Chapters Author's Note
This Power Ponies story takes place in an AU, featuring both things from both the Power Pony episode as well as the related comic.
Anyway, not sure what else to write here, so yea… enjoy the read? 😅
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Prologue
Apple Bloom
A young alicorn flew between the tall skyscrapers of Maretropolis, narrowly avoiding buildings, but mainly the magic bolts that were being sent toward her. Despite her best efforts, she was incapable of shortening the distance towards the sky carriage she was chasing.
“You’ll never catch me Unity! Now that I got the Desert Diamond, I can build the super-laser, and take over the city.“ Dark Diamond mocked them with an evil laugh, as she looked back at her. “Nobody will dare to oppose me anymore.“
“Is she seriously monologing in the middle of a high-speed chase?“ One of the 3 voices in the alicorn‘s mind asked in disbelief.
The voice was known by the name Apple Bloom and was one of the 3 minds that made up Unity, the newest superhero of Maretropolis. The other two voices were Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle respectively, and together they fought against crime, sharing the body of a powerful alicorn they summoned by fusing together into a single body. Well, they only started a few days ago, but those were details.
At the moment they were chasing an earthpony by the name of Dark Diamond, who was properly the richest villain of the city, despite her young age, and used her money and status to become even richer or take over the city.
Today she was trying to take over the city, having stolen a valuable diamond from a local millionaire in an attempt to use it in one of her many machines.
“It appears so, you know how much villains love talking.“ Scootaloo grumbled annoyed. “Can you just blast her already Sweetie Belle? We should be close enough by now…“
“I need a clear line of sight…“ Sweetie Belle replied. “If there were fewer sharp turns, I could take a shot without the risk of hitting a building…“
“We‘re approaching a marketplace. That should be enough space there.“
The Alicorn‘s horn started glowing in a blue magic aura, as the chase transitioned from the tight buildings into a more open area.
“Scoot? Fly steady for a moment, I need to aim…“
As the alicorn went into a glide, a magic bolt was sent from the horn, hitting the side of the sky carriage and sending it off course.
“What? No!“ Dark Diamond shrieked in rage as the now damaged carriage was sent spinning towards the ground. “My expensive sky carriage! My magic drones!“
She quickly grabbed the Desert Diamond and jumped off, opening her parachute as the carriage crashed into the ground below her, exploding spectacularly. She didn’t get far, however, as the parachute got stuck on a flagpole, preventing her from continuing the chase on hoof.
“So… I assume you know how to proceed from here?“ Unity asked with a smirk, hovering in front of the stuck villain, extending her hoof.
Dark Diamond proceeded to pout, before handing over the diamond. “Once my lawyers get me out of prison, I’m going to get my revenge and… Are you even listening?!“
She wasn’t.
1 arrested Dark Diamant later… Unity sighted as she landed in a tucked away backstreet, away from any curious eyes. One flash later, the alicorn was replaced by three fillies, all of them looking tired.
The first one of them was an orange pegasus, with a purple mane and tail. She was homeless, ever since being separated from her parents, and had lived on the streets until recently. Any attempts to reunite with them had yet to be successful, but she refused to give up.
The second filly was a yellow earth pony with a red mane and tail. She used to live with her brother and grandmother on a farm but had moved to the city recently, so she could go to school. At the moment she lived with her sister, who was a busy, but kind mare.
The final member of the trio was a white unicorn with a pink and purple mane and tail. She came from a family of nobles, and her sister Rarity owned a successful chain of fashion boutiques all across the city.
Despite the differences in social status, the three got along surprisingly well, and after getting their power, this relationship only increased, making them practically inseparable.
Happily chatting together, the trio soon arrived at their destination. A tall chainlink fence was located next to a fancy-looking clothes boutique. Scootaloo proceeded to quickly climb over the obstacle with practiced ease, gaining an eye-roll from Apple Bloom.
“You know that we could’ve just waited for Sweetie Belle to unlock the gate right?“
“What would be the fun in that?“ The pegasus filly looked back at her friends with a smug grin, as Sweetie Belle retrieved a key from her saddlebag, allowing herself and Apple Bloom inside.
Closing the gate to the private alleyway behind them, they proceeded deeper inside, until they reached a closed-off area behind the boutique. Not much could be found here, the area being surprisingly clean, with a trash can standing to one side, and a seemingly abandoned carriage towards the other.
It was this carriage that the fillies aimed for, quickly climbing inside. What at first looked like an old transport somepony had left behind, was actually their clubhouse, fitted with everything young fillies needed and more. Additionally, the place also served as Scootaloo‘s temporary place of residence, however long that may be.
Sweetie Belle sighed as she dropped into a beanbag. “Good thing that the exhaustion of Unity’s body is split between the three of us… I don’t know how else I would get through the day…“
“You simply sit around too much.“ Scootaloo teased. “If all of us had your condition, Unity would be fat.“
She quickly caught the apple Sweetie Belle threw at her, taking a smug bite.
Apple Bloom decided to finally speak up. “Are you really going to fight right now? We finally defeated our first supervillain tonight. That’s a reason to celebrate, not to fight!“
The other fillies looked at each other, before nodding in agreement, copying her grin.
Without a further word, the trio bumped hoofs.
“Cutie Mark Crusaders Mission Evil Diamond Successful! YAAAY!“
Power Pony Headquarters a few hours later
“Did you hear the news?“
The doors of the HQ were slammed open, as Fili-Second stormed inside, coming to a stop in front of her teammates, before tossing the daily newspapers onto the table, revealing the title page to everyone.
A good alicorn?
New hero, or just another supervillain? Multiple criminals and one supervillain were subdued and handed over to the authorities by a mysterious alicorn who calls herself Unity. An interview with the supervillain Dark Diamond reveals that there has been a standing rivalry between her and this mysterious alicorn.
Read more on page 6.
“An alicorn!“ Radiance asked in shock. “That usually means bad news…“
“What if they’re good through?“ Saddle Rager suggested carefully.
“After Nightmare Moon, Daybreaker, and that other bitch whose name I forgot?“ Mistress Mare-velous shook her head. “Unlikely. For the last thousands of years, alicorns have meant nothing but trouble.“
Masked Matter-Horn didn’t say anything, silently staring at the newspaper in shock, before leaving the room as the rest of the team continued arguing, silently shuffling the wings hidden beneath her suit.
Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter. Author's Note
I'm unhappy with the quality of this chapter, but after pondering over it for a week, I couldn't figure out how to make it sound more engaging and easier to read instead of being an infodump. In the end, I decided to simply publish it, since it would drag on otherwise.
If you have any suggestions or tips, please leave them in the comments. I don't have an editor to assist me, so the audience is all I got for feedback...
Chapter 2: The Accident
Apple Bloom
“So, who do we got here? Our favorite street filly finally decided to pay us a visit…“
Scootaloo put on her best poker face as she was escorted to the Red Viper’s boss, a muscular stallion whose face and cutie mark were hidden beneath a mask and clothes. Nopony knew his real name and everypony simply called him Crimson after the color of his fur.
“I got the money. It hasn’t even been a 24-hour delay, no need to send the entire squad for this, especially for a first-timer… I always paid you on time so far.“
“I don’t make exemptions. If you’re late you get the rough treatment. You’re already privileged, cause normally we beat you into a bloody pulp to drive the point home, but since you have always been following the rules until now I decided to be merciful. Now hoof over the money before I change my mind.“
Scootaloo reached into her pouch and handed over the required bits, hoof shaking slightly.
“You get off easy this time… now get out of my sight.“
As she and her friends turn around to leave, Crimson spoke up once more. “No, the unicorn filly one stays here.“
“What? Why?“
“I recognize a noble when I see one. She’ll make for a good ransom.“
“You said you would let us go!“ Apple Bloom protested. “We paid you!“
“The deal only protects miss homeless. Now leave!“
“No!“ Apple Bloom replied stubbornly. “I won’t leave without her!“
“You’re a bucking idiot!“
Scootaloo angrily glared at Apple Bloom, as the door slammed shut behind them, locking them into a small room. Apple Bloom didn’t say anything and an awkward silence quickly formed.
Scootaloo looked at Apple Bloom.
Apple Bloom looked away, choosing to instead look around the room.
Sweetie Belle looked at her two friends, contemplating if she could call them that, considering they only knew each other for an hour or two. In the end, she choose to stick with friends, and spoke the words everypony was thinking.
“What now?“
Scootaloo sighed. “There are no windows, so the only way out is the door. The problem is it’s locked and we don’t have any key and busting it open would make too much noise. Good news, they only installed one guard, since we’re fillies, bad news, they found my lockpick.“
She picked up the two broken halves of her lockpick, the tugs having snapped the tool in two earlier. “This thing was expensive…“ she quietly whined, mostly to herself.
“Can we fix it somehow?“ Apple Bloom finally spoke up. “Maybe using something in this room or…“ she paused looking around the empty room. “…I don’t know, magic?“
She shot a questioning glance at Sweetie Belle, who bit her lip. “I can try a fusion spell, but I’ve never done it before. Not sure if I even properly remembered the spell honestly…“
The unicorn filly nevertheless picked up the broken lockpick, her magic aura unsurely enveloping the broken pieces.
“Well it won’t hurt to try.“ Scootaloo reluctantly agreed. “Even if it‘s unlikely to work, it’s unlikely to have any repercussions either.“
“Come on Sweetie Belle! You got this!“ Apple Bloom silently cheered.
Her magic suddenly sparked out, before ignoring the intended target, instead enveloping everything else in the room, which just happened to be the trio of fillies.
“Uh… does she still got it?“
“Nope…“
*FLASH!*
“What is all this commotion- What in the name of Faust’s beard!?“
*Whack!*
The tug didn’t get a chance to continue, as a hoof collided with his face, sending him flying into the opposite wall, where he remained unconscious and probably with a concussion or two.
Apple Bloom blinked, slowly lowering her hoof in shock. She had mostly reacted out of shock, never intending to knock someone out cold. Now that she thought about it, how did she even manage to muster the required strength for such a feat?
“Alright, who drove that carriage? I feel like a wet macaroni…“
“Scootaloo? Why does your voice sound all weird?“
“Both of your voices sound weird girls.“ Sweetie Belle added, before pausing. “Same can be said about me trough…“
Apple Bloom’s decided to check out the thug who was still lying unconscious at the opposite wall, walking closer and gaining surprised exclamations from both of her friends.
“Hey! I’m not doing that!“
“What‘s going on? This is creepy!“
It was then that her eyes fell upon a golden pocket watch, which had fallen out of the tug's pocket. The golden surface of the watch was carefully polished, giving it a highly reflective surface, and could be used as a mirror despite its small size. Apple Bloom frowned as she picked it up, studying both her face and body.
“Hey Scootaloo? I think you were wrong about both the spell‘s success and the repercussions…“
The high-crime neighborhood of Maretropolis was a dark place, that even the police avoided. A place where supervillains resided and gangs made the laws. Nopony ever ventures in here... except for the mail, cause the mail has to be delivered, no matter what.
Derpy nervously gulped as she approached the worn-down building, once again confirming the address. She was at the right place.
*Knock-Knock!*
"D-delivery!"
The mailmare sad down to calm her trembling hooves down.
No reply came.
She contemplated knocking again when the door suddenly slammed open and she was dragged inside. The package was forcefully ripped from her hooves, the stallion who had taken it from her frowning as he inspected it. Without a further word, he handed it over to a different stallion who looked at it himself.
“Alright, who of you ordered these? This location is supposed to be secret!“
“Moron did.“ one of the henchmen replied.
“Yes, I know that they’re a moron, but what is their name?“
“No sir, their name is Moron.“
“Who the buck calls their child Moron?“
The henchmen pointed at an older stallion. “He did sir. Moron Senior.“
The stallion facehoofed. “I knew it! I’m surrounded by Morons!“
He took a deep breath, before looking at Derpy again. “Lock her up with the fillies until we figure out what to do with her.“
The henchmen nodded before she was flanked by two mean-looking stallions, who dragged her off toward the back of the building. Derpy had no choice but to follow.
*CRASH!*
"What the buck was that?!" One of the stallions pulled a knife upon hearing the sound, cautiously approaching the source. Derpy on the other hoof felt like hiding in a corner, but the second stallion forced her to continue. He too had pulled a weapon.
Walking around the corner, they arrived at a broken-down door. An unconscious form lay on the opposite wall, blood staining his body from multiple cuts across his body.
One stallion immediately ran over, checking him up.
"He's alive." he finally said after a moment of inspecting the injured thug. "He took quite a blow though, no way the fillies did this. Warn the others we got an intrud-AAARGH!"
*CRASH!*
Derpy flinched as the thug was suddenly picked up in a magic blue aura, before getting violently slammed into the wall, knocked out cold. The stallion behind her managed a startled scream, before meeting the same fate.
Derpy by now had curled up in a ball, hiding in a corner, praying she would make it back home alive.
"Hey, are you alright?"
Derpy flinched upon hearing the unknown voice, before slowly lifting her head. She flinched again upon coming face to face with an alicorn who was standing over her.
"We're Unity and here to help... hold up I know you, aren't you that mailmare? Derpy, correct?"
Derpy managed a weak nod before her eyes straightened out and she fainted.
Chapter 3: Power of the mark
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Author's Note
I never thought In would say this, but I'm back folks!
School was so bad last year that I thought a comeback was impossible, but ever since I swapped school both my grades and my motivation have improved.
This is not my best chapter, so feel free to complain and tell me how I could’ve done better.
Criticism always helps.
Green-Venom
Chapter 4: Helpful Advice
Apple Bloom
Scootaloo was struggling against the magic grip, threatening to push her into the bubbly liquid below.
Every muscle in her body was strained, her legs spread apart in an X, clutching onto the edge of the tube, straining to hold her grip.
The magic-user sighted, giving Scootaloo a look of annoyance. "Please, stop resisting. This will happen either way, if you want it or not..."
"No! Please! Don't do this to me! Sweetie Belle! Help!"
The unicorn fully looked up, before shaking her head. "Sorry Scoot, but I'm with Rarity on this one. You really need a bath..."
"Traitor! You will-" *Splash!*
Scootaloo didn't get to finish her sentence, as her legs finally gave out, resulting in the filly landing in the water where she trashed around for a moment, before finally calming down.
"Hey! The water is actually quite cozy. Nice and warm..."
"I told you it wasn't that bad."
Scootaloo didn't reply, having resumed struggling after getting assaulted by Rarity's brush, much to the later mare's annoyance.
"Girls! Hurry up or we'll be late for school!" someone shouted from outside.
Scootaloo hopped out of the bathtub like she had been hit by lightning and drenched everpony around her.
"Saved by the bell. I could kiss you, Bloom!"
As Scootaloo dashed for the door she left Rarity and Sweetie Belle with dripping manes and soaked coats.
Rarity sighed before she started drying herself with a towel. "I know it's not a choice to be an orphan, but that filly really needs a mother..."
Scootaloo had a small skip in her step as the trio of friends made their way to the local school.
Apple Bloom was the first to speak up. "So, first day at school if I got you correctly?"
Scootaloo nodded. “Yeah, this is awesome. It was nice of Rarity to sign me up under her name since I technically have no guardians.”
Apple Bloom raised an eyebrow at that. “Is that even legal?”
Scootaloo shrugged. “No idea, and as long as I get to learn how to read, I honestly don't care.”
“Wait, you can't read?”
“When was I supposed to learn? First day at school remember?”
As they approached the school building, Scootaloo’s happy pace came to a sudden halt.
Then she grabbed both of her friends and pushed them into a nearby bush.
“Hey!” Sweetie Belle complained. “What was that for?”
Scootaloo quickly placed a hoof on her lips, silencing her as she carefully peered out from between the branches of the bush.
”Quite. You see those guys in front of the school?” She pointed at a mare and a stallion that were lingering in front of the building. ”I think they’re armed. Either way, they're up to, it’s not good…”
”Armed?” Apple Bloom whispered back, ”What makes you think they're armed?
”Their clothes and posture. Hidden cutie mark. The sunglasses and caps they wear look innocent enough, but they wear them in such a way their identities are hidden. Those leather clothes have traces of knife combat. Finally, I’m pretty sure the stallion has a gun in that guitar case of his.”
”A gun? Are you sure you're not just paranoid?” Sweetie Belle spoke up ”What would they do here with guns anyway?”
”My guess? Rob the money from the charity event you held yesterday. The school made the front page, especially when it comes to the part where you collected over 4000 bits…”
Before Sweetie Belle could reply, the mare took a careful look around before giving the stallion a signal.
The stallion in turn opened his guitar case and pulled out what looked like a pair of automatic weapons, handing one to his partner in crime before both disappeared inside the school building.
After a moment of shock, the bush finally started speaking again. “Buck, I hate it when you're right…”
“For once I agree with you, this is supposed to be my first school day.” Scootaloo shot back. “Unity?”
The other fillies nodded. “Unity.”
The bush lit up with a flash of light and a second later the bush was still there, but now there was a little Alicorn entangled in it.
“Buck, we didn't plan this through…”
After having freed herself, Unity quietly sneaked through the hallways of the school. The inside of her head however was anything but quiet.
Sweetie Belle, can you please focus? Our appearance doesn't matter right now.
We’re covered in sticks and leaves from that bush. If we’re a superhero shouldn't we at least wait until the fight starts before we look like we've gone through one? Sweetie Belle replied, using Unity’s magic to pluck another stick out of their shared mane.
I'm pretty sure our first priority should be saving everypony.
She’s making a valid point there. I'm with Scoot on this one.
I'm not disagreeing with that. Obviously, that comes first, however, since we're three minds in 1 body, can't we effort to multitask a bit and do more than one thing simultaneously?
Well, you're not wrong… still, priorities Sweetie.
Girls, I think I hear them!
Alright, we'll discuss this later. Anypony got a plan?
No plan, but I do have an idea…
Works as well. Hit me.
You’re getting the idea…
The robber’s good day ended when he was hit across the head by something hard and heavy.
Rubbing his head in pain, he looked up and came face to face with Unity. “What do you think you're doing?”
Unity’s eyes nervously darted between the armed couple and the baseball bat in her magical grip.
“Uh, trying to knock you out?” she finally replied with a nervous smile.
The stallion snorted, before shaking his head. “That's not how you knock somepony out! Let me show you how it’s done!”
He yanked the baseball bat out of Unity’s magical grip, before bringing it down on the head of his partner with a practiced swing.
She went out like a light.
“See? It's not that complicated.” he handed the bat back to Unity. “Now you try.”
Unity stared at the bat, before shrugging and taking it.
BONK!
The stallion grinned. “Now you got it! It's not that hard now ey?” His eyes crossed and he joined the mare on the ground.
Silence followed, only interrupted by a soft clatter as Unity awkwardly dropped the baseball bat onto the ground.
Officially this never happened.
Deal!
Chapter 5: Day off [Part 1]
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