My Little Pony: The Prince of Friendship

"We've got a problem..." Twilight said.

"Oh really? Considering that being Condescending Consequence; otherwise known as The Dark Master; just went and ate a collection of Dragons and Ponies like it was nothing, yeah I say we got a HUGE problem." Ember said. Smolder was in the corner crying as Spike and Sweetie Belle were comforting her. As it turns out, Garble was her brother so of course The Dark Master's snacking on him effecting the orange dragoness.

"There's that problem too, but I'm referring to the artifacts The Pillars left behind." Twilight said. "A bit ago, I put the book on the map and it showed us holographic images of the artifacts but we got caught up with the Dark Admins that no one went to collect them." She added.

"How is that a problem? What pony planning to do with those?" The yak said.

"Well after studying the spell that Starswirl used to send him and the other pillars to limbo, I was able to figure out a spell to bring them back having completed one of his spells before personally." Twilight noted.

"Wait...your planning on getting the pillars out of limbo? That would be something else." Grandpa gruff said.

"Exactly. There's just one hitch in this plan now, after putting the journal back on the map." Twilight said.

"And what problem is that?" Ember asked.

"It seems the Dark Admins were MEANT to distract us all along: The Dark Master has stolen the items the Pillars left behind!" Twilight said.

"WAIT YOUR SAYING IT WAS A DISTRACTION THE WHOLE TIME?!" Queen Nova exclaimed.

"Oh that bastard. He planned it all out I bet." Sandbar said.

"For once, I'm inclined to agree; the dude is clearly smart enough to plan things out like this." Gallus said.

"Okay yeah, this is not good." Thorax said.

"Yona thought that dark master was just blowing smoke, but dark master guy actually thought ahead." Yona said.

"This cannot be allowed to stand. We've got to get those artifacts back if we have any hope of getting the pillars to help us take down Condescending Consequence!" Silverstream said.

"We do have one snag: That Dark Master got to Smolder where it hurt the most." Ember said, as she turned to the orange dragoness who was still being comforted by Spike and Sweetie Belle.

"It's like he knew somehow. Who the hell is this guy?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"You know...ah think he's been planning something like this for a long time. Call it a hunch." Applejack said.

"You could be right. We need to start strategizing a way to counter this guy enough so we can take back the artifacts that belonged to the pillars and then go kick the Dark Master's flank!" Spitfire said.

"I couldn't have said it better myself. Let's get started." Twilight said.

Meanwhile, a disguised Chrysalis was with a disguised changeling king she had discovered was named Polteris. The two had been feeling each other up for a while now, and this little incident was something they had to ride out.

"I really hate that things must wait like this; but hopefully the this upcoming group of changelings helps us weather this current storm long enough for us to strike shortly after the ponies deal with this Condescending Consequence." Polteris said.

"Attacking them shortly after they finish dealing with this Dark Master fool would be to our advantage. They'll be exhausted and won't be able to fight back." Chrysalis said.

"Indeed. That is the idea." Polteris said.

"Heh...I really am starting to like you." Chrysalis said.

Elsewhere, the Dark Master had arrived in person to the gates of tartarus.

"Time to begin the next phase of my plan. First, I shall start it off by releasing all those that reside in this prison." The Dark Master said before blasting the door with his magic. It opened effortlessly for the evil being. Though the three headed dog monster known as Cerberus tried to attack Condescending Consequence, the Dark Master simply turned the guard dog into a small little puppy using dark magic.

"This shall be fun..." Condescending Consequence said before he sent out a wave of dark magic that suddenly broke all the cages inside Tartarus and destroyed the front gate in the process. Condescending Consequence was heard laughing a very dark, and very evil laugh.