. Hmm.”

“Twilight? Shouldn’t we bring him back? With his permission of coarse?” Fluttershy looked up to Ortho.

“Sure I’ll come to Ponyville, I’m actually fascinated with you ponies. I would like to study your physiology, genealogy, and even figuring out how you manipulate this worlds energy and matter.”

Rainbow looked at you funny then turned to Twilight, “uh, translate egg head for me Twlight.”

Twilight sighed, “He wants to figure out what makes us go!,” she said in a grumpy manor.

“Wow, chill out, okay, so what would you do. Ortho?” Rainbow asked.

Ortho smirked. “Well, I would have to take blood samples, get an understanding of bone structure, not to mention the…” Ortho was cut off.

“Okay, okay” Rainbow interjected, “Hey Twi, you want to cheek up on the tree before we go back?”

“That’s a good Idea Rainbow.” Twilight sighed

Rarity looked strangely toward Twilight, “You okay dear? You look very sick, and you’ve haven’t been acting right since you’ve teleported us all.”

“I’m fine Rarity.” Twilight said, but even she didn’t look sure.

The group started walking towards the direction Zecora and Ortho were originally.

As the tree got clearer in sight, the six neon colored ponies gasped.

“Where’s the element of magic!?” asked Rarity.

Twilight ran for the tree, “It’s gone.” She said in sorrow, “This must have been that feeling me and Celestia felt.”

A chill ran down Orthodox’s neck, and apparently every pony else’s.

A familiar voice came down from out of the blue.

“Oh boo hoo, this is the thanks I get?” Discord said as he appeared, “Can’t you see that I’m trying to help you all?”

Twilight looked like she was about to snap, “That element was apart of me Discord,” She said as she gritted her teeth. Ortho and even the other ponies looked disturbed by Twilight’s reaction, even Discord looked taken aback.

“It was necessary,” Discord claimed.

A dark glimmer crossed Twilights face, “Necessary! Necessary!” Twilight grabbed Discord with her magic, darkness clouded her face “I felt like I’m being ripped apart each second that I’m not connected to it!”

Discord started squirming, unused to being held hostage.

Fluttershy came in, “Twilight! Stop thi…” she was cut off.

“Shut up Fluttershy!” Twilight screamed.

Fluttershy stepped back in surprise and fear.

Discord got mad, “Leave her out of this! I admit I didn’t think things through, but friends make mistakes.”

Twilight nearly laughed, “Mistakes, Oh I’m done with your mistakes Discord.” A giant spike made of magic appeared. Every pony was utterly shocked, Fluttershy was crying. Discord now had fear in his eyes.

“Twilight, stop this nonsense.” Ortho commanded. He didn’t know her for very long, but he could tell that this wasn’t her, and that she wasn’t acting right.. She stared at him with a deep hate, then turned back to Discord, “I hate yo..” She was cut off by the blast of magic Ortho shot at her.

She got up, “You are going to wish you hadn’t done that,” She now had a crazy in her eyes.

Discord teleported by Fluttershy now that he was free of Twilights grip.

A massive wall of magic started tumbling towards him, time seemed to slow down, literally. He needed to think. He could easily jump out of the way, but the other ponies would be hit. Shield,  the voice in his head told him. He bent down to one knee and spread a shield bubble around his friends. The ponies were shouting to Twilight to stop, but she wouldn’t.

Ortho was mad, he had power, and now he was going to use it, and he knew just the way to do it.”

. . .

Twilight’s rage and pain could have torn down mountain. She was going to shoot another blast when she got surrounded by darkness. ‘Your powerless’, a voice whispered in her ear.

“Who”s there.” Twilight asked as she looked around. ‘I can see your greatest fear.’

“Ortho?” her heart turned to ice. Images of her beating Cadence at her wedding appeared… only she didn’t stop, she wouldn’t believe Cadence, she kept hitting her. “No, no, stop, Please. The the other twilight looked up to her, ‘Do you want to hurt other ponies?’

“No, of coarse not.” Twilight said.

The Image disappeared, and suddenly Tirek was before her, ‘Were your lessons on friendship so meaningless that you would throw them away from losing your element?’ Tirek asked, then vanished.

“I-I..I” Twilight stammered, as she backed away, no longer angry but scared. Voices of her friends screaming in agony filled her head, ‘You were about to willingly destroy your friends in your anger.’

“No…no, I-I wouldn’t hurt them.”

‘But you did.’  Ortho’s voice echoed. ‘You betrayed their trust in you, committed treason to Equestria!”

Celestia then appeared, “I had so much faith in you Twilight, Equestria had faith in you.’

“Celestia, no, Please.” Twilight pleaded as Celestia disappeared as Ortho appeared, “I understand now.” He said as he petted the Pony. “The Element Discord gave me was apart of you. But, unfortunately, its now bounded with me forever. I didn’t know what to expect when I got here, it happened so fast and very suddenly, I didn’t know what to do. I was afraid of accidentally breaking this world rather than helping it or that the inhabitants wouldn’t except me. I’ve gone inside your head Twilight, your magic is tainted.”

Tears weld in Twilights eyes, “No… it can’t be.”

Orthodox stared at her… only it wasn’t Orthodox, it was an older man in robes.

“Twilight, understand that if you use your magic, you will go mad.” Baolaf said.

Twilight looked at him, tears streaming from her eyes, “Magic is my life, my special talent, I’ll never be whole for the rest of Eternity.”

Baolaf sighed, “You have until the end of time Twilight, you will outlive the taint.”

Hope sparkled in her eyes, “It will go away?” she asked.

Baolaf nodded, “In fifty years time Twilight, the taint will disappear.

Ortho appeared, “You will get through this Twilight, I know it.”