The Dark Army Rises

Chapter 6: A Cavern of the Past

Rainbow Dash and her friends stood looking out across the ruins of Canterlot. Rainbow Dash held up her hoof.

"On my signal," she said, looking as confident as she could. A voice entered her head as she prepared to speak.

'Death awaits you all,' it spoke in a raspy voice.

She counted down.

"3,2,1, GO!" she yelled.

They tore from the ruined building and into the open. Rainbow Dash looked in every direction to find the Dark Army, but they were nowhere to be seen.

"Flying feathers!" she yelled.

As she yelled this, a shadow began to cover the area.

"Aw, great," Applejack said. "You've done gone and brought 'em over."

Fluttershy cowered in fear as the shadow covered the entire area of Canterlot. They all turned to get a good look at the Dark Army for the first time.

They were shadows. They looked like the shadows of ponies who went and drank some kind of enlargement potion. And a lot of it. They towered high above the streets, as tall as the Canterlot tower itself.

"Just our bucking luck," Applejack said with a sigh.

Rainbow Dash bolted up into the sky, as Twilight and Rarity began to prepare to attack them with magic, Applejack began to scuff her hoof on the ground, Pinkie Pie began to giggle, and Fluttershy ran behind a piece of rubble.

"ATTACK!" Rainbow Dash yelled at the top of her lungs.

They all began to attack the Dark Army with all they had. Rainbow Dash flew up high, and plummeted down. She then flew down as fast as her wings could carry her. She reached top speed, and a Sonic Rainboom appeared. She slammed right into the Dark Army. Well, maybe slammed is not the right word. She flew right through them. She pulled up at the last second to avoid being roadkill. Twilight and Rarity shot magic, but with the same results as the Sonic Rainboom. Applejack's hooves also flew right through them. Then one of the Army swiped a shadowy hoof and knocked them all in different directions.

Rainbow Dash flew across the entire city, landing on the edge of a steep hill. She tried to stand up, but her hoof slipped and she fell down the hill. She landed at the bottom of the hill and tumbled into a cavern at the bottom. She picked herself up, dusted herself off, and began to leave when a blue wall of magic appeared and blocked her path. She turned around to see who did that. In the middle of the cavern, three glowing spirits came foward. One was a pony, one was a unicorn, and the other a pegasi.

'Who are you?" Rainbow Dash asked, anger in her voice.

"We are the founders of Equestria," the earth pony said.

"Yeah, uh-huh," Rainbow Dash said sarcastically. "That's why there are three of you. Six ponies founded Equestria. I should know because I had to be in that boring Hearth's Warming Eve play."

"Oh, you ponies now," the pegasi said. "All believing the best. Well, things were a lot different before."

"Yes," the unicorn said. "All you ponies now believe that it's all happy endings, don't you? It's not. We were the only survivors of that dreadful night in the cavern."

"What?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"We sat in that cave," the earth pony said. "Watching as our leaders souls were taken by the Wendigos, as they were sent to the Realm of Dark Souls, and we fought."

"But I thought friendship stopped the Wendigos," Rainbow Dash said.

"Freindship?" the unicorn said. "No, you silly pegasus. We fought those Wendigos ourselves. We struggled for hours, stopping the cold and killing them."

"And of course," the pegasus said. "A little help from some Elements."

"The Elements of Harmony?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"No," the unicorn said. "Something more powerful than the Elements of Harmony."

"What?" Rainbow Dash asked. "What's more powerful than the Elements?"

"Oh, use your silly little brain," the pony said. "What is Harmony in all it's glory?"

"Um..." Rainbow Dash thought. 'If Twilight was here she'd probably know. I guess it's just, uh..., Harmony is just, um..."

Rainbow Dash thought for a while, then the spirits told her.

"Chaos!" they yelled in unison.

"All Harmony is controlled Chaos!" the unicorn yelled.

"Huh?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"Why did we trap her in here?" the pegasus asked. "Can't we just not tell her about how to work them, give them to her, and get her out of here?"

"Stop referring to me as, 'her'," Rainbow Dash said. "Or 'her' is going to rip you apart."

"Oh," the pony said. "What's the peaceful pony going to do, kill us with friendship? As if."

"Oh, you don't want to know what I'll do," Rainbow Dash said. "But let's just say it has something to do with rainbows."

"Wait, what?" the pegasus asked. "Are you talking about what I think you're talking about?"

"Oh, yes," Rainbow Dash said. "I know a lot about it, too."

"You know what," the pegasus said, a hint of panic in her voice. "Just give her the Elements of Chaos and let her go."

"Why?" the unicorn asked.

"I'll explain after she goes," the pegasus said.

"Fine," the earth pony said.

The pony walked to the back and pulled out a box that looked just like the rock it was in. The pony gave it to Rainbow Dash, who then flew like a bullet out of the cavern. Time to find her friends.