The Elements of Awesomeness

(Please note that in this chapter, the fourth wall gets brutally manslaughtered many times.)

Well, there goes one main character. This at least makes things easier for me.

Anyway, Twilight is "defeated" by this creature that we are calling the antagonist, Ares. Quite a cliffhanger, isn't it? No? Darn. Whatever, at least I made a reference nopony will get. I made a sad background for Derpy, which I may eventually make into a story by itself. Oh darn, I'm breaking the fourth wall too much. Well, let's get to the story since you want that instead of this random babbling.

Twilight was gone. But none knew of it. Except Twilight herself. But that's for a different story (cough, cough).

The group had finished talking to Hermes, also known as Weirdo by me, because he randomly disappeared. "Well, here starts a new chapter," said Dr. Whooves. I'm breaking the fourth wall way too much for the beginning of a story, even if this is a random-comedy.

Suddenly, rumbling was able to be heard throughout the Hall of Heroes. Then, small rocks started falling from the roof. Lyra looked up and saw a boulder coming straight for her face. She somersaulted out of its reach right before it crushed her. "We have to go!" yelled Bon-bon. They all nodded.

They did epic dodges and dances while running to the entrance. The previously beautiful meadow was full of logs and stumps now. They quickly met the entrance. As they went towards it, a boulder fell and blocked the entrance. "There's no way out!" yelled Octavia over the roars of the falling boulders.

Derpy didn't really agree with that. She grabbed the sword and sliced at the boulder. It cut it up a bit, but not enough to break it. "Come on, everypony!" she yelled. "I need all of your help to destroy this!" Bon-bon and Dr. Whooves kicked at it, Octavia and Lyra used their instrumental notes to hit the boulder, but Vinyl Scratch was standing behind all of them. Derpy yelled, "Why aren't you helping us?"

Vinyl got a smirk on her face. "Alright, everypony, take a seat. I got this." Every pony stood back curiously. Vinyl then aimed her hoof with the watch at the boulder, then fired her bass cannon at it, causing it to explode and making its remains stay on fire.

"Why didn't you do that in the first place?!" yelled Derpy.

Vinyl thought for a moment. "I don't know, probably because I like to see others struggle while I can do it instantly." Vinyl looked up and back-flipped out of the way from an oncoming boulder. "Okay, I'll leave now."

They all galloped to the doorway and went out. They stared at the previously beautiful palace as it crumbled down to pieces. They noticed that the entrance was still open. "I guess that boulder we destroyed was meant to block the entrance," said Bon-bon.

They knew their first part of their journey was over. This next part is saving Equestria. But finding, then defeating, their foe they know little about is the tough part. They decided to walk home, considering that was really the only place in Equestria that makes sense to go to, because they don't really know anywhere else. So, part 1.5 is done of their journey. Let us continue on, since there isn't anything to talk about.

They were returning the Ponyville just like they went to the Hall of Heroes: In a boring fashion with random talk. However, instead common talk, they talked about things that actually pertain to this story. The first conversation started soon after they left the hall of heroes, which was began by Dr. Whooves to Derpy: "So, Derpy... those things you said about Twilight leaving us... that really wasn't your reason for getting angry with her, was it? It was about your past with her, wasn't it?" Derpy made no reply, just looked slightly downward as they walked. "Derpy, I really want to know this-"

Derpy interrupted with her yelling, "Okay, that was the reason! You know my secret, so are you all going to shove it in my face now? I thought I could trust you all with me telling my secret, but apparently I was mistaken..."

Bon-bon said, "Look, Derpy. You trust us- or, at least, trusted us-, and we trust you. That's great. But that isn't the same as knowing somepony. We need to know more about each other for full trust and support."

Derpy was silent for a moment. "I-I'm sorry. I really overreacted. I'm sorry I yelled at you all. And... yes, that was probably the biggest reason I was so mad at Twilight, the first pony I ever trusted, (except for my parents before, but I'll never trust them again after our 'incident')  just walked out on me, just because she was stressed and frustrated. How would you feel if the only pony you ever trusted left you forever, just because you made them mad? This hurt me. Not just mentally, but also physically. The story I told was just like that for me. But it's like adding a climax to a sad story. It just... hurts. Enough to mentally kill a pony."

This made every pony go quiet, and stay quiet for a while. None replied to this, because there was no proper reply to a story like that. It was taking a sad story, and changing it to make it even sadder somehow; everypony knew about all of this information, but they were still sad from this. After a while, this went out of the ponies' heads, and they started talking in conversations again. The next conversation popped up about an hour and a half later: "Hey, Lyra," said Bon-bon. "How did you know humans exist? I think I might believe they exist now after meeting that one god, which was only thought of by humans, according to you."

Lyra thought for a moment. "I think my beliefs about them came from... um... I don't even know. I don't know when I got the idea of their existence, but I finally put together the pieces of the puzzle in a dream, and I was pretty much sure of their existence since then."

Bon-bon said, "So... I guess you were right about all of this then? I really need some time to rethink my priorities in life, and reconsider all of the things I think impossible..." Every pony laughed at this.

Then, yet another came up. (If you haven't guessed now, I'm just typing stuff so this chapter doesn't end up super-short.) Here it is: "When did you meet Lyra, Bon-bon?" asked Vinyl Scratch.

Bon-bon said, "We went to college together. Wait, is there such thing as college? Isn't that a place where humans-" She looked angrily at Lyra, who was doing a nervous smile. "You're rubbing off on me, Lyra. Actually, we met one day at Sugar Cube Corner. The place was packed, so I had to go to borrow a table with somepony else. The only one not filled with ponies was Lyra's, so I asked to sit with her, and she accepted. We talked a bit, and found out that we have much in common. We met at other places, and we became close friends. When Lyra had to live on her own in Ponyville, I told her she could live with me. She accepted, and that's our story."

Lyra looked at the would-be camera. She said, "And no, we do NOT have any romance or stuff going on between us; we are just friends."

Octavia said, "Um, Lyra... why are you saying that? None of us are expecting that, and you're not even saying it to us."

Lyra looked back to them and said, "Since there is no Pinkie Pie in this story, I guess I'll have to break the fourth wall for her. And don't ask what the fourth wall is, I'm not even going to explain it."

Bon-bon continued, "And she is a bit of a nuisance at times, but she's a good friend. How did you meet Octavia , Vinyl?"

"Well, we met at Music School. When we first met, we realized that we were both equally good at opposite kinds of music. Guess what? We became arch nemeses. We didn't actually have music battles until a contest came up at music school. We both entered and we went up to the finals, where we faced each other. It was an epic battle, and, in the end, even the judges couldn't come up with an obvious winner, so we both won. After that, we decided to put aside our differences and talk. We became friends, blah blah blah, we became best friends, blah blah blah, we moved in together, blah blah blah, and now we're saving the world together." Octavia had nothing to disagree with, and Vinyl noted this. "Of course, we still act like best frienemies, since we argue about everything still because we're still so different. But, we're still friends because we're different."

And finally, the last conversation came up... but I'm too lazy to write it because I am too happy that this part of their journey is FINALLY over. I hate this entire chapter because it's all story and no fun. So, the conversation's about Bon-bon asking Derpy why she thinks that they wanted to kill her because of her derp eyes, and for some reason Derpy thinks it's offensive. She also said they were going to do surgery to fix her eyes and change her voice, then change the name on her birth certificate. But, this was highly expensive and they decided that throwing her off a cliff was easier and cheaper, plus it would give a funny scare to some random pony who finds a filly's body tumbling down a hill and ending up in front of their hooves. Oh, did I mention that the doctors had some pretty screwed up minds? So conversations are finally done. Great, now I have to make this only one fourth of the chapter to compete with Chapter 1. Did I mention I hate this chapter?

So, after I have completely annihilated the fourth wall with the epic commentator that no one reads in the awesome movie voice that it's meant to be read in, they end up in Ponyville. Then they all died. The end. Wait, what do you mean that isn't a good ending? It was a perfectly reasonable ending, featuring overly dramatic deaths from random, unknown reasons! Wait, that didn't happen? Fine, fine. I will continue this story.

"We're finally back in Ponyville. I really need some sleep," said Octavia.

"I think we all do," said Bon-bon, who pointed out the larger-than-before bags under her eyes.

"I think we should still stick together, though," said Lyra. "This Ares dude doesn't sound like a nice guy."

"Yes, I agree," said Dr. Whooves. "We should sleep in the same room, so we still at least can fight together if we get a rude awakening."

Lyra said, "I propose we stay at my and Bon-bon's place."

Vinyl said, "No, we should stay at Tavi and my place."

While everypony was bickering on this dumb subject. Derpy was quietly thinking. She realized something. "Hey, everypony!" she said. All attention was brought to her. "We should stay at Twilight's home! She's supposed to be here, isn't she?"

They all agreed, but... "Aren't you still angry at her?" asked Dr. Whooves.

Derpy didn't reply at first. "Yes," she said. "But I can't keep that grudge."

They didn't talk again until they went to Twilight's house. When they got there, suspicions arose: There was a giant explosion radius on the ground, and the door to Twilight's house was wide open. "Ouch," said Derpy. Derpy walked inside. "Are you in there Twilight? Spike?" No reply. "I don't think they're here. That's bad, considering both of them are supposed to be here."

"Well, that means more space for us!" said Vinyl. Everypony else just glared at her. "...but, that means something bad happened to them!" She made an awkward smile and slowly backed away.

Derpy stared at her still, but after she was finished staring, she said, "Okay. So, we're staying here, since this is the roomiest and most comfortable." They walked inside. "So, I guess we'll close all of the curtains to block out the most sunlight, since it's a good idea to sleep after that long journey." They grabbed blankets and pillows from a closet, and they closed the curtains so it was dark in the room. They all said good-night (more like good-day) and went to sleep. Except Derpy. She just lied in her bed, staring at nothing, thinking about nothing. She then wen out of her trance and lifted up the sword. She looked at her looked at her edited reflection, due to the sword not being flat. She got tears in her eyes. She has no reason why. She just... did. After this, she decided to drift off into dream land.

But, this was no pleasant dream. It was, if anything, a nightmare.

Derpy found herself on a giant rock, floating with and from nothing. It was surrounded my high mountains, unable to be climbed. All above her was a vast deepness of nothing but red darkness. She heard something, like a giant moan. It was from far away to her back, but loud enough to be right behind her. She turned around to find her fear. There, was our antagonist, Ares. He was huge, with a look of evil in his eyes. "Hello, there, my enemy," it boomed. "This is who you will be fighting: Me. I am immortal. There is no way to defeat me."

We'll see about that, Derpy thought. She puffed at the ground to the right of her with her right hoof. No sword!

As if reading her mind, he said, wiggling his finger, "Nuh-uh-uh. You can't fight me right now. That's the point. I'm just trying to teach you who you will be fighting, so you can be either scared or determined. Your choice. Don't worry; when you actually fight me, you won't be as hopeless."

Derpy yelled, "You will never win! We shall defeat you, even if you are immortal!"

Ares smiled and said, "I don't think so. I have an army of ready soldiers."

Derpy heard a voice call from afar. "Well, we have a Pinkie Pie and a better army!"

Derpy looked up and saw every living creature in the world jumping above her, over the mountain. This includes every pony, from earth pony to pegasus to unicorn to even the alicorns, changelings, and every single animal in the world. That was one heck of an army. In front were the mane 6, along with Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, Discord, and Chrysalis. Derpy was awe-struck, how the biggest of enemies can work together to defeat their common foe. Twilight, who was in the whole head of the army, looked down and saw Derpy. Twilight seemed like her heart stopped for a beat, probably 2. She just shook it off and landed on the ground, with everything else following that.

The last thing Derpy heard and saw was Ares saying, "Attack!" While pointing his finger at the army. Then, a huge amount of weird-looking things jumped over the other mountain. Derpy wanted to see this, but then came a blast of light overwhelmed her.

"Ah!" she yelled as she woke up from this revelation. That couldn't be just a dream. She doesn't have an imagination to imagine that. Nothing could ever think that up. Maybe Ares was not lying: He just brought her there to see if she would be scared or determined. She looked around and saw all of her friends around her. She just realized she was drenched in sweat.

"Finally, you woke up!" said Lyra. "You were tossing and turning, sweating like an Olympic human, and you were screaming stuff in your sleep. We wanted to wake you up, but we were too afraid you would punch one of us in the face."

"The war!" Derpy said, "The war has started!"

"What war?" asked Bon-bon.

"The war against Ares! Every living thing taken out of this dimension and into that one, they're fighting Ares and his army! I don't know who's winning, I left just as it started. But it is definitely going to be a crazy battle."

"How do you know it wasn't just some crazy dream?"

"No imagination is capable of meeting an antagonist they've never met, then have everything ever start attacking an army they've never seen also. Just trust me."

Octavia asked, "So... does that mean that have to find a way to get a portal there so we can ensure our victory?"

Derpy's eyes seemed to widen. "You're right. But I don't know how, and I'm sure none of you know how either." She waited for all of them to shake their heads. "I also doubt that any book has some way, because then we would have already been there already."

Vinyl replied, "But what if there is? It's unlikely, but not impossible."

Octavia said, "For once, Vinyl, I might actually agree with your 'philosophy'" Vinyl was apparently happy at this.

Derpy said, "You may be right, Vinyl. Quick! We have to go through every book in this library to see if there is some kind of way written in a book."

They all nodded and grabbed a book. Some skimmed through the pages, some looked in the index; at least they had some method of finding it.

After a few hours, they still had't found anything, even though about 200 books were looked through. "This is hopeless! We'll never find anything!"

At this, Derpy decided to silently go outside. She couldn't explain why it was a good idea. She just knew this was the way to find anything she needed. She decided to sit under the branches of a tree that wasn't moving. She thought back to the book she just read instead of searching for the portal in a book. The book she read was called The Way of the Ancient Thinkers: How to find Philosophy in Meditation. She thought about the important steps. The first step was to find a good sot to meditate. Check. Step two was to clear the mind. She did as was told. Check. The third step was to let the body find a shape to meditate in. This wasn't controlled by the mind, but instead the soul. She slowly drifted into a strange shape, which she assumed was a correct shape. Check. The final step was to let the world around sink in, and find ideas around from the trees, plants, and animals. Well, there were no animals, so she assumed that this meant that find her answers took more time. So, the meditation began. She began to let the world's wonders slowly come in to her mind. She wold find her answers soon enough.

The rest of the group were searching everywhere for Derpy, because she randomly disappeared. Maybe she was crushed underneath the weight of the 500 books. They didn't know, but decided to go outside to check. They walked together, then eventually found her, sitting under a tree.

"Is she dead?" whispered Lyra. "She is in a weird-looking position for a body."

"She's obviously meditating," loudly whispered Dr. Whooves.

They all  slowly and silently went up to this meditating pony. Just when they got close, Derpy's eyes swung open. They thought Derpy was going to yell at them for doing something wrong. She didn't, but still yelled something. "I figured it out! I know how to open a portal to get to this other dimension!"

"You do? That's great!" said Bon-bon.

"Okay, so here's what to do..."

After explaining the plans (four times), they all nodded and began the process. "Step one:" said Derpy, "Aim your watch lasers at the wall." They all began shooting at the wall, near ground level. "Aim it higher!" They all aimed it a couple feet higher.

"Why?" asked Bon-bon.

"We need to jump in!" After about another minute, she commanded them to rest; it left a weird goo-like substance on the wall, but it actually was the wall (it wasn't goo). Derpy then grabbed her sword and  swung at that weird stuff. It cut right through the wall, leaving a rip in it. But not to the other side of the wall; it was a portal. They couldn't see what was on the other side of the portal, but they knew it was right. Derpy smiled and said, "Perfect." She then cut out the outside of the stuff, and it was a full portal then.

"Okay, friends." said Derpy. "This is it. This is war. A battle to the finish, until one said wins. We will be that side. Through that portal lies a battlefield. It also features our main enemy. That's who we're trying to defeat, not everyone else on their side. Now, let's jump through this portal and land in a ready battle stance. We shall defeat them!" They all did a loud cheer and jumped through the portal, in a stance ready for battle. Derpy aimed her sword at Ares and yelled, "You shall be defeated today!" and she charged and him; the group followed. But, she didn't realize that it was her side who was losing this battle.