The Harmonizing

Chapter One: The Harmonizing

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Location: Ponyville, Equestria; Princess Twilight Sparkle's Friendship Castle: Magic Lab/Observatory

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"Alright girls, now that we've all gathered the crystals I've requested we need only transfer our harmony magic and they should be good to go" Twilight stated checking all the necessary parts of the machine that would channel their magic into the nine lockets on a nearby crystal table.

"Thanks again so much for this; all of you...you have no idea how big of a help these are going to be back in the other world..." Sunset Shimmer said to Twilight and the rest of her friends as they stood around waiting for Twilight

"Think nothing of it Sunset, I was more than happy to help with this project when you told me what it might entail...and in all truth this should have been done after my second trip to that world...while they do have a means of defending themselves with their current line of "weapons" nothing in that world is equipped to handle magic threats..."

"Which is where we come in...really I should be thanking Earth Pinkie, Rainbow, Fluttershy and Twilight too; they're the ones who gave me the idea...Guess it helps those girls are really big into anime and that power ponies show...they even got me hooked" Sunset chuckled. "Heck it makes perfect sense, we already had magic to begin with and transform when we play music...being super heroes just seems like the logical next step...heh plus it'll finally get Rainbow and Pinkie to stop bugging me about it." Sunset shook her head with a amused chuckle.

"Certainly, and do give my regards to human Twilight, the design she came up with for these lockets is very interesting...I have to say the concept is simply brilliant; connecting these lockets to the elements of harmony and the mirror, with these two magics you'll be able to directly access pure Equestrian magic with these pendants acting like your own personal portals! " Twilight said with a smile finishing her preparations.  "Harmony Matrix is ready for stabilization!"

"Sure thing Twi..." Hearing it was ready, Sunset turned to the other mares in the room along with Spike. "Everypony and dragon ready?"

"Ready!" Everyone else proudly declared.

In the room stood the seven elements of harmony, Starlight Glimmer and Spike the dragon whom looks to have gone through a natural growth spurt now looking a bit more like his currently 'female friend' Dragon Lord Ember, complete with horns and finally with a set of wings and a longer tail. Three months after the end of the friendship games, human Twilight Sparkle and Sunset Shimmer had been trying to learn more about the magic of friendship and however magic in general worked in the human world; Sunset, being the curious one had decided to pry Twilight about her magic pendant that caused her Midnight Sparkle transformation and upon further research discovered that not only did it have the ability to track magic and contain magic but after it had absorbed magic directly from the portal it'd become directly linked to it which was why Twilight had managed to have enough magical power to blast holes in the fabric of reality between Equestria and Earth.

With this knowledge in mind and believing that the world may not have been 100% safe without a true magical line of defense, Sunset began mulling over how to properly weaponize their friendship magic so they could properly protect their world but for a whole month she'd come up with nothing. That is until one night during a sleepover at Pinkie's house, when the party girl was watching a new episode of power ponies with Rainbow Dash . Then later when Fluttershy was watching a magical girl anime on her tablet with Twilight; it finally struck Sunset. Together they were six girls and a talking dog who had the ability to turn into anthropomorphic magic pony girls that could fly and shoot rainbows; naturally id only make sense if they became super heroes of a sort. After discovering this Sunset got Rainbow, Pinkie  Fluttershy and Twilight to give her all the anime and power ponies footage and information they could give her and then promptly wrote to princess Twilight to get her thoughts on the matter.

Needless to say the pony princess was on board with the idea as long as it was conducted safely and in a place where they could control any haywire magic that may occur. And so now here Sunset was, back in Equestria for the first time in a long time in order to find a way to protect her new home.  They even managed to find a way to channel the dormant dragon magic in spike so that human world spike the dog could help in endeavors as well so he wouldn't feel left out at the request of human Twilight.  As Twilight came back to the center of the room ready to complete the process she'd look to each of her friends. Each of the elements of harmony: Magic, Forgiveness, Honesty, Loyalty, Laughter, Kindness and Generosity, each wore one of the pendants around their necks; spike had a similar gem spiked collar around his neck and Starlight too had a pendant around her neck. They each had taken a position on a platform each adorned with their cutie mark and in spikes case the mark of the dragon and after Twilight and Sunset took their positions atop the crystal platforms, Twilight would speak.

"Alright everypony; and dragon...we need to focus, concentrate your magic and it'll funnel together through this sphere and stabilize the pendants and sync them to the harmony matrix." Twilight explained

"I still don't get how all this works..." Rainbow complained ruffling her wings as she sat on her haunches.

"I've already explained it three times Rainbow..." Twilight grumbled

"You know I don't speak egghead!" Rainbow bellowed

"Basically Rainbow, we transfer out magic into these necklaces and we harmonize our magic, once fully synced and the magic equally distributed I'll be able to take them to the other world where your human world counterpart will be able to tap into Equestrian magic to fight magic monsters and be super heroes." Sunset stated

"Oh..." Rainbow blinked and then exclaimed shooting into the air and doing a loop."AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!! Are we...I mean they...gonna get like, super cool armor and weapons and stuff?!" Rainbow got in Sunset's personal space and was Pinkie Pie levels of excited.

"Eheh yeah...armor, helmets, wings and full access to Equestrian magic in a properly weaponized form for us to use as our imaginations see fit." Sunset explained trying to get Rainbow to calm down but could see she was just as hyped about this as human Rainbow Dash.

"I mean yeah, if you wanna explain it the simple way..." Twilight rolled her eyes and chuckled. "Anyway; is everypony ready?"

"Do we really have to harmonize them this way though?" Spike complained with his arms crossed

"Why whatever is the qualm Spike?" Asked Rarity who tilted her head in confusion.

"I mean do we really have to sing a song to do this? Can't we just power up like they do in the comics and do it?" Spike protested.

"We need to be in true harmony when we do this so yes...simply 'powering up' is only half the equation...C'mon Spike you don't ever seem to mind singing to Ember..." Twilight teased with a knowing grin

"H-Hey, thats different!" Spike defended with a blush on his face his eyes darting from side to side as the other girls giggled

"Tsk hardly Spike-wikey; I've heard how you sing to her darling, you have quite the voice" Teased Rarity nudging the adolescent dragon

"Uuuuugh" Spike groaned and huffed breathing some fire through his snout

"Oh relax Spike you only need to be in harmony with the song for a few minutes." Twilight added waving a dismissive hoof at the grumpy dragon.

"Plus it'll let your human world counterpart turn into a dragon..." Starlight added.

"Oh...right, forgot; can't leave the little guy hanging can I? Alright let's get this over with." Spike stated with a new swell of enthusiasm

"Excellent...Starlight you sure your ready?" Twilight asked cautiously

"Anything to help Twilight and you said it yourself, this is a team effort and if my magic reserves can help stabilize this matrix then I'm all for it." Starlight beamed happily having learned much from her studies of the ancient books that rest in the library of friendship.

"I do have to say it was ingenious of you to us magic to 'copy' our cutie marks into material form and seal them inside those crystals...and how convent that the crystals even took the forms of our cutie marks..." Sunset began to explain

"and Dragon Crest..." Spike pointed out raising a finger.

"Yes and your Dragon Crest, Spike...these mana crystals will last us a good long time and the best part is they're self recharging!" Sunset said with a intelligent grin. "They work a lot like the Dazzling's gems, we track down magic scattered around the world, we absorb it, it funnels through the gem purifying it if it isn't pure already and turns it into magic for us to use!"  Sunset giggled and gave a dreamy sigh. "Twi is so smart..."

"Why thank you!" Twilight said with a grin.

"Ha-ha very funny Princess...you know what I meant..." Sunset blushed and puffed out her cheeks indignantly

"Heheh I know it's just fun to tease you sometimes...anyway let's get this done. Everyone ready?"

"Ready!" They all answered

"Hit it Vinyl!" Sunset said to the DJ pony who was set up at her DJ system at the back of the room with the speakers and other such technological magic machines hooked up to her turntables.

Giving a salute Vinyl would begin the track that was given to her by Sunset from Earth Twilight Sparkle which was the instrumental for the chosen song loaded on a flash drive.  As the beat started and the music faded in everyone got into the mood and began to sway to the music and Applejack began.

[Applejack]

Once upon a time

You came into my world and made the stars align

[Rarity]

Now I can see the signs

You pick me up when I get down so I can shine

[Everyone]

Shine like rainbows

Shine like rainbows

Shine like rainbows

Shine like rainbows

[Rainbow Dash]

Friends, you are in my life

And you can count on me to be there by your side

[Sunset Shimmer]

And when the music comes alive

We sing our songs to lift us up so we can shine

[Everyone]

And the sound that we hear in our hearts

Makes a crescendo

And the light that ignites in the dark

It makes us all glow

And shine like rainbows

We shine like rainbows

Shine like rainbows

We shine like rainbows

Together we stand

As the rain begins to fall

And holdin' our heads up high

As the sun shines through it all

[Everyone]

And the sound that we hear in our hearts

Makes a crescendo

And the light that ignites in the dark

It makes us all glow

And shine like rainbows

We shine like rainbows

Shine like rainbows

We shine like rainbows

[Everyone]

We shine like rainbows

As Vinyl played the song and the elements of harmony, Spike & Starlight sang in harmony together as friends they all began to channel their magic into the artifacts. The room exploded with rainbow light and their various cutie marks and spikes dragon crest flew about the room in perfect crescendo. When the elements of harmony reached the halfway point of the song they had all entered rainbow power mode, Sunset included, Starlight and Spike along with the rest of them cast astral projections of themselves save for Sunset who launched the projection of a Phoenix. The projections danced about the room in harmony to the music and each then entered the open pendants which were absorbing their rainbow magic and focusing it. Once the song was over and the lights died down after the rest of the magic was absorbed, the pendants closed and shook and shimmered with energy and then finally settled down.Once everyone had floated back down to where they  had originally stood and everyone gave a smile to each other as Twilight and Sunset proclaimed.

"HARMONIZING COMPLETE!" They high-hoofed

"Woo-hoo! That was super awesome! It was all shiny and flashy and pretty! And those ghosty thingies were super neat!" Pinkie exclaimed hopping up and down

"Those were astral summonings Pinkie...those'll help us fight much...larger...more dangerous magical threats should they arise...when the sirens turned into those monster we very well could have died if my magic added to theirs didn't summon that giant crystal alicorn." Sunset stated.

"So what now Sunset?" Starlight asked

"Well now that the magic has been properly transferred we just need to run a field test to make sure all of the elements were properly transferred and layered out in the way we designed it too"

Sunset levitated her pendant over to herself and placed it around her neck and instantly felt a rush of power, similar to what she felt when she transformed at the friendship games but much...MUCH stronger, she could feel her inner fire burning hotter than it ever had and her eyes flashed a rainbow light for a moment upon putting the pendant on and her body literally shivered at the raw rush of power coursing through her from the tip of her horn to the soles of her hooves.

"Whoa...that's a rush...felt like I just had a storm of rainbow lightning shoot through me...I-I've never felt power like this before"

"Hehe guess that must've been me..." Rainbow quipped.

"Right...Anyway...here goes..." She grasped the pendant in her magic and charged it with her magic until the center symbol filled all the way up with a red light and from the center her cutie mark would appear almost holographic and Sunset spoke the specialized transformation spell. "Shine Light Shine, Friendship...HARMONIZE!" It was then the pendant looked like it caught ethereal fire, her cutie mark appearing and engulfing Sunset in a blinding gold and red light and a small tune could be hear coming from the pendant, it sounded heroic and upbeat. When she stepped out of the light she was adorned in gold and red accented armor that was slim and form fitting, each plate of armor was gold with shades of crimson inbetween, her cutie mark stamped into a crystal upon her chest but its appearance changed some now having two phoenix wings on each side. Her flaming hair literally took the form of fire and cascaded out of parts of the helm she wore that seemed to be able to open and close at Sunset's will and there was even a guard for her horn in this form. She also had wings with golden wing guards and gold hoof guards upon her hooves. Standing tall at about now Princess Luna's height Sunset looked over herself with amazement.

"Whoa...check me out!!!" She exclaimed excitedly.

"Amazing!" Rarity exclaimed

"Awesome!!!" Rainbow said in total hype

"Ooooooh pretty!" Pinkie bellowed

"Well I'll be a fresh shocked zap apple tree..." Applejack stared

"We've really outdone ourselves this time..." Twilight added with a smile nudging Starlight.

"Aw it was nothing Twilight, couldn't have done it without you" Starlight blushed and smiled. "But I am glad to see the fusion of the elements of harmonies power has synced so well to you Sunset...how do you feel?"

"Powerful...like...really powerful...but I have control of it...all of it, it isn't like the time at the fall formal and its way stronger than the time at the friendship games...this kind of power...is this what Celestia wields on a daily basis? I feel like my soul and body are on fire but it doesn't hurt...it feels amazing!" Sunset exclaimed still looking over her new form and armor.

"I must say darling that armor is simply marvelous!"

"You and Earth Rarity are to thank for that, pure genius using your skills as a fashion designer as well as our magic to use our pure imagination as well as the power of the element of generosity to form indestructible crystal armor!" Sunset said

"So how does the rest of it work?" Applejack asked

"Here I'll show you..." Sunset said with a grin as she focused her magic on the cutie mark and opened up a portal to the desert just outside dodge junction and they all stepped through it.

"Whoa..." The others say at Sunset's amazing display of magical power.

"I know right? You see each of the elements merged together in harmony gives the wielder of these amulets different special traits. Prime example...these wings?....Dash...Race you to that mountain side and back...bet I smoke you..." Sunset grinned knowing Rainbow would take the bait

"YOU'RE ON!" Rainbow readied herself

"3...2...1...GO!" Sunset shouted

They both took off at top speed but clearly Sunset was faster doing her own fiery version of a sonic rainboom almost instantly as she took the the sky blazing a fiery trail toward the mountain and leaving Rainbow Dash in the dust and all Rainbow could do was stare mouth agape as Sunset blasted off.

"No...Way..." Rainbow said in disbelief.

Sunset zoomed toward the mountain at such speed she almost crashed into it until she turned up and glided up toward the sun, her shadow cast gracefully much like that of Celestia over the entire desert.

"Amazing! Such speed!"

"Well I'll be dammed..."

"So you see?" Sunset teleported back down to them all surprising Fluttershy. "The element of loyal is directly linked the Rainbow Dash and thus her wing power and flight speed are granted to whoever transforms with these amulets, and when human Rainbow Dash puts this on? Well let's just say the rest of us are gonna have to try and keep up, she's naturally just...fast...this is gonna make her that much faster...so don't worry Dashie your ego can rest easy that your still the fastest mare alive..." Sunset explained and teased Rainbow a little.

"Pft yeah whatever I mean it was kinda cool I guess, could've been 20% cooler though..." Rainbow waved a dismissive hoof

"Anymore stuff? Oh, Oh can you bust rocks?!" Pinkie asked excitedly.

"Can I? These amulets also give the wearer the strength and longevity of an Earth pony soooo...." Sunset stomped a powerful hoof and a large rock came up from the sand and she thrust her hoof at it and shattered it into a pile of pebbles and grinned. "Yes...I can totally bust rocks."

"What else can you do darling?"

"Well I do have the weapon summoning spell...each of us are going to have a specialized weapon but I think I'll save that for when I have my hands back..." Sunset said sheepishly. "Anyway that's all the basic stuff." She reopened the portal and they all stepped back through and Sunset then powered down the amulet and turned back to normal after being enveloped in a circle of red light.

"Now you and the other girls just need to practice with them and hope that when the time comes they serve you well..." Twilight said levitating Sunset all the other amulets along with her saddle bags.

"If you run into any complications write us immediately."

"Thanks girls, for everything; I couldn't have done any of this without you...I'll be sure to tell the other girls hello." Sunset said with a smile as Twilight powered up the mirror portal which Twilight, sunset and Starlight had modified to where now they could open a portal anywhere in the human world with the help of the cutie map and cross syncing it across the worlds. Getting her desired location which was the CHS music room where she'd written to her friends that she'd be arriving shortly, she'd give one final look to her Equestrian friends.

"Thanks again girls, I'll be back to visit soon."

"Good luck Sunset!"

"Bye girls"

Sunset Shimmer went through the portal back to the human world where she'd be ready to share her newest magical conquest and achievement with her friends. With this they'd now be ready for any darkness that dared to threaten their world now