The Last of Pendants

BEGINNING OF THE END: PART 2

It was dark and cloudy day in Ponyville Centre, and the market was very crowded this time around. Thanks to density of the crowd, you couldn't move two steps without bumping into some-pony and being forced to hastily apologize and do it all again within the same ten seconds.

Above the market, there were three clouds that looked like they had a Pegasus on each of them. On those clouds were the three invaders discussing how to kick off the master plan.

Marcus pointed at the red Allicorn and said, "Vincent, you are going to scout the area and find a good spot to start the chaos." He then pointed at the Green Allicorn, "Tristan, you are going to help find the pony in charge around here. We have a photo of the Mayor, but it's going to be hard to find her in this crowd. That's where their own magic comes into place. We enter where Vincent points out and use a spell that makes anyone it hits fall unconscious. We don't want anyone dead... Yet. When we find the Mayor, we go to that treehouse we found and interrogate her for the location of the ruling power of this girly place. After that, we invade the castle and assume control of said place. After we get bored with this place, we use the pendant's last resort command and resume our lives when we return and laugh at Nedak as he loses grip of humanity and offs himself. Any questions?"

"Yes I have one." Vincent said, "What if she refuses to talk? Or what if we get intercepted by those three losers? Or even better. What if we can't beat that namby pamby pony princess?"

"Great questions. If she refuses to talk, we ditch her and find some one else to spill the beans. If we get delayed by the pansies, we fight them off and when unconscious, we move on with the plan. If we can't defeat the princess, we play dirty and defeat her with combined power. Now let's put this show on the road." With that Marcus sent Vincent and Tristan to their respective tasks and waited for everything to fall into place.

Moments later, another flash of bright lights appeared near Sugarcube Corner. The four that stepped out were none other than Nedak, Renimcinos, Spark K. Lionheart, and Rena, who took the name Latte so no one would think she was helping the three heroes. When they dusted themselves off, they were immediately greeted by the hyper-active Pinkie Pie.

Pinkie Pie suddenly asked very fast, "Hi guys! What are you doing here? You said you'd be back a week after the last time you were here, which was two DAYS ago! Are you some sorta serious spy job? That reminds me of this one time Twilight was freaking out over a message from her future self that turned out to be a fluke. We even snuck in to the royal Canterlot library even they would've just let us in at the start! And..."

"Nedak, what do we do now? Considering the fact that we can even recognize them, how do we find them?"Asked Reni.

"Hang on! I'm thinking!"He yelled, "Hmmmm... My mind is drawing a complete blank right now, perhaps we should get some supplies for a stakeout at the market?"

"Why would we need to hold a stakeout?" Latte asked, "But I agree with Nedak. We need some supplies to hunt them down and send 'em packing. Let's get going."

As the four walked off, Pinkie stopped rambling and went back to helping the Cake family with whatever they needed her for.

TEN MINUTES LATER

"Okay. We have: Tripwires, smoke pouches, food, flint and steel, tents, sleeping bags, binoculars, and a survival knife. Anything else Nedak?"

"Nope. Thats just about it. We won't be gone for-"

Just at that moment, a bloodcurdling scream could be heard from the other end of the market. Then multiple flashes of purple lights were seen and every pony there except the four were running from the now confirmed magic bolts. When the bolts hit some of the runners, the ones hit fell to the ground as if struck unconscious. As more runners were hit, the screaming started to die down. Within seconds everyone except the crowd cutters and the four in pursuit of the crowd cutters.

"Well... If it isn't the little doggies coming back for this necklace." Marcus began, "How does it feel that your precious world is about to be the newest wasteland in our new world? There's no use trying. We already got what we came for."

"Why you little..." Nedak growled. He then lunged at Marcus with his hoof pointing at his face. The Light grey Allicorn barely flinched as he fired a magic bolt at Nedak's chest. As Nedak fell to the floor unconscious, Marcus was distracted by his own laughter as Spark's horn glowed a bright purple and grew into a huge sphere. The purple sphere was then shot at Marcus at speeds that would make a sonic rain-boom look like a paper ball being thrown at a trash can. Before it hit though, Marcus' horn glowed a dark red as he disappeared into nothing. The other two Allicorns did the same as they disappeared to where ever they meant to go with that spell.

TWO MINUTES LATER

"Nedak? Nedak? WILL YOU WAKE UP!! Someone hand me the bucket of water.

He was jolted awake by a stream of water poured on his head. When he was awake, he opened his eyes to meet some other pony's eyes. They were a deep amethyst and had a worried look on them. When he backed up a little bit, he found they belonged to no one else but Rainbow Dash.

"Oh...hi there Dash. You would not believe the weirdest dream I had." Nedak said with a slight blush on his face, noticing how he was surrounded by the entire town.

"It wasn't a dream Nedak. There was a broadcast from somewhere around Appleousa from three unidentified Allicorns saying that these next few days will be the last we will have true meaning. Do you know about these three, because your friends sure do?"

"Yes. Yes I do. But I don't know what we should do now. If they make it to Canterlot, we can't do anything to stop them. They will take over and destroy this dimension piece by piece." Nedak continued, "If we want to stop them now we need to go right now!" With that, Nedak got on his hooves and started walking to the edge of town.

Back in the crowd Renimcinos was sulking at the fact he couldn't do anything for his friend who he now believes is dead.  He wasn't facing the center of the crowd, so he couldn't see Nedak was alive and kicking.

"I can't believe he's dead... What's the point of trying to stop them now? They now have the leverage to control the world without raising a finger. There's nothing left..."

"That doesn't mean you can't smile though. What's the point of frowning even if you lost someone dear to you. They wouldn't want you to act like this. It's better to move on with your life even if it's your last day."

"Thanks for those words. Why do I feel I recognize you though?" Reni turned around to see it was again Pinkie Pie.

"I should tell you that Nedak wasn't dead, just passed out. You're so silly sometimes."

"REALLY! Where is he? I have some choice words for him."

"He's at the edge of town. He's going to go find those mean ol' Allicorns himself."

As Renimcinos was about to run off to his friend, Pinkie Pie interrupted him by saying, "Hey Reni! Before you go, I have something for you."

"Yes. What is it?" he turned his head to end up KISSING Pinkie Pie straight on the lips. He blushed heavily as she returned the kiss.

"Ahhhhhhhh...." the crowd said in unison, obviously in awe.

"Good luck Reni!" Pinkie yelled as he flew to the edge of town to confront Nedak.

ONE MINUTE LATER

"Nedak, if you are going to fond these invaders, at least let me come with you."

"Of coarse Dash! I was planning on going alone. In fact, where are the other three I came here with?" Nedak questioned the lack of his friends, when he was suddenly punched in the face by Renimcinos.

"OW!! What was that for Reni?!"

"You had me left thinking you were DEAD!! Don't even think about going alone! Who knows what would have happened if you left alone."

"I wasn't even thinking of doing so. I was waiting for you, Spark, and Rena. Why would I forget to let my friends have some of the fun beating the snot out of these wannabe rulers."

"Speaking of which, where are Spark and Rena?" wondered Renimcinos.

"We're over here!" two voices had yelled over to them. "Sorry about that, we got lost after we heard Nedak was at the edge of town, waiting for us."

"*Ahem* Can we get going?" Asked a very impatient Rainbow Dash.

"Yeah! Let's get MOVING!!!" With that, the five ponies started to fly/run off into the great plains

MEANWHILE! AT APPLELOUSA

"Dammit! That damn mare gave the wrong directions! I told you we should have just casually go to some one asking, 'excuse me! Can I get directions to the royal palace?' That would have worked better than what we actually did! Now we made ourselves known as terrorists!" Vincent yelled.

"Will you shut up Vince! Everything is going according to plan. We can just take the train there." Marcus said, attempting to calm Vincent down.

"But Vince was right. We can't purchase anything without being recognized and arrested!" Tristan said, making great progress getting Vincent's point across.

"Why don't we fly to Royal Palace by following the tracks?" Marcus suggested. His idea made the most sense. No tickets purchased means no going to buy tickets, and that means they can't be recognized as a threat.

"Alright! Let's get going!" With that, the three went outside of the shack they were hiding out in, only to be surrounded by royal guards.

"Put your hooves where I can see 'em! We got an anonymous tip giving us you location to the exact dot! Do you have any last words to humor us with?"

"Yeah. We got a few. Look at the sky for a moment. You'll find the discovery very interesting!" Marcus said with arrogance hidden in his voice.

All of the guards looked up into the starry sky, seeing nothing but stars and a flaming bolt heading right for them.

"HIT THE-" it was too late. The guards were burnt to a crisp by the explosion the bolt left. As the bolt hit, the three convicts had teleported into the local apple orchard, beginning to make their way to the train tracks to rest for the next day.

TWO HOURS LATER

"Nedak! Where do you think are right now, because I think we made enough progress to stop and make camp?" Asked Renimcinos. He was clearly tired from all the flying and running they had been doing for about seven hours.

"We are currently two miles away from Applelousa. We can stop there and rest for a while. We can only stay there for a short time though. If we rest too long, we'll lose track of Marcus and his lackeys.

"Good! I don't think I can run for much longer." Spark panted as he said this, clearly losing energy from all the running.

TWO MINUTES LATER

"Okay guys! We made it to Applelousa! Let's find a motel to stop at for the night so we can Rest for the night.

"Hey! I see a motel right by the saloon! How convenient!" Rena exclaimed

As they were walking towards the motel, they were discussing random things to keep their minds off the tension of what they needed to do if they wanted to stop Marcus. When they got to the motel, the pony at the counter told them, "Sorry fellas. We don't have any rooms available at the moment. They're all filled with injured guard ponies."

"How did they get injured?" Asked Nedak.

"The guards say they were surrounding a shack where three suspicious ponies where holed up in. When the three came out, they attempted to arrest them, when they were suddenly hit by a huge ball of fire! There were some casualties, but most of the guards were left badly injured."

"Thanks for the info. We can sleep in the lobby of you don't mind. We got a huge job tomorrow."

"Oh please do! You can stay as long as you need to! If you need anything, come to me."

"We'll keep that in mind." Nedak said as he and his friends started walking to the lobby, "Is it me, or did that guy act as he knew us from somewhere?"

"Beats me." Replied Rainbow Dash, "Your name was The talk of the country when you defeated that fox thing."

As the night went on, the group starting talking about random topics, considering the fact that the plan was simple: Get to Canterlot, intercept Marcus, defeat Marcus and his lackeys, send them to a horrible place using the pendants teleportation powers. They eventually fell asleep, everyone in a separate sleeping bag, except Nedak and Rainbow Dash, they had to share one since they didn't expect her joining in on the hunt. Like they minded that though. While the two sides of the fence were sleeping, they had been imagining the things they would do as celebration if they succeeded in their plans. Neither side knew the fact that life would change for better or worse if either side succeeded...