Nightmares Coming to Lifeby Spore HarvestChaptersChapter 1 "the meeting"Chapter 2 "the background mane six"Chapter 3 "traveling"Chapter 4 "the Crystal empire"Chapter 5 "of to Las Pegasus"Chapter 6 "fighting in Cloudsdale"Chapter 7 "walking through the Everfree"Chapter 8 "surviving Canterlot"Chapter 9 "epilogue"Chapter 1 "the meeting"It was a beautiful day in Equestria. The birds were singing and the bees were buzzing and Twilight and her friends were having a slow day. It is for that reason that they decided to meet together at the castle to just hang out. "So does anypony have any ideas on what we can do for today?" Asked a bored Twilight Sparkle. "Well, we could play a board game." Suggested Applejack. "Nah, that's boring. How about we go to Canterlot and see if we can do something there?" Asked Rainbow Dash. At that Rarity shook her head. "No, sadly there is nothing going on in Canterlot or I would surely know darling." Then Fluttershy raised her hoof and asked in her usual quiet voice. "Um, why don't we go and help out the town with something. If you don't mind my suggestion." "That would be a great idea Fluttershy, but sadly there is literally nothing to help out with. There are no upcoming holidays, there are no friendship problems and there are no emergencies for us to deal with. So yeah nothing to do." Said Twilight and then face planted on the table with her friends soon following suit. After a moment of everyone admiring the table, Pinkie raised her head and somehow snapped her hooves and said. "Why don't we try to quote on quote take over Equestria?" After that comment, the whole room lifted their heads and started staring at her. "Um, Pinkie I don't think that is such a good idea." Said Applejack. "Yeah are you completely bonkers Pinkie. We are the elements of harmony what are you thinking we would get blasted and after that either trapped on the moon or in stone." Everyone else also voiced their disagreement except for Twilight. She raised her hoof to calm down all of her friends and when everypony finally stopped she voiced her opinion on the matter. "Pinkie is right we could quote on quote, mind the quotations, take over Equestria." After that, she put her hooves together in an evil way and started smirking and after a minute she said in a determined tone. "We are going to pretend to take over Equestria. I'm going to create a plan..." But then she was stopped by Rarity. "Darling you can't be serious if we do that we are going to be in some serious trouble with the princesses." "I was just getting to that, we are going to get the princesses, my brother and Discord in on it." After she mentioned the Draconequuses name he appeared in a puff of pink smoke. "You called." Everyone in the room was startled at first, but then Twilight said. "Actually I did we are going to need your magic to get the plan underway, but I still need to finish up everything." Discord just looked confused for a moment then he leant over to Fluttershy and asked. "Um, what's this all about?" "Twilight is creating a plan to quote on quote take over Equestria." After that, he raised his right eyebrow, pulled off his ears, cleaned them and then reattached them. "Could you please repeat yourself, because I swear that you said that you are planing to take over Equestria?" He asked and then Twilight answered. "Yes, we are planning on pretending to take over Equestria as Fluttershy already told you, but I still need to finalise all of the details, but when I do I'll make sure to call you all. You all just make sure to keep this under wraps. Actually, let's Pinkie promise to keep this a secret. You two Discord." With that, they all did the Pinkie promise and when they finished all of the motions they all went home. *** After a week of planning Twilight finally finalised the plan. With that done she sent letters to all the princesses and her friends telling them to come to the castle. After about half an hour they were all assembled. Then princess Celestia asked. "Okay, Twilight why have you called us to come to your castle?" Twilight started her little presentation by pulling down a big chart from the ceiling which basically explained the whole plan. After about a moment of them checking everything and double checking Luna finally started to speak up. "Do you have to use Nightmare Moon as your base for your evil forms?" Celestia then turned to her sister with a shocked etched into her face. "Luna why are you complaining we are getting a vacation after a thousand years of work or did you just skip over that part." Then she turned to Twilight with a serious expression on her face. "Look I am going to allow this under the condition that none of our subjects come to harm." "Of course we are not going to hurt anypony that would just be redundant. We are just going to scare them a bit. So does everypony here get the plan." Everyone nodded except for Shining Armour he raised his hoof and asked. "The only thing that I don't get is the part in which discord is going to give the clue to the new elements of harmony. Who are going to be the ponies chosen for that position?" "Ah, I'm glad you asked brother if you look at the chart here." She pointed to the upper right corner. "Then you are going to see who the new elements are going to be." After a minute of looking at all of the pictures he said. "Good choice Twily." "Now if none of y'all have any more questions then get started on your ends and we are going to get started on ours. We're going to meet again after a week to check if everything is ready. Until then Pinkie promise to keep this between us." Said Applejack. After that everybody in the room did the Pinkie promise and then they all went their separate ways. *** "Welcome everypony and welcome to the first annual Friendship festival." Said, Celestia, while standing on a stage in the middle of Ponywille. The Friendship festival was something that Twilight made up to start off her plan. As for how it looked. Well, it looked like any other festival. There are various stands where you can participate in fun carnival games. There were also decoration set up all over town and for the icing on top of this cake is, of course, the food, which was being taken care off by the Apple and Cake families. But enough about that you are here to see the mane six terrorise the populace so let's start with that. After the festival was about two-thirds complete the skies started to darken with storm clouds which started to cover the entirety of Ponywille. It sure had the citizens of Ponywille were freaking the fuck out. After that, the skies parted on top of the stage and down came Spike in his own nightmare mode disguise. Then he started to speak in a booming voice. "Citizens of Equestria my name is Spike the dragon and it is my greatest pleasure to introduce to you the new and improved elements of harmony." With that said the main six dropped down from the sky also in their respective nightmare disguises. They all stood on the stage and after a moment for everypony to admire them Twilight stepped in front of everyone and started to speak. "Hello, there my little ponies I am here to inform you that there is going to be a change in management because we are taking over." She finished her sentence with a sly grin. After that, all of the princesses and Shining appeared in front of them with determined faces except for Celestia who looked confused and worried. After a minute of everypony staring down the other, Celestia stepped forward and asked. "Twilight what happened to you? Who did this to you?" Twilight started to walk towards her. "Oh, my dear dear mentor. No one did this to me. I did it myself I embraced the darkness that was inside of me. We all did. Now if you would all please step down so that we could take over that would be swell." She said while also flashing a deranged smile. Her friends also joined her with their own versions. "Twilight you have to fight it." Screamed Luna and she would continue but was stopped by her sister. "It's too late Luna. Don't waste your breath. They are all to far gone. The only way to stop them is to put them down." After that Celestia charged up a spell and fired it at Twilight. She struck her mark and sent her flying over her friends. That of course was a mistake because then all of her friends charged straight at all of the princesses. Pinkie and Applejack ganged up on Shining, Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash took Luna and Rarity took Cadence. While they were fighting Spike helped Twilight get out of the wall that she got stuck in and when she got out she said. "That was a mistake, my dear teacher. A big mistake. Spike destroy her." After that Spike lunged at Celestia and punched her straight in the chest sending her flying back straight into a wall. "Ain't so fun when you are getting blasted into a wall now is it." Said Twilight. "You haven't seen nothing yet." Said, Celestia. Then she summoned in her armour and her claymore. "Now show me what you are really capable of." After that Celestia tried to attack Twilight but she was intercepted by Spike who used his fire to blast her away. Then they both lunged at each other and started to fight, Celestia used her claymore to slash at Spike, while he blocked her attacks with his scales while also attacking her with his claws and fire breath. After about a minute of that Twilight had enough and blasted her away from Spike and straight into the other two princesses and Shining. "Enough fighting It's time to end this. Elements to me!" Then they all assembled behind her and started to power up their elements and when they were finally powered up Twilight said. "Say goodbye to your subjects x rulers of Equestria." Then they all released their attack and then the rainbow beam started shooting towards the princesses and Shining and struck them all sending them to God knows where. When all the smoke finally disappeared it revealed a scorch mark and nothing else. "Well that was easy, but that's not the point now elements spread to all the corners of Equestria and take control over your designated districts." After that was said they all saluted and flew off to their respective corners of Equestria. ***Random Island*** "Celestia do you think we made the right choice leaving Twilight and her friends in charge of Equestria." Asked Luna while laying on a beach chair enjoying the sun. "They've got everything under control. Twilight thought everything through to the smallest detail, so stop worrying and start enjoying yourself." Said, Celestia, while magicking up a beach chair, a sun hat and a coconut with a straw inside. "Yeah enjoy yourself. This is probably going to be the only time that we are going to be able to get more than one week of vacation. Make the most of it." Said Cadance. She was currently sitting at a bar waiting for Shining to finish up a cocktail that she ordered. "I'm sure as Tartarus going to enjoy this time off." Said Shining while placing down two glasses and pouring in the drink. "To boredom." After that they all said. "To boredom." And then they all took a drink and started enjoying their vacation. Author's Note Here's a new story. I hope you enjoy it and if you did then comment, like and follow. With that said I'll see you in the next chapter. Chapter 2 "the background mane six"It has been a full week since Twilight and her friends took over Equestria and the ponies weren't too happy about it. Oh, what's this a brown coated unicorn stallion, with a brown mane and an hourglass for a cutie mark, is being chased by some magenta guards wearing purple armour. "I need to find a hiding spot now. I can't keep on running forever." He said to himself. Then out of nowhere, a mint green hoof grabbed him from a house and quickly pulled him inside, while the guard kept on running without noticing. The stallion was freaking out inside a dark room until he heard a familiar voice talk to him. "Doctor, please calm down it's just us in here." It was the voice of the wall-eyed pegasus Derpy. After that sentence, he calmed down and took a look around at where he was. He was in a pretty empty room, but that was not important to him. The only thing that he saw and was interested in were all of his friends. Those were the aforementioned Derpy, Bon Bon, Lyra, Octavia and Vinyl Scratch. After that, he sighed in relief and said. "Thank Celestia. I thought that some guards caught me. For that matter, I thought they already caught all of you." He said in a slightly surprised tone of voice. After that Vinyl stepped forward helped him to stand back up and when she finished she said. "The guards all chased us for some time, but in the end, we all gave them the slip." Then Octavia decided to add. "After that, we were wondering for a few days and after some time we slowly met up and that is how we got together." Then the doctor was in thought and after he finished his mental debate he said. "Well that's all well and good, but what do we do now?" After that Bon Bon said. "We do what we did until now. We evade the guard and try to escape this place." He was again in thought after that, but his concentration was quickly broken by Discord dropping in out of thin air. "What the?!" Said the Doctor with shock on his face which was mirrored by all of his friends. Discord then quickly got up and started to talk in a slightly fearful tone. "Ah, I finally found someone. Look I don't have much time, but you guys need to save Equestria. I don't have time to explain why, but you need to go to every single district, controlled by one of the elements and find the relics that I've hidden there. Find them and cure the elements." After that, a portal opened behind him and out came Fluttershy's voice. "Discord~. Get your scaly rump back here." Then a pink lock of hair extended from the portal wrapped around Discord and started to pull him inside, but before he got in he said. "Find the relics and save all of Equestria." And then he disappeared into the portal and everything was quiet. After around two minutes Vinyl spoke up. "Well looks like we now know what we are doing. We are going to save Equestria." Then Vinyl noticed a piece of paper on Doc's back. "Hey Doc what's that on your back?" The Doctor then turned around and grabbed the piece of paper in his magick and unfolded it. When he finished doing that he floated it on the ground and let everyone see it. It was a map of Equestria with some places marked on it. When they all finished looking at it the Doctor said. "It looks like a map of Equestria with six places marked on it, but I can also feel some magic coming from it." Then Everyone gathered around it After some time Lyra spoke up. "Hmm, it's probably a detection spell and an auto update spell that your feeling." Then She said a little bit more excitedly "He gave us this to help us out in finding all those relics." Then she calmed down slightly and asked. "So which one do we go for first?" "Let's start with the one here." Said, Octavia, while pointing to the mark that is located in ponywille. "Yeah, but we have a problem if this map is showing things correctly then the artefact is located on the apple farm and that means that we are going to be facing nightmare Applejack." Said the Doctor. "Are you sure that we can't start somewhere else." Asked Derpy. "Look Derpy if we get started now we can finish of this quicker and besides we are so or so going to need all of the relics before we even begin to think about curing Twilight since she is the most powerful one of them all. So let's leave her for last." Said Bon Bon. Then the doctor spoke up. "Okay then it's settled we are going to get the first relic today." Said the Doctor. Then he extended his hoof and said. "For Equestria." After that everypony else also put their hoof oh his and they all said in unison. "For Equestria." After that, they put their hoofs on the ground with smiles on their faces, but Octavia's smile quickly fell and turned into one of thought and after some time she finally said. "Okay if we are doing this now then we are going to need some equipment and supplies if we are doing this. Mostly saddle bags some food and some water." Everyone agreed then the Doctor asked. "So who has some of this stuff?" Vinyl then raised her hoof. "I have some high-quality saddle bags at my house." After her Bon Bon raised her hoof. "I have some canned food and some water bottles at my house, but I don't think I have enough for us to last." After her Derpy raised her hoof and said. "I have some more food at my place way more than we actually need." After the Doctor heard all of that he said. "Okay now we have some destinations and the first that I think we should go to is Vinyls place so that we can get those saddlebags, then we can go to Bon Bons to pick up the food and water and then we go to Derpy's. Any objections to the plan?" Then Vinyl raised her hoof. "Yes, Vinyl?" "Why don't we split up and get this done faster?" She asked. "Because I'm going with the mentality there is strength in numbers. So any other questions?" Everyone shook their heads in denial. "Okay then let's go." With that said they opened the back door and started to sneak away, but little did they know that they were being watched by yellow eyes. ***Everfree forest castle throne room*** "Did they buy it Discord." Asked Fluttershy. Discord then pulled his head out of the tear in reality and said. "They did and are already on their way to get ready to get the first relic on Applejacks farm." Then Applejack stepped forward and said. "Okay, then Discord transform me and beam me to my farm." Discord then snapped his fingers and Applejack started to transform. First, she started to grow until she was the size of Celestia. After that, her coat started to change from orange to black. Her mane and tail also grew out by at least ten centimetres. Then her hat transformed into a golden helmet and for the final touch, a golden yoke with the element of honesty on it appeared around her neck. "Is it done?" She asked after a minute. "Almost I just need to add two more touches and then I'll teleport you to your farm." He snapped his fingers one more time and her hair started to wave like it was in an invisible wind and her cutie mark changed from a shiny red apple to a black apple with a red outline. "And done. Okay then get ready for the teleport." After that she got ready, he snapped his fingers and she teleported to her farm. "Do you think we are doing the right thing?" Asked Fluttershy. "Look I'm going, to be honest with you I don't know. For me, this is awesome because I can spread my chaos over the entirety of Equestria and besides were not hurting anybody we are just scaring them a bit. Now if you excuse me I need to bring this information to Twilight see you in a minute." Then he snapped his fingers and left Fluttershy alone with her animals to keep her company. "Oh, I hope the others are having a better time than me." After that, she looked at a nearby clock and noticed that it was time to feed her animals. "Oh would you look at the time, it's time to feed you all." With that said she left the throne room with all of her little animal companions following her as well. ***Ponywille streets*** The Doctor and all of his friends are currently waiting for Applejacks guards to get lost so that they can cross the street and get into the alleyway across the street. "This is taking too long." Whispered Vinyl. "Patience Vinyl. It's only a matter of time before they have to switch out and speak of the devil." He whispered back. After he did the guards walked away. With their opportunity now open, they all quickly made it across the street and into Vinyls house through the back door. Once inside Vinyl said. "Okay, then you guys wait here while I go upstairs and get those saddle bags. In the mean time make yourselves at home." With that said she made her way upstairs while everybody else just sat down and waited. All except for Doc. He went to the window and checked if the guards have returned and of course they have. After making sure that they didn't spot him he closed the curtains and then he said. "Okay, we are going to have to be allot more careful now, because the guards have changed positions and if the time that it took for them to change is correct they switch between every fifteen to twenty minutes. So we are going to need a distraction to get out." After that Octavia spoke up. "I noticed that Applejacks guard is mostly made out of earth ponies. Can't we use that to our advantage somehow?" "Possibly, but we can't risk anyone of us getting caught. If what this map shows is anything to go by there are six relics one for each of us. If one of us is caught then we can not cure the elements of harmony. Maybe we could distract them by creating a distraction with our magic or let Derpy fly us over th..." The doctor would have continued but was interrupted by Vinyl returning with two pairs of saddle bags levitating in her magical grasp. "Here you go Doc." She said while handing one pair to him. Then she placed the other on herself and went to the kitchen. "I'm going to grab some stuff from around here that may come in handy later on." She said and left to go to the kitchen while the Doctor rolled up the map and placed it into his bag. After some time of her walking around the house and gathering up some things. When she finished she asked, "So what's the next step?" "Now we need to go to Bon Bon's house to get some water and after that, we go to Derpy's. When we have everything we are finally going to go to Sweet Apple Acres and get the first relic. Now, let's go while we can still hide under the cover of night." Said the Doctor. Everyone agreed and with that, they made their way towards the back door so that they could sneak out. When they were outside the Doctor quickly told Vinyl that they need to distract the guards and after a second of thought she picked up a rock and threw it across the street. "What was that?" Both of the guards said. "We better check it out." Said the right one. Then they both went to check out what made that noise. When they were far enough away that our six protagonists knew that they were safe, they made a mad dash towards Bon Bon's candy shop which also doubled as her home. The shop was located a couple of blocks down the street from Vinyls house. When they got to the shop Bon Bon quickly opened it and ran inside and just in time because there was a patrol coming down the street right when they closed the door. They were all pretty surprised that they even made it. "That was way too close for comfort." Said, Octavia, while wiping off the sweat of her brow. "You said it. Now if you excuse me I'll go and quickly grab the water." Said Bon Bon and left to grab the aforementioned supplies. While she was doing that the Doctor decided to pace around and think while the rest sat down and relaxed for a bit. After some time of silence, Derpy spoke up. "So how are we planning to get to my house it's not like we can just run there it's on the other side of town." "That is what I am trying to figure out." He said. Then Bon Bon returned with about eight two litre water bottles balanced on her back. When she was close enough she said. "Here this should last us a while." She then passed him four while she gave the rest to Vinyl. He took them in his magic and placed them in his bags. Vinyl did the same. After that, the Doctor again started to pace around and think. He was trying to figure out a better way to sneak around town and that is when he noticed a couple of cardboard boxes, which were just big enough to fit a pony inside, and that is when he got a stupid idea. "I've got an idea on how we can get to Derpy's house without getting caught." After that, he levitated the boxes over to his friends. When he did that they just looked at him like he was crazy. "What? If anyone of you has a better idea then let's hear it." Then they just looked at each other, shrugged, took a box, placed them over themselves and went out the back door of the shop. *** On their way towards Derpy's house. Nothing of interest happened. They walked past some guards and the doctor swears that he saw a grey pony equipped in body armour and holding a cigar in his mouth doing the same technique as they are. After he filed that away for later investigation they continued and soon enough they arrived at Derpy's house and quickly entered. "Okay, I'll be right back with the supplies." Said Derpy and flew off towards the kitchen to gather up the food. "Make sure it's either dried or canned. We don't want anything spoiling on our travels." Said the Doctor. "Okay." With that, she returned to her task. "Alright, so what is our plan of attack? How are we getting the first relic?" Asked Lyra. The Doctor then pulled out the map and unfurled it on the table for everyone to see and after some time of thought, he said. "Well, Lyra that is going to be a little tougher because we have two problems. The first one is that we don't know what she did to her farm for all we know there could be a lava river surrounding the entire farm." "And the other thing is?" Asked Octavia. "This map doesn't show where the relic is located. It only tells us the general area. So we are going to have to split up there. As much as I hate to do that." He answered. "Well then we have the building blocks for a plan, but we still have a lot of unknowns. I suggest that we scope out the area to figure out some of the unknowns." Said Bon Bon and when she did the Doctor got an idea. "I've got an idea, but we should wait for Derpy to return because she is going to be the main asset to that little idea." Then they simply waited for Derpy to return and when fifteen minutes passed everyone got a little worried. "Um, shouldn't she be back by now?" Asked Vinyl. "Do you think she got captured?" Lyra added. "No, if she was then they would probably sweep the house and capture us as well. I'll go check it out and if you hear a fight going on then quickly pack up everything and run." Said the Doctor and left the living room and went into the kitchen to look for his missing friend. Once there he quickly checked around to see where she was. After he was half way finished he heard some noises coming from the pantry. He charged up a knockout spell then he slowly went over to it and opened it. When he did he found Derpy inside tangled in some towels. The Doctor dispelled the spell and said. "Really Derpy how did you even get tangled up in towels?" When he finished his question he started on untangling her and while he did that she said. "I just don't know what went wrong. I was just trying to find a couple of bags for the trail mix, but then I bumped into a shelf and all of the towels on that shelf fell down. I tried to get out, but then I got tangled up even more." After she finished her explanation the Doctor the same with untangling her and started on folding the towels and placing them back on the shelf. When that task complete he helped Derpy finish up her trail mix and brought it to the main room. Everyone in there was extremely relieved to see that Derpy is alright and when everyone quieted down Vinyl asked. "So doc what's are we going to do to scope out the area around the farm?" Then the Doctor explained his plan and when he finished they put their boxes back on and immediately went towards Sweet apple acres. *** Once they were there they put Doctor's idea into action. The Doctor cast an invisibility spell on Derpy while Vinyl cast a soundproofing spell on her. After that Derpy flew into the air and started on circling the entire place and what she saw wasn't good. First, of the red barn that was once, there was turned into jail cells and the Apple family house was transformed into a large castle. It had three spires and was made of wood of all things. It still had the aesthetics of their home only now it looked like a castle. The fields, where the Apple family would usually work, were now filled with Ponywille residents that were being forced to work by Applejacks guard. And speaking of Applejack she was currently walking down the rows of apple trees checking if everyone was doing their job properly. After that Derpy made another fly around and then she returned to her friends and told them about everything that she saw and after she did the doctor said. "Well, it looks like we are going to have to wait a little bit. Until Applejack goes back inside the castle after that we can start exploring. Derpy did you perhaps see something that might look like the artefact?" "No sorry I didn't find anything that would fit that description." The Doctor then started to formulate a plan. When he finally finished all the details he said. "Okay, then we are going to split up here me and one of you guys are going inside. When we do we are going to knock out two guards and go exploring until we find the artefact. With that said who is going to go with me?" And then everything went silent and then after a minute of that silence Octavia sighed, stepped forward and said. "Okay, I'll go because I guess that you are going to be using magic to hide your horn so that you look like the guards on the farm." She said. "You would be correct about that. Now if no one else has any suggestions then let's go." After that, he took out the map and placed it into his mane while passing his saddle bags to Derpy. When they were both ready they took their boxes and started to sneak inside the farm. Once they were in a place where they could reach a guard they discarded the boxes and waited for one of them to arrive. After some time passed one of them finally walked by. With their chance now open Octavia quickly grabbed the guard while the Doctor quickly knocked him out using a spell. "Well that's one now we need to wait for another one." He said. After a minute another one went by, so they repeated the process and then they started on removing the armour. Said armour was made out of iron which was buffed to perfection. When they removed it from the two ponies their coat colours changed from orange to whatever their original ones were. After that, they put the armour on, the Doctor hid his horn and they both hid the knocked out bodies. "So what do we do now Doctor?" Asked Octavia. "Now we go and explore until we find something that looks like the artefact. Until then act natural." With that said they both made their way out of the alley and started their search for the aforementioned relic. *** After about an hour of searching, they were stopped by Applejack who spotted them when they were inspecting the cells. "Ho there you guys. The fields are that away. Now get back to supervising the townspeople. You know that I can't stand any lollygagging" At first, they both froze, but then the Doctor got an idea so he said. "I'm sorry Miss Applejack, but I'm shoving the new recruit around here so that she doesn't get lost you know how rookies can be. After I finish well both go to the fields right away." He said at first she looked at them with scepticism etched into her facial features, but after some time her face returned to normal and she said. "Okay then, but don't dilly dally. Now git." With that, they both saluted and went back to their search while Applejack returned to the castle to do whatever she does at that time in the day. When she was sure that Applejack was out of their earshot Octavia said. "That was close." "You said it now lets quickly find that artefact before we get discovered. Because I'm pretty sure that we won't survive another encounter such as this." With that, they continued their search. After some time passed the map started to glow. Octavia noticed that and told Doctor. "Well, would you look at that it is. That must mean that we must be nearby the relic." Then he simply took it out, held it in his mouth and then made a 360-degree turn and when he pointed it towards a window it started to glow brighter but the only thing on that window was a simple pie tin. "A pie tin? seriously." Said Octavia. "Well, you must put into consideration that it is Discord who hid these relics so it was bound to get weird." Said the Doctor. Then he tried to reach for it but was then shocked by the magic inside of it. "Ouch." he said while shaking his hoof. "What happened Doc? Why can't you pick it up?" Asked Octavia in a frightened tone. "I don't know maybe It didn't allow me to." Then he got an idea. "You try to pick it up." After that Octavia was surprised. "Are you crazy. I don't want to get shocked because that looked painful and..." The doctor only raised his hoof to shut her up and said. "Trust me. If my hypothesis is correct then you are going to be all right now go and pick it up before we get spotted." After that, she looked at him for a second, but eventually, she relented and released a sigh. Then she simply stepped forward and said. "Okay, I trust you." Then she reached for it, but she didn't get shocked and when she finally made contact the pie tin started to glow and morph. When it finally stopped glowing it was already around Octavia's neck and turned into something completely different. It was a golden necklace that looked allot like the elements of harmony. The only difference that was there was the centre piece. The gem was shaped like her cutie mark (a treble clef) and was coloured a solid purple colour. When it was finally done she looked at it and smiled. "Okay, now we've got it now let's go before someone finds us." Right on cue, the two guards that they knocked out appeared from around the corner followed by even more of them. "There they are. Get them." With that said they quickly made a run for it discarding the armour on the way. When they finally outran them and when they stopped looking for them. They returned to their friends to show them what they got and to plan out the next heist. Author's Note Here is the next chapter. I hope you all enjoyed it and if you did like comment and share this with your friends. With that said I'll see you on the dark side. Chapter 3 "traveling"After the Doctor and Octavia met back up with their friends they all quickly booked it for the hills where Octavia and the Doctor explained everything that happened to them on the farm. "Well, at least you got out of there alive." Said Vinyl. "And you got some bling to boot. So these are the artefacts that Discord was talking about?" "It sure looks like it, but it seems that I can't take it off." Said, Octavia, while trying to take it off. "So not only do we need to infiltrate each of the five areas, where the artefacts are located, but we also have to wear them once we get them. What kind of fetch quest is this?" Asked Bon Bon. "One that we need to finish so that we can reverse whatever happened to the elements." Said the Doctor. Then he turned to Octavia. "As for why you can't take it off. That is probably a defence measure in case someone tries to steal it, but I guess they could find ways around it, but then again I also don't know what these things are capable of." He reached into his saddlebag and pulled out the map. "Now let's see which area should we hit up next." After he said that everybody gathered around and started looking over the map. "I suggest we go to the Crystal empire if we go there then we can work our way towards Canterlot where we will probably cure all of the elements at once." Suggested Lyra. "I agree with her on that one. The elements are probably in touch with each other somehow. So if they are they are probably going to wait for us there or attack us before we get there." Said the Doctor. "But what if we run into some sort of creature or bandits. Not that we have anything for them, but some ponies don't think straight under pressure." Said Derpy in a worried voice. "Well as a wise adventurer once said that is for future me to worry about." Said the Doctor while rolling up the map and put it back into his map. "Now if you are done worrying we have a destination and not allot of time to get to it. Let's go." With that said they all started on their long journey towards the Crystal empire. *** After some time of walking in silence, Derpy spoke up. "Um Doctor I know that you know what you are doing, but I think we are going to need some more equipment to handle the northern winds and snow." After that he stopped dead in his tracks. Then he walked over to the nearest tree and started to bang his head against it. "Um, Doc are you okay." Asked Vinyl. After a couple more knocks to the head, he said. "Yeah, I'm good." After that, he pulled out the map and started to check over it. "Okay then let's see on the way to the crystal empire there are three cities one of them is Trotingham and I suggest we get all of our stuff there since it is the closest to the empire so that we don't go to off course from our original destination." "But we are still going to need blankets and sleeping bags so that we have someplace to sleep, so I suggest that instead of Trotingham we go to Baltimare and get our supplies there." Said Bon Bon. "Okay, I guess that sounds allot better and it isn't too much of a detour if nopony has anything else that they want to say before we head off." Everyone shook their head. "Okay then let's go before we are caught by one of Applejacks patrols." With that said the Doctor packed up the map and they made their way towards Baltimare, but what they didn't notice was a dark shape with yellow glowing eyes watching them. After they completely disappeared it flew off towards Cloudsdale. *** After about four hours of constant walking they finally arrived at Baltimare and what they saw left them in complete shock. The city was completely decimated like some sort of tornado flew through the entire city and destroyed it. "Man it's only been like a week. What could have possibly happened here?" Said Vinyl. "Well by the evidence that is provided, some sort of riot possibly happened and to end it drastic measures had to have been used or they all fled the city so fast that the ponies destroyed half of it." Said the Doctor while checking some rubble and hoofprints. "Let's quickly get what we need and get out, because this place is giving me the creeps." Said Lyra. "Alright. I always wanted to try scavenging, but I never found any ruins that I could explore and do that in." Said Vinyl while running ahead of them with everyone else soon following. When they all caught up to her Octavia said. "Vinyl sometimes you are really unbelievable sometimes." When they caught up to Vinyl they found themselves in front of the Baltimare general store. The place looked as destroyed as any other building if not slightly worse after they finished looking at it, they made their way inside and once there the Doctor said. "Okay, we are going to split up so that we can cover more ground. Derpy and I are going to take the east side. Vinyl and Octavia you take the centre and Lyra and Bon Bon you take the west side. Take everything that might be important on our journey. We meet back here in one hour. Everyone got that?" Everyone nodded with determined faces. "Okay then meet you back here in an hour." After that, they all went to their designated areas. Twenty minutes passed with Vinyl and Octavia finding some useful stuff and putting it inside the formers saddlebags, but after that, they found a very peculiar sight. To be more specific they saw a couple of what looked to be Wonderbolts only that these guys wore a lot more darker clothes. "We should go find the others and tell them about this. They probably aren't here to shop if their demeanours have anything to say about that." Whispered Octavia. Vinyl simply nodded and they quickly snuck away. After some time of searching, they found Lyra and Bon Bon they told them what happened and after packing everything away they began to search for Derpy and the Doctor, but sadly they were too late because they heard the sound of a battle going on. "That can't be good." said Vinyl. "Yeah, it isn't now everypony grab a weapon or charge up your spells, because we have a couple of friends to save." Said, Octavia, while noticing a pipe and trying to pick it up with her mouth but to her surprise right when she was about to grab it, it started floating surrounded in a purple aura. "What the?" Then she shook her head. "Questions later. Saving friends now." With that, she directed the floating pipe next to her and got ready to charge. When everyone was ready they charged into the battle. There were three Wonderbolt wannabes attacking a shield that the Doctor created to protect himself and Derpy. Sadly the shield was cracking meaning that he was at the end of his magic and concentration. With that observation made they quickly charged at the three Wonderbolts knocking two out and leaving the other to escape and charge up another attack, but when he was about to hit he made a full one-eighty turn and flew out of the store. Now with the immediate threat gone Octavia ran over to the Doctor and Derpy. "Doctor, Derpy are you two okay?" "Besides a couple of bumps, magic fatigue and a slight headache we are going to be fine." Said Doctor. "Yeah, we'll be fine. They just caught us off guard." Said Derpy while nursing a bruise. "Okay, then Doctor if you and Derpy are okay could you please tell me how I am able to do this?" Asked Octavia while demonstrating her new ability and after she did the Doctors eyes widened. "Fascinating. I'm going to check that out later when my magic returns but if I had to hazard a guess then I believe It came from the relic around your neck since it is glowing as well. For now, let's take care of these Wonderbolt wannabes." He said while looking at them and after that, they started on the task of tieing them up and when they were securely tied down they relaxed a bit. After they were calmed down Bon Bon asked. "Okay, then what do we do now?" "Now we wait for them to wake up so that we can ask them a couple of questions and while we are waiting let's see what we found and prepare a lunch." Said the Doctor. With that, they all started to prepare a simple lunch. ***Cloudsdale weather factory*** "Come on workers. We have a castle to build so put your backs into it." Said Rainbow Dash who was currently in her nightmare mode. She looked very similar to Applejack. The only differences being that she wore dark silver armour and that her hair and tail looked like rainbow coloured fire. She was currently walking back towards the main office of the weather factory, where she could transform back into her regular form, but when she got there she found one of her Shadowbolts waiting for her. At first, she looked surprised, but she quickly calmed down and said. "Ah, it looks like my scouting party's back, but weren't there three of you?" When she finished her little observation, the shadow bolt saluted and said. "I'm sorry to say this, but they were defeated when we tried to capture two of the ponies that managed to escape Poniwille. I managed to escape by faking them out." After that Rainbow looked pissed. "You left them in the hands of the enemy! Do you have any idea what you have done? They could blab some secrets that they can't know. I can only imagine what they are doing to them at this moment." Then she closed her eyes and was silent for a moment and when she opened them she said. "Go back and rescue them and I want it done yesterday." With that, the Shadowbolt saluted and flew back to where she left her team behind. When she left the office Rainbow let out a sigh of relief and right after she turned back to normal. "Man it sure is hard keeping up that charade, but it is sorta fun." "I do agree my technicolour friend." Said Discords voice and right after that he dropped down from the ceiling. "It seems that my magic has again faded. Shall I recast it Rainbow?" "Yeah you know it, I wanna go out flying a little more before I have to prepare for the gladiator games and don't even get me started on the flaming hair because it is awesome so lay it on me." After that Discord snapped his fingers and she turned back to her nightmare mode. "Oh yeah and before I forget Celestia wants to hear how you are all doing so she told me to teleport you all to her for a small meeting so be prepared for that." "Okay then Discord if that's true then I guess I'll see you tomorrow just try to get me when I am not working on the games." She said while spreading her wings. "Now if you excuse me I have a track to beat and gladiators to find." And then she threw herself out of the nearest window. After that Discord simply teleported back to the castle. ***Baltimare general store*** After they all finished eating their lunch the two captured Wonderbolts started to wake up. "Well look who's waking up." Said Vinyl. "You'll newer get our secrets and you are going to be sorry for messing with the Shadowbolts." The Doctor then stepped in front of them. "Okay, because you just answered all that we needed to know. Now, let's pack up and go." "Wait you won't torture us to give you information. You only wanted to know what we are?" Asked one of the Shadowbolts in a confused tone. "No we won't, but we are going to knock you out again so that we can leave in peace without you knowing where we are going and yes that's all we wanted to know. Now please be quiet." Said the Doctor while packing up his supplies. "The only thing that I truly want to know is why you are following us?" "Well, we weren't quite following you." Said the first one. "We kinda stumbled upon you when we were scouting out the area." Said the second one. After he did the doctor finished packing and put the saddlebags on his back. "Okay, thank you for the information but now it's time for you two to say goodnight." Then he charged up his horn with the knockout spell and aimed it at the Shadowbolts. When he did he shot them and they immediately went back to sleep. "Okay then." He said while turning to the girls. "Did you pack everything?" They nodded. "Okay then let's go before reinforcements arrive and capture us." After that, they headed for the Crystal empire. Chapter 4 "the Crystal empire"The journey to the Crystal Empire was a long and tiring one. It took them five days to get there. It would have taken less time, but the constant attacks of bandits and rogue monsters that fled the Everfree and to add on top of that the weather was completely out of control. You know how the weather is usually controlled by the pegasi, well it still is in the towns that are still populated, but the area between them is completely wild. Meaning that they had to stop and wait out a couple of the stronger storms in caves. When they finally arrived at the Crystal empire they saw what happened to it and then Vinyl asked. "What the buck happened here?" She asked in a shocked voice. The crystal empire looked like it was having a fashion show through the entire city, with everyone wearing unique dresses or suits while the paparazzi were walking around and photographing them and to make the picture even more complete everyone was wearing a strained smile to complete the look. "Well Vinyl it looks like they are having a forced fashion show and I only know of one pony of the elements of harmony who would do that and that would be Rarity." And right on queue Rarity appeared wearing one of her amazing creations. "Everypony quick hide!" Whispered the Doctor to everyone. With his warning, they all hid just in time for her to miss them. With them hidden they slowly crawled their way towards an alleyway while listening to Rarity talk. "Oh, these clothes that I made for you all is simply divine. I'll make sure to create another fashion line for the next season, but until then I'll take a small break." She was currently wearing a nice dress made to accentuate her eyes. They also noticed that she was not wearing her armour which they assumed she would, but they thought that it would clash with the dark blue dress too much but enough about the dress she was now sitting at a restaurant and waiting for a waiter to start serving her. "Okay, then guys we will have to blend in if we want to start searching for the next artefact in piece. Does anyone of you have any ideas on how we can do that?" After that everyone started to think of a plan on how to get around without being noticed. Then out of nowhere six black suits fell from the sky and after that Discord popped his head out of a portal in the sky just above them. "Hello there guys I managed to get away from Fluttershy for a little while and I saw you were in a bit of a pickle over here so I decided to pop in and give you something to help you out." He said with a small grin. "Okay Discord what exactly did you give us?" Asked the Doctor. "Well, I gave you some suits and sunglasses so that you could quote on quote blend in and I also gave you ear pieces so that you could talk to each other when you aren't all grouped together." When he finished saying that some strands of pink hair appeared again and a sweet and yet still evil voice followed it and said. "Discord what did I tell you about running away. Do I have to let the manticores on you again." After that, the hairs wrapped around him and was pulled back into his portal while screaming. "No please no not the manticores please nothing but the manticores!" And then the portal closed, leaving our six friends scared and completely confused. ***Random Island*** After that little show Discord and Fluttershy appeared in front of all the princesses and Shining Armour. "Hello, Celly. Hello, Lulu. Hiya Cady and hello Shiny. How's your vacation coming along?" He asked while turning Fluttershy back to normal. "Oh, it's simply marvellous. Even if it is at the expense of my little ponies. Speaking of how are things going in the rest of Equestria? Is anybody hurt?" Asked Celestia while laying on a beach chair and enjoying a nice coconut. "Well they are either panicking, tired or annoyed, but no one was harmed. Even in Rainbows territory. Which is a complete surprise since she has a gladiator thing going on." After that Luna stepped up to discord and said. "As long as nobody's getting hurt everything is alright. They so or so need to toughen up a bit. But enough about that Are you up for a round of volleyball. Shining just taught me the rules and it sounds like a really fun game." She said while levitating the ball next to herself. After giving it some thought he said. "Sure why not." Then he turned to Fluttershy. "Fluttershy we are going to take a small break so get comfortable and enjoy yourself for a bit." Then Discord and Luna flew off to a volleyball field where Cadance and Shining were waiting for them while Fluttershy simply went up to a beach chair and laid down. After some time Celestia turned to her and asked. "So Fluttershy how does it fell to run your own kingdom?" Fluttershy first made a quiet eep sound, then she gathered her composure and answered. "Well, it is nice especially for me, because I get to take care of all my woodland friends, even if I do look like a monster. But there is also the problem of trying to balance my usual personality with the evil one. It certainly takes it's toll on me." She said in her characteristically quiet voice. "Well as long as you don't go overboard. Now relax and enjoy the rest of your stay here." After that, they both relaxed and enjoyed the day. ***Crystal empire*** After Discords portal disappeared and after about a minute of them staring at the space where it was completely confused, Vinyl said. "Okay is anyone else scared to take on Fluttershy?" That snapped everyone out and then the Doctor said. "We are going to have to suck it up and do it. Until then lets change out of the snow gear and put on those suits and then we can get started on finding the next relic." He said while getting out of the parka that he was wearing. Everyone soon followed and then they started to put on the suits that they got from discord once that was finished one of Rarities guards noticed them in the alley and said. "Hey, you get your lazy flanks out of there and go back to your posts you don't want to be turned into a living mannequin now do you." At first, they all froze, but when they noticed that he was not attacking them the Doctor turned around and said. "Well get back to our posts immediately sir." He ended his statement with a salute. The rest of his friends did the same and after that, the guard left them alone. When he did they all let out the breath that they didn't even realised that they were holding. "Okay, that was again way to close for comfort. Now with that out of the way let's start searching for that relic." Said Vinyl. "You are right now let's split up like we did at the store and start patrolling the empire. If anypony finds anything that might look like the relic then please contact each other through the ear pieces." Said Doc while pointing at his piece. "But how are we going to be searching for the relic if we don't have the map?" Asked Lyra. "Whops I forgot about that..." After a moment of thought a lightbulb turned on over his head and he said. "I've got an idea you are all going to make sure that the guard doesn't get suspicious of us while I and Derpy snoop around. Can you do that?" Asked the Doctor. "Trust me when you asked for a distraction no two are better for the job then Lyra and Vinyl." Said Bon Bon. "Hey!" Both of the aforementioned ponies cried out. "Oh shut up. You both know that that's true." Said Bon Bon. After that, they both harrumphed and turned their heads away from them. After a minute of the Doctor spoke up. "Okay then. If there are no further objections let's get out there and start searching." Then they all put on their sunglasses and went out of the alleyway where they promptly began to search the Empire. *** After around two hours of searching our six friends met back at the alleyway where they started to compare notes. Once there Vinyl asked the Doctor. "So Doc did you and Derpy find anything?" "Nope. Zip. Nada. We didn't find diddly squat and we searched the entire empire. Oh, this is bad. This is really really bad." Said the Doctor in a slightly panicky voice. "It's going to be okay Doc we just didn't find it today doesn't mean we are not going to find it ever." Said derpy while trying to comfort him. Then she noticed the map starting to glow. She pointed it out to the Doctor, who quickly took it out and started to search around. When he noticed what the relic was supposed to be he threw the map on the ground and said. "Celestia damn it Discord." After that, he vent to the wall and started to hit his head against it. Why? You may be asking yourself. Well, you see the map pointed out that the next relic was located on Rarity meaning that it was probably her dress. After he finished his head banging he stepped up to his friends and asked. "Does anyone of you have any idea on how we can get the dress off of Rarity without getting ourselves killed?" "Well, we could always knock her out and then take it." Suggested Vinyl. After that Octavia hit her upside the head and said. "That is a stupid idea. I have a better one. We follow her around until she puts those clothes away and when she does and is out of the picture then we can quickly grab it and are out of the empire before she even knows that it's gone." "Well if we're doing that then let's set it into motion now because she is getting away." Said Lyra while pointing at the disappearing form of Rarity. "Okay then let's go but make sure to stick to the shadows. Don't want to attract any unwanted attention." With that said they all started to follow her, making sure that they didn't get spotted. *** They followed her for hours. Rarity seemed to have a pretty busy day. From checking on all of her guards to making an appearance at all fifty-eight of her stores and to add on top of that she had at least ten still being build. Her final stop, as it looked like, was her home in the crystal palace smack dab in the middle of the Crystal empire. "Phew that was a long day of work, but now I really must put my clothes away and take a long relaxing bath and maybe a massage." She said while opening the castle doors. When she stepped in the doors started to close behind her automatically. Since our six friends couldn't follow her in fast enough Octavia used her newfound magic to keep it open. "Okay, I could really get used to this." She said. "Yeah. Now let's go before we lose sight of her." Said Bon Bon. With that, they all made their way inside the castle. Once inside they noticed that the castle was decorated with allot of mannequins wearing different styles of clothing for ponies. Most of them were extravagant dresses with the occasional suit here and there and on the end of the hallway there stood Rarity putting her current dress back onto a mannequin. "Okay then the dress is now neatly put away, now it's time for my bath." Then she left the hallway and entered into what was presumably a bathroom. After the door closed Lyra said. "Okay now is our chance let's grab the relic and go." "It isn't that easy Lyra. We have to make sure that the right person takes it otherwise the pony that touches it is going to get shocked." Said the Doctor. "And how do we figure that out?" Asked Bon Bon. "We just guess and hope that we don't get shocked. So who wants to go first?" Asked the Doctor. When none stepped forward he sighed. "Okay, I'll go first." Then he reached for the dress and just like before he got shocked. "Ouch. Well, I guess this one's not mine. Lyra why don't you try?" "Um okay. Oh, I hope I don't get shocked." With that, she also tried to touch it but was again shocked. "Ouch." "Okay, it's not Lyra's ether. Why don't you try it Vinyl?" Said Doc. "This is gonna sting so bad." Then Vinyl closed her eyes and tried to grab it, but this time she actually touched it. When she did the fabric started to glow and morphed into a golden necklace, only that hers had a black musical note on it. After the process was complete Vinyl opened her eyes and asked. "Did it work?" "Why don't you check for yourself." Said the Doctor while pointing at her new necklace. then she took a look at herself and grinned. "Sweet I wonder what I can do with it?" She said while tapping her chin. "That's all well and good and I'm sure that we can figure that out later, but now we need to get out of here." Said, Bon Bon, while pointing at the twisting door knob. After they all saw that they quickly ran out of the castle, but not before Rarity spotted Derpy because she hit her head on the doorway and fell down. "What is going on here who are you and...?" Then she took a look to her mannequin and saw that one of her dresses was missing. Then her hair turned into a tornado, her eyes turned completely white and after that, she yelled out. "GUARDS CAPTURE THE INTRUDER AND RETURN TO ME MY NEWEST DRESS. AFTER THAT I WANT TO SEE THEM TURNED INTO MANNEQUINS FOR THE REST OF THEIR MISERABLE LIVES!" And with that Derpy quickly made her exit just in time for one of Rarities magic beams to strike the place where she once stood. Once Derpy caught up to her friends Vinyl asked. "Derpy what happened?" "I might've sorta alerted Rarity to our presence and now she and her guards are after us." She said while still flying next to her. "All the more reason to get out of this place." Said the Doctor and when he did a large magical blast flew past him. "Woah there." "Okay, relic if you can hear me then please help us out!" Screamed Vinyl to her element and after she did a giant red glowing record appeared in front of her. "And how...? Oh yeah, this could work." After that she made the record allot bigger and placed it behind herself and her friends. After that she made another one appear in front of them and said. "Jump on we are flying to our next destination in style." At first, they all looked confused, but after a couple of magic blasts from Rarity, they quickly jumped on it. When they were on Vinyl jumped on as well and then she levitated the record with all her friends high into the sky until they were above the cloud layer avoiding Rarities magic strikes in the process. The final thing that they heard behind them was a frustrated scream from Rarity and then nothing. "Well now we have two relics and we know that they give us some new abilities. With that squared away where do we go next Doc?" Asked Bon Bon. Then the Doctor pulled out the map and looked over it. After some time he said. "Now my friends we go off to Las Pegasus." He said while pointing in the general direction of the city. "Okay then hold onto something, because we are going full speed ahead." Said Vinyl. After that Octavia stepped up to her and said. "Don't you dare Vin..." But she didn't get to finish her statement because Vinyl made the record fly towards their next destination at the speed that was almost equal to the speed of sound. Author's Note Here is the next chapter. As always I hope you enjoyed and if you did then please like comment or share this story with your friends. With that said I now have to sacrifice a lamb to the eldritch monstrosity that is living in my closet and if I don't do it he gets cranky. See you in the next chapter. Chapter 5 "of to Las Pegasus"When they finally stopped moving they noticed that they had already arrived at Las Pegasus. Or what the map showed to be Las Pegasus. It didn't look anything like it should. Instead of buildings made out of concrete and glowing signs everywhere, there was only candy and baked goods as far as the eye could see and Vinyl just crashed straight into a giant three story cake. After some time of them crawling out of it Vinyls head popped out of the cake and when she did she said. "That was awesome! We need to do that again." After her Octavia's head popped out right behind Vinyl. She then hit her upside the head and said. "If we are doing that again you are doing it alone." When she finished her little rant she sighed and calmed down. "You are really impossible sometimes." After that everybody else got to the surface. "Mmm, this cake is delicious." Said Derpy while stuffing a piece of the aforementioned cake into her mouth. Then the Doctor also tasted the cake and said. "Yes this sure is delicious, but we need to get out of it and get ourselves cleaned up." He turned to Vinyl. "Could you please create another record so that we can get out of this mess." Vinyl simply nodded and created another record and placed it on top of the cake. After that, they all climbed up and Vinyl floated them down to the ground or what she thought to be the ground. It was kinda hard to tell with everything being made out of sweets. After she placed them on the ground she made the record disappear. "Okay, then Doc where do we need to go now?" Asked Vinyl. The Doctor checked the map and when he finished he said. "Well, the map is telling me that we need to go that way." He said while pointing towards a giant castle which was yet again made out of candy and sweets. "Okay, can someone please punch me, because I really want to wake up now." Asked Lyra. After that Bon Bon punched her just enough to not hurt her too much. "Okay, I'm not dreaming and ouch." She said while rubbing her shoulder. "Alright then whenever you are ready we can start on getting the next relic." Said the Doctor. Then they all started to walk towards the candy castle. *** When they finally arrived at the gates to the town they saw that everything was normal. Well, almost normal the houses and everything else was made out of candy, but other than that everything looked normal. There weren't even any guards patrolling the streets and then out of nowhere Pinkie Pie appeared before them in her nightmare form. "Hiya there and welcome to Las Pegasus." She said. Our friends first jumped back and got ready to attack, but when they saw that she wasn't attacking them the Doctor stepped forward and said. "Um hello to you as well Pinkie." After that everyone else also stepped forward and then he continued. "May I ask why you are not attacking us?" "Oh, that's because Spore Harvest wrote me to be a break character for you guys and because I don't feel like it." After that, she pulled out a plate of cupcakes all coloured like one of the six friends from seemingly out of nowhere and placed it in front of them. "Now please enjoy these complimentary cupcakes while I go around and make everyone smile." With that said she hopped away in her trademark Pinkie hop leaving our friends completely confused. Except for Derpy who went to the plate and ate her cupcake. "Is anyone else going to question what she just said?" Asked Lyra. "No, I would rather keep my sanity so I'm going to ignore that last part." Said the Doctor. "Agreed." Everyone else added. Then they all went to the plate and took their cupcakes and enjoyed them. When they finished them the Doctor pulled out the map and they started to search for the artefact, but before they were too far away from the gate Pinkie decided to join them. "Hey, guys where are you going?" She asked by hopping next to them. Derpy then flew next to her and answered. "We are going to explore the city so that we can find the relic that is hidden here." "Oh, so you want a tour." After that she stepped behind the building and when she returned she was wearing a suit with a small flag poking out of her head. "Okay then if the group would please follow me and please don't get lost in the crowd." With that said everyone started to follow her. ***Canterlot castle*** Twilight was currently sitting on her throne and reading a book in her normal form. She was enjoying herself immensely but after another ten minutes of complete silence, two of her friends entered the throne room. They were Applejack and Rarity both in their nightmare modes. "Oh hello there guys. Do you have any news to deliver?" Asked Twilight while putting away the book on a stand that she had next to her throne. "Oh, nothing too serious darling. Only that the Doctor and his friends managed to get two of the six artefacts and are already working on acquiring the third one as we speak." said Rarity while turning back to her regular mode. "Yeah and as per your plan when they got ours we started to walk back here while bringing our armies with us." Said Applejack while also transforming back into her regular mode. "Ah good that means that they are progressing nicely. Do you perhaps know where they are currently?" Asked Twilight. "Well, when I chased them away from the Crystal empire they looked like they were heading to Las Pegasus. So they are probably dealing with Pinkie." Answered Rarity. Twilight then shivered and said. "Let's hope that she doesn't go too far with her craziness because Celestia knows she is allot more hyperactive than before." Rarity and Applejack only nodded. After that, a portal opened up and Discord popped his head through it. "Hello there Twilight and present company. Do you want to join us in a game of volleyball? I and Luna are currently owning Cadance and Shining." Luna then poked her head through the portal as well. "Oh yes please do join. They say that this game is more fun the more players join and I would really appreciate it." She said. After giving it some thought Twilight shrugged and said. "Eh, why not we have at least the rest of this day so why not." Then she turned to her friends and continued. "Do you want to join?" Applejack and Rarity nodded and after that, they all entered the portal and went to play some volleyball. ***Las Pegasus*** "And over there we have the hotel where you can take a rest if you wish. With that said that concludes our tour of Las Pegasus. Does anypony have any questions?" Asked Pinkie while discarding her little costume. "I only have one. Do you perhaps know where the artefact is located?" Asked the Doctor while looking completely exhausted. "Oh that. Yeah, I know where it is." After that, she reached into her mane and pulled out a big present. "Here it is. Now if you excuse me I need to go back to the bakery and started preparing for the evening rush. Bye." Then she gave them the present and hopped off towards the direction of the aforementioned bakery. "Okay is anypony else going to question how come the map wasn't glowing while we were near her the entire time." Asked Bon Bon. "I have a theory, but if you don't know anything about quantum mechanics then I'll simply say. It's Pinkie logic don't question it." Said the Doctor. Then he stepped up to the box and opened it. Inside was a small bag of sugar. After getting over the absurdity of that he said. "So who wants to test their luck this time?" After that Derpy raised her hoof and stepped forward. "Uh, uh! Can I try?!" She asked in an excited voice. "Sure just be careful, because it may shock you." With the warning given she stepped up to the present and reached for it and she picked it up, but when she was holding it in her hoof it was sparking and making her hair and fur stand up. "Oh shiny." She said in a mesmerised voice. After a minute of everyone watching in complete shock, the Doctor said. "Okay, Derpy you can let go now. It seems that you were not meant for this one." Derpy then placed the bag of sugar back inside the box and flew back. After that Lyra stepped forward. "My turn." She said while reaching for the bag and sure enough it started to glow. When the glowing stopped Lyra was left with a golden necklace. It looked exactly the same as the other ones with the only difference again being the gem which was a golden lyre. After the transformation finished Lyra took a look at her new bling. "Well, that's another one down. Now let's go book a room at the hotel and then we can figure out what your relic can do." Said the Doctor while walking towards the hotel that Pinkie pointed out. When everyone stopped looking at Lyra's new necklace they decided to follow him in as well. When they paid for the room they went towards it and entered when they were all set Lyra started to experiment with her relic. After some time of concentrating and nothing happening, she turned to Vinyl and asked. "Vinyl how did you get your gem to work?" "I just asked it and it responded. Maybe it will work on yours as well." After that Lyra put her attention back on her necklace. "Um, artifact could you please show me what you can do." It only blinked. "What do you mean no. Don't you want to help and save Equestria." It blinked twice. "Okay if you do want to help then why don't you show me what I am able to do with your help." After that, it blinked again and then it surrounded Lyra in a magic fire slowly shaping itself to be in the form of a bipedal creature with hands. While this was all happening everyone else simply watched in awe. After it stopped morphing Lyra opened her eyes and asked. "Hey, why are you all so small now?" "Um it's not that we are small it's just you grew and are now levitating off the floor while being surrounded by green fire in the shape of that creature you keep obsessing about." Said Bon Bon. After that Lyra started to look at herself, but she wasn't using her pony head, instead she used the creatures head to do so. After her examination she said. "Sweet. Thanks, Blinky." The gem again blinked. Then the Doctor stepped up to Blinky and asked. "Um, Blinky are the other gems also able to talk?" He blinked once. "He says yes, but they were a little bit shy so they didn't." Translated Lyra. "Well, that sure is interesting." Said the Doctor. Then he turned to Octavia and continued. "Octavia try and talk to your gem. Maybe it'll respond." "Um okay?" Then she turned down to her gem and said. "Hello there. Do you have a name as well?" At first, nothing happened, but after a couple of seconds, it blinked. Octavia was at first surprised and then she continued. "Okay then if you don't have a name, do you want me to give you one?" The gem blinked again this time a little sooner. "Okay, then how does Radiance sound?" It blinked again. "Okay, then your name is now Radiance." While this conversation was going on Lyra returned back to her normal pony form and while this was happening Vinyl had basically the same conversation with her gem but no one paid any attention to her so they only heard the end of their conversation. "Okay, then your name is Wub." The gem blinked once to confirm it's new name. "Vinyl didn't you name your subwoofer that?" Asked Octavia. "No his name is the Wub Meister. Get it right Octavia." Octavia then face hoofed and said. "You're impossible." Then she walked to the bathroom. "Now if you excuse me I'm going to get ready for bed." Then she stepped into the bathroom, closed the door and started to get ready. "Yeah everyone else should follow suit. Tomorrow morning we are going to make our way towards Cloudsdale and by extension Rainbows territory. So we are going to have to be rested up for whatever she has in store for us." Said the Doctor while checking the map. When he finished everypony went of towards their bed and waited for their turn in the bathroom. When they were all ready they all said their goodnights and went off to sleep. Chapter 6 "fighting in Cloudsdale"The next morning our six heroes were woken up by Pinkie poking her head through the window and yelling. " RISE AND SHINE SLEEPYHEADS IT'S TIME TO GET YOUR BREAKFAST!" With that yell, all of them fell out of bed. After some time on the floor, the Doctor said. "Okay Pinkie thank you for the wake-up call. We will be down as soon as we are ready." He said while still laying on the floor. "Okie Doki Loki then. See you in a couple of minutes." With that said she hopped off to where ever she goes at that time in the morning. "Um wasn't our room on the fourth floor?" Asked Vinyl. Then the Doctor got up and said. "Just don't question it. Now let's get ready before she drags us off to breakfast." He said while getting to the bathroom. "And how do you know that she is going to do that?" Asked Derpy. "Do you remember my welcome to Ponywille party?" She nodded and then realisation dawned on her. "Oh. Yeah, we wouldn't want a repeat of that." With that said he closed the door and they were left alone. After that Bon Bon walked up to Derpy and asked. "What happened at his party? I think I was in Canterlot during that time so I missed it." "Okay then sit down and let me tell you." Said Derpy. When everyone was ready she started her story. *** After about five minutes the Doctor came out of the shower and saw that Derpy was telling the story about that party. At first, he was a little mad at her for telling it, but then he sat down and listened as well, answering questions and adding a couple of things from his perspective. After they finished the story everybody else also took a quick shower and then they started to walk towards the bakery. When they arrived at the bakery they noticed that it looked allot like the original Sugar cube corner with the only difference being that instead of the yellow walls of the original it had black ones instead. With that observation made they entered the building and when they were inside they heard Pinkie say. "Welcome to Sugar cube corner. How may I help you?" She said and with that, they all stepped forward. "Hello there Pinkie. How are you doing today?" Asked Derpy. "Never Better. Thanks for asking. So what can I get you?" She asked with a huge smile. Then everyone looked at the menu and named their breakfast item. When everybody finished their orders she said. "Okay then sit down and chat for a bit while I go and prepare your orders. See you in five minutes." After that, she stepped into the kitchen and started on their order. our six heroes then took a booth and waited. In that time they were talking about their new friends and how they are going to get to Cloudsdale. "So Doc, do you know the cloud walking spell?" Asked Vinyl. "Sadly I do not, but I think I can learn it if I get the book in which it is located." After that, he placed a hoof on his chin and continued. "I think there was a library in this town, but I don't know if they have spell books inside." After that Pinkie threw something from the kitchen followed by her saying. "Twilight let me borrow that book a long time ago. I think she won't mind if I let you borrow it for a bit. Just make sure that you return it to her when you see her." After that, she went back to her work and when she was doing that the Doctor started on looking through the book for the spell that he needed. "Well, that's offly convenient." Said Lyra. "Yeah it is, but when it comes to Pinkie you just don't question it." And after that, he found the right page and started on learning and memorising the spell. "So what are we going to do once we get there?" Asked Bon Bon. "Probably what we did in every town. We are going to snoop around, evade the guard until we find the artefact and after that something goes wrong and we are forced to flee the scene and go to the next town." Said Derpy. "I'm surprised you didn't figure this formula out sooner." After that Pinkie entered the room carrying a platter with their order. "Here you go that is going to be twenty bits." She said while placing the platter on the table. Then the Doctor paid her the bits and she said. "Thank you and please do come again." Then she went back behind the counter and began serving other customers. *** When they all finished their respective breakfasts they said goodbye to Pinkie and flew off towards Cloudsdale on one of Wubs records. While they were flying the Doctor said. "Okay then let me try the spell now." He then concentrated and after that everyone started to glow and then it stopped. "So did it work?" Asked Lyra. "Well, there is only one way to find out and that is to test it Once we get to Cloudsdale." Then he turned to Octavia, Lyra and Vinyl and said. "Just be ready to catch me if I didn't cast it right." With that said they continued the rest of the ride in relative piece. After about ten minutes of them flying they finally arrived at Cloudsdale, which looked allot different than usual. For one there was a huge castle in the centre of it and what looked like a colosseum right next to it which was packed full with pegasi watching what looked like a gladiator battle going on. "Okay I know that pegasi architecture is based of the Greeks, but did we have to bring back the gladiators as well?" Asked Lyra. "As much as I want to hate it, it does give us free range to check around without being spotted by anypony." Said Octavia. "Meaning we can get in and out of this place without Rainbow even knowing." The Doctor then simply nodded and said. "Yes, you are right about that." When he finished he turned to Vinyl and said while pointing to an open space at the edge of Cloudsdale. "How about you land us right over there and we can get started with the search." He said while pointing to a town square. When Vinyl found the place he was pointing at she steered the record to it and landed. "Okay, then time to see if the spell's working." Said the Doctor while slowly taking a step on the cloud. When he noticed that he was met with resistance he put his whole weight on it and started to walk on the cloud. When all of his friends noticed this they soon followed after him. The last one to get off was Vinyl and when she did she asked Wub to make the record disappear. "So where do we begin?" Asked Octavia. "Well let's start with the main streets and then we will go from there." Said the Doctor while pulling out the map and when he did they started to search for the relic. *** After about five hours of combing the city, our six friends were left with nothing to show for it. It is for that reason that everyone was now extremely frustrated. "Man we have searched through the entire city and we still haven't found anything. Are you sure that the relic is here?" Asked Vinyl in a frustrated tone of voice. "Yes Vinyl I am sure and we haven't searched through the entire city yet. We still have the stadium and I have this weird feeling that it is going to be the trophy that is going to be given to the winner." Said the Doctor while putting away the map. "And how are we planning on getting in and winning it?" Asked Derpy. "Well, we are going to go there and apply for the fight as one of the contestants." He answered while pointing to a table with a bored looking pegasus sitting behind it. Above her was a huge sign which said that it was the application both. With that done they all nodded and started to walk towards the aforementioned both. Once they were within sight of the pegasus she immediately put on a fake smile and said. "Hello, there are you perhaps interested in applying for the gladiator fight." "As a matter of fact, we are. So can we apply?" Asked the Doctor. "Of course you can I just need you to fill out these and you are good to go." She said while handing them some forms for them to fill out. It wasn't anything too weird just basic information regarding the pony that is participating and the rules of the game. Which were interesting, to say the least. Everyone was fighting like earth ponies meaning that none in the arena could use their wings or horns and if they do they are going to be immediately disqualified. The other interesting rule was the no-kill rule, which was a big relief to our six friends. When they finally finished they handed the applications back to the mare and after she took a quick look through she pressed a button and then two stallions appeared to usher them into the colosseum. "Please follow us." They said in unison and then they all entered the colosseum. Once inside they were all quickly led to an armoury and when they were there they were all pushed inside and the door closed behind them looking like it was locked from the outside. After that, a grey earth pony appeared with a short black mane. When he saw them he said. "Ah hello there. You must be the new fighters. My name is Hammer Strike and I am going to be the guy who is going to create your armours. So if you could stand over there and wait for me to quickly take your measurements." He said while pointing to a podium. Then he disappeared for a moment and returned with a measuring tape. "So what brings you to the Cloudsdale colosseum?" He asked while taking Lyra's measurements. "Well, we are trying to win the trophy so that we can cure the elements and save Equestria." Said Derpy and after she did Vinyl punched her in the shoulder while giving her an angry look. "What?" She asked while nursing her shoulder. "Oh, so you want to save Equestria. Well, I wish you good luck with that." He said while equipping Lyra with some iron armour which then turned the same colour as her coat. "So how does it fell?" He asked. After she checked herself over and when she made sure to check all the joints she answered. "Everything's fine. Nothing is too tight and nothing's loose." He then smiled and turned to her other friends. "Okay, then who's next?" With that, he repeated the process for the rest of them and while he was doing that he was also telling them about some loopholes in the rules about the fight. Basically, he told them that magical artefacts are actually allowed as long as you don't use your own magic to power it. He also told them about some previous battles that he saw and to say that they were interesting would be an understatement. They were usually ended by Rainbow stepping in and stopping a fight because the other opponent was too broken to continue and there were many other stories that he told them. When he finally finished getting them all set with their own armours the two pegasi again returned and led them to a holding cell with weapons hanging from the walls where they were now waiting to be called for the fight. In that time they told them that they should pick their weapons and then they again left them alone. "So who wants to pick first?" Asked the Doctor. After he did Vinyl raised her hoof and said. "Can I get the twin blades?" Then the Doc levitated the blades to Vinyl who started to put them on her hooves. Then the spear levitated towards Octavia who then took it. Then Bon Bon stepped up to the wall and took the shield. Lyra took the claymore, Derpy took the hammer and the Doctor took the flail. "Okay, then we are ready. Let's just hope that we win." With that said and done they started to train with their weapons for a bit so that they were at least slightly ready for the fight that was about to commence and after about fifteen minutes of them doing that one of the pegasi returned and said. "Okay then Elements of harmony, follow me it's time to battle. Since you were late entries you are going to be battling in the final round against the Shadowbolts. Now please follow me." And then they all followed him to the gladiator ring. Once there they entered the arena and waited for the Shadowbolts to arrive. After a while, six ponies entered the arena. They were the Shadowbolt. They also had their own weapons, which were all blade based. When they reached a certain point they stopped and after that, a booming voice started to talk and sure enough, it belonged to Rainbow Dash. "ALRIGHT THEN EVERYPONY WELCOME BACK TO THE BATTLE. WE ARE NOW GOING TO COMMENCE WITH THE FINAL ROUND WHERE THE ELEMENTS OF HARMONY ARE GOING TO BE FIGHTING AGAINST MY SHADOWBOLTS. WITH THAT ARE THE CONTESTANTS READY." She said and when she did the Shadowbolts immediately cheered and after that our six friends followed suit even though they were allot more reserved. "OKAY THEN LET THE BATTLE BEGIN." After that, they all charged at each other and started to fight. The battle was pretty gruelling and lasted about an hour, but after that, both teams were left with one team member left. "Well looks like it's just you and me." Said the Shadowbolt while playing with his blades. "Are you sure it's just you and me because I clearly see ponies sitting in the stadium." Said Derpy in a confused tone. The Shadowbolt then stopped playing with his blades and charged at her. Derpy managed to block the blades and even managed to get a hit on him when he tried to strike again. After that he said. "Well I must say lady you may be slow in the head, but you sure know what you are doing with that hammer. Now come at me sweet cheeks." Then he charged at her again. Derpy quickly followed suit and then they were stuck in a power struggle after a minute the Shadowbolt grinned and headbutted her making her stumble back he used this chance to turn around and buck her straight into the wall where she promptly slumped down to the ground. After that, the entire colosseum erupted into cheers, but Derpy didn't hear any of that, because she slowly switching between her conscious unconscious mind, but right before she completely blacked out she heard the Doctors voice say. "Derpy don't give up you are stronger than this come on show him and everyone here why you are the stronger than him. Just get him and we can get a muffin later." After that, her eyes snapped open and focused on the Shadowbolt who was currently sucking up all the praise. Then she yelled. "You are going down!" Then she kicked off the wall and was on him before he even got the chance to guard himself. When the attack connected he was launched across the entire colosseum, but just before he would have stricken the ground he was again hit with Derpy's hammer and was therefore embedded into the wall. After that, the crowd again started to cheer and after a full minute of that Rainbow flew down from her podium while carrying the medal when she landed she said. "Okay, then ponies we have our winner. Let's give her a round of applause." She said while placing the medal around her neck and then raising her front hoof. "DERPY!" When she did that the entire stadium again started to cheer this time even louder than before and after that, she dropped her hoof and flew back to the podium and again adopted her booming voice. "OKAY THEN EVERYPONY THIS CONCLUDES THIS GLADIATOR BATTLE. I HOPE THAT YOU ENJOYED YOURSELVES AND PLEASE DO COME AGAIN." With that everyone started to leave. After that Derpy returned back to her friends now wearing the artefact, which transformed after everyone left. "Well looks like we are done here. How about we get something quick to eat in the city and then we go to the Everfree to get the next one." Asked the Doctor. His suggestion was met with positive results and with that, they all left the colosseum with a couple of bruises, but with big smiles knowing that their adventure is almost complete. Author's Note Well this one took allot longer to upload, but allot of stuff came up and I just didn't have the time to finish it. Hopefully I'll be able to finish this story before may, but I really don't see that happening. With that said if you enjoyed the story like, comment and share this story with your friends and I'll see you in the next chapter. Chapter 7 "walking through the Everfree"With their lunch finished and their bellies full our friends now find ourselves on the road towards the Everfree forest. In that time Derpy has managed to figure out what her element was able to do and speaking of the element I didn't describe it to you yet. Well, it had the same golden necklace with the only difference being the gem in the centre. It was basically her cutie mark only that it was made out of crystal. Now with the description out of the way let me tell you what Derpy learned about it. First thig's first its name was Muffin as per Derpy's suggestion and its power was to make a portal to anywhere that Derpy remembered or saw. That is the reason why our friends are now almost in front of the foreboding forest. "And right after I finished the remix all of a sudden this guy jumps down from the rafters and face plants right onto my DJ table. Thankfully the guy was okay but he still managed to break some of my records and that is why I had my table enchanted to produce a forcefield should anything like that happen again." When Vinyl finished her story Octavia said. "Oh, so that was why you said that time that you were taking a break from working for a while." "Yup pretty much, but you should be surprised how many times pegasi go up to the rafters and repeat what that guy did. So yeah very glad that I paid for that enchantment." She said in a relieved tone. "Hey, Doc how do you think how could ponies stop this from happening." She asked him, but he was so lost in thought that she managed to startle him. When he managed to gather his composure he asked. "Oh, sorry Vinyl I was thinking about something could you repeat the question?" Vinyl then repeated the question and then he gave her his answer. "Well either they should wall of the rafters or put spikes up there, but the other alternative is to you know not let them fly if they are drunk in the first place. So yeah those are my two bits on the matter, but enough about that we are here." And sure enough they were in front of the forest, but to their surprise, the forest looked completely the same. The same foreboding feeling, the same fauna and the same flora. "Is it just me or did I expect to see this place looking completely different from the rest?" Asked Lyra. "Yeah, I did as well. I at least expected there to be a wall around the forest, but then again the only known castle in this place is the castle of the two sisters which is at the centre of the forest." Said the Doctor while checking the map. "Okay, then guys let's get this over with and get that artefact because standing around here is not doing anything to save Equestria." With that, they entered the scary forest and started their search for the second to last relic." *** The walk inside The Everfree didn't even last five minutes before shit hit the proverbial fan. What went wrong? You may be asking yourself and I know that you do because I can read your mind, but that's beside the point. You see when they entered the forest they were immediately followed by a pack of timber wolves and one manticore as their leader. They were biding their time, but our six heroes shore knew that they were either being watched or followed and Bon Bon made sure to voice that little titbit. "Um, guys does anyone of you feel like they are being watched?" "Yeah, but that's normal in any forest the only difference with this one is that the animals here are allot more dangerous." And after that, a single spear embedded itself into a tree millimeters away from the Doctors face. Then they all slowly turned their heads towards the general direction where the spear came from and what they saw at the same time shocked and made them laugh. In that direction, they saw a bunch of woodland creatures everything from bears to bunnies to birds and all of them were dressed like they were ready to fight a war. At the front of them, all was one lone snow white rabbit wearing face paint, gloves, a jacket and a black helmet with a single spike on it. After that everypony there realised who it was and for that matter who the rest of the animals were. That was Angel and the rest of Fluttershy's animal friends and when they made that realisation they all charged at them. Our six heroes prepared for a fight, but then they noticed that they weren't charging at them, but instead at something behind them. And that is when they noticed the manticore and the timber wolves. "Okay, then that's the weirdest thing that I have ever seen." "Do you think we should help?" Asked Derpy. The animals were still engaging the timber wolves. After giving it some thought he pulled out the spear from the tree and said. "Yes. Yes, we should." With that, they all charged up their magic or picked up a weapon and got straight into the battle. Derpy opened up two portals one below and one above one of the timber wolves making him start to fall in an infinite loop. After he got enough momentum she dispelled the bottom portal making him smash int the floor turning the timber wolves into toothpicks. While this was going on Octavia grabbed another timber wolf holding him still while Vinyl materialised another record and making it spin after that she launched it into the wooden wolf slicing him in half. Then Octavia picked up the two pieces of the wolf and launched them at the manticore knocking him out for the moment. Lyra was turned into her human form and was now up close and personal with three of the wolves. She was having the time of her life. She was punching the wolves that came too close to her and was roundhouse kicking the ones that lunged at her from afar, but after one of them clamped its jaws around one of her arms. That is when she got completely furious making her astral body burn like the sun turning the wolf to ash. And while this was going on the Doctor and Bon Bon were helping the animals fight off the last few wolves. The Doctor was preparing a magic blast while Bon Bon was crouched low to the ground and ready to strike with the spear in her mouth, but when the wolves were about to strike they all heard a roar come from the manticore who apparently woke up. After that, all the rest of the timber wolves left leaving all of them alone. "Man this was the most awesome thing that has happened in my life." Vinyl shouted while pumping her hooves in the air. "I thought that the most awesome thing in your life was the time that you saw Neon Lights concert in Neigpan." Said, Octavia, while having a sly grin. "Okay second best, but it was very close." After that, the Doctor called them over because Angel was telling them to follow and since they were clearly there to help our six protagonists followed them without question. ***Random island*** "Well, that was definitely interesting." Said, Celestia. She and the other princesses are now currently sitting in a sort of cinema studio watching what is happening to the Doctor and company on a giant screen. "Yeah, it most certainly is I especially liked Derpy's use of the portal it is a most practical and useful power that Muffin has given to her." Said, Luna, while munching on some popcorn. When she finished her bite she continued. "These elements that Discord created are definitely useful in combat I would dare to say that they are even more useful than the original elements of harmony." "While that is true, but you have to see that the elements are far stronger power wise since they are able to send a person to the moon or turn them to stone. Those are spells that in the past would require some magic runes and an incantation to accomplish." Added Cadance. "At least that is what the books in the Crystal empire say." "Yeah, those were very different times." Said, Celestia. After a moment of silence, she asked. "Want to see what the boys are up to?" The other princesses nodded and then they left the cinema and started walking towards a tent that was set up in the middle of the beach. When they entered the tent they saw Discord, Spike in his nightmare mode, Shining and Bigmac playing dungeons and dragons and it looked like Spike was the dungeon master. "You enter the room inside you find three goblins protecting a treasure chest what do you do next?" Asked spike in a slightly spooky voice. "I use the longbow and use it to shoot three consecutive headshots one for each goblin." Said Discord. After that Spike rolled the twenty-sided dice and it landed on ten. "You managed to kill two of the goblins but the final one got to you and pinned you against the wall." Then Spike moved the required pieces and after that Shining spoke up. "I then use my staff to shoot a fire spell at the final goblin freeing him from a painful death." Spike then rolled the dice again. When it stopped he continued. "The spell is successful, but it doesn't kill the goblin. Knowing that he didn't stand a chance he escaped back to his master. What is your next move BIgmac?" "I loot the bodies and try to open the chest using one of my lock picks." Spike again moves the required pieces and roles the dice. "You got three magic potions, two goblin eyes and five rusted daggers." After he managed to write everything down the princesses decided to make their presence known. "Hey boys what are you playing?" Asked Cadance. All the boys turned to the princesses and then Spike spoke up. "Oh hello there princesses. We are playing dungeons and dragons do you perhaps want to join it's a really fun game." "Sure I would love to try and see what all the hubbub's about." Cadence said the other princesses also voiced their agreements and then spike passed them some character sheets explaining to them how to create a character and when they were finally finished they joined the game and played until they beat the dungeon master who of course was a giant necromantic dragon. ***Everfree forest*** The woodland creatures lead the six friends to a clearing, but it looked more like a military boot camp. The animals there were training, running laps, lifting weights and punching dummies that looked like Fluttershy in her nightmare form. "Wow, you guys seem to be organised pretty well. What are you preparing for?" Asked the Doctor and when he did Angel led them to a tent in which there was a map of the Everfree. Angel then stepped on top of the table and showed them what they were planning. After looking over everything Lyra said. "Oh, so you are going to attack the castle and save Discord from Fluttershy's evil grasp." Angel Then nodded and then mimicked tying something up. "And you are going to tie her up." He again nodded and then the Doctor said. "Okay angel this looks like a solid plan, so what can we do to help out?" Angel then pointed at the artefacts and mimed using them to fight and distract Fluttershy while they dealt with her armies. And when they were finished with that would back them up, knock her out ant tie her up so that she doesn't do any more damage. He also mimed them that they should be careful about her stare since she could paralyse you if she gazed at you. "Okay then we get the plan, but when do we execute it?" Asked Vinyl. Then he pulled out a watch and pointed to the eight. "Oh so at night gotcha strike from the shadow and during that confusion we sneak in. Okay, little guy. Now, what do we do until then?" The rabbit just shrugged and after that shooed them out of the tent. "Okay, we have the entire afternoon to prepare so I suggest we get ready for the upcoming fight." Said the doctor. "Eh, you do that I'm gonna take this chance and relax for a bit because that fight really tired me out." Said Bon Bon with the rest soon following her example. "Well, I guess I'm also tired. Well then let's get some shuteye because we have a long night in front of us." And with that, the Doctor promptly fell forward unconscious. The rest of his friends simply let out a short laugh and left for an empty tent where they dragged their unconscious friend and then they all fell asleep. ***Castle of the two sisters*** The little woodland army was now stalking through the night towards the castle making sure that they weren't seen until they were at their positions and while they were doing that the Doctor and company were sneaking into the castle to find Discord and the relic. How are they going to accomplish this? Well, they are going to use the tried and tested method of using a cardboard box as a disguise and as before it was super effective. Once they snuck past the timber wolves, manticores and cockatrice they were inside the castle. "Okay, now we are inside. So what do we do?" Asked Octavia while taking off her box. "I suggest we find the dungeons in this place and save Discord then he can help us find the relic and with it, we go to Fluttershy and take her down." Answered Derpy. After that, they all took their boxes off, discarded them and started to search for the dungeon. After around twenty minutes of searching following signs and avoiding guards, they finally arrived at the place that they thought was the dungeon. When they made sure that they weren't being followed they opened the door and stepped inside and what they found inside surprised them. Inside they found a freaking petting zoo with pens and the whole shebang and at the end, they saw Discord with a spiky collar around his neck drinking out of a hamster style water bottle. When they snapped out of their shocked stupor they went to his cage and knocked on it and when they did Discord finally spotted them. "Oh, finally my rescue team has arrived. Please help me out quick before Fluttershy arrives the keys are located in her ro..." But he didn't get to finish because Lyra simply formed her human hand and melted the lock away. "...om. Or you could do that." Then he stepped out of the cage and took off his collar. "Thank you guys we may not be close friends but I hope this starts something between us." "No problem Discord. Now could you perhaps give us the second to last relic so that we can set the rest of the plan into action." At that, he looked a bit surprised but he still obliged by snapping his fingers and making the next element appear around Bon Bon's neck. "Well here you go now could I perhaps get in on this plan." Then they all filled him in on the plan and right when they finished a devious smile appeared on his face. "Oh that is a most delicious plan, but sadly I can't help you with it because she has some sort of field around her that destabilizes my natural chaos magic." "Oh okay then. Could you at least help the woodland creatures outside?" Asked Derpy. "Sure I can do that, but I'm surprised that you are not asking me to give you the last relic." Derpy then simply smiled and asked. "Why would we, because we know that you wouldn't since you are the spirit of chaos." At first, he looked surprised, but then he smiled. "Eh you're right I wouldn't there is just too much chaos that there is in Equestria at the moment and I am planning on enjoying it for as long as I can. With that, I leave you be." Then he snapped his fingers and they were all teleported. ***In front of the castle throne room*** When the world stopped spinning and the colour returned to the world the Doctor said. "Okay remind me to newer ask Discord to send me anywhere ever." Every one of his friends agreed to that and when they all got back their bearings he continued. "Alright then where did he teleport us." And right after that, the doors flew open and a voice that they all very much dreaded to hear spoke up. "Oh look at what we have here six little ponies standing in front of my throne room. Now, what can I do to help you." After she finished they all turned around sure enough there she was Fluttershy. She had the same black coloured coat as all the rest and wearing a set of golden armour with her hair whipping around like they had a mind of their own. After they all calmed down the Doctor got a very stupid idea. "Um, we got here for a spot of tea and maybe some biscuits. If that, of course, is not too much trouble." He was shooting in the dark here but he was really hoping that this would work. The rest of his friends were hiding behind him hoping that this would work as well. "Oh, why didn't you say so. Sure just let me set the table and get the tea ready." While she was saying this her hair stopped whipping about and turned back to her normal hair style. "You just make yourselves at home I'll be right back." With that, she led them to a dining room and left them there while she went and prepared a pot of tea. At first, they were all slightly scared but after some time they all relaxed and enjoyed their tea time. After some time of getting to know each other Derpy accidentally told her about the plan. She was furious but instead of attacking them she flew away leaving them alone. Then Discord arrived with Fluttershy's animals following behind him. "What happened here?" he asked in a confused tone. Then the Doctor took a sip of his tea and when he finished he answered. "Derpy accidentally told her about the plan and she just flew off towards Canterlot." Then he took another sip and continued. "Would you like some tea and biscuits?" After giving it some thought Discord sat down and answered. "Sure why not." Then they all enjoyed some tea and biscuits inclouding the animals. Well, almost all Angel had a small tantrum, but when they managed to calm him down he also sat and enjoyed a carrot cake. Author's Note Hey, guys I know it took me a long time to update this story, but I finally decided to get off my lazy ass and start on my writing again. I also went through some off my previous chapters and fixed some of the mistakes. that plagued them. Now with that said let the shadows lead you to your eternal freedom. Chapter 8 "surviving Canterlot"When our six heroes finally finished their little tea party, they went outside to test what kind of powers Bon Bon's relic has. After some talking and a little bit of an argument between them, which was surprising for them to hear and see, but after they both cooled off and apologised they tried to decide on a name for the relic. Name after name was suggested but each one was rejected. When they saw that they were not going anywhere fast Bon Bon said. "Okay then if you don't like any of my suggestions, then why don't you show me what you can do so that we can decide on a name then. Or you can just tell me what you want to be named." The element then blinked its candy shaped gem and Bon Bon sighed in relief before she continued. "Thank you. So what can you do?" The element then released a bright flash, which blinded everybody present. When it passed Bon Bon was standing there fully enclosed in a set of black armour with some silver highlights around the eyes and faceplate. Lyra then stepped up to her. "Wow, Bon Bon you look like one of those Canterlot knights... But allot more... intimidating." "Really. Could I perhaps get a mirror to check myself out." Bon Bon asked, at which point she heard a snap accompanied by a full-length mirror appearing in front of her, which is the point when she saw herself in her full intimidating glory. "Wow, this is freaking awesome. And I think I just figured out the perfect name for you." The gem then blinked twice and Bon Bon continued. "Yeah, how does Gadget sound?" She suggested, after which everything was quiet for a bit and then it blinked. After that Bon Bon jumped into the air, did a backflip and then finished everything off by accidentally bucking a three-meter rock clear out of the courtyard. "Finally I got a name for you!" She said excitedly, forgetting her friends for a moment. When she remembered them, she turned to everyone present and noticed that they were all slack-jawed. "What? Why are you all looking at me like that?" "Um, you do realise that you just bucked a three-meter large rock straight over that wall and I still didn't hear it land?" The Doctor said before they all heard a crash from deep within the forest. "I think the boulder just landed." Said Discord disappearing and after a second returning. "Let me rephrase that I think the pile of rubble just landed." "So you also amplify my earth pony strength. Cool." After that, the armour disappeared. "Okay then now that we have that finished, we have to go to Canterlot and finish this little fetch quest and return balance to Equestria." "Well alrighty, if you guys are all ready then, I am going to teleport you to the bottom of Canterlot mountain. With that, I wish you good luck." Were the last thing that Discord said before they were all teleported in a bright flash. ***Canterlot castle throne room*** "Okay girls let's bring this show to a big finale. Does everyone know their own part of the plan?" All off Twilights friends then nodded and right after Discord popped in. "Hello, there girls. I am here to inform you that the substitute elements are already at the bottom of Canterlot mountain and are currently making their way inside of the city." Twilight then simply smiled and said. "Excellent now refresh our disguises and then we can start this little boss rush." After that Discord snapped his fingers and sure enough every pony in the room and Spike turned into their nightmare modes and were teleported to their respective places where they are going to engage the substitute elements except for Twilight and Spike who simply walked to their respective thrones. When they both sat down Twilight levitated out the last relic and gave it to Discord then she said. "Discord make sure that they get this when they defeat all of my friends after that you can go to the island and enjoy yourself." "Your wish is my command, my queen." After that Twilight tossed the element to him, he caught it and then teleported away. After that Spike turned to her and asked. "So should I go and guard the gate or wait here until they arrive for the finale?" "Eh I think it would be better if you stay here and help us, but since that is going to take some time why don't you go and prepare some tea." "Okay, I'll have it prepared in ten minutes." After that, he jumped out of his throne and ran to the kitchen to prepare the aforementioned beverage while Twilight tried to entertain herself by floating a couple of things around her. Sadly she quickly got bored and sighed. "Oh, I hope that they get here quick. Well, I guess I could watch my friends fighting them but how to do it?" She asked while tapping her chin. After a minute she snapped her hoof. "Oh yeah, a viewing mirror might work. Eh, only one way to find out." Then she started on the spell and sure enough when she finished a full-length mirror was in front of her showing the Doctor and her friends climbing up the mountain. "Now let's see how they fare against their first challenge." ***Canterlot mountainside*** When our six heroes managed to blink the spots from their eyes they noticed that they were at the bottom of the mountain, but that wasn't the only thing that they saw. There on a ledge Applejack was waiting for them. "Why howdy there thieves. You finally decided to show yourselves." After that, the Doctor stepped forward and said. "As a matter of fact yes we did, so I politely ask that you surrender and let us pass or we will force you to move." Then all of his friends powered up their elements and went into their combat stances. "So now would you kindly surrender." He finished off with a smirk. "Oh, so we have ourselves some heroes over here. Well, I have heroes of my own. Thugs attack!" With that, she stomped on the ground and six earth pony guards appeared wearing the armour of her division. After they were all present and accounted for they attacked the group making sure to separate the group as soon as possible as to make it easier for them to pick them off. Surprisingly Derpy was actually the first one to dispose of her opponent. How, you may ask, did the ditzy mare manage to accomplish that you may or may not be asking yourself? Well you see, the guard actually couldn't even land a hit on her because the mare accidentally teleported a nearby rock right on top of his head knocking him out. After that, she approached the guard and placed a muffin in front of him with a note that said that she was sorry for knocking him out. Then she turned towards Applejack and did the thing that all Portal fans did at some point. She opened a portal below and above her causing her to fall into an infinite loop. After that, we turn to Octavia and see that she is having some trouble with her opponent. He had incredible speed which caused him to leave after images, that confused her way too much. It confused her so much that she decided to consult Radiance. "Radiance do you have any useful ideas on how to defeat this guy. He is really starting to annoy me since I can't grab him with our telekinesis." Then the guard decided to try and strike at her, but when he came within striking distance, Octavia floated up in the air causing the guy to faceplant into the dirt. His meeting with the ground was short lived since he started to run once more, leaving after images once more. After all, that Radiance blinked four times. "But won't that kill him?" Then the necklace blinks two more times. "Oh, okay then." When she finished talking to her necklace, she noticed that the guard was just sitting there, tapping his hoof, waiting. "Are you done talking to yourself now. I'm getting bored here." After that, he stood back up. "Now, let's continue this fight because every minute I waste here, rips of twenty bits from my paycheck." At first, Octavia looked at him for awhile and after a minute to consider it she said. "Sure. Let's continue." Then he started running again leaving after images. Putting Radiances plan into action Octavia levitated herself back to the ground and waited for the guard to attack her again and sure enough, he did but this time she was prepared and put the plan into action. She covered him with a boulder which she hollowed up using telekinesis. The plan worked and after a minute of trying to escape the guard said. "Okay then, I'm tired now and am going to sleep goodnight." And then she heard snoring coming from the inside. Continuing to our next hero we have Vinyl who is using her constructs to play with her guard who is now laying on the ground, covering his head, begging her to stop. Bon Bon is currently pounding her guard into the ground, Lyra is juggling her guard with a couple of rocks. Doc had the worst time since his guard seemed to be immune to every single spell that he could throw at him. After his next attempt, he decided to ask. "Why does every single spell that I use fizzle up upon contact?" The guard then punched his chest plate while telling him. "The armour was enchanted by Twilight Sparkle making it immune to any spells up to level seven. Anything above that, are spells that are performed by unicorns whose special talent is magic or are alicorns." After that, the Doctor blasted him, knocking out the soldier and embedding him in the wall. Finishing his spell he was completely out of breath. When he caught it he said. "Thank you for telling me. Now let's see what Applejack is..." He turned his head towards where Applejack was standing and saw her knocked out and tied up with all of his friends standing around her. "...standing. How did you manage to defeat her?" "Well, Derpy trapped her in a portal loop, after that Lyra went up to her and punched her which knocked her out. After that, Octavia and I tied her up." Vinyl finished of her recap with a big grin. When the Doctor processed everything he shook his head and asked. "So what do we do with her now?" "I guess we can leave her here. She isn't going anywhere." Said Octavia. With Applejacks fate decided they started to climb the mountain, towards their next destination. ***Canterlot front gate*** After about five minutes of climbing, they finally reached the top where Pinkie was waiting for them. "Hey there friends. How are you all holding up?" She asked with her trademark smile plastered on her face. "Oh, we are doing just dandy Pinky. But can I ask? Why are you her?" The Doctor asked stepping in front of his friends. "Oh, that's easy. I'm here to stop you from getting the final relic, which is not located in the library under the r sect..." Pinkie was then cut off by another very familiar, tomboyish voice. "Pinkie please stop talking before you reveal something else that Twilight told you explicitly to not tell anyone," Rainbow said while landing next to Pinkie. "Honestly it's like you can't keep a secret or something." "Uh... I'm sorry if we are interrupting, but could you two just let us through without having to fight you two." Derpy asked giving both of them the best puppy dog eyes she could muster. The effect on Pinkie was almost immediate if her clenching her heart and falling over unconscious had anything to say about it. But Rainbow was a totally different story. "Sorry, Derpy that isn't going to work on me and you know it." Derpy then amped up her act by quivering her lower lip. "Derpy please stop. It's getting embarrassing." Derpy then dropped her pout. "Oh well, I guess it can't work on everypony but it did keep you distracted." Rainbow raised an eyebrow. "Distracted? Distracted from what?" Derpy simply pointed upwards. Rainbow then looked up and saw a collection of very heavy looking objects right above her. The last thing that she managed to say was. "Oh, pony feathers." Before she got squashed by the giant heap of trash. "Heh, excellent acting there Derps. You sure had her fooled." Vinyl said while draping one hoof around her neck. "Yes for once I agree with Vinyl on this. That was amazing. But how did you know I was going to drop a pile of trash on top of her." Octavia asked, curiosity filling her voice. "I didn't I just improvised. And I knew that if she did attack me that you would all back me up. So yeah." She said finishing it with a smile. "While I'm glad that it worked out, that was incredibly dangerous," Doc said in a scolding tone which quickly changed to caring. "Next time please just run it by us before you act. Okay?" Derpy then nodded. "Good. Now that's two more down that leaves us with three elements a dragon and possibly draconeques that we still have to defeat. Eather that or find the relic." "Yeah and I really hope we can accomplish the lather rather than the former," Lyra said shaking at the thought of facing Fluttershy again. "Yeah, I hope so two. Now be sure to stick to the shadows we are sneaking into the castle library." The Doctor said, which was followed by his friends nodding, determination filling their faces. *** Several hours of sneaking later*** "Seriously how many guards could they possibly have. This is complete overkill." Said Bon Bon. "I mean it's really just a waste of resources." They were now all located inside the castle and were slowly making their way to the library. Trying to avoid the guards. "And you would know that because...?" Asked Lyra while raising an eyebrow. Bon Bon started to sweat bullets. "Um, I read it in a book once." She offered, hoping that will satisfy Lyras curiosity. "Oh. Okay then." She then turned to The Doctor while BonBon let out a sigh of relief. "So Doc how do we proceed?" "The library should be located right behind those doors, but as you can see we have a big problem." He said. Pointing to the big black dragon who was guarding the door. "We need to find a way to get past Spike." "How about we try charging him and then quickly get inside." Offered Vinyl. "No, he would see us coming and alert the guards." "What if I levitate him away." Octavia tried. The Doctor again shot the idea down. After some time spent in silence, Derpy got an idea. "How about I just teleport him to the Crystal empire?" The Doctor gave it some thought and then he tried to speak before he got interrupted by Spike snoring. After that, they turned to him and noticed that his eyes were actually closed with the eyelids painted white. "I think that won't be necessary Derpy. Let's just sneak by him and get the final relic. Then we can finally return to our normal lives in Ponywille." With that, they all snuck past Spike and closed the door. ***Meanwhile on the random island*** The princesses and Shining were watching our six heroes sneaking their way through the castle. They were all watching very intently until they saw Spike sleeping at which point Shining just shut of the magical mirror. "I can't believe what Spike just did I was hoping to see a good fight." He said looking both frustrated and sad. "Oh Shiny I know how you feel, but we also know that they wouldn't have engaged him because they would have alerted all the guards and the rest of the elements to their presence." Shining thought about it for a second before he nodded. "I guess you're right honey. But I really want to see more action." "I can arrange that," Luna said. Shining looked up. "How?" "Just be patient Shining. Turn the mirror back on and I'll set it up." Luna finished with a mischievous smile. Shining did as he was asked and then they all continued to watch what the Doc and company were doing. But not before Celestia leaned towards her sister and whispered. "Make sure that they at least get the chance to win." "Of course sister. Otherwise, this would not be fun." Luna whispered back before she started crafting her spell. ***Canterlot castle library*** The inside of the Canterloot library was an enormous place filled to the top with tablets, scrolls, various memory orbs and of course lots and lots of books. Our six friends were watching in complete shock at the humongous space all yaws hitting the floor except for the Doctor who instead walked to a corridor with two shelves both labelled R. "Okay guys let's start searching and if you find anything completely out of place then please bring it to me, okay." After he said that everypony snapped out of their funks and quickly followed him into that corridor. But little did they know that a certain dragon entered the library as well and started to search for them as well. *** Several hours later and they just managed to finish the bottom floor of shelves in the library and the Doctor was getting a little bit jittery. "Oh, where could it be. We searched the entire r section and still nothing. Oh if we can't find the last relic then we can never return things back to normal and if that's the case then we will have to be on the run forever or at least until we are..." And after that, the others left him be for a bit not wanting to listen to his ramblings anymore. "Derpy did you snatch the map? He seemed to have completely forgotten about it." Vinyl asked derpy while massaging one of her temples. "Yep. Got it right here." Derpy said while holding the aforementioned item. "But why aren't we just telling the Doctor about it?" Vinyl just pointed at the stallion who was currently in a fetal position rocking back and forth while muttering to himself. "Oh. Yeah, I can see why now." She said, handing the map to Vinyl. "Okay then. Let's see." Vinyl said while turning the map until it shimmered for a second. "Ah, there we go. Let's get the relic and then let's snap doc out of his little episode." With that, they all walked to where the map was shoving. When they got to the place they found a simple book of which the title was "Red Robin and his Adventures." Vinyl stepped closer to the book and reached for it before she remembered that the relics shock the pony if they are not the one meant to use it. After she remembered that she turned to Octavia. "Any ideas on how to bring the book back to Doc since we can't touch it?" "Hmm, what if we tried to sort of clamp it with another book. Would that work?" Octavia suggested to which Vinyl shook her head. "No that won't work. It's too thick." Lyra then suggested grabbing it with her magic, but as soon as she touched it with her hand Blinky released a high-pitched beep which caused her to drop it immediately. After that, they all put their hands together and started coming up with ideas. Well almost all of them. Derpy instead decided to just grab the book and started to carry it even though all her hair was standing on end and lightning coursing through her system. "Okay, then we use some paper and make a sort of glove and then we..." Octavia started to say, but when she turned around she immediately stopped and stared at Derpy. "Or we could let derpy take it to the doctor since she seems to be immune to the lightning." Vinyl said with a big grin on her face. Sadly that grin quickly faded when they heard a big crash coming from the direction where they left the Doctor. They didn't even speak before they ran back to him and what they saw made them prepare for battle. The Doctor was battling Spike who was breathing fire at him like crazy. Thankfully he was able to deflect all the fire and make sure to prevent it from spreading to the books. When Spike saw that fire wasn't working he changed his stance and started attacking him with malle attacks. Sadly one of them hit him and sent him flying towards Octavia who quickly caught him in her magick and laid him on the ground. "Okay guys, Derpy you stay back and help Doc." Derpy nodded and did as she was told. "Lyra, Bon Bon. You two go at him head on and try to distract him while Octavia and I go behind him and try to knock him out. Did you get all that?" They all nodded and commenced their attack. Bon Bon and Lyra both changed into their magical forms and charged at Spike. The first one to reach him was Lyra who immediately delivered a giant haymaker to his face. Which was closely followed by his legs falling from underneath him thanks to Bon Bon, who was wearing her armour. Spike quickly got back up and prepared to release his dragonfire. Right when he was about to release it, he was stopped by Lyra who grabbed his snout with her hand and kept it closed. With the fire having no way to go out the intended way it instead left through a much more painful way propelling the Dragon straight into a bookshelf. When that opportunity presented itself Vinyl and Octavia quickly activated their magic. Octavia picked him up and Vinyl quickly created a microphone with a long cable and wrapped it around him to hopefully keep him still. Sadly it didn't hold very long because he shredded through it and Octavia's magic almost immediately. After he jumped right back into the fray with his hands now encased in hos neon green fire and looking very angry. While they continued to act Derpy instead tried to wake up the Doctor. "Okay, it's time to wake up." She said shaking him slightly but that didn't garner any reaction. After that, she tried a bit more forcefully with a slap to the cheek. "Come on Doc don't you die on me. Please wake up." After that, she stopped everything and started to think. And when she saw the relic she got an idea. She picked up the book and lightning once again coursed through her. Now with her electrified hoof, she touched the Doctor who on contact immediately woke up. "WHA?! WHO?! WHERE?!" He said in a panicky voice, but when he saw Derpy he calmed down. "What happened? where is Spike?" Derpy pointed behind the Doctor. "He is currently occupied by our friends who are kicking his butt." She said before hoofing him the book. "But before we go and help them you should really put the relic on." The Doctor then took the book which on contact once again flashed and morphed into the Doctors relic. Once the light stopped the Doctor felt around his neck and was confused. "Uhm Derpy could you perchance tell me what happened to the book." "Yeah, it turned into a funny looking hat," Derpy said after which Doc checked his head and sure enough there was a hat on his head. He took it off to see what it was. It turned out that the funny looking hat was actually a fez. It was coloured red with a black tassel poking out and on the front of it, it had a yellow gem which matched his cutie mark. "Okay then didn't expect for that to happen." The gem blinked. "Well I was expecting another necklace, but this is perfect none the less... So what can you do?" The gem blinked a couple of times after which the doctor grinned and put the fez back on his head. "Okay, then Deus let's kick some dragon tail." After which he activated their power. Time stopped around Doc, but he left him with the ability to still move. This caused him to smile once more. "This is so awesome. But we need to take care of him before he does any more damage to the library." He said looking at Spike. He quickly scanned the immediate area to see what he had at his disposal. He walked up to spike and punched him in the face at which point he restarted time for a split second. After that, he saw that he was heading for a wall which he promptly let impact before continuing. Then he grabbed Derpy and put her so that she was facing him before restarting time. "Derpy I need you to place a portal over Spike and behind yourself, I have an idea on how to stop him." After Derpy gathered her thoughts and processed what he has just done and said. She nodded and did as she was told. Then the Doctor again stopped time and continued his little plan. Overtop the portal that was behind Derpy the doctor placed a large collection of books chairs tables beanbags and whatever else he was able to gather and place on top of it until he had a giant mountain full of furniture. Once finished he again started time. "Hey, Spike look up." The Doc said after which the dragon looked up to see a huge pile of approaching his face. He didn't even have enough time to blink before he got squashed and knocked out. After the dust settled, the Doctor asked. "Is everypony alright?" To this, he got some yeahs and a couple of grunts. "I'll take that as a yes." ***On the random island*** "Ah, no fair! He cheated we demand a rematch!" Luna screamed at the mirror as if she could actually talk to the ponies on the other side. It actually came to the point where she was literally smashing her muzzle into it with a deranged look in her eye. Thankfully before she could smash it she got stopped by Celestia. "Now, now Luna that is not how you should act when faced with defeat. Now please calm down because your scarring Shining and Cadence." She said in a calm voice. Luna then looked towards the couple to see them trembling in the corner. After that, she climbed down from the mirror and hung her head in shame. "I am sorry for my outburst it was not warranted. I hope you can forgive me." "No problem l Luna. Apology excepted just please don't do it again." Shining said after a moment of silence. Cadence only nodded and offered a small smile. Luna then perked up slightly. "Thank you." Okay, then everypony I think it is time for us to take our positions. It's time to go back to work." Celestia said standing up and teleporting all of the stuff they had used on the island to a storage room in the castle. The others sighed but nodded before they also teleported to the castle. ***Canterlot castle*** "I hope you are right about this Deus because if you're not them Equestria is doomed forever." The Doctor said with a hint of worry present in his voice. They had talked about what they are going to do to purge the elements and the plan was nothing more than a ticking bomb. It mostly involved capturing Twilight and hoping that by purging her will affect the other elements. The plan was pretty far fetched. But really the only other option was to get them one by one and they didn't have enough time for that. Deus then blinked a couple of times reassuring him that it will work out. "Okay then. Let's go and take back Equestria!" He said before they all ran towards the throne room. Once they arrived they kicked open the door and were met with the sight of all the elements standing together along with Discord and Spike. "Well, well, well. Looks like you finally got all of your precious little relics. What do you plan to do with them, smack us into submission?" Twilight said an evil grin appearing on her face. "Not really Twilight," Doc said disappearing and reappearing behind her holding a rope that has her tied up. "We just need to purge you and then we can easily deal with the rest." After that, all of the elements and Spike jumped at him trying to pin him down. But sadly they only hit nothing as they crashed to the ground. Discord took that chance to grab Fluttershy hair and wrap it around the other elements. The doctor was now at the bottom of the stairs to the throne, Twilight struggling in the middle of all of the relic bearers. "Let's end this." The Doctor said closing his eyes and concentrating. His friends soon followed which then caused all of the gems to glow. Twilight continued to struggle before she realized that the rope was designed with her in mind. Then she noticed the light and got scared. "No please don't do this. I can give you all anything you want! Fame, power, riches, anything just please don't destroy me!" She pleaded bit was ignored. Fluttershy tried to untangle hair but found the task impossible. "Discord get Twilight out of there this instant and untie me!" She shrieked. "No can do Flutters. Just stay back and enjoy the show." And what a show it was the lights brightened and brightened until it looked like a miniature sun was shining in the throne room. After that there was a loud shriek and an explosion of rainbow colours streaking across Equestria, undoing everything that the elements had done. When the light show was finished there were several unconscious ponies a dragon who was much in the same state and Discord who was covered in smoke from head to toe watching in complete shock. "Well, I didn't expect that." He said before he coughed up some smoke and then fell back, joining his friends in la la land. Author's Note And here, after a long time you have another chapter of Nightmares Coming to Life. And if you liked it then share this with your friends. With that I will see you in the next chapter. Chapter 9 "epilogue"It has been several days since the now dubbed elemental nightmare incident and everything has turned back to the way it used to be... Well almost. Our six friends were bestowed the equestrian pink hearts for protecting all of Equestria against a mighty foe. They excepted them proudly and wore them for the rest of the celebration. To no ones surprise Pinky prepared a huge party to apologize for what the elements did and to celebrate the victory. The party lasted for a whole three days and everyone was enjoying themselves. But after those three days, everyone went home and enjoyed some well deserved R&R. *** "*sigh* That was one heck of a party wasn't it Derpy." Said the Doctor to the aforementioned pegasus. They were both walking towards their home after they just departed from the train station. "It sure was Doctor, but I am glad to be back in Ponyville with hopefully no new evil being bent on world domination appearing anytime soon." "I second that." The doctor said with a big smile on his face. He was very tired from the events that unfolded prior and the party so the first thing that he was going to do was get some sleep. "So Doctor do you know what we are going to do with these relics? I mean I like them, but we do have a dress code at the post office." Derpy asked while looking at the necklace. "You just put it somewhere safe Derpy. I am just going to keep wearing it." He said while adjusting said hat. "Besides if I really wanted to keep all of them safe we would have left them with Celestia." "Oh yeah. That would have been better, but they are sentient so probably not." Derpy then noticed her house and flew towards it. "Well, goodnight Doc see ya tomorrow." "Goodnight Derpy." And then they both went their separate ways. *** Vinyl and Octavia were both in their shared house preparing something for dinner. They didn't stay the full three days at the party, which was a surprise to Octavia since she expected Vinyl to stay. "So Vinyl why didn't you stay at the party? I thought that DJ-PON3 would want to please the masses with her wubs." "Yea ain't gonna happen Octy because I was so tired that I was basically running on caffeine alone. Honestly, I just want to relax and enjoy myself for a bit." Vinyl said while setting the table for the both of them. "Yeah, you're right. Honestly, I'm just glad to be home and enjoying my house without having to fight several nightmare infused ponies." Octavia said, levitating the soup to the dining room table. When she did she served the food and sat down to eat. "You're getting pretty good with that levitation of yours." Vinyl said after which she dug into her meal. "I guess I did. I can see why it can be so useful and it makes doing chores so much more fun." After that she made her spoon fly around like a plane. "Definitely happy with it." "Do you think well have to give these back to Discord. I mean he is the one who made them?" Vinyl asked. "No, we won't have to. I managed to find him at the party and asked him myself. He said it was okay for us to keep them. So yeah they are ours to keep." "Oh sweet. Then I am going to go and modify my routine to include him in it." She said while standing up and walking towards her room. "Actually I'm going to do that right now." With that Octavia soon heard loud techno music blaring from her room making the whole house vibrate to the beat. When said beat dropped Octavia's dinner flew directly into her face. Octavia stood there for a second and after that, she wiped the food off her face revealing an angry scowl beneath. "VINYL!!!!" With that battle cry, she ran up the stairs and into said ponies room to quiet her down, but she made the mistake of opening the door. When she did she was sent flying straight through her wall and landed on her bed unconscious. *** Bon Bon was back at her shop and after word spread of how she helped save Equestria business was booming. She was selling so much that she was barely able to keep up with the orders, but it was made allot easier with the help of Lyra. She and her magic made quick work out of all the treats and she was also tasting the candy to make sure it was up to code. After they finished the last batch of hard candy in the afternoon they finally had some time to unwind. For that Bon Bon decided to prepare tea for both of them. "Hey, Lyra I'm going to prepare some tea. You want any?" "Yeah would love some. Two sugars and no cream please." Lyra said while sitting on the couch in her unusual way. Bon Bon just shook her head and went to prepare the tea. After five minutes she returned with the soothing drink and placed it on the coffee table after which she sat on the couch next to the mint coloured unicorn. "So did they figure anything out about the artefacts ar the agency?" She asked after taking a sip of her tea. "We did. We figured out that this gem." She pointed to her gem. "Contains a fully formed universe of its own. With one presence being able to actually talk to us." "Really! There is a whole world inside these?" Lyra asked completely shocked. "Yes, they do. It's quite fascinating. Isn't it." At that moment they both heard a beep and BonBon checked a weird device after which she sighed. "Sorry, Lyra. Duty calls. We have a 32 19 at the base and I really need to come and fix it." She said while grabbing a book which opened a secret passage. "No problem Bon Bon I'll watch the house in the meantime. You just show them what agent Sweetie Drops can do." Lyra said, finishing her tea and bringing the tea set to the sink. Bon Bon simply smiled. "Thanks, Lyra. I should be back in the morning." With that, she slid down the passageway which closed behind her. With nothing else to do, Lyra simply decided to climb on the couch and drift of to sleep. ***Chaos dimension*** The chaos dimension a place of wonder, fear, excitement and basically any other emotion. It is a world with no rules in which everything seemed impossible exists and everything possible is impossible to grasp. This is where Discord lives and is free to express himself however he wishes. Currently, he was preparing a tea party for him and his six new friends. "Oh, I do hope that they enjoy this chocolate tea. It's been a while since we sat down and talked." At that moment his volcano started spewing bubbles. "Oh, it's already time. Then let's get this party started." With that, he snapped his fingers and sure enough, his six new friends appeared. Those friends were the six artefacts he himself created. He used a little bit of his magic to give them actual bodies to inhabit. And sure enough, six bipedal creatures were now sitting around the table. The creatures were all made out of gold with their respective gems on their right hands. They also looked very different from one another. Radiance was female in shape and had black straight shoulder-length hair. She was also wearing what looked like a black suit with a red bow tie for her top and a grey skirt for her bottom. She was also wearing knee high grey boots. Muffin was also female in body shape, but she had blonde hair. She was wearing a simple blue T-shirt and jeans with white sneakers. Then we have the last female shaped creature, which was Gadget. She had short black hair that looked like it was shaped like a buzz axe. She was also wearing a black leather jacket with a shirt underneath with a skeleton on it. She also had grey jeans and steel-toed boots. Then we also have the other three which were all male in shape. Wub had his hair in a big afro and was also wearing dark blue sunglasses. He had on him a white jacket and white bell bottom pants with white dance shoes. Blinky had very short brown hair and was wearing a generic black T-shirt with the Cloud Buster sword on it and blue jeans. He was also wearing sneakers. And then we come to Fez. He was wearing the aforementioned hat on his head with no hair. Instead, he had a well-groomed beard on his face. He was wearing a large black trench coat and black dress pants and shoes. All of the described characters were staring at Discord and their surroundings with their expression ranging from intrigue to anger. After some time Discord started to talk. "Well I can see-" But that is as far as he came before he got an armoured fist to the face, which sent him flying into the wall. "You have no idea how long I wanted to do that you crazy chimaera." Gadget said after which she sat down and took a sip of her tea. "Please do continue." When Discord managed to get himself out of the wall he sat back at the table. "You have a mean left hook and no manners Mis Gadget, but do control your temper so that I can explain." Nobody said anything in protest so he continued. "Okay as you already know I transferred you all to an Equestria of your own in which you each got some power or another. You all made your lives in there and I am going to return you to it, but for now, I will answer your questions, if you have any that is." Discord said after which he took another sip from his drink. "Yeah, I have a good one. Can I get an orange and chocolate pie?" Asked Blinky. To that Discord just snapped his talons and the treat appeared in front of him. "Thanks." The rest of them just stared at him except for Muffin who also took a piece and started eating. "Okay then... What are the answers to all of the universe's questions?" Wub asked. Discord again snapped his fingers and a book appeared in front of Wub. When he opened it he found that on all the four hundred pages was written the number 42. "Aight." "Uh, can I try... Okay, then how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?" Muffin asked after she finished her slice of pie. Discord got a bit annoyed but still answered. "He couldn't chuck any wood because he can't grab it with his paws." He said. After that Radiance wanted to ask something but was interrupted by Discord. "If you want to know how I keep my mane like this, the answer is a lot of glue and concrete. But seriously no one wants to ask why I brought them here. No one at all." The six humanoids simply shook their heads. Discord simply facepalmed and sighed. "Look Discord." Radiance said. "It's not that we don't want to, it's just we don't need to. We all know that it was you who sent us to those worlds and that it was you who turned us into those artefacts. We may not be as wise as Celestia but we all have knowledge of the show... and the way the email looked when you sent it to us gave you away pretty quickly." "Yeah. At first, I just answered it as a joke, but when I woke up it made a lot of sense." Added gadget. "So yeah next questions. Can you talk to other Discords from different timelines and or dimensions?" Asked Muffin. Discord was shocked. They figured him out right off the bat. He really was losing his touch, but that didn't bring him down too much as he continued to answer their questions. They were talking for hours upon hours until they finally finished their tea. "Well that was a lot of fun but I have to ask Fez why didn't you ask anything? Now that I think about it you didn't say anything during your stay." Fez then picked up the tray and a nearby marker and wrote that he is mute on it. "Oh okay then. Well, anywho I hope that we can gather like this again. Maybe next week same time?" They all agreed and then he sent them back to their respective worlds. "Okay, let's see what Fluttershy is up to." He said as he snapped his fingers, teleporting himself to her. ***The friendship castle*** "So princess did you enjoy your vacation?" Twilight asked. They were all gathered in the cutie map room. They were all going through their experiences as rulers of their own district. They didn't have that much to say about that so they instead talked about how the princess's spent their free time. After some time they finished with everything and were left in a comfortable science. "So what are we going to plan out for next time?" Pinkie asked. Everyone just looked at her funny and then laughed. After some time Pinkie joined in as well, but when the laughter died down she said. "No seriously though what are we going to do next time." Then they looked at each other and stayed silent already brainstorming their next plan. Author's Note Well after one thousand years of banishment I finally give you another chapter of this story. And yes there are going to be more stories connected to this one. So yeah. In the meantime go to my Discord and talk to me there or my youtube channel and listen to some of my readings. See ya all in the next story.
Chapter 1 "the meeting"It was a beautiful day in Equestria. The birds were singing and the bees were buzzing and Twilight and her friends were having a slow day. It is for that reason that they decided to meet together at the castle to just hang out. "So does anypony have any ideas on what we can do for today?" Asked a bored Twilight Sparkle. "Well, we could play a board game." Suggested Applejack. "Nah, that's boring. How about we go to Canterlot and see if we can do something there?" Asked Rainbow Dash. At that Rarity shook her head. "No, sadly there is nothing going on in Canterlot or I would surely know darling." Then Fluttershy raised her hoof and asked in her usual quiet voice. "Um, why don't we go and help out the town with something. If you don't mind my suggestion." "That would be a great idea Fluttershy, but sadly there is literally nothing to help out with. There are no upcoming holidays, there are no friendship problems and there are no emergencies for us to deal with. So yeah nothing to do." Said Twilight and then face planted on the table with her friends soon following suit. After a moment of everyone admiring the table, Pinkie raised her head and somehow snapped her hooves and said. "Why don't we try to quote on quote take over Equestria?" After that comment, the whole room lifted their heads and started staring at her. "Um, Pinkie I don't think that is such a good idea." Said Applejack. "Yeah are you completely bonkers Pinkie. We are the elements of harmony what are you thinking we would get blasted and after that either trapped on the moon or in stone." Everyone else also voiced their disagreement except for Twilight. She raised her hoof to calm down all of her friends and when everypony finally stopped she voiced her opinion on the matter. "Pinkie is right we could quote on quote, mind the quotations, take over Equestria." After that, she put her hooves together in an evil way and started smirking and after a minute she said in a determined tone. "We are going to pretend to take over Equestria. I'm going to create a plan..." But then she was stopped by Rarity. "Darling you can't be serious if we do that we are going to be in some serious trouble with the princesses." "I was just getting to that, we are going to get the princesses, my brother and Discord in on it." After she mentioned the Draconequuses name he appeared in a puff of pink smoke. "You called." Everyone in the room was startled at first, but then Twilight said. "Actually I did we are going to need your magic to get the plan underway, but I still need to finish up everything." Discord just looked confused for a moment then he leant over to Fluttershy and asked. "Um, what's this all about?" "Twilight is creating a plan to quote on quote take over Equestria." After that, he raised his right eyebrow, pulled off his ears, cleaned them and then reattached them. "Could you please repeat yourself, because I swear that you said that you are planing to take over Equestria?" He asked and then Twilight answered. "Yes, we are planning on pretending to take over Equestria as Fluttershy already told you, but I still need to finalise all of the details, but when I do I'll make sure to call you all. You all just make sure to keep this under wraps. Actually, let's Pinkie promise to keep this a secret. You two Discord." With that, they all did the Pinkie promise and when they finished all of the motions they all went home. *** After a week of planning Twilight finally finalised the plan. With that done she sent letters to all the princesses and her friends telling them to come to the castle. After about half an hour they were all assembled. Then princess Celestia asked. "Okay, Twilight why have you called us to come to your castle?" Twilight started her little presentation by pulling down a big chart from the ceiling which basically explained the whole plan. After about a moment of them checking everything and double checking Luna finally started to speak up. "Do you have to use Nightmare Moon as your base for your evil forms?" Celestia then turned to her sister with a shocked etched into her face. "Luna why are you complaining we are getting a vacation after a thousand years of work or did you just skip over that part." Then she turned to Twilight with a serious expression on her face. "Look I am going to allow this under the condition that none of our subjects come to harm." "Of course we are not going to hurt anypony that would just be redundant. We are just going to scare them a bit. So does everypony here get the plan." Everyone nodded except for Shining Armour he raised his hoof and asked. "The only thing that I don't get is the part in which discord is going to give the clue to the new elements of harmony. Who are going to be the ponies chosen for that position?" "Ah, I'm glad you asked brother if you look at the chart here." She pointed to the upper right corner. "Then you are going to see who the new elements are going to be." After a minute of looking at all of the pictures he said. "Good choice Twily." "Now if none of y'all have any more questions then get started on your ends and we are going to get started on ours. We're going to meet again after a week to check if everything is ready. Until then Pinkie promise to keep this between us." Said Applejack. After that everybody in the room did the Pinkie promise and then they all went their separate ways. *** "Welcome everypony and welcome to the first annual Friendship festival." Said, Celestia, while standing on a stage in the middle of Ponywille. The Friendship festival was something that Twilight made up to start off her plan. As for how it looked. Well, it looked like any other festival. There are various stands where you can participate in fun carnival games. There were also decoration set up all over town and for the icing on top of this cake is, of course, the food, which was being taken care off by the Apple and Cake families. But enough about that you are here to see the mane six terrorise the populace so let's start with that. After the festival was about two-thirds complete the skies started to darken with storm clouds which started to cover the entirety of Ponywille. It sure had the citizens of Ponywille were freaking the fuck out. After that, the skies parted on top of the stage and down came Spike in his own nightmare mode disguise. Then he started to speak in a booming voice. "Citizens of Equestria my name is Spike the dragon and it is my greatest pleasure to introduce to you the new and improved elements of harmony." With that said the main six dropped down from the sky also in their respective nightmare disguises. They all stood on the stage and after a moment for everypony to admire them Twilight stepped in front of everyone and started to speak. "Hello, there my little ponies I am here to inform you that there is going to be a change in management because we are taking over." She finished her sentence with a sly grin. After that, all of the princesses and Shining appeared in front of them with determined faces except for Celestia who looked confused and worried. After a minute of everypony staring down the other, Celestia stepped forward and asked. "Twilight what happened to you? Who did this to you?" Twilight started to walk towards her. "Oh, my dear dear mentor. No one did this to me. I did it myself I embraced the darkness that was inside of me. We all did. Now if you would all please step down so that we could take over that would be swell." She said while also flashing a deranged smile. Her friends also joined her with their own versions. "Twilight you have to fight it." Screamed Luna and she would continue but was stopped by her sister. "It's too late Luna. Don't waste your breath. They are all to far gone. The only way to stop them is to put them down." After that Celestia charged up a spell and fired it at Twilight. She struck her mark and sent her flying over her friends. That of course was a mistake because then all of her friends charged straight at all of the princesses. Pinkie and Applejack ganged up on Shining, Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash took Luna and Rarity took Cadence. While they were fighting Spike helped Twilight get out of the wall that she got stuck in and when she got out she said. "That was a mistake, my dear teacher. A big mistake. Spike destroy her." After that Spike lunged at Celestia and punched her straight in the chest sending her flying back straight into a wall. "Ain't so fun when you are getting blasted into a wall now is it." Said Twilight. "You haven't seen nothing yet." Said, Celestia. Then she summoned in her armour and her claymore. "Now show me what you are really capable of." After that Celestia tried to attack Twilight but she was intercepted by Spike who used his fire to blast her away. Then they both lunged at each other and started to fight, Celestia used her claymore to slash at Spike, while he blocked her attacks with his scales while also attacking her with his claws and fire breath. After about a minute of that Twilight had enough and blasted her away from Spike and straight into the other two princesses and Shining. "Enough fighting It's time to end this. Elements to me!" Then they all assembled behind her and started to power up their elements and when they were finally powered up Twilight said. "Say goodbye to your subjects x rulers of Equestria." Then they all released their attack and then the rainbow beam started shooting towards the princesses and Shining and struck them all sending them to God knows where. When all the smoke finally disappeared it revealed a scorch mark and nothing else. "Well that was easy, but that's not the point now elements spread to all the corners of Equestria and take control over your designated districts." After that was said they all saluted and flew off to their respective corners of Equestria. ***Random Island*** "Celestia do you think we made the right choice leaving Twilight and her friends in charge of Equestria." Asked Luna while laying on a beach chair enjoying the sun. "They've got everything under control. Twilight thought everything through to the smallest detail, so stop worrying and start enjoying yourself." Said, Celestia, while magicking up a beach chair, a sun hat and a coconut with a straw inside. "Yeah enjoy yourself. This is probably going to be the only time that we are going to be able to get more than one week of vacation. Make the most of it." Said Cadance. She was currently sitting at a bar waiting for Shining to finish up a cocktail that she ordered. "I'm sure as Tartarus going to enjoy this time off." Said Shining while placing down two glasses and pouring in the drink. "To boredom." After that they all said. "To boredom." And then they all took a drink and started enjoying their vacation. Author's Note Here's a new story. I hope you enjoy it and if you did then comment, like and follow. With that said I'll see you in the next chapter.
Chapter 2 "the background mane six"It has been a full week since Twilight and her friends took over Equestria and the ponies weren't too happy about it. Oh, what's this a brown coated unicorn stallion, with a brown mane and an hourglass for a cutie mark, is being chased by some magenta guards wearing purple armour. "I need to find a hiding spot now. I can't keep on running forever." He said to himself. Then out of nowhere, a mint green hoof grabbed him from a house and quickly pulled him inside, while the guard kept on running without noticing. The stallion was freaking out inside a dark room until he heard a familiar voice talk to him. "Doctor, please calm down it's just us in here." It was the voice of the wall-eyed pegasus Derpy. After that sentence, he calmed down and took a look around at where he was. He was in a pretty empty room, but that was not important to him. The only thing that he saw and was interested in were all of his friends. Those were the aforementioned Derpy, Bon Bon, Lyra, Octavia and Vinyl Scratch. After that, he sighed in relief and said. "Thank Celestia. I thought that some guards caught me. For that matter, I thought they already caught all of you." He said in a slightly surprised tone of voice. After that Vinyl stepped forward helped him to stand back up and when she finished she said. "The guards all chased us for some time, but in the end, we all gave them the slip." Then Octavia decided to add. "After that, we were wondering for a few days and after some time we slowly met up and that is how we got together." Then the doctor was in thought and after he finished his mental debate he said. "Well that's all well and good, but what do we do now?" After that Bon Bon said. "We do what we did until now. We evade the guard and try to escape this place." He was again in thought after that, but his concentration was quickly broken by Discord dropping in out of thin air. "What the?!" Said the Doctor with shock on his face which was mirrored by all of his friends. Discord then quickly got up and started to talk in a slightly fearful tone. "Ah, I finally found someone. Look I don't have much time, but you guys need to save Equestria. I don't have time to explain why, but you need to go to every single district, controlled by one of the elements and find the relics that I've hidden there. Find them and cure the elements." After that, a portal opened behind him and out came Fluttershy's voice. "Discord~. Get your scaly rump back here." Then a pink lock of hair extended from the portal wrapped around Discord and started to pull him inside, but before he got in he said. "Find the relics and save all of Equestria." And then he disappeared into the portal and everything was quiet. After around two minutes Vinyl spoke up. "Well looks like we now know what we are doing. We are going to save Equestria." Then Vinyl noticed a piece of paper on Doc's back. "Hey Doc what's that on your back?" The Doctor then turned around and grabbed the piece of paper in his magick and unfolded it. When he finished doing that he floated it on the ground and let everyone see it. It was a map of Equestria with some places marked on it. When they all finished looking at it the Doctor said. "It looks like a map of Equestria with six places marked on it, but I can also feel some magic coming from it." Then Everyone gathered around it After some time Lyra spoke up. "Hmm, it's probably a detection spell and an auto update spell that your feeling." Then She said a little bit more excitedly "He gave us this to help us out in finding all those relics." Then she calmed down slightly and asked. "So which one do we go for first?" "Let's start with the one here." Said, Octavia, while pointing to the mark that is located in ponywille. "Yeah, but we have a problem if this map is showing things correctly then the artefact is located on the apple farm and that means that we are going to be facing nightmare Applejack." Said the Doctor. "Are you sure that we can't start somewhere else." Asked Derpy. "Look Derpy if we get started now we can finish of this quicker and besides we are so or so going to need all of the relics before we even begin to think about curing Twilight since she is the most powerful one of them all. So let's leave her for last." Said Bon Bon. Then the doctor spoke up. "Okay then it's settled we are going to get the first relic today." Said the Doctor. Then he extended his hoof and said. "For Equestria." After that everypony else also put their hoof oh his and they all said in unison. "For Equestria." After that, they put their hoofs on the ground with smiles on their faces, but Octavia's smile quickly fell and turned into one of thought and after some time she finally said. "Okay if we are doing this now then we are going to need some equipment and supplies if we are doing this. Mostly saddle bags some food and some water." Everyone agreed then the Doctor asked. "So who has some of this stuff?" Vinyl then raised her hoof. "I have some high-quality saddle bags at my house." After her Bon Bon raised her hoof. "I have some canned food and some water bottles at my house, but I don't think I have enough for us to last." After her Derpy raised her hoof and said. "I have some more food at my place way more than we actually need." After the Doctor heard all of that he said. "Okay now we have some destinations and the first that I think we should go to is Vinyls place so that we can get those saddlebags, then we can go to Bon Bons to pick up the food and water and then we go to Derpy's. Any objections to the plan?" Then Vinyl raised her hoof. "Yes, Vinyl?" "Why don't we split up and get this done faster?" She asked. "Because I'm going with the mentality there is strength in numbers. So any other questions?" Everyone shook their heads in denial. "Okay then let's go." With that said they opened the back door and started to sneak away, but little did they know that they were being watched by yellow eyes. ***Everfree forest castle throne room*** "Did they buy it Discord." Asked Fluttershy. Discord then pulled his head out of the tear in reality and said. "They did and are already on their way to get ready to get the first relic on Applejacks farm." Then Applejack stepped forward and said. "Okay, then Discord transform me and beam me to my farm." Discord then snapped his fingers and Applejack started to transform. First, she started to grow until she was the size of Celestia. After that, her coat started to change from orange to black. Her mane and tail also grew out by at least ten centimetres. Then her hat transformed into a golden helmet and for the final touch, a golden yoke with the element of honesty on it appeared around her neck. "Is it done?" She asked after a minute. "Almost I just need to add two more touches and then I'll teleport you to your farm." He snapped his fingers one more time and her hair started to wave like it was in an invisible wind and her cutie mark changed from a shiny red apple to a black apple with a red outline. "And done. Okay then get ready for the teleport." After that she got ready, he snapped his fingers and she teleported to her farm. "Do you think we are doing the right thing?" Asked Fluttershy. "Look I'm going, to be honest with you I don't know. For me, this is awesome because I can spread my chaos over the entirety of Equestria and besides were not hurting anybody we are just scaring them a bit. Now if you excuse me I need to bring this information to Twilight see you in a minute." Then he snapped his fingers and left Fluttershy alone with her animals to keep her company. "Oh, I hope the others are having a better time than me." After that, she looked at a nearby clock and noticed that it was time to feed her animals. "Oh would you look at the time, it's time to feed you all." With that said she left the throne room with all of her little animal companions following her as well. ***Ponywille streets*** The Doctor and all of his friends are currently waiting for Applejacks guards to get lost so that they can cross the street and get into the alleyway across the street. "This is taking too long." Whispered Vinyl. "Patience Vinyl. It's only a matter of time before they have to switch out and speak of the devil." He whispered back. After he did the guards walked away. With their opportunity now open, they all quickly made it across the street and into Vinyls house through the back door. Once inside Vinyl said. "Okay, then you guys wait here while I go upstairs and get those saddle bags. In the mean time make yourselves at home." With that said she made her way upstairs while everybody else just sat down and waited. All except for Doc. He went to the window and checked if the guards have returned and of course they have. After making sure that they didn't spot him he closed the curtains and then he said. "Okay, we are going to have to be allot more careful now, because the guards have changed positions and if the time that it took for them to change is correct they switch between every fifteen to twenty minutes. So we are going to need a distraction to get out." After that Octavia spoke up. "I noticed that Applejacks guard is mostly made out of earth ponies. Can't we use that to our advantage somehow?" "Possibly, but we can't risk anyone of us getting caught. If what this map shows is anything to go by there are six relics one for each of us. If one of us is caught then we can not cure the elements of harmony. Maybe we could distract them by creating a distraction with our magic or let Derpy fly us over th..." The doctor would have continued but was interrupted by Vinyl returning with two pairs of saddle bags levitating in her magical grasp. "Here you go Doc." She said while handing one pair to him. Then she placed the other on herself and went to the kitchen. "I'm going to grab some stuff from around here that may come in handy later on." She said and left to go to the kitchen while the Doctor rolled up the map and placed it into his bag. After some time of her walking around the house and gathering up some things. When she finished she asked, "So what's the next step?" "Now we need to go to Bon Bon's house to get some water and after that, we go to Derpy's. When we have everything we are finally going to go to Sweet Apple Acres and get the first relic. Now, let's go while we can still hide under the cover of night." Said the Doctor. Everyone agreed and with that, they made their way towards the back door so that they could sneak out. When they were outside the Doctor quickly told Vinyl that they need to distract the guards and after a second of thought she picked up a rock and threw it across the street. "What was that?" Both of the guards said. "We better check it out." Said the right one. Then they both went to check out what made that noise. When they were far enough away that our six protagonists knew that they were safe, they made a mad dash towards Bon Bon's candy shop which also doubled as her home. The shop was located a couple of blocks down the street from Vinyls house. When they got to the shop Bon Bon quickly opened it and ran inside and just in time because there was a patrol coming down the street right when they closed the door. They were all pretty surprised that they even made it. "That was way too close for comfort." Said, Octavia, while wiping off the sweat of her brow. "You said it. Now if you excuse me I'll go and quickly grab the water." Said Bon Bon and left to grab the aforementioned supplies. While she was doing that the Doctor decided to pace around and think while the rest sat down and relaxed for a bit. After some time of silence, Derpy spoke up. "So how are we planning to get to my house it's not like we can just run there it's on the other side of town." "That is what I am trying to figure out." He said. Then Bon Bon returned with about eight two litre water bottles balanced on her back. When she was close enough she said. "Here this should last us a while." She then passed him four while she gave the rest to Vinyl. He took them in his magic and placed them in his bags. Vinyl did the same. After that, the Doctor again started to pace around and think. He was trying to figure out a better way to sneak around town and that is when he noticed a couple of cardboard boxes, which were just big enough to fit a pony inside, and that is when he got a stupid idea. "I've got an idea on how we can get to Derpy's house without getting caught." After that, he levitated the boxes over to his friends. When he did that they just looked at him like he was crazy. "What? If anyone of you has a better idea then let's hear it." Then they just looked at each other, shrugged, took a box, placed them over themselves and went out the back door of the shop. *** On their way towards Derpy's house. Nothing of interest happened. They walked past some guards and the doctor swears that he saw a grey pony equipped in body armour and holding a cigar in his mouth doing the same technique as they are. After he filed that away for later investigation they continued and soon enough they arrived at Derpy's house and quickly entered. "Okay, I'll be right back with the supplies." Said Derpy and flew off towards the kitchen to gather up the food. "Make sure it's either dried or canned. We don't want anything spoiling on our travels." Said the Doctor. "Okay." With that, she returned to her task. "Alright, so what is our plan of attack? How are we getting the first relic?" Asked Lyra. The Doctor then pulled out the map and unfurled it on the table for everyone to see and after some time of thought, he said. "Well, Lyra that is going to be a little tougher because we have two problems. The first one is that we don't know what she did to her farm for all we know there could be a lava river surrounding the entire farm." "And the other thing is?" Asked Octavia. "This map doesn't show where the relic is located. It only tells us the general area. So we are going to have to split up there. As much as I hate to do that." He answered. "Well then we have the building blocks for a plan, but we still have a lot of unknowns. I suggest that we scope out the area to figure out some of the unknowns." Said Bon Bon and when she did the Doctor got an idea. "I've got an idea, but we should wait for Derpy to return because she is going to be the main asset to that little idea." Then they simply waited for Derpy to return and when fifteen minutes passed everyone got a little worried. "Um, shouldn't she be back by now?" Asked Vinyl. "Do you think she got captured?" Lyra added. "No, if she was then they would probably sweep the house and capture us as well. I'll go check it out and if you hear a fight going on then quickly pack up everything and run." Said the Doctor and left the living room and went into the kitchen to look for his missing friend. Once there he quickly checked around to see where she was. After he was half way finished he heard some noises coming from the pantry. He charged up a knockout spell then he slowly went over to it and opened it. When he did he found Derpy inside tangled in some towels. The Doctor dispelled the spell and said. "Really Derpy how did you even get tangled up in towels?" When he finished his question he started on untangling her and while he did that she said. "I just don't know what went wrong. I was just trying to find a couple of bags for the trail mix, but then I bumped into a shelf and all of the towels on that shelf fell down. I tried to get out, but then I got tangled up even more." After she finished her explanation the Doctor the same with untangling her and started on folding the towels and placing them back on the shelf. When that task complete he helped Derpy finish up her trail mix and brought it to the main room. Everyone in there was extremely relieved to see that Derpy is alright and when everyone quieted down Vinyl asked. "So doc what's are we going to do to scope out the area around the farm?" Then the Doctor explained his plan and when he finished they put their boxes back on and immediately went towards Sweet apple acres. *** Once they were there they put Doctor's idea into action. The Doctor cast an invisibility spell on Derpy while Vinyl cast a soundproofing spell on her. After that Derpy flew into the air and started on circling the entire place and what she saw wasn't good. First, of the red barn that was once, there was turned into jail cells and the Apple family house was transformed into a large castle. It had three spires and was made of wood of all things. It still had the aesthetics of their home only now it looked like a castle. The fields, where the Apple family would usually work, were now filled with Ponywille residents that were being forced to work by Applejacks guard. And speaking of Applejack she was currently walking down the rows of apple trees checking if everyone was doing their job properly. After that Derpy made another fly around and then she returned to her friends and told them about everything that she saw and after she did the doctor said. "Well, it looks like we are going to have to wait a little bit. Until Applejack goes back inside the castle after that we can start exploring. Derpy did you perhaps see something that might look like the artefact?" "No sorry I didn't find anything that would fit that description." The Doctor then started to formulate a plan. When he finally finished all the details he said. "Okay, then we are going to split up here me and one of you guys are going inside. When we do we are going to knock out two guards and go exploring until we find the artefact. With that said who is going to go with me?" And then everything went silent and then after a minute of that silence Octavia sighed, stepped forward and said. "Okay, I'll go because I guess that you are going to be using magic to hide your horn so that you look like the guards on the farm." She said. "You would be correct about that. Now if no one else has any suggestions then let's go." After that, he took out the map and placed it into his mane while passing his saddle bags to Derpy. When they were both ready they took their boxes and started to sneak inside the farm. Once they were in a place where they could reach a guard they discarded the boxes and waited for one of them to arrive. After some time passed one of them finally walked by. With their chance now open Octavia quickly grabbed the guard while the Doctor quickly knocked him out using a spell. "Well that's one now we need to wait for another one." He said. After a minute another one went by, so they repeated the process and then they started on removing the armour. Said armour was made out of iron which was buffed to perfection. When they removed it from the two ponies their coat colours changed from orange to whatever their original ones were. After that, they put the armour on, the Doctor hid his horn and they both hid the knocked out bodies. "So what do we do now Doctor?" Asked Octavia. "Now we go and explore until we find something that looks like the artefact. Until then act natural." With that said they both made their way out of the alley and started their search for the aforementioned relic. *** After about an hour of searching, they were stopped by Applejack who spotted them when they were inspecting the cells. "Ho there you guys. The fields are that away. Now get back to supervising the townspeople. You know that I can't stand any lollygagging" At first, they both froze, but then the Doctor got an idea so he said. "I'm sorry Miss Applejack, but I'm shoving the new recruit around here so that she doesn't get lost you know how rookies can be. After I finish well both go to the fields right away." He said at first she looked at them with scepticism etched into her facial features, but after some time her face returned to normal and she said. "Okay then, but don't dilly dally. Now git." With that, they both saluted and went back to their search while Applejack returned to the castle to do whatever she does at that time in the day. When she was sure that Applejack was out of their earshot Octavia said. "That was close." "You said it now lets quickly find that artefact before we get discovered. Because I'm pretty sure that we won't survive another encounter such as this." With that, they continued their search. After some time passed the map started to glow. Octavia noticed that and told Doctor. "Well, would you look at that it is. That must mean that we must be nearby the relic." Then he simply took it out, held it in his mouth and then made a 360-degree turn and when he pointed it towards a window it started to glow brighter but the only thing on that window was a simple pie tin. "A pie tin? seriously." Said Octavia. "Well, you must put into consideration that it is Discord who hid these relics so it was bound to get weird." Said the Doctor. Then he tried to reach for it but was then shocked by the magic inside of it. "Ouch." he said while shaking his hoof. "What happened Doc? Why can't you pick it up?" Asked Octavia in a frightened tone. "I don't know maybe It didn't allow me to." Then he got an idea. "You try to pick it up." After that Octavia was surprised. "Are you crazy. I don't want to get shocked because that looked painful and..." The doctor only raised his hoof to shut her up and said. "Trust me. If my hypothesis is correct then you are going to be all right now go and pick it up before we get spotted." After that, she looked at him for a second, but eventually, she relented and released a sigh. Then she simply stepped forward and said. "Okay, I trust you." Then she reached for it, but she didn't get shocked and when she finally made contact the pie tin started to glow and morph. When it finally stopped glowing it was already around Octavia's neck and turned into something completely different. It was a golden necklace that looked allot like the elements of harmony. The only difference that was there was the centre piece. The gem was shaped like her cutie mark (a treble clef) and was coloured a solid purple colour. When it was finally done she looked at it and smiled. "Okay, now we've got it now let's go before someone finds us." Right on cue, the two guards that they knocked out appeared from around the corner followed by even more of them. "There they are. Get them." With that said they quickly made a run for it discarding the armour on the way. When they finally outran them and when they stopped looking for them. They returned to their friends to show them what they got and to plan out the next heist. Author's Note Here is the next chapter. I hope you all enjoyed it and if you did like comment and share this with your friends. With that said I'll see you on the dark side.
Chapter 3 "traveling"After the Doctor and Octavia met back up with their friends they all quickly booked it for the hills where Octavia and the Doctor explained everything that happened to them on the farm. "Well, at least you got out of there alive." Said Vinyl. "And you got some bling to boot. So these are the artefacts that Discord was talking about?" "It sure looks like it, but it seems that I can't take it off." Said, Octavia, while trying to take it off. "So not only do we need to infiltrate each of the five areas, where the artefacts are located, but we also have to wear them once we get them. What kind of fetch quest is this?" Asked Bon Bon. "One that we need to finish so that we can reverse whatever happened to the elements." Said the Doctor. Then he turned to Octavia. "As for why you can't take it off. That is probably a defence measure in case someone tries to steal it, but I guess they could find ways around it, but then again I also don't know what these things are capable of." He reached into his saddlebag and pulled out the map. "Now let's see which area should we hit up next." After he said that everybody gathered around and started looking over the map. "I suggest we go to the Crystal empire if we go there then we can work our way towards Canterlot where we will probably cure all of the elements at once." Suggested Lyra. "I agree with her on that one. The elements are probably in touch with each other somehow. So if they are they are probably going to wait for us there or attack us before we get there." Said the Doctor. "But what if we run into some sort of creature or bandits. Not that we have anything for them, but some ponies don't think straight under pressure." Said Derpy in a worried voice. "Well as a wise adventurer once said that is for future me to worry about." Said the Doctor while rolling up the map and put it back into his map. "Now if you are done worrying we have a destination and not allot of time to get to it. Let's go." With that said they all started on their long journey towards the Crystal empire. *** After some time of walking in silence, Derpy spoke up. "Um Doctor I know that you know what you are doing, but I think we are going to need some more equipment to handle the northern winds and snow." After that he stopped dead in his tracks. Then he walked over to the nearest tree and started to bang his head against it. "Um, Doc are you okay." Asked Vinyl. After a couple more knocks to the head, he said. "Yeah, I'm good." After that, he pulled out the map and started to check over it. "Okay then let's see on the way to the crystal empire there are three cities one of them is Trotingham and I suggest we get all of our stuff there since it is the closest to the empire so that we don't go to off course from our original destination." "But we are still going to need blankets and sleeping bags so that we have someplace to sleep, so I suggest that instead of Trotingham we go to Baltimare and get our supplies there." Said Bon Bon. "Okay, I guess that sounds allot better and it isn't too much of a detour if nopony has anything else that they want to say before we head off." Everyone shook their head. "Okay then let's go before we are caught by one of Applejacks patrols." With that said the Doctor packed up the map and they made their way towards Baltimare, but what they didn't notice was a dark shape with yellow glowing eyes watching them. After they completely disappeared it flew off towards Cloudsdale. *** After about four hours of constant walking they finally arrived at Baltimare and what they saw left them in complete shock. The city was completely decimated like some sort of tornado flew through the entire city and destroyed it. "Man it's only been like a week. What could have possibly happened here?" Said Vinyl. "Well by the evidence that is provided, some sort of riot possibly happened and to end it drastic measures had to have been used or they all fled the city so fast that the ponies destroyed half of it." Said the Doctor while checking some rubble and hoofprints. "Let's quickly get what we need and get out, because this place is giving me the creeps." Said Lyra. "Alright. I always wanted to try scavenging, but I never found any ruins that I could explore and do that in." Said Vinyl while running ahead of them with everyone else soon following. When they all caught up to her Octavia said. "Vinyl sometimes you are really unbelievable sometimes." When they caught up to Vinyl they found themselves in front of the Baltimare general store. The place looked as destroyed as any other building if not slightly worse after they finished looking at it, they made their way inside and once there the Doctor said. "Okay, we are going to split up so that we can cover more ground. Derpy and I are going to take the east side. Vinyl and Octavia you take the centre and Lyra and Bon Bon you take the west side. Take everything that might be important on our journey. We meet back here in one hour. Everyone got that?" Everyone nodded with determined faces. "Okay then meet you back here in an hour." After that, they all went to their designated areas. Twenty minutes passed with Vinyl and Octavia finding some useful stuff and putting it inside the formers saddlebags, but after that, they found a very peculiar sight. To be more specific they saw a couple of what looked to be Wonderbolts only that these guys wore a lot more darker clothes. "We should go find the others and tell them about this. They probably aren't here to shop if their demeanours have anything to say about that." Whispered Octavia. Vinyl simply nodded and they quickly snuck away. After some time of searching, they found Lyra and Bon Bon they told them what happened and after packing everything away they began to search for Derpy and the Doctor, but sadly they were too late because they heard the sound of a battle going on. "That can't be good." said Vinyl. "Yeah, it isn't now everypony grab a weapon or charge up your spells, because we have a couple of friends to save." Said, Octavia, while noticing a pipe and trying to pick it up with her mouth but to her surprise right when she was about to grab it, it started floating surrounded in a purple aura. "What the?" Then she shook her head. "Questions later. Saving friends now." With that, she directed the floating pipe next to her and got ready to charge. When everyone was ready they charged into the battle. There were three Wonderbolt wannabes attacking a shield that the Doctor created to protect himself and Derpy. Sadly the shield was cracking meaning that he was at the end of his magic and concentration. With that observation made they quickly charged at the three Wonderbolts knocking two out and leaving the other to escape and charge up another attack, but when he was about to hit he made a full one-eighty turn and flew out of the store. Now with the immediate threat gone Octavia ran over to the Doctor and Derpy. "Doctor, Derpy are you two okay?" "Besides a couple of bumps, magic fatigue and a slight headache we are going to be fine." Said Doctor. "Yeah, we'll be fine. They just caught us off guard." Said Derpy while nursing a bruise. "Okay, then Doctor if you and Derpy are okay could you please tell me how I am able to do this?" Asked Octavia while demonstrating her new ability and after she did the Doctors eyes widened. "Fascinating. I'm going to check that out later when my magic returns but if I had to hazard a guess then I believe It came from the relic around your neck since it is glowing as well. For now, let's take care of these Wonderbolt wannabes." He said while looking at them and after that, they started on the task of tieing them up and when they were securely tied down they relaxed a bit. After they were calmed down Bon Bon asked. "Okay, then what do we do now?" "Now we wait for them to wake up so that we can ask them a couple of questions and while we are waiting let's see what we found and prepare a lunch." Said the Doctor. With that, they all started to prepare a simple lunch. ***Cloudsdale weather factory*** "Come on workers. We have a castle to build so put your backs into it." Said Rainbow Dash who was currently in her nightmare mode. She looked very similar to Applejack. The only differences being that she wore dark silver armour and that her hair and tail looked like rainbow coloured fire. She was currently walking back towards the main office of the weather factory, where she could transform back into her regular form, but when she got there she found one of her Shadowbolts waiting for her. At first, she looked surprised, but she quickly calmed down and said. "Ah, it looks like my scouting party's back, but weren't there three of you?" When she finished her little observation, the shadow bolt saluted and said. "I'm sorry to say this, but they were defeated when we tried to capture two of the ponies that managed to escape Poniwille. I managed to escape by faking them out." After that Rainbow looked pissed. "You left them in the hands of the enemy! Do you have any idea what you have done? They could blab some secrets that they can't know. I can only imagine what they are doing to them at this moment." Then she closed her eyes and was silent for a moment and when she opened them she said. "Go back and rescue them and I want it done yesterday." With that, the Shadowbolt saluted and flew back to where she left her team behind. When she left the office Rainbow let out a sigh of relief and right after she turned back to normal. "Man it sure is hard keeping up that charade, but it is sorta fun." "I do agree my technicolour friend." Said Discords voice and right after that he dropped down from the ceiling. "It seems that my magic has again faded. Shall I recast it Rainbow?" "Yeah you know it, I wanna go out flying a little more before I have to prepare for the gladiator games and don't even get me started on the flaming hair because it is awesome so lay it on me." After that Discord snapped his fingers and she turned back to her nightmare mode. "Oh yeah and before I forget Celestia wants to hear how you are all doing so she told me to teleport you all to her for a small meeting so be prepared for that." "Okay then Discord if that's true then I guess I'll see you tomorrow just try to get me when I am not working on the games." She said while spreading her wings. "Now if you excuse me I have a track to beat and gladiators to find." And then she threw herself out of the nearest window. After that Discord simply teleported back to the castle. ***Baltimare general store*** After they all finished eating their lunch the two captured Wonderbolts started to wake up. "Well look who's waking up." Said Vinyl. "You'll newer get our secrets and you are going to be sorry for messing with the Shadowbolts." The Doctor then stepped in front of them. "Okay, because you just answered all that we needed to know. Now, let's pack up and go." "Wait you won't torture us to give you information. You only wanted to know what we are?" Asked one of the Shadowbolts in a confused tone. "No we won't, but we are going to knock you out again so that we can leave in peace without you knowing where we are going and yes that's all we wanted to know. Now please be quiet." Said the Doctor while packing up his supplies. "The only thing that I truly want to know is why you are following us?" "Well, we weren't quite following you." Said the first one. "We kinda stumbled upon you when we were scouting out the area." Said the second one. After he did the doctor finished packing and put the saddlebags on his back. "Okay, thank you for the information but now it's time for you two to say goodnight." Then he charged up his horn with the knockout spell and aimed it at the Shadowbolts. When he did he shot them and they immediately went back to sleep. "Okay then." He said while turning to the girls. "Did you pack everything?" They nodded. "Okay then let's go before reinforcements arrive and capture us." After that, they headed for the Crystal empire.
Chapter 4 "the Crystal empire"The journey to the Crystal Empire was a long and tiring one. It took them five days to get there. It would have taken less time, but the constant attacks of bandits and rogue monsters that fled the Everfree and to add on top of that the weather was completely out of control. You know how the weather is usually controlled by the pegasi, well it still is in the towns that are still populated, but the area between them is completely wild. Meaning that they had to stop and wait out a couple of the stronger storms in caves. When they finally arrived at the Crystal empire they saw what happened to it and then Vinyl asked. "What the buck happened here?" She asked in a shocked voice. The crystal empire looked like it was having a fashion show through the entire city, with everyone wearing unique dresses or suits while the paparazzi were walking around and photographing them and to make the picture even more complete everyone was wearing a strained smile to complete the look. "Well Vinyl it looks like they are having a forced fashion show and I only know of one pony of the elements of harmony who would do that and that would be Rarity." And right on queue Rarity appeared wearing one of her amazing creations. "Everypony quick hide!" Whispered the Doctor to everyone. With his warning, they all hid just in time for her to miss them. With them hidden they slowly crawled their way towards an alleyway while listening to Rarity talk. "Oh, these clothes that I made for you all is simply divine. I'll make sure to create another fashion line for the next season, but until then I'll take a small break." She was currently wearing a nice dress made to accentuate her eyes. They also noticed that she was not wearing her armour which they assumed she would, but they thought that it would clash with the dark blue dress too much but enough about the dress she was now sitting at a restaurant and waiting for a waiter to start serving her. "Okay, then guys we will have to blend in if we want to start searching for the next artefact in piece. Does anyone of you have any ideas on how we can do that?" After that everyone started to think of a plan on how to get around without being noticed. Then out of nowhere six black suits fell from the sky and after that Discord popped his head out of a portal in the sky just above them. "Hello there guys I managed to get away from Fluttershy for a little while and I saw you were in a bit of a pickle over here so I decided to pop in and give you something to help you out." He said with a small grin. "Okay Discord what exactly did you give us?" Asked the Doctor. "Well, I gave you some suits and sunglasses so that you could quote on quote blend in and I also gave you ear pieces so that you could talk to each other when you aren't all grouped together." When he finished saying that some strands of pink hair appeared again and a sweet and yet still evil voice followed it and said. "Discord what did I tell you about running away. Do I have to let the manticores on you again." After that, the hairs wrapped around him and was pulled back into his portal while screaming. "No please no not the manticores please nothing but the manticores!" And then the portal closed, leaving our six friends scared and completely confused. ***Random Island*** After that little show Discord and Fluttershy appeared in front of all the princesses and Shining Armour. "Hello, Celly. Hello, Lulu. Hiya Cady and hello Shiny. How's your vacation coming along?" He asked while turning Fluttershy back to normal. "Oh, it's simply marvellous. Even if it is at the expense of my little ponies. Speaking of how are things going in the rest of Equestria? Is anybody hurt?" Asked Celestia while laying on a beach chair and enjoying a nice coconut. "Well they are either panicking, tired or annoyed, but no one was harmed. Even in Rainbows territory. Which is a complete surprise since she has a gladiator thing going on." After that Luna stepped up to discord and said. "As long as nobody's getting hurt everything is alright. They so or so need to toughen up a bit. But enough about that Are you up for a round of volleyball. Shining just taught me the rules and it sounds like a really fun game." She said while levitating the ball next to herself. After giving it some thought he said. "Sure why not." Then he turned to Fluttershy. "Fluttershy we are going to take a small break so get comfortable and enjoy yourself for a bit." Then Discord and Luna flew off to a volleyball field where Cadance and Shining were waiting for them while Fluttershy simply went up to a beach chair and laid down. After some time Celestia turned to her and asked. "So Fluttershy how does it fell to run your own kingdom?" Fluttershy first made a quiet eep sound, then she gathered her composure and answered. "Well, it is nice especially for me, because I get to take care of all my woodland friends, even if I do look like a monster. But there is also the problem of trying to balance my usual personality with the evil one. It certainly takes it's toll on me." She said in her characteristically quiet voice. "Well as long as you don't go overboard. Now relax and enjoy the rest of your stay here." After that, they both relaxed and enjoyed the day. ***Crystal empire*** After Discords portal disappeared and after about a minute of them staring at the space where it was completely confused, Vinyl said. "Okay is anyone else scared to take on Fluttershy?" That snapped everyone out and then the Doctor said. "We are going to have to suck it up and do it. Until then lets change out of the snow gear and put on those suits and then we can get started on finding the next relic." He said while getting out of the parka that he was wearing. Everyone soon followed and then they started to put on the suits that they got from discord once that was finished one of Rarities guards noticed them in the alley and said. "Hey, you get your lazy flanks out of there and go back to your posts you don't want to be turned into a living mannequin now do you." At first, they all froze, but when they noticed that he was not attacking them the Doctor turned around and said. "Well get back to our posts immediately sir." He ended his statement with a salute. The rest of his friends did the same and after that, the guard left them alone. When he did they all let out the breath that they didn't even realised that they were holding. "Okay, that was again way to close for comfort. Now with that out of the way let's start searching for that relic." Said Vinyl. "You are right now let's split up like we did at the store and start patrolling the empire. If anypony finds anything that might look like the relic then please contact each other through the ear pieces." Said Doc while pointing at his piece. "But how are we going to be searching for the relic if we don't have the map?" Asked Lyra. "Whops I forgot about that..." After a moment of thought a lightbulb turned on over his head and he said. "I've got an idea you are all going to make sure that the guard doesn't get suspicious of us while I and Derpy snoop around. Can you do that?" Asked the Doctor. "Trust me when you asked for a distraction no two are better for the job then Lyra and Vinyl." Said Bon Bon. "Hey!" Both of the aforementioned ponies cried out. "Oh shut up. You both know that that's true." Said Bon Bon. After that, they both harrumphed and turned their heads away from them. After a minute of the Doctor spoke up. "Okay then. If there are no further objections let's get out there and start searching." Then they all put on their sunglasses and went out of the alleyway where they promptly began to search the Empire. *** After around two hours of searching our six friends met back at the alleyway where they started to compare notes. Once there Vinyl asked the Doctor. "So Doc did you and Derpy find anything?" "Nope. Zip. Nada. We didn't find diddly squat and we searched the entire empire. Oh, this is bad. This is really really bad." Said the Doctor in a slightly panicky voice. "It's going to be okay Doc we just didn't find it today doesn't mean we are not going to find it ever." Said derpy while trying to comfort him. Then she noticed the map starting to glow. She pointed it out to the Doctor, who quickly took it out and started to search around. When he noticed what the relic was supposed to be he threw the map on the ground and said. "Celestia damn it Discord." After that, he vent to the wall and started to hit his head against it. Why? You may be asking yourself. Well, you see the map pointed out that the next relic was located on Rarity meaning that it was probably her dress. After he finished his head banging he stepped up to his friends and asked. "Does anyone of you have any idea on how we can get the dress off of Rarity without getting ourselves killed?" "Well, we could always knock her out and then take it." Suggested Vinyl. After that Octavia hit her upside the head and said. "That is a stupid idea. I have a better one. We follow her around until she puts those clothes away and when she does and is out of the picture then we can quickly grab it and are out of the empire before she even knows that it's gone." "Well if we're doing that then let's set it into motion now because she is getting away." Said Lyra while pointing at the disappearing form of Rarity. "Okay then let's go but make sure to stick to the shadows. Don't want to attract any unwanted attention." With that said they all started to follow her, making sure that they didn't get spotted. *** They followed her for hours. Rarity seemed to have a pretty busy day. From checking on all of her guards to making an appearance at all fifty-eight of her stores and to add on top of that she had at least ten still being build. Her final stop, as it looked like, was her home in the crystal palace smack dab in the middle of the Crystal empire. "Phew that was a long day of work, but now I really must put my clothes away and take a long relaxing bath and maybe a massage." She said while opening the castle doors. When she stepped in the doors started to close behind her automatically. Since our six friends couldn't follow her in fast enough Octavia used her newfound magic to keep it open. "Okay, I could really get used to this." She said. "Yeah. Now let's go before we lose sight of her." Said Bon Bon. With that, they all made their way inside the castle. Once inside they noticed that the castle was decorated with allot of mannequins wearing different styles of clothing for ponies. Most of them were extravagant dresses with the occasional suit here and there and on the end of the hallway there stood Rarity putting her current dress back onto a mannequin. "Okay then the dress is now neatly put away, now it's time for my bath." Then she left the hallway and entered into what was presumably a bathroom. After the door closed Lyra said. "Okay now is our chance let's grab the relic and go." "It isn't that easy Lyra. We have to make sure that the right person takes it otherwise the pony that touches it is going to get shocked." Said the Doctor. "And how do we figure that out?" Asked Bon Bon. "We just guess and hope that we don't get shocked. So who wants to go first?" Asked the Doctor. When none stepped forward he sighed. "Okay, I'll go first." Then he reached for the dress and just like before he got shocked. "Ouch. Well, I guess this one's not mine. Lyra why don't you try?" "Um okay. Oh, I hope I don't get shocked." With that, she also tried to touch it but was again shocked. "Ouch." "Okay, it's not Lyra's ether. Why don't you try it Vinyl?" Said Doc. "This is gonna sting so bad." Then Vinyl closed her eyes and tried to grab it, but this time she actually touched it. When she did the fabric started to glow and morphed into a golden necklace, only that hers had a black musical note on it. After the process was complete Vinyl opened her eyes and asked. "Did it work?" "Why don't you check for yourself." Said the Doctor while pointing at her new necklace. then she took a look at herself and grinned. "Sweet I wonder what I can do with it?" She said while tapping her chin. "That's all well and good and I'm sure that we can figure that out later, but now we need to get out of here." Said, Bon Bon, while pointing at the twisting door knob. After they all saw that they quickly ran out of the castle, but not before Rarity spotted Derpy because she hit her head on the doorway and fell down. "What is going on here who are you and...?" Then she took a look to her mannequin and saw that one of her dresses was missing. Then her hair turned into a tornado, her eyes turned completely white and after that, she yelled out. "GUARDS CAPTURE THE INTRUDER AND RETURN TO ME MY NEWEST DRESS. AFTER THAT I WANT TO SEE THEM TURNED INTO MANNEQUINS FOR THE REST OF THEIR MISERABLE LIVES!" And with that Derpy quickly made her exit just in time for one of Rarities magic beams to strike the place where she once stood. Once Derpy caught up to her friends Vinyl asked. "Derpy what happened?" "I might've sorta alerted Rarity to our presence and now she and her guards are after us." She said while still flying next to her. "All the more reason to get out of this place." Said the Doctor and when he did a large magical blast flew past him. "Woah there." "Okay, relic if you can hear me then please help us out!" Screamed Vinyl to her element and after she did a giant red glowing record appeared in front of her. "And how...? Oh yeah, this could work." After that she made the record allot bigger and placed it behind herself and her friends. After that she made another one appear in front of them and said. "Jump on we are flying to our next destination in style." At first, they all looked confused, but after a couple of magic blasts from Rarity, they quickly jumped on it. When they were on Vinyl jumped on as well and then she levitated the record with all her friends high into the sky until they were above the cloud layer avoiding Rarities magic strikes in the process. The final thing that they heard behind them was a frustrated scream from Rarity and then nothing. "Well now we have two relics and we know that they give us some new abilities. With that squared away where do we go next Doc?" Asked Bon Bon. Then the Doctor pulled out the map and looked over it. After some time he said. "Now my friends we go off to Las Pegasus." He said while pointing in the general direction of the city. "Okay then hold onto something, because we are going full speed ahead." Said Vinyl. After that Octavia stepped up to her and said. "Don't you dare Vin..." But she didn't get to finish her statement because Vinyl made the record fly towards their next destination at the speed that was almost equal to the speed of sound. Author's Note Here is the next chapter. As always I hope you enjoyed and if you did then please like comment or share this story with your friends. With that said I now have to sacrifice a lamb to the eldritch monstrosity that is living in my closet and if I don't do it he gets cranky. See you in the next chapter.
Chapter 5 "of to Las Pegasus"When they finally stopped moving they noticed that they had already arrived at Las Pegasus. Or what the map showed to be Las Pegasus. It didn't look anything like it should. Instead of buildings made out of concrete and glowing signs everywhere, there was only candy and baked goods as far as the eye could see and Vinyl just crashed straight into a giant three story cake. After some time of them crawling out of it Vinyls head popped out of the cake and when she did she said. "That was awesome! We need to do that again." After her Octavia's head popped out right behind Vinyl. She then hit her upside the head and said. "If we are doing that again you are doing it alone." When she finished her little rant she sighed and calmed down. "You are really impossible sometimes." After that everybody else got to the surface. "Mmm, this cake is delicious." Said Derpy while stuffing a piece of the aforementioned cake into her mouth. Then the Doctor also tasted the cake and said. "Yes this sure is delicious, but we need to get out of it and get ourselves cleaned up." He turned to Vinyl. "Could you please create another record so that we can get out of this mess." Vinyl simply nodded and created another record and placed it on top of the cake. After that, they all climbed up and Vinyl floated them down to the ground or what she thought to be the ground. It was kinda hard to tell with everything being made out of sweets. After she placed them on the ground she made the record disappear. "Okay, then Doc where do we need to go now?" Asked Vinyl. The Doctor checked the map and when he finished he said. "Well, the map is telling me that we need to go that way." He said while pointing towards a giant castle which was yet again made out of candy and sweets. "Okay, can someone please punch me, because I really want to wake up now." Asked Lyra. After that Bon Bon punched her just enough to not hurt her too much. "Okay, I'm not dreaming and ouch." She said while rubbing her shoulder. "Alright then whenever you are ready we can start on getting the next relic." Said the Doctor. Then they all started to walk towards the candy castle. *** When they finally arrived at the gates to the town they saw that everything was normal. Well, almost normal the houses and everything else was made out of candy, but other than that everything looked normal. There weren't even any guards patrolling the streets and then out of nowhere Pinkie Pie appeared before them in her nightmare form. "Hiya there and welcome to Las Pegasus." She said. Our friends first jumped back and got ready to attack, but when they saw that she wasn't attacking them the Doctor stepped forward and said. "Um hello to you as well Pinkie." After that everyone else also stepped forward and then he continued. "May I ask why you are not attacking us?" "Oh, that's because Spore Harvest wrote me to be a break character for you guys and because I don't feel like it." After that, she pulled out a plate of cupcakes all coloured like one of the six friends from seemingly out of nowhere and placed it in front of them. "Now please enjoy these complimentary cupcakes while I go around and make everyone smile." With that said she hopped away in her trademark Pinkie hop leaving our friends completely confused. Except for Derpy who went to the plate and ate her cupcake. "Is anyone else going to question what she just said?" Asked Lyra. "No, I would rather keep my sanity so I'm going to ignore that last part." Said the Doctor. "Agreed." Everyone else added. Then they all went to the plate and took their cupcakes and enjoyed them. When they finished them the Doctor pulled out the map and they started to search for the artefact, but before they were too far away from the gate Pinkie decided to join them. "Hey, guys where are you going?" She asked by hopping next to them. Derpy then flew next to her and answered. "We are going to explore the city so that we can find the relic that is hidden here." "Oh, so you want a tour." After that she stepped behind the building and when she returned she was wearing a suit with a small flag poking out of her head. "Okay then if the group would please follow me and please don't get lost in the crowd." With that said everyone started to follow her. ***Canterlot castle*** Twilight was currently sitting on her throne and reading a book in her normal form. She was enjoying herself immensely but after another ten minutes of complete silence, two of her friends entered the throne room. They were Applejack and Rarity both in their nightmare modes. "Oh hello there guys. Do you have any news to deliver?" Asked Twilight while putting away the book on a stand that she had next to her throne. "Oh, nothing too serious darling. Only that the Doctor and his friends managed to get two of the six artefacts and are already working on acquiring the third one as we speak." said Rarity while turning back to her regular mode. "Yeah and as per your plan when they got ours we started to walk back here while bringing our armies with us." Said Applejack while also transforming back into her regular mode. "Ah good that means that they are progressing nicely. Do you perhaps know where they are currently?" Asked Twilight. "Well, when I chased them away from the Crystal empire they looked like they were heading to Las Pegasus. So they are probably dealing with Pinkie." Answered Rarity. Twilight then shivered and said. "Let's hope that she doesn't go too far with her craziness because Celestia knows she is allot more hyperactive than before." Rarity and Applejack only nodded. After that, a portal opened up and Discord popped his head through it. "Hello there Twilight and present company. Do you want to join us in a game of volleyball? I and Luna are currently owning Cadance and Shining." Luna then poked her head through the portal as well. "Oh yes please do join. They say that this game is more fun the more players join and I would really appreciate it." She said. After giving it some thought Twilight shrugged and said. "Eh, why not we have at least the rest of this day so why not." Then she turned to her friends and continued. "Do you want to join?" Applejack and Rarity nodded and after that, they all entered the portal and went to play some volleyball. ***Las Pegasus*** "And over there we have the hotel where you can take a rest if you wish. With that said that concludes our tour of Las Pegasus. Does anypony have any questions?" Asked Pinkie while discarding her little costume. "I only have one. Do you perhaps know where the artefact is located?" Asked the Doctor while looking completely exhausted. "Oh that. Yeah, I know where it is." After that, she reached into her mane and pulled out a big present. "Here it is. Now if you excuse me I need to go back to the bakery and started preparing for the evening rush. Bye." Then she gave them the present and hopped off towards the direction of the aforementioned bakery. "Okay is anypony else going to question how come the map wasn't glowing while we were near her the entire time." Asked Bon Bon. "I have a theory, but if you don't know anything about quantum mechanics then I'll simply say. It's Pinkie logic don't question it." Said the Doctor. Then he stepped up to the box and opened it. Inside was a small bag of sugar. After getting over the absurdity of that he said. "So who wants to test their luck this time?" After that Derpy raised her hoof and stepped forward. "Uh, uh! Can I try?!" She asked in an excited voice. "Sure just be careful, because it may shock you." With the warning given she stepped up to the present and reached for it and she picked it up, but when she was holding it in her hoof it was sparking and making her hair and fur stand up. "Oh shiny." She said in a mesmerised voice. After a minute of everyone watching in complete shock, the Doctor said. "Okay, Derpy you can let go now. It seems that you were not meant for this one." Derpy then placed the bag of sugar back inside the box and flew back. After that Lyra stepped forward. "My turn." She said while reaching for the bag and sure enough it started to glow. When the glowing stopped Lyra was left with a golden necklace. It looked exactly the same as the other ones with the only difference again being the gem which was a golden lyre. After the transformation finished Lyra took a look at her new bling. "Well, that's another one down. Now let's go book a room at the hotel and then we can figure out what your relic can do." Said the Doctor while walking towards the hotel that Pinkie pointed out. When everyone stopped looking at Lyra's new necklace they decided to follow him in as well. When they paid for the room they went towards it and entered when they were all set Lyra started to experiment with her relic. After some time of concentrating and nothing happening, she turned to Vinyl and asked. "Vinyl how did you get your gem to work?" "I just asked it and it responded. Maybe it will work on yours as well." After that Lyra put her attention back on her necklace. "Um, artifact could you please show me what you can do." It only blinked. "What do you mean no. Don't you want to help and save Equestria." It blinked twice. "Okay if you do want to help then why don't you show me what I am able to do with your help." After that, it blinked again and then it surrounded Lyra in a magic fire slowly shaping itself to be in the form of a bipedal creature with hands. While this was all happening everyone else simply watched in awe. After it stopped morphing Lyra opened her eyes and asked. "Hey, why are you all so small now?" "Um it's not that we are small it's just you grew and are now levitating off the floor while being surrounded by green fire in the shape of that creature you keep obsessing about." Said Bon Bon. After that Lyra started to look at herself, but she wasn't using her pony head, instead she used the creatures head to do so. After her examination she said. "Sweet. Thanks, Blinky." The gem again blinked. Then the Doctor stepped up to Blinky and asked. "Um, Blinky are the other gems also able to talk?" He blinked once. "He says yes, but they were a little bit shy so they didn't." Translated Lyra. "Well, that sure is interesting." Said the Doctor. Then he turned to Octavia and continued. "Octavia try and talk to your gem. Maybe it'll respond." "Um okay?" Then she turned down to her gem and said. "Hello there. Do you have a name as well?" At first, nothing happened, but after a couple of seconds, it blinked. Octavia was at first surprised and then she continued. "Okay then if you don't have a name, do you want me to give you one?" The gem blinked again this time a little sooner. "Okay, then how does Radiance sound?" It blinked again. "Okay, then your name is now Radiance." While this conversation was going on Lyra returned back to her normal pony form and while this was happening Vinyl had basically the same conversation with her gem but no one paid any attention to her so they only heard the end of their conversation. "Okay, then your name is Wub." The gem blinked once to confirm it's new name. "Vinyl didn't you name your subwoofer that?" Asked Octavia. "No his name is the Wub Meister. Get it right Octavia." Octavia then face hoofed and said. "You're impossible." Then she walked to the bathroom. "Now if you excuse me I'm going to get ready for bed." Then she stepped into the bathroom, closed the door and started to get ready. "Yeah everyone else should follow suit. Tomorrow morning we are going to make our way towards Cloudsdale and by extension Rainbows territory. So we are going to have to be rested up for whatever she has in store for us." Said the Doctor while checking the map. When he finished everypony went of towards their bed and waited for their turn in the bathroom. When they were all ready they all said their goodnights and went off to sleep.
Chapter 6 "fighting in Cloudsdale"The next morning our six heroes were woken up by Pinkie poking her head through the window and yelling. " RISE AND SHINE SLEEPYHEADS IT'S TIME TO GET YOUR BREAKFAST!" With that yell, all of them fell out of bed. After some time on the floor, the Doctor said. "Okay Pinkie thank you for the wake-up call. We will be down as soon as we are ready." He said while still laying on the floor. "Okie Doki Loki then. See you in a couple of minutes." With that said she hopped off to where ever she goes at that time in the morning. "Um wasn't our room on the fourth floor?" Asked Vinyl. Then the Doctor got up and said. "Just don't question it. Now let's get ready before she drags us off to breakfast." He said while getting to the bathroom. "And how do you know that she is going to do that?" Asked Derpy. "Do you remember my welcome to Ponywille party?" She nodded and then realisation dawned on her. "Oh. Yeah, we wouldn't want a repeat of that." With that said he closed the door and they were left alone. After that Bon Bon walked up to Derpy and asked. "What happened at his party? I think I was in Canterlot during that time so I missed it." "Okay then sit down and let me tell you." Said Derpy. When everyone was ready she started her story. *** After about five minutes the Doctor came out of the shower and saw that Derpy was telling the story about that party. At first, he was a little mad at her for telling it, but then he sat down and listened as well, answering questions and adding a couple of things from his perspective. After they finished the story everybody else also took a quick shower and then they started to walk towards the bakery. When they arrived at the bakery they noticed that it looked allot like the original Sugar cube corner with the only difference being that instead of the yellow walls of the original it had black ones instead. With that observation made they entered the building and when they were inside they heard Pinkie say. "Welcome to Sugar cube corner. How may I help you?" She said and with that, they all stepped forward. "Hello there Pinkie. How are you doing today?" Asked Derpy. "Never Better. Thanks for asking. So what can I get you?" She asked with a huge smile. Then everyone looked at the menu and named their breakfast item. When everybody finished their orders she said. "Okay then sit down and chat for a bit while I go and prepare your orders. See you in five minutes." After that, she stepped into the kitchen and started on their order. our six heroes then took a booth and waited. In that time they were talking about their new friends and how they are going to get to Cloudsdale. "So Doc, do you know the cloud walking spell?" Asked Vinyl. "Sadly I do not, but I think I can learn it if I get the book in which it is located." After that, he placed a hoof on his chin and continued. "I think there was a library in this town, but I don't know if they have spell books inside." After that Pinkie threw something from the kitchen followed by her saying. "Twilight let me borrow that book a long time ago. I think she won't mind if I let you borrow it for a bit. Just make sure that you return it to her when you see her." After that, she went back to her work and when she was doing that the Doctor started on looking through the book for the spell that he needed. "Well, that's offly convenient." Said Lyra. "Yeah it is, but when it comes to Pinkie you just don't question it." And after that, he found the right page and started on learning and memorising the spell. "So what are we going to do once we get there?" Asked Bon Bon. "Probably what we did in every town. We are going to snoop around, evade the guard until we find the artefact and after that something goes wrong and we are forced to flee the scene and go to the next town." Said Derpy. "I'm surprised you didn't figure this formula out sooner." After that Pinkie entered the room carrying a platter with their order. "Here you go that is going to be twenty bits." She said while placing the platter on the table. Then the Doctor paid her the bits and she said. "Thank you and please do come again." Then she went back behind the counter and began serving other customers. *** When they all finished their respective breakfasts they said goodbye to Pinkie and flew off towards Cloudsdale on one of Wubs records. While they were flying the Doctor said. "Okay then let me try the spell now." He then concentrated and after that everyone started to glow and then it stopped. "So did it work?" Asked Lyra. "Well, there is only one way to find out and that is to test it Once we get to Cloudsdale." Then he turned to Octavia, Lyra and Vinyl and said. "Just be ready to catch me if I didn't cast it right." With that said they continued the rest of the ride in relative piece. After about ten minutes of them flying they finally arrived at Cloudsdale, which looked allot different than usual. For one there was a huge castle in the centre of it and what looked like a colosseum right next to it which was packed full with pegasi watching what looked like a gladiator battle going on. "Okay I know that pegasi architecture is based of the Greeks, but did we have to bring back the gladiators as well?" Asked Lyra. "As much as I want to hate it, it does give us free range to check around without being spotted by anypony." Said Octavia. "Meaning we can get in and out of this place without Rainbow even knowing." The Doctor then simply nodded and said. "Yes, you are right about that." When he finished he turned to Vinyl and said while pointing to an open space at the edge of Cloudsdale. "How about you land us right over there and we can get started with the search." He said while pointing to a town square. When Vinyl found the place he was pointing at she steered the record to it and landed. "Okay, then time to see if the spell's working." Said the Doctor while slowly taking a step on the cloud. When he noticed that he was met with resistance he put his whole weight on it and started to walk on the cloud. When all of his friends noticed this they soon followed after him. The last one to get off was Vinyl and when she did she asked Wub to make the record disappear. "So where do we begin?" Asked Octavia. "Well let's start with the main streets and then we will go from there." Said the Doctor while pulling out the map and when he did they started to search for the relic. *** After about five hours of combing the city, our six friends were left with nothing to show for it. It is for that reason that everyone was now extremely frustrated. "Man we have searched through the entire city and we still haven't found anything. Are you sure that the relic is here?" Asked Vinyl in a frustrated tone of voice. "Yes Vinyl I am sure and we haven't searched through the entire city yet. We still have the stadium and I have this weird feeling that it is going to be the trophy that is going to be given to the winner." Said the Doctor while putting away the map. "And how are we planning on getting in and winning it?" Asked Derpy. "Well, we are going to go there and apply for the fight as one of the contestants." He answered while pointing to a table with a bored looking pegasus sitting behind it. Above her was a huge sign which said that it was the application both. With that done they all nodded and started to walk towards the aforementioned both. Once they were within sight of the pegasus she immediately put on a fake smile and said. "Hello, there are you perhaps interested in applying for the gladiator fight." "As a matter of fact, we are. So can we apply?" Asked the Doctor. "Of course you can I just need you to fill out these and you are good to go." She said while handing them some forms for them to fill out. It wasn't anything too weird just basic information regarding the pony that is participating and the rules of the game. Which were interesting, to say the least. Everyone was fighting like earth ponies meaning that none in the arena could use their wings or horns and if they do they are going to be immediately disqualified. The other interesting rule was the no-kill rule, which was a big relief to our six friends. When they finally finished they handed the applications back to the mare and after she took a quick look through she pressed a button and then two stallions appeared to usher them into the colosseum. "Please follow us." They said in unison and then they all entered the colosseum. Once inside they were all quickly led to an armoury and when they were there they were all pushed inside and the door closed behind them looking like it was locked from the outside. After that, a grey earth pony appeared with a short black mane. When he saw them he said. "Ah hello there. You must be the new fighters. My name is Hammer Strike and I am going to be the guy who is going to create your armours. So if you could stand over there and wait for me to quickly take your measurements." He said while pointing to a podium. Then he disappeared for a moment and returned with a measuring tape. "So what brings you to the Cloudsdale colosseum?" He asked while taking Lyra's measurements. "Well, we are trying to win the trophy so that we can cure the elements and save Equestria." Said Derpy and after she did Vinyl punched her in the shoulder while giving her an angry look. "What?" She asked while nursing her shoulder. "Oh, so you want to save Equestria. Well, I wish you good luck with that." He said while equipping Lyra with some iron armour which then turned the same colour as her coat. "So how does it fell?" He asked. After she checked herself over and when she made sure to check all the joints she answered. "Everything's fine. Nothing is too tight and nothing's loose." He then smiled and turned to her other friends. "Okay, then who's next?" With that, he repeated the process for the rest of them and while he was doing that he was also telling them about some loopholes in the rules about the fight. Basically, he told them that magical artefacts are actually allowed as long as you don't use your own magic to power it. He also told them about some previous battles that he saw and to say that they were interesting would be an understatement. They were usually ended by Rainbow stepping in and stopping a fight because the other opponent was too broken to continue and there were many other stories that he told them. When he finally finished getting them all set with their own armours the two pegasi again returned and led them to a holding cell with weapons hanging from the walls where they were now waiting to be called for the fight. In that time they told them that they should pick their weapons and then they again left them alone. "So who wants to pick first?" Asked the Doctor. After he did Vinyl raised her hoof and said. "Can I get the twin blades?" Then the Doc levitated the blades to Vinyl who started to put them on her hooves. Then the spear levitated towards Octavia who then took it. Then Bon Bon stepped up to the wall and took the shield. Lyra took the claymore, Derpy took the hammer and the Doctor took the flail. "Okay, then we are ready. Let's just hope that we win." With that said and done they started to train with their weapons for a bit so that they were at least slightly ready for the fight that was about to commence and after about fifteen minutes of them doing that one of the pegasi returned and said. "Okay then Elements of harmony, follow me it's time to battle. Since you were late entries you are going to be battling in the final round against the Shadowbolts. Now please follow me." And then they all followed him to the gladiator ring. Once there they entered the arena and waited for the Shadowbolts to arrive. After a while, six ponies entered the arena. They were the Shadowbolt. They also had their own weapons, which were all blade based. When they reached a certain point they stopped and after that, a booming voice started to talk and sure enough, it belonged to Rainbow Dash. "ALRIGHT THEN EVERYPONY WELCOME BACK TO THE BATTLE. WE ARE NOW GOING TO COMMENCE WITH THE FINAL ROUND WHERE THE ELEMENTS OF HARMONY ARE GOING TO BE FIGHTING AGAINST MY SHADOWBOLTS. WITH THAT ARE THE CONTESTANTS READY." She said and when she did the Shadowbolts immediately cheered and after that our six friends followed suit even though they were allot more reserved. "OKAY THEN LET THE BATTLE BEGIN." After that, they all charged at each other and started to fight. The battle was pretty gruelling and lasted about an hour, but after that, both teams were left with one team member left. "Well looks like it's just you and me." Said the Shadowbolt while playing with his blades. "Are you sure it's just you and me because I clearly see ponies sitting in the stadium." Said Derpy in a confused tone. The Shadowbolt then stopped playing with his blades and charged at her. Derpy managed to block the blades and even managed to get a hit on him when he tried to strike again. After that he said. "Well I must say lady you may be slow in the head, but you sure know what you are doing with that hammer. Now come at me sweet cheeks." Then he charged at her again. Derpy quickly followed suit and then they were stuck in a power struggle after a minute the Shadowbolt grinned and headbutted her making her stumble back he used this chance to turn around and buck her straight into the wall where she promptly slumped down to the ground. After that, the entire colosseum erupted into cheers, but Derpy didn't hear any of that, because she slowly switching between her conscious unconscious mind, but right before she completely blacked out she heard the Doctors voice say. "Derpy don't give up you are stronger than this come on show him and everyone here why you are the stronger than him. Just get him and we can get a muffin later." After that, her eyes snapped open and focused on the Shadowbolt who was currently sucking up all the praise. Then she yelled. "You are going down!" Then she kicked off the wall and was on him before he even got the chance to guard himself. When the attack connected he was launched across the entire colosseum, but just before he would have stricken the ground he was again hit with Derpy's hammer and was therefore embedded into the wall. After that, the crowd again started to cheer and after a full minute of that Rainbow flew down from her podium while carrying the medal when she landed she said. "Okay, then ponies we have our winner. Let's give her a round of applause." She said while placing the medal around her neck and then raising her front hoof. "DERPY!" When she did that the entire stadium again started to cheer this time even louder than before and after that, she dropped her hoof and flew back to the podium and again adopted her booming voice. "OKAY THEN EVERYPONY THIS CONCLUDES THIS GLADIATOR BATTLE. I HOPE THAT YOU ENJOYED YOURSELVES AND PLEASE DO COME AGAIN." With that everyone started to leave. After that Derpy returned back to her friends now wearing the artefact, which transformed after everyone left. "Well looks like we are done here. How about we get something quick to eat in the city and then we go to the Everfree to get the next one." Asked the Doctor. His suggestion was met with positive results and with that, they all left the colosseum with a couple of bruises, but with big smiles knowing that their adventure is almost complete. Author's Note Well this one took allot longer to upload, but allot of stuff came up and I just didn't have the time to finish it. Hopefully I'll be able to finish this story before may, but I really don't see that happening. With that said if you enjoyed the story like, comment and share this story with your friends and I'll see you in the next chapter.
Chapter 7 "walking through the Everfree"With their lunch finished and their bellies full our friends now find ourselves on the road towards the Everfree forest. In that time Derpy has managed to figure out what her element was able to do and speaking of the element I didn't describe it to you yet. Well, it had the same golden necklace with the only difference being the gem in the centre. It was basically her cutie mark only that it was made out of crystal. Now with the description out of the way let me tell you what Derpy learned about it. First thig's first its name was Muffin as per Derpy's suggestion and its power was to make a portal to anywhere that Derpy remembered or saw. That is the reason why our friends are now almost in front of the foreboding forest. "And right after I finished the remix all of a sudden this guy jumps down from the rafters and face plants right onto my DJ table. Thankfully the guy was okay but he still managed to break some of my records and that is why I had my table enchanted to produce a forcefield should anything like that happen again." When Vinyl finished her story Octavia said. "Oh, so that was why you said that time that you were taking a break from working for a while." "Yup pretty much, but you should be surprised how many times pegasi go up to the rafters and repeat what that guy did. So yeah very glad that I paid for that enchantment." She said in a relieved tone. "Hey, Doc how do you think how could ponies stop this from happening." She asked him, but he was so lost in thought that she managed to startle him. When he managed to gather his composure he asked. "Oh, sorry Vinyl I was thinking about something could you repeat the question?" Vinyl then repeated the question and then he gave her his answer. "Well either they should wall of the rafters or put spikes up there, but the other alternative is to you know not let them fly if they are drunk in the first place. So yeah those are my two bits on the matter, but enough about that we are here." And sure enough they were in front of the forest, but to their surprise, the forest looked completely the same. The same foreboding feeling, the same fauna and the same flora. "Is it just me or did I expect to see this place looking completely different from the rest?" Asked Lyra. "Yeah, I did as well. I at least expected there to be a wall around the forest, but then again the only known castle in this place is the castle of the two sisters which is at the centre of the forest." Said the Doctor while checking the map. "Okay, then guys let's get this over with and get that artefact because standing around here is not doing anything to save Equestria." With that, they entered the scary forest and started their search for the second to last relic." *** The walk inside The Everfree didn't even last five minutes before shit hit the proverbial fan. What went wrong? You may be asking yourself and I know that you do because I can read your mind, but that's beside the point. You see when they entered the forest they were immediately followed by a pack of timber wolves and one manticore as their leader. They were biding their time, but our six heroes shore knew that they were either being watched or followed and Bon Bon made sure to voice that little titbit. "Um, guys does anyone of you feel like they are being watched?" "Yeah, but that's normal in any forest the only difference with this one is that the animals here are allot more dangerous." And after that, a single spear embedded itself into a tree millimeters away from the Doctors face. Then they all slowly turned their heads towards the general direction where the spear came from and what they saw at the same time shocked and made them laugh. In that direction, they saw a bunch of woodland creatures everything from bears to bunnies to birds and all of them were dressed like they were ready to fight a war. At the front of them, all was one lone snow white rabbit wearing face paint, gloves, a jacket and a black helmet with a single spike on it. After that everypony there realised who it was and for that matter who the rest of the animals were. That was Angel and the rest of Fluttershy's animal friends and when they made that realisation they all charged at them. Our six heroes prepared for a fight, but then they noticed that they weren't charging at them, but instead at something behind them. And that is when they noticed the manticore and the timber wolves. "Okay, then that's the weirdest thing that I have ever seen." "Do you think we should help?" Asked Derpy. The animals were still engaging the timber wolves. After giving it some thought he pulled out the spear from the tree and said. "Yes. Yes, we should." With that, they all charged up their magic or picked up a weapon and got straight into the battle. Derpy opened up two portals one below and one above one of the timber wolves making him start to fall in an infinite loop. After he got enough momentum she dispelled the bottom portal making him smash int the floor turning the timber wolves into toothpicks. While this was going on Octavia grabbed another timber wolf holding him still while Vinyl materialised another record and making it spin after that she launched it into the wooden wolf slicing him in half. Then Octavia picked up the two pieces of the wolf and launched them at the manticore knocking him out for the moment. Lyra was turned into her human form and was now up close and personal with three of the wolves. She was having the time of her life. She was punching the wolves that came too close to her and was roundhouse kicking the ones that lunged at her from afar, but after one of them clamped its jaws around one of her arms. That is when she got completely furious making her astral body burn like the sun turning the wolf to ash. And while this was going on the Doctor and Bon Bon were helping the animals fight off the last few wolves. The Doctor was preparing a magic blast while Bon Bon was crouched low to the ground and ready to strike with the spear in her mouth, but when the wolves were about to strike they all heard a roar come from the manticore who apparently woke up. After that, all the rest of the timber wolves left leaving all of them alone. "Man this was the most awesome thing that has happened in my life." Vinyl shouted while pumping her hooves in the air. "I thought that the most awesome thing in your life was the time that you saw Neon Lights concert in Neigpan." Said, Octavia, while having a sly grin. "Okay second best, but it was very close." After that, the Doctor called them over because Angel was telling them to follow and since they were clearly there to help our six protagonists followed them without question. ***Random island*** "Well, that was definitely interesting." Said, Celestia. She and the other princesses are now currently sitting in a sort of cinema studio watching what is happening to the Doctor and company on a giant screen. "Yeah, it most certainly is I especially liked Derpy's use of the portal it is a most practical and useful power that Muffin has given to her." Said, Luna, while munching on some popcorn. When she finished her bite she continued. "These elements that Discord created are definitely useful in combat I would dare to say that they are even more useful than the original elements of harmony." "While that is true, but you have to see that the elements are far stronger power wise since they are able to send a person to the moon or turn them to stone. Those are spells that in the past would require some magic runes and an incantation to accomplish." Added Cadance. "At least that is what the books in the Crystal empire say." "Yeah, those were very different times." Said, Celestia. After a moment of silence, she asked. "Want to see what the boys are up to?" The other princesses nodded and then they left the cinema and started walking towards a tent that was set up in the middle of the beach. When they entered the tent they saw Discord, Spike in his nightmare mode, Shining and Bigmac playing dungeons and dragons and it looked like Spike was the dungeon master. "You enter the room inside you find three goblins protecting a treasure chest what do you do next?" Asked spike in a slightly spooky voice. "I use the longbow and use it to shoot three consecutive headshots one for each goblin." Said Discord. After that Spike rolled the twenty-sided dice and it landed on ten. "You managed to kill two of the goblins but the final one got to you and pinned you against the wall." Then Spike moved the required pieces and after that Shining spoke up. "I then use my staff to shoot a fire spell at the final goblin freeing him from a painful death." Spike then rolled the dice again. When it stopped he continued. "The spell is successful, but it doesn't kill the goblin. Knowing that he didn't stand a chance he escaped back to his master. What is your next move BIgmac?" "I loot the bodies and try to open the chest using one of my lock picks." Spike again moves the required pieces and roles the dice. "You got three magic potions, two goblin eyes and five rusted daggers." After he managed to write everything down the princesses decided to make their presence known. "Hey boys what are you playing?" Asked Cadance. All the boys turned to the princesses and then Spike spoke up. "Oh hello there princesses. We are playing dungeons and dragons do you perhaps want to join it's a really fun game." "Sure I would love to try and see what all the hubbub's about." Cadence said the other princesses also voiced their agreements and then spike passed them some character sheets explaining to them how to create a character and when they were finally finished they joined the game and played until they beat the dungeon master who of course was a giant necromantic dragon. ***Everfree forest*** The woodland creatures lead the six friends to a clearing, but it looked more like a military boot camp. The animals there were training, running laps, lifting weights and punching dummies that looked like Fluttershy in her nightmare form. "Wow, you guys seem to be organised pretty well. What are you preparing for?" Asked the Doctor and when he did Angel led them to a tent in which there was a map of the Everfree. Angel then stepped on top of the table and showed them what they were planning. After looking over everything Lyra said. "Oh, so you are going to attack the castle and save Discord from Fluttershy's evil grasp." Angel Then nodded and then mimicked tying something up. "And you are going to tie her up." He again nodded and then the Doctor said. "Okay angel this looks like a solid plan, so what can we do to help out?" Angel then pointed at the artefacts and mimed using them to fight and distract Fluttershy while they dealt with her armies. And when they were finished with that would back them up, knock her out ant tie her up so that she doesn't do any more damage. He also mimed them that they should be careful about her stare since she could paralyse you if she gazed at you. "Okay then we get the plan, but when do we execute it?" Asked Vinyl. Then he pulled out a watch and pointed to the eight. "Oh so at night gotcha strike from the shadow and during that confusion we sneak in. Okay, little guy. Now, what do we do until then?" The rabbit just shrugged and after that shooed them out of the tent. "Okay, we have the entire afternoon to prepare so I suggest we get ready for the upcoming fight." Said the doctor. "Eh, you do that I'm gonna take this chance and relax for a bit because that fight really tired me out." Said Bon Bon with the rest soon following her example. "Well, I guess I'm also tired. Well then let's get some shuteye because we have a long night in front of us." And with that, the Doctor promptly fell forward unconscious. The rest of his friends simply let out a short laugh and left for an empty tent where they dragged their unconscious friend and then they all fell asleep. ***Castle of the two sisters*** The little woodland army was now stalking through the night towards the castle making sure that they weren't seen until they were at their positions and while they were doing that the Doctor and company were sneaking into the castle to find Discord and the relic. How are they going to accomplish this? Well, they are going to use the tried and tested method of using a cardboard box as a disguise and as before it was super effective. Once they snuck past the timber wolves, manticores and cockatrice they were inside the castle. "Okay, now we are inside. So what do we do?" Asked Octavia while taking off her box. "I suggest we find the dungeons in this place and save Discord then he can help us find the relic and with it, we go to Fluttershy and take her down." Answered Derpy. After that, they all took their boxes off, discarded them and started to search for the dungeon. After around twenty minutes of searching following signs and avoiding guards, they finally arrived at the place that they thought was the dungeon. When they made sure that they weren't being followed they opened the door and stepped inside and what they found inside surprised them. Inside they found a freaking petting zoo with pens and the whole shebang and at the end, they saw Discord with a spiky collar around his neck drinking out of a hamster style water bottle. When they snapped out of their shocked stupor they went to his cage and knocked on it and when they did Discord finally spotted them. "Oh, finally my rescue team has arrived. Please help me out quick before Fluttershy arrives the keys are located in her ro..." But he didn't get to finish because Lyra simply formed her human hand and melted the lock away. "...om. Or you could do that." Then he stepped out of the cage and took off his collar. "Thank you guys we may not be close friends but I hope this starts something between us." "No problem Discord. Now could you perhaps give us the second to last relic so that we can set the rest of the plan into action." At that, he looked a bit surprised but he still obliged by snapping his fingers and making the next element appear around Bon Bon's neck. "Well here you go now could I perhaps get in on this plan." Then they all filled him in on the plan and right when they finished a devious smile appeared on his face. "Oh that is a most delicious plan, but sadly I can't help you with it because she has some sort of field around her that destabilizes my natural chaos magic." "Oh okay then. Could you at least help the woodland creatures outside?" Asked Derpy. "Sure I can do that, but I'm surprised that you are not asking me to give you the last relic." Derpy then simply smiled and asked. "Why would we, because we know that you wouldn't since you are the spirit of chaos." At first, he looked surprised, but then he smiled. "Eh you're right I wouldn't there is just too much chaos that there is in Equestria at the moment and I am planning on enjoying it for as long as I can. With that, I leave you be." Then he snapped his fingers and they were all teleported. ***In front of the castle throne room*** When the world stopped spinning and the colour returned to the world the Doctor said. "Okay remind me to newer ask Discord to send me anywhere ever." Every one of his friends agreed to that and when they all got back their bearings he continued. "Alright then where did he teleport us." And right after that, the doors flew open and a voice that they all very much dreaded to hear spoke up. "Oh look at what we have here six little ponies standing in front of my throne room. Now, what can I do to help you." After she finished they all turned around sure enough there she was Fluttershy. She had the same black coloured coat as all the rest and wearing a set of golden armour with her hair whipping around like they had a mind of their own. After they all calmed down the Doctor got a very stupid idea. "Um, we got here for a spot of tea and maybe some biscuits. If that, of course, is not too much trouble." He was shooting in the dark here but he was really hoping that this would work. The rest of his friends were hiding behind him hoping that this would work as well. "Oh, why didn't you say so. Sure just let me set the table and get the tea ready." While she was saying this her hair stopped whipping about and turned back to her normal hair style. "You just make yourselves at home I'll be right back." With that, she led them to a dining room and left them there while she went and prepared a pot of tea. At first, they were all slightly scared but after some time they all relaxed and enjoyed their tea time. After some time of getting to know each other Derpy accidentally told her about the plan. She was furious but instead of attacking them she flew away leaving them alone. Then Discord arrived with Fluttershy's animals following behind him. "What happened here?" he asked in a confused tone. Then the Doctor took a sip of his tea and when he finished he answered. "Derpy accidentally told her about the plan and she just flew off towards Canterlot." Then he took another sip and continued. "Would you like some tea and biscuits?" After giving it some thought Discord sat down and answered. "Sure why not." Then they all enjoyed some tea and biscuits inclouding the animals. Well, almost all Angel had a small tantrum, but when they managed to calm him down he also sat and enjoyed a carrot cake. Author's Note Hey, guys I know it took me a long time to update this story, but I finally decided to get off my lazy ass and start on my writing again. I also went through some off my previous chapters and fixed some of the mistakes. that plagued them. Now with that said let the shadows lead you to your eternal freedom.
Chapter 8 "surviving Canterlot"When our six heroes finally finished their little tea party, they went outside to test what kind of powers Bon Bon's relic has. After some talking and a little bit of an argument between them, which was surprising for them to hear and see, but after they both cooled off and apologised they tried to decide on a name for the relic. Name after name was suggested but each one was rejected. When they saw that they were not going anywhere fast Bon Bon said. "Okay then if you don't like any of my suggestions, then why don't you show me what you can do so that we can decide on a name then. Or you can just tell me what you want to be named." The element then blinked its candy shaped gem and Bon Bon sighed in relief before she continued. "Thank you. So what can you do?" The element then released a bright flash, which blinded everybody present. When it passed Bon Bon was standing there fully enclosed in a set of black armour with some silver highlights around the eyes and faceplate. Lyra then stepped up to her. "Wow, Bon Bon you look like one of those Canterlot knights... But allot more... intimidating." "Really. Could I perhaps get a mirror to check myself out." Bon Bon asked, at which point she heard a snap accompanied by a full-length mirror appearing in front of her, which is the point when she saw herself in her full intimidating glory. "Wow, this is freaking awesome. And I think I just figured out the perfect name for you." The gem then blinked twice and Bon Bon continued. "Yeah, how does Gadget sound?" She suggested, after which everything was quiet for a bit and then it blinked. After that Bon Bon jumped into the air, did a backflip and then finished everything off by accidentally bucking a three-meter rock clear out of the courtyard. "Finally I got a name for you!" She said excitedly, forgetting her friends for a moment. When she remembered them, she turned to everyone present and noticed that they were all slack-jawed. "What? Why are you all looking at me like that?" "Um, you do realise that you just bucked a three-meter large rock straight over that wall and I still didn't hear it land?" The Doctor said before they all heard a crash from deep within the forest. "I think the boulder just landed." Said Discord disappearing and after a second returning. "Let me rephrase that I think the pile of rubble just landed." "So you also amplify my earth pony strength. Cool." After that, the armour disappeared. "Okay then now that we have that finished, we have to go to Canterlot and finish this little fetch quest and return balance to Equestria." "Well alrighty, if you guys are all ready then, I am going to teleport you to the bottom of Canterlot mountain. With that, I wish you good luck." Were the last thing that Discord said before they were all teleported in a bright flash. ***Canterlot castle throne room*** "Okay girls let's bring this show to a big finale. Does everyone know their own part of the plan?" All off Twilights friends then nodded and right after Discord popped in. "Hello, there girls. I am here to inform you that the substitute elements are already at the bottom of Canterlot mountain and are currently making their way inside of the city." Twilight then simply smiled and said. "Excellent now refresh our disguises and then we can start this little boss rush." After that Discord snapped his fingers and sure enough every pony in the room and Spike turned into their nightmare modes and were teleported to their respective places where they are going to engage the substitute elements except for Twilight and Spike who simply walked to their respective thrones. When they both sat down Twilight levitated out the last relic and gave it to Discord then she said. "Discord make sure that they get this when they defeat all of my friends after that you can go to the island and enjoy yourself." "Your wish is my command, my queen." After that Twilight tossed the element to him, he caught it and then teleported away. After that Spike turned to her and asked. "So should I go and guard the gate or wait here until they arrive for the finale?" "Eh I think it would be better if you stay here and help us, but since that is going to take some time why don't you go and prepare some tea." "Okay, I'll have it prepared in ten minutes." After that, he jumped out of his throne and ran to the kitchen to prepare the aforementioned beverage while Twilight tried to entertain herself by floating a couple of things around her. Sadly she quickly got bored and sighed. "Oh, I hope that they get here quick. Well, I guess I could watch my friends fighting them but how to do it?" She asked while tapping her chin. After a minute she snapped her hoof. "Oh yeah, a viewing mirror might work. Eh, only one way to find out." Then she started on the spell and sure enough when she finished a full-length mirror was in front of her showing the Doctor and her friends climbing up the mountain. "Now let's see how they fare against their first challenge." ***Canterlot mountainside*** When our six heroes managed to blink the spots from their eyes they noticed that they were at the bottom of the mountain, but that wasn't the only thing that they saw. There on a ledge Applejack was waiting for them. "Why howdy there thieves. You finally decided to show yourselves." After that, the Doctor stepped forward and said. "As a matter of fact yes we did, so I politely ask that you surrender and let us pass or we will force you to move." Then all of his friends powered up their elements and went into their combat stances. "So now would you kindly surrender." He finished off with a smirk. "Oh, so we have ourselves some heroes over here. Well, I have heroes of my own. Thugs attack!" With that, she stomped on the ground and six earth pony guards appeared wearing the armour of her division. After they were all present and accounted for they attacked the group making sure to separate the group as soon as possible as to make it easier for them to pick them off. Surprisingly Derpy was actually the first one to dispose of her opponent. How, you may ask, did the ditzy mare manage to accomplish that you may or may not be asking yourself? Well you see, the guard actually couldn't even land a hit on her because the mare accidentally teleported a nearby rock right on top of his head knocking him out. After that, she approached the guard and placed a muffin in front of him with a note that said that she was sorry for knocking him out. Then she turned towards Applejack and did the thing that all Portal fans did at some point. She opened a portal below and above her causing her to fall into an infinite loop. After that, we turn to Octavia and see that she is having some trouble with her opponent. He had incredible speed which caused him to leave after images, that confused her way too much. It confused her so much that she decided to consult Radiance. "Radiance do you have any useful ideas on how to defeat this guy. He is really starting to annoy me since I can't grab him with our telekinesis." Then the guard decided to try and strike at her, but when he came within striking distance, Octavia floated up in the air causing the guy to faceplant into the dirt. His meeting with the ground was short lived since he started to run once more, leaving after images once more. After all, that Radiance blinked four times. "But won't that kill him?" Then the necklace blinks two more times. "Oh, okay then." When she finished talking to her necklace, she noticed that the guard was just sitting there, tapping his hoof, waiting. "Are you done talking to yourself now. I'm getting bored here." After that, he stood back up. "Now, let's continue this fight because every minute I waste here, rips of twenty bits from my paycheck." At first, Octavia looked at him for awhile and after a minute to consider it she said. "Sure. Let's continue." Then he started running again leaving after images. Putting Radiances plan into action Octavia levitated herself back to the ground and waited for the guard to attack her again and sure enough, he did but this time she was prepared and put the plan into action. She covered him with a boulder which she hollowed up using telekinesis. The plan worked and after a minute of trying to escape the guard said. "Okay then, I'm tired now and am going to sleep goodnight." And then she heard snoring coming from the inside. Continuing to our next hero we have Vinyl who is using her constructs to play with her guard who is now laying on the ground, covering his head, begging her to stop. Bon Bon is currently pounding her guard into the ground, Lyra is juggling her guard with a couple of rocks. Doc had the worst time since his guard seemed to be immune to every single spell that he could throw at him. After his next attempt, he decided to ask. "Why does every single spell that I use fizzle up upon contact?" The guard then punched his chest plate while telling him. "The armour was enchanted by Twilight Sparkle making it immune to any spells up to level seven. Anything above that, are spells that are performed by unicorns whose special talent is magic or are alicorns." After that, the Doctor blasted him, knocking out the soldier and embedding him in the wall. Finishing his spell he was completely out of breath. When he caught it he said. "Thank you for telling me. Now let's see what Applejack is..." He turned his head towards where Applejack was standing and saw her knocked out and tied up with all of his friends standing around her. "...standing. How did you manage to defeat her?" "Well, Derpy trapped her in a portal loop, after that Lyra went up to her and punched her which knocked her out. After that, Octavia and I tied her up." Vinyl finished of her recap with a big grin. When the Doctor processed everything he shook his head and asked. "So what do we do with her now?" "I guess we can leave her here. She isn't going anywhere." Said Octavia. With Applejacks fate decided they started to climb the mountain, towards their next destination. ***Canterlot front gate*** After about five minutes of climbing, they finally reached the top where Pinkie was waiting for them. "Hey there friends. How are you all holding up?" She asked with her trademark smile plastered on her face. "Oh, we are doing just dandy Pinky. But can I ask? Why are you her?" The Doctor asked stepping in front of his friends. "Oh, that's easy. I'm here to stop you from getting the final relic, which is not located in the library under the r sect..." Pinkie was then cut off by another very familiar, tomboyish voice. "Pinkie please stop talking before you reveal something else that Twilight told you explicitly to not tell anyone," Rainbow said while landing next to Pinkie. "Honestly it's like you can't keep a secret or something." "Uh... I'm sorry if we are interrupting, but could you two just let us through without having to fight you two." Derpy asked giving both of them the best puppy dog eyes she could muster. The effect on Pinkie was almost immediate if her clenching her heart and falling over unconscious had anything to say about it. But Rainbow was a totally different story. "Sorry, Derpy that isn't going to work on me and you know it." Derpy then amped up her act by quivering her lower lip. "Derpy please stop. It's getting embarrassing." Derpy then dropped her pout. "Oh well, I guess it can't work on everypony but it did keep you distracted." Rainbow raised an eyebrow. "Distracted? Distracted from what?" Derpy simply pointed upwards. Rainbow then looked up and saw a collection of very heavy looking objects right above her. The last thing that she managed to say was. "Oh, pony feathers." Before she got squashed by the giant heap of trash. "Heh, excellent acting there Derps. You sure had her fooled." Vinyl said while draping one hoof around her neck. "Yes for once I agree with Vinyl on this. That was amazing. But how did you know I was going to drop a pile of trash on top of her." Octavia asked, curiosity filling her voice. "I didn't I just improvised. And I knew that if she did attack me that you would all back me up. So yeah." She said finishing it with a smile. "While I'm glad that it worked out, that was incredibly dangerous," Doc said in a scolding tone which quickly changed to caring. "Next time please just run it by us before you act. Okay?" Derpy then nodded. "Good. Now that's two more down that leaves us with three elements a dragon and possibly draconeques that we still have to defeat. Eather that or find the relic." "Yeah and I really hope we can accomplish the lather rather than the former," Lyra said shaking at the thought of facing Fluttershy again. "Yeah, I hope so two. Now be sure to stick to the shadows we are sneaking into the castle library." The Doctor said, which was followed by his friends nodding, determination filling their faces. *** Several hours of sneaking later*** "Seriously how many guards could they possibly have. This is complete overkill." Said Bon Bon. "I mean it's really just a waste of resources." They were now all located inside the castle and were slowly making their way to the library. Trying to avoid the guards. "And you would know that because...?" Asked Lyra while raising an eyebrow. Bon Bon started to sweat bullets. "Um, I read it in a book once." She offered, hoping that will satisfy Lyras curiosity. "Oh. Okay then." She then turned to The Doctor while BonBon let out a sigh of relief. "So Doc how do we proceed?" "The library should be located right behind those doors, but as you can see we have a big problem." He said. Pointing to the big black dragon who was guarding the door. "We need to find a way to get past Spike." "How about we try charging him and then quickly get inside." Offered Vinyl. "No, he would see us coming and alert the guards." "What if I levitate him away." Octavia tried. The Doctor again shot the idea down. After some time spent in silence, Derpy got an idea. "How about I just teleport him to the Crystal empire?" The Doctor gave it some thought and then he tried to speak before he got interrupted by Spike snoring. After that, they turned to him and noticed that his eyes were actually closed with the eyelids painted white. "I think that won't be necessary Derpy. Let's just sneak by him and get the final relic. Then we can finally return to our normal lives in Ponywille." With that, they all snuck past Spike and closed the door. ***Meanwhile on the random island*** The princesses and Shining were watching our six heroes sneaking their way through the castle. They were all watching very intently until they saw Spike sleeping at which point Shining just shut of the magical mirror. "I can't believe what Spike just did I was hoping to see a good fight." He said looking both frustrated and sad. "Oh Shiny I know how you feel, but we also know that they wouldn't have engaged him because they would have alerted all the guards and the rest of the elements to their presence." Shining thought about it for a second before he nodded. "I guess you're right honey. But I really want to see more action." "I can arrange that," Luna said. Shining looked up. "How?" "Just be patient Shining. Turn the mirror back on and I'll set it up." Luna finished with a mischievous smile. Shining did as he was asked and then they all continued to watch what the Doc and company were doing. But not before Celestia leaned towards her sister and whispered. "Make sure that they at least get the chance to win." "Of course sister. Otherwise, this would not be fun." Luna whispered back before she started crafting her spell. ***Canterlot castle library*** The inside of the Canterloot library was an enormous place filled to the top with tablets, scrolls, various memory orbs and of course lots and lots of books. Our six friends were watching in complete shock at the humongous space all yaws hitting the floor except for the Doctor who instead walked to a corridor with two shelves both labelled R. "Okay guys let's start searching and if you find anything completely out of place then please bring it to me, okay." After he said that everypony snapped out of their funks and quickly followed him into that corridor. But little did they know that a certain dragon entered the library as well and started to search for them as well. *** Several hours later and they just managed to finish the bottom floor of shelves in the library and the Doctor was getting a little bit jittery. "Oh, where could it be. We searched the entire r section and still nothing. Oh if we can't find the last relic then we can never return things back to normal and if that's the case then we will have to be on the run forever or at least until we are..." And after that, the others left him be for a bit not wanting to listen to his ramblings anymore. "Derpy did you snatch the map? He seemed to have completely forgotten about it." Vinyl asked derpy while massaging one of her temples. "Yep. Got it right here." Derpy said while holding the aforementioned item. "But why aren't we just telling the Doctor about it?" Vinyl just pointed at the stallion who was currently in a fetal position rocking back and forth while muttering to himself. "Oh. Yeah, I can see why now." She said, handing the map to Vinyl. "Okay then. Let's see." Vinyl said while turning the map until it shimmered for a second. "Ah, there we go. Let's get the relic and then let's snap doc out of his little episode." With that, they all walked to where the map was shoving. When they got to the place they found a simple book of which the title was "Red Robin and his Adventures." Vinyl stepped closer to the book and reached for it before she remembered that the relics shock the pony if they are not the one meant to use it. After she remembered that she turned to Octavia. "Any ideas on how to bring the book back to Doc since we can't touch it?" "Hmm, what if we tried to sort of clamp it with another book. Would that work?" Octavia suggested to which Vinyl shook her head. "No that won't work. It's too thick." Lyra then suggested grabbing it with her magic, but as soon as she touched it with her hand Blinky released a high-pitched beep which caused her to drop it immediately. After that, they all put their hands together and started coming up with ideas. Well almost all of them. Derpy instead decided to just grab the book and started to carry it even though all her hair was standing on end and lightning coursing through her system. "Okay, then we use some paper and make a sort of glove and then we..." Octavia started to say, but when she turned around she immediately stopped and stared at Derpy. "Or we could let derpy take it to the doctor since she seems to be immune to the lightning." Vinyl said with a big grin on her face. Sadly that grin quickly faded when they heard a big crash coming from the direction where they left the Doctor. They didn't even speak before they ran back to him and what they saw made them prepare for battle. The Doctor was battling Spike who was breathing fire at him like crazy. Thankfully he was able to deflect all the fire and make sure to prevent it from spreading to the books. When Spike saw that fire wasn't working he changed his stance and started attacking him with malle attacks. Sadly one of them hit him and sent him flying towards Octavia who quickly caught him in her magick and laid him on the ground. "Okay guys, Derpy you stay back and help Doc." Derpy nodded and did as she was told. "Lyra, Bon Bon. You two go at him head on and try to distract him while Octavia and I go behind him and try to knock him out. Did you get all that?" They all nodded and commenced their attack. Bon Bon and Lyra both changed into their magical forms and charged at Spike. The first one to reach him was Lyra who immediately delivered a giant haymaker to his face. Which was closely followed by his legs falling from underneath him thanks to Bon Bon, who was wearing her armour. Spike quickly got back up and prepared to release his dragonfire. Right when he was about to release it, he was stopped by Lyra who grabbed his snout with her hand and kept it closed. With the fire having no way to go out the intended way it instead left through a much more painful way propelling the Dragon straight into a bookshelf. When that opportunity presented itself Vinyl and Octavia quickly activated their magic. Octavia picked him up and Vinyl quickly created a microphone with a long cable and wrapped it around him to hopefully keep him still. Sadly it didn't hold very long because he shredded through it and Octavia's magic almost immediately. After he jumped right back into the fray with his hands now encased in hos neon green fire and looking very angry. While they continued to act Derpy instead tried to wake up the Doctor. "Okay, it's time to wake up." She said shaking him slightly but that didn't garner any reaction. After that, she tried a bit more forcefully with a slap to the cheek. "Come on Doc don't you die on me. Please wake up." After that, she stopped everything and started to think. And when she saw the relic she got an idea. She picked up the book and lightning once again coursed through her. Now with her electrified hoof, she touched the Doctor who on contact immediately woke up. "WHA?! WHO?! WHERE?!" He said in a panicky voice, but when he saw Derpy he calmed down. "What happened? where is Spike?" Derpy pointed behind the Doctor. "He is currently occupied by our friends who are kicking his butt." She said before hoofing him the book. "But before we go and help them you should really put the relic on." The Doctor then took the book which on contact once again flashed and morphed into the Doctors relic. Once the light stopped the Doctor felt around his neck and was confused. "Uhm Derpy could you perchance tell me what happened to the book." "Yeah, it turned into a funny looking hat," Derpy said after which Doc checked his head and sure enough there was a hat on his head. He took it off to see what it was. It turned out that the funny looking hat was actually a fez. It was coloured red with a black tassel poking out and on the front of it, it had a yellow gem which matched his cutie mark. "Okay then didn't expect for that to happen." The gem blinked. "Well I was expecting another necklace, but this is perfect none the less... So what can you do?" The gem blinked a couple of times after which the doctor grinned and put the fez back on his head. "Okay, then Deus let's kick some dragon tail." After which he activated their power. Time stopped around Doc, but he left him with the ability to still move. This caused him to smile once more. "This is so awesome. But we need to take care of him before he does any more damage to the library." He said looking at Spike. He quickly scanned the immediate area to see what he had at his disposal. He walked up to spike and punched him in the face at which point he restarted time for a split second. After that, he saw that he was heading for a wall which he promptly let impact before continuing. Then he grabbed Derpy and put her so that she was facing him before restarting time. "Derpy I need you to place a portal over Spike and behind yourself, I have an idea on how to stop him." After Derpy gathered her thoughts and processed what he has just done and said. She nodded and did as she was told. Then the Doctor again stopped time and continued his little plan. Overtop the portal that was behind Derpy the doctor placed a large collection of books chairs tables beanbags and whatever else he was able to gather and place on top of it until he had a giant mountain full of furniture. Once finished he again started time. "Hey, Spike look up." The Doc said after which the dragon looked up to see a huge pile of approaching his face. He didn't even have enough time to blink before he got squashed and knocked out. After the dust settled, the Doctor asked. "Is everypony alright?" To this, he got some yeahs and a couple of grunts. "I'll take that as a yes." ***On the random island*** "Ah, no fair! He cheated we demand a rematch!" Luna screamed at the mirror as if she could actually talk to the ponies on the other side. It actually came to the point where she was literally smashing her muzzle into it with a deranged look in her eye. Thankfully before she could smash it she got stopped by Celestia. "Now, now Luna that is not how you should act when faced with defeat. Now please calm down because your scarring Shining and Cadence." She said in a calm voice. Luna then looked towards the couple to see them trembling in the corner. After that, she climbed down from the mirror and hung her head in shame. "I am sorry for my outburst it was not warranted. I hope you can forgive me." "No problem l Luna. Apology excepted just please don't do it again." Shining said after a moment of silence. Cadence only nodded and offered a small smile. Luna then perked up slightly. "Thank you." Okay, then everypony I think it is time for us to take our positions. It's time to go back to work." Celestia said standing up and teleporting all of the stuff they had used on the island to a storage room in the castle. The others sighed but nodded before they also teleported to the castle. ***Canterlot castle*** "I hope you are right about this Deus because if you're not them Equestria is doomed forever." The Doctor said with a hint of worry present in his voice. They had talked about what they are going to do to purge the elements and the plan was nothing more than a ticking bomb. It mostly involved capturing Twilight and hoping that by purging her will affect the other elements. The plan was pretty far fetched. But really the only other option was to get them one by one and they didn't have enough time for that. Deus then blinked a couple of times reassuring him that it will work out. "Okay then. Let's go and take back Equestria!" He said before they all ran towards the throne room. Once they arrived they kicked open the door and were met with the sight of all the elements standing together along with Discord and Spike. "Well, well, well. Looks like you finally got all of your precious little relics. What do you plan to do with them, smack us into submission?" Twilight said an evil grin appearing on her face. "Not really Twilight," Doc said disappearing and reappearing behind her holding a rope that has her tied up. "We just need to purge you and then we can easily deal with the rest." After that, all of the elements and Spike jumped at him trying to pin him down. But sadly they only hit nothing as they crashed to the ground. Discord took that chance to grab Fluttershy hair and wrap it around the other elements. The doctor was now at the bottom of the stairs to the throne, Twilight struggling in the middle of all of the relic bearers. "Let's end this." The Doctor said closing his eyes and concentrating. His friends soon followed which then caused all of the gems to glow. Twilight continued to struggle before she realized that the rope was designed with her in mind. Then she noticed the light and got scared. "No please don't do this. I can give you all anything you want! Fame, power, riches, anything just please don't destroy me!" She pleaded bit was ignored. Fluttershy tried to untangle hair but found the task impossible. "Discord get Twilight out of there this instant and untie me!" She shrieked. "No can do Flutters. Just stay back and enjoy the show." And what a show it was the lights brightened and brightened until it looked like a miniature sun was shining in the throne room. After that there was a loud shriek and an explosion of rainbow colours streaking across Equestria, undoing everything that the elements had done. When the light show was finished there were several unconscious ponies a dragon who was much in the same state and Discord who was covered in smoke from head to toe watching in complete shock. "Well, I didn't expect that." He said before he coughed up some smoke and then fell back, joining his friends in la la land. Author's Note And here, after a long time you have another chapter of Nightmares Coming to Life. And if you liked it then share this with your friends. With that I will see you in the next chapter.
Chapter 9 "epilogue"It has been several days since the now dubbed elemental nightmare incident and everything has turned back to the way it used to be... Well almost. Our six friends were bestowed the equestrian pink hearts for protecting all of Equestria against a mighty foe. They excepted them proudly and wore them for the rest of the celebration. To no ones surprise Pinky prepared a huge party to apologize for what the elements did and to celebrate the victory. The party lasted for a whole three days and everyone was enjoying themselves. But after those three days, everyone went home and enjoyed some well deserved R&R. *** "*sigh* That was one heck of a party wasn't it Derpy." Said the Doctor to the aforementioned pegasus. They were both walking towards their home after they just departed from the train station. "It sure was Doctor, but I am glad to be back in Ponyville with hopefully no new evil being bent on world domination appearing anytime soon." "I second that." The doctor said with a big smile on his face. He was very tired from the events that unfolded prior and the party so the first thing that he was going to do was get some sleep. "So Doctor do you know what we are going to do with these relics? I mean I like them, but we do have a dress code at the post office." Derpy asked while looking at the necklace. "You just put it somewhere safe Derpy. I am just going to keep wearing it." He said while adjusting said hat. "Besides if I really wanted to keep all of them safe we would have left them with Celestia." "Oh yeah. That would have been better, but they are sentient so probably not." Derpy then noticed her house and flew towards it. "Well, goodnight Doc see ya tomorrow." "Goodnight Derpy." And then they both went their separate ways. *** Vinyl and Octavia were both in their shared house preparing something for dinner. They didn't stay the full three days at the party, which was a surprise to Octavia since she expected Vinyl to stay. "So Vinyl why didn't you stay at the party? I thought that DJ-PON3 would want to please the masses with her wubs." "Yea ain't gonna happen Octy because I was so tired that I was basically running on caffeine alone. Honestly, I just want to relax and enjoy myself for a bit." Vinyl said while setting the table for the both of them. "Yeah, you're right. Honestly, I'm just glad to be home and enjoying my house without having to fight several nightmare infused ponies." Octavia said, levitating the soup to the dining room table. When she did she served the food and sat down to eat. "You're getting pretty good with that levitation of yours." Vinyl said after which she dug into her meal. "I guess I did. I can see why it can be so useful and it makes doing chores so much more fun." After that she made her spoon fly around like a plane. "Definitely happy with it." "Do you think well have to give these back to Discord. I mean he is the one who made them?" Vinyl asked. "No, we won't have to. I managed to find him at the party and asked him myself. He said it was okay for us to keep them. So yeah they are ours to keep." "Oh sweet. Then I am going to go and modify my routine to include him in it." She said while standing up and walking towards her room. "Actually I'm going to do that right now." With that Octavia soon heard loud techno music blaring from her room making the whole house vibrate to the beat. When said beat dropped Octavia's dinner flew directly into her face. Octavia stood there for a second and after that, she wiped the food off her face revealing an angry scowl beneath. "VINYL!!!!" With that battle cry, she ran up the stairs and into said ponies room to quiet her down, but she made the mistake of opening the door. When she did she was sent flying straight through her wall and landed on her bed unconscious. *** Bon Bon was back at her shop and after word spread of how she helped save Equestria business was booming. She was selling so much that she was barely able to keep up with the orders, but it was made allot easier with the help of Lyra. She and her magic made quick work out of all the treats and she was also tasting the candy to make sure it was up to code. After they finished the last batch of hard candy in the afternoon they finally had some time to unwind. For that Bon Bon decided to prepare tea for both of them. "Hey, Lyra I'm going to prepare some tea. You want any?" "Yeah would love some. Two sugars and no cream please." Lyra said while sitting on the couch in her unusual way. Bon Bon just shook her head and went to prepare the tea. After five minutes she returned with the soothing drink and placed it on the coffee table after which she sat on the couch next to the mint coloured unicorn. "So did they figure anything out about the artefacts ar the agency?" She asked after taking a sip of her tea. "We did. We figured out that this gem." She pointed to her gem. "Contains a fully formed universe of its own. With one presence being able to actually talk to us." "Really! There is a whole world inside these?" Lyra asked completely shocked. "Yes, they do. It's quite fascinating. Isn't it." At that moment they both heard a beep and BonBon checked a weird device after which she sighed. "Sorry, Lyra. Duty calls. We have a 32 19 at the base and I really need to come and fix it." She said while grabbing a book which opened a secret passage. "No problem Bon Bon I'll watch the house in the meantime. You just show them what agent Sweetie Drops can do." Lyra said, finishing her tea and bringing the tea set to the sink. Bon Bon simply smiled. "Thanks, Lyra. I should be back in the morning." With that, she slid down the passageway which closed behind her. With nothing else to do, Lyra simply decided to climb on the couch and drift of to sleep. ***Chaos dimension*** The chaos dimension a place of wonder, fear, excitement and basically any other emotion. It is a world with no rules in which everything seemed impossible exists and everything possible is impossible to grasp. This is where Discord lives and is free to express himself however he wishes. Currently, he was preparing a tea party for him and his six new friends. "Oh, I do hope that they enjoy this chocolate tea. It's been a while since we sat down and talked." At that moment his volcano started spewing bubbles. "Oh, it's already time. Then let's get this party started." With that, he snapped his fingers and sure enough, his six new friends appeared. Those friends were the six artefacts he himself created. He used a little bit of his magic to give them actual bodies to inhabit. And sure enough, six bipedal creatures were now sitting around the table. The creatures were all made out of gold with their respective gems on their right hands. They also looked very different from one another. Radiance was female in shape and had black straight shoulder-length hair. She was also wearing what looked like a black suit with a red bow tie for her top and a grey skirt for her bottom. She was also wearing knee high grey boots. Muffin was also female in body shape, but she had blonde hair. She was wearing a simple blue T-shirt and jeans with white sneakers. Then we have the last female shaped creature, which was Gadget. She had short black hair that looked like it was shaped like a buzz axe. She was also wearing a black leather jacket with a shirt underneath with a skeleton on it. She also had grey jeans and steel-toed boots. Then we also have the other three which were all male in shape. Wub had his hair in a big afro and was also wearing dark blue sunglasses. He had on him a white jacket and white bell bottom pants with white dance shoes. Blinky had very short brown hair and was wearing a generic black T-shirt with the Cloud Buster sword on it and blue jeans. He was also wearing sneakers. And then we come to Fez. He was wearing the aforementioned hat on his head with no hair. Instead, he had a well-groomed beard on his face. He was wearing a large black trench coat and black dress pants and shoes. All of the described characters were staring at Discord and their surroundings with their expression ranging from intrigue to anger. After some time Discord started to talk. "Well I can see-" But that is as far as he came before he got an armoured fist to the face, which sent him flying into the wall. "You have no idea how long I wanted to do that you crazy chimaera." Gadget said after which she sat down and took a sip of her tea. "Please do continue." When Discord managed to get himself out of the wall he sat back at the table. "You have a mean left hook and no manners Mis Gadget, but do control your temper so that I can explain." Nobody said anything in protest so he continued. "Okay as you already know I transferred you all to an Equestria of your own in which you each got some power or another. You all made your lives in there and I am going to return you to it, but for now, I will answer your questions, if you have any that is." Discord said after which he took another sip from his drink. "Yeah, I have a good one. Can I get an orange and chocolate pie?" Asked Blinky. To that Discord just snapped his talons and the treat appeared in front of him. "Thanks." The rest of them just stared at him except for Muffin who also took a piece and started eating. "Okay then... What are the answers to all of the universe's questions?" Wub asked. Discord again snapped his fingers and a book appeared in front of Wub. When he opened it he found that on all the four hundred pages was written the number 42. "Aight." "Uh, can I try... Okay, then how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?" Muffin asked after she finished her slice of pie. Discord got a bit annoyed but still answered. "He couldn't chuck any wood because he can't grab it with his paws." He said. After that Radiance wanted to ask something but was interrupted by Discord. "If you want to know how I keep my mane like this, the answer is a lot of glue and concrete. But seriously no one wants to ask why I brought them here. No one at all." The six humanoids simply shook their heads. Discord simply facepalmed and sighed. "Look Discord." Radiance said. "It's not that we don't want to, it's just we don't need to. We all know that it was you who sent us to those worlds and that it was you who turned us into those artefacts. We may not be as wise as Celestia but we all have knowledge of the show... and the way the email looked when you sent it to us gave you away pretty quickly." "Yeah. At first, I just answered it as a joke, but when I woke up it made a lot of sense." Added gadget. "So yeah next questions. Can you talk to other Discords from different timelines and or dimensions?" Asked Muffin. Discord was shocked. They figured him out right off the bat. He really was losing his touch, but that didn't bring him down too much as he continued to answer their questions. They were talking for hours upon hours until they finally finished their tea. "Well that was a lot of fun but I have to ask Fez why didn't you ask anything? Now that I think about it you didn't say anything during your stay." Fez then picked up the tray and a nearby marker and wrote that he is mute on it. "Oh okay then. Well, anywho I hope that we can gather like this again. Maybe next week same time?" They all agreed and then he sent them back to their respective worlds. "Okay, let's see what Fluttershy is up to." He said as he snapped his fingers, teleporting himself to her. ***The friendship castle*** "So princess did you enjoy your vacation?" Twilight asked. They were all gathered in the cutie map room. They were all going through their experiences as rulers of their own district. They didn't have that much to say about that so they instead talked about how the princess's spent their free time. After some time they finished with everything and were left in a comfortable science. "So what are we going to plan out for next time?" Pinkie asked. Everyone just looked at her funny and then laughed. After some time Pinkie joined in as well, but when the laughter died down she said. "No seriously though what are we going to do next time." Then they looked at each other and stayed silent already brainstorming their next plan. Author's Note Well after one thousand years of banishment I finally give you another chapter of this story. And yes there are going to be more stories connected to this one. So yeah. In the meantime go to my Discord and talk to me there or my youtube channel and listen to some of my readings. See ya all in the next story.
