NightFlame appeared before the god-king Loomis. Loomis’s glowing crown floated above his head.

“You’re playing a risky game here.”

“There’s only one possible way it could fail. There is no way it could happen.”

“Even your so-called side project ended in a catastrophic failure.”

NightFlame simply shook his head. “Everything is going to plan. My so-called failure was completely planned. Even then, it will take so much more than all of Void Creature’s power to break through the Endless Void.”

“What the heck is the Endless Void? And why did you never tell me about it?”

“Think of the Underwaters of Fifth Shiver. I presume you are familiar with the tale of Kaleth Emprex?”

Loomis nodded. “I see. It is a secret that you keep as it becomes more dangerous the more people know about it.”

Twilight caught up to Pinkie almost immediately, as Pinkie was staring at a frog shaped like an orange.

“Hey, uh, Pinkie?” Pinkie spun around at an extremely dangerous speed while vibrating excessively.

The two ponies stared at each other for a brief moment, before Pinkie returned to her normal bouncing. Pinkie grabbed Twilight and sped off. As the forest raced past, Pinkie began exposition.

“There’s more baddies than you think! It’s more-” Pinkie crashed into a tree with a monstrous face. “Ooh, scary tree!” A small brown shape raced across the path. “Oh look, a squirrel!” Pinkie bounced off after the squirrel. Twilight facehoofed.

Soon, they encountered a manticore. The manticore roared. Pinkie Pie wore a strange excited smile on her face. Twilight lifted the manticore’s paw up with her magic, but found no thorn. She levitated the entire manticore, and found no thorn. Twilight screamed in rage, and teleported directly to the castle.

Nightmare Moon stood at the window, watching the outside. The moon shone beautifully in the night sky. Only one throne sat in the center, emblazoned with a crescent moon. A white unicorn with a wonderfully styled purple mane appeared to be talking to Nightmare Moon.

Twilight reluctantly approached Rarity and Nightmare Moon. Nightmare Moon turned around.

“Well, well, well, if it isn't Twilight Sparkle. All of you were supposed to be separated, with no way of all six of you coming together again, but now, half of you are in this one room.” Nightmare Moon stepped down onto the ground. “But here’s the thing. Your friend Rarity is completely under my control. He made sure of that.” Twilight noticed that Rarity’s eyes had no soul within.

“What did you do?” Twilight charged her magic.

“Oh, I did nothing. But you know what? I’m getting tired of this. Have fun!” Nightmare Moon laughed maniacally, and teleported both herself and Rarity away.

Four snarling timberwolves appeared in the doorway. Twilight turned around, and blasted the first timberwolf into firewood. Twilight lifted another into the air, and threw it into the wall. The wall turned around, and the timberwolf was flung outside.

Outside, the timberwolf howled at the full moon. More howls came from the forest.

The last two timberwolves chased Pinkie Pie down the hall. Pinkie leaped over a portion of the floor, landing on a tile. The floor opened beneath the timberwolves, and they fell through. Pinkie bounced through the internet back to Twilight.

“Black Snooty, Black Snooty, come out wherever you are!” Pinkie enthusiastically bounced around, shouting.

Seven timberwolves appeared in the entrance to the castle. The timberwolves slowly made their way to the throne room.

“Do you prefer Queen Meanie?” Pinkie was now nothing more than a pink blur. “Hokey Smokes?” As Pinkie bounced around the throne room, seven timberwolves marched in. Twilight charged up her magic to turn another into firewood, but the first wolf tackled the pink party pony from the sky. Pinkie grabbed Twilight, broke through the fourth wall, and jumped down the staircase.

The timberwolves followed the two ponies through a different path.

The seven timberwolves chased Twilight and Pinkie down the Hall of Hooves. One of the walls turned, and two more timberwolves appeared. The nine timberwolves began closing in on Twilight and Pinkie. Twilight’s horn lit up, and a blast of magic shot out, and one timberwolf collapsed into a pile of sticks.

The eight remaining timberwolves pounced. Pinkie pulled out her party cannon, but it jammed. Pinkie hit the cannon several times, and it shot a ball of concentrated confetti and cake, splattering all over three wolves. The wolves vanished in a puff of smoke. The five remaining timberwolves hid behind a wall.

A wisp of blue starry smoke appeared in the window. The wisp grew in size, until it grew to the size of Nightmare Moon herself.

The wisp partially morphed into a dragon. The beast roared at the two ponies. Twilight’s memory recalled one word: Tantabus.

“Pinkie! This thing feeds off your worst nightma-” Twilight couldn’t finish the sentence, as a flying book smacked her in the face. The book transformed into a cake, and the book cake chased Pinkie around the room.

The Tantabus tossed assorted objects at Twilight. Among those objects were four watermelons, three pineapples, two bits, and a partridge in a pear tree.

Pinkie Pie pulled a party sniper rifle out of her tail, and suddenly disappeared. The Tantabus stumbled. Confetti exploded out of the Tantabus’s head.

The Tantabus morphed into a more centaur-like shape. The centaur Tantabus fired a blast of magic from between its horns. Pinkie and Twilight ran as fast as they could, escaping the Tantabus's wrath.

The five remaining timberwolves burst out from behind the wall they were hiding behind. Twilight levitated one into the air, and rotated it to face the other four. The magic aura disappeared from around the timberwolf in the air, and it shot at the other four so fast it created a rainbow explosion behind it. The impact destroyed four timberwolves, but the last wolf grew in size. The Tantabus appeared behind it. The Alpha Timberwolf howled, and the Tantabus once again changed shape, to that of a large unicorn.

The Alpha Timberwolf charged Pinkie Pie, slamming both itself and the pink earth pony through the wall.

“Whee! This is fun!” Pinkie excitedly shouted. Her voice echoed off of every surface in the area. Pinkie wriggled free of the Alpha Timberwolf’s grasp, and brought her hoof down on it. The Alpha Timberwolf shook the party pony off of itself, and turned to face Pinkie Pie.

The Tantabus threw a steak into Twilight’s horn, and then another, and another, until the lavender alicorn was completely covered in steaks.

Pinkie smashed the Alpha Timberwolf through the floor, and tossed it through the fourth wall, hitting a random reader in the face. The Alpha Timberwolf howled at the moon in the real world, and leaped through the screen back into the story. Pinkie placed a party landmine down on the ground, just where the Alpha Timberwolf landed. The party landmine exploded, covering the Alpha Timberwolf in ice cream, cake, and ice cream cake.

Twilight teleported out of the steaks, and charged horn first at the Tantabus. The attack phased through the Tantabus, and Twilight crashed into the wall. The Tantabus turned to face Twilight, who was now completely stuck in the wall.

The Alpha Timberwolf shook off the sweets. Pinkie pulled a party gatling gun out of her mane, and started rapid-firing random party favors. The Alpha Timberwolf growled. Pinkie bounced excitedly, placing party landmines everywhere. The Alpha Timberwolf stepped on two landmines at the same time, just as Pinkie tossed a party grenade into its face. The Alpha Timberwolf stepped off the landmines, and was immediately shot by Pinkie’s new party bazooka. The Alpha Timberwolf exploded into confetti, cake, and wood.

“Fatality,” a voice announced from the sky.

The Tantabus charged at Twilight, who was still struggling to get out of the wall. It suddenly halted.

“Good work, my little Tantie.” Nightmare Moon re-appeared between the battlers. Pinkie bounced up from the hole in the floor. Twilight pulled herself out of the wall.

“Where have you been?” Twilight demanded. Nightmare Moon giggled.

"Bet you didn't see this coming!"

Without any time to ask questions, the Alpha Timberwolf burst into the room, still slightly caked with cake, and now tied together with vines. The Alpha Timberwolf snarled at the trio, sending a wave of dark energy throughout the room. The dark energy managed to end Nightmare Moon's control over Rarity.

Pinkie Pie pulled a party chainsaw out of her tail. The Alpha Timberwolf snarled again, and slowly advanced towards the party pony. Pinkie revved up the chainsaw, and sawed through the Alpha Timberwolf’s leg with sharpened pinata sticks attached to the “weapon”. The leg fell off as expected, but reattached itself with something like magnetism. Vines immediately grew to bond the leg back to the main body.

“Its body can’t be destroyed!” Twilight shouted at Pinkie. Rarity crouched in the corner, poking a specific brick in the wall. The brick fell out, as well as a small bomb. The bomb immediately disappeared in a puff of smoke.

Pinkie stopped her attack on the Alpha Timberwolf. The three ponies peered into the hole in the wall. As their backs were turned, the Alpha Timberwolf slowly slunk forward.

“Alright, if I can just...” Twilight stared through to the other side. Her horn lit up, and the three friends teleported to the other side of the hole, just as the Alpha Timberwolf pounced.

A magic pop flashed in front of Nightmare Moon. The ponies stood in front of the black alicorn.

“So, you passed each test with memory, ingenuity, and a will of fire. You’re missing the banana, door handle, and stop sign.”

Pinkie reached into her tail, rummaged through old candy wrappers, a papier-mâché head of Eminem, the entire White House, and a pineapple pizza and ripped out a banana shaped stop sign. “Is this good enough?” the pink pony asked.

Nightmare Moon smashed her hoof into her face. As she looked up, she said, “You're still missing the door handle.”

“Ohhh.” Pinkie pulled down on the top of the screen and blackened the entire area, as well as blinding everyone.

“What did you just do?” an unknown voice asked.

“What just happened?” asked a second voice.

“Where did the story go?” asked a third.

A comically muscular white pegasus pushed the black out of the way, and fell through the floor.

Nightmare Moon stared in horror as a banana golem wielded a stop sign in its hands. A door handle carved as a helmet sat atop its head. The banana golem swung, and Nightmare Moon instantly turned back into Princess Luna.

"Wat," Luna said, perfectly encapsulating the mood of pretty much everyone in the room, including the invisible dude.

A pony made of shadows floated in the endless void. Three tendrils of energy were attached to its wings, one blue, one orange, and one black. The blue tendril snapped.

“Hmmm. Nightmare Moon has fallen. But there are so many more before she actually becomes a threat.” A yellow tendril connected itself to the Pony of Shadows, followed by a red, lilac, green, and white.

The Pony of Shadows turned to a cage that wasn't there ten seconds ago. He had one of the bearers of the Elements of Harmony locked in there, as well as the Pillars of Old Equestria. The Emperor wasn't taking any chances. He had ordered all six to be separated with no chance of coming back together, but the Pony of Shadows knew something the Emperor didn't. He knew the power of plot convenience and deus ex machina.

The Emperor was at least smart enough to keep some magical items as a last resort, just in case they did somehow win. The Pony of Shadows knew that the power of children's cartoon protagonists would already be enough to defeat the Emperor.

The Pony of Shadows looked upon his other prisoners. Stygian, Tempest Shadow, and a unicorn who he didn't recognize but apparently was once Princess Celestia's student. A flying Star Wars Monopoly board caught the Pony of Shadows's attention. He tore open a rift into another world, and absorbed his alternate self.

Absorbing alternate versions of himself was something he did often. There weren't that many left. Each time he did so, he grew more powerful. He would soon exceed the power of the Emperor himself. He could choose to betray the Emperor, but some stupid thing called loyalty prevented him. The Emperor, the Lightning King, and himself would be the greatest trio the multiverse had ever seen.

As he conjured shadow popcorn and ate it, he looked into alternate worlds. He contacted an old friend and told him to hunt down the Element Bearers of that universe. He then asked the Emperor to send an object to help with the Predator's mission.

Soon enough, there would be no Elements of Harmony capable of defeating the Emperor or the Grand Empire of yo this is a spoiler.

Author's Note

... uh... um... there is no prequel I swear to god no don't look in my stories list for the prequel it doesn't exist

Anyway there's 69 paragraphs