The Heroes of Equestria; Season One

by TechDragonX

Rating: teen
Tags: Original Character, Spike, Adventure, Princess Celestia, Main 6, Gore, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Dark, Alternate Universe, My Little Pony Comic, Other, Romance
Length: 28761

Set in an alternate universe where everything is the same but not at the same time.

Set in an alternate universe where everything is the same but not at the same time.

In this universe Princess Luna isn't returned back to normal, leaving Princess Celestia to move both the Sun and Moon.

Everything else is the same aside from Nightmare Moon is working with dragons, and there being nine Elements of Harmony.

Some Interludes may feature mysteries, and there is some futuristic things. Unfortunately there could only be three genre tags.

Published 2017-06-21 13:10:06 UTC
Last updated 2018-07-29 21:27:38 UTC

Prologue; Uncovered Legend

... As the battle agianst Nightmare Moon was coming to an end, with Nightmare Moon being in a dase after a fierce fight with the Legendary Knight; Cobolt. This gave Princess Celestia, and Cobolt the time to get ready to use the six Elements and the Sword of Harmony on Nightmare Moon who in turn later got imprisoned in the Moon. This was the last battle that Cobolt was in before his disappearance. The Elements and Sword of Harmony were lost to the ages. Last seen in the ruined castle in the...

..."The Everfree Forest?!" exclaimed Twilight Sparkle. Just then her best friend/assistant Spike came running up the stairs.

"Twilight, are you alright?" Spike asked the lavender unicorn pony mare. "You sounded extremely confused and shocked," said Spike.

"I'm alright, Spike, thanks for asking" Twilight said.

"Ok then, I'm heading off to bed, see you in the morning," Spike stated with a yawn.

"See you too, Spike," Twilight responded. Watching the purple and green baby dragon leave. She continued reading the book.

... Legend has it that Nightmare Moon will return in 1000 years on the longest day. The Everfree Forest is located near the town of Ponyville.

The Summer Sun Celebration is the next day after tomorrow! Twilight thought. I have to warn Princess Celestia!

[The Next Morning...]

Dear Twilight Sparkle,

There is more to do in a young pony's life than studying. You simply have to stop reading those old dusty books. I am sending you to check on the preparations for the Summer Sun Celebration.

"Most importantly go make some friends," Spike read.

"Spike, the fate of Equestria doesn't rest on me making friends," said Twilight.

"Well at least Princess Celestia made sure to set your home in a library," Spike responded.

A stallion unicorn with a dark gray coat, a silver mane and tail and light blue eyes along with a red four pointed star cutie mark, was walking with a pink earth pony with a pink tail and three multicolor balloons for her cutie mark.

"Come on, Twilight, maybe the ponies of Ponyville have something worth hearing," said Spike.

"Um, hello my name is; Twilight Sparkle, what is your name?' Twilight said.

"Hello my name is Cobalt-"GASP!

The pink mare quickly ran off.

"-Sorry about her she does that every time somepony new moves here," Cobalt said.

"Okay?" Twilight said confused. She watched Cobalt go after the pink mare. Who seemed to just become a pink blur. Twilight then turns to Spike.

"What is first on the list, Spike?" She said.

"First we check up on how the food is going over at Sweet Apple Acres," Spike says.

"Well lets go to Sweet Apple Acres, Spike," She replies.

Spike replies with "Ok, Twi."

When they arrive at Sweet Apple Acres they first spot rows and rows of hundreds and hundreds of apple trees.

"Yeeha!" Said a orange earth pony with a blond mane wearing a hat, with a cutie mark which has three red apples.

Let's get this over with thought Twilight.

"Good afternoon my name is, Twilight Sparkle," said Twilight.

"Well how ya do, Twilight Sparkle, my name is Applejack," the orange earth pony who name is Applejack. "We here at Sweet Apple Acres sure do like making new friends."

Twilight replied "Friends?"

"What can I do you for?" Applejack said.

"I am here to supervise the food preparations," replied Twilight.

[Later...]

"Ugg, I ate too much pie," Twilight said.

"There's supposed to be a pegasus pony named, Rainbow Dash clearing the clouds," Spike said.

"She's not doing a very good job is she?" Twilight asked.

Just then a rainbow color blur crashed into Twilight.

"Sorry, let me help you," said Rainbow Dash.

"I geuss I over did it, here how about this," Rainbow said.

The rainbow colored pegasus then flied around Twilight.

"My very own rainblow dry," She said, before both she and Spike fell on the ground in laughter.

"Rainbow Dash, aren't you supposed to be keeping the sky clear," Twilight said. "I'm Twilight Sparkle and the princess sent me to check on the preparations."

"I'll do it in a jiffy, as soon as I finish practicing," Rainbow Dash said.

"Practicing for what?"Twilight asked.

"The Wonderbolts, they are going to preform tomorrow, and I'm going to show them my stuff," Rainbow replied.

"The Wonderbolts won't accept a pegasus who can't clear the sky," Twilight taunted.

"I can clear the sky in 10 seconds flat," Rainbow replied.

"Prove it," Twilight said.

[Ten seconds later...]

"What I say," Rainbow said, "I can't wait to hang out some more."

[Town Hall...]

When they got there they saw Cobalt working with a white unicorn mare with a purple mane and three diamonds for her cutie mark.

"Beautiful," Spike said.

"Beautiful indeed, Spike," Twilight said.

"Not the decor her," He said, pointing at the unicorn.

Just then Cobalt started to walk over.

"Hey, Twilight, right?" He asked.

"Yes, it's still me," Twilight said. "Wait why are you here?"

"I am helping out, Rarity," said Cobalt.

"Ok," Twilight said.

While walking up to the mare... "Are my spines strait?" asked Spike.

"Good afternoon," said Twilight.

"Just a moment, I am in the zone," the mare said.

Sparkle just right thought Rarity.

"Ahh!" Rarity exclaimed, "What happened to your mane?"

"I'll just check on the preparations, and I'll be out of your hair," Twilight said.

"Out of my hair?" Rarity said, "What about your hair?"

"Well this may take awhile," Cobalt said to Spike.

"Huh?" said Spike.

[Later...]

"Here is the music guys," Cobalt said to Spike and Twilight.

"Thank you, Cobalt," Twilight said.

"You're welcome, Twilight," Cobalt said.

As they got closer to the top they were able to hear the music. They also saw a yellow pegasus mare, with a light pink mane and a trio of muti-colored butterflies as the mare's cutie mark.

"Hello, I am here to check on the music which sounded great," Twilight said.

As soon as she walked out of the bushes the birds all flew away.

"I am Twilight Sparkle, whats your name?" Twilight asked the mare.

"I'm, Fluttershy," said the mare.

"Come again?" asked Twilight.

"My name is, Fluttershy," she said again, but quieter.

"Well looks like your birds are back," Twilight said.

Twilight turned back to Spike who walked out of the bush.

"A baby dragon?" said the mare, who knocked Twilight out of the way.

[One life story later...]

Twilight, Spike, and Fluttershy arrived at Twilight's house.

"How did we get here so fast," Twilight said. "Sorry, but he needs his sleep."

"Poor thing, lets get him inside," Fluttershy said.

Author's Note

This is the first chapter to my first story in a series. The next two chapters are focused on the first villain of the show; Nightmare Moon.

Special; Nightmare Moon's Challenge

Upon walking inside their house Twilight started talking to Spike again.

"Nightmare Moon is coming and we're running out of time," Twilight said. "We just need a place to study without a bunch of crazy ponies trying to make friends all the time, now where's the light?"

Just then the lights cut on and a bunch of ponies yelled "Surprise!"

Twilight let out a sigh as the pink mare from earlier today started talking to her.

"Hi, I'm, Pinkie Pie, and I threw this party just for you, were you surprised?" Said the mare now know as Pinkie Pie.

"Very surprised, libraries are supposed to be quiet." responded Twilight.

"That's silly, what kind of party would this be if it were quiet, I mean duh," Pinkie replied. "I first saw you with Cobalt when you first arrived, you were like hey, and I was like GASP!"

Twilight walked over to the snack table to get her something to drink, with Pinkie Pie behind her. As Pinkie kept talking about how she threw this party, Twilight poured her a drink which was not a real drink, but hot sause. When Pinkie finished talking the other five mares and Cobalt appeared behind the duo. Having taking note of what she drunk Twilight turned around.

"Are you alright sugarcube?" Applejack asked.

Twilight mane and tail then burst in to flames and thus caused her to run up stairs to her bed room.

"Awww, she's so happy she's crying," Pinkie said.

[A few minuets later...]

Spike walked into Twilight's room and told her what was happening in the other room. As soon as Spike left Twilight started talking to her self.

"I thought I could learn more on the Elements of Harmony, but silly me all this ridiculous friend making has kept me from doing that," Twilight said.

As she turned to face the window she took note of four stars moving towards the moon.

"On the longest day of the 1000th year the stars will aid in her escape." recited Twilight.

As soon as Twilight finished talking Spike walked in and told her it's time to watch the Sun rise.

{At town hall}

While everypony was waiting on Princess Celestia, Pinkie Pie and Cobalt walked up to Twilight and Spike.

"Are you excited, because I am, well not as excited as when I saw you walking into town, but what can top that?" Pinkie said.

"Give, Twilight some space, Pinkie," said Cobalt.

At that very moment Fluttershy's birds started to sing and the mayor of Ponyville started to speak.

"Fillies and gentlecolts, as mayor of Ponyville it is my great pleasure to announce the beginning of the Summer Sun Celebration," said the mayor.

Then everypony in the room started to cheer. After everypony was done cheering the mayor spoke agian.

"In just a few moments our town will witness the magic of the sunrise and celebrate this, the longest day of the year, and now it is my great honor to introduce to you the ruler of our land, the very pony who gives us the Sun and the Moon each and every day, the good, the wise, the bringer of all harmony to all of Equestria, Princess Celestia," the mayor said.

With that said, Rarity pulled the rope to open the curtins, but Princess Celestia wasn't there.

"What?!" exclaimed Rarity.

After a few moments of looking Rarity came back and stated that the princess was gone. Upon hearing this news everypony else let out a 'GASP!'. Pinkie then noticed a blue, stary mist at the stand above them. Which then turned into an alicorn, who was pure black with a light purple patch around her crestant moon cutie mark, with a stary light purple mane and tail, and wearing light blue armor.

"Oh, no, Nightmare Moon," Twilight whispered to Spike.

Nightmare Moon started to speak, "Oh, my beloved subjects, it's been so long since I've seen your precious little Sun lving faces."

Out of everypony Rainbow Dash was the first one to speak up to the new pony.

"What did you do to our princess?" asked Rainbow Dash.

As soon as Rainbow was about to fly up to Nightmare Moon, Applejack grabbed her by her tail. After this Nightmare Moon started to laugh and talk again.

"I'm not royal enough for you, don't you know who I am?" said Nightmare Moon.

"Oh, another guessing game," said Pinkie.

Within seconds of saying this Pinkie started to guess names for the new alicorn. Which caused Applejack to shove an apple in her mouth in a hussing manner.

"Does my crown no longer count now, that I've been imprisoned for a thousand years, did you not recall the the legend, did you not see the signs?" said Nightmare Moon.

Twilight then said something about what Nightmare Moon was saying.

"You're the mare on the moon, Nightmare Moon," finished Twilight.

As with the last piece of news everypony aside from Twilight, Cobalt, and Spike let out another gasp.

"Yes, somepony who remembers me, then you also know why I'm here?" asked Nightmare Moon.

"You're here to to.." was all Twilight could say.

Nightmare Moon then started to laugh again.

"Remember this day little ponies, for it will be your last, from this moment forth the night will last forever," Nightmare Moon said.

"Also I challenge you to try and stop me," said Nightmare Moon.

"Get her only she knows where the princess is," the Ponyville mayor said to the three guards.

The guards flew up to Nightmare Moon before getting blasted out of the air by lightning. After this Nightmare Moon turned back into a mist and burst out of the doors. Everypony other than the guards, the mayor and Twilight, were confused or running about. This caused Rainbow Dash to break out of Applejack's grip and attempt to chase the mist, but couldn't. Upon turning around she saw Twilight and Spike running towards their house.

{Twilight's House}

Waking up in a state of panic all Spike could say was, "We have to stop Nightmare".

Twilight tucked him in and started looking for a book on the Elements of Harmony.

"Ugg, how can I stop Nightmare Moon without the Elements of Harmony?" Twilight said aloud.

"And just what are the Elements of Harmony?" asked Rainbow Dash.

"And how did you know about, Nightmare Moon?" Rainbow Dash asked again, "Are you a spy?"

Just then Applejack forced Rainbow to slow down. Cobalt asked Twilight to explain what she was talking about. After Twilight was done, Pinkie Pie spoke up and read the title of a book aloud.

The Elements of Harmony; A Reference Guide

Upon hearing this Twilight the rushed over to Pinkie and grabbed the book and asked Pinkie how did she find it.

"It was under E," Pinkie said in a singing voice.

Twilight began to read the book for everypony to hear.

There are seven Elements of Harmony, but only five are known; Kindness, Laughter, Generosity, Honsety, and Loyalty. The sixth and seventh are a complete mystery, it is said that the last know location was in the ancient castle of the royal pony sisters it is located in what is now...

"The Everfree Forest?!" said everypony in the room.

Author's Note

Sorry this chapter took a while. I have a bad memory and needed to watch these two episodes around 15 times to remember it.

Special; The Nightmare Trials, Part One

Twilight was about to rush out of the door, before Applejack and Rainbow Dash stopped her.

"We won't let you go on in there by yourself-," was all Applejack could manage to say.

"Not without us, we won't," said Rainbow Dash.

Twilight knew that the other six ponies wouldn't let her leave, so reluctantly Twilight allowed for the others to follow. As Twilight, Pinkie, Applejack, Rainbow, Rarity, and Fluttershy head out the door in a rush. Cobalt uses his magic to levitate the book back to its spot on the shelf. When Cobalt was about to close the door, he heard somepony call his hame. Only to find that Spike had awoken.

"Hey what are you doing here at this time, Cobalt?" asked Spike.

"I was helping, Twilight with some thing," responded Cobalt.

"Like what?" Spike asked. "Where's, Twilight?"

"I'm 100% sure she wouldn't want me to tell you," Cobalt said.

After hearing that before Spike could ask another question Cobalt quickly ran out of the door. Leaving a very curious Spike inside.

It looks like I'm going to have to follow him, thought Spike.

[At the edge of the Everfree Forest...]

When the group of mares got there Twilight asked for more info on the forest. When that was done she noticed Cobalt wasn't with them. Opening her mouth to say what she was thinking, but Rarity beat her in saying it.

"Where's, Cobalt?" asked Rarity.

"Maybe he got scared and ran home," said Rainbow.

"That isn't a nice thing to say, Rainbow Dash," said Pinkie defending the non present stallion.

"Pinkie's right, Rainbow, I did run home to get some things, you should do a head count," Cobalt said walking out from behind a tree.

Just then Spike jumped out of a bush from where Cobalt had come from. Everypony looked at him in shock.

"I... have... caught... up to you," said a nearly out of breath Spike.

Cobalt then looked at Spike in a unimpressed way.

"Why are you looking at me like that?"asked Spike.

"I knew that you were following me, Spike, you aren't great at sneeking behind me," responded Cobalt.

Spike looked around a saw that Twilight was glaring at him.

"Spike, I want you to go back to the house," said Twilight.

"No, I want to help, Twilight," replied Spike.

Before Twilight could say something again Cobalt stopped her.

"Just let, Spike come along, Twilight," sugested Cobalt.

"Fine, Spike stay behind us, or you can get on, Cobalt's back if he is good with it," replied Twilight, before asking Cobalt if Spike could ride on his back.

"Yes," responded Cobalt.

After walking in the forest for a few minuets Cobalt froze and looked around, snapping a stick at the same time. This caused the rest of the group to stop and look at Cobalt. Still eyes locked on the forest he silently told Spike to get on top of his head. This action caused a wolf that looked to be made of wood and magic to lunge at the unicorn and dragon. Spike then let out a fury of flames at the wood looking wolf. Which flew over the two and burnt away in a ball of green flames with a clear liquid flowing out of the creature. For awhile everypony else looked at them in complete shock. Until Rainbow Dash started to speak.

"That was so AWSOME!" shouted Rainbow Dash.

[At the castle of the two sisters...]

Nightmare Moon is talking to her hostage in the throne room of the castle.

"You can't do this, because you'll never get away with it!" yelled her hostage.

"Oh, so sorry, Princess Celestia, but you're unable to do anything to help them," said Nightmare Moon.

"They will come here and defeat you," said Princess Celestia.

"Not if they can't get past my eight trials, one for each of them," said Nightmare Moon with her eyes closed and a smile on her face.

When she didn't hear the white alicorn princess respond she opened her eyes and saw that Celestia was asleep.

[With our heros...]

"I don't think that Nightmare Moon would leave her castle and its path unprotected," said Twilight.

"I agree with, Twilight," said Cobalt and Spike.

Cobalt the stopped walking and started looking around. He noticed a dark stary mist fly into the ground ahead of them.

"Girls look out!" yelled Cobalt.

His words were a little too late, because the edge of the cliff gave away with a RUMMBLE. Cobalt ran towards the edge with Spike on his back.

"Hey, Spike reach in my bag and drink the potion that has a dragon label on it," commanded Cobalt.

"A dragon on it?" asked Spike, "What does it do?"

"Nothing bad, just drink it, Spike!" yelled Cobalt.

Spike then drunk the potion which caused him to grow taller and grow wings. Spike then flew to help the others after landing Cobalt down below. Rarity and Pinkie were saved by Rainbow and Fluttershy. Just then the potion gave out causing Spike to fall back to the ground. Rarity and Cobalt summoned a large pillow for spike to land on.

[On the cliff side...]

"Twilight, you're going to have to let go," Applejack said.

"What are you CRAZY!" yelled Twilight.

"No, trust me it's the honest truth, let go and you'll be safe," responded Applejack.

"Ok, I trust you," said Twilight, she let go and then was caught by Rainbow and Fluttershy.

The group made up of seven ponies and a dragon continued onwards.

[Later...]

While continuing their path towards the castle a loud ROAR was heard. This caused the whole group to stop, when they did a manticore jumped out of the bushes. The manticore lunged at Rarity, who swifty ducked out of the way and kicked the beast in its face, but only made it angrier. Rarity then ran back to the group and pass Fluttershy who was telling the others to wait. Then Applejack jumped on the manticore's back to try and do something that nopony kenw what. Again Fluttershy tried to get the others to hold up. Applejack then signaled Rainbow Dash to go on, she was later knocked to the ground by the manticore's tail. Everypony else was in shock and Twilight got ready to attcak the monster with the rest of the group, but Fluttershy walked towards it and pulled out a thorn with the help of Cobalt and Spike.

She later told the group that she didn't know about the thorn.

"Sometimes we all need to be show a little kindness," said Fluttershy.

[Twenty Minuets Later...]

We see our heroes inside a darker part of the forest. After Rarity said her eyes needed a break from the muck, and Twilight said that they could be able to walk pass the ancient ruin. Cobalt spotted Nightmare Moon's magic flow into a tree. Then he and Spike bumped into somepony. So did every other member of the group.

"I think I stepped in something," said Applejack.

Just then Fluttershy started to scream. Applejack was about to say it's just mud while walking up to a tree then looked at it and also freaked out. So did everypony else and Spike aside from Pinkie Pie who was laughing at one of the trees.

"What are you doing, Pinkie, run," said Twilight.

"Oh," said Pinkie, before she burst into song.

When I was a little filly and the sun was going down...

"Tell me she's not?" asked Twilight.

The darkness and the shadows

They would always make me frown...

"She is," replied Rarity.

I'd hide under my pillow

From what I thought I saw

But Granny Pie said that wasn't the way to deal with fears at all...

"Then what is?" asked Rainbow.

She said "Pinkie, you gotta stand up tall

Learn to face your fears

You'll see that they can't hurt you

Just laugh to make them disappear,"

Ha! Ha! Ha!

Everypony and Spike let out a loud GASP. As the strange and creepy face disappeared.

So, giggle at the ghostly

Guffaw at the grossly

Crack up at the creepy

Whoop it up with the weepy

Chortle at the kooky

Snortle at the spooky

And tell that big dumb scary face to take a hike and leave you alone and if he thinks he can scare you then he's got another thing coming and the very idea of such a thing just makes you wanna... hahahaha... heh...

Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaauuuugh!

[In Nightmare Moon's room...]

Four trials down, but four more to go," said Nightmare Moon before letting out a evil laugh.

Author's Note

Here's the new chapter readers. The next part with the next four trials will be posted some time later this week.

Special; The Nightmare Trials, Part Two

As our heroes were walking up to a rapidly moving river when they heard crying from up the river. A sea serpent was the one who was crying.

"Excuse me sir, why are you crying?" asked Twilight.

"Well, I don't know, I was sitting here minding my own business, when a tacky purple smoke cloud passed me and took my beloved mustaches clean off as well as some of my hair," said the sea serpent who showed the group the locations of his missing hair pieces.

"Oh, it's simply horrid," said the serpent while splashing in the water, and getting the group wet.

"Give me a break," said Rainbow.

"That's what all the fuss is about," said Applejack.

"Why of course it is, you can be so insensitive" said Rarity.

"I have some enchanted hair dye but no hair," said Cobalt.

"Anypony wants to give up some of their hair?" Cobalt asked the whole group.

"Your lovely scales, your manicure all ruined with that bald spot and without your mustaches," said Rarity.

Before anypony could respond a loud OW! was heard everypony looked over to Rarity who was levitating a scale from the serpent who the cut of her tail and lower main and gave it to Cobalt along with the scale. Cobalt poured the dye on the two pieces of hair and the scale, before giving them to Rarity who put them on the serpent's face and head. The two tails then changed into the color as the rest of the hair on the sea serpent's body.

"Oh, woo hoo, thank you it's wonderful," said the sea serpent.

"Your welcome," responded Rarity.

"Oh, your beautiful tail and mane, Rarity," said Twilight.

"Oh, don't worry short tails and manes are in this season, also they'll grow back," said Rarity.

"So would the hair and mustaches," said Rainbow Dash.

"We can cross now let's go," said Twilight, before the sea serpent lifted her and the group up.

"Allow me," said the serpent.

[Later...]

Our team of heroes arrived at the castle of the two sisters.

"There it is, the Elements of Harmony," said Twilight running forwards.

"Wait for us, Twilight," said Applejack.

"Whoa," said Twilight.

"What's with you and falling off cliffs today?" asked Rainbow Dash.

"Now what?" asked Pinkie.

"Duh," said Rainbow before taking flight.

"Oh, yea," said Pinkie.

Rainbow Dash flew down to get the other end of the bridge. When she got to the other end Cobalt saw more of Nightmare Moon's magic on the ground.

"Rainbow," said a mysterious voice.

"Who's there, I ain't afraid of you show yourself," said Rainbow while in a fighting pose.

"We've been eagerly awaiting the arrival of the best flier in Equestria," said the mysterious voice again, with the surrounding fog getting thicker.

"Who?" asked Rainbow Dash.

"Why you of course," said the voice.

"R-r-realy, I mean oh yeah me," replied Rainbow.

"Do you mind telling the Wonderbolts that?" asked Rainbow, "I been trying to get in that group for like ever."

"No, Rainbow Dash, we want you to join us, the Shadowbolts," said a Pegasus pony wearing a black and purple flight suit with yellow goggles and a lightning bolt design around the neck.

"We're the greatest aerial team in the Everfree forest, and soon in all of Equestria," said the supposed leader of the Shadowbolts.

"But first we need a captain," said the pony.

"Wait aren't you the captain?" asked Rainbow.

Then the pegasus started to name the qualities that the captain needs. When she finished Rainbow Dash jumped up into the air. Remembering that she needs to tie the bridge up as she reaches the rope the rest of the Shadowbolts appeared along with more of Nightmare's magic.

"It's them or us," said the Shadowbolts in unison.

"Rainbow, what's taking so long?" said Twilight.

"Oh no," said Twilight, spotting the three Shadowbolts.

"Cobalt, Rarity, I need your help," said Twilight.

"Ok," said the two.

Nightmare Moon's magic surrounds Rainbow Dash and the fog gets even more thicker. Just then several blasts of magic are shot into the fog. A light blue beam shot the Shadowbolt behind Rainbow Dash, said Shadowbolt suddenly started to shake and burn with purple blood quickly flowing out of the body. A red beam hit the pegasus that had tried to normally get Rainbow to join their team, the Shadowbolt then imploded in on herself. The magenta beam hit the magic around Rainbow and forced it to turn into applesauce.

"Applesauce? Really, Twilight?" said a confused Rainbow Dash, before falling onto her butt.

"Don't listen to them, Rainbow," said Twilight prior to the fog getting even thicker and Rainbow passing out.

[Inside Rainbow Dash's Head...]

Rainbow Dash was sitting in a chair inside of a dark room, with a single lightbulb above the door. Before she could determine her whereabouts a certain dark blue alicorn walked in.

"What do you want with me?!" exclaimed an angry and surprised Rainbow Dash.

"That's no way to talk to your leader," said Nightmare Moon, before she used her magic to make a small cut on Rainbow's cheek which started to leak a little blood.

"Leader?" asked Rainbow.

"Yes your leader, I'm the one who took you in after everypony abandoned you," said Nightmare.

"Nopony abandoned me!" yelled Rainbow.

"If you don't believe me, Rainbow Dash, then look at these pictures and videos," said Nightmare Moon.

As she plays some videos and shows some pictures to the captured pegasus. Said pegasus took note that her wings were tied and her legs were also tied.

"Nightmare Moon!" yelled Rainbow, before continuing "If you took me in, why am I tied up?"

Stopping the magic powered screen the dark blue alicorn untied Rainbow Dash. When she finished she heard Rainbow say something.

"What was that?" asked Nightmare Moon.

"I said; Thank You..." said Rainbow, before she kicked her captor in the legs then in the horn.

"... but I'm loyal to my friends and family who wouldn't abandon me," finished Rainbow Dash.

[In the real world...]

The remaining Shadowbolts dissolved into Nightmare Moon's magic mist when Rainbow awoke. The rest of the team ran up to their dazed friend and helped her up.

"Oh my, are you ok, Rainbow?" said Fluttershy.

"I'm good guys, but we need to stop Nightmare Moon," replied Rainbow.

"She's right," said Cobalt, "We have to stop Nightmare Moon."

"Hey, I was counting the number of trials we went through out of the eight of us only; Spike, Fluttershy, Applejack, Pinkie, Rarity, and Rainbow went through a trial seamlessly solvable by them," said Twilight. "Which means, Cobalt and me, have to be prepared, as well as all of us."

"Let's do it then go, Team Harmony," said Spike.

Everypony looked at the little dragon in confusion. Then decided to carry onwards to the castle. Upon walking into the ancient castle the team of heroes spotted the elements of harmony, Twilight went up to the petrified orbs and started counting.

"1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, ok all are here," said Twilight.

During this Spike took noticed the sixth element.

"Um, Twilight there's six orbs up there," said Spike.

Recounting the orbs, Twilight gave Spike a look that basically said 'Are you ok'.

Without dwelling on the matter Twilight readied her magic in her horn and said "Now for the spark."

When she got ready to release her magic a familiar magic mist appeared and took Twilight, and the orbs. Cobalt noticed the mist and ran towards it.

[Nightmare's throne room...]

The mist brought Twilight and Cobalt a few feet away from Nightmare Moon and the orbs in front of her.

"Thanks for bringing me this gift loyal subjects," said Nightmare Moon.

Twilight charged up a spell and charged at Nightmare Moon who scoffed and charged back. Before their collision, Twilight teleported to the orbs to try and bring the spark. Nightmare Moon noticed and shot a lightning bolt at Twilight. Cobalt grabbed a sword from of the ground and jumped in between the bolt and Twilight. Instead of hitting the sword the bolt struck Cobalt and knocked I'm into the wall behind Twilight...

[Main Room...]

The search for their missing friends continued as they each called out their names. A blue flash appeared from another part of the castle. This flash didn't go unnoticed as Applejack and the remaining team members as well as the captured Celesta saw it.

[Twilight and Cobalt...]

"Pitiful fool," said Nightmare Moon.

Before Twilight could react she was kicked over by Cobalt while Nightmare Moon destroyed orbs. Twilight then heard and say their friends coming up the stairs.

"Cobalt, look," whispered Twilight.

Cobalt saw them and smiled so did Twilight. Nightmare Moon asked them why they are smiling when they are about to be killed, and the elements are no more, Twilight was the one who spoke.

"You didn't destroy the elements of harmony, because they are inside of the eight of us."

"The elements of kindness, Fluttershy, who tamed the manticore with kindness," said Twilight.

Fluttershy was levitated into the air and was surrounded by some shards which were glowing pink.

"The element of honesty, Applejack, who reassured me when I was in doubt," said Twilight.

Applejack was then levitated into the air and surrounded by some orange glowing shards.

"The element of generosity, Rarity, who gave up something she loved for someone else," Twilight said.

Rarity was then in the same position as Applejack and Fluttershy and surrounded by some purple shards.

"The element of loyalty, Rainbow Dash, who didn't give into temptation," said Twilight.

"The element of laughter, Pinkie Pie, who laughed in the face of danger," Twilight said.

Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie were levitated into the air and surrounded by a light blue and pink glowing shards respectively.

"But the spark didn't work," said Nightmare Moon.

"I wasn't done, Cobalt, you showed courage to protect me from harm," finished Twilight.

Cobalt was then levitated into the air and surrounded by bright red glowing shards.

"Also the spark did work, a different kind of spark, the spark of friendship," said Twilight.

Twilight herself was levitated into the air and surrounded by magenta glowing shards.

"Go, Team Harmony!" Spike said.

"You know what?" said Rarity, "That is a good team name,"

The rest of the group cheered in agreement. The group then got enveloped in a multi colored glow. When the glowing died down the group was covered in golden armor and in the middle were their respective elements; Honesty, Kindness, Generosity, Laughter, Loyalty, Courage, and Magic.

"No way, the elements were destroyed!" snapped Nightmare Moon.

"You can never destroy harmony..." started Twilight.

Nightmare Moon let out a war cry and the whole area went dark...

Author's Note

Sorry for the long wait(and the cliffhanger). I got writers block and decided to read some fanfics I haven't gotten around to reading, and now I'm back.

Special; Team Harmony vs Nightmare Moon

When the lights came back on Nightmare Moon was summoning two black steel katanas. Cobalt picked up his sword with his magic and taunted Nightmare to come over to him.

"Foolish, Cobalt, you can't take me on by yourself," said Nightmare Moon as she charged at him.

Cobalt stood still for a moment before dashing at Nightmare Moon, and blocking her katanas. When Cobalt was about to deliver his attack the sword and his element was enveloped in a bright red glow causing everypony and Spike to look in his direction. When the glow died down the sword looked as good as new, the blade now has a normal silver color and the hilt has a bright red orb in the middle.

"That's the sword of the legendary knight, Cobolt," said an curious and surprised Nightmare Moon.

Something then knocked one of Nightmare's katanas out of her magic aura.

"What's your full name, Cobalt?" asked Nightmare Moon.

Confused by this random question Cobalt was about to answer until Rainbow and Applejack both jumped Nightmare Moon.

"What's that to you?" asked Rainbow.

"That's for me to know and you to find out," said Nightmare Moon as she used her magic to push both mares on her.

"My name is Cobalt Star, the element of courage," said Cobalt while he slashed at Nightmare's horn.

"Cobalt Star, of the Star family, I presume?" asked Nightmare Moon as she rolled away.

"How do you know that?" asked Cobalt.

Before Nightmare Moon could respond Twilight spoke.

"The Star family in Canterlot?" asked Twilight.

"Yes, that one!" yelled Nightmare Moon.

Spike then noticed a green glowing set of shards and touched them and was enveloped in its glow. Nightmare Moon saw this and charged at Spike. Rarity and Pinkie stepped in the way of Nightmare Moon, Pinkie pulled out a cannon out of her mane and shot a sticky cake mix at the charging alicorn, whilst Rarity fired off a spell the sent Nightmare Moon flying into Cobalt's sword which glowed its normal color as it cut inbetween her wings and drew some blood.

"Ahhhhhh!" yelled Nightmare as her body was enveloped in a dark blue magic while the cut was glowing in a magic infused blood red color.

When the dark blue magic disappeared Nightmare Moon was standing there in an armor with her cutie mark on the front.

"I WAS GOING TO GO EASY ON YOUR POOR LITTLE TEAM, BUT NOW I'M NOT!" Nightmare Moon darkly and coldly screamed in rage.

Applejack then sprinted full speed and used her left front hoof to punch Nightmare Moon in the face. As soon as Applejack kept backwards towards Cobalt all four of her hoofs and her element started to glow.

"Nightmare storm strike!" called Nightmare Moon as she used her katanas to strike at a unprepared Applejack and Cobalt. The two ponies took a load of hits that appeared to be breaking into their armor. Before Nightmare Moon could land the final hit, a giant ball of fire hit her in the side and exploded upon contact. Everypony looked over at Spike who had fired the fire ball and has a suit of golden armor with a green dragon in the center.

"Another one?!" exclaimed Nightmare Moon.

Twilight then blasted the angry alicorn with a spell that slowed her down. When the glow on Applejack's hoofs died out she had on four gauntlets two of which has orbs the color of her element.

"Help," squeaked Fluttershy.

Everypony was so focused on Applejack's gauntlets that they had forgotten about Fluttershy who was hidden in a corner. When they quickly spun around they saw a horrific, nightmarish sight; Nightmare Moon was in the process of removing her left front hoof with her magic. Fluttershy's hoof was strangely bleeding way too much from a small cut.

"It's an illusion!" said Spike with his eyes glowing orange, "The real Fluttershy is over there, that just a pile of wood, rocks, and a mess of vines."

Nightmare Moon the transformed her katanas into a long sword and threw it at Spike. The dragon dodged the blade, but the bladed hilt had hit him in the back, causing him to fall over screaming and blood was flooding out.

"That sword poisoned blades prevents the blood from stopping naturally," said a smug Nightmare Moon.

Fluttershy ran over to Spike, Cobalt noticed and summoned his discarded bag and gave it to Fluttershy. Taking the bag she went into doctor mode while holding some bandage in her wings she started to glow. Everypony aside from Fluttershy ran up to Nightmare Moon and started to unleash waves upon waves of attacks.

"Nova Star Storm!" Cobalt called out as his sword glowed in color similar to a super nova and drew a star in front of himself then dashed at Nightmare Moon cutting into her armor.

"Nuclear Punch!" called Applejack as she punched Nightmare Moon in the face. Further breaking into her armor and creating a loud SNAP in her face. Rainbow Dash was about to tackle their opponent at full speed until her wings and tail started to shine along side her element.

[Spike and Fluttershy...]

When the glow started to leave Fluttershy's view the bandage was imbedded within her armor and hung over the edge of her tail and wing tips. Speaking of wing tips, Fluttershy's were glowing a soft pink color and Spike's wound. As the battle waged on Spike's whole body was glowing and so was his element, instead of giving him a weapon or special ability, Spike grew taller up to Fluttershy's hight, his scales remained the same color he sprouted purple wings with the inside the same color as his stomach and two white horns also with longer and sharper claws and several spines along his back.

"Whoa, what happened?" asked Spike.

Realizing that it's still Spike inside Fluttershy decided to explain what happened. After the explanation Spike eyes started to turn green and his claws started to be surrounded by energy.

[In The Fight...]

When the glow surrounding Rainbow Dash finished its course Rainbow's armor had tanked up in appearance, but still allowed her to continue full speed. The impact with Nightmare Moon sent her flying back into another wall. Nightmare Moon came out of the wall smirking at Team Harmony.

"What's the smirk for?" asked Rainbow Dash.

"This one, its for this attack," said Nightmare Moon.

"Nightmare Blood Destruction!" the alicorn called out, causing all the blood around her body and on her armor to surround her body and swirl around her and become a solid blood ball above Nightmare Moon.

While preparing to launch the ball at the team of heroes and heroines. Spike jumped in the large party cannon Pinkie was pulling out and asked if she would launch him. When Nightmare Moon fired the ball, using the cannon he was launched in front of the ball and thrust both of them into the ball which caused it to skyrocket upwards where it to explode above the castle. Everypony was speechless while Rarity gave his the magical energy recovery emerald in a compartment in her armor when everypony got over their shock. The emerald glowed the same color as her element and split its self into two, the one Rarity got transformed into a cannon and unlocked a compartment on her back where it slid into. While the hysterically laughing Pinkie Pie started to glow entirely, and where an unicorn's horn would be was a orb with a balloon imprinted in it.

"Solar Slash!" called out Cobalt as his sword charged up and he dashed at Nightmare Moon, but she blocked the sword with her armored wings.

"Exploding Party Poppers!" Pinkie excitedly called out.

Pinkie's forehead orb projected a pure pink party popper at Nightmare Moon who tried to block the popper, but ended up flying into another wall. Twilight then shot a powerful stun spell at Nightmare Moon which kept her in place. The last member of Team Harmony; Twilight finally started to glow. Unlike the others you could see Twilight's armor transformation. Some magic from Twilight's horn flowed out and surrounded her while forming a staff with an large orb on top, all the while her eyes were glowing white and flowing with magic.

"Not another one!" screamed Nightmare Moon.

"Diamond Cannon!" called out Rarity, as the cannon on her back appeared and shot a large diamond at Nightmare Moon.

The previously distracted alicorn was then knocked into another room. When she emerged her armor was completely destroyed and she was surrounded by her own magic, weapons, outdated machines, and a unusual element shard.

"I call upon the power of Nightmares, and their creators. Grant me the ultimate power; Hyper Nightmare!" chanted Nightmare Moon.

When she was finished with her chanting, the objects surrounding Nightmare Moon bonded with each other in a makeshift battle suit.

"NOW BEHOLD MY TRUE BATTLE FORM!" yelled Nightmare Moon.

Nightmare Moon was wearing mech like armor. Her body was covered in a metal the same color as her previous armor, the wings had blades on the ends, her horn was underneath a magic enhancer, along the back of the armor were weapons made from other weapon parts, a sort of launcher on her tail, and her legs were covered in spikes.

"Oh my, your battling attire is absolutely horrid," said Rarity.

Everypony looked at her confused, While Spike gave her a look which basically said 'This isn't the right time for that'.

"Nightmare rockets!" called out the battle armor equipped Nightmare Moon.

Eight rockets were blasted from her tail launcher. Team Harmony scattered in hopes of losing the rockets ultimately Twilight had to summon a shield to protect the rest of the team.

"Final Battle!" Nightmare Moon called.

The whole room were turning pure black and fading away. Suddenly a eye opened up in the middle of the leftover room, however the eye fired off a beam at the group, Cobalt saw a shield and jumped over to it and tossed the shield at Spike. Upon catch the shield and blocking the ray the shield instantly turned into dust. Unfortunately the ray also hit Spike causing him to fall through the ground. Rainbow Dash flew towards Spike and brought him back to safety.

"Thanks for the save, Rainbow," said Spike.

"It was no problem for me," responded Rainbow Dash.

"Hey girls, Spike!" called Cobalt, "A little help down here."

"Oh, sorry, Cobalt," said Rainbow.

"Rainbow Dash, let me try something?" asked Twilight.

"Ok, Twi," answered Rainbow.

"Cancellation Zone!" called out Twilight as her staff glowed a light purple color and Nightmare Moon's spell was cancelled.

Nightmare Moon then tried to ram Twilight with her body, but Spike sent her flying towards Cobalt who knocked Nightmare with his blade to Applejack who used her gauntlets to send her to Pinkie which ended with her getting popped by poppers and flown to Rarity and ended up being shot by a diamond this sent Nightmare Moon towards Fluttershy who naturally moved out of the way, with Rainbow Dash tackling the alicorn into the wall. Causing the whole entire wall to crash down onto Nightmare Moon.

"Anti-Matter Bomb!" cried Nightmare Moon when she emerged from the rubble.

Nightmare Moon then summoned a large, solid, dark blue sphere.

"This will destroy everything and everypony in Equestria from Canterlot in ten minutes. It can't be deactivated unless I'm defeated, or set free," said Nightmare Moon before collapsing.

Cobalt then ran to his bag and pulled out an unicorn energy drink, pegasus energy drink, and a normal energy drink. Which he proceeded to mix together.

"Um, Cobalt, dear why do you need that?" asked Rarity.

"You'll see," responded Cobalt.

Cobalt walked past the girls and Spike up to the unconscious Nightmare Moon and poured some of the drink into her mouth. Nightmare Moon quickly recovered, but something was off about her.

"Where am we," asked Nightmare Moon in a different voice.

Everypony and Spike were shocked and confused as well as on guard.

"Are you okay, Nightmare Moon?" asked Cobalt.

"Who is this,'Nightmare Moon' you speak of?" said 'Nightmare Moon' "My name is, Luna, Princess Luna."

"Princess Luna?" asked Cobalt, "Twi, any ideas?"

Instead of Twilight answering somepony else did.

"Princess Luna is or was my little sister," said somepony.

Instantly Twilight and Spike recognized the voice.

"Princess Celesta?" both Spike and Twilight said.

However the reunion was short lived as Luna was growling and rolling around in pain. As her body turned back into Nightmare Moon.

"Ah!, I see somepony was reacquainted and set themselves free," said Nightmare Moon.

"Even though I no longer have an spritual connection with the elements, I have a physical connection with them," said Princess Celesta.

The bomb placed by Nightmare Moon about nine minutes ago only had one minute before it teleports and explodes.

"Well, I see that I'm still standing here..." said Nightmare Moon before she caught Celesta telling Team Harmony the spell she had used to send her away.

"Not now!" screamed Nightmare Moon.

"The elements of harmony act as one; Magic, Laughter, Courage, Honesty, Loyalty, Generosity, Kindness, and Knowledge, united as one stands against evil, as a powerful magic," said Twilight as the ground began to shake and Team Harmony was levitated of the ground.

"That magic is the Magic of Friendship!" said the entirety of Team Harmony.

All members of Team Harmony eyes were beginning to glow a rainbow of colors; Lavender, Pink, Orange, White, Cyan, Yellow, Green, and Dark Gray, as a sphere of the same colors formed over their heart shaped hug with Twilight in the middle, Spike to her left, Rarity to her right, Pinkie above Spike, Rainbow above Rarity, Applejack below Spike, with Fluttershy below Rarity, and Cobalt below Twilight. As the beam of magic hit Nightmare Moon she cried out in pain as she was being separated from her host and being sent back to the Moon. Leaving nothing behind aside from her armor, eight devices, and a note.

Dear Celesta and Elements of Harmony,

If you are seeing this letter that means I didn't survive the separators process from the elements. But in my place I leave behind eight fragments of myself in eight devices for the element bearers. Even though Nightmare Moon is gone she may and can return. The devices will allow the harmony armor to be stored and repaired. I didn't come up with a suitable name for them, but I am pretty sure somepony can. I'm sorry for not being honest with you Celesta about my emotional issues and I hope that you forgive me.

Your sister and princess, Luna,

"Princess Luna, she sacrificed herself for the greater good of Equestria, and left behind these," said Twilight pointing at the devices.

Suddenly the devices sprang to life and bonded with Twilight and her friends. Each one was a different color. The ponies of Team Harmony's colors were the same as their fur, while Spike's were the same as his scales.

[After Intoductions...]

"Wait, don't we have a party to get to?" said Pinkie.

"Oh my, your right, Pinkie Pie," said Princess Celesta as she teleported Team Harmony and herself to Ponyville.

As soon as they appeared all the ponies surrounded the group. The celebration went on as scheduled and ended with Celesta lowering the Moon and raise the Sun. Now the after party had begun, there was music playing and ponies dancing. Everypony was having the most fun time they have all day. Twilight then spotted Cobalt over at the snack table and went over to talk to him.

"Cobalt, hey," said Twilight.

"Hey, Twilight," responded Cobalt.

"I... um... I want to thank you for protecting me from Nightmare Moon's bolt," Twilight said clumsy.

"Twilight, that what friends are f..." Cobalt was cut off when Twilight gave him a small peck on his cheek.

This left Cobalt stunned, and Twilight walked away giggling. While the both of them were blushing. When the two walked up to Princess Celesta, Cobalt recalled what Nightmare Moon had said during their battle.

"Princess Celesta," said Cobalt bowing.

"Please rise, and you are the rest of Team Harmony can call me Celesta and you don't have to bow," said Celesta.

"Ok," said Cobalt rising, "Nightmare Moon asked me what my full name is, when I got the sword of courage, do you know anything about that and my family history?"

"The only thing I was told to say to a member of the Star family is the legendary knight, Cobolt, was your ancestor," said Celesta.

"Wait the legendary knight was related to Cobalt?!" asked Twilight.

"Yes, and he wanted me to give you this scroll," responded Celesta.

When summoning the scroll the device on Twilight's wrist activated and the scroll was scanned into the devices.

"Ahh!" yelled Twilight, "Where did the scroll go?"

"Twilight, calm down, its in the device," reasoned Cobalt.

"Oh, sorry about freaking out," said Twilight.

Suddenly Cobalt's device activated and a image of Luna appeared above the screen.

"Luna?" asked Celesta.

"No and yes, sister, while I'm Luna, I am not at the same time," responded Luna.

"Think I have the perfect name for these devices; Celestial Harmony Watch or the CHW," said Cobalt.

"We agree," said Luna.

Everypony looked at the holographic Luna as she spoke in a thousand years old way.

"Why is thou looking at I like that?" asked Luna.

"Luna, nopony speaks like that any more," said Celesta.

"Oh, I will wait until a language is chosen," Luna said before flashing off and then flashing the scroll up.

Cobalt looked at everypony and Spike as they encouraged him to read the now digital scroll. Cobalt tapped on the scroll and it opened. Instead of words there was a bunch of random lines on it.

Upon looking at the markings Cobalt eyes glowed white and then went back to their normal blue color.

"I have a rough idea on what the markings are but I'll need to head back to Canterlot," said Cobalt.

"I'll keep that in mind, now Twilight are you returning back to your normal studies or if you want you can remain here in Ponyville?" asked Celesta.

"Actually, I would like to remain here, with my friends and learned more about the magic of friendship," responded Twilight.

"Ok, I hereby decree that my student Twilight Sparkle and Spike are now full time residents here in Ponyville," said Celesta.

Everypony from Ponyville cheered as they now have a new friend and librarian.

'This is the start of a new adventure' thought Cobalt.

Author's Note

Here you go readers. That concludes the first story arc. The side chapters are gonna be based off the episodes of the show from season one. See y'all later.

Interlude One; Vist to Canterlot and a Ninth Element

[Sunday, July 19...]

Cobalt was outside of Twilight's library house waiting on said mare.

'I thought she said she was gonna be all set to go by 12' thought Cobalt looking at his Celestial Harmony Watch or CHW. Then a radar showed up with the image of a trio of apples.

Right then Applejack slowed down from her run and walked up to Cobalt.

"Hey... there..., Cobalt," said Applejack clearly out of breath.

"Hey there yourself, Applejack," said Cobalt before continuing, "Whats the rush?"

"I need to see you before you left," replied Applejack.

"What for?" asked Cobalt.

Suddenly the door opened and out stepped Twilight and Spike. Twilight had her bag on her back, with the entire bag filled with paper and quills. While the older looking Spike was wrapped up in a blanket. His normally purple scales were now a bright green color and he had a thermometer in his mouth.

"Applejack?" asked Twilight, "What are you doing here?"

"I was about to ask, Cobalt if he could fix my cart," responded Applejack.

Spike then let out a sneeze which in turn shot out a spark of blue flames.

"I could take care of, Spike for you until y'all get back," said Applejack.

Taking careful consideration and some reassurance from Cobalt, Twilight gave Applejack the keys to the house and used a fire proof spell on the house.

"Thank you, I'll have him cured by the time y'all come back," said Applejack.

With that the unicorn duo walked towards the train station. Leaving Applejack to take care of a sick Spike. Spike in turn was messing around with his purple CHW and somehow called Applejack.

"How did you do that?" asked Applejack.

"All I did was press the button right here and tapped your name," answered Spike showing her what he did."

[Twilight and Cobalt...]

After Cobalt got the two their tickets each were 180 bits in total. The two settled down in the private car of the train. The two ordered some hay burgers and a small soda. The two were setting in total silence and every now and then they would quickly look at each other and turned away blushing. Cobalt then broke the silence.

"So... Um... What did you do after the party last week?" asked Cobalt.

"Um... I... I studied the Celestial Harmony Watch and drew up the design and internal workings of the watches," replied Twilight.

"So... I thought that you would need help building a main source to be able to store any more information from Luna and Celestia," said Cobalt.

"We should," said Twilight before asking, "But where are we going to put in?"

"I'll deal with that," said Cobalt.

Suddenly the train car door was blasted open and a dragon walked towards the two, the dragon was carrying a large bag which was full of possibly the other passengers valuables. Cobalt then sprang into a defensive stance.

"Hand over your valuables or pay the price!" said the dragon.

"Why should we?!" asked Cobalt.

"Because of this!" yelled the dragon as he shot a fire ball at Cobalt.

This produced a cloud of smoke around Cobalt, then Twilight burst out laughing. All this caused was confuse the dragon thief.

"What are you laughing about?" asking the dragon.

"She's laughing about this," said Cobalt.

Cobalt then appeared behind the dragon in his harmony armor.

"Wait your a member of that team of heroes," said the dragon.

Turning back to Twilight who also was in her harmony armor, the dragon tried to run but couldn't as he was frozen by Twilight's immobilizing spell. Suddenly Luna appeared on Twilight's CHW.

"Twilight, you can't harm this dragon!" said Luna.

"Why not?" asked Twilight.

"Hey girls look at what I found," said Cobalt levitating a small sphere with a unknown gas.

Luna scanned the sphere and had a horrified look on her face.

"This is filled with the memory altering gas; Xenon gas," said Luna.

"Then that means nopony knows he's here legally," said Twilight.

"We wouldn't want to start a war between Equestria and the dragon lands," said Cobalt.

This caused the dragon thief to smirk. As the train was surrounded by fire.

"Well, there's my ride," said the dragon, "Oh, y'all can call me, Blaze."

"Well that was interesting," said Luna before she left.

"We have to put out the fire around the train," said Cobalt.

Twilight then fired off a huge fixing spell while Cobalt used a return spell to return the stolen items back to their owners. After that the train went back on its way.

"Woo, that was exciting wasn't it?" said Cobalt sounding a little bit like Applejack.

"Cobalt," said a giggling Twilight.

"Oh, hey, Twilight," said 'Cobalt' still doing an 'Applejack' impression.

"Um... Is that you in there, Applejack?" asked Twilight.

"Yes, somehow I got in here sugarcube," said the simi possessed Cobalt.

'How did you manage to get inside of my mind?'asked Cobalt telepathically.

'I don't know myself?' answered Applejack telepathically.

Suddenly the mental bond between Applejack and Cobalt caused one of Cobalt's eyes to look like Applejack and the opposite was true for the other. This caused Luna to appear from Twilight's CHW.

"I see that somepony found the mind bond," said Luna, "Press the red button on the side."

"Thanks, Luna?" said Applejack and Cobalt.

[Applejack and Spike...]

After the mind bond incident, Applejack was cooking some of her family's famous soup; Apple Herb Soup, with some gems that she read in one of the books on the library's shelf, which helps a dragon recover.

"How you holding up in there, Spike?" asked Applejack.

"Not so well," answered Spike.

"The soup is almost ready," Applejack said.

"Thanks," replied Spike sneezing again and producing more fire.

'I hope that Twilight and Cobalt will be back soon' thought Applejack.

[Twilight and Cobalt...]

As the two got off the train they saw two members of the royal guard one was a unicorn and the other was a pegasus and another unicorn pony. The two walked up to the group of three ponies, and as they got closer Cobalt recognized the third pony.

"Hey, Dawn," said Cobalt as he ran towards his twin sister giving her a hoof bump.

Dawn has light blue fur, purple eyes, her mane and tail is light orange with a zigzag bright blue line down the middle, and her cutie mark is a brown magnifying glass with a scroll and a brown question mark on the left and right respectively, Dawn was also wearing a golden amulet with half a ruby and sapphire gems in the center.

"Mr. and Ms. Star, Ms. Sparkle," said the pegasus guard, "Princess Celesta wanted us to escort y'all to the castle."

"Yes sir," the trio said in unison.

As the group went on their way, Cobalt decided to allow his sister and Twilight to do some introductions. Suddenly the unicorn guard stopped and looked around at the rooftops of the buildings.

"Hey, you ok, um..." said Cobalt.

"Max," said the unicorn guard now known as Max.

"Cobalt," said Cobalt.

"I'm ok, just thought I saw something," said Max.

"Okay," said Cobalt walking back to Dawn and Twilight.

[In the throne room...]

As the guards opened the door for Cobalt, Twilight, and Dawn to enter, Celesta was sitting behind a desk writing a message to somepony. When she was finished she turned to speak to her guests.

"It's finally nice to see you two again and to meet the representative from the Star family who isn't a element bearer," said Celesta.

"Thanks, Celesta," said Dawn.

"Wait, Celesta, there was this dragon thief named Blaze that Cobalt and me ran into," said Twilight.

"I'll look into that," said Celesta before continued, "These will allow you to enter the Cobolt wing of the castle without me."

As Celesta levitated the three passports to the three unicorns. Suddenly the door burst opened and the said dragon thief walked in.

"What are you doing here?" asked Cobalt.

"Do you have a passport?" asked Celesta.

"No..." said Blaze.

"Then go back home," Celesta said sternly.

Blaze raised his arms and opened his hands to reveal a scroll with the seal of a sword, and a small flame. Everypony in the room was paralyzed with fear.

"What do you want?" asked Dawn.

"I want to get some payback from earlier," said Blaze.

"You're the one who tried to kill me!" screamed Cobalt.

Suddenly Blaze shot the flame at Cobalt, only for the armor of harmony to activate. Then Blaze charged at Cobolt with his claws on fire. Cobalt stood there smiling and when Blaze was about to jab at Cobalt, said unicorn used a portal spell, which teleported Blaze to the crystal caves under Canterlot.

"The remaining crystals down there are indestructible, right?" asked Dawn.

"Yes, they are," said Celesta.

"We're going to the Cobolt wing!" cheered Twilight.

[Twilight's House...]

Spike's scale glow was gone and he was flying around Ponyville. Rainbow Dash saw him and flew over.

"Hey, Spike," said Rainbow.

"Hey, you're wondering why I'm instantly better?" asked Spike.

"Yea, how is that?" responded Rainbow.

"I made my family's famous soup with some gems," answered Applejack.

Out of nowhere a lightning bolt almost struck Spike. The two ponies and Spike turned around to see a white dragon with black scales in a lightning bolt pattern. Spike and the dragon had a stare down that lasted for a moment.

"AJ, Rainbow, let me handle this one," said Spike.

"Ok, but if it starts to look bad, we're jumping in," said Rainbow.

Spike activated his harmony armor and waited for his opponent to make the first move, while charging up his energy claws.

"I see you wanted to take me on in a one on one battle, traitor hatchling!" said the dragon.

"Traitor?" asked Spike confused before continuing, "How am I a traitor?"

"The dragon lord's tracking sickness worked, and he sent me, Bolt," said the dragon now known as Bolt.

Bolt then blasted Spike with a ball of lightning, but using his claws, Spike managed to knock Bolt back and into the Everfree Forest. He signaled his to team mates to get the others. Then went after Bolt.

[Cobolt Wing...]

Cobalt used the map he picked up to get to the training hall. Along with his sister and Twilight. When they entered the training hall, Twilight was bouncing around reading and taking notes on the information on the informal scroll. When walking near a wall, Dawn's amulet gems were glowing. The wall had a life size Cobolt figure with a replica of the harmony sword on it. Dawn walked towards the wall and lightly touched the figure, which blasted her into her brother. Upon contact with the element of courage, Dawn was levitated into the air and her amulet's gems spun around her some of the magic from the elements of harmony went into each of the gems. When Dawn was brought back to the ground, she was wearing armor similar to the harmony armor and ninja armor, instead of it being completely gold or black it armor was black around her mouth and eyes, golden around her hind and front hoofs and a dark golden color over the rest of her body. Her amulet was separated into two parts one with the sapphire and the other with the ruby.

"Dawn?" asked Cobalt.

"What happened?" asked Twilight.

"I don't know all I did was go near that wall and touched the figurine," answered Dawn.

Luna then appeared on the scene, while Celesta walked in.

"Another element or knight?" asked Luna.

"I didn't mention the fact that there were another two elements other than the seven," said Celesta, "Spike has the elements of knowledge and companionship."

[Everfree Forest...]

Spike suddenly started to glow green then the light separated into blue and yellow, and the yellow glow flew off, returning Spike back to normal.

"Well, that's strange." said Bolt.

"Inferno Rush!" called out Spike, catching Bolt off guard and attacking him with high speed, power, and fire.

"Nice try," said Bolt.

"10,000 Volt Sphere!" Bolt countered.

Spike leapt away from Bolt and got into a defensive stance and braced the sphere of electricity. The sphere knocked Spike back some more. Spike then dodged a lightning bolt and countered with a stream of fire. Suddenly the fire from Spike's mouth and formed into a spear.

"Let's take this to the next level," said Bolt as he summoned a lightning rod with lightning bolts on the ends.

"Let's do it," said Spike.

The two charged at each other and locked blades. Spike saw a button his weapon and it changed into a crossbow with a blade on the bottom. As Bolt slashed down, Spike rolled out of the way and fired of a bright orange arrow which hit Bolt straight in the chest and left a huge burn mark on his scales. Spike smirked at this and avoided the lightning stream while preforming a charged arrow.

"I'm going to get you!" screamed Bolt as the charged arrow completely burnt his chest and was sent flying.

"Awesome!" yelled Rainbow.

"Spike, you were amazing!" exclaimed Pinkie.

"Thanks," said Fluttershy.

"Woo hoo, way to show him how it's done!" exclaimed Applejack.

"You showed that ruffian," said Rarity.

"Aw, it was nothing," said Spike, "Lets head back to Ponyville."

As the other members of Team Harmony went to Sugarcube Corner, they were being watched by a small cloud of magic mist, familiar magic mist.

"I should watch over these ponies and that dragon," said the mist.

[Cobolt Wing...]

Dawn suddenly got hit with a yellow glow as she completed the harmony process.

"Now you are an element of harmony; The element of knowledge," said Celesta.

"Thank you," said Dawn.

As the group got near Cobolt's library, Twilight went ballistic. She was carefully reading through the books and writing down notes.

"Is she always like this?" asked Dawn.

"Always," said Celesta and Cobalt at the same time.

"Twilight you do know that everything in this wing has a protection spell and perseverance enchantment on it," said Celesta.

Without giving an answer, Twilight started to read quicker, along with taking notes. Cobalt and Dawn thought that somepony called their names and went to investigate.

"Cobolt, Dawn," said the voice.

"Over here," said Dawn.

The two twins were standing at a wall with a cabinet that was made from a metal that repels magic, too heavy for an earth pony to lift and could withstand any kind of weather. It also had a five pointed star key lock, a familiar Star key lock.

"Bro still got your star shard?" asked Dawn.

"Never leave without it," said Cobolt pulling in out from inside the CHW top.

The two star shards that were in Cobalt's and Dawn's magic were red and blue respectively. The twins then noticed that the shards were a different shape. They quickly found the slots for their shards and placed them in their places.

"That's two down three more to go," said Dawn.

[Several Hours Later...]

Twilight was reading one of her notes, while Cobalt was chatting with his sister, Dawn. After the discovery of the star cabinet and speaking with their parents, Dawn had decided to go Ponyville with her brother and Twilight. They also got a call from Rainbow about a dragon who had the power of lightning, and also tried to kill Spike.

"Do you think?" started Cobalt.

[Ponyville Train Station...]

Upon arriving at the station dock the two members of Team Harmony and Dawn got off their train and spotted the rest of Team Harmony.

"Hey girls and Spike, this is my sister, Dawn..." Cobalt said before he was cut off.

"Dawn Star?!" squealed Rarity, "As in the famous detective of Equestria?"

"Yes, that's me," said Dawn.

"Oh, sorry, I am Rarity," said Rarity.

"I'm Applejack," said Applejack.

"I am Pinkie Pie, that's Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and Spike," said Pinkie as she pointed to all of them.

"Also we have something to show y'all," said Cobalt.

Dawn concentrated on dawning her armor and in a small flash of light she was in her harmony armor with a yellow magnifying glass with a black outline.

"Another element?" asked Fluttershy.

"I thought there was only eight?" asked Rarity.

"There is nine in total; Magic, Kindness, Generosity, Honesty, Loyalty, Laughter, Courage, Knowledge, and Companionship," answered Twilight.

[Later...]

Twilight was over at Cobalt's and Dawn's shared house, which was a normal two story house, but instead made out of wood, stone, and harden clay. KNOCK KNOCK! When the door opened, the one who answered it was, Dawn.

"Hi, Twilight," said Dawn, "What brings you here?"

"Is Cobalt home?" asked Twilight.

"He's in the shower, but you can come inside," responded Dawn.

"I can't, I am working on something at my house," Twilight said, "But tomorrow can both of you come over and bring any tools y'all have."

"Ok," said Dawn as Twilight teleported back home.

When she teleported inside she knocked over her bag and a scroll with the sword seal, the notes on the markings, with Celesta's approval mark stamped on both, fell out.

"Oh, no!" exclaimed Twilight, "I forgot about those papers, well I'll hand them over tomorrow."

As the inhabitants of Equestria went to bed and Digital Luna was patrolling the dream realm with the technology of the present day a magic mist stayed in the shadows undetected.

'Soon, I WILL return' thought the mist.

Author's Note

Every interlude is going to be about finding something new about the elements of harmony, the Celestial Harmony Watches, or the knight Cobolt.

Episode One: The Ticket Master

[The Next Day...]

Team Harmony's members were at Twilight's house talking and discussing matters of the Celestial Harmony Watch's hub, the scrolls and individual matters.

"Well, I have to get back to the farm, gotta farm those apples," said Applejack as she left.

"I have about 20 orders to finish at the boutique, see y'all later," said Rarity leaving.

"I have to go to back to Canterlot for work," Dawn said as she teleported to her house in Canterlot.

"Its feeding time, bye," said Fluttershy as she walked home.

"I'm going to be practicing my stunts," said Rainbow as she flew out of an open window.

"I got to go to my shift," said Pinkie as she somehow walked into the closet and disappeared.

"How does she do that?" asked Twilight.

"We don't even know," replied Cobalt, "Hey where's, Spike?"

"He didn't want to come to this meeting and went training," answered Twilight.

"Ok," said Cobalt.

"Oh, wait, I forgot to present this during the meeting," Twilight said as she pulled out the scrolls.

Twilight gave the scroll with the seal to Cobalt first and told him to read it.

To the next bearer of the element of courage,

If you're a descendent of mine then you already may be a element bearer. This letter is a key to the map for the Star family star shard keys. If you found or have any of the shards you may not have any trouble. But on to important matters, the five star key shards are five different colors; Red, Blue, Yellow, Green, and Orange. Also they are different shapes at the base.

"So those were keys or part of one," said Cobalt.

"What was?" asked Twilight, "Those star points your sister said the both have?"

"Yep," answered Cobalt.

"Here," Twilight said as she levitated the notes.

After reading, referencing, and Luna printing a physical copy of the markings, until the two unicorns received a call from Applejack asking if they could help her and her brother; Big Macintosh or more commonly known as Big Mac.

[Later...]

Twilight was taking the last three baskets of apples along with Applejack, Big Mac, and Spike who flew in two hours ago when Cobalt left for work, over to the barn.

"Too small..., too rotten..., too wormy...," said Spike as he was looking through his basket.

"Thanks again for the help, Twi and Spike," said Applejack.

"No problem," responded Twilight.

"Perfect!" Spike exclaimed as he pulled out a large, bright red, juicy apple.

Twilight then levitated the apple away from Spike, and put the apple in her basket.

"Come on, Twi," said Spike sadly, "I haven't ate since breakfast."

Before she could answer her stomach growled and opposed what she would have said. Suddenly Spike burped up a letter from Celesta.

Dear my most faithful student,

I invite you and one other to the Grand Galloping Gala, on the twenty-first day of the third solar month. The G.G.G will be held this year in the Canterlot Castle, I hope to see you and your guest there.

Celesta.

"The Grand Galloping Gala?!" screamed Twilight.

"Did you say the Grand Galloping Gala?" asked Applejack, "If I could go there, I could drum up a lot of bits for the farm, and we can fix that saggy old roof, the saggy old plow, and the saggy old hip for granny."

"Eeyup," said Big Mac.

"I wouldn't want to be near all that girly stuff and rude upper class of Canterlot," said Spike.

"I can catch up with Princess Celesta," said Twilight.

"I could dance with my prince; Prince Blueblood," said Rarity.

All of a sudden, Spike started to gag.

"Spike, if you can't handle it you can just go," said Applejack.

"Wait," Spike said as he coughed up two G.G.G invite tickets.

"So, Twilight which one of us are you taking to the Grand Galloping Gala?" asked Applejack and Rarity.

Out of nowhere, Rainbow Dash crashed into the ground a few feet away from the group.

"Twilight, can I be your plus one?!" Rainbow asked excitedly.

"Why do you want to go?" asked Twilight.

"I want to go so I can meet and show the Wonderbolts what I can do," responded Rainbow.

Walking the rest of the way towards the barn, Twilight was bombarded with reasons from her friends.

"Quiet!" yelled Big Mac.

Everypony and Spike was shocked due to the fact that, Big Mac didn't talk much. As soon as the group were done and Big Mac left, Twilight and Spike teleported into Ponyville for lunch. While walking through the market they bumped into Fluttershy and Pinkie. The collision caused the tickets to land on the mussels of the other two elements. Pinkie saw the ticket that landed on her face and started singing.

Oh the Grand Galloping Gala is the best place for me

Oh the Grand Galloping Gala is the best place for me

Hip hip

Hooray!

It's the best place for me

For Pinkie...

"With decorations like streamers and fairy-lights and pinwheels and piñatas and pin-cushions. With goodies like sugar cubes and sugar canes and sundaes and sun-beams and sarsaparilla. And I get to play my favorite-est of favorite fantabulous games like Pin the Tail on the Pony!" said Pinkie.

Oh the Grand Galloping Gala is the best place for me

Oh the Grand Galloping Gala is the best place for me

'Cause it's the most galarrific superly-terrific gala ever

In the whole galaxy

Wheee!!

When Pinkie was finished she asked if she could be her plus one. Twilight then turned to Fluttershy and her pet bunny; Angel.

"Here you go, I don't want to go to the G.G.G," said Fluttershy.

"You don't?" asked Twilight.

"Well not to the gala itself, but to the gardens that are open," said Fluttershy before she listed the types of animals that will be there.

Suddenly Rainbow Dash, Applejack, and Rarity appeared and started to make matters worse. Using the commotion as cover to escape and get lunch, Twilight and Spike made a run for it.

[Ponyville Cafe...]

Twilight and Spike were seated at an outside table, waiting for the waiter to arrive.

"Oh, what am I going to do, Spike?" asked Twilight.

"I don't know, Twi," responded Spike.

"May I take your order madam?" asked the waiter who is a earth pony stallion.

"I would like a dasiy sandwich," answered Twilight.

"Do you serve rubies?" Spike asked, this resulted in getting a strange look from the waiter, "Hayfries; extra crispy."

A little while later, the waiter came back with their order, when they got the lunch, the other ponies at the cafe rushed inside.

"Excuse me, but are you gonna eat in the rain?" asked the waiter.

"Its not raini..., Rainbow!" Twilight said looking up.

"Hello, my greatest, best friend ever, I thought I would prevent the rain from ruining your lunch," said Rainbow Dash, "I would do so for everypony."

"Oh really?" asked Twilight looking at a soaked Spike.

"Ahh!" Rainbow screamed when Spike shot a large fireball at her.

"Unwanted favors aren't helping ether of us, bye," said Twilight.

Rainbow somehow managed to close the clouds with a ZIP sound. The action left Twilight covered in water.

"Hey, what are y'all doing in a downpour like this?" asked Cobalt using his magic to levitate an umbrella.

"Not you too," said Twilight.

Cobalt walked towards Spike who explained what happened.

"Well, how about y'all come over to my house for lunch?" asked Cobalt.

"We might as well," responded Twilight.

[Cobalt's House...]

Twilight, Spike, and Cobalt were having lunch at Cobalt's house, which was custom built. The house is two stories tall, made from reinforced stone, and had some of the latest technology. Such as a TV which is large enough to cover the central part of the wall, a three screen monitor computer, and a Hoofendo 69, along with normal furniture. The group was eating take-outs from the bowling part, the meal consisted of two heyburgers, large heyfries, and a medium soda.

"Thanks for letting us hanging out here, Cobalt," said Twilight.

"Your welcome," responded Cobalt.

"Hey, Cobalt!" called Spike.

"Yea," answered Cobalt.

"Why do you have the Hoofendo 65 system?" asked Spike.

"Spike, don't be rude," scolded Twilight.

"I don't mind, but the reason I have a older system is because they were given to me for my 12th birthday, even though the system was discontinued before I was born," said Cobalt.

"Oh, ok," said Spike as he started to play Super Stallion 65.

[Six Hours Later...]

Twilight, Spike, and Cobalt walked back to the shared house of Twilight and Spike, only to find Fluttershy cleaning up the library.

"What are you doing?" Twilight asked.

"I'm just doing some spring cleaning," Fluttershy responded.

"Its the middle of Summer," said Cobalt.

Unable to counter, Fluttershy let out a small SQUEE. As Twilight was about to lead Fluttershy out a pair of hoofs grabbed her as Pinkie started to sing.

Twilight is my bestest friend

Whoopie, whoopie!

"Pinkie..." Twilight said.

She's the cutest, smartest, all around best pony, pony!

"Pinkie," said Twilight again.

I bet if I throw a super-duper fun party, party!

"Pinkie!" Twilight yelled.

She'll give her extra ticket to the Gala to me!

"PIIINKIIIE!!" screamed Twilight causing the other ponies to flee.

After recovering from her fall, and telling Pinkie about how the others ether were subtle or in the case of Spike and Cobalt didn't care. Pinkie loudly told the entirety of Ponyville about Twilight's extra ticket. The group of ponies started chasing the two unicorns and the dragon. After a series of hiding places, Twilight charged up a teleportation and a flash spell to take her home.

"Quickly, put the house on lockdown," Twilight said before she blew out the lantern outside.

"Hello," said a pony that shouldn't be inside.

"Rarity?!" exclaimed Twilight.

Rarity then disappeared and reappeared next to Twilight with a portable privacy wall and dragged Twilight next to her. All that could be heard was the protests from Twilight. After awhile Twilight emerged wearing a dress which was dark blue with several stars. Spike then mockingly gags and Rarity dashes up to him, levitating the wall. Upon seeing the wall, Spike tried to fly away. Unfortunately for the young dragon, he was grabbed by Rarity's light blue magic aura and was forced into some clothes. He emerged wearing a tuxedo and a spiky green wig.

"Now for you," Rarity said to Cobalt.

Cobalt then ran away and teleported everywhere trying to escape from the privacy wall carrying mare. As Rarity was about to yank Cobalt towards her, another pony who wasn't supposed to be inside spoke up.

"Rarity, stop!" yelled Applejack.

"How did the both of y'all get in here?!" asked a near yelling Twilight.

"Um, there's the three of us," said another unwanted pony.

Twilight then turned on the lights by the shadowy area. Standing there were; Rainbow, Pinkie, and Fluttershy. Twilight then let out a deafening scream of rage, then proceeded to summoned a piece of paper, a quill, and the two tickets while she wrote a letter.

"Spike please send this," said Twilight.

"Ok," said Spike as he used his magical fire to send the letter.

"Twilight, dear," said Rarity, "What did you write?"

"I sent a letter to Celesta saying that if all my friends can't come, then I won't ether," said Twilight.

The girls ran up to Twilight and hugged her while giving their apologies. Spike then started to gag.

"Just like a boy, can't handle a little bit of emotions," said Applejack.

Spike then burped up a letter from Celesta, which he read.

Twilight,

Why didn't you say so earlier? I could've gave you all tickets, here you go; nine tickets one for each of you.

Celesta,

With that Spike pulled out nine tickets one for each of them. Spike handed the tickets to each of the ponies in the room. The group then heard a knock on the door.

'I have to go too,' Spike thought, even though his face showed a smile.

"Come in," called Twilight.

Dawn walked into the living room and saw the mess.

"What happened here?" asked Dawn.

"Its a long story, I'll explain over dinner," responded Cobalt, "Y'all invited too, I'm paying."

As the group left, they were discussing about the restaurant they would eat at. But was being watched by a magical mist.

'A ninth element of harmony?' thought Nightmare Moon, 'I must be forgetting things.'

With that Nightmare Moon returned back to the castle of the two sisters.

Author's Note

Here's the next chapter, also I might have add an interlude chapter after the fifth chapter from the last. Bye for now.

P.S: The systems I created if you didn't get it, was based off of the Nintendo 64. Which is something I actually have. May add more consoles and games in later chapters.

Episode Two; Applebuck Season

[Tool Shed, Sweet Apple Acres, Tuesday, July 21. 4:30 A.M...]

Applejack's brother; Big Mac, was working in the tool shed late at night...

"I really hope that, Applejack can drum up a lot of business in Canterlot," Big Mac said to himself.

As he was fixing one of the old cart's wheels while absentmindedly kicking his back hoofs. The also old work desk gave out and the large metal wheel he was working on fell on his left back hoof, it didn't help that the wheel weight was 25 pounds and a crack was heard from the hoof. This caused Big Mac to let out a loud non-normal high pitch scream.

[Applejack's Room...]

Applejack was having a dream about finding an apple that was the same shape and size as her, until she heard a high pitch scream.

"Everypony safe?!" Applejack yelled as she jumped out of bed, and summoned her armor and gauntlets.

After noticing the time, and seeing the rest of her family aside from her brother she leapt from her room window, did a roll while in the air, landed safely, and then dashed to the tool shed. Seeing no external hoof prints aside from her brother's, Applejack recalled her armor.

"You alright, Big Mac?" Applejack asked as she walked inside.

"Nnope," said Big Mac flatly.

Applejack helped her brother up and carefully took him inside. While inside she called Fluttershy.

"Fluttershy, you awake?"Applejack said.

"Kinda?"Fluttershy answered.

"Do you think that you can come over to the farm right now?" Applejack asked,"My brother hurt himself."

Instead of getting a reply there was a knock at the door. Upon opening the door, Fluttershy quickly rushed past Applejack to her brother. Using her healing ribbons to scan over Big Mac's injured hoof.

"Oh, my!" said Fluttershy, "I can't completely heal this, the bone is slightly fixable, but he has a popped muscle."

"So I need to go to the hospital?" asked Big Mac.

"Yes," said Applejack.

[10:00 A.M...]

After taking Big Macintosh to and from the Ponyville Hospital. Applejack and Big Mac were standing outside the orchard. Talking about Apple Buck Season, or the time when its perfect to harvest the apples.

"Applejack, there is a hundred trees and only one you..." said Big Mac.

"Don't you use your fancy mathematics, I can farm these apples by myself without help," Applejack countered.

"Okayyyyy?" Big Mac said as he walked away on his crutches.

"Now to get to work," Applejack said as she bucked the first tree.

[Noon, Sugar Cube Corner...]

Applejack walked into Sugar Cube Corner with bags under her eyes. Her appearance didn't go unnoticed by everypony there.

"Hey, Applejack," called Twilight, "Over here."

Noticing Twilight's voice, Applejack clumsily walked towards the table where Twilight was seated along with the rest of the team.

"Oh my, you don't look to well," said Fluttershy.

"Applejack, darling," Rarity said, "You need some rest."

"I know, but I just can't," replied Applejack.

Suddenly the ground started to shake. Before anypony could do anything else aside from hold on to something, Rainbow Dash flew outside.

"STAMPEDE!" Rainbow yelled.

The citizens of Ponyville finished or quickly postponed what they were doing, and rushed towards the bunker under the fountain in the center of Ponyville. The members of Team Harmony rushed outside, and equipped their armor.

"Here's the plan," Applejack said.

Upon turning back towards the group, Applejack saw that;Twilight, Rarity, Cobalt, and Dawn were forming a shield dome over Ponyville. Spike and Rainbow Dash were helping the injured, elderly, and the disabled, and Fluttershy was saving the animals from getting trampled.

"That works too," Applejack said as she pulled out a dog whistle and blew into it.

Applejack saw her dog, Winona running towards her with her sister, Apple Bloom following behind.

"Apple Bloom, head to the bunker," said Applejack heading to the opening in the shield.

"Why can't I help?" asked Apple Bloom.

"You can help, Spike and Rainbow Dash," Applejack responded, "Then go somewhere safe."

Reluctantly Apple Bloom did what her older sister said.

[Outside...]

"Other side, girl!" Applejack said to Winona.

Winona responded with a BARK! as she ran over to the other side of the stampede of cows.

"Now turn, right!" Applejack said.

The duo turned to the right with the cows in between them, which caused the stampeding cows to follow. The cows stopped when they reached a clearing.

"Betty, what happened?" asked Applejack.

"Oh, sorry, Applejack, but Wendy thought she saw a snake," said Betty.

"It's alright, just stay clear of Ponyville," responded Applejack as she, Winona, and the cows went their separate ways.

[Ponyville...]

Upon returning back to Ponyville, Applejack saw the other eight members of Team Harmony, and her sister, Apple Bloom standing at Town Hall, along with the mayor and news reporters, Twilight was speaking with the mayor of Ponyville; Mayor Mare.

"Where's Applejack?" asked Mayor Mars.

"She should...," said Twilight before spotting Applejack, "Over here Applejack!"

"We thank, Team Harmony and their honorary heroine; Apple Bloom for saving us from the cow stampede," Mayor Mare said while being broadcasted live across Equestria.

Mayor Mare presented the group of ponies with a metal for each of them. After the presentation, the news reporters asked Team Harmony some questions.

"One line, and one question per reporter per pony/dragon," said Twilight, "Unless allowed to."

After the reporters were organized they were allowed to ask questions.

"Hi, I'm Long Shot," said Long Shot.

"Hello," said Pinkie.

"Who is the strategist for Team Harmony?" asked Long Shot.

"I don't know if we have one," said Pinkie, "Wait here."

"The strategist for Team Harmony is the element of magic," said Pinkie as she returned to Long Shot.

"Thanks," replied Long Shot.

[Over at Cobalt and Dawn's station...]

"Hey, my name is Quick Lens," said Quick Lens.

Quick Lens was a unicorn stallion, with a sky blue coat, short black mane, and a black tail. His cutie mark is a camera with a lens attachment, a he was levitating a camera, notebook, and pen within a sky blue magic aura.

"Well ask away," said Dawn.

"Are any member or members of Team Harmony from Canterlot?" asked Quick Lens.

"Actually my brother, the element of magic, and me are from Canterlot," said Dawn.

"Alright," said Quick Lens wrote down what he heard, "Do any of y'all know who the Legendary Knight was?"

"The Legendary Knight was the previous element bearer of Courage," Cobalt answered.

"Thanks," said Quick Lens as he left.

[Over at Spike and Rarity...]

"Hello, I'm Jessie Flash," said Jessie Flash.

Jessie Flash was a pegasus mare who has a purple coat, a dark purple hair and tail. Her cutie mark is a camera upon a tripod with the flash on. She also was wearing glasses and had a portable hovering laptop beside her.

"Ask away," said Rarity.

"Ok, do you have a special base for Team Harmony?" asked Jessie Flash.

"No, we don't," said Rarity, "We're planing on one."

"Ok, and now for you," Jessie responded turning to Spike before stopping in shock.

"Hello?" said Spike.

"..."

"I'm the element of companionship," said Spike.

"Oh, sorry," apologized Jessie.

"Its ok," responded Spike.

"How did you find your element?" asked Jessie.

"I found it, when we were fighting Nightmare Moon," answered Spike.

"Thank you," said Jessie as she walked away along with her laptop.

[Later...]

After the interviews, Applejack went to finish her work over at the farm.

"Apple tree number 102," Applejack said as she kicked the tree with her hind legs as hard as she could.

"Hey!" Rainbow said as she flew in for a landing.

"Hi," Applejack responded.

"Do you need any help?" asked Rainbow.

"I don't need any help!" Applejack snapped.

Rainbow Dash wings suddenly flared open as she leapt backwards from Applejack's sudden outburst.

"Sorry," Applejack apologized, "I'm just on edge."

"Its ok," Rainbow said as she flew off, "See ya later!"

When Rainbow Dash could neither see nor hear Applejack, she called the rest of Team Harmony. After filling them in, Twilight suggested that every three hours one of them would go to Applejack and ask if she needed or wanted help.

[The next day; Cobalt's House...]

Everypony and Spike was sitting at Cobalt's house (aside from Applejack) and were eating breakfast or playing on Cobalt's Hoofendo 65 while discussing Applejack's current predicament.

"We tried everything!" said Rainbow.

"We asked, waited, ate lunch with her, and a lot of other things," said Cobalt.

Before anypony could speak, there was a knock at the door, followed by a loud grunt of pain. Everypony and Spike instantly knew who that was on the other side of the door. Cobalt teleported to the door and quickly opened it.

"Applejack!?" Everypony and Spike cried out as soon as Applejack crashed onto the floor.

[Ponyville Hospital, Room 40...]

Applejack opened her eyes she saw her younger sister, Apple Bloom, and Cobalt who looked up from his Celestial Harmony Watch.

"Oh, you're up," Cobalt said, "Don't move!"

"Nurse Redheart said you should rest for 5 hours," Apple Bloom said.

Just then Nurse Redheart walked in, pushing a cart with Sweet Apple Acres apple juice, toast, and a bowl of blended hay soup on top of a tray. She rolled the cart up to Applejack and set the tray on a holding machine so that Applejack would be able to eat.

"Here is your brunch," Nurse Redheart said as she walked out the room.

Applejack looked at her watch and saw that it was 9:00 AM.

"Calm down," Cobalt said, "Spike, and the girls are at the farm."

"I should've asked for help, but my pride got in the way didn't it?" Applejack asked ashamed of herself.

"Don't worry big sis, Team Harmony got it covered," Apple Bloom reassured.

"Well, I'm not going to hold y'all here for long, see y'all tomorrow," Applejack said as they left.

"Bye," they called back.

[Canterlot Castle...]

"So this is where that 'sister' of mine lives," said Nightmare Moon as she cackled evilly.

"It seems that we're not the only ones who wants revenge," said an unknown voice.

Nightmare Moon turned around and was instantly sucked into a small, metal sphere.

"Time to return home," said a dragon stepping out of the shadows while opening up a portal.

Author's Note

There you have it guys. It's been a confusing week for me, due to the fact that I just started school, which almost every hall and staircase looked the same.

But here's the next chapter, and another dragon. The whole Spike is a traitor thing may be explained in the next chapter, but if you have a theory type it below. There's no right or wrong theory out there.

Episode Three; Griffin The Brushoff

[Next Tuesday Morning, Rainbow Dash's House...]

BEEP BEEP!

"Woo hoo!" exclaimed Rainbow Dash as she rocketed out of bed.

Her alarm clock read that it was 5:50 in the morning. Below the time it read that she took 0.3 seconds for her to get out of bed.

"Now, for some pancakes," Rainbow Dash said as she walked downstairs to the kitchen.

KNOCK KNOCK!

'Who could that be?' Rainbow thought to herself.

"Who is it?" asked Rainbow.

"Dash, you know me," said a voice.

When Rainbow Dash recognized the voice she quickly opened the door. On the other side stood a female griffin she has brown fur on her lion half of her body, her eagle half has white feathers with light golden tips, her talons were yellow, there was purple features around her eyes which were yellow.

"Gilda?!" Rainbow Dash asked.

"Yep, its me," the griffin now know as Gilda said.

"Come inside," Rainbow said, "You can play on the Wing Station 4 while I eat breakfast."

"Ok," Gilda said as she turned the console and TV.

"Hey, Rainbow!" called Pinkie Pie.

"Pinkie, wait up," Dawn said as she tried to keep up with Pinkie.

Rainbow Dash and Gilda looked outside to see the source of the commotion. When they poked their heads out of the window they were greeted by a waving Pinkie and Dawn.

"Hey gipls," Rainbow said as she flew down with a pancake in her mouth.

"Rainbow, get your prankster gear on, we're going pranking," Pinkie said.

"Who are them?" Gilda asked as she landed next to Rainbow Dash.

"These two are Pinkie Pie, and Dawn Star," Rainbow said as she pointed to each of them respectively.

"Hi, I'm Gilda, nice to meet you," Gilda said as she shook both Pinkie and Dawn's hoofs.

"Nice to meet you too," Pinkie and Dawn said.

"Sorry girls, I promise Gilda to a race," Rainbow said.

"Ok," Pinkie said as she bounced off into a bush.

"See y'all later," Dawn said as she walked towards the bush where Pinkie vanished into.

"Later," Rainbow said as she and Gilda launched off of the ground.

Pinkie reappeared from the bush with a pink, Sugar Cube Corner two pony helicopter in tow.

"Wha?" Dawn asked.

As if she was heard her C.H.W. beeped at a message that read 'Don't Ask' flashed on the screen. Pinkie called for Dawn to get in so they could watch the race.

"Pinkie, did you know that Rainbow has a griffon friend?" Dawn asked.

"Nope," Pinkie said as she pulled out two boxes of snacks from her mane.

"Thanks," Dawn said as she looked through Pinkie's mane, and pulled out two sodas.

"Oh, thank you," Pinkie casually said as she took a soda from Dawn.

Dawn just sat there in shock. When the duo saw that Gilda and Rainbow were arguing about who won, Pinkie flew closer and said that Rainbow had won by a nanosecond and played back some footage.

"Good thing Pinkie is here to keep track," Rainbow said as she landed on the cloud below her.

Gilda said that Rainbow couldn't beat her to the cloud over there. Gilda tossed some of the ground around her as Rainbow dashed off.

"You two, better leave me alone, NOW!" Gilda said in a hushed voice.

Gilda then kicked the helicopter out of the sky. As Dawn and Pinkie were falling, Dawn charged up a teleportation spell and teleported to her shared house.

[Cobalt/Dawn's House...]

Twilight and Cobalt were watching a movie over at Cobalt's newly shared house. Twilight leans towards Cobalt and turned Cobalt to face her. When Cobalt felt Twilight's hoofs on his face he instantly got the idea and leaned in to kiss Twilight, unfortunately for them a bright purple light flashed in between them and the TV, causing Cobalt and Twilight to stop and pretend like they were playing on Cobalt's Hooftendo 65.

When the light died down there stood a enraged Dawn and Pinkie. Before anypony could say anything there was a loud roar followed by crying outside. Cobalt opened the door and Dawn rushed outside leaving a trail of dark reddish-purple magical mist flowing from her horn.

"Pinkie, what happened?" Cobalt asked worried for his twin.

"This meanie pants griffin, Gilda knocked the two pony helicopter Dawn and me were in out of the sky," Pinkie said.

Fluttershy saw Dawn and went to Cobalt's house. When she walked by Dawn motioned for her to go inside. Fluttershy explained what happened before she went inside the house.

"Gilda!" Dawn called out.

This caught everyponys' attention including the squad of dragons.

"Move it or loose it dweebs!" Gilda said as she appeared from behind a group of ponies.

"Apologize to Fluttershy and that group of ponies behind you," Dawn said.

"Hump!" Gilda said as she flew up into the air.

"Dawn, we have a plan," Pinkie called out as she, Cobalt, Spike, and the girls aside from Rainbow Dash approached.

[Later...]

"Hey, G!" Rainbow called out, "Pinkie throwing a party at Sugar Cube Corner."

"A party?" Gilda asked.

"Yep!" Rainbow exclaimed, "I'll meet you there, G."

Rainbow Dash sped off leaving a rainbow trail behind her as she went to Sugar Cube Corner.

[Sugar Cube Corner...]

"Pinkie, I'm here," Rainbow said.

"Ok, set up your party pranks," Pinkie said from the kitchen.

As Rainbow Dash was setting up her pranks she was getting looks of disappointment from the inhabitants of Ponyville. Twilight and Rarity were setting up the snack table. Cobalt and Spike were setting the games up. Applejack, Pinkie, and Dawn were setting the food.

By the time Gilda arrived it was 2:30 PM, and everypony was at the party, while Spike flew around Ponyville to check out something that he detected. Gilda was having a blast until she activated the party pranks. First she ate a cookie made with peppers. Then opened a can of fake popping snakes. Next failed to 'blow' out some candles, and lastly slipped on a piece of dropped cake. Gilda stormed out of the kitchen, roared and tried to punch Pinkie. Before Gilda was about to make contact, a loud BOOM was heard a Spike in his harmony armor fell through the roof.

"Hey, Queen Lameo," Gilda called to Pinkie, "Dash and me are 10 times more cooler than everypony in Ponyville combined!"

"Gilda!" Rainbow screamed, "I'm the one who set up those pranks!"

Gilda let out a scream and stormed out of the door. Everypony there cheered as Gilda left.

"Everypony take cover!" Spike yelled before avoiding a lightning bolt.

The other members of Team Harmony got into their armor and summoned their weapons. Blaze and Bolt appeared outside of the hole along with a orange and silver dragon with a metal ball in his claws.

"Another one?!" a Ponyville citizen cried out.

The orange and silver dragon raised the ball he was holding in the air and it produced a well known magical mist. Gilda heard the commotion and turned around, unfortunately for her she was spotted by the trio of dragons.

"Hey, Psyco!" Blaze called, "Use that Griffin!"

"Ok," the dragon now known as Psyco said.

Gilda was frozen, and became surrounded by the magical mist, causing her to transform.

SCREECH!

"Gilda?!" Rainbow said.

"Super Nova Slash!" Cobalt called out.

Cobalt's sword launched off a glowing red orange crescent wave of power at the trio of dragons.

Blaze countered with a blast of fire, which resulted in a explosion.

"I got that pony," Blaze said to his teammates as he rocketed towards Cobalt.

"Golden Uppercut!" Applejack called out as she gave Blaze a uppercut with her gauntlets.

"Thanks," Cobalt said.

"No prob," Applejack responded.

Suddenly, Rainbow was knocked down by a simi-transparent black projectile. Dawn looked up to see the mutated Gilda glaring at her with bright red eyes, her lion body was dark gray, her feathers were jet black, the features around her eyes were silver, and her armor was a bright red metal material.

"Umm..." Dawn said.

Cobalt and Applejack was locked with Blaze in hoof to claw close combat. Spike was deflecting lightning bolts. Twilight, Rarity, and Pinkie were holding off Psyco, and Fluttershy was tending to Rainbow Dash.

"Ahh!" Dawn screamed as she dodged an attack from the mutated Gilda.

Dawn returned the blast back to Gilda with a spell, suddenly her horn glowed and produced a purple sphere before changing into twin, dark purple ninja stars.

"Purple Star Strike!" Dawn called as she threw her stars with her magic.

Applejack pulled out a rope from a hidden pocket of her armor and tossed it around Gilda and the dragons ensnaring them in a now glowing rope.

"Twilight!" Applejack called.

"I'm on it!" Twilight responded.

Team Harmony got into position with Dawn between Spike and Rarity, a fired off the rainbow beam of friendship. The beam cured Gilda and blasted the dragons out of Ponyville, while also repairing any damage caused during the fight.

"Yes!" Spike cheered followed by the citizens of Ponyville.

Spike noticed a beat up folder under a table with a dragon symbol on it and picked it up.

"Ow!" Gilda said as she woke up.

"Call the hospital," Rainbow said as she lifted up Gilda.

[Later...]

Gilda had to be sent home to be treated for her injuries on the medical train, she apologized to everypony for the way she treated them before she left. Twilight sent a report to Celesta via Spike's magical fire, detailing the events of today.

"Twilight!" Spike called from downstairs, "Its here."

"Coming!" Twilight called back.

[The Dragon Lands...]

"Let me out!" Nightmare Moon yelled at her dragon captor.

"No!" Psyco yelled back, "We have big plans for you."

Psyco and the trapped Nightmare Moon went inside of a cave which held a secret room containing a robotic body that was modeled after Nightmare Moon herself, with a spot to place her metal prison. After Psyco placed the sphere inside of its port, Nightmare Moon was fused with the robotic body.

"Its good to be back," Nightmare Moon said as she stood there with her dark silver-blue metal body, horn, and wings.

"Now will you help us?" Psyco asked.

"Um... No!" Nightmare said as she tried to fly off but was somehow shocked by electricity.

'That remote!' Nightmare thought.

"Ok, I will, but only if you help me too," Nightmare Moon said.

"We will," Psyco responded.

"Then good," Nightmare Moon said smirking.

[Cobalt and Dawn's Shared House...]

"Ahh!" screamed both of the Star twins.

'Something not right' they both thought...

Author's Note

Here it is, episode three. I left it on another cliffhanger.:facehoof: That will be cleared up in a later episode/chapter.

Read from y'all later.

Episode Four; Boast Busters

[July 29,Spike and Twilight's Shared House...]

"Spike, how many is that?" Twilight asked.

"That was your 25th correctly preformed spell," Spike answered.

"Hey Twilight, think you can do a mustache spell?" Spike asked.

"There you go," Twilight responded as she preformed the mustache spell.

Spike ran over to a mirror, taking the list with him to look at his newly magically given mustache.

"This is great!" Spike exclaimed.

'I should see how Rarity would react' Spike thought.

"Spike, that's for practice only," Twilight said as she charged up her horn.

Spike saw what Twilight was about to do and ducked causing Twilight's hair removal spell to bounce off the mirror towards Twilight who dodged it, fortunately when the spell came in contact with the door it disappeared. Twilight turned towards Spike only to find him hovering above the stairs.

"See ya later, Twi," Spike said as he jets up and out of the house leaving a green light trail behind him.

[Outside...]

Shorty after Spike had left he saw Rarity reaching for the door.

"I got it!" Spike said as he dashed towards the door and opened it for Rarity.

Unfortunately for Spike opening the door caused the enchantment turned spell to activate thus causing him to lose his mustache.

"Hey, Rarity," Twilight said upon seeing her.

"Ow!" Spike said as Twilight dragged him by the tail.

"Wait here, please," Twilight said as she took Spike.

Twilight took Spike up to his room and lectured him about the dangers of contact activated enchantments and spells.

"Twilight, Spike," Rarity called from downstairs, "I don't want to be late."

"Coming," Twilight and Spike said.

[Ponyville Train Station...]

Rarity was bouncing around like a filly in a candy store. Soon the train pulled up to the station. When the doors opened after the other passengers left the train, a small, white filly unicorn with grayish mulberry and light grayish rose mane walked out carrying a small bag and rolling a medium sized suitcase.

"Sweetie Belle!" Rarity called out running towards her little sister.

"Rarity!" Sweetie Belle said as she was swept into a hug by her sister.

"Spike, can you please carry Sweetie Belle's luggage?" Rarity asked.

"Yes," Spike responded lifting up the suitcase with ease.

"Sweetie Belle these are some of my friends, Twilight and Spike," Rarity said as she pointed to the other unicorn and the dragon respectively.

Sweetie Belle waved hello and told them some things about her.

"Finally, I found y'all," said a voice that everyone aside from Sweetie knew.

"Apple Bloom?" Twilight asked, "What are you doing here?"

"Applejack is in danger!" Apple Bloom said, "Oh, I'm Apple Bloom, and you are?"

"I'm Sweetie Belle, nice to meet you," Sweetie Belle responded.

"Back to Applejack!?" The three members of Team Harmony half yelled and asked.

"Everypony and Spike follow!" Apple Bloom said as she lead the way.

[Town Square...]

Applejack was tied up on stage by her own rope with an apple in her mouth.

"As I said before the Great and Powerful Trixie can best anypony at anything," said Trixie.

“What makes you so sure of that?” Rainbow Dash asked.

“Can anypony here defeat a Ursa Major?” Trixie asked.

After getting no response and hearing various hushed whispers throughout the crowd, Trixie continued.

“Just what the Great and Powerful Trixie thought,” Trixie said.

Rainbow Dash did a stunt, which Trixie upstaged by launching Rainbow around Ponyville’s windmill and spinning her in a circle. Rarity made a dress from the curtains, but Trixie turned Rarity’s mane green.

“My mane, my beautiful mane!” Rarity exclaimed, “I know she did something to my mane!”

“It looks great” Applejack said.

“Just as beautiful as always,” Fluttershy said.

“I looks as beautiful as a shining gem,” Cobalt said.

“Its just too good, you have to do my mane,” Dawn said.

“Its green,” Spike said.

Upon hearing this Rarity ran of crying and saying that green is a terrible mane color. This caused a random pony in the crowd to look in Rarity’s direction clearly upset. The present members of Team Harmony shot Spike glares of disappointment.

“I was just being honest,” Spike defended.

“So does anypony else wants to challenge the Great and Powerful Trixie, speak up now” asked Trixie.

“Twilight will!” Spike yelled.

Twilight quickly teleported to her house, before Trixie could tell her to come up on stage.

After receiving no other replies Trixie folded up her stage and headed towards her mobile home. Spike walked back to the house, where he saw Twilight was muzzle deep into a book on Ursa attacks.

As Cobalt, Dawn, Applejack, and Pinkie walked back to Sugar Cube Corner. On the way there they came across two unicorn colts. One of them was short, chubby, and blue with a pair of scissors for his cutie mark, and a orange mane and tail. The other was tall, skinny, and orange with a snail for his cutie mark, and a turquoise mane and tail.

“Hiya, Snips and Snails,” Pinkie Pie said to the duo of unicorn colts.

“Hey, we’re going to see if the Great and Powerful Trixie can teach us some of her spells,” Snips said.

“Yea,” said Snails.

“Y’all do know that she is probably asleep,” Dawn said looking at Trixie’s mobile home.

“Most likely,” Applejack said.

By the time Dawn and Applejack turned around the two were gone.

“Oh well that was unexpected,” Applejack said.

“AJ always expect the unexpected,” Cobalt said as they ran to catch up with Pinkie.

[Trixie’s House...]

Trixie was awoken from her sleep by a knock from her front door. She got up to go see who was knocking on her door.

“Its 11:30 PM, the Great and Powerful Trixie needs her beauty sleep, and nopony should be outside at this time,” Trixie said as she opened the door.

Upon opening the door Trixie saw the two young unicorns nervously standing there.

“Sorry for the interruption, but could you teach us some of your spells that you used to defeat that Ursa Major?” Snails nervously asked.

“Please?” Snips asked.

“The Great and Powerful Trixie would be happy to train you, but there isn’t a Ursa Majors around,” Trixie responded slowly closing the door, “Trixie also needs her sleep.”

“We can take care of that,” Snails said as the duo ran into the Everfree Forest.

[A Random Cave in the Everfree Forest...]

“Are you sure that Ursa Majors live here,” Snails asked.

“Yes, I’m sure,” Snips said as he used a lighting spell to summon a small sphere of light.

Unfortunately for them the light awoken a Ursa who was sleeping in the cave. ROAR! Both Snips and Snails didn’t need to turn around to know that there was a Ursa behind them and sped towards Ponyville with the Ursa behind them.

[Ponyville...]

The screaming and roaring coming from outside caused everypony in Ponyville to ether go outside or look out the window, everypony quickly wish they didn’t. Team Harmony gathered at Twilight’s house to figure out a plan.

“Rainbow, Dawn, and Spike, keep the Ursa busy,” commanded Twilight.

“Okay,” The trio said before running towards the Ursa.

“Pinkie, Rarity, and Fluttershy, bring anypony outside here,” Twilight said.

“On it, Twi,” said the trio as they ran off to help anypony outside.

“Applejack, and Cobalt, find Trixie and those two unicorns y’all met earlier,” Twilight said.

“I know exactly where to start,” Applejack said.

“Ok,” Cobalt said running beside Applejack.

Snips, Snails, and Trixie were running towards Applejack and Cobalt who upon coming within one and a half yards the trio of unicorns skidded to a stop.

“Team Harmony?!” Trixie exclaimed, “There’s an Ursa Major over there.”

“We’re working on it,” Cobalt said.

“Follow us,” said Applejack as she turned around.

The group headed back towards Twilight who was currently levitating the Ponyville water tank through Applejack’s family cow pen filling it with milk and starting a light breeze through some river side plants causing them to play a soft music tone. When Twilight gave the Ursa the makeshift bottle of milk it quickly fell asleep, where Twilight carefully levitated it back to the cave where it came from.

“Nice use of spells sixteen and twenty,” Spike said upon landing.

“How did you defeat the Ursa Major?” Trixie asked.

“That wasn’t an Ursa Major it was a Ursa Minor,” Twilight said.

“Well the Great and Powerful Trixie still-“ Trixie said as she was cut off.

“Stop boasting about something nopony could do alone,” Twilight said.

Feeling ashamed and embarrassed Trixie grabbed three smoke bombs and threw them to the ground before running towards her house and leaving.

“I will return Twilight!” Trixie yelled back.

Rainbow tried to go after Trixie, but was stopped by Twilight.

“Hopefully she’ll learn her lesson,” Twilight said as they walked over to Sugar Cube Corner.

[Unknown Location...]

Nightmare Moon was laying in a cave lined crystals charged with magic from various species. As she was laying there she was absorbing the magic from the crystals, causing a bright ray of dark magic to shoot up into the sky.

“I can feel the magic of every species in and around Equestria!” Nightmare Moon yelled as her robotic body was levitated off the ground by two feet and surrounded by the dark magic.

Author's Note

Here is the next episode readers. I’m pretty sure that anyone who watched all currently released episodes know what episode comes after Boast Busters.

Episode Five; Dragonshy

[August 29, Sugar Cube Corner, Ponyville...]

The members of Team Harmony were seated at a table in the back of the dining area of Sugar Cube Corner waiting for two other ponies to join them.

“Has anypony seen Rarity or spoke to her?” Twilight asked.

“No, it’s been a whole month since, Trixie had magically turned her mane green,” Applejack said.

Suddenly the door was slammed open, and there stood Rarity with her mane with a mix of its natural purple color with, green stripes, covered in a thick layer of soot.

“Did Ponyville always have a volcano nearby?” Rarity asked as she magical removed the soot off of her fur.

Before anypony could answer Spike’s spines started emitting a red glow.

“What’s going on!?” Spike asked almost entering a state of panic.

“Spike, calm down, from the small amount of information we have on dragons it’s a sign that another dragon has settled in your living area,” Dawn said.

Just then somepony outside let out a loud cry, followed by a familiar bolt of lightning.

“Not again,” Cobalt said rushing out the door in his armor.

The other members of Team Harmony exchanged glances before rushing out behind Cobalt.

[Town Square, Ponyville...]

“So the whole team is here,” Bolt said.

“What do you want, Bolt?” Spike asked.

Instead of giving an answer Bolt shot out a ball of lightning from his claws, prompting Team Harmony to dodge the incoming projectile.

“Inferno Jet!” Called out Rainbow Dash as she tackled Bolt.

“I don’t have any business with you ponies!” Bolt yelled as he disappeared and reappeared in a flash of black lightning behind Spike and teleported away.

“Spike?!” Screamed the remaining members of Team Harmony.

[Unknown Location...]

Bolt and his hostage reappeared in a large area within a expertly drained volcano containing several piles of gold, gems, various other riches, and a throne with a dragon holding a brown staff with a large red ruby on it.

“King Darkscale, I bring you the hatchling of the traitors, Spike,” Bolt said, pushing Spike to the ground.

The said dragon rose from his throne and walked towards Spike. King Darkscale, like his name states, his scales have a dark red color along with his tail and back spines. He has pitch black wings, two bright red glowing eyes, and silver claws.

“Rise traitor hatchling!” Darkscale commanded.

As Spike slowly got up he kicks Bolt’s leg causing him to fall, before flying up towards the volcano opening. Darkscale held up his staff as it glowed red and the shadows casted by the three dragons.

“Sorry Darkscale, but I’m not under your rule,” Spike said as he ate a medium sized gem with Twilight’s cutie mark engraved into it and let out a stream of magenta fire forming into a portal.

“I will have what’s rightfully mine, and my revenge!” Darkscale screamed.

Right then Nightmare Moon in her new robot body walked in the throne room, and took notice of the state of the dragons in the room.

“I’ll take it as you had that little pest of a dragon, Spike here,” Nightmare said as she walked over to Bolt and casted a healing spell.

[Sugar Cube Corner, Ponyville...]

The remaining members of Team Harmony was in the middle of coming up with a plan to find Spike and figure out who’s going to go check out the now smoke producing mountain.

“Cobalt, Applejack, Rainbow, and Me,” Twilight said, “Are going to rescue Spike.”

“That leaves Fluttershy, Rarity, Pinkie, and me,” Dawn said, “To go up the mountain.”

When the group finally came to an agreement, a flash of magenta colored light caused them to turn around, and try to figure out who or what was in the flash of light.

“Y’all forgetting something?” Spike said.

The light died down and Team Harmony was looking at Spike. Before Twilight tackled Spike to the ground in a hug.

“It’s ok, Twi, I’m alright,” Spike reassured.

“I was worried sick about you,Spike,” said Twilight.

“Well don’t we have a mountain to investigate,” Spike said.

“Team Harmony gather anything that you’ll need, we’ll meet each other at the entrance to Ponyville,” Twilight said as she and Spike ran home.

[20 Minuets Later...]

Team Harmony met back up with each other at the entrance to Ponyville. Everypony was there aside from Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash.

“Where’s Fluttershy and Rainbow?” Twilight asked.

“Rainbow is trying to get Fluttershy to come out of her house,” Pinkie responded.

Suddenly a Rainbow streak passed by everypony and stopped in front of Spike.

“Fluttershy said she’s not coming,” Rainbow said.

“What, why?” Twilight asked.

“Here’s the thing about, Fluttershy...,” Applejack started, “She is sort of scared by things like this, including her own shadow.”

“We can’t go without her, as we may need her help, Twilight responded.

“Don’t worry Twilight, y’all head up the mountain,” Cobalt said, “Spike and I will try to get, Fluttershy to come.”

Twilight looked at the other present female members of Team Harmony who didn’t seem to mind having to split up, and she nodded in agreement.

“We’ll catch up to y’all with Fluttershy with us,” Spike said as he and Cobalt ran to Fluttershy’s cottage.

[Fluttershy’s Cottage...]

Cobalt and Spike arrived at Fluttershy’s cottage, and knocked on the door.

“Who is it?” Fluttershy asked.

“Fluttershy, it’s Cobalt, and me,” Spike answered.

“If you’re here to try and convince me to tag along with y’all, the answer is no,” Fluttershy said.

“Can we come in and talk about it?” Cobalt asked.

Without saying anything, Fluttershy unlocked her door and allowed them to enter. Upon entering Cobalt and Spike took notice of the windows being closed and covered, and the lack of animals inside the wooden structure. Fluttershy went into her kitchen and poured three glasses of lemonade for herself and her friends.

“Umm, Fluttershy what kind of wood is these walls, because you have a stove in here?” Cobalt asked.

“The walls are magically-reinforced oak wood,” Fluttershy responded while perfectly balancing three glasses on her wings.

“So it’s fire proof then?” asked Cobalt.

“Yes,” Fluttershy said, as Cobalt levitated all three glasses off of Fluttershy’s wings.

After a moment of silence, the hologram of Princess Luna appeared from the Celestial Harmony Watch belonging to Fluttershy.

“Hello, Fluttershy...” Princess Luna started, before looking around, “... Ah, Colbalt and Spike are here too,” she said once she spotted them.

“Hey, Luna,” Fluttershy said, before the hologram of Twilight also appeared.

“Fluttershy, we need your help with this mission,” Twilight said, “We have about 15 minuets left.”

“15 minuets left for what?” asked Cobalt.

“While we were waiting for you and Spike to bring Fluttershy, Celestia messaged me saying that now 14.5 minuets later, if the dragon doesn’t leave...” Twilight started before Pinkie came into view.

“... The Sun is going to be by smoke,” Pinkie finished.

“I can teleport y’all three to everypony else,” Luna said.

“Alright, let’s do it,” Spike said, with everypony in the room agreeing.

[Base of Ponyville Mountain...]

Fluttershy, Cobalt, and Spike were suddenly teleported to the other members of Team Harmony.

“We did it girls,” Spike said.

“Wait, what if Bolt, or the other dragons start terrorizing Ponyville while we’re gone?” Fluttershy asked.

“Great question, Flutters,” Twilight said while looking at the gathered team members.

“Dawn, Applejack, and Cobalt, will y’all be able to protect Ponyville?” asked Twilight.

“You bet,” Dawn said.

“Will do,” Cobalt said.

“Yah can count on us,” Applejack responded.

“Thanks girls,” Twilight said, but they had already left.

“Come on everypony let’s go!” Twilight said excited, while levitating a shaking Fluttershy.

[Two Minuets Later...]

The group of five ponies and a dragon came to their first Fluttershy problem. A gap in the path. While everypony who can’t fly levitated themselves, Pinkie lept across, leaving Fluttershy on the other side.

“Come on, Fluttershy, you can do it,” Rarity encouraged.

“All it takes is a hop, skip, and a jump,” Pinkie said before singing.

It's not very far
Just move your little rump
You can make it if you try with a hop, skip and a jump

“Oh no, not a song! We don't have time for this!” Twilight half yelled annoyed.

A hop, skip and a jump
Just move your little rump
Take to the air, you'll make it there with a hop, skip and a jump
A hop, skip and a jump
A hop, skip and a jump
A hop, skip and a jump
A hop, skip and a jump
A hop, skip and a jump!

During Pinkie’s song, Fluttershy courage started to grow, as she smiled, preparing herself for the short leap. Everypony on the other side moved back, as Fluttershy jumped, unfortunately for her she missed, however Spike was there to catch her before she had hit the ground.

“I guess I forgot to jump,” Fluttershy said when Spike and her returned.

“It’s ok, Flutters,” Spike said landing next to her.

[3.5 More Minuets Later...]

“Yes!” Twilight exclaimed, “We made it with only nine minutes left.”

Twilight, Spike, Fluttershy, Rainbow, Pinkie, and Rarity were pretty much shaken up, as they had survived a rockslide, coaxing Fluttershy from a dent in the rock wall, and have finally reached their goal.

“I’ll handle this girls and Spikey,” Rarity said.

“I think her interest is in the hoard of the dragon,” Rainbow said.

“I can here you!” Rarity yelled from inside the cave.

“What?” Rainbow asked.

[Inside the Cave; 8 Min. Left...]

Rarity walked into the deeper part of the cave, equipped with a gas mask to block out the smoke and some goggles. Upon walking in Rarity saw a huge amount of Gold, Silver, Rubies, Sapphires, Emeralds, and Diamonds. Walking up to the large red dragon with orange spines along his back, she lightly tapped on the dragon’s snout, causing it to groan as it awoke.

“Excuse me,” Rarity started slowly picking up a sapphire necklace, and a emerald bracelet, “But my hometown is below this mountain, and my home country is being covered by smoke,” she finished up with levitating a diamond.

The dragon spotted Rarity, and roared sending her flying into Spike’s arm.

“Are you alright?” Spike asked Rarity.

“I’m good, who’s next?” Rarity said.

Pinkie soon lept out of a nearby tree and walked into the cave dressed like a yellow present with green dots, equipped with a snorkel and flippers.

“Time for laughter!” Pinkie yelled.

Not to long later Pinkie was sent running out burnt. Twilight casted a spell to put out her burning box, while Fluttershy scanned her with her healer ribbons.

“He didn’t like my jokes,” Pinkie said defeated.

“I’m doing this my way,” Rainbow said as she did a spinning dive into the cave in her armor hit the dragon in between his eyes.

Rainbow was knocked out of the cave folowed by a blast of fire from the dragon. Everypony equipped their armor, as Spike was making preparations for his energy claw. However a unlikely pony rose up from her hiding place.

“How. Dare. You!” Fluttershy said flying up to the dragon, landing on his snout.

Every living thing there was entirely shocked at Fluttershy’s actions. After talking the dragon down, he gathered his things and flew off towards the setting sun.

“I’m beat, let’s head back,” Rainbow said, as everypony left and as Spike just hovered next to her.

“Race ya,” Spike said, speeding off towards Ponyville.

“Oh, it is on,” Rainbow said giving chase.

Author's Note

Hey readers, sorry about the long hiatus between this and the last chapter, I had a lot of things to do in my everyday life. The next chapter will be out sometime next month, bye until then.

Episode Six; Look Before You Sleep

[Ponyville Park, April 25th...]

Several months after the trip to the Equestrian Fair, Rarity and Applejack are helping the other citizens of Ponyville tending to the trees in Ponyville Park for the upcoming storm.

“Eight months without any rain, EIGHT MONTHS!” screamed a earth pony with a pale golden fur color and a orange mane and tail, with three carrots for her cutie mark.

“Now, Carrot Top, I’m a farmer too, but I’m sure the emergency pegasi weather team has it covered with this storm,” Applejack said trying to calm down the almost hysterical carrot farmer now known as Carrot Top.

Rarity was using her magic and some shears to trim designs on the tree branches, that was until Applejack used her lasso to remove them from the tree.

“Why did you do that?” Rarity asked slightly annoyed.

“We’re supposed to be removing any loose branches and sticks, not designing them,” Applejack scolded.

“Well at least leave them intact,” Rarity said slightly upset, and levitated the removed branches, taking them with her.

[Two Hours Later...]

Ponyville Park’s trees were now finished and won’t cause any damage from the influence of the storm winds. Applejack was admiring their hoof work. Rarity was casting spells on the designed tree branches, which preserves them and also makes them small enough for them to be placed inside a house. Suddenly and without warning it started pouring down rain. Rarity ducked under the outside table, and landed in some mud, but ended up being covered in mud when Applejack slid where she was at.

“Great now I’m completely dirty, thanks a ton Applejack,” Rarity said completely upset.

“Heh, sorry ‘bout that Rarity,” Applejack said giving her apology.

“We should get out of the rain,” Applejack said spotting Twilight’s House.

Rarity agreed and they both made a dash towards their goal. Luckily for them Twilight opened the door allowing them to safely enter.

“Hi girls,” Twilight greeted.

“Hello darling,” Rarity said wiping her hoofs, before hugging Twilight.

“Howdy,” Applejack said shaking off her body getting muddy water everywhere.

Twilight quickly jumped into action and casted a evaporation spell which evaporated all the water in the air around her, her books, and her friends. Upon noticing that she was dry, Applejack looked outside.

“That sure is a mighty storm,” Applejack said, then she realized something, “Are you sure it’s safe to be inside and tree during this storm?” asked Applejack.

“It is if you have a magical lightning rod, so if you want, you can spend the night at my place,” Twilight said.

“Thank You darling, I cannot go another second covered in mud or being wet,” Rarity said.

Applejack rolled her eyes at Rarity’s statement, and noticed someone was missing.

“Twilight, where’s Spike?” asked Applejack.

“He is on a royal mission in Canterlot with Dawn” responded Twilight, “Its just us three.”

Twilight then levitated a book off of a bookshelf and hovered it towards Rarity and Applejack, inviting them to read the cover.

“Slumber Party 101; How To Throw Your First Slumber Party” they both read.

“See girls, this is going to be my first Slumber Party!” Twilight exclaimed.

Then out of nowhere Pinkie popped out from Applejack’s hat.

“I heard the word party,” Pinkie said.

Everypony looked at Pinkie in shock as she proceeded to pull a entire snack cart from her mane.

“Pinkie, how did you get here?” Twilight asked.

“I just popped out of Applejack’s hat,” Pinkie said.

Twilight decided not to press the matter as Applejack and Rarity were talking about the book.

“Let’s put our differences behind us for Twilight’s sake, truce?” Applejack asked.

“Truce,” replied Rarity.

Rarity then opened the book and the first activity of the night was to give each other a makeover. Applejack looked upset that Rarity didn’t want to be covered in mud, but they were all putting this mud on their faces. She was about to say something then Rarity put cucumbers over her eyes.

“Cucumbers, don’t mind if I eat these,” Applejack said.

Before any of the others could tell her, Applejack ate both of the Cucumbers, she then fell on the floor groaning in pain and her fur was changing colors from red, blue, yellow, and back to orange. Twilight picked up the package with her magic and read the warning on the side.

Warning; DO NOT EAT Causes primary color change in Earth Ponies, Wing Lock in Pegasus Ponies, and Magic Freezing in Unicorn Ponies.

“What just happened to me?” Applejack asked.

“What you just recently ate was a Home Spa Cucumber,” Rarity said.

“Well, how about we do the next activity, telling ghost stories,” Pinkie said read the book.

Without warning Twilight turned out the lights, lit the fire place, and levitated Pinkie’s snack cart to the group. This was followed up with a CLAP of thunder and a flash of lightning, spooking everypony in the room.

“Eww, I just touched something wet!” Rarity exclaimed leaping into the fire light.

“What you touched was me, that window got blown open and mud flew in,” Applejack said.

Twilight cut on the lights in order for them to see better. She closed and locked all the windows and directed Rarity and Applejack to the bathroom, so they could wash off the mud.

[15 Minuets Later...]

“Rarity, you done in there?” Applejack asked, “I need to wash up too.”

“Applejack, darling a mare must have clean and soft fur,” Rarity responded through the bathroom door.

Applejack grumbled and walked outside to wash the mud off using the rain. She later went back inside and was told it was her turn to tell a ghost story. Applejack sat down and began her tale.

“Back in the founding days of Ponyville, there was a mare from the capital city who came to visit her brother,” Applejack began, “This mare was a unicorn mare, with a long golden yellow mane and tail, beautiful amber fur, and a magnet for her cutie mark...”

“Oh, I have a better one,” Rarity interjected.

Applejack glared at Rarity and was being glared right back too. As if detecting negative emotions everypony’s CHWs shot out a cube which sucked Rarity and Applejack into itself, then disappeared.

“Applejack, Rarity?!” Twilight and Pinkie cried out in surprise at their friends disappearing.

“Hello?” Luna said.

“Luna, what happened to Applejack and Rarity?” Twilight asked.

“Yea where did they go?” asked Pinkie.

“Calm down, they are safe,” Luna said, “The Elements of Harmony felt like the bearers of Honesty and Generosity should work out their differences in order for them to return here.”

“Oh, well that’s a bummer, we were in the middle of telling ghost stories,” Pinkie said sadly.

“Ghost stories, I got tons,” Luna said proudly, “Put your CHW on the table Pinkie.”

Pinkie took off her CHW and placed it on the table as instructed to. Luna’s holographic form then increased in size as she got into a siting position, Twilight sat down and used her magic to turn off all the lights and lit the fire place.

“Back in ancient Equestria,” Luna began...

[Magical Cubes...]

Applejack and Rarity finally opened their eyes and saw a wall with three doors, each door was made from a light blue crystal material and each had a different symbol. The first down had a candle symbol, the center door a crown, and the last had four gems.

“Where are we?” Rarity asked.

“You’re inside the Cube of Companionship,” said a voice, that sounded like it belonged to a stallion.

“Now that we know where we are how do we leave?” Applejack asked.

“Who or what are you?” Rarity asked.

“I’m the previous bearer of the Element of Courage, or his spirit,” the voice said stepping into the light.

Where did the lights come from?Applejack thought.

“My name is Cobolt Star, Royal Knight,” the voice now known as Cobolt.

His fur was a lighter variation of the dark gray of Cobalt’s fur, his mane and tail although translucent was a golden yellow, which allowed the tip of his horn to show, his cutie mark was a bright blue star with a dark blue lightning bolt in the center.

"Wait, you're Cobalt's ancestor," Rarity said.

"Ah, so my daughter did have some kids, I'll take it that Cobalt is my great-great-great grandson," Cobolt said.

"So how do we get out of here?" Applejack asked.

"Pick a door and solve the trials, it's important that the both of you work together," Cobolt said disappearing.

Applejack and Rarity both looked at each other and turned towards the doors. Unfortunately they ended up smacking into the crown door and landed inside of the room behind the door, which closed after they fell in. The room they had fell into contained a pedestal which housed a silver crown with magenta gems decorating the crown. The room also contained three statues of alicorns.

"Woah, this must be the first trial," Rarity said looking at the statues.

"Hey, come look at this," Applejack said waving Rarity over to her.

I may not exist yet, but my crown holds my Harmonic Power, find me and you shall pass.

"So these three are princesses?" asked Rarity

"I guess, try to look for the odd one out..." Applejack replied before she started walking towards the center alicorn statue.

Rarity noticed Applejack's growing silence and saw what she was looking at. The center statue was Twilight, but as an alicorn.

"This must be the statue!" Rarity excitedly said levitating the crown towards them.

Rarity and Applejack both placed the crown on top of alicorn Twilight's head, which caused the statue to move allowing the two mares to enter the next room.

[Twilight's House...]

After having been told that their friends were going to be alright, Twilight and Pinkie were preparing some snacks for Applejack and Rarity safe return. Suddenly the lights flashed off the back on as a bolt of lightning hit the tree. When the lights came back on Twilight was face to face with Robomare Moon.

"Nice to see you again, Twilight," Robomare Moon said.

"What do you want?" Twilight asked.

"I want your dragon friend," responded Robomare Moon.

"Spike isn't here," Twilight said trying to send out an alert to any available members of Team Harmony.

"But I am!" Pinkie said as she unleashed a burst of confetti from her hoofs.

Robomare Moon flew into one of Twilight's bookshelfs with a solid THUD before crashing into the floor. Twilight rolled over towards Pinkie and summon her Harmony Armor.

"I'm not done with you two!" Robomare Moon as she charged up her horn for an attack.

Twilight's Harmony Armor was still golden, but in a mage robe like fashion, which included a mage's hat. Twilight's Harmony Armor also had a six pointed magenta star outline, and her staff was replaced with a hovering crystal.

"This is what Luna added to the CHWs?" asked Twilight.

"No time for questions," Pinkie said avoiding Robomare Moon's ray blast.

The crystal that was hovering beside Twilight flew into the ceiling enchanting the room. When the crystal returned Twilight, Pinkie, and Robomare Moon were transported to an area with a mystical feeling to it.

"Welcome to the Battle Zone," Luna said, "This way you don't destroy something."

"Ok, Luna," Pinkie said, before launching a party popper at Robomare Moon.

"Magic!" Twilight called out as the crystal fired off a magenta beam at Robomare Moon.

"Laughter!" Pinkie called following Twilight's lead, which caused Robomare Moon to retreat.

"I will return!" Robomare Moon yelled as she disappeared.

Twilight and Pinkie returned their Harmony Armor to their respective CHWs, as the room slowly faded away. Twilight then went to get her notebook and quill.

[Applejack and Rarity...]

"Welcome to your 2nd trial," Cobolt said as he faded away.

"Wait, do you have anything you want to give to your descendent?" Rarity asked.

"Give him this, he'll know what to do with it," Cobolt said summoning a yellow star shard and levitating it towards Rarity.

"Thanks," Rarity said, as they turned to face their next trial.

This room unlike the last only housed two maps a crystal map with all of Equestria displayed as if it was a hologram, and a map that displays a detailed map of the Everfree Forest.

"Wow, this is cool," Applejack said in awe.

"I found the riddle, darling," Rarity said.

I'll show you where you need to go. But I lead you to your next adventure instead of your destination. Touch your starting location, for more information.

"Well that sounds a bit to easy for a trial," Rarity said.

"Maybe, we're not supposed to touch Ponyville, but something else," Applejack suggested.

The duo looked at both maps and noticed that the Castle was only visible on the second map, and pressed down on it. With that both maps fired off a beam of light which allowed for the next door to appear.

"Looks like we're going on to the next trial," Rarity said walking into the door.

"See we can put of differences behind us," Applejack said following behind Rarity.

Suddenly Cobolt materialized in front of Rarity, causing her to fall forwards on her face.

"Oh, sorry about that, Rarity," Cobolt said as he helped her up.

"It's alright," Rarity said.

"Well this is your last trial, good luck!" Cobolt said vanishing from sight.

The last room was vastly different from the previous two, It was covered in mud, which made Rarity jump back in horror. The only way out was to walk through the mud to reach the totem on the other side. Without warning Applejack tossed Rarity on her back and ran full force which covered Rarity in mud. Unfortunately a creature made of mud blocked their path sent them flying with its sudden appearance.

"Applejack!" Rarity called out towards her missing friend.

Rarity then ran over to Applejack's hat, only to find her unconscious from her run in with the wall, which had another riddle on it.

Your biggest fear is being unclean. But to defeat your dirty opponent you must start cleansing your gear.

Before she could react Rarity was knocked into another wall by the mud monster. Getting up she activated her Harmony Armor. Instead of being golden it was a golden purple with a light purple diamond detailing. The armor was lighter and looked like there was a skirt attached. Rarity's cannon were replaced with two bracelets one on each hoof and a magic enhancement ring on her horn.

"Bring it," Rarity said taunting the monster to come closer.

The monster fell for Rarity's taunt and came charging at her, which she dodged dodged by teleporting around monster's body.

"Separation Cannon!" Rarity called out as she fired off a beam of light blue magic towards the monster, effectively splitting the monster into water and dirt.

The monster disassembled itself with a SPLAT, which after drying up the water, Rarity grabbed the totem in the magic and both her and Applejack were transported back to Twilight's house.

[Twilight's House...]

Twilight was awoken by a flash of light and were met with the return of her friends. She ushered them over to her desk and showed them her designs for their new base.

"Twilight, we should get some sleep, look at the time," Applejack said.

Twilight looked at her clock an saw that it was 11:50 PM.

"Your right, we should get some sleep," Twilight said summoning sleeping bags and pillows along with a sleeping Pinkie.

"Good Night, girls," Applejack said as the fell asleep.

Author's Note

Here is the newest chapter folks, now that summer has started I have more time to work on this story. The next chapter is coming later this month.

Episode Seven; Bridle Gossip

[Ponyville, May 25...]

A month after Twilight hosted her first slumber party, she decided to head out into Ponyville's Market area.

"Spike, I'm heading to the market," Twilight said, "Do you want something?"

Instead of answering Spike walked down the stairs holding his Bitbag.

"Lets go," Spike said walking up to Twilight.

"Looks like someone knows what they want," Twilight said opening the door.

The duo walked outside and almost bumped into Cobalt and Dawn.

"Oh, hey guys," Dawn greeted.

"Did you get Applejack's message too?" Cobalt asked.

"No, we were just about to head to the market," Twilight said.

"Strange, nopony is out, and it looks like Rainbow cleared the clouds today," Spike said.

"What does the message say?" asked Twilight.

Cobalt pulled out his C.H.W to show Twilight and Spike Applejack's message.

Team Harmony members, meet Pinkie and me at Sugarcube Corner, Ponyville is on lockdown.

"Well, lets go to Sugarcube Corner then," Twilight said after reading the message.

[Two Minutes Later, Sugarcube Corner...]

Upon reaching their destinatsuggestedy found the lights were all off inside of the shop, and they were quickly let inside by Pinkie.

"Um, Pinkie why are you in the dark by yourself, and where's Applejack?" asked Twilight.

"She's not in the dark by herself," Applejack said walking out of the darkness.

The lights were brighten up to allow everypony to see each other. Every member of Team Harmony was there including Applebloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo.

"Why is Ponyville on lockdown?" Spike asked.

"Ponyville is on lockdown because of her," Rarity said pointing at a hooded figure in the distance with her hoof.

"Who is that?" Dawn asked.

"That's Zecora, she comes into town and lurks by the stands," Rainbow said.

"Maybe she is looking for something," Twilight suggested.

"Then she digs at the ground," Fluttershy said.

"She could be digging for rocks," Cobalt said.

They looked back outside to she what Zecora was doing. Upon looking back out the window they spotted Zecora pulling off her hood, which revealed several stripes along her body.

"Stripes, oh the horror," Rarity said fainting.

"It's not a fashion choice, she's a zebra, she was born with those," Twilight said.

Rarity looked at Twilight for a moment for what she said to register, before she fainted again. This time Sweetie Belle and Dawn took Rarity to one of the booths. Then Zecora glanced in their direction as they all ducked out of the way of the window.

[With Zecora...]

'Was somepony watching me?' Zecora thought as she looked around herself.

After looking around the current ghost town of Ponyville she decided to head back home.

[Sugarcube Corner...]

"Look she's leaving!" Rainbow exclaimed.

"Where does she live?" Twilight asked.

"She lives in the Everfree Forest, an evil place for an evil enchantress," Pinkie said, "I even made a song about her."

Before she could be stopped Pinkie began to sing.

She's an evil enchantress

She does evil dances

And if you look deep in her eyes

She'll put you in trances

Then what will she do?

She'll mix up an evil brew

Then she'll gobble you up

In a big tasty stew

Soooo...Watch out!

By the end Pinkie was heavily breathing, while waiting for a reaction.

"That was catchy," Twilight said.

"Thanks, but I'm still working on it," Pinkie responded.

"Guys what happened to the girls?" Cobalt asked.

Everypony started looking around until they heard a loud CRASH.

"Sorry, I'll pay for it,"Spike said.

"They must've followed Zecora," Applejack said.

"We have to go after them, before they get hurt," Dawn said.

"What if they get cursed?" Pinkie asked.

"Impossible, there is no such things as curses," Twilight said, "Its just a story."

"You'll never know, that's what ponies were saying before Nightmare Moon attacked," Fluttershy said.

"Lets get our sisters," Rarity said standing up.

The group then ran out of Sugarcube Corner to go after the three fillies.

[Everfree Forest...]

Applebloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo were silently sneaking behind Zecora, they noticed when she avoided blue plants that were growing in the center of the path.

"Girls, what are y'all doing?!" Applejack yelled causing everypony to turn in her direction.

"Beware! Beware, you pony folk! Those leaves of blue are not a joke!" Zecora said as she noticed Team Harmony standing in the blue plant.

Applejack didn't budge from her position, but everypony else did. While Zecora walked away into the fog that was flowing behing her, with Applejack telling her to stay away from them. After getting back to Ponyville they all went to their respective homes for the night.

[The Next Morning...]

Twillight was woken up by numerous knocks on her door, she got up out of bed and noticed she had messed her mane up while asleep.

"Maybe, Zecora cursed my mane," Twilight said jokingly as she levitated a brush towards her mane.

"Or she cused my horn!" Screamed Twilight, as she spotted her horn, which was flopping around and covered in blue polka dots.

Then again there was more knocks at her door. Rainbow then flew in through a window, but was flying upsidedown. This caused her to fly all over the place and somehow managed to open the door.

"Rainbow, are you alright?" Twilight asked as her friend crashed into a bookshelf, when she seen Rainbow wings they were backwards and had blue polka dots covering it.

Just then Spike came walking down the stairs, but looked like he used to before becoming the of the element of companionship. The rest of Team Harmony entered after the Spike entered the room.

"What happed to y'all," Twilight asked.

"It's a furse a furse!” Pinkie exclaimed, with her tongue sticking out and covered in blue polka dots.

“It’s a purse?” Spike asked unsure of what Pinkie said.

“She said it’s a curse,” Applejack said, with Applebloom stepping forwards, pointing to her bow.

Applejack was riding on Applebloom’s bow, however Applejack was the size of a small rock, and had a two blue dots on her.

“I’m don’t want to say, I told ya that curses might be real, but as you can see it is,” said a unicorn with a dark purple coat, a purple and blue mane, one blue eye, one red eye, and their cutie mark was a cluster of blue polka dots.

“Cobalt, Dawn is that you?” Spike asked, confused about what happened to them.

“I have to agree with them too, Twilight,” Rarity said, but tripped on her overgrown mane, and fur.

Twilight looked over her friends noticing that Fluttershy had none of the blue polka dots on her.

“Fluttershy, were you changed in any way?” Twilight asked.

Everypony then looked at Fluttershy as she nodded to Twilight’s question.

“Can you tell us?” Rarity asked.

Fluttershy then wrote the word no with her hoofs. Applejack then jumped into Fluttershy’s mane knocking it out of its position. Which exposed her neck to the group, which was covered in the blue polka dots.

“Is something wrong with your voice?” Rainbow asked.

“I don’t want to talk about it,” responded Fluttershy in a jazz singer style voice.

Spike then started to laugh, along with rolling around on the ground.

The other members of Team Harmony were trying to see if Luna would be able to help them, but she unfortunately burst into laughter at the sight of the ponies.

“I got a idea, we need new names,” Spike said standing up, “We got Spitty Pie,” he said pointing at Pinkie.

“Pfftay?” Pinkie asked.

“Why, in case this doesn’t go away by the end of the day,” Spike answered.

“Rainbow, you’re new name is Rainbow Crash,” said Spike.

“No need to rub it in,” Rainbow said.

“Fluttershy is now Flutterguy,” Spike said as he grabbed some paper and a pen.

“Well, your new name is umm... I got nothing,” responded Fluttershy.

“Twilight Floppel, Appleteeny, Hararity,” Spike said to Twilight, Applejack, and Rarity.

“Wait until this affect wares off,” Twilight said.

“Lastly we have umm... I don’t even know what to call you,” Spike said looking at the Cobalt and Dawn fusion, before walking towards a bookshelf.

“We can’t stay like this, we should be looking for a antidote,” The fused Star twins said.

“I think I found something,” Spike said carrying a green book.

“

Supernatural Plants and Cures

” Twilight read out loud.

“See this may have what we are looking for,” Spike said.

“This can’t be what we need, but I know who might know how to cure us,” Twilight said.

“Twilight, may I use the bathroom?” Applebloom asked.

“Sure, down the hall to the left,” Twilight responded.

Applebloom dashed off towards the bathroom leaving Team Harmony in the library.

[Twilight’s Bathroom...]

Applebloom locked the bathroom door, and then proceeded to crawl out of the vent to get outside. Where she found out that the vent was like a maze which led to Spike’s room.

“So this is Spike’s room?” Applebloom asked herself opening a window and jumped into a hay cart.

’Time to head to Zecora’s place’thought Applebloom.

[Golden Oaks Library...]

As everypony was leaving Spike decided to go back to sleep, leaving the others to their own business.

“Team Harmony lets go,” Twilight said opening the door.

[Zecora’s Hut...]

After wondering around the Everfree Forest for a hour, the ponies of Team Harmony found Zecora’s hut.

“We’ve made it, though we lost Applejack and Rainbow,” Rarity said.

“Let’s go and speak to Zecora,” Twilight suggested.

Before the remaining Team Harmony members were able to knock on Zecora’s door they were stopped by Pinkie, who wanted Fluttershy to sing her song. After receiving Pinkie’s pleasing gaze, Fluttershy reluctantly began to sing with the jazz style voice.

She's an evil enchantress

And she does evil dances

And if you look deep in her eyes

She'll put you in trances

Then what will she do?

She'll mix up an evil brew

Then she'll gobble you up

In a big tasty stew

Soooo...Watch out!

When Fluttershy finished singing, Pinkie hopped off the log that she was dancing on and walked up to Zecora's door, however she stopped when she heard Zecora's voice from the other side.

"Sthe sthtole my sthong!" Pinkie cried out.

"Pinkie that didn't sound anything like your song," Rarity said.

Just then the door opened slightly causing the ponies to jump into the nearby bushes, revealing Applebloom.

"What's Applebloom doing here?" asked the Star Twins.

"I don't know, I thought she was still in the bathroom at my house," responded Twilight.

Before the door was closed the ponies took notice of the inside of Zecora's hut, which was decorated with masks, shelfs with various bottled liquids and books, topped off with a cauldron containing a bubbling liquid.

"Twilight, darling," started Rarity, "Did you see her spooky looking decor."
Twilight was about to speak when they heard Zecora speaking to herself, and rushed towards a window.

"Mmm!" Zecora exclaimed, "A temperature perfect for ponies, I presume, now where is that little Applebloom."

"We have to stop her," Fluttershy said.

Before anypony could move there was screaming followed by a rainbow blur, which crashed into the above window.

"Hold it Rainbow," Applejack said jumping off of Rainbow's chest.

The rest of Team Harmony then burst into the room causing a nearby mask to fly into the cauldron, knocking it over.

"Zecora, I didn't want to believe that you cursed us, but there is overwhelming evidence," said Twilight.

"How dare you!" Zecora yelled, "You destroyed my home, my work, then rudely accuse me of being a jerk?"

"Hey, you cursed us, so undo it," Rainbow yelled.

"It is unwise to venture down this road, your actions will make my anger explode!" Zecora yelled scanning the ponies.

"What are you planning to do to Applebloom!?" Twilight asked.

"What in Ponyville is going on here?" Applebloom suddenly asked.

Applejack let out a GASP of relief at the sight of her sister.

"Applebloom, sweetie Zecora was planing on cooking you up," Twilight said glancing at Applebloom.

Upon hearing this both Applebloom and Zecora began to laugh.

"Twilight, did you really believe Zecora had put a curse on y’all?” Applebloom asked.

“I guess I did,” responded Twilight.

“Can somepony explain what happened to us?” Applejack asked.

“Remember yesterday when y’all were chasing after me,” Applebloom started, “The pollen from those blue plants y’all had stepped in did this.”

“It’s like poison oak, but it’s effects are like a joke,” Zecora said.

“On behalf of my friends and I, we’re sorry for accusing you,” Twilight said.

“Hey, before we go, do you have a cure?” Rainbow asked.

“I would, but I’m missing one thing,” Zecora said.

“Whenever Zecora enters Ponyville the shops suddenly close,” Applebloom said.

“We can help with that,” Twilight said.

“This is what I need,” Zecora said bringing a book with her.

“May I see the book?” asked Twilight, “I don’t think I have it.”

“Here’s the book you see, it’s a shame you lack this in your library,” Zecora said.

“Actually I have this book, I just didn’t look inside due to the title,” Twilight said.

“Hopefully you’ll take another look, and not judge the cover of the book,” responded Zecora.

“Well lets get that flower,” Twilight said.

[30 Minuets Later, Ponyville...]

Spike was just strolling down the street when he heard screaming.

“Run, she cursed them all,” said a earth pony mare.

Spike took to the air and spotted the rest of Team Harmony and Zecora.

‘They must’ve found out how to reverse the effects too’ thought Spike.

“What do we have here,” said a voice.

Spike turned around to only see Robomare Moon, hovering behind him.

“What we have is a robot that’s about to get scrapped,” Spike taunted equipping his Harmony Armor.

Robomare Moon began charging up her magic, but was stopped by Spike punching her with his gloved claw, followed by Spike suddenly disappearing and reappeared behind her landing another hit.

“Looks like I’m faster than you,” Spike said vanishing.

“Show your-,” Robomare said being cut off by Spike’s fire breath.

When Robomare Moon regained her bearings Spike was charging up another attack.

“Oh, no you don’t!” Robomare yelled flying towards Spike.

“Element of Companionship!” Spike called out releasing a green inferno of fire and light causing Robomare Moon to sustain major damage.

“I’m gonna get you one day!” screamed Robomare.

“Yea, right,” Spike said before he landed next to his teammates.

“Hey, Spike nice work,” Rarity said congratulating him.

“Thanks,” Spike responded.

“I finished writing my report to Celestia, Spike,” Twilight said, tossing the scroll towards Spike who lit it with a golden flame.

“I guess we’ll see you again, Zecora?” Twilight asked.

“Y’all know where to find my home, just follow the trail,” Zecora said walking into the Everfree Forest.

“See y’all later,” Applejack said as she and Applebloom walked towards their home.

“Bye girls, and Spike,” Cobalt said as he and Dawn went home.

“I’ll see y’all darlings tomorrow,” Rarity said as she left.

“Bye girls,” Spike said as he watched Rainbow Dash, Pinkie, and Fluttershy leave the library.

“Good Night, Twilight,” Spike said walking to his room.

“Night, Spike,” Twilight said walking to her room.

[Inside of the Celestial Harmony Watches...]

“Hmm, I should use this time to work on blueprints for the Harmony Base,” Luna said to herself.

“Can I help to?” asked a voice.

Luna spun around only to notice that Cobolt was standing behind her.

“Don’t scare me like that,” Luna said, “But you can help design the training area.”

“You know me too well, Luna,” Cobolt said levitating a pencil.

Author's Note

Sorry about the delay, I’ve had moved earlier this summer and didn’t have as much time to work on this chapter. But here it is the seventh episode chapter.

Interlude Two; A Day of Fun?

[Rainbow Dash’s House, Ponyville...]

It’s been a while since Rainbow and her friends convinced the dragon to move out of the cave. So Rainbow chose to spend the following two weeks sleeping, or practicing for the Wonderbolts. However as Rainbow was preparing her breakfast, she heard a knock on her cloud door.

“Huh, I wonder who that could be?” Rainbow said to herself as she walked towards the door.

[On the other side of the door...]

Standing on the outside of Rainbow’s house was a orange pegasus filly, with a light purple mane, and grayish purple eyes. Along side her was a light blue suitcase. The pegasus knocked on the cloud door again.

“I’m coming!” Rainbow yelled to the pegasus on the other side of the door.

When Rainbow opened the door she was surprised to see her younger cousin at the door. Her cousin had a huge grin on her face, while fluttering her wings.

“Well hey, squirt, didn’t expect you here,” Rainbow said.

Before her cousin could respond, Rarity, Applejack, and their sisters Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom, called out to her.

“Hi ya, Rainbow,” Said Sweetie, before noticing Rainbow’s cousin.

“Hi, I’m Sweetie Belle, what’s your name?” asked Sweetie Belle.

“Hi my name is Scootaloo, nice to meet you,” Said the pegasus now known as Scootaloo.

“And I’m Apple Bloom, that’s Applejack, and that’s Rarity,” Apple Bloom said as she walked up to Scootaloo while pointing her hoof at the mentioned ponies.

“So, Scootaloo, did your parents enroll you in Ponyville Elementary?” Applejack asked.

“They sure did, and I already got my things early,” Scootaloo said unable to contain her excitement.

“We have to get, Scootaloo’s room set up, we’ll get back to ya later,” Rainbow said, “Can you fly, Scoots?” Rainbow asked hovering.

“No, not yet,” Scootaloo said sadly.

“Well, you’re in luck, I’m gonna teach you,” Rainbow said dashing off to gather the clouds in the lawn of her house to make Scootaloo her room.

“Well I got a day off, what yall want to do?” Asked Rainbow.

Suddenly Pinkie manages to pop out of the ground with a flyer.

“Hey, I’m Pinkie Pie, also I have a day off, let’s go to the Equestrian Fair in Las Pegasus,” Pinke Said holding up the flyer with her mane.

“Sounds like a great idea, let’s go,” Rainbow said.

“We should bring, Spike too,” Apple Bloom said.

“Ok, to the Golden Oaks Library then,” Applejack said.

As the group of seven ponies walked towards Twilight’s house, they ran into Dawn and Cobalt who were buying food from the market.

“Hey guys, this is my cousin, Scootaloo,” Rainbow said.

“Hello, Scootaloo, I’m Dawn and this is my twin brother Cobalt,” Dawn said to Scootaloo.

“Hello, I read all about the history of your family while I was in third grade,” Scootaloo said, “Can I get yall autographs?” Scootaloo later asked.

Summoning a picture of the two of them, Dawn and Cobalt signed their names on the picture and gave it to Scootaloo.

“There you go one autograph,” Cobalt said smiling.

“What yall doing today?” Asked Apple Bloom.

“I’m going to be hanging out with my friends back in Canterlot,” Dawn said.

“I’m going to be spending the day with Twilight,” Cobalt said.

“What about yall?” Dawn asked.

“We’re going to the Equestrian Fair in Las Pegasus,” Pinke answered.

“Sounds like fun, I bet yall going to get, Spike,” Dawn said.

“Yep!” Sweetie Belle said.

“Don’t let us keep you waiting,” Dawn responded waving bye along with her brother.

[Golden Oaks Library...]

Twilight was creating a checklist of the things that she wanted to get done for the day. Suddenly there was a knock on the door.

“Spike!” Twilight called, “The door!”

“On it, Twi!” Spike called back.

Upon opening the door Spike was met with the smiling faces of Pinkie, Apple Bloom, and Sweetie Belle, while Rainbow, Rarity, and Applejack were keeping a orange pegasus filly that Spike didn’t know from running.

“Twilight!” Spike called, “Its the girls!”

Twilight teleported downstairs to meet her friends in a flash of light. Upon seeing Twilight, Scootaloo calmed down and walked forwards.

“Hi, I’m Scootaloo, Rainbow’s cousin,” Scootaloo said.

“Hello, I’m Twilight, and the dragon beside me is Spike,” Twilight said introducing Spike and herself.

“Speaking of Spike, can he come with us?” Apple Bloom asked.

“Yeah, we’re going to the Equestrian Fair!” Sweetie Belle said excitedly.

Without much thought Twilight wrote a letter and had Spike send it to Princess Celestia on the matter. Not to long after there was a response.

Dear Twilight,

Spike has been registered as a peaceful citizen of Equestria and is free to go to the Equestrian Fair. I also will be attending the Fair, hope to see you there.

Your Teacher Princess Celestia.

P.S. I put in VIP Tickets in for your friends and yourself if you choose to go.

Twilight levitated eight of the tickets and wrote a letter to send with the remaining ticket.

Dear Princess Celestia,

I have given the tickets to Applejack, Apple Bloom, Rarity, Sweetie Belle, Rainbow Dash, her cousin Scootaloo, Pinkie Pie, and Spike. As for the ninth ticket I’m sending that back as I have a full schedule for myself, I apologise for not attending the fair.

Your Fateful Student Twilight Sparkle,

Instead of getting a letter back, Luna appeared from Twilight’s Celestial Harmony Watch.

“Luna?” Twilight asked, “What are you doing here?”

“I’m here to tell yall that I’m updating the C.H.W. in its entirety, so you won’t be able to use it for three hours at least,” Luna stated before leaving and shutting down the C.H.W. for every member of Team Harmony.

“Well that’s a problem,” Applejack said.

“Hopefully we won’t have to use these,” Rarity said pointing to her C.H.W. with her hoof.

The group soon left Twilight’s House and headed for the train station to purchase their tickets for Las Pegasus.

[Ponyville ->Las Pegasus Train, Noon...]

The ponies and Spike had bought tickets for the special cart on the express train, which under normal conditions would have cost 8,000 bits for the eight of them. Thankfully there was a Equestrian Fair sale, which lowered it to 2000 bits. Also having Spike with them validated their connection to Princess Celestia, they managed to get on for 500 bits.

“Pinkie how long is the Equestrian Fair?” Rainbow asked.

“The flyer says it starts at 12:30 PM to 7 PM,” responded Pinkie.

“This train travels at 12 Trots Per Hour (TPH) or 96 MPH or 192 KPH,” Spike said reading a pamphlet about the train, then he got up and said “I’m gonna go to the bathroom.”

Everypony waited for Spike to come back, but Scootaloo spoke first.

“So we’ll be there...,” was all that Scootaloo said before there was the sound of fanfare.

The door was opened by a member of the Royal Guard Band playing a trumpet. Upon looking in the almost empty passenger car he had a confused look on his face. The Royal Guard Band member was a unicorn with white fur, a golden color mane and tail, and was wearing a gold and silver uniform which covered his cutie mark, and in his golden magic aura was his trumpet.

“Welcome Princess Celestia!” The Bard said introducing the princess.

Behind him was in the Princess followed by a Royal Guard. This one had a dark silver colored fur, a orange mane and tail, he was also a unicorn and was wearing armor with his cuite mark on the front, which was a rounded silver shield with two reddish orange spears crossing in front of the shield, which was armor made for the captain of the Royal Guard.

“Hello my litte ponies,” Celestia said as the riders in the car had bowed down to her.

“So, y’all three are members of Team Harmony,” The Royal Guard Captain asked, “Oh, my name is Silver Spear,” he said introducing himself.

“We’re four of the members of Team Harmony, and these three fillies are our relatives,” Applejack said while pointing to Applebloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo.

“I’m Sonar Soundtrack,” The Royal Guard Bard said.

“So we’re all headed to the Equestrian Fair,” Rainbow said looking at the quickly passing landscape.

Everypony voiced their input, while Spike ran back into the car.

“We have a problem,” Spike said panting.

“What kind of problem?” Pinkie asked.

“Psyco is here, and with a robotic looking Nightmare Moon!” Spike yelled.

“Luna is working on the Celestial Harmony Watches still,” Applebloom said.

“Silver Spear, summon a magic protection force, Sonar Soundtrack, we need a musical defense,” Celestia said before asking, “Rarity can you generate a shield?”

“A basic one,” Rarity said casting the spell.

Pinkie pulled out two cannons out of her mane as well as a hoof cannon. She gave the hoof cannon to Applejack and they both climbed into the top of the passenger car.

“Y’all girls stay here,” Rainbow said, “Spike, let’s move”

“Alright,” Spike said following Rainbow out of the train.

The four Team Harmony members were standing on or hovering above the train, watching the skies for the orange dragon and his robotic companion.

BANG, BOOM

Everypony turned to see Spike fire a fire ball at a sphere of dragon fire. That’s when they saw the metallic dark blue and silver blue of Nightmare Moon’s new body and mane, being encased in a sonic attack.

“So that’s the new Nightmare Moon,” Applejack said aiming her hoof cannon, “Let’s take her down!”

Unfortunately the hoof cannons and Pinkie’s cannons didn’t have the range they needed, so Applejack and Pinkie were unable to join the fight and had to wait.

“I should get a upgrade for these cannons,” Pinkie said patting her cannons.

“Yep,” Applejack responded.

[Inside of the Celestial Harmony Watch...]

Princess Luna was floating around with a light blue vest and a blue hardhat looking at things. The inside of the Celestial Harmony Watch had a floating house, and a golden sky on one side with a purple sky on the other.

“That should be the last thing,” Luna said to herself.

“Override Code; 6921!” Luna called out.

The Celestial Harmony Watches all activated in unison and Luna satisfied with her work, summoned her a chair, nine TVs, and a drink as she sat down.

[Twilight’s House...]

Twilight and Cobalt were organizing all the books in Twilight’s personal library. While Cobalt was levitating a book his C.H.W reactivated startling him.

“Ack!” Cobalt exclaimed.

“Huh?” Twilight asked before hers turned on.

“Their back on!” Cobalt said, “Want to go get something to eat?” he later asked.

“Sure,” Twilight answered levitating her bit bag.

With that the duo walked to Sugar Cube Corner.

[Equestrian Express, 25 Minuets till arrival in Las Pegasus...]

Pinkie and Applejack were able to get in some hits with the cannons, when their C.H.W turned on.

“Let’s do this,” Applejack said.

“Ready,” Pinkie responded.

They pressed a button and were surrounded by a golden light. When the light died down they were equipped with a brand new version of their Harmony Armor. Applejack’s was thinner than the last one which fitted her nicely, it was golden, with a red apple detailing on her chestplate. Applejack has her hoof gauntlets, and an enchanted golden lasso.

“I’m liking this new update,” Applejack said.

Pinkie’s Harmony Armor was looser than previously, and allowed for more movement, along with it being golden it had a pink balloon detailing on the chestplate. Pinkie still had her magic gemstone, as well as new gemstones on her front hoofs.

“I wonder what these do?” Pinkie asked herself.

Pinkie thrusted her left hoof out and a glowing ball of confetti flew out towards Psyco.

“Yes!” Pinkie exclaimed.

Rainbow flew into Psyco while he was distracted, causing him to fly backwards.

“Take that!” Rainbow exclaimed, as she activated her C.H.W. and equipped her Harmony Armor. Rainbow’s Harmony Armor weight a lot less than it was previously, while it still had its original color, but it had a rainbow colored lightning bolt detailing on her chestplate, her wings now were covered in a flexible portion of her armor which came with retractable micro weapons.

“Bring it,” Rainbow said to Psyco as he flew at her.

Applejack focused on the robotic Nightmare Moon while holding her lasso. Spike unfortunately for him had no time to charge up his fire breath to full power as Nightmare Moon had broke free of her sonic prison, and was constantly blasting him with her magic.

“Is that the best you got?” Nightmare Moon asked.

“I’ve got better, Robomare Moon!” Spike taunted.

“Robomare Moon?” Nightmare Moon asked, “I like that, thanks for a new name.”

The robotic alicorn now known as Robomare Moon charged up a spell and launched it towards Spike, who activated his Harmony Armor before he had gotten hit. Spike’s Harmony Armor was more fitting for a dragon, with a green dragon detail on the chestplate, he was also given a glove as a new weapon.

“Time to try out my new gift,” Spike said looking at a now trapped Robomare Moon.

“Spike!” Applejack called, “Attack now!”

“We’re almost within city limits,” Silver Spear said.

Spike focused on combining his dragon abilities with his harmony magic and created a dragon claw, which he swung at Psyco and Robomare Moon sending them flying.

“It’s a home run!” Spike yelled, as he landed on the train.

[Las Pegasus Train Station...]

As the ten ponies and Spike got off the train they were driven to the Equestrian Fair, where they each went their separate ways to enjoy the rest of the day. When the Equestrian Fair was over Celestia didn’t want to risk taking the train, so she and her two guards agreed on teleporting them all to Twilight’s location.

[Twilight’s House...]

Twilight was waving bye to Cobolt as he left for his house, afterwards she saw a bright golden flash from behind her and turned around.

“Celestia?!” Twilight asked, “How has your day been?”

“It’s been a very exciting day for me, and your friends and teammates as well,” Celestia said smiling.

“Well you can tell he all about it,” Twilight said as everyone sat down on a chair.

Author's Note

That’s the newest chapter.

I left out the details of the Equestrian Fair as I’m thinking about making a story about the little things that goes on in between the episodes/chapters, so be on the lookout for it.