Prolouge: A Wish Come True
Hello, I'm Anon. A 20-year-old unemployed graduate who mooches off his parents for cash and lives in their basement. Where do I begin my story? Well first, let's go back to one October night, where I was binging season 9 of My Little Pony: Friendship is magic. Targetted for little girls now has a fanbase of grown men. A show critically acclaimed to break target demographics and manages to be enjoyable to almost everyone. I wanted to wait for the season to finish; then I could Livestream my whole reaction in one sitting. So I got them (Not illegally obtained through some website if you're asking) and watched it from the beginning. I waited until the morning so that I could spend all day in my room watching it
The room of Anon was quite messy, to an average males room was nothing compared to his room. Multiple wallpapers of different ponies and other anime stuff taped on the wall, with one large shelf holding different figurines and other statues of Anime characters and ponies. Anon sat in his desk, where he was chatting to someone on his headset.
"Dude-Dude-Dude! It's done downloading man!' his spastic voice blurted amongst his mic. "I'm finally gonna finish this majestic creation of a show!"
"Alright, imma head out to bed, tell me how you like it in a few hours." the disembodied voice, assuming that it's his friend, replied.
The voice logged out of Discord as Anon grasped his mouse to click on one of the three files on his dashboard. Popping up the media player was season 9, episode 1: The Beginning of the End part 1. He bounced lazily on his seat as he banged his desk, briskly with his two clenched fists. Grabbing a breakfast burrito from Mcdonalds and taking a small bite, he prepared himself for the last season. Adorning an unbuttoned black trench coat and a matching fedora to go with his stylish black gloves as he faces cam his whole reaction to his Livestream
"Alrighty then, Looks like everyone's been patient; this is the very last stream of My Little Pony: Friendship is magic, and I promise to you all that I will be watching the ENTIRE season in one run! I may be taking bathroom breaks, but that’s all; no interruptions cause my parents are at work, so sit back and relax with me as we begin!”
A few hours later
The monitor on his screen showed the book from the first episode closing from its last page, and the screen goes black. Anon was seen sitting deadpan on his seat, not reacting as much as his friend described it to be. He told him moments ago that he eas tearing up when they showed the Mane six grown up and singing the final song. But to him, Anon seemed to stare at watching the credits roll barely feeling anything blankly. He switched his Youtube stream offline as soon as people in the chat were already saying goodbye.
"Th-That's it!? They're just going to turn them into stone, and that's all?! That whole bell thing was completely useless! And that whole speech about friendship was idiotic. Why do the bad guys always have to lose!? They could've done more than that! Reform them at least, and King Sombra shouldn't fucking be left in the dust the first episode. And what's worse is that my favorite ship was deconfirmed. AGGH! WHAT KIND OF ENDING WAS THAT?!"
Nighttime fell at around 9:30 pm as Anon was typing almost his keyboard on Fimfiction about the whole series finale. He ranted how the villainous three could reform during that and how King Sombra could've done much more. After some mental rage and outcry, he slowly calmed down as he proceeded onto facepalming in disappointment. How could the show end like that? No, Why did the villains show no progression of friendship? And a new generation is just on the horizon. He didn't want to end the show, with all of those plot points stagnated.
So, you may be asking yourself, "Hey Anon, where is this story even going? So what you're salty about season 9!? It's not like you could change it?" Well, that's where you're wrong. Because moments after online browsing, I've heard loud knocks above the basement staircase.
"Hey! Anon! Come up here; There's something the sky!" a female voice reached out to him behind the doors.
He pushed away from his desk and stood up. "Coming, mom!"
Walking up and opening the door connecting the basement and his house, he was greeted with his mom and dad escorting him outside the door. They were pointing at the sky to make him stare at the phenomenon that is a shooting star just traveling at a straight line. Anon gazed apon the sight as he pondered to himself to the shooting star. It's probably a superstition, but he may have found a way to get what he wanted.
"Come on! honey, make a wish!" his mom begged. "Wish for a job, or maybe a girlfriend, or even-"
"-Alright, Mom! just stop yammering me, okay?!" Anon cut her off before more embarrassment ensues. He didn't want to make this stupid wish from a myth he's been believing since youth, but If it would get his mother to stop, he proceeded on. "I wish... I can go to the beginning of Season 9 of My Little Pony and change the whole plot myself- and I don't know, give me some neat powers too, I guess!"
His mom frowned apon his son's failure of a life, but she still loves him for whatever he likes. Anon's dad didn't seem to care for what his son wished for; as long as he's alive, he loves him. The two gestured him to walk back inside to eat the leftovers from dinner. After enjoying his heavy meal, he went back downstairs and plopped himself onto the bed, still wearing his trench coat and pants as he laid in the middle of the depressed-looking bed. Drifting away, he heard faint glowing noise that soon died down.
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Eight hours of glorified beauty sleep, Anon slowly has arisen from slumber and laying flat inside a damp looking ca-
What the-
He quickly scanned the surroundings as he was panicking; did his parents leave him here when he was sleeping? Or was this some weird dream? He observed himself in the same trench coat he had when he was asleep in bed, alongside his black leather gloves and boots. But his fedora seems to be on his head. Strange, for he had taken it off before going to bed. Carefully, peaking over to the bright light to his left, he notices that the entrance to the cave seemed familiar. Like he saw this same structure and-
"huh?" He peeked his straight towards the trace of the voice. Poking his eyes, he leaned forward, planting his hands on the edge of the wall just in front of him. "Is that?-"
"Lord Tirek?" another voice came to echo amongst the cave.
"A changeling? see, she gets it!"
"Chrysalis! Queen of the changelings, or at least I will be! when I'm restored to my rightful place!" She gave out a proper introduction before walking up to the two creatures. "Why did you summon me!? what do you want!?"
'Oh my god... am I... IN EQUESTRIA? Did I hear Chrysalis speaking in person?! Okay, first of all, YESSSS! Secondly, I m-must be dreaming! Yeah! let me pinch myself an-'
*Pinch*
'Ahh! That stings! But it's not a dream!? let me try again!'
*Slap*
*Punch*
*Crack*
"Huh? what are those noises?" she went ahead and inspected the area where she suspected of the noise. "Is somepony else he-"
Suddenly, black wisps spawned just above their place, revealing a dark grayish unicorn with a flowing black mane and sinister smile indeed, as he appeared.
"King Sombra! Have you returned? why did you bring us here!?"
'King Sombra, Lord Tirek, Queen Chrysalis, and Cozy Glow in Grogars lair? Wait, this is the start of season 9? What am I even...'
All worries flushed down the drain when Anon soon to figure out what was happing to him; why was he transported to this world. He remembered in his noggin something about changing the storyline of Season nine by himself. Think more in-depth about this, he soon to notice that this should be the part where Grogar would enter from the entrance to his lair, but he hasn't arrived. It would have seemed that Grogar, AKA Discord in disguise, wasn't appearing at all-
'Hang on... somethings not right, Grogar should have been here right now. From the first episode, he should have entered the cave and introduced himself to the four... but he didn’t show up yet'
The sudden changes from the show to what's happening, nearly made Anon conclude.
He was in Grogar's place...
'Woooohoooo! I've been summoned by the fedora gods to change fate once we know it! It must be that shooting star! Must've made my wish came true! Alright, settle down now, Anon, you're in Equestria. And you've replaced this Grogar as the leader of this evil bunch. You can do this! They don't scare you! you've been watching them for years!'
"So, you're telling us that you aren't the ones who summoned us here? then who!?" Cozy Glow took the turn to speak for the two.
"Hmph, Whatever this little child did to Twilight and her friends must be very impressive work..." the king of darkness scolded. "And you, Chrysalis... why are you here and not leading your army of changelings?"
"Don't remind me! Stupid Twilight and her friends, that's why!" she scowled with pure rage. "You didn't answer this one's question; did you summon us here? if not, then who-"
"That would be me!" Anons echo gotten their attention.
He carefully hopped amongst the smalle circles of land surrounded by a shallow puddle of water has he maneuvered himself standing with all the confidence he can muster up. Anon never really care if they blast them on sight, the last thing he wants to do when he dies is to go to Equestria. And it already became a reality; real life on earth was already boring for him.
"Hmm, what in Equestria is that thing!?" Tirek, still in his weak and feeble state, grumbled towards the creature and pointing at it. "It's... on two's?"
“Hmm, hmm, hmm..." he was going for the flow at this point, improvising as he went on. "My name is Anon; I am what you call a human. A race of intelligent bipedal who rule Earth; My homeworld..."
"Home... Dimension?" Cozy scratched her head on that one, squinting her eye amongst his introduction.
"You say that you're from another world! Impossible!" the changeling clenched her left hoof to his statement. "Never in a lifetime, I have ever seen creatures from an alternate world ever step hoof here!"
"Well then, I guess I'm the first one, eh?" he shrugged, giggling at her. "So, anyway, let me be the first to say; I am truly blessed for all of you to be at my presence!"
"Blessed? what makes you say that!?" Sombra asked the human, pointing a hoof at his whole figure. "Are you even villainous? surly, your attire speaks for itself, but how are we sure that your one of Twilight's spies?"
"Oh, King Sombra, I 100% guarantee that Twilight isn't the princess to hire spies to do her bidding..." he responded. "Anyways, believe it or not, but I have studied Equestria and its whole world for ages, and I'm pretty sure I know a thing or two of Twilight and her friends. Like... what they like... dislike... and even what they're afraid of!"
"Hmmph, I won't take orders from a pest like you!" Chrysalis was preparing to shoot out a beam towards Anon. "Give me one reason why I shouldn't blast you right now!"
"Hold on, their girl! let's hear him out first..." Tirek was slowly getting interested in his sheer confidence. "Any reason why you summoned us here?"
"Alright, here's the gist; I shall help you four defeat Twilight and her friends and take over Equestria once and for all. As long as you follow my orders and work together as a team, you shall prevail. But, I must warn you, failing to follow me will result in consequences... you don't want that do you?"
"Enough! I won't follow your pathetic existence!" Chrysalis prepared and fired a beam towards Anon's position.
'Oh well, It was fun while it lasted. The last thing I want to do Is getting shot by Chrysalis and her magical laser bea-'
*BRRNGG*
In a glance, Anon notices that the green energy beam that aimed for his chest area bounced back within itself, reflecting the cast directly back to Chrysalis. Didn't have the time to react, the glow of energy was being bounced back in the same spot from her cast but traveling at twice the speed. Getting into direct contact, Chrysalis felt her magic being fatal to her as she collapses to the ground.
"Ugggghh, what h-happened?" she slowly got her eyes spinning in dizziness.
'The magic blast bounced off from me and hit back Chrysalis... I must have some reflection magic at my disposal...neat, but that blast still hurts a bit, but I must show my bluff to them'
"Hehehe, maybe you just need a little FORCE!" It was Sombra who cried, preparing to throw a giant orb of darkness cast from his horn and shot it to Anon.
*BRRNGG*
The orb traveling directly to his head area got reflected, followed by the loud ringing noise soon after. Underestemitted by his power, he suffered the consequences by getting hit with the same dark orb he shot at, and the blast was deadlier than Chrysalis. He fell directly face-first to the hard ground.
"Nngggh!" he cried in agony.
"It seems that two of the most feared creatures of Equestrian history couldn't take me down In a clean shot..." Anon's cocky attitude turned to a halt e as he noticed somepony was missing from the pact. "Hmm, where's Cozy Glo- "
*Wham*
Just above him were piles of rocks fell to him as the mass and weight of them crushed him. It was Cozy Glow who flew above the cave and bucked away some of the stalagmites above.
"That will teach him to be such an annoying creature!" she flew down to where Tirek was.
Anon, however, wasn't even worried at the slightest. Like the moment he was 'crushed' by the stalagmites, wasn't even fazed from it. Like he activated his other ability by conscience, Anon just a few feet away from the pile of rocks. But, he was all cloaked from plain sight as he inspected his whole body, all transparent and undetectable from the gang. Glance over to the pile, he saw his foot sticking out. He quickly learned his ability fast and walked over to behind Cozy Glow, where he reappeared out of nowhere and into her clueless mind.
'Hmm, It seems that when I get struck by a physical object or attack, I get into this invisible state while a fake corpse takes my place of death. It seems like that feign death ability from World of Warcraft...'
"So, Mr. Tirek, let's go and stop Twilight once and fo-"
Anon gently whispered to the filly's ear, "-Gotcha, you little trouble, maker! Trying to kill me off this early? you think I'm King Sombra or something?"
Cozy was even stunned by Anon's surprise. She flailed her legs and flapped her wings as soon as he caught her by surprise. She was quite lightweight for him, so it was no surprise.
'She's incredibly light; they don't call it My Little Pony for anything...
"Huh!? the rocks crushed you!" even Cozy was confused as ever, pointing her hoof at the pile. "See, I crushed-"
The 'body' she pointed two suddenly vanished into nothingness as wisps of darkness wiped them away from existence. Even Tirek was commendable by his talented abilities; he slowly found a new sense of respect for him.
"Incredible magically feats you have, but are you sure you won't be mad if I were to...take it!" Tirek approached him to the front of him, slowly opening his mouth to absorb all of his magic inside him. Unfortunately, it didn't seem to work as nothing was coming out of him. "What's this? you're magic is resisting my absorption?"
' I'm immune to Tireks magic drainage? Damn, I'm like one of those OP anime protagonists... But I shouldn't be able to be overpowered too much... let me just focused on the main plan'
"Hey! Just hear me out!" still playing the role, Anon let go of Cozy from his grasp and clenched his right fist at the minotaur. Which he quickly stood back from him when a long black dagger materialized from his right hand. With instinctive, he aimed the tip of the knife near the minotaurs chin, giving him a little scare.
'I seemed to have some weapons in my possession; a dagger? What am I some theif class in an MMO? not that I'm complaining but...'
Anon quickly used his otaku/brony mind to calculate how his abilities came to be soon. Based on the skills he has so far, he theorized that his skills connected to his personality and desire. The reflecting power must be from those countless times playing MMO's, and the death feigning is probably from his desire to be tricky and cunning. He remembers those times in school, where he hides in the shadows most of the time. With pure reflexes, he soon to discover how to unsheath his dagger by flicking it away from him below his waist, and there he was empty-handed.
Both Chrysalis and Sombra were partially recovering by the magic cast they got caught in, putting their attention towards the human as they were now intimidated by his power. Tirek and Cozy Glow, too was at his full attention.
"You have accomplished magically feats that I don't believe I ever witnessed in Equestria!" Chrysalis showed a sign of fear from her tone. "Not even Starshwirl could perform such spells."
"Granted, you have talent, but what do you want from us!? you're already capable of taking over Equestria!" Tirek explained.
"Oh, you're so wrong, I'm not here to take over Equestria. No, you're here to take over Equestria! As one. I am only here to assist in your conquest; I have no intention of taking Equestria for myself, but as a team!"
The four gasped with all of their belief; Sombra was a bit stuck up and retaliated over that thought. "Pfft, why waste my time being with this insolence when I could do it in a heartbeat!?"
"Yeah! Why would I ever need help with ruling Equestria! I want it for myself!" the changeling hissed over towards him. "If anypony wants to get revenge from Twilight, It should be me!"
"And me!" Tirek raised his hand.
"Also me!" said Cozy Glow raising her hoof.
"Well, Twilight and her friends are an irritation..." Sombra spoke with all his might. "But I-"
"Yeah yeah, you’re gonna take your precious kingdom paired back by destroying the tree of Harmony, which is the source of the Elements of Harmony..." He lazily spoiled events on what's about to come.
"Hm?" he turned his head towards him, as he was blown away by predicting all of his plans. "Impossible! There's no way you could know about that! about the crystal empire about the Elements!"
"Oh, I know alot of things from all of you four; how Chrysalis was blasted away from Princess Cadence's alter, from the time Tirek battled against Twilight from stealing all the pony magic. Even Cozy's Glow lazy attempt of sending her and her friends to Tartarus while making everypony your friend. That last one was probably the most terrible way of villany I've seen!"
"Rude!" Cozy pouted, crossing her arms as she plopped herself down on the ground. "Hang on- How did you know all of that!? you aren't even from this 'world' as you say."
"Have you possess some infinite knowledge about Equestria and our downfalls?" the changeling layed some concerning questions.
"-But how did you know what I was about to do!?" Sombra took a stab of asking the human.
"If you don't want to get blasted away from friendship, then you must stay here!" He held his stance as he was about to mutter out. "At the moment you destroy the tree of harmony, Twilight discovers that she has the power of friendship inside all of them, and they don't require something physical to represent it."
"Why am I even bothering with you peasant!" Sombra took no hesitation and proceeded to walk off the cave. "I have a kingdom to go rule! now If you excu-"
*STAB*
The king roared at the sharp pain he felt up to his back neck; it was Anon's dagger that pierced even the helmet he wore. Anon instinctively reacted and threw his dagger straight towards him. Strange, his throwing distance wasn't too good even from a skinny figure like him, but also then he couldn't throw knives as fast as that. It traveled as soon as a playing card. By his automatic, the rest of the villains a slight gasp.
"That dagger could pierce his armor like a piece of paper!?" Tirek cried, keeping a safe distance between him and Anon. "A-alright, This new guy is pretty strong."
"Even managed to make me get struck by my magic," added Chrysalis.
Speaking of Sombra, the pain from the dagger made him groan in agony. "Get this sharp pain out of my neck! wh-what's this? Did it pierce the armor on me? Impossible! my armor disenchanted to block any incoming attacks."
'That dagger I threw at him must be a magic dagger if I know MMO logic; what if I could materialize more?'
Anon once more flicked his wrist, and one more dagger appeared from his left hand, as well as his right hand. However, the knife that pierced Sombra disappeared from the place he stabbed at; it safely returned to Anon's right hand as he flashed within his grasp.
'Magic daggers that will return to me when I command it? I seemed to be like some powerful theif or some rouge class. But I can reflect magic attacks? what are these strange powers?'
"Now, As I keep on saying! If you leave us here, you will be fated to die!" he commanding him to stay. "I'm trying to prevent events that will meet all of your dooms!"
"But how did you know my plan?" the king asked as he rubbed the backside of his neck. "To take over the Crystal Empire, to destroy Twilight's source of power?"
He knew that If he were to change how the season premiere began, he would have to create new scenarios and events. After this point on, Anon would have made his plans for domination. But, Sombra demanded him to answer how he knows his plans after all.
"Just an educated guess..." Anon chuckled as he was playing with his two daggers by tossing and flipping them. "Now then, final answer; Will all of you obey me? after I nearly defeated you all in sheer seconds, and what Twilight took hours to do?"
Chrysalis was grinding her teeth as she pondered to herself about this "team" Anon wants to create, But Cozy Glow was already on board with the plan as she nodded silently. Tirek didn't have anywhere to go, so he had to agree with him. King Sombra, as much as he doesn't want to be teamed up with anyone, silently agreed as he gathered around the table.
"Very well... I shall join you!" the queen boasted. "My intelligence will certainly be the CORE aspect to this team."
'Let me try something out... If I was a writer on this show, what would Chrysalis say next after doing this monologue about trying to get sweet revenge from Twilight?...aha!'
"-Next, you'll say, And I will be the one to take Twilight and her friends down myself!" Anon interrupted, predicting her next line as he pointed a finger towards her.
"And I will be the one to take Twilight and her friends down myself!-" when she finished speaking, she nearly gasped at the accurate prediction. "What!?"
'Holy shit, I just Joeseph Joestar'd someone in real life! Is this some power? Or It's just my predictable mind from a Brony watching dozens of episodes? seriously, I could probably predict what they're about to say next..'
Anon soon stared down and Cozy Glow, to whom she locked eyes on him as well, looking quite chattery with her teeth. It is evident from the show what she was about to say. "And you will say something like... Golly, this creature's got some talent in him. Right...now!"
"Golly, this creature's got some talent in him-" Cozy Glow soon to realize that she said the same lines as Anon predicted. She placed her two front hooves on her cheeks. "*GASP*."
"Alright-Alright, fine! you have my utmost respect Anon the human, "Tirek was very clear about his statement. "I shall stay with you and these allies. "You have proven yourself to be the terrifying creature I ever laid eyes on; What is your first order of busniess?"
"Let me think..." he snapped his fingers, with a cunning plan struck apon him. "I'm gonna go to Ponyville and pay Twilight a little visit..."
"What!? Are you going to fight her? All by yourself?" stomped Chrysalisis hooves when he suggested his plan. "Are you mad?"
"What I'm going to do is none of your concern; It's what you four should be doing!" he gave her the smallest of intimidation on his face. "You must work together as a TEAM! And the first order of busniess is to talk amongst yourselves; speak about why you hate Twilight and her friends. Finally, figure out your plans to conquer Equestria. See you when the sun comes down an-"
With that, Anon stopped in his way out of the cave as he thought out loud. Where on Equestria is Ponyville from Grogars lair? How the hell is he going to ask him where Ponyville is without being a total idiot. Was all of his bluffing going to take a toll on him?
'Crap! They didn't specify where Grogar's lair is from Ponyville in the Wiki! Maybe they did in the show, but it was just a split second. What am I going to do? I need to go to Ponyville- '
Suddenly, in a flash, a black rim of light appeared in front of Anon. Like the rifts that appeared in videogames, it showed a projecting landscape of Ponyville. From the looks, the other side situated in the Everfree forest.
'Well, that solves that case...'
"He can create portals to anywhere he desires?" Cozy Glow had to admire his glorious power. "He must've gathered us here that way!"
"W-well, uhh... Yes!" he bounced back seconds after this discovery. "See all of you soon, and I expect you all to cooperate when I get back."
One hop inside the portal, and he was off to the other side as the portal began to disintegrate out of thin air. Anon was just situated just outside the Ponyville outskirts and near the entrance to the Everfree forest. He glanced over to the gleaming sun, guessing from the position it was probably noontime. Taking over one last look at his hands, he summoned his two daggers from thin air and soon made them disappear.
"Well then, might as well get used to these powers while I'm here..."
