Fluttershy helps the writerby CrystalbreezeChaptersFluttershy helps the writerA new quest beginsThe first attackAdditional Chapter: Phantom's dealFluttershy helps the writerNew story coming soon! Prepare for overload cuteness! Read the writer when he looked at his previous blog posts. He was continously thinking about his upcoming MLP story. When he had free time, he sat in front of his computer and wrote for hours. It was his favorite hobby. His stories were enjoyable and interesting. Many people followed him and read his works. The writer was a teenager, a 16 years old boy, who lived in a flat with his parents and sister. He had an average life among other children. He was going to high school and he must study more and more with every day. This is why he hadn't got time to write. But today was different. After school the writer wanted to come up with a great story idea. He opened the New Story option in FimFiction.Net and started branstorming. He gave the fanfiction a title and in a blank chaper he started writing. It was a warm and sunny day in Equestria. He wrote. Wind blowing, bird singing, Pinkie Pie jumping around with Gummy in her mouth. She sang a happy song and greeted everypony. the resident ponies were doing their own stuff in the small town, they didn't noticed how many things are happening at the moment near Ponyville, at the Everfree Forest. In her cute little cottage which was full with animals, Fluttershy was watering her flowers, beside her, Angel was eating a carrot. While she was watering, she noticed something... Suddenly the writer heard a sound in the room. He thought it was just a bug, or something like that. But seconds later he heard it again, it was like the sound of flapping wings. A shadow was flying above his head and when he looked up, he saw yellow. A yellow thing was flying around in his room. Once the "thing" calmed down and slowly flew next to the writer, who couldn't believe what he saw. He saw Fluttershy, an adorable tiny pegasus flying in front of his face. The writer was surprised, maybe too much. He only could say these words: "Oh...my...gosh! I think I'm drunk!" Fluttershy smiled and said: "You're not drunk at all, writer." She flew onto the writer's shoulder and cuddled his neck. "Nice to meet you." "This is too much. You can't be here! You're a cartoon character!" "And? I'm only here, because you wrote me into your story. Hope it will be a nice one, like your other works." The writer was confused and shocked at the same time. "Uh...yeah. I-I hope t-that too...but...what do you want?" Fluttershy looked a bit sad, she was about to cry: "Oh, you don't welcome me in your room? Do you want me to go away?" "No! Not at all! I'm just...confused." "Are you happy to see me?" She smiled and looked at him with her puppy eyes. The writer tickled her, the pegasus laughed with happiness and joy. "Yeah. Am I the only one, who can see you?" She nodded. "Cool!" "I'm curious about the act. What will happen to me in your story?" She asked curiously and sat on the boy's shoulder. "Well, this is a slice of life story, which means something usual will happen to you, like a party with Twilight and the others in her castle, maybe a trip to your other friends in Equestria, like the dragons, or the griffons." "Wow. That's great, but-" "But what?" She became quiet for a moment. The writer knew what she wanted to ask. "Do you want me to change the plot, little one?" "Yes please. I think I need something better. Like having an exciting adventure, you know." "I'll see what I can do." "You're a very kind hooman." The boy blushed. He changed the fanfiction's classification. "Hey, Shy. I have an idea." "What is it?" "Because this is your story, tell me what you want to do in it. Tell your ideas into my ear and I'll do my best to write it down perfectly." Fluttershy clapped with her hooves happily. "Weee! Okay!" The writer set his fingers above the keyboard and waited for Fluttershy to tell him her version of the act. "Write about me going on a crusade against an evil monster in the Everfree Forest, please." "Really? Aren't you afraid of fighting? Won't it be a little bit scary to you?" "Nope. Well, write down that Starswirl is visiting me, when I'm watering the flowers. Write that he gives me a letter about fighting against an evil unicorn with my friends." "Twilight and the others give you courage, huh? Okay, I'm on it!" The writer started describing the situation, the arriving of Starswirl, the bearded. He imagined the old pony giving the inviting letter to Fluttershy and imagined describing the story's villain. Fluttershy, still sitting on the writer's shoulder, told him the evil pony's name: Savage Vine. The antagonist is a black and green unicorn, who's able to control the Everfree Forest's dangerous plants and trees, obviously Shy designed Savage Vine after Queen Chrysalis. Starswirl didn't have enough power to defeat her, so he gathered the mane six to join him in the fight against Savage Vine and her evil minions. The story was going well. Fluttershy told the writer what to write and how to write it. As she was the protagonist, the boy wrote the events from the little pegasus' perspective. The story was longer that a thousand words. Fluttershy and the writer were sure this will make every reader happy. In the Everfree Forest, the mane six finished some Timberwolves and once Princess Twilight got hurt. At that moment, the enemy ambushed them. Scary monsters and pony-eating plants were everywhere. The ponies didn't know what to do. Starswirl was out of energy and Twilight's horn was red. "Oh, my!" Fluttershy squeaked, small tears came out of her eyes. "I'm a terrible story teller! I led my friends into danger! I think...I think I want to stop this act!" "Shy, you can't stop this. We started writing this story, we will finish it." "But what will we do? Rarity is attacked by a pony-eating flower, Pinkie can't handle swords and shields, so the evil minions are chasing her and AppleJack is surrounded by Timberwolves! We can't beat them!" "You can! Listen, your friends give you courage, is that true?" "Y-Yes, but this is tooo much! I can't fight this much enemies with only a sword! I'm afraid Savage Vine will win. She'll kill us and will try to turn Equestria into a scary and dangerous jungle, where every pony will die!" She started shaking and crying. "You will win, Fluttershy. You just need bravery. Think about your friends, would you like to watch them lose the fight, or would you like to join in and try to help them?" Fluttershy flew onto the desk, next to the keyboard. "Alright! I decided what I want. Write that I became angry and wanted to fight for my friends! I didn't want to lose them!" "Alrighty!" The boy continued writing. In the story, Fluttershy started fighting alone with a sword. She was angry, her face was as red as Twilight's horn. She finished the most of the wolves, Rarity and AppleJack joined the battle and with their help, Fluttershy could protect her friends from the evil enemies, who ran away. "Nice! Happy End!" "Not exactly, the mane six must break into Savage Vine's castle and beat her." "Okay, let's do it and finish the story!" The writer wrote: After the little team fought its way into the depth of Everfree, they faced with the mountain-like monument in the center of the woods. The castle was covered with moss, vines and spikes. The sky above the castle was filled with strange, green colored stormclouds. Lightnings crashed into the ground and Fluttershy could only hear loud and scary sounds from everywhere, but she wasn't afraid of them, because she found courage. An evil whisper was echoing through the place, an evil laugh. The laugh of the black and green unicorn, Savage Vine, who was waiting to the team inside her castle. She whispered: "You fools! You and your old friend won't be able to fight me! Nopony is able to! Only I have the power to reform Equestria, and I'll do it, unlike those weak villains, who failed!" "What a rude figure." Fluttershy said, while she was reading the paragraphs the writer wrote. The next part was this: They broke in. They found the evil-doer, who was sitting in her throne made out of vines. She stood up and walked down to the mane six. There was a huge evil grin on her face. "YOU WILL LOSE!" The ponies prepared to fight, just as Fluttershy. Suddenly the monitor became black and the all of the story was gone. "No!" The writer screamed in anger. "It's lost!" Fluttershy sat down beside the writer's left hand and cried loudly. "Our story!" She cried. "Our story is gone! WHO DID THIS?" Then, she heard laughing, the writer heard it too. They were not imagining, they indeed heard the fanfiction's villain laugh. At that moment, black, spikey vines started growing from behind the screen, like octopus tentacles. A small shadow was coming out of the writer's computer screen, it had big green eyes. Fluttershy looked up and saw Savage Vine herself. The fictional character became real, she came out of the story's setting and appeared in the human world. However she wasn't big, she was as tiny as Fluttershy. She hopped onto to the wooden desk, looked at the writer and her vines catched his hands and neck. The pony villain was strangling the writer, who wasn't able to move, or breathe. "What are you doing?" Asked Fluttershy. "Release the writer! Leave him alone! DO YOU HEAR ME? DON'T HURT HIM!" "Oh yes I will!" Laughed the small unicorn. "He and you wanted to finish me, didn't you? You wanted a happy ending to your story, but you won't get it! The mane six won't defeat Savage Vine easily! Instead, I'll write my OWN story about becoming the ruler of the world! You and this hooman will die!" Fluttershy collected all of her power and rushed towards Savage Vine. She avoided the wild vines attacking her, she wanted to make the villain fall into the trash can below the writer's desk. She rushed to Savage Vine, hit her with her hooves. She fall over and a vine released the writer's right hand. Then, the writer reached for the tiny unicorn, held her tight a lifted her up. "NO! NO! LEAVE ME!" She screamed. The writer grinned and throw her into the crash can. Savage Vine screamed in fear when she fell into the dark can and sank into the trash. The vines that were growing from behind the computer screen, disappeared. The writer broke free, he and Fluttershy looked at the screen. Suddenly the view came back, they sighed in relief. The story wasn't gone forever. They were able to finish it. "Well." Said the yellow pegasus. "After this boss fight with the villain, I think I'm done here. I must go home." "Aw, please! Don't go!" The writer reached for Fluttershy and grabbd her. He held her gently. "Please!" "I'm sorry, writer. But I enjoyed being and working with you for these short hours. This was a great experience." "Don't you want to finish the story and get a happy end?" "I've already got one. Finishing a villain to protect you. This is all I wanted." "Will I ever meet you again, Shy?" "You will. When you'll write a new story, I'll be there to help you out." The boy released Fluttershy, who flew in front of the monitor, she looked back to the giant writer and smiled. "Please finish the rest of the story without me, hooman. And post it. I'm sure the readers will love it!" After that, she flew into the monitor and disappeared, like frog in the water. The writer was alone again. He finished the story, gave it a satisfying and happy ending. He posted it, as Fluttershy said. And he waited for the reactions... A new quest beginsThree months passed since the writer posted the story about the mane six going on an adventure against an evil unicorn mare in the Everfree Forest. It was a very special story, because somepony helped the young writer. It was a small yellow pegasus called Fluttershy. Without her, the story could not be one of the most famous stories on FimFiction.Net. During the writing, the story's villain somehow managed to escape from Equestria and jump out of the writer's computer. The unicorn, who was called Savage Vine almost killed him and Fluttershy, but in the last moment, they finished her and finished the story too. Since then, the writer never saw Fluttershy again. It was a dark and stormy afternoon, cold wind was blowing and soon it started raining. A nearby playground was filled with children, but when the storm came closer, they all walked away. next to the playground was a huge building, a 10 stories high monument. In the 3rd floor apartment, the writer was standing in the kitchen. He was making some coffee and as it was ready, he filled it in a mug and went back to his room. He turned on the computer. When the operating system was booting, the screen became bright white. The keyboard did not work, the mouse either. It was like a power outage, but somehow the monitor was still showing that bright screen. "I've never seen anything like this before." Said the writer to himself. "Did something happen to the power supply, or what?" He stood up and looked behind the computer case. The cables were alright, none of the vents are damaged, nothing was wrong. However he could not reboot the machine. He looked back to the screen. He noticed a strange shadow in the whiteness. Seconds later a familiar creature hopped out of the monitor. It was Fluttershy, she was about the size of a squirrel, there was a bag on her back. She immediately flew up to the writer's face, she looked worried. "Oh my! I'm so happy to see you again! It was so hard to find you! I really really need you!" She said under one breath. "Hi, Shy." The boy smiled. “What’s wrong?” “No time to explain!” The tiny pony grabbed the writer’s clothes. “Come with me!” “Wait, what are you-” Fluttershy flew straight into the screen and pulled the writer with her. They disappeared from the room, the screen sucked the writer’s body into the whiteness. It was a magical portal to Equestria. In the next moment both Fluttershy and the writer stood in the middle of nowhere. There was nothing around them, only bright white. When the boy looked at the small pony, he noticed Fluttershy grew to the size of a real horse. She was much bigger than on Earth. She still looked really shocked. “Could you please explain why did you lead me here?” The boy asked. “I did, because I need you! Not only me, but whole Equestria needs you!” “Excuse me, WHAT? What happened since the mane six finished Savage Vine?” Fluttershy took a book out of her backpack and showed it to the writer. It was a big brown book with Twilight Sparkle’s cutie mark on the center of the cover. She gave it to the human. “This will explain you everything, open the book and read my memories!” He opened it. “This is empty. Every page is empty.” Fluttershy closed her eyes. Then, the book’s first page started glowing like gold. The blank page was filled with paragraphs of text. “Wow! How did you do thi-” “Read it please!” “Okay.” the writer started reading. So these are my memories of the last few weeks: After I got back to Equestria, joining my friends, together we finished Savage Vine in her castle in the middle of the Everfree Forest. As we went back to Ponyville, I told Twilight about you. The giant hooman writer, who writes stories that come true. She was amazed when she heard about your world. She couldn't help it, but she was so excited that she told everyone around her. About a week later even Princess Celestia and Luna knew about you and Earth. It was only a matter of time before the bad ponies found out that you exist. The villains of Equestria wanted to see you, writer. You are the strongest creature beyond the pony world. The evil ponies were hungry to your special power. They wanted to write their own evil story about finishing the princesses and being the rulers of Equestria forever. If your written words come true, then if they take your ability away, they will be able to write too. It would be a disaster. Not a happy end, huh? So the villains gathered together. Their leader was a black hood wearing pony called Phantom. He used his dark energy to imprison the four princesses into Tartarus and turn the ponies into slaves. This was so terrible. Before he imprisoned Twilight Sparkle into Tartarus, the princess of friendship gave me a mission. “Find your friend, the writer! He has the ability to free us.” Then she gave me the book what you’re reading now. So I searched for you and now I finally found you… The writer closed the book. “Okay, I understand everything now.” “Will you help us, hooman?” She came closer to the writer and hugged her, she was so big and heavy, but soft and fluffy, like a horse sized teddy bear. Fluttershy cried. “Please help!” “Okay, I will. I foresee that it will be damn hard.” “Of course, but remember what you said when we wrote that story together: your friends give you courage. Do you remember?” “Yes. But I have a question: how will I be able to save your world?” “You must write everything down into Twilight’s book. What you write down there will happen. This quest will be a huge story.” The writer smiled. “Oh my god, this is sooooo cool!” “Where should we begin the quest?” She asked. “In your cottage. It will be perfect for a starting point.” “Indeed. I have some armor and swords at home. I’ll give us some weapons and then we’ll be ready to go.” “Alrighty then.” The writer blinked and started writing in the huge book: The human boy and Fluttershy disappeared from the whiteness and with a flash of light they appeared in the pegasus’ cottage. The small animals, including Angel bunny came closer to see them. Fluttershy brought knight armor and sword to the writer and to herself. They started preparing... And it all happened. The journey began... The first attackThe writer and Fluttershy were walking on the road. They just left Ponyville and their aim was Canterlot, where the villains of Equestria gathered up. Their leader was an unknown evil pony called Phantom, who wants to steal the writer’s power, as the other villains do too. In her cottage, Fluttershy gave the writer some armor and swords. After that, they began the quest to finish the evil ponies and free the princesses from Tartarus. It was dawn, when they reached the huge field. No trees, no bushes, just grass all around, filled with colorful flowers. In the distance they saw the mountain where the capital city of Equestria was. It seemed so beautiful, yet so inaccessible. Sometimes Fluttershy left the young boy alone when she flew up and searched for any evil spies, who were able to follow and attack them. When the area was clear, she went back to the writer. The boy wore a medieval armor set with a sword. The book which Twilight gave to Fluttershy was in the backpack the writer brought. it was a fact that the stories written by the writer became reality in Equestria, this time, he can use this ability as a weapon. This is why the villains were hungry to his power. What could possibly happen if, for example, King Sombra, or Queen Chrysalis could steal his ability and misuse it? Definitely a disaster. “Shy, can I ask a question?” Asked the writer. “Of course, what is it?” “Back on Earth I wrote so many MLP stories. I wrote in my school notebooks and on my computer as well. Did those writings become real too?” “Yes. Every single word. We had a great time while being inside your writings, even if we didn’t know they were just stories. You have a vivid imagination, by the way.” “Thanks.” “Will you still write stories after we finish this quest?” “Certainly. I’ll write down our adventure as a story. I look forward to write again.” “When you grow up, do you want to be a full-time writer, like A. K. Yearling?” “Yeah. It will be hard of course, but I want to write books like other writers.” “Good luck for that. It’s good to start small, like making short MLP stories.” “This is what I enjoy the most. Writing about you, ponies and your experiences in the world of friendship.” He stopped for a moment. “If I could, I could write whole books about you and publish them.” “So you love us, huh? That’s really nice from you.” “Thank you.” “I was right, when I said you are a very kind hooman. You’re indeed very kind.” Suddenly Fluttershy heard something flying above them. She looked up the sky and saw not one, but five shadow silhouettes. they were ponies, but not as colorful. In addition they had insect-like wings. “Changelings.” Fluttershy said. “Prepare yourself, hooman.” “Okay.” The writer took the sword and was ready to fight. the five changelings were flying around them, finally they landed on the ground. When they looked at the writer, they opened their mouths and showed their tongue and sharp teeth. The shapeshifters came to the two wanderers and said: “We bring you the message of our queen, Chrysalis. If you gave yourselves up and come with us, you will survive. Otherwise Phantom makes you prisoners in hell and you’ll suffer for evermore! This is the deal.” The writer and Fluttershy looked at each other and blinked with a confident smile. They both attacked the changelings with their swords. The fight began. Some of the changelings flew up and, some shifted their forms into the form of Fluttershy and the writer. The original duo became confused for a minute. Taking advantage of this, the enemy surrounded them. One of the attackers, who pretended to be the writer, started terrorizing the yellow pegasus, who didn’t hesitated, she finished it with a cut. The fallen changeling disappeared. The other four became more wilder, the writer used his sword and shield to protect himself and his pony friend, but the shapeshifters flying in the air made it difficult. They threw big rocks onto them. Fluttershy dodged them and kicked them in the air. The human boy fought well against the changelings, but he never used swords before. This is why he couldn’t protect himself from biting. Yes, the changelings got close to him and bit his legs and arms with their poisonous teeth. For the rest of the time the writer felt an unpleasant feeling in his body. Once a shapeshifter made him fall on the ground. The black, insect-like creature wanted to bite his chest to take his beating heart out and eat it. “Noooo!” Screamed Fluttershy, who could not help him, because the other changelings didn’t let her. Before the one, who was on the writer’s chest could bite into his heart, the human clenched his fist and hit the shapeshifter’s face with full power. The black insect pony fell on the ground, but he was still angry. The writer ran away from him and searched for his bag, where the brown book was. He took it and with a quill he started writing quickly. He knew this will definitely help. But the fight wasn’t over... In the darkest minute, when it looked like everything will get worse, an arrow flew next to the writer’s face, it crashed into the heart of the changeling which was trying to stand up. After a second, two other arrows killed two changelings. It did happen after a moment. A real narrow flew straight into an enemy, followed by two other ones that finished the most of the changelings. Only one enemy remained. He looked around in confusion and fear. It flew up and tried to escape, but nothing can run away from the faith. The last arrow brought it down. Fluttershy and the writer were safe. The arrows were coming from the near woods. Unknown creatures were moving among the trees, and one they all showed up. Actually they were quite familiar to the duo. They were ponies, griffons and dragons: Gilda, Spike, Ember, Octavia, Vinyl, Lyra and the others even Discord showed up... “Hello, Fluttershy.” Spike greeted her. Spike and the team were coming out of the woods for real. “Hi Spike!” He turned to the writer, who was twice as big as him. “Wow. You”re the writer, I suppose.” “Oh gosh!” Said Gilda and shaked hands with the human. “I’m glad to see you here, Mr. Writer!” Discord greeted Shy with a hug. “I was so worried about you and the others. I’m happy Phantom did not catch you.” Then Discord flew next to the writer, like a floating serpent. He shrunk down to a real snake’s size and floated around the boy’s head. “Well, well, well. The writer. A kind from another unknown world. Such an interesting thing to think of.” “Are you here to help us?” Asked Queen Ember, the blue dragon. “I am.” The writer said. “And you? Why are you here?” “We are the Rebellion!” Said Pipsqueak happily. “We’re here to free Twilight and the others.” “With your help, Phantom and the villains will fall.” Said Derpy. “Will you join, little boy?” Asked Discord. “Certainly.” Fluttershy walked next to Spike. “Then what are we waiting for, let’s go!” And the team started walking to Canterlot. There were about a hundred warriors behind Fluttershy and the writer. The Rebellion was growing in number, as they came closer and closer to the destination. Ponies from Appleloosa, the Crystal Empire, Yaks, Buffalos and more bigger dragons joined them along the way. The army that will save Equestria was growing nicely. Once, a blue hood wearing pony slowly walked to the writer. He had long, white beard and as he showed his face to the writer, the human was surprised. "Oh, my! Starawirl, the bearded!" He said. "It's a pleasure to meet you." "It's a pleasure to meet you, too. Twilight told me you were the one, who wrote the story about us finishing Savage Vine." "Well, it wasn't actually me entirely. Fluttershy helped me with giving me ideas." "I enjoyed being in it. Also I have a question for you." "What is it?" "How do hoomans like you know about Equestria and us? Did hoomans live in here in the past? Or did they travel to here from your homeworld?" "No, not at all." The writer smiled. "It's difficult to explain." "Please try. I'm interested in your kind." "Okay." And the writer started talking about the MLP cartoon series as clearly as he could. He knew ponies weren't as modern as humans, but he tried to tell Starswirl that on Earth the history of Equestria and the adventures of the mane six is a fiction. "Interesting. A box called TeleVision, driven by electricity, and you say this device works like a projector. You can watch movies in it. And hoomans can watch us doing things in Equestria. And hoomans can write stories about us too. This is so brilliant! Maybe our pony scientists will be able to invent this incredible machine after the harmony will be fixed and the evil ponies will be punished." He said goodbye to the writer and went back to talk to other ponies, who were prepared to fight. They wore armor, just like Fluttershy. There was an emblem on the armors' flank, a beautiful blue tree. The Tree of Harmony. this emblem reminded the Rebellion to never lose hope. Additional Chapter: Phantom's dealEverything was dark and cold in the Tartarus, water mists were dropping down from the giant cave’s ceiling. In the black depths, shiny red lava was simmering everything. There were hundreds of cages beside one another, inside innocent ponies were sleeping and crying with chains on their back and hooves. Princess Celestia, Luna and Cadence were sitting in their place in silence, next to them was the cage where Twilight and her friends were suffering. Fortunately not all of them were in there. Fluttershy was coming for them with the writer and the Rebellion. This was the time, when Twilight was losing the remaining hope she had. No magic, no energy to fly, just weakness. Even she hadn’t got power to stand up. Celestia and Luna were awake, but near them, Cadence was unconscious. “Sister?” Celestia asked Luna, “Are you... alright?” “W-We are. I.. I mean y-yes I am, but I don’t know if she is-” Luna pointed at Twilight. “Twilight? Are you okay?” “Yes, princess.” She answered Celestia. “We all are. This suffering never ends.” “Ya hav’ to keep it up, Twilight. We all have to.” Said Applejack while she was laying on the ground while her hooves and hip were all chained. “Oh gosh, my magic is gone!” Rarity looked in her small portable mirror. “Also I’m looking soooo terrible! What happened to my fluffy fur? And I can’t fix it! This is a nightmare!” “Ya don’ say, suga’cube.” “What happened to my Pinkie-Laughter?” Pinkie asked. “I’m so moody.” “Me too.” Dash answered. “Our colors are almost gone.” Said Luna. “The dark energy is draining us,” “I can’t imagine what will happen next.” Twilight said. “We can’t be here forever, can we?” “Yes we can, Pinkie. We are captured. I hope Fluttershy will help. I gave her my magical book. If we’re lucky, the writer is holding it now in his hands.” “What is a hand?” “N-Nevermind.” “Did you see the writer himself, Twilight?” Asked Dash. “How could you know he is real?” “Fluttershy told me she met him in another parallel world. This must be true.” “I really want to meet him.” Told the princess of the sun. “He is part of an unknown species beyond our world. He has a superpower too.” “Just like the Power-Ponies in Spike’s comics.” Said Dash. “I… I don’t think we’ll get help from anyone, the writer is just a joke..” “Think about your other friends!” Said Luna. “You all have hundreds of friends in Equestria. I’m sure they will fight Phantom and the other evil-doers.” Rainbow Dash asked: “Do you believe the writer is real, Luna?” “He can be. Nothing is impossible. Your friend, the cute yellow pony saw him for sure.” “We were inside his story when we were fighting against the evil Savage Vine.” Dash’s and Pinkie’s eyes widened. “W-What?... Is this true?... ” Twilight answered. “It is. He and Fluttershy wrote that story together. The writer IS real and has incredible power, however he didn’t realize it yet. This is the first time he’s in Equestria.” “He’ll fight with Phantom for sure.” Said Celestia. “The hooman will be our savior.” An unknown voice said from the distance: “I don’t think so...” From the near stone stairs a shadow was walking up. It vore a dark hood and the ponies couldn’t see his face. However a red circle was glowing under the hood. The unknown pony was laughing. Every trapped slave was watching him from their cages. “That half-god hooman scum won’t help you, innocent little naives. He will try, of course, but he will fail. Don’t expect much from him. He’ll soon die.” He laughed again. Twilight muttered with anger: “Phantom...” “That’s right, princess. I am your prison guard here, the most powerful pony in Equestria!” “Why are you here?” “Can’t I just hang around Tartarus and visit you? After all this place is my property.” “And what do you want?” “I want a little chat with you, princess of friendship, if I may. It won’t take so long. You have plenty of time to spend here, in your new home.” “Show yourself, Phantom.” Said Luna. “Let us see who you really are!” The other ponies in the cages started being curious. “Gladly.” Told the villain and with his hoof he showed his face to the public. It was horrible to see a face like this. His face was old, wrinkled and burned. His left eye was replaced with a robot eye, which was glowing in red. Phantom took off his sallow clothes too. His body was as burned as his head. There were scratch marks on his cutie mark, which was pale. On his hooves he wore some kind of metal gloves that were sparkling. Phantom smiled as the ponies were shocked at his appearance. “You’re broken.” Said Twilight. “Indeed I am. I envy you so much! All of you! I cannot be as perfect as you.” “Who are you exactly?” Asked Dash. “My real name does not matter anymore. I never used it, my nickname is Phantom. I am a scientist, a mad one, to be honest. These devices on my hooves are made by myself. The’re called electrivices. You know, combination of electricity and device. They gave me so much power that I could do anything I want. Finishing with four princesses at once, cause an earthquake by jumping, steal every mare’s heart with one wink. So now you know, I’m god damn mad!” “What about your eye and cutie mark?” “Good question! When I was a filly, I got a cutie mark that I hated in my life! I still hate it! So I decided to disown it. I scratched it as hard as I could, but disowning your purpose in life has a big price. The price was my left eye and my fluffy fur. I became a monster. I joined the crew of villains to meet my kind. Now I AM the definition of a villain! Every bad pony in this world serves me!” “Be content with this power, Phantom! Don’t be so insatiable!” “It’s too late Celestia. I am insatiable, I was insatiable in my whole life. I want more and more power, I want to be the absolute ruler! The alpha and omega!” “This is why you need the writer’s special ability.” Phantom let out an evil laugh. “Exactly. Imagine a power like that! My writings will become reality, all the worlds in the universe can be mine!” “You can dream, Phantom.” Said Twilight. “But don’t forget one thing: you’re still in Equestria and the writer’s power is not yours yet! He’ll do everything to write a happy end and finish you!” “I know that, this is why I’m making a little trap for him. It will be a good welcome.” “He will free us and you will fail!” Said Dash. Instead of answering, Phantom looked and pointed at the unconscious princess Cadence. “Look at her! She is dying, she has a small chance to survive. If your savior won’t arrive soon, you’ll be like her. All your life energy will drain, and after that you will...” He laughed again. “But there’s another chance. If you want to survive in the world of villains, then come and serve me!” “Never.” Twilight answered. Celestia and Luna continued: “We’ll never serve you!” "Same here, Phantom!" Said Applejack. "Ya and yur villains will get screwed!" "Yeah!" Said Dash. The other slaves blinked with a smile. "They're right!" Said a griffon. “Really? Because if you’ll serve, you’ll get your magic back. I can offer you a better life. You all can go home, get your colors back and live your life peacefully, while I and my villain friends will control Equestria.” Nopony answered. Phantom walked close to Twilight Sparkle. “What about you, princess of friendship? You’re weak, all your friends are weak. The magic of friendship can’t save you, only I can. Do you want me to share the writer’s power with you, maybe? Don’t you want more power? You can be as powerful as me!” She shook her head, tears came out of her eyes. “No, Phantom. I’m not like you, I’m not hungry for the power of a being, who is much bigger than us. If you’re wise, you gave up your evil plan and stop this madness.” Phantom walked away from her. He was heading to the stairs where he came from. He looked back for a second and said: “I was right about you, princess. You are weak. Enjoy your time here, in your new home!” With that being said, Phantom was gone.
Fluttershy helps the writerNew story coming soon! Prepare for overload cuteness! Read the writer when he looked at his previous blog posts. He was continously thinking about his upcoming MLP story. When he had free time, he sat in front of his computer and wrote for hours. It was his favorite hobby. His stories were enjoyable and interesting. Many people followed him and read his works. The writer was a teenager, a 16 years old boy, who lived in a flat with his parents and sister. He had an average life among other children. He was going to high school and he must study more and more with every day. This is why he hadn't got time to write. But today was different. After school the writer wanted to come up with a great story idea. He opened the New Story option in FimFiction.Net and started branstorming. He gave the fanfiction a title and in a blank chaper he started writing. It was a warm and sunny day in Equestria. He wrote. Wind blowing, bird singing, Pinkie Pie jumping around with Gummy in her mouth. She sang a happy song and greeted everypony. the resident ponies were doing their own stuff in the small town, they didn't noticed how many things are happening at the moment near Ponyville, at the Everfree Forest. In her cute little cottage which was full with animals, Fluttershy was watering her flowers, beside her, Angel was eating a carrot. While she was watering, she noticed something... Suddenly the writer heard a sound in the room. He thought it was just a bug, or something like that. But seconds later he heard it again, it was like the sound of flapping wings. A shadow was flying above his head and when he looked up, he saw yellow. A yellow thing was flying around in his room. Once the "thing" calmed down and slowly flew next to the writer, who couldn't believe what he saw. He saw Fluttershy, an adorable tiny pegasus flying in front of his face. The writer was surprised, maybe too much. He only could say these words: "Oh...my...gosh! I think I'm drunk!" Fluttershy smiled and said: "You're not drunk at all, writer." She flew onto the writer's shoulder and cuddled his neck. "Nice to meet you." "This is too much. You can't be here! You're a cartoon character!" "And? I'm only here, because you wrote me into your story. Hope it will be a nice one, like your other works." The writer was confused and shocked at the same time. "Uh...yeah. I-I hope t-that too...but...what do you want?" Fluttershy looked a bit sad, she was about to cry: "Oh, you don't welcome me in your room? Do you want me to go away?" "No! Not at all! I'm just...confused." "Are you happy to see me?" She smiled and looked at him with her puppy eyes. The writer tickled her, the pegasus laughed with happiness and joy. "Yeah. Am I the only one, who can see you?" She nodded. "Cool!" "I'm curious about the act. What will happen to me in your story?" She asked curiously and sat on the boy's shoulder. "Well, this is a slice of life story, which means something usual will happen to you, like a party with Twilight and the others in her castle, maybe a trip to your other friends in Equestria, like the dragons, or the griffons." "Wow. That's great, but-" "But what?" She became quiet for a moment. The writer knew what she wanted to ask. "Do you want me to change the plot, little one?" "Yes please. I think I need something better. Like having an exciting adventure, you know." "I'll see what I can do." "You're a very kind hooman." The boy blushed. He changed the fanfiction's classification. "Hey, Shy. I have an idea." "What is it?" "Because this is your story, tell me what you want to do in it. Tell your ideas into my ear and I'll do my best to write it down perfectly." Fluttershy clapped with her hooves happily. "Weee! Okay!" The writer set his fingers above the keyboard and waited for Fluttershy to tell him her version of the act. "Write about me going on a crusade against an evil monster in the Everfree Forest, please." "Really? Aren't you afraid of fighting? Won't it be a little bit scary to you?" "Nope. Well, write down that Starswirl is visiting me, when I'm watering the flowers. Write that he gives me a letter about fighting against an evil unicorn with my friends." "Twilight and the others give you courage, huh? Okay, I'm on it!" The writer started describing the situation, the arriving of Starswirl, the bearded. He imagined the old pony giving the inviting letter to Fluttershy and imagined describing the story's villain. Fluttershy, still sitting on the writer's shoulder, told him the evil pony's name: Savage Vine. The antagonist is a black and green unicorn, who's able to control the Everfree Forest's dangerous plants and trees, obviously Shy designed Savage Vine after Queen Chrysalis. Starswirl didn't have enough power to defeat her, so he gathered the mane six to join him in the fight against Savage Vine and her evil minions. The story was going well. Fluttershy told the writer what to write and how to write it. As she was the protagonist, the boy wrote the events from the little pegasus' perspective. The story was longer that a thousand words. Fluttershy and the writer were sure this will make every reader happy. In the Everfree Forest, the mane six finished some Timberwolves and once Princess Twilight got hurt. At that moment, the enemy ambushed them. Scary monsters and pony-eating plants were everywhere. The ponies didn't know what to do. Starswirl was out of energy and Twilight's horn was red. "Oh, my!" Fluttershy squeaked, small tears came out of her eyes. "I'm a terrible story teller! I led my friends into danger! I think...I think I want to stop this act!" "Shy, you can't stop this. We started writing this story, we will finish it." "But what will we do? Rarity is attacked by a pony-eating flower, Pinkie can't handle swords and shields, so the evil minions are chasing her and AppleJack is surrounded by Timberwolves! We can't beat them!" "You can! Listen, your friends give you courage, is that true?" "Y-Yes, but this is tooo much! I can't fight this much enemies with only a sword! I'm afraid Savage Vine will win. She'll kill us and will try to turn Equestria into a scary and dangerous jungle, where every pony will die!" She started shaking and crying. "You will win, Fluttershy. You just need bravery. Think about your friends, would you like to watch them lose the fight, or would you like to join in and try to help them?" Fluttershy flew onto the desk, next to the keyboard. "Alright! I decided what I want. Write that I became angry and wanted to fight for my friends! I didn't want to lose them!" "Alrighty!" The boy continued writing. In the story, Fluttershy started fighting alone with a sword. She was angry, her face was as red as Twilight's horn. She finished the most of the wolves, Rarity and AppleJack joined the battle and with their help, Fluttershy could protect her friends from the evil enemies, who ran away. "Nice! Happy End!" "Not exactly, the mane six must break into Savage Vine's castle and beat her." "Okay, let's do it and finish the story!" The writer wrote: After the little team fought its way into the depth of Everfree, they faced with the mountain-like monument in the center of the woods. The castle was covered with moss, vines and spikes. The sky above the castle was filled with strange, green colored stormclouds. Lightnings crashed into the ground and Fluttershy could only hear loud and scary sounds from everywhere, but she wasn't afraid of them, because she found courage. An evil whisper was echoing through the place, an evil laugh. The laugh of the black and green unicorn, Savage Vine, who was waiting to the team inside her castle. She whispered: "You fools! You and your old friend won't be able to fight me! Nopony is able to! Only I have the power to reform Equestria, and I'll do it, unlike those weak villains, who failed!" "What a rude figure." Fluttershy said, while she was reading the paragraphs the writer wrote. The next part was this: They broke in. They found the evil-doer, who was sitting in her throne made out of vines. She stood up and walked down to the mane six. There was a huge evil grin on her face. "YOU WILL LOSE!" The ponies prepared to fight, just as Fluttershy. Suddenly the monitor became black and the all of the story was gone. "No!" The writer screamed in anger. "It's lost!" Fluttershy sat down beside the writer's left hand and cried loudly. "Our story!" She cried. "Our story is gone! WHO DID THIS?" Then, she heard laughing, the writer heard it too. They were not imagining, they indeed heard the fanfiction's villain laugh. At that moment, black, spikey vines started growing from behind the screen, like octopus tentacles. A small shadow was coming out of the writer's computer screen, it had big green eyes. Fluttershy looked up and saw Savage Vine herself. The fictional character became real, she came out of the story's setting and appeared in the human world. However she wasn't big, she was as tiny as Fluttershy. She hopped onto to the wooden desk, looked at the writer and her vines catched his hands and neck. The pony villain was strangling the writer, who wasn't able to move, or breathe. "What are you doing?" Asked Fluttershy. "Release the writer! Leave him alone! DO YOU HEAR ME? DON'T HURT HIM!" "Oh yes I will!" Laughed the small unicorn. "He and you wanted to finish me, didn't you? You wanted a happy ending to your story, but you won't get it! The mane six won't defeat Savage Vine easily! Instead, I'll write my OWN story about becoming the ruler of the world! You and this hooman will die!" Fluttershy collected all of her power and rushed towards Savage Vine. She avoided the wild vines attacking her, she wanted to make the villain fall into the trash can below the writer's desk. She rushed to Savage Vine, hit her with her hooves. She fall over and a vine released the writer's right hand. Then, the writer reached for the tiny unicorn, held her tight a lifted her up. "NO! NO! LEAVE ME!" She screamed. The writer grinned and throw her into the crash can. Savage Vine screamed in fear when she fell into the dark can and sank into the trash. The vines that were growing from behind the computer screen, disappeared. The writer broke free, he and Fluttershy looked at the screen. Suddenly the view came back, they sighed in relief. The story wasn't gone forever. They were able to finish it. "Well." Said the yellow pegasus. "After this boss fight with the villain, I think I'm done here. I must go home." "Aw, please! Don't go!" The writer reached for Fluttershy and grabbd her. He held her gently. "Please!" "I'm sorry, writer. But I enjoyed being and working with you for these short hours. This was a great experience." "Don't you want to finish the story and get a happy end?" "I've already got one. Finishing a villain to protect you. This is all I wanted." "Will I ever meet you again, Shy?" "You will. When you'll write a new story, I'll be there to help you out." The boy released Fluttershy, who flew in front of the monitor, she looked back to the giant writer and smiled. "Please finish the rest of the story without me, hooman. And post it. I'm sure the readers will love it!" After that, she flew into the monitor and disappeared, like frog in the water. The writer was alone again. He finished the story, gave it a satisfying and happy ending. He posted it, as Fluttershy said. And he waited for the reactions...
A new quest beginsThree months passed since the writer posted the story about the mane six going on an adventure against an evil unicorn mare in the Everfree Forest. It was a very special story, because somepony helped the young writer. It was a small yellow pegasus called Fluttershy. Without her, the story could not be one of the most famous stories on FimFiction.Net. During the writing, the story's villain somehow managed to escape from Equestria and jump out of the writer's computer. The unicorn, who was called Savage Vine almost killed him and Fluttershy, but in the last moment, they finished her and finished the story too. Since then, the writer never saw Fluttershy again. It was a dark and stormy afternoon, cold wind was blowing and soon it started raining. A nearby playground was filled with children, but when the storm came closer, they all walked away. next to the playground was a huge building, a 10 stories high monument. In the 3rd floor apartment, the writer was standing in the kitchen. He was making some coffee and as it was ready, he filled it in a mug and went back to his room. He turned on the computer. When the operating system was booting, the screen became bright white. The keyboard did not work, the mouse either. It was like a power outage, but somehow the monitor was still showing that bright screen. "I've never seen anything like this before." Said the writer to himself. "Did something happen to the power supply, or what?" He stood up and looked behind the computer case. The cables were alright, none of the vents are damaged, nothing was wrong. However he could not reboot the machine. He looked back to the screen. He noticed a strange shadow in the whiteness. Seconds later a familiar creature hopped out of the monitor. It was Fluttershy, she was about the size of a squirrel, there was a bag on her back. She immediately flew up to the writer's face, she looked worried. "Oh my! I'm so happy to see you again! It was so hard to find you! I really really need you!" She said under one breath. "Hi, Shy." The boy smiled. “What’s wrong?” “No time to explain!” The tiny pony grabbed the writer’s clothes. “Come with me!” “Wait, what are you-” Fluttershy flew straight into the screen and pulled the writer with her. They disappeared from the room, the screen sucked the writer’s body into the whiteness. It was a magical portal to Equestria. In the next moment both Fluttershy and the writer stood in the middle of nowhere. There was nothing around them, only bright white. When the boy looked at the small pony, he noticed Fluttershy grew to the size of a real horse. She was much bigger than on Earth. She still looked really shocked. “Could you please explain why did you lead me here?” The boy asked. “I did, because I need you! Not only me, but whole Equestria needs you!” “Excuse me, WHAT? What happened since the mane six finished Savage Vine?” Fluttershy took a book out of her backpack and showed it to the writer. It was a big brown book with Twilight Sparkle’s cutie mark on the center of the cover. She gave it to the human. “This will explain you everything, open the book and read my memories!” He opened it. “This is empty. Every page is empty.” Fluttershy closed her eyes. Then, the book’s first page started glowing like gold. The blank page was filled with paragraphs of text. “Wow! How did you do thi-” “Read it please!” “Okay.” the writer started reading. So these are my memories of the last few weeks: After I got back to Equestria, joining my friends, together we finished Savage Vine in her castle in the middle of the Everfree Forest. As we went back to Ponyville, I told Twilight about you. The giant hooman writer, who writes stories that come true. She was amazed when she heard about your world. She couldn't help it, but she was so excited that she told everyone around her. About a week later even Princess Celestia and Luna knew about you and Earth. It was only a matter of time before the bad ponies found out that you exist. The villains of Equestria wanted to see you, writer. You are the strongest creature beyond the pony world. The evil ponies were hungry to your special power. They wanted to write their own evil story about finishing the princesses and being the rulers of Equestria forever. If your written words come true, then if they take your ability away, they will be able to write too. It would be a disaster. Not a happy end, huh? So the villains gathered together. Their leader was a black hood wearing pony called Phantom. He used his dark energy to imprison the four princesses into Tartarus and turn the ponies into slaves. This was so terrible. Before he imprisoned Twilight Sparkle into Tartarus, the princess of friendship gave me a mission. “Find your friend, the writer! He has the ability to free us.” Then she gave me the book what you’re reading now. So I searched for you and now I finally found you… The writer closed the book. “Okay, I understand everything now.” “Will you help us, hooman?” She came closer to the writer and hugged her, she was so big and heavy, but soft and fluffy, like a horse sized teddy bear. Fluttershy cried. “Please help!” “Okay, I will. I foresee that it will be damn hard.” “Of course, but remember what you said when we wrote that story together: your friends give you courage. Do you remember?” “Yes. But I have a question: how will I be able to save your world?” “You must write everything down into Twilight’s book. What you write down there will happen. This quest will be a huge story.” The writer smiled. “Oh my god, this is sooooo cool!” “Where should we begin the quest?” She asked. “In your cottage. It will be perfect for a starting point.” “Indeed. I have some armor and swords at home. I’ll give us some weapons and then we’ll be ready to go.” “Alrighty then.” The writer blinked and started writing in the huge book: The human boy and Fluttershy disappeared from the whiteness and with a flash of light they appeared in the pegasus’ cottage. The small animals, including Angel bunny came closer to see them. Fluttershy brought knight armor and sword to the writer and to herself. They started preparing... And it all happened. The journey began...
The first attackThe writer and Fluttershy were walking on the road. They just left Ponyville and their aim was Canterlot, where the villains of Equestria gathered up. Their leader was an unknown evil pony called Phantom, who wants to steal the writer’s power, as the other villains do too. In her cottage, Fluttershy gave the writer some armor and swords. After that, they began the quest to finish the evil ponies and free the princesses from Tartarus. It was dawn, when they reached the huge field. No trees, no bushes, just grass all around, filled with colorful flowers. In the distance they saw the mountain where the capital city of Equestria was. It seemed so beautiful, yet so inaccessible. Sometimes Fluttershy left the young boy alone when she flew up and searched for any evil spies, who were able to follow and attack them. When the area was clear, she went back to the writer. The boy wore a medieval armor set with a sword. The book which Twilight gave to Fluttershy was in the backpack the writer brought. it was a fact that the stories written by the writer became reality in Equestria, this time, he can use this ability as a weapon. This is why the villains were hungry to his power. What could possibly happen if, for example, King Sombra, or Queen Chrysalis could steal his ability and misuse it? Definitely a disaster. “Shy, can I ask a question?” Asked the writer. “Of course, what is it?” “Back on Earth I wrote so many MLP stories. I wrote in my school notebooks and on my computer as well. Did those writings become real too?” “Yes. Every single word. We had a great time while being inside your writings, even if we didn’t know they were just stories. You have a vivid imagination, by the way.” “Thanks.” “Will you still write stories after we finish this quest?” “Certainly. I’ll write down our adventure as a story. I look forward to write again.” “When you grow up, do you want to be a full-time writer, like A. K. Yearling?” “Yeah. It will be hard of course, but I want to write books like other writers.” “Good luck for that. It’s good to start small, like making short MLP stories.” “This is what I enjoy the most. Writing about you, ponies and your experiences in the world of friendship.” He stopped for a moment. “If I could, I could write whole books about you and publish them.” “So you love us, huh? That’s really nice from you.” “Thank you.” “I was right, when I said you are a very kind hooman. You’re indeed very kind.” Suddenly Fluttershy heard something flying above them. She looked up the sky and saw not one, but five shadow silhouettes. they were ponies, but not as colorful. In addition they had insect-like wings. “Changelings.” Fluttershy said. “Prepare yourself, hooman.” “Okay.” The writer took the sword and was ready to fight. the five changelings were flying around them, finally they landed on the ground. When they looked at the writer, they opened their mouths and showed their tongue and sharp teeth. The shapeshifters came to the two wanderers and said: “We bring you the message of our queen, Chrysalis. If you gave yourselves up and come with us, you will survive. Otherwise Phantom makes you prisoners in hell and you’ll suffer for evermore! This is the deal.” The writer and Fluttershy looked at each other and blinked with a confident smile. They both attacked the changelings with their swords. The fight began. Some of the changelings flew up and, some shifted their forms into the form of Fluttershy and the writer. The original duo became confused for a minute. Taking advantage of this, the enemy surrounded them. One of the attackers, who pretended to be the writer, started terrorizing the yellow pegasus, who didn’t hesitated, she finished it with a cut. The fallen changeling disappeared. The other four became more wilder, the writer used his sword and shield to protect himself and his pony friend, but the shapeshifters flying in the air made it difficult. They threw big rocks onto them. Fluttershy dodged them and kicked them in the air. The human boy fought well against the changelings, but he never used swords before. This is why he couldn’t protect himself from biting. Yes, the changelings got close to him and bit his legs and arms with their poisonous teeth. For the rest of the time the writer felt an unpleasant feeling in his body. Once a shapeshifter made him fall on the ground. The black, insect-like creature wanted to bite his chest to take his beating heart out and eat it. “Noooo!” Screamed Fluttershy, who could not help him, because the other changelings didn’t let her. Before the one, who was on the writer’s chest could bite into his heart, the human clenched his fist and hit the shapeshifter’s face with full power. The black insect pony fell on the ground, but he was still angry. The writer ran away from him and searched for his bag, where the brown book was. He took it and with a quill he started writing quickly. He knew this will definitely help. But the fight wasn’t over... In the darkest minute, when it looked like everything will get worse, an arrow flew next to the writer’s face, it crashed into the heart of the changeling which was trying to stand up. After a second, two other arrows killed two changelings. It did happen after a moment. A real narrow flew straight into an enemy, followed by two other ones that finished the most of the changelings. Only one enemy remained. He looked around in confusion and fear. It flew up and tried to escape, but nothing can run away from the faith. The last arrow brought it down. Fluttershy and the writer were safe. The arrows were coming from the near woods. Unknown creatures were moving among the trees, and one they all showed up. Actually they were quite familiar to the duo. They were ponies, griffons and dragons: Gilda, Spike, Ember, Octavia, Vinyl, Lyra and the others even Discord showed up... “Hello, Fluttershy.” Spike greeted her. Spike and the team were coming out of the woods for real. “Hi Spike!” He turned to the writer, who was twice as big as him. “Wow. You”re the writer, I suppose.” “Oh gosh!” Said Gilda and shaked hands with the human. “I’m glad to see you here, Mr. Writer!” Discord greeted Shy with a hug. “I was so worried about you and the others. I’m happy Phantom did not catch you.” Then Discord flew next to the writer, like a floating serpent. He shrunk down to a real snake’s size and floated around the boy’s head. “Well, well, well. The writer. A kind from another unknown world. Such an interesting thing to think of.” “Are you here to help us?” Asked Queen Ember, the blue dragon. “I am.” The writer said. “And you? Why are you here?” “We are the Rebellion!” Said Pipsqueak happily. “We’re here to free Twilight and the others.” “With your help, Phantom and the villains will fall.” Said Derpy. “Will you join, little boy?” Asked Discord. “Certainly.” Fluttershy walked next to Spike. “Then what are we waiting for, let’s go!” And the team started walking to Canterlot. There were about a hundred warriors behind Fluttershy and the writer. The Rebellion was growing in number, as they came closer and closer to the destination. Ponies from Appleloosa, the Crystal Empire, Yaks, Buffalos and more bigger dragons joined them along the way. The army that will save Equestria was growing nicely. Once, a blue hood wearing pony slowly walked to the writer. He had long, white beard and as he showed his face to the writer, the human was surprised. "Oh, my! Starawirl, the bearded!" He said. "It's a pleasure to meet you." "It's a pleasure to meet you, too. Twilight told me you were the one, who wrote the story about us finishing Savage Vine." "Well, it wasn't actually me entirely. Fluttershy helped me with giving me ideas." "I enjoyed being in it. Also I have a question for you." "What is it?" "How do hoomans like you know about Equestria and us? Did hoomans live in here in the past? Or did they travel to here from your homeworld?" "No, not at all." The writer smiled. "It's difficult to explain." "Please try. I'm interested in your kind." "Okay." And the writer started talking about the MLP cartoon series as clearly as he could. He knew ponies weren't as modern as humans, but he tried to tell Starswirl that on Earth the history of Equestria and the adventures of the mane six is a fiction. "Interesting. A box called TeleVision, driven by electricity, and you say this device works like a projector. You can watch movies in it. And hoomans can watch us doing things in Equestria. And hoomans can write stories about us too. This is so brilliant! Maybe our pony scientists will be able to invent this incredible machine after the harmony will be fixed and the evil ponies will be punished." He said goodbye to the writer and went back to talk to other ponies, who were prepared to fight. They wore armor, just like Fluttershy. There was an emblem on the armors' flank, a beautiful blue tree. The Tree of Harmony. this emblem reminded the Rebellion to never lose hope.
Additional Chapter: Phantom's dealEverything was dark and cold in the Tartarus, water mists were dropping down from the giant cave’s ceiling. In the black depths, shiny red lava was simmering everything. There were hundreds of cages beside one another, inside innocent ponies were sleeping and crying with chains on their back and hooves. Princess Celestia, Luna and Cadence were sitting in their place in silence, next to them was the cage where Twilight and her friends were suffering. Fortunately not all of them were in there. Fluttershy was coming for them with the writer and the Rebellion. This was the time, when Twilight was losing the remaining hope she had. No magic, no energy to fly, just weakness. Even she hadn’t got power to stand up. Celestia and Luna were awake, but near them, Cadence was unconscious. “Sister?” Celestia asked Luna, “Are you... alright?” “W-We are. I.. I mean y-yes I am, but I don’t know if she is-” Luna pointed at Twilight. “Twilight? Are you okay?” “Yes, princess.” She answered Celestia. “We all are. This suffering never ends.” “Ya hav’ to keep it up, Twilight. We all have to.” Said Applejack while she was laying on the ground while her hooves and hip were all chained. “Oh gosh, my magic is gone!” Rarity looked in her small portable mirror. “Also I’m looking soooo terrible! What happened to my fluffy fur? And I can’t fix it! This is a nightmare!” “Ya don’ say, suga’cube.” “What happened to my Pinkie-Laughter?” Pinkie asked. “I’m so moody.” “Me too.” Dash answered. “Our colors are almost gone.” Said Luna. “The dark energy is draining us,” “I can’t imagine what will happen next.” Twilight said. “We can’t be here forever, can we?” “Yes we can, Pinkie. We are captured. I hope Fluttershy will help. I gave her my magical book. If we’re lucky, the writer is holding it now in his hands.” “What is a hand?” “N-Nevermind.” “Did you see the writer himself, Twilight?” Asked Dash. “How could you know he is real?” “Fluttershy told me she met him in another parallel world. This must be true.” “I really want to meet him.” Told the princess of the sun. “He is part of an unknown species beyond our world. He has a superpower too.” “Just like the Power-Ponies in Spike’s comics.” Said Dash. “I… I don’t think we’ll get help from anyone, the writer is just a joke..” “Think about your other friends!” Said Luna. “You all have hundreds of friends in Equestria. I’m sure they will fight Phantom and the other evil-doers.” Rainbow Dash asked: “Do you believe the writer is real, Luna?” “He can be. Nothing is impossible. Your friend, the cute yellow pony saw him for sure.” “We were inside his story when we were fighting against the evil Savage Vine.” Dash’s and Pinkie’s eyes widened. “W-What?... Is this true?... ” Twilight answered. “It is. He and Fluttershy wrote that story together. The writer IS real and has incredible power, however he didn’t realize it yet. This is the first time he’s in Equestria.” “He’ll fight with Phantom for sure.” Said Celestia. “The hooman will be our savior.” An unknown voice said from the distance: “I don’t think so...” From the near stone stairs a shadow was walking up. It vore a dark hood and the ponies couldn’t see his face. However a red circle was glowing under the hood. The unknown pony was laughing. Every trapped slave was watching him from their cages. “That half-god hooman scum won’t help you, innocent little naives. He will try, of course, but he will fail. Don’t expect much from him. He’ll soon die.” He laughed again. Twilight muttered with anger: “Phantom...” “That’s right, princess. I am your prison guard here, the most powerful pony in Equestria!” “Why are you here?” “Can’t I just hang around Tartarus and visit you? After all this place is my property.” “And what do you want?” “I want a little chat with you, princess of friendship, if I may. It won’t take so long. You have plenty of time to spend here, in your new home.” “Show yourself, Phantom.” Said Luna. “Let us see who you really are!” The other ponies in the cages started being curious. “Gladly.” Told the villain and with his hoof he showed his face to the public. It was horrible to see a face like this. His face was old, wrinkled and burned. His left eye was replaced with a robot eye, which was glowing in red. Phantom took off his sallow clothes too. His body was as burned as his head. There were scratch marks on his cutie mark, which was pale. On his hooves he wore some kind of metal gloves that were sparkling. Phantom smiled as the ponies were shocked at his appearance. “You’re broken.” Said Twilight. “Indeed I am. I envy you so much! All of you! I cannot be as perfect as you.” “Who are you exactly?” Asked Dash. “My real name does not matter anymore. I never used it, my nickname is Phantom. I am a scientist, a mad one, to be honest. These devices on my hooves are made by myself. The’re called electrivices. You know, combination of electricity and device. They gave me so much power that I could do anything I want. Finishing with four princesses at once, cause an earthquake by jumping, steal every mare’s heart with one wink. So now you know, I’m god damn mad!” “What about your eye and cutie mark?” “Good question! When I was a filly, I got a cutie mark that I hated in my life! I still hate it! So I decided to disown it. I scratched it as hard as I could, but disowning your purpose in life has a big price. The price was my left eye and my fluffy fur. I became a monster. I joined the crew of villains to meet my kind. Now I AM the definition of a villain! Every bad pony in this world serves me!” “Be content with this power, Phantom! Don’t be so insatiable!” “It’s too late Celestia. I am insatiable, I was insatiable in my whole life. I want more and more power, I want to be the absolute ruler! The alpha and omega!” “This is why you need the writer’s special ability.” Phantom let out an evil laugh. “Exactly. Imagine a power like that! My writings will become reality, all the worlds in the universe can be mine!” “You can dream, Phantom.” Said Twilight. “But don’t forget one thing: you’re still in Equestria and the writer’s power is not yours yet! He’ll do everything to write a happy end and finish you!” “I know that, this is why I’m making a little trap for him. It will be a good welcome.” “He will free us and you will fail!” Said Dash. Instead of answering, Phantom looked and pointed at the unconscious princess Cadence. “Look at her! She is dying, she has a small chance to survive. If your savior won’t arrive soon, you’ll be like her. All your life energy will drain, and after that you will...” He laughed again. “But there’s another chance. If you want to survive in the world of villains, then come and serve me!” “Never.” Twilight answered. Celestia and Luna continued: “We’ll never serve you!” "Same here, Phantom!" Said Applejack. "Ya and yur villains will get screwed!" "Yeah!" Said Dash. The other slaves blinked with a smile. "They're right!" Said a griffon. “Really? Because if you’ll serve, you’ll get your magic back. I can offer you a better life. You all can go home, get your colors back and live your life peacefully, while I and my villain friends will control Equestria.” Nopony answered. Phantom walked close to Twilight Sparkle. “What about you, princess of friendship? You’re weak, all your friends are weak. The magic of friendship can’t save you, only I can. Do you want me to share the writer’s power with you, maybe? Don’t you want more power? You can be as powerful as me!” She shook her head, tears came out of her eyes. “No, Phantom. I’m not like you, I’m not hungry for the power of a being, who is much bigger than us. If you’re wise, you gave up your evil plan and stop this madness.” Phantom walked away from her. He was heading to the stairs where he came from. He looked back for a second and said: “I was right about you, princess. You are weak. Enjoy your time here, in your new home!” With that being said, Phantom was gone.
