Power Ponies and the Amazing Nine

Emily stood up and looked around, and noticed that they were in the middle of the city, and realized that they were not in Manehattan, but in Mare Tropolis.

‘Oh. My. Gosh.’ said Emily as she was slowly geeking out. And just like that, she shouted out loud ‘We’re in the world of the Power Ponies and the Amazing Nine!!’

She turned around as she looked at the others. She gasped loudly of what she was seeing. For it was Beau and the others, but they were in superhero costumes.

Beau’s costume was in a different darker form, mostly because his costume was grey and black. He wore black boots that reached from all the way to his knees as they had knee guards on them. Armoured pads on both sides of his thighs, a yellow utility belt, with a sword placed inside the back of it. His left arm had black gloves that reached to his elbows, whilst also had shin and elbow guards, but the top of his left arm appeared to be a shield, but folded up. He wore a swallowtail jacket, with a mask/hood covering his face, whilst on his chest appeared to be a clenched red fist.

Bucky was wearing a red and blue costume. He wore dark blue boots that nearly reached to his knees, black pants, blue vest with a large M on top, black sleeves, blue gloves that nearly reached his elbows, whilst his hairstyle was neatly greased and styled, whilst he was wearing a blue mask.

Silver’s costume was glowing blue, but there were also a hint of black on it. His sleeves, pants and gloves were black, but he wore green armoured boots that went from his feet to his knees, wearing a type of pads on both sides of his thighs. He wore a green vest that had a picture of a type of gauntlet on the front of his chest, with shoulder/arm pads that nearly reached his elbows, whilst he also bearing double gauntlets on both his wrists, as if they were his energy source.

Genus’ costume was also different. He wore brown boots that nearly reached to his knees with orange stripes at the top. His pants were black, whilst his vest were also brown, but with black claws on it. His shoulder pads were brown, with black sleeves, whilst he also wore brown gloves that reached all the way to his elbows. He also wore a brown mask with black covering his eyes. But he also had some type of belt buckle that resembled that of a wolf.

Bolt’s costume was more of the showoff type, as it nearly resembled to an old Norse armour. He wore black pants, gold plated armour at his thighs, his knees, whilst also wearing armoured boots. He wore gold armoured gauntlets that covered his wrists, whilst he wore a type of cape, as well as gold chest armour and a helmet. Holding in his right hand was a type of mace that was generating lightning, but on his chest appeared to have some kind of jet wings, whilst they had a thunderbolt on his chest.

Frosty’s costume was made to make him look fast. His entire suit was the color of blue, from his mask to his boots. Except his boots and gloves were dark blue, whilst on his chest had lightning bolts with a white on the background. The lightning also covered his waist, below his elbows and covering his chest as if it were a vest.

Chance’s costume was way different, almost as if he were a hunter. He wore brown boots, black pants, a yellow utility belt, a grey vest with black sleeves. Brown gloves which some type of blasters connected to them as if they were like Deadshot’s. wearing a black mask, military camouflage as well as a bow staff on his back.

Mystic was wearing some kind of costume that made him look like a sorcerer. He was wearing black boots, navy blue pants and long sleeved shirt, wearing a red cape that is tied around his neck using a medallion at his chest, with yellow gloves and a golden helmet that nearly resembles to the ancient Spartans.

Emily inspected herself and she was just as surprised to see what she was wearing. She was wearing black boots that nearly reached to her knees, red pants as well as black, well, what kind of look like a person’s underwear from the outside like Batman once upon a time, with an orange utility belt around it. She wore a red shirt, with a W at the top of her chest that nearly revealed her breasts and had the symbol of a dragon on top of it, black gloves that nearly reached her elbows. Her hair was blonde, but the top of her hair that nearly reached her ears were orange just like her mask.

‘This. Is. Awesome!!’ she shouted once more.

‘We get it!!’ shouted the guys in annoyance, causing her to grin and sheepishly look at them with a sheepish smile.

‘Okay, where the heck are we?’ said Bucky, wanting some answers.

‘We’re obviously in the comic book,’ said Frosty with his arms crossed ‘Or did you forget about the comic book that we got sucked into because my sister bought the comic book from the wrong comic book store.’

‘Now’s not the time for sarcasm Frosty.’ said Genus, trying to calm the group down.

‘Never mind sarcasms,’ said Chance ‘We need to get out of here, we need to get back to our wives and kids.’

Beau tried to change the subject as he spoke to Emily ‘Okay Emily, you know about the Power Ponies and this so called Amazing Nine, how did all that happen?’

‘Well, remember the Power Ponies that Spike and the others told you about?’ said Emily, allowing the others to nod. ‘Well, during their battle with Mane-iac and the villains that teamed up with her, they ended up creating a cosmic crisis.’

‘Crisis?’ asked Frosty ‘Like DC Comic’s Infinite Crisis?’

‘Yeah, see,’ said Emily ‘When I last met with the creator of the comic, I told him about the comic books from our world and spit balled some ideas, and we ended up working together. Since then, we created popular comics and of how they met the Amazing Nine.’

‘And that would be the human superheroes, right?’ said Bolt.

‘Right,’ said Emily as she continued ‘Because of the Crisis, both the Power Ponies’ pony world, and the Amazing Nine’s human world, ended fusing into one, causing both worlds and both histories to merge. And along the way, the Power Ponies met the Amazing Nine. They ended up working together on many occasions, and through some miracles, what was called forbidden love ended up becoming a reality for them.’

‘Wow,’ said Frosty whilst he nodded his head ‘You’ve been spending way too much time in front of those comic books.’

‘Well, because of the fact we’re in a comic book world, and became superheroes,’ said Emily, trying to explain things to them ‘We can find a way out of this.’

Bolt sighed in frustration as he said ‘Fine. If we’re gonna get out of this, we need to play the part.’ Bolt then gestured to themselves ‘So, what are we?’

‘Okay, we’ll start with Beau,’ said Emily ‘He happens to be the Knight Avenger. A warrior who fights for honor and justice with his martial arts skills, gadgets from his utility belt, as well as his sword and shield and vows to fight for the rights of others. His mortal enemy is Vulture Man, a counterpart of his, but just as strong, and his lover is Masked Matterhorn.’

Emily looked at Bucky next. ‘Bucky here happens to be Brass Brawler. He has super strength and invulnerability. He uses his wits to fight against his enemies, as well as heavyweight solutions. His ultimate nemesis is Mighty Man, who has the power to fly and use laser beams, and his lover happens to be Mistress Mare-velous.’

‘Well,’ said Bucky as he realized something ‘I always wondered what it would be like if I had super strength, so, why not.’

Emily went over to Silver as she said ‘You’re Blue Gauntlet, an intergalactic crime fighter from the human world fighting with intergalactic crime fighters known as the Gauntlet Corps. Your power comes from the wrist gauntlets you wear on both your arms. You have the power to create constructs from your mind and use them to your advantage. The only way they get more powerful, is if you use all of your will, love and hope with all your might. Your enemy is Gauntlet Wielder and your lover is Radiance.’

Silver ended up trying it out and created constructs. He was surprised and ended up whistling. ‘Now I could get used to this.’

Emily went over to Genus next. ‘You’re Animus. A human explorer who one day found an ancient totem that can help you summon animal spirits to help you. If you use the elephant spirit, you have super strength, if you use an eagle spirit, you can fly. If you have a lizard, you can heal, and so on. You can act like an animal and fight like an animal. Your enemy is Alienator and your lover is Saddle Rager, cause apparently you have a thing for strong angry women.’

Genus was surprised by this, as he also said ‘Oh boy, I hope my wife won’t get any ideas if she could see me like this.’

Emily approached Bolt as she explained who he is. ‘You’re Thunderjet, an ancient warrior from the old Norse legends. You fly as fast as Rainbow Dash, but you also have super strength and the power to control lightning using your famous thunder mace. Your enemy is Savagery and your lover is Zap.’

Bolt created the spark using his mace. He chuckled a bit as he got excited ‘Now this I like.’

Emily turned to her brother next. ‘You happen to be Accelerate. Like the Flash, you have the power of supers speed. You run faster than lightning and you can even create lightning. But there’s also a twist. He can break the fourth wall like the Marvel Character Deadpool and can do all kinds of shenanigans. Your arch enemy is Speed Walker and your lover is Filly-Second.’

Frosty thought about something, and hid his hand behind his back, and instantly pulled out a large cupcake, much to his surprise. He chuckled a bit as he said ‘Pinkie Pie and Deadpool, eat your heart out.’ allowing him to eat the cupcake in his hand.

Emily turned to Chance next ‘You happen to be Hunter, a warrior much like Knight Avenger, but you have many weapons, gadgets, as well as your most powerful bo-staff to fight the forces of evil. You even hunt down dangerous criminals and bring them to justice. Your most hated enemy is a Mercenary named Painstrike and your lover happens to be the Mare Do Well.’

Chance pulled out his bo-staff and inspected it. He nodded a bit as he said ‘Nice.’

Emily finally went over to Mystic next. ‘And finally, you happen to be Mysticon, a very powerful Sorceror chosen by the most powerful Wizards, Witches, Warlocks, Sorcerers and Druids to help protect the magical balance of the world. You have knowledge of every spell you can think of, and you counter dark magic with the power of light. Your greatest enemy is an evil sorceress named Maria and Dazzling Mage happens to be your lover too.’

Mystic ended up saying a random word as he shouted ‘Ague!!’ in Latin, causing him to shoot a fireball from his hand, surprising him. ‘Whoa.’

‘And finally,’ said Emily ‘I happen to be Fire Dragon, a female warrior from a humanoid planet that came to protect this planet from Death Dragon, an evil Crime Lord that’s determined to take over the planet and enslave the population. She formed the Amazing Nine because we had a just cause to fight for Harmony and Justice. And my lover happens to be Drake Wing, who was once known as Hum Drum.’

‘Wait,’ said Chance ‘Was?’

‘Yeah, in the new timeline after the crisis,’ said Emily ‘Hum Drum got sick and tired of making mistakes and watch the Power Ponies not appreciate him on the team. Masked Matterhorn tried to reason with him, so he ended up punching her in the face and left the team. He soon encountered Fire Dragon. And after uh, ahem, his passionate night with her, he ended up gaining some dragon powers, and can fly. But he also has some sick fighting skills, and became known as Drake Wing.’

‘He strangely sounds like Nightwing’ said Mystic after he read Emily’s mind a bit so he can get the idea of what the comic book world is like.

‘That’s because he’s kind of a parody of her.’ said Emily.

‘Okay,’ said Bolt ‘So let me get this straight. If we help the Power Ponies beat the villains of this world, then we’ll be able to go back home.’

‘It worked for Spike and the others.’ said Emily.

‘Oh yeah,’ said Beau ‘I remember Twilight and the others being stuck in the comic book once.’

Chance then realized something. ‘Do you realize what this means?’

‘What?’ asked Silver.

‘If our wives come to our rescue, then they’ll become the superheroes from the comic like last time.’

They were surprised as they realized it too. ‘Okay, that would be really cool.’ said Bolt.

‘However,’ said Mystic, gaining their attention ‘If we’re gonna survive, then we’ll need some practice first.’

‘You mean train ourselves?’ said Bucky ‘But we don’t have time for that.’

‘He’s right,’ said Genus ‘Our wives would come to rescue us any minute, and we’ll only make fools out of ourselves if we do that, or worst, get them killed.’

‘I think I know how,’ said Emily, then looked at Mystic as she said ‘Mystic, try to say, “Barrier Time Freeze”.’

‘Okay.’ said Mystic as he concentrated, then raised his hands in the air as he chanted in Latin ‘Frigidus limite temporis!’.

And within a split second, a large enough barrier had been created around them, allowing for them to notice that time had froze outside. All of them were surprised when they saw this, then looked at Emily.

‘As an hour will pass by,’ said Emily ‘We’ll be able to do almost an entire week’s training and we’ll also get the hang of this in no time.’

‘Very well then, let’s get started.’ said Beau, then looked at the sky whilst the others were getting prepared ‘I just hope Twilight and the others aren’t worried to death.’

Meanwhile, outside of the comic book, Twilight and the others were nearly in a panic. Fluttershy nearly cried a few times, worrying about her husband, with Pinkie Pie and Rarity attempting to calm her down. Twilight and Starlight were desperately looking through the spell books of the castle, Rainbow Dash was hovering back and forth whilst Applejack, Trixie and Spike attempted to try and comfort the kids as they too tried to calm them down.

‘M…mommy?’ asked Moonlight, nearly on the verge of crying whilst she held onto her mother ‘What happened to daddy?’

‘Shh, it’s okay sweetie,’ said Twilight as she placed her book down and held onto her daughter. ‘I’m sure your father is fine.’

Rainbow Dash then hovered over to Spike as she grabbed his shoulders and said ‘I can’t believe your wife bought a comic from the enchanted comic store.’

‘Hey, don’t blame Emily, okay,’ said Spike as he tried to reason with her ‘How the heck was she supposed to know, I mean none of you even told her about the mishap that happened to us.’

‘That you ended up causing.’ said Rainbow Dash as she was nose to nose with Spike.

‘Wait, what mishap?’ said Bolt Jr.

The girls were little embarrassed about it, with Pinkie zipping over and told them ‘Well you see, long before we faced Tirek and met your fathers, we were going through the Castle of the Two Sisters when Spike ended up being sucked into the comic book. We tried to rescue him, but we got sucked in it too. The moment we got there, we ended up reliving the Power Ponies’ adventure.’

The kids were surprised by it. ‘Wait, you guys were sucked into the comic book and became superheroes?’ said Peacon Pie.

‘That’s so cool.’ said Lemon Pie with a squee.

‘I would hardly call making a fool out of ourselves, get frozen with the world’s biggest hairspray and nearly get destroyed by an evil megalomaniac’s death ray cool,’ said Rarity, remembering hers and the others’ situation ‘All that hairspray nearly did a number on my hair.’

‘Wait,’ said Crystal as she realized something ‘But didn’t aunt Twilight help you out? I mean, she is a powerful Alicorn after all.’

‘Not really,’ said Twilight ‘I tried but somehow it wouldn’t let me.’

‘That’s because the comic book’s world is far different from our world.’ said Spike.

‘Right,’ said Rainbow Dash ‘Even with Zap’s power, I couldn’t fly fast enough like I always did, and Pinkie Pie was much faster than me.’

‘But we have to do something,’ said Fluttershy after she calmed down ‘Genus and the others could be in trouble and need our help.’

‘Mom’s right,’ said Warm Breeze ‘There’s no telling what’ll happen. They could get captured. or worse.’

‘Calm down,’ said Apple Slice ‘Ah’m sure pa and the others can take care of themselves, ah mean if they’re superheroes, then they can seriously kick butt.’

‘But remember,’ said Starlight ‘We all know our husbands, and they couldn’t hurt a fly.’

‘She’s right,’ said Trixie after she rocked her baby a bit ‘I’m even more concerned about what Mystic would do, I mean we all saw him get angry once.’

‘Then there’s one thing we gotta do,’ said Spike as he walked over and picked up the comic book ‘We gotta go in the comic to help them.’

‘What?!’ said the girls as they were surprised.

‘Oh come on,' said Spike as he looked at them ‘This your husbands and my wife we’re talking about. And it’s my fault for not telling her about the enchanted comic place. We have to go help them.’

Twilight took a deep breath, and sighed, for Spike was right, her husband is in danger and she needs to help him. ‘Alright, we’ll do it.’

‘But um,’ said Fluttershy ‘Just a quick recap, what are our powers in there?’

‘Let’s see,’ said Spike as he tried to remember. Then one by one, he told them who they were and what they could do. ‘Fluttershy is the Saddle Rager, a mare that can grow incredibly huge and stronger when she gets angry.’

‘Mom can be pretty scary when she’s angry,’ said Warm Breeze, causing Fluttershy to blush, not wanting to talk about that subject.

Spike pointed to Pinkie Pie and said ‘Pinkie Pie is Filly-Second, the fastest Mare alive…’

‘Momma don’t need to be the fastest.’ said Peacon Pie.

‘Yeah, she nearly outraced aunt Rainbow Dash once.’ said Lemon Pie.

‘They do have a point.’ said Pinkie Pie, but then blushed as she said ‘Except the months when I was pregnant.’

Spike pointed to Rainbow Dash and said ‘Rainbow Dash is Zapp, a Pegasus with the power of summoning the storm.’

‘That’s nothing,’ said Bolt Jr. ‘Mom can summon an entire hurricane so strong it can blow anyone’s clothes off, just like she did with aunt Trixie last month.’

‘That was you?!!’ shouted Trixie as she yelled at Rainbow Dash, causing her to nervously giggle.

Spike pointed at Applejack next ‘Applejack is Mistress Marevelous, an Amazon pony from a warrior race of mares with a lasso that force anyone that is wrapped around it to tell the truth.’

‘Ma is really handy with a lasso, it’s how she and pa met.’ said Apple Slice.

Applejack blushed as she giggled ‘Uh yeah, back when ah thought he was gonna steal our apples.’

Spike pointed at Rarity next as he said ‘Rarity is…’

‘Radiance, the most fashionable and gorgeous of the group, with her bracelets that can think of any constructs and help her fight crime.’ said Rarity. They stared at her surprised as she said ‘What? Sweetie Belle reads them too, sometimes she asked me to read it to her as bedtime stories.’

‘Well Radiance may be gorgeous,’ said Crystal Gem, but hugged her mother ‘But my mom is even more prettier.’

‘Awww.’ said Rarity as she felt touched and hugged her daughter.

Spike then finally pointed at Twilight as he said ‘And Twilight’s Masked Matter-Horn, an Alicorn with heat vision, super strength and laser horn.’

‘But mom already can do lasers from her horn and uses her Alicorn magic to be strong.’ said Moonlight. ‘Well, except for the laser eyes. But she can light herself on fire when she’s angry.’

‘Actually, she hadn’t done that since that time she couldn’t figure out how my Pinkie senses work.’ said Pinkie Pie.

‘Ugh, don’t remind me.’ said Twilight, not wanting to remember the embarrassing and painful ordeal.

‘Well then what are we waiting for?’ said Rainbow Dash, eager to rescue her husband ‘Let’s go get our husbands back.’

‘Alright, hang on everypony.’ said Twilight whilst she focused her magic on the comic book.

‘Alright now kids,’ said Applejack before they left ‘Ah now we just got back, but we gotta get in there and rescue your fathers. So in the meantime, you lot stay here.’

‘We’ll come too.’ said Starlight.

‘Me too,’ said Trixie ‘Trixie knows that Mystic can take care of himself, but Trixie also wants her husband back.’

‘Alright then,’ said Twilight as she finally got her magic to work on the comic ‘Let’s do this.’

‘See you kids later.’ said Pinkie Pie as Spike and the Mane Six, along with Starlight and Trixie, were all sucked into the comic.

As the comic closed, the kids were left alone in the room. Bolt Jr. complained as he crossed his arms ‘It’s so not fair. I wish we could join them.’

‘You heard what they said Bolt.’ said Apple Slice ‘It’ll be too dangerous for us in there.’

‘At least they could’ve let us see the action.’ said Bolt Jr.

Moonlight suddenly had an idea as she said ‘Maybe we can.’

‘Huh?’ said the kids as they looked at Moonlight.

‘I’ve been studying some elite level magic with mom for some time,’ said Moonlight as she instantly teleported a book in her arms ‘And I recently created my own spell, which would allow us to whilst we read the book, we would see how it played out, like an instant movie.’

‘You created your own spell?’ said Peacon Pie.

‘Wow, you really are uncle Beau and aunt Twilight’s daughter.’ said Lemon Pie.

‘Well what are you waiting for,’ said Bolt Jr. as he got excited ‘Crank up that spell and I’ll get some popcorn, sodas and seats.’

As Moonlight did so, Bolt Jr. instantly came back with the chairs, popcorn and sodas. Each of them took their seats and got themselves ready. Sure enough, Moonlight used her spell on the comic book, allowing it to float in the air as she said ‘Alright, here we go.’

And within mere moments, the comic book ended up creating a type of screen, and revealed what was going on inside the comic book. Moonlight sat down and joined them whilst they watched what their parents were doing.
Inside the comic book, Spike and the others made it safely inside the comic whilst standing on their hooves/feet. Some shook their heads, trying to readjust what their surroundings are, as well as the superhero persona they all took.
Rainbow Dash took a good look at her costume and ended up floating in the air whilst raising her fist in the air ‘Aw yeah, the Power Ponies are back!!’

‘Nice to see that they haven’t changed one bit.’ said Rarity as she inspected her costume.

Fluttershy looked at Spike and was surprised ‘Well, almost all of them.’ said Fluttershy as she pointed at Spike.

When they looked, they were all greatly surprised as they saw. For Spike was no longer wearing the Hum Drum costume, but he was now a little muscular, wearing a black costume with the symbol of a purple dragon wings on his chest, and also still kept his dragon wings, but also had a new mask on. They noticed he wore gauntlets, black boots and a utility belt.

‘Whoa,’ said Rainbow Dash as she inspected Spike ‘Somepony got an upgrade.’

‘Funny,’ said Applejack as she also looked at Spike ‘Ah don’t remember Hum Drum getting a makeover.’

‘Spike’s not the only one.’ said Starlight.

When they looked, they were surprised to see Starlight and Trixie. Starlight was wearing a costume that nearly resembled to Mare Do Well back at Ponyville, whilst Trixie wore a dazzling outfit that fitted her personality, whilst also making her look like a sorceress a bit.

‘Mare Do well?!!’ shouted Rainbow Dash ‘What are you doing here?!’

‘Mare who now?’ said Starlight as she was confused by it.

As Twilight calmed Dash down, Spike went over and said ‘Sorry, she’s still ticked about the whole “Mare Do Well” situation.’
‘Who the heck is Mare Do Well?’ said Trixie as she was just as confused.

Applejack explained things as she walked over to them. ‘See, a while back after Dash kept saving most ponies from danger, she let it go to her head and kept bragging about it. So Twi had an idea of showing her up by creating a new hero.’

‘Indeed,’ said Rarity ‘I designed the most fabulous costumes to make it look like a mysterious hero. Mostly the costume inspired me from my favorite book about a detective named Shadow Spade.’

‘Oh, I read about that book.’ said Trixie, gaining surprised looks from the others. ‘What, even Trixie can love a good mystery every now and then.’

Pinkie then darted over as she said ‘And once the costumes were made, Applejack, Twilight and I impersonated Made Do Well and ended up saving ponies to show Dashie up just to teach her a lesson.’

‘Wow, that’s quite the story,’ said Starlight as she was surprised by it. ‘But uh, how did Mare Do Well end up in the comic book?’

Spike then confessed ‘Well see, after the last comic convention that Emily and I went to…’

‘Wait,’ said Rainbow Dash ‘You two went to a comic convention?’

‘Yeah,’ said Spike with a smile and looked at the others ‘It turned out, from what Frost explained, Emily is a huge comic book fan. Back on their world, there are over hundreds of stories over hundreds of heroes and villains. So after Emily and I got there, she ended up giving some ideas, and it ended up being a huge success. They even paid us for the ideas.’
‘Oh,’ said Pinkie Pie ‘So that’s why you two keep getting cheques from them every month.’
‘Anyway,’ said Spike ‘Emily and I gave a few ideas. And after the whole Mare Do Well incident back at Ponyville, we ended up creating two new superheroes as a result for the Power Ponies.’

‘Oh my,’ said Fluttershy as she looked at them ‘That would explain why they look more fitted for action.’

‘So what can you tell us about the two new heroes Spike?’ said Twilight once she was done talking to Rainbow Dash.

‘Well,’ said Spike as he tried to remember well about the two new characters. ‘Mare Do Well’s origin was about how she lost her parents to crime by ruthless criminals, so she took on the guise to fight crime and to ensure that no family would suffer like they did. She fight crime with her martial arts skills and also has gadgets that she uses to fight and solve crimes like a detective.’

‘Whoa, cool.’ said Trixie as she looked at Starlight, then to Spike as she said ‘So what about mine?’

‘You are Dazzling Mage.’ said Spike ‘She’s an enchantress who fights crime and also fights inter-dimensional beasts who want to take over the world, but she also has the same personality like yourself, and she’s can casts spells by talking backwards.’

‘Backwards?’ said Rainbow Dash ‘That’s weird.’

Trixie then realized something as she said ‘Well I happen to be a backwards speaking champion.’

They looked at her with flexed eyebrows as they said ‘You are?’

‘Of course, watch this.’ said Trixie. She cleared her throat as she directs to Starlight.

‘My name is Starlight Glimmer,’ said Starlight ‘And the Castle of Friendship is my favorite place in Ponyville.’

And just like that, Trixie spoke backwards as she said ‘Ym eman si Thgilrats Remmilg dna eht Eltsac fo Pihsdneird si ym etirovaf ecalp ni Ellivynop.’

They were surprised the way she could speak backwards like that. ‘Wow Trixie,’ said Pinkie as she stood near her ‘I didn’t know you could speak backwards like that.’

‘Weird I know,’ said Trixie ‘But Trixie won first place in the Filly’s talent contest for speaking everything backwards.’
‘So uh, what about Spike?’ said Applejack as she pointed at Spike’s new wardrobe.

‘Well,’ said Spike ‘After a few years of crime fighting with the Power Ponies, Hum Drum got sick and tired of not taking some of the credit when he fought alongside them. So he ended up quitting the team.’
‘Whoa, what?’ said Rainbow Dash as she stood next to him ‘Hum Drum quit the team?’

‘Yeah, and…’ said Spike as he nervously looked at Twilight, with the Princess of Friendship cocking her left eyebrow, wondering what was wrong ‘He ended up punching Masked Matterhorn in the face.’

That part surprised them the most, even Twilight when she had a hard time coping over what Spike just said. ‘Ouch.’ said Trixie as she somehow felt awkward for some reason.

‘So Hum Drum ended up getting a makeover?’ said Rarity, noticing Spike’s costume.

‘Well,’ said Spike as he continued ‘After Hum Drum left, he bumped into a female superhero named Fire Dragon. And after they shared a uh, ahem, passionate night…’

They were a little surprised by the last part. ‘Hum Drum ended up getting the physique of a dragon, as well as some its strength and fighting moves, especially wings. From that day on, he ended up becoming a new hero called Drake Wing.’

‘Ah’m just curious,’ said Applejack ‘What else did Emily talk about since y’all started to make the comic book?’

‘Oh she really knows her stuff.’ said Spike as he explained things to them. ‘See, the Power Ponies had something called a “Cosmic Crisis”, the Power Ponies’ world got mixed to a human world that also has its heroes, the Amazing Nine.’
‘The Amazing Nine?’ asked Rarity.

‘Yeah, there’s Knight Avenger, Accelerate, Thunderjet, Brass Brawler, Animus, Blue Gauntlet, Hunter, Mysticon and Fire Dragon. Each of them who vowed to save the world from evil.’

‘So how did they and the Power Ponies restore balance?’ asked Fluttershy.

Spike explained as he said ‘After fighting an ancient celestial being responsible for destroying worlds parallel to our own. After defeating it, they were able to restore it. But in doing so, their histories ended up changing. Like how they met when they were kids, and how they had a romantic relationship with them.’

‘Romantic relationship?’ said the girls.

‘Trust me,’ said Spike as he waved both his hands ‘You don’t want to know. And it turned out to be a best seller.’

‘How so?’ asked Trixie.

‘Well let me think now,’ said Spike as he thought about it. ‘Mask Matterhorn has a relationship with Knight Avenger. Filly-Second has a relationship with Accelerate. Zapp has a romantic relationship with Thunderjet. Mistress Marevelous has a relationship with Brass Brawler. Saddle Rager has a romantic relationship with Animus. Radiance has a romantic relationship with Blue Gauntlet. Mare Do Well has a relationship with Hunter. Dazzling Mage has a relationship with Mysticon and Fire Dragon has a relationship with Hum Drum, or in this case, Drake Wing.’

Spike crossed his arms whilst he smiled and said ‘You wouldn’t believe how many fans tried to write so many shipping stories between the Power Ponies and the Amazing Nine.’

‘Oh we’ll take your word for it.’ said Starlight, not wanting to think about the details.

‘You know,’ said Trixie as she thought about something ‘I always wondered what Mystic would look like in tights.’

The girls were surprised as they looked at her, with Trixie blushing as she says ‘What don’t any of you wonder what they would look like in tights?’

The Mane 6 and Starlight ended up blushing and looked away, trying not to think about it. Spike cleared his throat, gaining their attention as he said ‘I hate to interrupt or anything. But don’t you think we should find Emily, Beau and the others?’

‘Oh right, of course.’ said Twilight. ‘But where should we look?’

‘Well if I had to guess,’ said Spike whilst he was thinking, then looked at the other direction whilst pointing at it as he said ‘They would probably be up there. According to the comics they like to do a little training every once and a while there just to keep them in shape during the daytime.’

‘Then let’s get going.’ said Applejack. They ran towards the edge of the building as most of them flew, and most of them glided by using their horns to go from place to place, whilst Rarity was giving Applejack a lift using her magic.

As they continued going from building to building, they soon landed on a building that was at least two more buildings away. As they stopped to gain their breath, they noticed a large force field around it. ‘Oh my, what is that?’ said Fluttershy as she pointed at the building.

‘Oh, that’s gotta be Mysticon’s power.’ said Spike ‘He has the ability to create a bubble that allows time to go by fast in there.’

‘Why would he make one?’ said Twilight as she looked at it.

‘My guess,’ said Spike ‘They’re trying to train themselves so that they could know how to use their new powers better.’

‘Well at least they were smart enough to think that.’ said Applejack ‘Ah still remember the humiliation we went through when we first went through there.’

‘So what are we waiting for?’ said Pinkie Pie as she jumped a bit whilst getting excited. ‘Let’s go over there and say hello to our…’

But she was instantly cut off the moment something fast darted her way, whilst also punched her in the face as she collapsed onto the ground, taking the girls by surprise. They then saw a mysterious figure appearing from out of nowhere, who was as fast as Filly Second was. He wore a bright teal costume, with black lightning bolts on his chest, wrists and below the knees, but his eyes were generating teal lightning. The girls were surprised to see the speedster.
Pinkie slowly sat up and rubbed the side of her cheek as she said ‘Ow, my face.’

Rainbow got angry as she held onto her pendant, trying to charge it up with electricity as she said ‘Okay then, you asked for…’

But she was interrupted the moment what appeared to be a giant fly swatter, swatted her from behind and was flat on her front like a fly. The girls were surprised whilst the fly swatter construct lifted itself off.

Rainbow Dash looked up whilst her eyes were spinning. ‘Okay, now that’s just insulting.’ said Rainbow Dash before passing out.

Fluttershy tried to get angry, but she was too frightened. But the moment she turned around, she yelped when she saw a grinning human female, as she said ‘Sleep.’

The human female waved her hands around, creating instant mist that slowly began to cover Fluttershy’ face, which in turned caused her to feel drowsy and fell over, making her unconscious.

‘Quick, back to back.’ said Spike.

But it was too late, for the moment when Spike, Twilight and Starlight were back to back, Applejack had already been subdued by an electric shock collar, Rarity had been knocked by the back of her neck, and Trixie…well, let’s just say she panicked and ended up running against the nearest wall, making her pass out whilst Pinkie Pie got hit by knockout gas when she ended up eating it, thinking that it was a piece of candy.

As Spike, Twilight and Starlight were back to back, they noticed the others were unconscious. ‘How are they so organized?’ said Starlight.

‘Surprising, isn’t it?’ said a voice. As they turned, they saw that it was none other than Mane-iac.

‘Mane-iac.’ said Twilight, trying to pretend to be a superhero and to make sure that none of them are suspicious.
‘How are you doing this?’ said Starlight.

‘Oh, didn’t you know?’ said Mane-iac after she let out a loud chuckle ‘Time and again you and the others kept on defeating us, but now that we have new partners, we will ensure that not just Mare Tropolis, but the entire world will belong to us. And once we’re through with you, no one will stand in our way.’

Spike then realized something as he whispered to Twilight. ‘Oh yeah, know I remember. During their secret identity lives, the Power Ponies met the Amazing Nine through their secret identities. They didn’t work together until this issue.’

‘So what’s the chance they’ll help us?’ asked Twilight.

But before any of them could say anything, their arms were suddenly wrapped by Phony Pharaoh’s sheets (Or toilet papers, I don’t know, I’m not good at naming the stuff, so sue me), as well as Shadow Pony’s bonds that were suddenly wrapped around Spike, Twilight and Starlight’s hands, and ended up being forced to land on their knees. Mane-iac walked towards them and stood on her one knee, allowing her to look directly at Twilight, or Masked Matterhorn in this case.
‘Now, the real fun begins.’ said Mane-iac before she let out her evil chuckle.

At the same time, under their disguised bubble, Twilight and the others’ husbands were now getting the hang of their new abilities. Beau was able to master his martial arts skills, as well as his gadgets, sword and shield. Bucky ended up getting a good handle on his super strength, which he can now do with ease. Silver ended up creating every construct he ever could with his gauntlet, as well as firing energy blasts. Genus was able to use every animal instinct and ability that helped him move and maneuver with ease. Bolt made use of his flight and lightning abilities. Frosty made great use of his super speed, with also surprisingly, an amazing fourth wall breaking abilities. Chance could use martial arts with great ease, even with his bo-staff, with Mystic liking his sorcery power as he got excited, with Emily making use of her power as well whilst she laughed with joy.

Sure enough, after their vigorous training, they all panted, trying to gain some air. Once they regained their breaths, they regrouped with smiles on their faces.

‘Wow,’ said Frosty ‘That was actually fun.’

‘Sure is,’ said Bucky ‘I can punch stuff like a bucking bull, bucking a forty foot tree on a hot summer’s eve.’

They looked at him with flexed eyebrows whilst Bolt hovered next to him and said ‘You’ve been spending way too much time with Applejack.’

‘Well of course I do, she’s my wife.’ said Bucky. ‘Besides…I promised Granny Smith on her deathbed that I would look after Applejack, her family and all of Sweet Apple Acres. And I aim to keep that promise.’

‘Wow,’ said Beau ‘I didn’t know that.’

‘That’s not all,’ said Bucky as he looked down ‘When our wives were captured by Chrysalis, faced the Pony of Shadows, going out there trying to find help when the Storm King invaded and getting trapped in Tartarus. I just…’

‘Felt like you can’t do anything but watch and be afraid that if they were to die a large part of you dies with them?’ said all of them, taking them by surprise.

All of them looked down, showing a hint of sadness on their faces. ‘Man, never thought I’d feel this way.’ said Mystic. Which was ironic because he never showed any emotions until Trixie helped him.

‘You know what I wish for?’ said Bolt, this time with honesty ‘I wish we could keep our powers from this world. So that we could protect them.’

‘Maybe once we’re done inside this comic, we’ll ask Princess Celestia.’ said Silver ‘I mean, the look on my little girl’s face when the Storm King invaded, us getting hurt and their mothers disappearing. I don’t want her to go through that again.’

‘And though my kids are still babies,’ said Chance ‘I don’t want them to grow up in a world where every aspect of evil will try to take that away from you.’

All of them felt silent, even Emily, the most exciting one to be in the comic book, all had worried looks on their faces. Beau remembered the day when he met Twilight, and said that she was his real friend, and in time his first love. He gripped his hands and looked at them.

‘You know what, let’s make a vow.’ said Beau, gaining their attention. ‘We vow that from this day on, no matter what comes our way, we’ll do whatever we can to make sure that no one will hurt the ones we love. Not our wives, kids, friends from all around, as well as the place we call home.’

Beau then extended his hand at the center. ‘You in?’ he asked them.

Many couldn’t help but smile as Bolt says ‘Like you even need to ask.’

They all came together and placed their right hands on top of the others, Emily said ‘Let’s make a Pinkie Promise.’

Then all of them said ‘Cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye.’, causing all of them to laugh a bit.

‘Man,’ said Frosty with a smile ‘Pinkie making me say that is one of the many things I love about her.’

As they released one another’s hands, Emily looked at Mystic and said ‘You mind dropping the force field?’

‘Sure thing.’ said Mystic, causing him to raise his right hand as it glowed. Sure enough the barrier was dropped, whilst everything was now back to normal.

‘Okay,’ said Genus as he looked at Emily whilst Chance decided to look around ‘You know this comic inside and out. What do we do?’

‘Well,’ said Emily as she tried to think ‘The Power Ponies were going on their patrol through Mare Tropolis, until the Amazing Nine’s enemies, who formed their own super villain team to take over the world, even asking the Power Ponies’ enemies to help them.’

‘So all we gotta do is find them?’ said Frosty as he tried to sum it all up.

‘Uh, guys.’ said Chance, gaining their attention as he looked at them ‘We may have a problem.’

‘What do you mean?’ asked Bolt.

‘Two things,’ said Chance ‘One, the villains of this world captured the Power Ponies. Two. I think they’re our wives!!’

‘What?!!’ shouted them as they ran over to the edge of the building and looked down.

To their shock, they saw the Power Ponies being taken prisoner as they were taken to a transport, whilst a bunch of robotic guards took them away. Beau, who realized that his belt had binoculars in it, pulled it out and looked through it. He saw Masked Matterhorn, and to his shock, the moment she turned her face around, was none other than Twilight, but behind the mask.

‘Holy, it is Twilight.’ said Beau.

‘This is not good.’ said Bucky as he and the others did the same.

‘I can’t believe they came after us,’ said Frosty ‘Don’t they remember that being unprepared is what got them captured in the first place?’

‘Well of course they did,’ said Genus ‘They were worried about us, what you expected them to just leave us in here.’

‘We have to help them.’ said Silver.

However, as Bolt saw Rainbow Dash, he suddenly lowered it and looked at her flank. In a way, it turned him on when he noticed that the costume/tights was really snug in all the right places. ‘Although,’ he said to himself ‘Rainbow Dash really looks great in tights.’

Frosty then noticed the same thing with Pinkie Pie, especially her bust ‘Whoa, no kidding. They’re really snug in the right places.’

The other guys agreed as they watched their wives, with Emily rolling her eyes as she said ‘Men.’

Emily then noticed Spike was among them, and ended up staring at his butt too. She then landed a smirk on her mouth as she said ‘Then again…’

She blushed bright red as she shook her head right, then slapped it a couple of times as she said ‘Focus Emily, Focus.’

‘She’s right,’ said Mystic, seeing that he was the first to come to his senses. ‘We need to save them. Emily, you’ve read the comics longer than anyone, where would they take them?’

‘Okay,’ said Emily as the guys were now looking at her two once they regrouped with her ‘If I know them, they’re going to take them to the Power Ponies’ old headquarters.’

‘Their old headquarters?’ asked Frosty ‘Why there?’

‘According to the history once the worlds merged after the Crisis,’ said Emily whilst explaining to them ‘The human villains were able to defeat the Power Ponies and brought ruin to their headquarters. Thankfully they were saved by the Amazing Nine and taken to safety. After the villains’ defeat, the Power Ponies realized that they had nowhere to go, seeing that the villains succeeded into taking their funding away, so the Amazing Nine offered their headquarters as theirs too.’

‘And I take it they were reluctant to accept it, right?’ asked Bucky.

‘At first yeah,’ said Emily ‘But in time the Power Ponies were comfortable with them, even grew to like them, and became friends. But overtime, as the selected members were spending time with them, they grew feelings for them, even fell in love. It’s in this issue, after they defeated both the Power Ponies and the Amazing Nine’s enemies, that the leaders of both superhero teams, admit their feelings, as did the others when they followed their example.’

‘Then what are we waiting for?’ said Chance with a smile ‘Let’s go save our wives and Spike. If we don’t, we’ll never hear the end of this.’

‘Agreed.’ said Emily and the husbands in agreement, causing all of them to dart towards the Power Ponies’ old HQ.