Author's Note

This story is dedicated to Israel Yabuki, who makes the most amazing stories I've ever read. May he continue to write great stories and may any Brony past, present and future Brony on.

Chapter 1: A comical Crisis

On an ordinary day in Ponyville, the sun began to rise from the mountains of Canterlot, and the citizens got up and were prepared for their daily activities. However, on the steps of a certain Princess of Friendship’s castle, a handful of children were sitting on the porch, eagerly waiting for their mothers to come home.

They were Moonlight Sparkle, daughter of Beau and Princess Twilight. Apple Slice, son of Applejack and Bucky. Crystal Gem, daughter of Rarity and Silver. Warm Breeze and his little sister Comfy Breeze, children of Fluttershy and Genus. Bolt Jr., son of Rainbow Dash and Bolt. The youngest children of the bunch, Peacon Pie and Lemon Pie, children of Pinkie Pie and Frosty. Whilst sitting beside them were Flamethrower, son of Emily and Spike. All of them eager to see their mothers coming home.

‘When are they gonna be here?’ asked Bolt, who, like his mother, was getting impatient of them arriving.

‘Would you relax Bolt?’ said Crystal Gem ‘They’ll get here soon. You know how slow those balloon rides are from Hope Hollow to here.’

‘Crystal’s right.’ said Apple Slice ‘Aunt Starlight and Trixie are busy waiting for them at the balloon landing site.’

‘Wait, isn’t Uncles Chance and Mystic with them?’ asked Warm Breeze.

‘Don’t you remember Breeze?’ said Moonlight, seeing that she’s the only one paying attention ‘They’re inside trying to look after aunt Starlight’s kids and Trixie’s newborn baby.’

‘I wanna see mama and give her a BIIIIIIIIIG cake.’ said Peacon Pie.

‘Nah-uh,’ said Lemon Pie ‘The BIIIIIIIGEST party’

‘Uh, you do realize that both of them are part of the same thing, right?’ said Moonlight whilst she rocked little Flamethrower back and forth.

‘Right, what did we say?’ said the Pie twins.’

‘And besides,’ said Bolt Jr. as he reminded them ‘Our dads are already busy arranging a welcome home party.’

‘Yeah, uncle Frosty said that he wants a turn to arrange the welcome home party.’ said Warm Breeze.

‘I just hope they get here,’ said Bolt Jr. ‘They don’t, I’m gonna go get a hay burger.’

‘You already had two slices of cake and three taco salads before you came here,’ said Crystal Gem ‘How can you still be hungry?’

‘What can I say,’ said Bolt Jr. as he suddenly stood up and suddenly flew around using his super speed, then stopped whilst he smiled with pride ‘Ever since I one day woke up with my mom’s flight and speed, I got super excited. Now I can visit my mom whilst she’s at Wonderbolt practice.’

‘But weren't you disappointed that you couldn’t go because you also wanted to visit aunt Spitfire but she was on leave on her honeymoon ever since she married uncle Blaze and are expecting soon?’ asked Peacon Pie.

Bolt Jr. widened his eyes as he blushed out of embarrassment ‘Oh yeah, right.’

‘I just hope pa and the others will be finished in time before our moms get here.’ said Apple Slice whilst he looked behind at the castle.

From within the large dining room, the husbands were hard at work, trying to get a party ready for their wives. Beau wanted to make sure everything was neat and organized the way Twilight taught him. Frosty got the cupcakes and a pair of cakes ready at the center of the table. Bolt brought in the chairs to get them to their designated spots. Bucky brought the Apple Fritters and Apple Pies at the center too. Silver brought over the plates and napkins, whilst Emily brought over the knives and forks and Genus brought over some punch and tea, whilst Chance made sure that his kids Starshine Shimmer, Lucky Star and Blessed Night were comfortable, whilst Mystic played with his daughter Misty using his psychic abilities as she giggled with joy.

After the last utensils were in place, Emily wiped her forehead with a smile and a sigh. ‘Phew, that should about do it.’

‘You’re telling me,’ said Bucky as he stretched his back ‘I just hope that the girls will like the surprise we made for them.’

‘Oh they will,’ said Frosty ‘I know planning parties is my wife’s thing, but I think it’s high time that someone else would plan a party for her.’

‘Just make sure you don’t get spotted,’ said Bolt as he remembered what his wife Rainbow Dash told him ‘Last time Dashie and the others tried to plan a surprise birthday party for her, she thought that they didn’t want to be her friends anymore. And you do not want to know what she was like when she gets all moody.’

‘Oh we know, we were there.’ said Silver, remembering the attempt he and Rarity tried to bring Pinkie Pie back to her old self ‘She can be really scary when she gets like that.’

‘I’m just glad that the Yaks were able to help her, even the others,’ said Genus ‘I really didn’t like seeing her unhappy.’

‘I know the girls left us in charge of the school whilst they were way,’ said Chance ‘But where were they going? They didn’t say much.’

‘I read their minds.’ said Mystic after he held his daughter, with the others looking at him with flexed eyebrows, for even though he can read minds, they don’t like it when he invades others’ personal spaces. ‘Don’t worry, only about where they were going.’

‘Where?’ asked Chance after he was done attending to his children.

‘They were going to Hope Hollow to the Rainbow Festival.’ said Mystic ‘Apparently Rainbow Dash is invited as a guest of honor there and she’s allowed to bring her friends over.’

‘Oh great,’ said Bucky ‘Another reason for her ego to be boosted again.’

‘Hey, watch it, that’s my wife you’re talking about,’ said Bolt, but ended up rolling his eyes ‘Even if it is true.’

‘I just hope things are okay over there,’ said Beau after he was done arranging for the welcome back party ‘There wasn’t much information about that place. I mean if there was trouble over there, don’t you think that the Friendship map would’ve warned them about that.’

‘Relax Beau,’ said Frosty ‘You’re sounding like Twilight.’

‘In the meantime, whilst we wait for them,’ said Emily as she sat down near one of the chairs ‘We should take a break.’
They saw her pull out a graphic novel, and to their surprise, it was a comic of the Power Ponies, but something was different about them. Beau then asked ‘ “Power Ponies and the Amazing Nine”? I didn’t know you were into that stuff?’
‘Well duh,’ said Emily ‘You know how much I am into superheroes. I mean I watched every movie and collected every comic about every Marvel and DC character that has ever been created.’

‘Ugh, don’t remind me.’ said Frosty ‘I still haven’t gotten over the fact that you tried to dress me up as Rocket Raccoon or Groot. It was so embarrassing, even after I said I wanted to go as the Flash.’

‘Sorry brother,’ said Emily with a sneaky smile ‘You lost the bet, you get to dress in the costume of my choice.’

‘So what’s that comic about?’ asked Bolt as he walked over ‘I know about the Power Ponies from what Spike told me, but I never heard of the Amazing Nine.’

‘The Amazing Nine are actually human superheroes from another world,’ said Emily ‘They were brought over to the Power Ponies’ world after Maniac and the Ponies’ other enemies created a device that nearly destroyed their world. Kind of like Infinite Crisis, but different, cause it merged their world with the Amazing Nine’s. And they teamed up with them to become the League of Heroes.’

‘Really?’ said Silver as he was also interested ‘I never knew that.’

‘Neither did they,’ said Emily. ‘They’re even romantically involved with the Power Ponies.

‘Wait, what?’ said Frosty, until he realized something. ‘Wait a minute.’

He walked over and took a closer look. He then looked at her with a flexed eyebrow as he said ‘You wouldn’t happen to have helped create this, didn’t you?’

Emily blushed and gave a sheepish smile as she said ‘Maybe?’

‘Wait, you made that comic?’ asked Genus.

‘Not really,’ said Emily ‘See, when Spike took me to the Power Pony Convention a month before the Storm King attacked Equestria, we met the creator of the comics. When he saw me, they were fascinated with me, especially over my knowledge of the superheroes I know from my world. And when I told them that Spike and the others were in the comic, he apologized because one of the comics had been enchanted by accident.’

‘And let me guess,’ said Frosty as he rolled his eyes whilst crossing his arms ‘You even told him about our relationships with our wives and you suddenly had an idea to create your own superheroes that would be in love with the ponies and would have a romantic relationship when they somehow met years ago when they were kids after their histories had been rewritten?’

‘Man, you really like making Fanfiction superheroes, don’t you?’ said Bolt.

‘That,’ said Emily until she blushed like a tomato as she said ‘And I sometimes pictured how hot Spike would be in spandex and tights.’

The guys looked at her with flexed eyebrows, with Frosty going ‘O…Kay. Too much info.’

Chance shrugged whilst he covered his babies with their blankets, as did Mystic whilst did the same as Chance asked ‘So where’d you get that one?’

‘I got this ahead in advance,’ she said with a squee ‘The guy at the enchanted comics store from Canterlot said that he wanted me to have this as a gift for the amazing…’

Beau suddenly cut her off when he heard her say what he hoped she hadn’t said. ‘Wait, did you say, “Enchanted comics”?’ he said in both a worried and partial scared tone.

‘Oh come on, that doesn’t mean they’re literally…’. Emily was suddenly cut off as she noticed her comic graphic novel was starting to glow and began to glow bright and brighter, causing the others too look at it panickly, as did Emily as she said ‘Enchanted?’

‘Oh crap.’ said Bolt when he realized what was happening.

Twenty minutes earlier

The children were still waiting for them at the Castle of Friendship’s steps. When all of a sudden, Trusty’s ears perked up and raised his head and looked ahead, gaining Warm Breeze’s attention as he said ‘What is it boy?’

Within a split second, Trusty got up and ran ahead, gaining the kids’ attention. For straight ahead, were none other than the Mane 6, Spike, Starlight and Trixie, walking down the path heading straight for their castle. The kids, who are so excited, they all got up and ran towards their mothers.

As the Mane 6 and the others continued towards the castle, Fluttershy noticed Trusty running towards her. ‘Trusty!’ said Fluttershy with a smile as she knelt down, allowing her to embrace Trusty. ‘Who’s a good boy, who’s a good boy?’ she said whilst she giggled when Trusty licked her a couple of times.

‘Some creature’s happy to see you.’ said Rainbow Dash with a grin.

‘Mom!!’ shouted Moonlight, gaining their attention when they saw their kids running down to them.

‘He ain’t the only one.’ said a smiling Applejack as she and the rest of the Mane Six also ran down to embrace their children.

Twilight knelt down with Moonlight stopping in front of her whilst she gently hugged her daughter, Applejack picked up Apple Slice as she twirled him around, with Rainbow Dash doing the same as she hugged Bolt Jr., but hovered a bit in the air as she twirled. Rarity hugged Crystal Gem tightly, with Warm Breeze and Fluttershy gently hugging one another, whilst they also held onto Comfy Breeze, seeing that she’s still delicate despite her age, whilst both Peacon and Lemon Pie tackled Pinkie Pie over as they were laughing.

Spike walked over and was able to pick up Flamethrower from Moonlight’s gentle grasp, with him saying ‘See little guy, I wasn’t gone for that long.’, with little Flamethrower giggling whilst placing his hands on his father’s face.

‘You know,’ said Trixie as she and Starlight stood near them ‘I can’t help but feel jealous whenever I see them do that. I can’t wait for my daughter to do that someday.’

‘You know,’ said Starlight whilst she realized something ‘In a strange way, neither can I.’

After their kids were done embracing their parents, Apple Slice asked ‘So how was the Festival ma? Was it interesting?’

‘Oh, it was interesting alright.’ said Applejack whilst she rubbed her head.

‘Was the festival everything you guys expected?’ asked Bolt Jr.

‘Eh, yes and no, squirt.’ said Rainbow Dash.

‘Huh?’ said the kids in unison.

‘It’s a bit of a long story.’ said Rarity. She then looked around and wondered who was not among them. ‘Crystal, where is your father and the others?’

‘They’re waiting for you at the Castle of Friendship,’ said Crystal Gem ‘They were going to surprise you with a “Welcome Back” party.’

‘What?!’ said Pinkie Pie as she sat up whilst she held onto both of her kids ‘They organized a party and didn’t invite me to do it for them?!!’

‘Daddy said that he felt like he wanted to make a party especially for you,’ said Lemon Pie ‘As a way of saying thanks for throwing the bestest parties.’

‘Plus,’ said Peacon when he remembered her ‘We decided to tell you, because we didn’t want you to have a relapse like what happened last time.’

‘Relapse?’ said Pinkie with a flexed eyebrow.

‘You know,’ said Spike whilst he rocked little Flamethrower back and forth whilst saying in one huge breath ‘That time when you thought that your friends didn’t want to be your friends anymore and you wanted to know why they lied to you and avoided you because they were trying to set up a surprise birthday party for you?’

Pinkie was surprised at first, and then blushed whilst she rubbed the back of her head and nervously giggled, remembering that day ‘Oh yeah, right.’

‘So while we get back to them,’ said Moonlight ‘Why don’t we get back to the Castle and you can tell us how the Festival went?’

Twilight giggled as she stood up ‘Alright Moonlight , let’s go.’

As they walked and held onto their children’s hands, Warm Breeze asked ‘So what happened after you guys got there.’

‘Well,’ said Fluttershy ‘After we got there, we wondered what was so strange with the town. Until we discovered that it was all grey.’

‘Grey?’ asked the kids.

‘See,’ said Applejack whilst she explained ‘The mayor of Hope Hollow, Mayor Sunny Skies, used a Rainbow Generator to try and bring ponies together for the festivities, until the thing malfunctioned and blew up. The mayor thought that it was his fault the generator took away the color of the town.’

‘But, as it turned out,’ said Twilight ‘The town folk gave up on one another over the years when they thought that there was no point in doing the festivities.’

‘Oh, I get it,’ said Moonlight when she realized it ‘Because of that, they gave up on hope, causing Hopeless Magic to take over and took away all the color of the town and the ponies in it.’

Twilight giggled, for she is proud that her daughter is quite smart for her age as she studied just as hard, but also found the time to spend with her friends and family ‘That’s right Moonlight.’

‘Gave up on hope?’ said Bolt Jr. ‘Guess they should’ve called it “Hopeless Hollow”, or maybe Grey Town.’

Rainbow Dash chuckled over Bolt Junior’s attempted joke ‘Something like that.’

‘But,’ said a smiling Pinkie Pie ‘We were really lucky to make some new friends whilst we were over there.’

‘Really mama?’ asked Peacon Pie ‘Like who?’

‘Well, besides Sunny Skies and Petunia,’ said Pinkie Pie ‘Fluttershy and I were in charge of the baked goods. So we asked the bakers residents, the Hoofingtons, to help us out. Only problem was, because of the lack of color, they couldn’t tell from ripe to unripe fruit, thus making their pies not really good.’

‘But thankfully,’ said Fluttershy whilst still holding Warm Breeze’s hand and holding Comfy Breeze ‘We were able to convince their elderly neighbor Moody Root to share some of his apricots with us. Thus by working together, they were able to make pies for the entire festival.’

‘And whilst they were handling the baked goods,’ said Rarity whilst she thought about her friendly encounter with Kerfuffle ‘I met a designer named Kerfuffle. She’s such a sweetheart and she admired my work, so she tried to make some of my designs. And she feels in her heart, despite the lack of colors, she knows which goes where.’

‘So you decided to help her because she looked up to you?’ said Crystal Gem ‘That’s so sweet. I wish I could meet her.’

Rarity giggled of her daughter’s praise over her generous aid to one of the ponies who looked up to her ‘Oh darling, I’m sure we’ll get the chance one day when we’re not working.’

‘And whilst they were doing that,’ said Applejack ‘Ah was helping another pony by the name of Torque Wrench. Y’all should see her work. She did great work on our balloon basket.’

‘Wait, fix your balloon basket?’ said Starlight whilst she was surprised to hear this ‘What happened?’

‘We uh…’ said Applejack whilst she was scratching the side of her head whilst she and the others were embarrassed by what happened ‘Kinda flew into their billboard and broke both that and our balloon.’

‘See, this is why you should’ve used that pendant Chancellor Neighsay had and open a portal there and walk through it,’ said Moonlight ‘Therefore none of you would’ve been in danger in the first place.’

Bolt Jr. acted like a police man as he said ‘Okay, which one of you were driving that thing without a license?’

Pinkie suddenly said out loud ‘How did you know I don’t have a license for that?!!’, causing her to shut her mouth, much to the others’ surprise, but couldn’t help but laugh over Bolt Junior’s joke and Pinkie not having a license to fly the balloon.

‘Anyway,’ said Applejack as she continued ‘Ah helped her fix the billboard as a way of saying thanks for fixing up our balloon.’

‘Cause Granny Smith always said; “You break something, you fix it”. May her soul rest in peace.’ said Apple Slice, with Applejack holding her son close, knowing full well what he went through ever since Granny Smith passed away.

‘Yeah, and whilst Twilight was trying to find a problem about the town’s color loss,’ said Rainbow Dash ‘I was able to find the presidents of my fan club. Barley and Pickle Barrel. They’ve got some promising talent, but they still have a long way to go?’

‘Let me guess,’ said Bolt Jr. ‘They kept crashing against each other and the ground because they can barely get the routine right?’

‘You got that right,’ said Rainbow Dash whilst she chuckled over their epic fail moments ‘They’ve got some promising talent. I thought about bringing them to the Wonderbolt Academy and introduce them to Spitfire.’

‘Uh, isn’t she on leave ever since she got pregnant?’ asked Twilight.

‘After the baby comes.’ said Rainbow Dash. ‘Anyway, I think it’ll be a good idea of having a junior division of the Wonderbolts. Train them like we do for the cadets.’

‘You think I can join?’ asked Bolt Jr. as he got excited.

‘When you’re a little older Jr.’ said Rainbow Dash whilst rubbing her son’s head ‘You’re still a year away from joining flight school after all.’

‘Aw.’ said Bolt Jr. whilst he pouted and crossed his arms, even if he hated to admit that his mom’s right.

‘So with all of you helping,’ asked Lemon Pie ‘Did the festival end in a huge success?’

‘Sure did,’ said Pinkie Pie ‘The town celebrated, they got their color back, and Mayor Sunny Skies proposed to Petunia Petals.’

‘Oh, proposing during the celebration.’ said Crystal Gem whilst she held the left side of her face with hearts in her half lidded eyes ‘How romantic.’

‘Bleg, I still hate mushy stuff.’ said Bolt Jr.

‘Pff,’ said Crystal Gem as she looked at him with a smirk ‘You’re just sour because Apple Bloom turned you down after when you admitted you had a crush on her.’

Within a split second, Bolt Junior’s face went red as a tomato as he shouted ‘How’d you know about that?!!’

Everyone looked at him surprised, with Trixie rolling his eyes as she said ‘Oh great, here we go again. Here comes Rarity and Spike 2.0.’

‘Ahem.’ said two voices, causing Trixie to cringe as she nervously looked at both Spike and Rarity, who were glaring at her over that comment.

‘Uh, no offense you two.’ said Trixie with a sheepish smile.

They finally reached the castle as they walked through the doors, with Crystal smiling with glee as she said ‘I hope we get invited to their wedding. I always wanted to design dresses for the flower girls.’

Crystal then held onto her mother’s hand with both her hands as she said ‘Can I help you design their dresses mother?’

Rarity giggled as she picked up her daughter ‘Of course darling. I think we could both use a good sense of criticism to help us through our designs.’

Fluttershy then asked ‘I hope our husbands didn’t miss us too much. I know how Genus can get worried about me ever since I went with Applejack to solve a Friendship Problem at Las Pegasus whilst Warm Breeze was still a baby.’

‘Oh come on,’ said Spike whilst he tickled Flamethrower’s chin ‘How much trouble could they have gotten themselves into?’
They suddenly heard loud screams in the dining room, causing them to shockingly look down the hall.

‘You and your big mouth.’ said Rainbow Dash as she quickly ran down the hall.

When they opened the hall, to Starlight, Trixie, the Mane Six and their kids’ shock, they saw Emily’s graphic novel glowing whilst acted like a portal, which revealed Emily, Mystic and Chance being sucked in the comic, whilst the husbands tried to remain on the ground.

‘Man, this is why I hate surprises!!’ shouted Frosty as he and Genus were sucked in.

‘Why does this always happen to me?!!’ shouted Bolt as he and Bucky were sucked in next.

Silver got sucked in as he shouted ‘This is why I hate comic books!!!’

Beau was still holding on tight, then noticed his wife, daughter and their friends standing at this door. He shouted ‘Something’s really wrong with this comic…!!’, but then was cut off as he was sucked in last whilst he screamed, causing the graphic novel to stop glowing, slammed itself shut and landed on the messed up table, causing the girls and kids to gasp at the sight what happened.

Moonlight was the first to respond as she nearly wanted to cry as she said ‘W…where did daddy go?’

At the same time, within some kind of void, Emily and the others continued to scream whilst they continued to go who knows where. Finally, after about a minute, a portal appeared, causing them to fall through it, and they ended up falling on the top of the roof of the tallest building they’ve ever seen.

They all grunted, moaned from the pain, with Beau being the first one to open his eyes. ‘What…where are we? he said out of curiosity.

Emily, with some sort of strange hairstyle, stood up as she looked ahead. ‘I think I can speak for everyone when I say…’

And within a split second, everyone shockingly looked at themselves as they were dressed up in some kind of costumes, whilst Emily shouted ‘HOLY CRABCAKES!!!!’