Hearths Warming Comes to Griffonstone

by JusSonic

Rating: everyone
Tags: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Alternate Universe, Original Character, Trixie, Comedy, Gilda, Adventure
Length: 7207

Trixie and Gilda works to give Griffonstone a best hoiiday while stopping some old "friends" from robbing them!

Set DURING "Hearths Breakers" but DEFINITELY before "the Cutie Re-Mark". Trixie and Gilda take a break from spying on the Apocalypse Ponies to try to give Gilda's family and friends in Griffonstone the best holiday possible. However, the duo end up stumbling on to a plot by Twilight Moon, Rainbow Chaos and Psycho Pie to steal an enchanted gem of incredible power that has been uncovered by the Royal Griffon Family. Can Trixie and Gilda thwart the plot without blowing their cover AND still give Gilda's family and friends in Griffonstone the great holiday they plan to?

Published 2015-11-28 15:20:01 UTC
Last updated 2015-11-28 15:20:01 UTC

Chapter 1

Hearths Warming Comes to Griffonstone

It's a pony kind of Christmas...well, okay, Hearths Warming. It's that time of the season where families will hang on and such in Equestria. Although in Griffonstone, it's nothing much...

No, that is a lie! It wasn't much at first, but thanks to the efforts of Pinkie, Rainbow and Gilda the Griffon, the once great kingdom is becoming great once more, with griffons being more friendly and nature. Yeah, they still want coins but whose guessing?

The griffons even got a new royal family to lead the kingdom back to greatness. So, the whole kingdom is back on track.

Speaking of Gilda, she is arriving home right now with a friend of hers: Trixie Lulamoon, the daughter of the Superior who works with the Brotherhood and, as Trix Lulamoon, the Apocalypse Ponies. They came to at least celebrate the holidays with Gilda's own family and friends, taking a break from spying on the Apocalypse Ponies. The two can celebrate here, due to their fugitive status almost all over the place.

"I must confess, Gilda. I am impressed with how hard your kingdom has come since the Idol of Boreas's loss years ago and now." Trixie said with a smile to Gilda, looking the place over. "They will be thrilled to celebrate the holidays."

"Yeah, yeah, they don't normally celebrate holidays much." Gilda remarks with a shrug. "But now that they're doing better, maybe they can."

"When the day is over, Trixie will give this kingdom a better holiday to remember!"

Gilda comment, "I bet the reason you're helping me try to give my family and friends a good holiday is because you have a feeling that putting on a show for a few griffons would be a lot easier for you than trying to catch Boris under the mistletoe."

Trixie blushes a bit as the two arrives at Gilda's home. Her grandpa Gruff was sleeping until he hears them arriving, making him grunt, "What? Who's there?"

"Hey, Grampa Gruff, it's me." Gilda said, waving to Grampa Stuff and finally got his attention.

"Oh, Gilda! Hey. About time you see your new royal family."

"'Royal family'?" Trixie ask Gilda, arching an eyebrow at that.

"Yeah, yeah. Grampa send me a letter." Gilda said with a slight chuckle, rubbing the back of her head. "Thanks to me bringing this kingdom back, my family has been elected to royalty. Awkward, yeah, but it works."

"But what is he doing here?"

"Getting this!" Grampa Gruff remarks as he picks up an album book. "Just an old album book or something. So what are you doing here?"

"Trixie and Gilda are here to give a celebration of Hearths Warming!" Trixie exclaims to the old griffon, sanding so proudly. The old griffon just looks at her as if she just came in from the outside on apple cider.

"We decided to bring Hearths Warming here, Grampa Gruff." Gilda said, rolling her eyes as she explains the reason.

"Hearths what? Does it involve gold coins or something?" Grampa Gruff ask confused and yet curious at the idea.

"Just let's get to the castle. We will explain."

Grampa Stuff grunts as he leads the way to the castle with Trixie and Gilda. This oughta be interesting!

The castle was amazingly built since the last time Rainbow, Pinkie and Gilda was here. The Royal Griffon Family is now staying here, making of much of Gilda's own family. They greeted the griffon hero and her friends with opened arms, wings, and wants for coins.

“Well hello there, young cub. You must be Bucky, Gilda has talked about you a couple of times.” Trixie spoke off in happily meeting the young griffon that her friend Gilda has told her about from certain moments from time to time.

"Gilda, what brings you back?" Gilda's dad ask Gilda curiously.

"Hearths Warming. Hope you don't mind us bringing it here." Gilda remarks to her dad with a shrug.

"Heck, we don't mind! We haven't a celebration since before your pals show up, and even then it’s been about forever since we had a celebration! At least now we can get something good to do!"

"My, your family is...odd." Trixie said to Gilda, especially when Grampa Gruff, for some reason, was trying to sleep upside down until he fell off the ceiling.

"Yeah, but we adapt." Gilda remarks with a shrug.

It will be a while before the family will set up the table for dinner so Trixie and Gilda decided to do some exploration for a while. The two promised to bring the best holiday possible before leaving and they will do so!

As Trixie & Gilda were strolling on the outskirts of Griffonstone, they suddenly came near a strange alley in which they yelped to lean backwards because….three familiar hooded feature figure characters are seen moving across the way. The two carefully trail those that seem suspicious & soon hid behind a dumpster, as the three figures remove their cloaks to reveal they were none other than Twilight Moon, Rainbow Chaos & Psycho Pie of the Apocalypse Ponies! Gilda & Trixie were stump shock, what were three rank members of the order they were with/under was doing here, they decided to eavesdrop to find out.

“You all remember what the plan is.” Twilight Moon asked this out to the others in making sure those here know what the plan is.

“No problem, steal an enchanted gem of incredible power that was just uncovered by the Royal Griffon Family.” Rainbow Chaos rolled her eyes in stating off this factor of what they are doing here.

“Yeppers, and while we’re at it….make some tasty cupcakes right here in Griffonstone, new ingredient, Griffons!” Psycho Pie smile doff in a crazy motion of having a lovely idea of what to make while they are here.

“We been over this, we’re not here to eat griffons, we’re here for the enchanted gem, got it!” Twilight Moon explained this to those that were having a hard time knowing what their topic of a plan is.

“Yeah, yeah, we got it!” Rainbow Chaos rolled her eyes in not caring for details, but rather doing the crime instead.

“Aw, so much for a little holiday treat!” Psycho Pie moans to say in knowing she’ll have to not do what she likes; making cupcakes out of others.

“Now remember, you numbskulls. This artifact is VERY important to the Superior's plans. So DON'T louse it up.” Twilight Moon was lecturing these two to not screw up this mission.

“Who's lousing?” Rainbow Chaos asked of in feeling insulted by that remark.

“Don't be a wiseacre. The Superior assigned you two because of your knowledge of Griffonstone from your own universes. Even if this IS a different Griffonstone, it's still similar enough to YOUR Griffonstones for you two to be better qualified for this mission than the rest of the group.” Twilight Moon explains the basic of having Rainbow Chaos & Psycho Pie along is because they once experienced & have at least ‘vague’ moments of having gone to Griffonstone under their own ‘different’ accords compared to the Equestria Prime versions that helped the country.

“And why did he assign YOU?” Psycho Pie raised an eyebrow in why this mare was put in charge.

“He assigned ME to keep you two knuckleheads in check.” Twilight Moon stated off this fact of her main reason of keeping watch on these two. “In addition to keeping the two of you in line, I was ALSO assigned because my natural sensitivity to high level magic will allow me to analyze the artifact to make sure it is authentic and truly powerful enough to be worth the Superior's time. And for that, there must be no distractions.” As the mare was explaining this, her horn glows, which causes something to levitate what were several concealed weapons away from Psycho Pie.

“What was THAT for?” Psycho Pie complained off in seeing the mare talking away all of her ’tools’ she concealed.

“This is a stealth mission, NOT a ‘butcher every living thing that is not us’ kind of mission.” As Twilight Moon scolds the crazy pony on what they are here to ACTUALLY be doing, she transmutes all the weapons she levitated off of Psycho Pie into harmless mist.

“Party pooper.” Psycho Pie pouted off that this one was cutting her fun down.

“So the idea is, if we keep the violence to an absolute minimum AND don't do anything to prematurely call attention to ourselves, we can be many miles away WITH the prize before anybody even knows we are here.” Rainbow Chaos exclaimed off in pretty much getting that they gotta keep things on the down low, so they can get away with the act before anyone may be the wiser of what even went on under their noses.

“That is correct.” Twilight Moon nods her head in seeing someone was paying attention.

“So, we need griffon disguises? One chaos magic disguises coming up.” Rainbow Chaos smiled off to say this, just before she instantly conjures up three very realistic looking griffon disguises for the three to each hold.

“Ohhh…..did you skin these off of REAL griffons, you chaotic little thing?” Psycho Pie marvel at the disguises, she thinks they are real griffon feather skins that were ripped off of real ones; which is kinda a sick thought to imagine.

“Focus! Now, seeing that the Mystics have no authority in this kingdom of Griffons that we learn that Gilda can hide out from those after her for being a Brotherhood member, we should easily getaway without running into any problems.” Twilight Moon issued off that they need to be focus, since in Griffonstone, not many authorities will come to Griffonstone since whatever happens will be a griffon problem & keep others like pony figure types out of the business.

“Right, many of them heroes are probably having a nice holiday without knowing this…” Rainbow Chaos stated off with a sly tone in knowing what the heroes are most likely doing now.

“Evil & crime don’t take a holiday, how true is that; it’s a basic theory of claim evil devotion!” Psycho Pie pointed out the only fact that makes sense to them that evil never takes a holiday off.

“Here’s the plan, we’ll steal the enchanted gem tonight when everyone is asleep. By next morning, they won’t know what hit them.” Twilight Moon explained the plan once more for a reminder of the issue as they will strike late at the time it gets dark.

The three mares smiled wickedly over having gone over their step in obtaining a special enchanted gem, with it, their order will make evils of it. As the three members of the Apocalypse Ponies were moving along, Trixie & Gilda were stump shock from what they saw, & they knew that this could spell one thing; TROUBLE!

“I don’t believe this, your group buddies are gonna rob the Royal Griffon Family!” Gilda slapped her forehead in seeing what Trixie’s little 13 member order was gonna be doing to her own country.

“Well I certainly wasn’t aware of this! But then again, many of the members get different assignments, depending!” Trixie stated off in her own defense in not having known about this until far later.

“Well they are not going to rob any treasure of ours, bad enough Griffonstone suffered much from one important treasure that was stolen that even Dashie & Pinkie Pie tried to help us out because of it. So there is no way are we gonna relive that day after some changes started to take shape!” Gilda protest out that after much of what Griffonstone has gone through while changes are starting to take flight, will she let some order from the top villain groups like the Lords of Equestria do anything during the holidays.

“Gilda, I know how you feel, but think about it….if we intervene, they will question our actions & may blow our cover.” Trixie stated off to say this with reason in knowing that if they go against the actions here, their secret will most likely be exposed as spies.

This case was going to be tough, Trixie & Gilda need to thwart the plot of the enchanted gem in the Royal Griffon Family from being taken, but there was another problem. They have to do it WITHOUT…blowing their cover as spies working to stop one of the Three Lords, which means they can’t interfere in other members assigned evil works as it goes against the villain rule & punishment follows for anyone that stops an act of evil for one of the Three Lords. They need a plan that will ensure that the ones spying will not have their covers blown, but how?

“Okay, so we have to find a way to stop this trio without making it look like we are TRYING to stop them. And, for that matter, without even looking like we are even here. Question is, how to pull it off?” Trixie was pondering this thought carefully in knowing they need to perform the task without letting off that they are involved to avoid misunderstanding since they are under cover, etc.

“Well you have any ideas, cause if last I recall, when Boris sent Dum Dum & Boxco out to keep an eye & keep Twilight safe from the harsh environment of the Ends of Equestria, Boris got a beating by the others, right?” Gilda ask off if Trixie has any ideas that if they can get help, but last time one of their own did something & was found out, it didn’t end pretty for them to bear witness such treatment.

“Don’t I know it and so the only choice left is to get some assistance by….asking for help.” Trixie stated off in knowing about such things that happened to which leads them to asking someone outside their group to help them.

“Great idea, get some other poor sap to do the dirty work, that’s what any villain would do. Namely us who are a part of the Brotherhood.” Gilda rolled her eyes to state this in seeing how they get someone else to do the crummy work of stopping others & they hardly lift a hoof or claw.

“Well you don’t have to make it sound like we’re deceiving them, but….the question remains…who can we get to help us while making certain they can handle three members of the Apocalypse Ponies?” Trixie stated off about the attitude before changing the topic of how they can stop such tough opponents, they will need someone who is at least capable of such a feat.

“Why not hire Shiv Katall?” Gilda pointed out a tough guy that Boris once asked that was a stallion of renown stature etc.

“No, despite him being a bounty hunter, if the order or the Dark Mystics hire him, then ask about what he did before, it’ll lead back to us; our best option is…acquiring the assistance of a hero.” Trixie stated off that they can’t ask help from a bounty hunter that works for hired villains to aid them out, they need someone of a hero standard to do the job right.

“Right & who help two Brotherhood members like us protect Griffonstone’s priceless treasure?” Gilda rolled her eyes in thinking that will be next to impossible.

“Hmmm…hugh!” Trixie was thinking before spotting a poster nearby as she went to inspect it off a wall of someone that was performing nearby that made a smile appear. “Of course….THIS pony is in town. He’s perfect, he’s unexpected & he’s known for getting out of problems with hard foes & villains. I’ll just need to contact him.” She stated off in realizing that the solution to their problem, was with this certain character that can help them stop a crime about to begin while not exposing that they are spies in their groups.

“You sure about this? One guy against three tough members from your order?” Gilda asked off in not knowing if one hero was enough to handle three opponents that are a part of a 13 order of tough rank foes from Trixie’s group.

“Believe me, as I was a trickster on the road, I have seen this one escape perils of danger that were no MERE trick & seem impossible. If anyone can protect your treasure….it’s him!” Trixie insisted that from what she has seen, the pony that she sees on the poster is the most perfect chance they have in stopping whatever scheme is about to be unfold…and stop it too.

Gilda was a little puzzled & concern about Trixie’s plan to help keep the enchanted gem safe, but then again, they don’t have too many other options with limited time before the crime is committed. Soon they rush down in a direction, as the scene goes dark here while we can tell, something strange will be going on & what or who will be seen remains to be seen itself….

Back in Ponyville beneath Sugarcube Corner, we see Pinkamena reading her book at this time. Then she yelped from sensing something, her brother was near to notice it, but saw his sister not responding…

“Something up Pinkamena?” Goldie asked off in being curious.

“Well there was something, but its pass…” Pinkamena stated off to say before simply stating this matter.

“Why do you say that?” Goldie raised an eyebrow in being curious.

“Cause I think Trixie & Gilda got it covered.” Pinkamena simply pointed it out to the stallion.

“Say what now?” Goldie yelped in having heard this, two Brotherhood members have something covered; what does that mean?

“Trust me, those two are gonna be fine….& if I can feel it, then trust my judgement bro.” Pinkamena simply stated this with good intention of feeling that there was no cause for alarm. “Plus they are gonna get a hero to help them out to keep their covers from being discovered.” She stated this off in making this stated note in a random moment.

“Well, it is the holiday, so…alright. Better come on over to join the feast we got made.”

“You bet! The first Hearths Warming with my Kirin Dragon pal Azure joining us, this’ll be swell!” Pinkamena smiled off to say this in feeling excited now. As the pony gets up, she & Goldie come to a table to join Jack Zen, Sombra & Autumn Gem setting the prepared food, Omega lit the fire place; even Havis & Hikari were joining them. And entering the room was Azure in his ’smaller’ form size to join the others as there was a lot of meals to enjoy fit for a while castle feast for all guest, or a hungry Dragon. The scene goes dark as Pinkamena will enjoy her holiday with her friends & family while knowing what is happening outside is gonna be covered up…

Within the night back at the Griffonstone Castle, all of the griffon guards were moving around. However, they never saw much of three griffons flying around that were the mares in disguise that came across wearing some armor to fool the guards. After approaching what was a treasure room, the three ditch the disguises & soon lay eyes on the real prize ahead of them; the enchanted gem that they came seeking.

“This is it, the target we been planning to obtain for the order.” Twilight Moon issued forth in seeing what they came here to take.

“Heh, this’ll be too easy!” Rainbow Chaos smiled off in seeing this mission will be the easiest they have ever done.

“Heheheheh…..now let’s get what we came for…” Psycho Pie giggle doff evilly in stating they take what they came here for & go when…an unexpected moment occur.

“Sorry, but if you’re looking for the Griffonstone Gift Shop, it’s down the next hall.” Spoke out a voice as if making a remark claim of what thieves here are plotting.

“Who said that?” Twilight Moon demanded off in looking around, there was someone else in the room.

“Me…” Spoke the voice of the same being that spoke earlier.

Then appearing from the opening of the doors came a new face to those that were breaking & entering. A strange unicorn stallion with tan light brown color fur, black straight mane & short tail, and blue eyes. He wore a blue coated sports suit gear for any and all adventurous events-like wearing…… wore a blue helmet with yellow stripe lines on the sides of the cheeks and a lower visor to protect the eyes. Inside his suit, he had on tan pants, a dark blue shirt with his own logo of his name on the left top shoulder spot, black shoes, wore a fancy watch gizmo on his left wrist, and surprisingly had a blue hood-cloth around his neck area. His Cutie Mark under the outfit was in the form that stands for Action as is his talent to those that are unaware.

“Who are you supposed to be? Some weirdo in sports getup?” Rainbow Chaos remarks off in seeing who was here that the person thinks he’s so high & mighty.

“Funny, I was thinking you look like posers yourselves, considering your members of the Apocalypse Ponies.” The mysterious stallion in sports gear exclaimed off with a witty remark about who these three are posing themselves to be.

“Wait, how do you know about us? And about us looking like the others?” Psycho Pie yelps in being surprised, no one is supposed to know about them looking like three members of the Mane Six, except for Twilight Moon who revealed herself to the others, but that’s about it.

“Forget about it, just stop him while I secure the gem.” Twilight Moon instructed the others in what they need to do here.

Then Rainbow Chaos unleashed play cards while Psycho Pie swung off daggers at the target. But the target seem to be moving & dodging such attacks as if everything was in slow motion, even doing a ‘Matrix’ movement that completely caught the two off guard. Then the guy took a nearby shield to swing it off that knock Twilight Moon’s left hoof from touching the enchanted gem. Rainbow Chaos & Psycho Pie watch this & they were lost….the guy saw through their attack patterns & stopped Twilight Moon.

“What the hay? That’s the first thing you ever seen our attacks, how’d you managed to avoid it & stopped her?” Rainbow Chaos replied off stump, how can a guy move & dodge their attacks when he’s never seen what they can perform & keep the enchanted gem from being stolen.

“Just got good reflexes, I guess.” The mysterious stallion in sports gear replied off to simply say this in what he’s gone & done that aided him out of such a pickle.

“Hey Twilight Moon, I think this easy target ain’t dropping so easily!” Psycho Pie turn to their little ‘leader of the operation’ in seeing this pony ain’t going down & is tricky to boot.

“Ugh….how could you have such difficulties?” Twilight Moon sighs to groan in not believing this, how were three members of the Apocalypse Ponies having such difficulty?

“Then help us take this guy down then!” Rainbow Chaos remarks off that if Twilight Moon thinks she’s so great, she should help take care of this problem so they can go.

“I told you that we need to keep our strengths to a limit, if we go too far out, the guards will be alerted to our presence.” Twilight Moon explained that they are trying to keep things on a low profile to not be notice, too much loudness in using more of their strength will alert everyone & the mission will be a failure.

“Smart thinking but take my advice, leave now & we’ll forget this embarrassing encounter.” The mysterious stallion in sports gear made a cocky counter reminder that they can just end this if these three thieves just walk away & he won’t have to embarrass them further.

“Oh, he’s calling us chicken! Please tell me we can kill him now!” Psycho Pie exclaimed off in feeling like this will really get them to cut loose now.

“Grrr….” Twilight Moon growls in starting to actually feel….upset over this; this pony is crossing a line with them & her patience. “You are going to wish you never cross paths with us…” She darkly stated this off as her horn lit up with dark magic in about to partake in this.

That’s when Twilight Mon was suddenly unleashing her magic of gravity that started to cause much of the treasures coins to come flying off & then used heavy weight increase pressure to make it look like it was raining cannonballs on the target. Psycho Pie was charging up her daggers with lightning as they zipped across the area while Rainbow Chaos used her wind ability to cause things to stir up. Pretty much, the unknown hero was using all of his best reflexes & agility to duck out of danger, but these three & their strange forces were not holding back.

“Okay….now things have gotten a bit more serious.” The mysterious stallion in sports gear stated off in noticing that the situation, has gotten just a little more harder for him.

“Give it up, with gravity, wind & lightning at our command, you’re finished.” Twilight Moon declared forth that the so-called unknown hero of the hour, can’t get out of this mess.

“I say he’s already finished. Let’s give him the final blow.” Rainbow Chaos smiled off evilly in seeing that they can end this.

“Heheheh….time to make him into a cupcake!” Psycho Pie laughed of wickedly in seeing what they can do here.

Now the three villain mares were preparing a little more on their assault of using dark magic & using everything of the treasure room’s coins & jewels while leaving the enchanted gem alone. The unknown hero will have to figure out a way to take down all three before things get crazy.

“Looks like I’m a little over my head here. Good thing I got a way out.” The mysterious stallion in sports gear stated off that it seems that from this difficult situation, he’ll have to overcome it with one solution. “Check it out, die it in….” As he spoke, all of his surroundings were freezing up as he was speaking these words. “AMP It Up!” After having spoken that, the camera zooms through the guy’s eyes as something a blur begins to be seen.

The entire scenery is blue and numbers of fractions are shown, once more, a little song number is being heard in the background while this is happening; dubbed Action Stallion: Greatest Hero Of Them All…First up was an electric drum-jam beat of instruments were starting things off. At the moment, we see numbers circling around Twilight Moon’s gravity spell just as she's about to attack, then the math fractions moves over to some electric daggers held by Psycho Pie she was preparing to throw.

Male Chorus & Solo Singer: AIM it Up!

Then it shows Alex's right wrist gear with its hook grappler being glowed up by the fractions of the math works.

Male Chorus & Solo Singer: Action Stallion!

Then it shows something in the treasure room as objects are surrounded by the numbers fraction before leaving them next.

Male Chorus & Solo Singer: Aim it Up!

Then the fractions goes directly towards the swirling vortex of cards that Rainbow Chaos conjured up as the formula circles it next.

Male Chorus & Solo Singer: (Act) Action Stallion!

Then the formula problem goes directly around a vase containing gun powder as if saying what to do next in what to use in the situation.

“Time for Action!” The mysterious stallion in sports gear announced this off as everything returns to his situation of what is happening even now.

Then without warning, the entire world seem to be going in slow motion while the mysterious stallion was moving across everything in a blurry flash. First, he ran towards the treasure on the ground to obtain a staff & just as Psycho Pie threw her electric daggers, he knock them into Rainbow Chaos’s vortex of cards. But then what happened was he rapidly dash over towards the case to knock it within Twilight Moon’s gravity pull which it broke & scatter the contents into the card vortex, but then the sparks from the electric daggers made a discharge from the large quality of gun powder, & then…

“Kaboomfruvhmm…./UUAAAUGH!” That caused a huge explosion right before the three Apocalypse Ponies that knocked them backwards while causing a huge hole in the wall to appear. As the mares recovered, they could not believe that the enemy, thought up something & with the right action & timing, made an unknowing action that the odds were slim to none of a stunt like that even capable of being performed.

"You knuckles heads!" Twilight Moon exclaims as she slaps Rainbow Chaos and Psycho Pie. "What are you trying to do, kill me?!"

"Who are ya calling "knuckles heads"?!" Rainbow Chaos scowls but yelps as Twilight Moon twirls her mane.

"You, nimrot!"

"Hey, leave her alone!" Psycho Pie scowls. Twilight Moon tries to poke her but she blocks with her daggers. "Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk, nyuk!" But when the psycho put her daggers now, Twilight Moon hits her in the nose. "Ouchie, ouchie, ouchi!"

"Mind your Ps and Qs, got it?!" Twilight Moon snaps at Psycho Pie in irritation.

"Don't forget to dot the I’s!"

"Certainly!"

Twilight Moon pokes Psycho Pie in the eyes, making her yelp in alarm. The mysterious stallion watch on in amusement. It’s like watching a pony version of the Three Stooges of Earth.

“Someone’s broken into the treasure room!” One of the griffon guards’ voices was heard over the loud noise earlier.

“Call the guards! Lock down all exits!” Another griffon guard’s voice issued off that they need to perform security measures in case of a break in.

“Blast! We’ve been found out!” Twilight Moon cursed in seeing that they are now discovered too soon that has alerted the entire castle.

“So what, let’s just finish them off!” Rainbow Chaos rolled her eyes in thinking they can handle a few griffons.

“This operation was supposed to be stealth only, if we alert them, they’ll inform Princess Celestia & then the Mystics!” Twilight Moon inform her colleague that if they are discovered & reported back, things will become harder on their part.

“So what do we do then?” Psycho Pie raised an eyebrow in not knowing what they do in this moment.

“Fallback! The mission is a failure.” Twilight Moon gave the order that they are withdrawing from here. “You may have saved the day, but next time….you won’t be so lucky.” She turn to the strange hero that he may have stopped them this time, but next time if they should meet, things may not go so well.

Then without warning, a corridor of darkness appeared in which the three acres quickly rushed through it to avoid being caught. Then as the corridor vanished into thin hear, loud steps were approaching the treasure room where the unknown hero has done his work in stopping a theft.

“And it looks like I need to split too if I wanna avoid any bad publicity.” The mysterious stallion in sports gear stated off that it’s time he leaves too so he avoids questioning even if he helped out, & with that, he escaped out the hole in the wall instantly fast.

Soon the guards approached the room to make sure the contents were all here, besides the hole in the wall, it looks like nothing was stolen. The scene begins to blur out as many were gonna alert the royals of what seem to have happened here…

Within the Room That Never Was, we see the gathered 13 members of the Apocalypse Ponies. However, Twilight Moon & her group reported the failed attempt of stealing the enchanted gem from the Royal Griffon Family, all because of interference. And that caused many to be surprised that three members were stopped by a lonesome hero that was on the scene.

“You mean to tell us, that you failed in securing the enchanted gem. Oh poo & I was looking forward to seeing it.” Crarity pouted to complain that they have heard this disappointing news.

“How could you fail….the heroes from the Rainbow Kingdom are with their families,” Fluttercruel exclaimed off to cruelly state this as if not believing such things.

“Hey, we tried to get it, but someone else was there!” Rainbow Chaos protest in stating about what happened to them.

“Yeah, he performed a bunch of weird movements that seem impossible to follow.” Psycho Pie stated off in defending their case that the failure was not entirely their fault.

“But how could there be anyone that can do all of that?” Starven Fran asked off in thinking that was something that was impossible to do, even against three of their members.

“I think I know, that symbol on his gear….I know who stopped us.” Twilight Moon spoke off to say this in having a vague idea in who it was that stopped them from stealing the enchanted gem. “It was none other than Alex Mann, the Action Stallion.” She announced forth the name & known title of the unknown hero in sports gear that stopped them.

“The Action Stallion, you can’t possibly mean…that pony, do you?” Wilco exclaimed off in finding this info to be almost too surprising to contain. “The one who possesses the Element Of Probability, a special element that allows one to foresee the mathematical formula of different possibilities to every problem?” He has heard about the special & possibly rare element that the one called Alex Mann holds, it’s one where he possess the incredible skill in one, several, or in some cases every possible field; he’ll find a solution & choose the best course of action every time.

“Well golly, who have thought ye get whooped by a guy who uses math….course, Ah never think dat way.” Liarjack stated off i finding this to be a surprise that their members lot against someone that used mathematical smarts, even against someone that is also smart.

“Now it makes sense, but tell us…how did he know you were there?” Deadly Rager stated to ask the bigger question, how did this unpredicted hero come to be there?

“Isn’t it obvious, he got wind of the mission, maybe one of you goofed up & told the guy,” Warring Malice spoke off in stating that the guy must have caught wind of the plan & intervene somehow.

“Sure it’s not that simple & that someone here didn’t leak out the info. Like a spy.” Suffocator Jill stated off to question if someone leaked such Intel out for the plan to be fouled.

“Hmmm….it’s possible, perhaps one of his friends saw you & told him….they were in the area.” Trix stated off to comment this info that perhaps someone just overheard the plan that Twilight Moon went over with the others & that was what caused such things.

“I accept whatever punishment awaits me for failing you, Superior.” Twilight Moon stated off in ready to accept any punishment for failing her mission to steal the enchanted gem.

“I will overlook this matter of failure since it is the holidays, consider it a gift, a very rare gift. And a reminder to you all.” The Superior issued off that he will let this matter go as it will be as an act of a gift for the holiday, but next time will be different for everyone.

“Yes Superior.” The rest of the members responded off in understanding the threatening claim.

“Now return to your stations, we will discuss things another time.” The Superior issued off the order of what the others will do here.

Without another word, all of the members soon vanished into their corridors of darkness & were out of sight as the entire scene darkness now for what else will happen at the time…

We return to the outside spot of the Royal Griffon Castle as a corridor of darkness was seen & vanished to show Trix Lulamoon coming forth. But then she used her magic to change back into Trixie Lulamoon & was making sure the coast was clear.

“So, the trickster returns.” Then Trixie yelps to turn around as who would be coming up to her, then the hero that stop three Apocalypse Ponies from stealing the enchanted gem; Alex Mann, the Action Stallion.

“Oh please, as much as I like being called by such, at least I’m not like the other one, Loki A. Fool, his illusions & wonders are hard from even the Great & Powerful Trixie to catch up to.” Trixie spoke off in knowing that she is not as powerful as one trickster of illusions that once caused such a disaster to Equestria; of course, she might when she is in her Alicorn form & with more training, maybe someday than perhaps….

“So you say, but you pulled a trick too, getting me to come here by saying there were three thieves looking to steal a priceless enchanted gem from here.” Alex Mann stated off in knowing that Trixie was the one that somehow got him to come & stop those from stealing a treasure from the Royal Griffon Family.

“What makes you think it was me?” Trixie asked off in pondering this, pretending like she doesn’t know a thing.

“You sent it on a poster of your traveling wonder show.” Alex Mann showed the written message that told him everything, however, it was written on the back of one of Trixie’s old posters.

“Oh, I thought I said a blank writable paper, not an old poster.” Trixie muttered off to herself in having told Gilda to get her something to write, she wasn’t expecting this to lead back to them.

“While it’s not my concerns, I think I may know why you asked for help.” Alex Mann shrug off to simply say this in knowing what was going on.

“And that would be?” Trixie raised an eyebrow in pondering what this stallion of extreme sport actions would say to her.

“You did it to help a friend, if I recall, you have a griffon in your Brotherhood that lives here. And she might be connected to the Royal Griffon Family.” Alex Mann stated off that from his knowledge, Trixie & Gilda are from the same group, the Brotherhood & Griffonstone is an area that relates to all griffons including what happens that affects them affects Gilda too that Trixie felt like she didn’t want to see suffering from a good ally.

“Well…who’s to say?” Trixie was trying to pretend like that claim was not true about her at all, but…she wasn’t good at lying.

“Well, I better get going, my crew are probably wondering where I went off to.” Alex Mann shrug off to simply say this in deciding that he best be going then. “Have a nice holiday….perhaps you can make it special with your friends & their family.” He waved off to Trixie in stating this matter that may lead to something for the mare to think about.

As Alex Mann was seen leaving, Trixie was thinking that thought over of what the stallion said & felt like he was right. The mare sighs in feeling like heroes have those certain words that get to others, but her thoughts were cut off as Gilda flew in to see how Trixie was doing after their ‘hero ally’ they brought in to stop a crime left after the deal task was over.

“You done?” Gilda asked off if Trixie was done with the chat now.

“I am…” Trixie nods off to say this in lightly replying to the question.

“You know, I have to admit, stopping those three from ripping off the Royal Griffon Family was actually kind of fun.” Gilda smiled off in never knowing how fun it was stopping some members of the Apocalypse Ponies while not getting caught by getting a hero to do the work; it felt kinda unexpectively awesome to pull such a prank. “But now, let's get back to giving my family and friends a great holiday.” She stated that with the danger avoided, she likes to get back to what they were doing before all this happened.

“I suppose so, lead the way Gilda…” Trixie lightly nods off to decide that she’ll join Gilda for….this invite for the holiday.

With that, Gilda flapped her wings to lead Trixie back to the castle, the mare shakes her head a bit before smiling; despite what went on, at least she’s glad to see that Gilda’s little family will have a nice holiday. Of course Trixie does feel that even from thwarting Twilight Moon, Rainbow Chaos & Psycho Pie’s plan to steal the enchanted gem, she feels concern for next time. Trixie decides that she could discreetly send a message to Celestia in telling her that she should consider talking to the Royal Griffon Family about tightening their security for future repeats. As the mare is leaving to catch up to her friend, the scene goes dark as what will take place afterwards, well….that’s a mystery behind the holiday feeling…

The End

Author's Note

Cast list
Kathleen Barr: Trixie Lulamoon/Trixe Lulamoon
Marÿke Hendrikse: Gilda the Griffon
Tara Strong: Twilight Moon
Ashleigh Ball: Rainbow Chaos, Liarjack
Andrea Libman: Psycho Pie, Fluttercruel, Pinkamena Diane Pie
Mark Hildreth: Alex Mann "The Action Stallion"
Richard Ian Cox: Grampa Gruff, Griffon Guard 1
Rob Paulsen: Gilda's Dad
Orlando Bloom: Golden Heart
Lee Tockbar: Griffon Guard 2
Tabitha St. Germain: Crarity
Tim Curry: The Superior
Monica Rial: Warring Malice
Eric Stuart: Wilco
Tom Hiddleston: Deadly Rager
Meredith McCoy: Suffocator Jill
Cree Summer: Starven Fran

Author's note
All right, another fanfic done and we're still closer to the season 5 finale in the real world. For now, here is the next fanfic...

"Cheerilee's Pie Chat (set shortly after "Hearths-Breakers", but before "the Cutie Re-Mark"): Miss Cheerilee finds out that one of Pinkie's sisters has a possible crush on Big Macintosh. Cheerilee then takes advantage of the Hearths-Warming Break to travel to the Rock Farm to politely speak to said sister and make it clear that Big Mac already HAS a marefriend.
Pairing: Big Mac x Miss Cheerilee"

I wonder what Cheerilee is going to do. Can't wait for this one. Until next time, read, review and suggest!

Alex Mann is a reference from an actual character from Action Man: Greatest Hero of Them All TV Series, & is made into an OC Pony version by VISION-KING. Noted, he’ll be seen in the future when he meets the Mane Six during a certain story adventure, when & where, will be another time as this was a sneak preview of the character.

That about does it, hope many are enjoying the Holidays.