Plan to Eradicate the Ponies

Twilight took a sip of her tea as she flipped the page of the book she was currently reading. Ever since her battle with Tirek she had been obsessed with the further study of alicorn magic.  Magic was everywhere in Equestria. In every plant, every creature, and even in everypony. Unicorns weren't the only ones that could harness the power of magic. It was a well known fact that pegasi and earth ponies possessed certain magical properties, but no one knew they could harness it, until Twilight figured it out that is.

After the rebuild efforts, Twilight began to study the effects of magic in other pony races. She knew that something had to be done to better defend Equestria if another attack like this happened. If another foe appeared and she wasn't there to defend her home and her friends then all hope would be lost. So she hit the books.

She knew the earth ponies drew their magic from the ground and soil. She learned that once enough had been stored their strength and speed were significantly increased. She began to work with Applejack first. She was reluctant at first, but took to the lessons well. She was now able to increase her physical strength up to 3x her normal abilities. Although Big Macintosh did not enjoy the amount of trees that were destroyed in her training.

Pinkie's training was next. She took to it much faster than AJ did.  Twilight was shocked to find that Pinkie, once charging her magic a good deal, could actually produce copies of her self. Not sentient beings, but projected copies which greatly fascinated Twilight.

Pegasi magic was a bit of an enigma. It functioned similarly to earth pony magic, but was drawn from the sun (or moon) through the wings and the energy could even be fired from the ends of their hooves.

Fluttershy was very against the idea of practicing any act of violence. Because of that they learned the light she could emit contained healing properties able to contend with even the strongest of equestrian medicine.

Rainbow Dash loved every moment of training. She got a rush of excitement when she fired energy from her hooves. She even began to use it as a sort of booster when she flew.

Lastly came Rarity and since unicorn magic came naturally, training Rarity should be a breeze. Should be. Rarity had absolutely no interest in learning to fight. She would have absolutely no part in that nonsense. Twilight left her be for now, but she could sense a great deal of magic kept inside her.

Twilight looked from her book and got up from the table where she read. She lifted the empty cup that contained her tea and headed for the kitchen. Her hoofsteps echoed through the empty castle. What would happen if someone like Tirek ever came back? Would they be ready? Sure they had the princesses, but what if something was far more powerful than them? What if it decided it wanted to get rid of the competition? She shuddered.

She finally reached the kitchen and put her cup away. She really needed to stop worrying. If anything did happen she had her friends and that's all she really needs.

"Twilight!" Spike burst through the doors. "You're not gonna believe this!"

"What?" she asked quizzically.

"Applejack and Rainbow Dash are sparring, see and-"

"They're what!?" She said as she bolted for the door that led outside. Spike ran after her.

"Wait! You know how you said that earth ponies can absorb magic, but can't channel it, well"

Twilight burst out the door to the outside where her friends had circled around and began to watch the match that was being played out.

"RAINBOW BLITZ!" A cyan beam of energy shot violently from the sky and crashed hard on the ground causing a crater to form. In the middle of the gaping hole in the earth stood AppleJack holding steady.

"Is that all ya'll got? Ah'm hardly breakin' a sweat" AppleJack taunted. "And why is your attack called 'Rainbow Blitz' if'n it's only blue?"

"What? you got something better?" Rainbow shot back.

"Yeah I reckon I do." Applejack began to scream. She began to absorb more and more energy. Her muscles swelled. Veins began to emerge on her forehead.

"AppleJack stop! You can't take in that much magically energy! you'll pop!" Twilight screamed. An orange aura began to form around the farmpony. Her hat began to flutter in the magically current she was creating. Rainbow Dash watched with a bored expression.

"Tell me how ya'll like this one! APPLE BUCK CANNON!" At the last word of that sentence Aj's jaw flew open and an orange beam erupted from her mouth and quickly lanced toward Rainbow Dash. Dash quickly crossed her front legs to counter the attack. She spread her wings in an attempt to absorb what energy she needed to deflect this bolt. She began to sweat. AppleJack's attack was nearly overwhelming. She gritted her teeth as the energy blast slowly began to envelope her. She spread her wings even further apart. She began to feel light headed. with the last bit of her strength she swung her hooves to the right along with Aj's attack. The bolt flew into a nearby mountain and erupted into orange light. Dash lost consciousness and fell from the sky.

Twilight caught her in her magic and slowly set her down on the grass. "What was the meaning of this?" Twilight snapped.

"Me and featherbrains were doing a bit of sparring." Applejack said as she climbed from the crater she was in.

"Sparring? You almost killed her!" Twilight shot back. "I helped you develop these skills to defend yourselves not fight each other!"

"Yeah, but how are we supposed to get stronger?" Rainbow said weakly as her eyes slowly opened. "I almost had you"

"Yeah, that Rainbow Blitz of yours packs quite a wallop." AJ wiped the sweat from her brow.

"If I may, Applejack" Rarity piped up "the name 'Apple Buck Cannon' could use some work"

"Yeah, how about you name yer own attacks. Oh, wait, yer too chicken to fight." Applejack shot her a sly smirk.

"Ah pshh hm" Rarity spat. She turned up her nose. "A lady would never be involved with such tomfoolery"

Twilight sighed. "Just promise me to go easy on one another, and also" Twilight glanced at the carnage that was now her front yard. "Please find another spot to train."

"Me versus Fluttershy next!" Pinkie screamed as she snatched Fluttershy in a hug. Fluttershy winced.

"Do I have to?"

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Meanwhile far into the sky a mysterious meteor cruises calmly toward earth. What does it bring with it? Find out next time in "Plan to Eradicate the Ponies"!