Friendship Is Half the Battle

Equestria Girls:

Sunset Shimmer, the head bully of Canterlot High turned megalomaniacal she-demon, and her newly transformed demonic henchmen, Snips and Snails, had hypnotized the student body of Canterlot High into becoming their teenage slave army which they planned to use to conquer Equestria.

“Spoiler alert.” The demonic Sunset turned to the heroes: Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Pinkie Pie. “I was bluffing when I said I was going to destroy the portal. I don’t want to rule this pathetic little high school; I want Equestria! And with my own teenage army behind me, I am going to get it!”

“No, you’re not!” Twilight declared defiantly.

“Oh, please! What exactly do you think you’re going to do to stop me? I have magic, and you have nothing!”

“She has us!” Rainbow Dash defiantly announced with the other four girls by her side. Twilight gave a big smile, she was so happy to have such good friends backing her up.

Sunset growled when the five girls joined their friend’s side. But she brushed it off and laughed wickedly. “Gee, the gang really is all back together again.” She mockingly cackled. She had to stop for a moment to wipe a single tear from her eye because she was laughing so hard. Then she held out her hands and a ball of fire started forming between them. “Now step aside! Twilight has tried to interfere with my plans one too many times already! She needs to be dealt with!” and then she hurled the massive fireball right at the purple-colored girl. Just before the fireball hit, all five friends huddled around Twilight protectively in an attempt to shield her from the attack. Sunset cackled when the fireball made contact, it looked like she had won, but then she looked again. “What!?” A pink force field surrounded the six girls, none of them had a single scratch.

The five friends released Twilight from their grasp and stared at each other bewildered. After a moment they cast each other happy smiles that they were alright. “The magic contained in my Element was able to unite with those that helped create it!” Twilight said pointing to the crown on Sunset’s head. Just then, a beam of magic flowed from the crown toward the girls and they all started levitating in the air. Each one of them could feel the magic flowing through their bodies and transforming them.

Honesty!

Applejack’s human ears transformed into pony ears and she grew a long ponytail from her hair.

Kindness!

Fluttershy’s ears also turned into pony ears, yellow feathery wings appeared on her back, and a long pink ponytail emerged from her hair.

Laughter!

Pinkie Pie also gained pony ears and a tail just like Applejack.

Generosity!

Rarity, like Pinkie and AJ, received the ears and tail of a pony.

Loyalty!

Rainbow Dash received ears, wings, and a tail just like Fluttershy.

Magic!

Twilight Sparkle felt herself being blessed with the ears, wings, and tail of her native species.

“Together with a crown, they create a power beyond anything you could imagine, but it is a power you don’t have the ability to control! The crown may be upon your head, Sunset Shimmer, but you cannot wield it, because you do not possess the most powerful magic of all: the magic of friendship!” With that, Twilight and her friends join hands in a heart-shaped formation and a burst of rainbow-colored energy shot right at Sunset Shimmer.

“No! What is happening?!” Sunset screamed in panic as the rainbow engulfed her entire body.

“Here and in Equestria, it is the only magic that can truly unite us all!” Twilight said as another beam of energy shot at Flash Sentry and passed on to all the other students releasing everyone from mind control until it finally engulfed Snips and Snails. Finally, a blinding light emitted from the six girls for one big final act.

When the light had dispersed and everything became visible again. The girls still had their ears, wings, and tails but now there was a big crater in front of the destroyed entrance of the school, and inside the crater was a defeated Sunset Shimmer turned back to normal. As the girls rose to their feet and walked over to help their defeated foe, little did they know was that their skirmish had been watched.

Hiding up in a tree on the other side of the road across from the high school sat a man clad in a dark camouflage outfit. He spied on the entire event through binoculars with a built in camera. His real name was unknown to everyone, but he went by the alias: Firefly. He was a mercenary working for Cobra, a shadowy and evil terrorist organization bent on world domination, as a spy and saboteur. His superiors recently assigned him to spy on a small province where reports of strange occurrences, large groups of people suddenly erupting in fights and arguments, had happened. After witnessing what just transpired in front of this small high school, he found that almost anything was now possible.

“Well, this was an interesting transaction.” Firefly said to himself as he hopped out of the tree and started walking down the sidewalk. “I think I might need to increase my stay here a few more days.”

Rainbow Rocks:

Six moons after the Fall Formal incident at Canterlot High, a trio of devious sirens in human form called the Dazzlings had used the school’s Battle of the Bands event as an opportunity to turn everyone at the school against one another so they could feed off of their negative emotions to regain their full power and gain control over the world. However, the Rainbooms: Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie pie, and Twilight Sparkle, were unaffected by the corruptive singing of the Dazzlings and were working to create a counter spell for their magic.

Now it was the main event of the Battle of the Bands, the Dazzlings performed on stage while the Rainbooms, with some help from Vinyl Scratch, performed on a small hill. By now the Dazzlings had absorbed enough negative energy to create astral projections of their true forms which flew around trying to take the Rainbooms down. Each band blasted magical sound waves against one another, but eventually the sirens overpowered the Rainbooms. However, a now reformed Sunset Shimmer decided it was her time to step up and show everyone that she could be one of the heroes. With Sunset by their side, the Rainbooms combine the magic inside them and form it into a giant astral form of an Alicorn in the clouds that blasts the sirens, destroying their projections and the gem pendants that powered their singing.

With their true nature revealed and their pendants destroyed the Dazzlings were unable to sing and manipulate the other students who proceed to boo them off stage and cheer for the Rainbooms and Sunset.

Unbeknownst to everyone, another person had been observing the entire spectacle. Atop another hill in the distance, Firefly stood watching everything with his binoculars. “Things just keep getting more and more interesting around here.” He said to himself. He felt that his mission was nearing its end.

Friendship Games:

Sometime after the Band of the Bands, it was now time for the Friendship Games, a sporting competition held every four years between Canterlot High and its rival school Crystal Prep. For a long time the Crystal Prep Shadowbolts have been the proud reigning champions of the games, but since their victories in the Fall Formal and Battle of the Bands, the Canterlot Wondercolts developed some new determination and confidence that this time they could finally beat their bitter rivals. However, things became a lot more complicated when Sunset Shimmer and the Humane Five found out that the human version of their beloved friend, Twilight Sparkle, was a reluctant member of the Shadowbolts and had built a spectrometer: a device that detects and steal magic, something the human Twilight did not intend.

Even with most of their magic accidentally stolen, the Wondercolts had become evenly matched with the Shadowbolts. Now everyone was gathered at the front of Canterlot High for the final event of the competition: capture the flag. However, Crystal Prep’s despicable principal, Cinch, finds out about the magic her prized student, Twilight, has stored in her spectrometer and with help from the other Shadowbolts pressure Twilight into releasing it in order to win the games. However, the result caused the magic to consume Twilight and turn her into a power-crazed being known as ‘Midnight Sparkle’ who decided to destroy the human world so she could travel to Equestria to learn more about magic. She had begun tearing open dimensional rifts leading to Equestria. Despite Sunset’s pleas for her to stop, Midnight Sparkle continued ripping holes in the dimensional fabric and endangering several students from both schools in the process. Realizing the danger they all shared, the Shadowbolts and Wondercolts decide to put aside their differences and help save their fellow students from this disaster. Sunset, having found the device that Twilight used to accidentally steal magic, realized that what happened to her long ago was now happening to Twilight.

“This isn’t the way!” Sunset pleaded. “I know you feel powerful right now, like you can have everything you want! I’ve been where you are, I’ve made the same mistake you’re making! I put on a crown and, just like you, I was overwhelmed by the magic it contained! I thought it could get me everything I wanted!”

“Oh, you’re wrong.” Midnight Sparkle retorted. “Unlike you, I can have everything I want!”

“No, you can’t. Even with all that magic and power, you’ll still be alone! True magic comes from honesty! Loyalty! Laughter! Generosity! Kindness! I understand you, Twilight, and I want to show you the most important magic of all…” Then with the spectrometer, Sunset drew what little magic the Humane Five had left, and then she threw the device on the ground destroying it and releasing their magic which transformed her into a glowing angelic version of herself called ‘Daydream Shimmer.’ “…the Magic of Friendship!”

Daydream Shimmer’s first act was to seal all the dimensional rifts, save for the huge one on the ground. Midnight Sparkle and Daydream Shimmer blasted huge energy beams at one another, at first it looked as if they were both equally matched until Midnight Sparkle started getting the upper hand. Just then Spike, Twilight’s puppy who had gained the ability to talk, ran forward in an attempt to get her to stop.

“Twilight!” Spike called desperately to her.

Midnight Sparkle looked down at the puppy who had pleading eyes. “Spike?” For a moment, Twilight snapped out of her corrupted trance. Seeing the opportunity, Daydream Shimmer blasted everything she had at Midnight Sparkle. “Noooo!” She screamed as she was engulfed in a blinding bright light.

When the bright light disappeared, the last dimensional rift was closed and both girls had returned to normal. “I’m so sorry…” Twilight tearfully apologized. “I didn’t mean for any of this to happen…”

“I know.” Sunset replied in an understanding and empathetic tone. “And going by my own experiences, they’ll forgive you.” She took Twilight’s hands and gave her a reassuring smile.

Spike barked with happiness and jumped on his beloved owner. Twilight giggled as he licked her face and gave her her glasses.

However, not everything was as right as it seemed. Standing on the roof of the school unnoticed was Firefly. Once again he had watched and recorded the entire thing with the camera in his binoculars. “Everything has turned out as I expected.” He chuckled sinisterly to himself as he put his binoculars away. After many weeks of infiltrating and spying, he felt that he had gotten everything he needed and his mission was finally done. “I think it’s time to return to base. The Commander will want to see this. Hail Cobra.” And with that he disappeared into the night.