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The three most royal princesses of Equestria flew down and landed together side by side; Princess Celestia of the Sun, Princess Luna of the Moon, and Princess Cadence of Oxytocin. They glared suspiciously at the unwelcome newcomer.
Out of the alien space ship what seemed to be a purple smoke lit by purple and red light like some crazy overdone concert, Commander Tempest walked down the airship’s ramp with purple scowling eyes. She was a dark unicorn with a scarred face, rose mane, and horn chipped. She also happened to pull off one heck of a skin-tight black suit with the Halo logo on what her Cutie mark would be.
“Tempest is it? How may we help you?” Celestia asked sternly.
She looked menacingly at the princesses. Her tone of speech smooth as silk. "Oh, I'm so glad you asked. How about we start with your complete and total surrender?"
Twilight, the socially awkward princess of social interaction, shyly walked from behind the princess and stood off to the side of them. “Hi there, princess of Friendship here. Not sure what’s going on here, but I’m sure we could talk things out.”
“Oh, goody all four princesses.” She trotted down the steel ramp. “Here’s the deal, ladies, I need your magic. Give it up nicely please, or else we’ll make it difficult... for everyone."
And why should we coward--” Princess Luna was interrupted by snorting laughing from the other princesses.
Tempest was taken aback by their laughter. “What, what's so funny? I’m serious!” She stomped her hoof.
“I'm also curious, can you explain” said Luna.
“Oh please, what threat do you pose to us?” Twilight stated, her confidence grown ten folds. “We have four alicorns all gathered here in one spot, and you’re just a unicorn with a broken horn. ”
She scowled, infuriated by her insult. “Why you… Argh! I’ll take you all down.” A bunch of airships floated in the city and large gorilla-like masked guys jumped onto the ground scaring the crowd into a panic.
The princesses, however, stood there doing nothing but looking stoic. A bad guy charged at Princess Celestia before being blasted into ashes.
Tempest splinted to the princesses, and at the same time, planning her next move.
The bad guys were levitated and midair by yellow magic, they were flipped and dropped upside down. Simultaneously, they crashed their heads in the grounds, knocking most of them unconscious. The ponies swarm them and pin them down.
“You and what army?” said Celestia with a smug.
Tempest’s gazed at the surreal scene that was satisfying in a way. She let friction do the work for her and slowed her down. “But--how--?” She stopped completely.
Twilight interrupted “Wow seriously, no magic, no advanced technology, not even enchanted swords? What were you planning to do anyway? Do those ships have any weapons?” Do you even know anything about us?”
“Uh… There are four princesses?” Tempest blushed. “Look, the Storm king needs your powers and I need my horn fixed---"
“Are you kidding me? If I was doing an invasion, I wouldn’t send I would be better prepared!”
“Twilight, don’t be giving any potential enemies advice,” Celestia gently scolded. “And stop paying attention to the horn, it’s just plain rude.’
“Sorry, not it’s just the horn though…” Twilight blushed. “That look is so... Badass! Sure, I would be traumatized for life if I had a chipped horn, but... Come on!"
Luna smirked at Tempest’s stunned expression. “It seems that my sister defeated your insignificant platoons, do you have any more tricks up your sleeve for us to tremble beneath your hooves, Tempest?”
She clenched her teeth “Yes I do, actually.” She jumped a 180 and conjure a magical shadow ball with a shapeshifting green crystal beneath her back hoof. She aimed and kicked it straight towards the princesses. Cadence jumped in front of the higher ranking princesses and cast a shield in hopes of blocking.
“I’ll be your meat shield, Princes!” A pegasus royal guard flew in front of her, letting it hit and harden him into stone.
“So that’s what the dark glowing magical ball does,” Celestia mused.
“Rrr!” Tempest shot a bolt of magical lightning at the princesses, exploding on contact with the shield.
“Guards!” called Luna.
The royal regime charged at Tempest, tackling her at the same time. In the middle of a melee, Tempest pulled a incredible feat of strength and knock edthe guards to incredible distances, knocking them unconscious without receiving a scratch.
“Oh come on!" cried Twilight. "Let me get this straight. You shoot lightning bolts, makes shadow balls that could freeze anything, super strength, and bucking martial arts! Are you sure you need your horn fixed? You don’t need to be a swiss knife of abilities you know!” She shouted at Tempest who was too busy kicking plots to notice.
“Stop irritating the guest, Twilight,” Celestia scolded gently.
“Sorry.” Twilight blushed.
“I’ll take down all of you with my bare hooves if I have to!” She ran towards the princesses before conjuring another ball by breaking dancing. Before she could buck the ball like a boss, Luna shot a beam at the ball, blowing it up at her face, freezing her into stone. Her statue was slid in her circles until it stopped right in the middle of the princesses.
“Well done, Luna,” said Celestia. “Couldn’t have done better myself.”
“Piece of cake.”
"I like cake..." Tempest sidekick commented before a beam disintegrated him.
“Who knew you could fight with dancing?” mused Twilight.
“Did she mentioned something about a Storm King?” Cadence said, trying as much as possible to look useful without doing anything.
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The rest of the fleet of Airships were made laid waste in a valley, making an impromptu graveyard Stormking/weird yeti dude along with his henchmen/hulking anthropomorphic wolves who served under him.
The four princesses were flying back to the celebration as fast as possible to make it to the celebration, flying over the plains below.
“Question, why do everyone won’t stop constantly taking over our kingdom?” asked Twilight
“Because, Twilight,” Luna answered. “Other Kingdoms are jealous of our essential role as being better than everyone else. We also literally own the sky and a few essential aspects of life itself. In the new generation’s slang, we do own their plots. For Cadence, that cannot be any more literal.”
“Stop being so mean to me!” announced Cadence, standing up for herself. “There’s more than love than horsing around, you know; there’s also Family, Couples, and even platonic relationships!”
“Well I’m the princess of friendship, which means to distinguish friendship and love apart, you have to exclude every platonic relationship. Therefore, logic dictates that everything involved with love is in blood ie family. Since reproduction is essential to making a family and what set it apart from other relationship, I’m afraid that you’ll be forever associated with our perverted endeavors.
“I--uh… Horseradishes! I’ll just... pretend I never heard that then,” Cadence answered.
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Magnificent, prismatic, luminescent coral arm reach out, towering above Twilight Sparkle.
The egotistical Queen Novo was stupid enough to leave the place unguarded for a seaweed wrap right when the guest was over, so much for being paranoid about the guest. The only one who was watching it was her daughter, and oh wait, she definitely has a history of being trustworthy. Although these thoughts weren't normally in the forefront of Twilight's mind, nor how she would phrase her thoughts to her friends, it was the cynical part of her nevertheless that was driven by the experience she gained through her adventure. Furthermore, thanks to her intelligence:
I couldn’t help but smug at her naivety of my friends for a moment, and turned around to gaze wondrously at to the pearl inside the… What is that thing?
“Is that a... Jellyfish?” She face-hoofed. “Stupid me, Jellyfish sting. If I only had a spell that could go around the defenses.” Her horn lit, pulling the pearl down from the jellyfish’s mouth/butthole/unmentionable with telekinesis, avoiding the ensnaring tentacles.
“She’s stealing the pearl!” A legally blind guard pointed out.
Merpony guards surrounded, pointing spears at her.
“Gotcha, ain’t nobody gonna trick the great and powerful Queen Novo!” Announced queen nova.
In a swirl of magic, they transformed into their hippogriffs forms, before they could realize they could no longer breathe underwater, they choked on the seawater forcing them to clinch their own necks.
In that very moment, Twilight held no punches. “Okay, I’ll make this quick. I know your secret about what you did to the original Sea Ponies.”
Queen Novo’s Eyes opened wide from fear, both from drowning and what she explicitly said.
“Yeah, don’t worry about it. We don't need need to let her know as long as you acquiesce to my demands, capiche?”
She nodded, her eyes fluttering from the suffocation.
Twilight cast her spell, the queen and her soldiers transformed backed into their aquatic forms, breathing heavily to recover from the lack of oxygen.
“How do you know?” asked Queen Nova
“Read it in a book that the Seaponies once had the pearl, and since you’re former birds of prey living in their place the use to be, any observant pony could simply do what I did and fill in the blanks. And I really doubt that your the type who would let their innocent daughter know about this.”
She waved her fins. “No. Don’t. Don’t! My daughter, she’s a child. She would loathe me!" She sighed bubbles. "Okay, you got me. What do you want from?”
“Alright, how about I just borrow this pearl and we join together to defeat Tempest?”
She flinched. “War, really? But we are pacifists?"
"Yep, violence and stuff. You got a problem with that?"
Nova smiled nervously. "Okay, S-sounds like a reasonable request to me.”
“No objections?”
“M-mm” Her sweat so heavy an salty, they came out of her skin as thin brine.
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Dear fellow princess Celestia,
Today, I learned that the ends justify the means. Sure, I could have entrusted my friends to befriend the hippogriff princess and get through the queen her instead of blackmailing her, but she wouldn’t have lent her army to help defeat them. Surprisingly, we were aide also aided by our other new pirate friends---and reluctantly a cat friend--- to defeat the almighty army.
BTW, does being a princess of friendship give you friendship powers? I mean, you control the Sun, Luna controls the moon, Cadence controls porking, does that mean that I control Friendship itself? Seriously, this magic business in the hand of serious rulers can easily become totalitarian without checks and balances.
Your fellow Princess, Twilight Sparkle.
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Dear Princess Celestia,
Urgent. The Storm King and his army are invading the Aries Mountain with an armada airship. We were powerless but escaped. We are hiding until his forces are defeated.
“An invasion, in this hour? But if I leave my post, I’ll have to do stuff even more work on the schedule and it would take forever to deal with the nobles complaints! Unless…” Celestia dipped her quill into the ink jar.
Dear Fluttershy,
It is of utmost importance...
Minute later
A flash of white light and Discord appeared, wearing white pajamas. His pinkish eyes were troubled with the task of staying open, and his teddy bear in claw.
He contorted every bone of his body 360 degrees one way and one way to the opposite, cracking every joint in his body. He then returned to his default body position. “You need me, Princess?” He faced her, scratching his tail.
“I like for you to--”
“Yes, get rid of the Storm King, prevent the plot of My Little Pony movie from every happening, yatta yatta. Sure, why not. It’s not like people need to enjoy making this for a living or even enjoy watching such a fun project or anything. Sheesh, you’re such a downer, author.”
He snapped his claws and blinked from existence and appeared again several seconds later.
“There you go, finished. Now can I finish my month long nap?”
“That was easy... too easy. Discord, What did you do?” Celestia raised her eyebrow
“Isn’t it obvious?”
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Stormking's army wondered the tents, they set them on the dirt grounds beneath the zeppelins tethered to the stakes below.
A bunch of henchmen were poised behind pointing sphears and trembling in fear.Tempest stood firmly on the dirt, staring menacingly. "You shall do what I say and obey the almighty Storm King, or else!”
A T-rex head looks straight at the dwarfing the unicorn ten-fold, and Its body dwarfing its head tenfold more.
“Chirp! Chirp! Chirp!” it said in a low reptilian voice
“..."
"Chirp!"
"For a behemoth reptile, you don’t sound scary as I assumed you'd be.”
Author's Note
Tempest Shadow befriends and rides a T-rex happily ever after. The End.
