Super Zeros

Trixie shut her eyes as she teleported the group to the exact spot Starlight had been thinking of. She waited for some exciting introduction from Starlight, and instead opened her eyes and found herself looking out over the edge of a step cliff at the sound of both Starlight and Rerun yelling. Starlight was now breathing heavily atop a storm cloud, having been teleported over the edge and plummeted for a few seconds she had forced a cloud to form and bring her back up. Trixie looked down and saw a hole that bore the perfect silhouette of Rerun in the ground.

"Sorry," She called out "I've never jumped so far before, I Might have missed the mark by a few yards...or maybe miles," Rerun's hand shot all the way from the hole to being eye level with Trixie and gave her a thumbs up before grabbing the side of the cliff and reeling Rerun back to the rest of the group.

"No problem," Starlight took several deep breaths as she tried to regain her composure "Not the first time I've been teleported into a steep drop," Starlight did her best to shake off the panic of the sudden drop. It turned her attention to the mountaintop they had teleported to. "But, in regard to your worries, you missed the mark by one mountain," Trixie turned around at the remark and found the face of the mountain neighboring the one they were already on had been carved to look like a Giant Hand was grasping onto the side of the mountain.

"What the fuck?" Trixie questioned as she looked to Starlight for something akin to an explanation.

"Before Mane-iacs death at the hands of the Warden, this was the home base to the Anti-Hero association,"

"Also knows and the Metal Hand," Rerun cut in "Which is funny because that hand is made of rock,"

"That comment is why they denied you membership," Starlight replied calmly as she had her cloud carry her to the entrance. A Large half circle platform extended from the wrist of the Large hand. Trixie simply Teleported over and Rerun whistled a merry tune as he walked into the open air. Trixie expected him to make it halfway and then just drop but was almost disappointed when he made it to the platform. Her disappointment was replaced with a laugh when he was instantly hit with an Anvil the second he stopped walking.

"Anyway," Starlight snapped as she spoke to regain Trixie's attention from the Toony Antics of Rerun "The association disbanded when all but two of its founding members died in the great Hero wars. One of them is now in the vault, and the other was kind enough to pay back an old favor and set us up here.

"They must be quite the Powerhouse if they're the only ones who escaped," Trixie said in awe as the doors opened for them and let them into a large entry hall, Trixie expected to find a place that had been left to fall into ruin. Instead, she ended up spinning in place as looked around at dozens of Statues, everything from the highest peak of the ceiling to the corners of the room was all so perfectly preserved it almost looked like a Musueam of Villainy.

"He's is a Powerhouse, but in the end, he only managed to survive the war the same way me and Rerun did,"

"How exactly did you two make it out?" Trixie asked curiously, Trixie was given an answer, but not by her two companions.

"It's called being smart enough to recognize when you're outclassed," Trixie jumped at the voice and turned to see a Pony made of pure Shadow standing before her.

"Holly crap," She screamed out before ceasing to exist.

"That is a fair reaction," The Pony of Shadows noticed before turning to Starlight. "Falling Star...on no wait, you said it's Fallen Star now correct?"

"Good to see you again Stygian," Starlight greeted as the Shadows caved in on themselves and the Eathpony in the middle was revealed.

"Honestly it's wonderful to see you again," He said "I had all but given up hope of anyone from the old days ever coming back, Is Rerun with you,"

"Pie," Rerun shouted from the doorway, said Pie flew through the air and above Stygian, who instantly turned into the Pony of Shadows and chomped it out of the air. "I love this guy," Rerun cheered "He's the only one who can appreciate my fine cuisine,"

"He can only eat your pies because they're pure magic ink," Starlight noted "And he literally eats magic," Rerun stuck his tongue out in response as Trixie rematerialized behind the toon.

"All the newspapers said he died in the war," Trixie said shakily.

"Oh that was a Shadow Duplicate," Stygian chuckled "It's how I've managed to stay alive for as long as I have, but enough catching up, What brings you two back in town? trying to become the next top Villians?"

"Nope," Starlight said simply "I'm done with mindless acts of misguided rage, This Villian is going to be a Hero, a real Hero, not like those Government Puppets the Power Ponies, or any of those other fools,"

"Not to be rude but-" Stygian's words were cut off with a wave of Statrlight's hand "I'm not here to make you join us out on the field, We just needed a base of operations, and you were always a great Den Mother, figured you wouldn't mind lending us the space seeing how we'll be using Trixie to Teleport in and out,"

"So long as you do everything within your power to keep those vultures from entering my home it's yours to use as you see fit," Stygian replied with a smile, "Common Room R is yours to use as a home,"

"Alright come on guys," Starlight turned and made her way to the opposite end of the hall "Oh, and I'm sorry, I heard the Pillars didn't make it out of the war," Stygians face fell at the word and he let out a sigh.

"They should have done as I did and stayed in Retirement," Stygian noted sadly "But thank you for remembering them, they were and always will be my dearest friends,"

Trixie and Rerun followed Starlight down the hall and once they were out of earshot Trixie spoke up.

"I thought the Pony of Shadows and the Pillars were mortal Enemies,"

"They use to be friends," Starlight noted "Stygian wanted to help them fight crime by copying their powers, but there was a misunderstanding, he tried to make the Masked Matterhorn understand in their first fight, but she cares more about being the Hero than helping a Villian who just wants to make things right,"

"20 bits says if she ever catches me I'm gonna be locked up in her personal Prison," Rerun whispered to Trixie "Just like poor old Moondancer,"

"Who?" Trixie asked in confusion.

"Oh, sorry, You probably know her as The Moonmare, she has Gravity powers, Old Matterhorn ended up driving her down a path of VIlliany and after catching her a few years later kept her under lock and key in Powerpony Tower. I've tried busting her out but let's just say there's a reason all the Villians who tried to bring it down during the War died trying,"

"Alright, keep away from the tower got it," Trixie took care to commit to memory that her new seemingly indestructible toon friend with inside knowledge of the Power ponies was seemingly afraid of their tower.

"Here we go," Starlight came to halt in front of a large set of double doors with a set of Golden R's Engraved into the doors. Starlight opened them up and let Trixie and Rerun in before she followed them. Inside they found a large circular table in the center of the room with a scale model of Maretroplis on it. There was a small kitchen area and two doors on either side of the room, one marked with a W and the other an M.

"A little outdated" Starlight noted as she looked at the mode, "but I can fix that, Trixie go ahead and teleport all your personal belongs and the food you got from the Warehouse to here, and make sure you don't bring any ponies who might be touching it with you as you do so," Trixie got to work on retrieving her stuff. Doing so one item at a time to avoid bringing any new friends along for the ride. "Rerun clean this place up a little, Stygian has noticed given less care to the common rooms than the entrance hall,"

"Easy," Rerun noted as he turned his hand into a vacuum tube and began cleaning up. With her Two Companions doing their individual tasks Starlight looked out at the scale model of Maretroplois and smiled.

"What should we do first?" She pondered