Chapter 1: Arrival to Camp Everfree
In the morning of Summer, Twilight Sparkle was sleeping peacefully on her bed having sweet dreams. When she woke up and put on her glasses to look at the time, it was 10:00 in the morning and she’d overslept. Twilight rushed to grab everything she needed for Camp Everfree and suited herself into some suitable clothing.
“Hey Twilight!” a muffled female voice calling her name through the door.
“Not now Mom! I’m running pretty late for camp!” Twilight stated whilst fixing her messy hair. The door opens and it was her mother and the Chaos Rainbooms coming in to check on her.
“I’m so happy that my sweet Twilight has a ton of friends to support her.” said Velvet as she was about to tear up.
“Don’t worry Mrs. Velvet, The Chaos Rainbooms will keep her safe!” Vector told her with confidence in his soul.
As Twilight was about to ask, Pinkie and Charmy explained everything really, really fast, “In case you were wondering, the time was delayed to 12:00 in the afternoon so we came here to make sure you weren’t oversleeping which you just done as soon as we showed up.”
Twilight closed her eyes and tried to comprehend everything that was happening, she heard a laugh that sounded like her’s but in a malicious way. She looked around and her mother and friends were gone, including Spike.
“What’s going on!” Twilight questioned as she was about to panic. Suddenly her room was breaking apart like as if reality itself is being broken.
One the whole room has gone, Twilight saw herself floating in a pinkish-looking space area where Twilight looked at everything corner of the place and saw no end to it. She rubbed her eyes and suddenly Midnight Sparkle appeared right infront of her.
“M-M-Midnight Sparkle?!” Twilight questioned in complete shock. I thought we defeated you after the Friendship Games?”
Midnight simply laughed, before it became maniacal. “You fool! You can’t truly defeat a problem you have yourself without dealing with it yourself…”
Twilight was completely shocked, seeing Midnight again began to cause her to feel immovable and in total shock with tears running down her eyes as Midnight was slowly getting closer towards the crying Twilight Sparkle.
“It’s alright dear, naive Twilly…things will be alright….” Midnight softly spoke as she placed her hand on Twilight’s should as she was slowly getting closer to her face.Twilight closed her eyes again to brace herself for what’s about to happen to her. Suddenly, she began to hear voices that were calling for her.
Twilight slowly opened her eyes and saw herself on the school bus sitting next to Spike. Shortly after, the rest of the Chaos Rainbooms turned to Twilight’s direction.
“Am I…dreaming?” Twilight asked as she rubbed her eyes.
“Nope! This is the real world.” Rainbow answered.
“Were you having sweet dreams, Twi?” Charmy asked.
Twilight yawns and stated, “Not at all. Things felt more like a nightmare while I was sleeping…” She then groaned while looking quite dreary. Sunset was about to ask Twilight another question, but Charmy and Pinkie cut her before she could say anything.
“Well don’t get so upset Twilly! The two of us will make camp so awesome that you’ll forget your nightmares until you die!” The two said in unison as Twilight looked with a slight smile.
Blaze looked with an stern glare at both Charmy and Pinkie, with the ladder slowly ducked back down to their seats. “Can’t you two tone it down! I was trying to sleep!” Blaze hissed before going back to sleep.
“Sorry about that you guys.” Silver apologize to Charmy and Pinkie. “Blaze doesn’t like it when someone interrupts her sleep and she kinda gets explosive when it happens.” Before Pinkie and Charmy could say something, Vector covered both of their mouths with Charmy struggling to remove Vector’s hand and Pinkie looking pretty grumpy.
Twilight giggled and looked around bus. As she looked, she saw Applejack and Rarity as the two were talking about how fun Camp Everfree is going to be from their perspective. Cream and Fluttershy talking to Silver about how beautiful and peaceful Camp Everfree is going to be. Rainbow, Mighty, and Metal were debating on who’s the best when they get to the camp activities. Looked behind and saw Vector arguing with Charmy and Pinkie Pie while Ray and Espio tried to ignore them. See then see both Sunset and Shadow, who were looking out the window.
Principal Celestia makes an announcement, “Alright my lovely students! I hope everyone here will have the best time of their lives at Camp Everfree. After multiple accomplishments and feats our students have done, my sister and I have used our money to reward the whole school a trip to Camp Everfree.”
“We hope that everyone can have an exciting time and create many enjoyable memories the camp can offer.” Luna added.
The bus bursted into loud cheers from everyone. Blaze was awakened by this and growled as Silver turns towards her and tried to stop her from getting too upset. Blaze eased up and thought to herself about staying back at Twilight’s house while everyone else went ahead. She sighs and thinking about giving Camp Everfree a chance.
After the buses finally reached Camp Everfree, everyone got off and grabbed their luggage on their way off. Fluttershy, Cream, and Silver looked in awe from the looks from camp.
“This is awesome! Camp Everfree is more beautiful from what it said. I already love it!” Silver cheered as he looked at the trees and the crystal, blue lake.
“You look so happy Silver. You must love nature more than we do.” Fluttershy stated.
“Let’s enjoy it together.” Cream suggested with Cheese getting super excited. Cream, Cheese, Fluttershy, and Silver walked off to observed the
beauty of camp.
Applejack cracked her neck and popped off. “Woo boy! I can’t wait to roughin’ myself up just like Granny Smith wanted me to do before leavin’ to camp! I should put ma southern skill against the natural world!”
“AJ, we’re at camp, not a survival wilderness show.” Rainbow Dash told to Applejack to not make her look weird.
“Ya know Dash, if Darin’ Do released a book about her survivin’ in the wild, ya probably do the same just like her.” Applejack stated with a smug smile as Rainbow played it off as a joke.
Rarity and Rouge appeared with the two carrying all their luggage. The two let out a sigh of relief as they saw Applejack and Rainbow looking in disbelief.
“If I’m going to be honest, it would’ve been very thankful if either you, Vector, or Silver helped us with out luggage!” Rarity informed as she pouted.
“I’m 100% that all that there luggage is all yours and it for sure ain’t any of Rouge’s stuff.” Applejack told
“I agree with a 20% increase.” Rainbow added.
Rouge giggled while Rarity looked away with her arms crossed. “Well none of that rubbish is important anyways. I glad we can finally take a break from all that madness that happened at school.” Rarity said as she dismissed the previous discussion.
“You said it Rarity!” Pinkie agreed while showing up unannounced. “With the evil siren trio, hyper-competitive schools, friends from a alternate world along with their friends from a different universe, and two crazy she-demons, and-“ Pinkie continued before Vector shut her up by covering her mouth. She then realized that the “she-demons” were just joining up and heard what Pinkie said, causing her to awkwardly giggle.
Twilight looked upset from what she heard, but Sunset reassured her that it’s nothing to get so upset about. Shadow, Blaze, Metal, and the rest of the Chaotix joined up with the group with the buses heading off.
“Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash!” 3 distinct voices shouted as the group turned to the direction of the sound and saw that it was Applebloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo calling for the girls as the ran up to meet up with them.
“Big sis, I wanna hang out with you for camp! I promise ya I won’t get in the way!” Applebloom told her sister with determination in her eyes as Applejack agreed.
“Can I join you and Rouge this time? I’m a big girl now, not a whiny baby like before!” Sweetie Belle asked with seriousness, with Rarity and Rouge allowed her to assist them, causing Sweetie to squeal excitedly.
“Don’t count me out Dashy, I can definitely hold my own and I refuse to let someone as awesome as you be alone without a sidekick!” Scootaloo explained with confidence, and Rainbow let her be her partner, which was the best thing that could have ever happened in her entire life.
Shortly after, Cream, Cheese, Fluttershy, and Silver return to the Chaos Rainbooms. Suddenly Flash shows up to give Twilight one of her bags she missplaced. Before Twilight could say thanks, he lefted, leaving her confused.
“Um? Why did he leave before I could thank him?” Twilight questioned.
“He probably doing his own solo thing like he usually do.” Sunset answered.
Suddenly a loud screeching noise emitted from the speakers, causing everyone to cover their ears.
”Hi campers! Please head to the courtyard to start the most amazing week of camp ever!" the cheerful voice stated from the speaker. The students then headed to the courtyard as told.
Once the students reached the courtyard, they’re introduced to the camp director: Gloriosa Daisy, a young woman with reddish-pink skin matching her hair color as she wore sunflowers in it. Next to her was Timber Spruce, Gloriosa’s younger brother with brown skinned and green hair to match the trees.
“Hi, everyone! My name is Gloriosa and I welcome you all to Camp Everfree. I'm the camp director and my brother and I will be your guide and friendly camp instructor." Gloriosa cheerfully introduced herself as Timber grabbed the mic from her afterwards.
“And I’m Timber and I’ll be the awesome camp instructor incase my sis bore you with her activities.” Timber introduced while putting on his sunglasses to make him look cooler. Gloriosa rolled her eyes while taking the mic back from him.
“Before we can start having fun at camp, what fun activities to you lovely campers want to make this experience better than ever?” Gloriosa asked with her bubbly personality, pointing the mic towards the campers.
Rainbow dashes towards the mic and listed all the activities she wants while Gloriosa agree to all of the listed options. Rainbow is then pulled away by Sunset.
“I understand that you’re excited about camp, but give the others a chance.” Sunset told her as the other students gave their suggestions to Gloriosa and Timber.
While Gloriosa was keeping track with suggestions, Timber started to act cool infront of Twilight, which caused her to blush and break eye contact with Timber.
“Don’t forget about the camp gift!” Celestia shouted.
Gloriosa looked surprised and said, “How could I forget about the camp gift!” Camp gift is the most crucial part of the experience here at Camp Everfree. It symbolizes the bonds and growth that is formed during your time here." Gloriosa explains to everyone, then further explain the totem pole to the campers. “I can’t wait to see what you kids have planned for us!” Gloriosa finished as the campers about to be assigned their tents, but they can choose up to 3 campers to stay with them instead of being divided by genders.
As the campers found their camp parents, they’re then told to take all of their belongings to their tents. With the other campers gone and Timber helping them get set, Gloriosa sees a black limo parked down the entrance and sees a wealthy man named Filthy Rich getting out of the limo and approached Gloriosa with a smug smile.
“Good day we’re having, huh Gloriosa?” Filthy asked as he admired the scenery at camp, but Gloriosa wasn’t happy to see him.
“What do you want now Mr. Rich?” Gloriosa demanded in a hostile tone.
Filthy Rich chuckles, “I’m not causing any trouble here Ms. Daisy. I’m wondering when you’re paying for the yearly fee from all those years ago?” he asks politely.
“I don’t have the money yet, but if you just give me-“ Gloriosa explained, but Filthy Rich cut her off mid-sentence.
“The problem is, your bosses aren’t pleased with you nothing paying for your fee. They said if the past due fee isn’t paid by next week, well I’m afraid Camp Everfree would be shelved.” Filthy explained to the camp director, which made her eyes widen.
“Can’t you do anything about this Mr. Riches?” begged Gloriosa with her fist clenched together.
Filthy Rich nods his head and states, “I’ll try my hardest to see if I can convince those folk about you keeping your camp forever, but I ain’t sure they’ll budge.”
Gloriosa eyes sparked with immense joy and repeated thanked Filthy Rich for his help. Filthy Rich gives her a smile before heading off to the bosses. Gloriosa then immediately thought about the campers and ran off to see them.
Chapter 2: The Chaos Arrives
Meanwhile, most of the campers were already at their tents after bringing their luggage and setting them inside the tents whilst they took out certain items they’re planning to use later. In Twilight’s tent, she was paired up with Silver and Blaze. Silver noticed the disinterested look of his two female friends and started a conversation with Spike joining along.
“What’s the matter girls? You two seem to bothered by something and it’s spoiling the fun for you.” Blaze and Twilight turned to the talking hedgehog.
Blaze sighs and explains, “Sorry for worrying you Silver. I’m not sure about the camp director and her act she’s putting up. Gloriosa is hiding something from us and I’m sure of it.”
“You’re feeling stressed out after this morning thanks to Pinkie Pie and Charmy.” Silver said to Blaze. “You can relax easy and not be so overprotective of us.” Blaze sighs once more and takes Silver’s advice.
“I’ll ease up at Camp Everfree, but what about Twilight?” Blaze spoke, causing Twilight’s eyes to widen.
“Ya know, Twilight was making goggly-eyes at the camp director’s brother and they like each other.” Spike teased with a smug smile on his face as Twilight blushed and looked away.
“Is that what’s bothering her? Don’t worry about that Twi. Spike, Blaze, and I can help you with your dating trouble!” Silver determinedly spoke as he pumped his fist. Blaze chuckled and Twilight’s face turned red.
“Don’t shout so loud Silv!” Twilight aggressive whispered.
“Ok.” Silver quickly answered
“You can’t hide anything from us Sparkle. We know you far too well that.” Blaze added.
“No I’m not! I can definitely do that!” Twilight defended herself in a slightly aggressive tone that took Blaze aback, including Silver and Spike.
“What was that about?!” Blaze questioned.
“Are you alright Twilight?” Silver asked also.
Twilight sighed and explained that she was fine and how nice everything was, up until she mentioned the Friendship Games incident as her mood wasn’t optimistic as before.
“Forget about that Twilight. It didn’t make any difference because you are our friend and everyone at Canterlot High have forgiven you and you made new friends in the end.” Blaze told Twilight as she saw Blaze, Silver, and Spike looking with a smile on their faces.
“If you’re struggling with something, we’re here to back you up!” Silver added, then Spike barks with his say in the conversation. Twilight says “Thank you” with a smile.
Suddenly, Rainbow appears at the front of their tent and reminded them that they’re heading to the dock and runs off shortly after, along with Spike. While Silver, Blaze, and Twilight searched their luggage, Twilight pointed at her spare glasses and they slowly levitated above the bag and reached her finger. Silver and Blaze also saw the floating glasses and was shocked, then other objects floated inside the tent.
Everything stopped floating and returned to normal gravity. While Silver and Blaze found it great, Twilight was panicking and thought that it was Midnight Sparkle slowly taking control of her by levitating the glasses.
“That was so cool! You have psychic powers just like me!” Silver spoke excitedly towards Twilight, who smiled awkwardly.
“I know that sounds fantastic, but I like for you guys not to tell anyone about this because the others preferred that we keep any sort of magical shenanigans while we’re at camp OK? Twilight quickly asked, while left the two confused, but the agreed anyway.
Then immediately after they promised, Twilight zipped away and headed towards the dock without Silver and Blaze, who follow her shortly after.
At the dock, Gloriosa explained the activities regarding the lake as many of the campers admired the lake thanks to how clean it looked and thanks to the sun, it also made it sparkled as if it “looked like diamonds” as Rarity would say. Soon Twilight, Silver, and Blaze joined in to see the beauty of the lake.
Silver took in the admiration and took a closer look at the lake, getting a better view of it. Soon Fluttershy joined in with him as the just looked at the scenery.
“I never thought Silver would be so “connected” with nature like Fluttershy.” Rainbow pointed out
“That’s because Silver always loved nature back then, and it’s good that his fondness hasn’t changed abit.” Blaze said to Rainbow as they saw small birds fly up to Fluttershy and Silver as the birds landed next to them.
“That’s really sweet.” Sweetie Belle stated with her hands held together.
“I says so too Sweetie Belle.” Cream added
As the others continue admiring the lake, Fluttershy and Silver began to feed the ducks, Twilight passed by them and accidentally tripped over a breakable plank on the dock. Thankfully, Timber caught her before she was able to injure herself. The two played it off as Flash saw from afar, which bummed him out somewhat. He is then approached by both Sunset and Shadow as they give him a pat on the back.
“Don’t get so dull over it Flash. Even though Princess Twilight is on a adventure saving a new world and this world’s Twilight doesn’t have feelings towards you, I’m sure that’s the least of your worries.” Sunset told Flash as he rubbed the back of his neck.
“So you’re saying I should ignore that stuff?” Flash asked.
“Precisely.” Shadow added, which surprised Flash.
“Ouch…you two sure know how to not sugarcoat things.” Flash stated, followed up with a chuckle.
“Sorry, but that’s generally our style.” Sunset told as she winked at him. Flash turns his head to Shadow, who gives him a thumbs up and smile.
While Celestia, Luna, and Gloriosa discussed the broken plank. Luna announced to the campers that dock is closed as it is far too dangerous for the campers to use. All the campers sighed and groaned in annoyance and Gloriosa gotten worried.
“Don’t lose hope everyone! I’m sure I can get this fixed by the hour!” Gloriosa offered cheerfully.
“Instead of fixin’ one singular issue with the dock, how ‘bout we rework the entire dock. Our camp gift can be us fixin’ the whole camp and onward!” Applejack suggested as all the campers cheered.
“I don’t know about that. You guys have a whole week of fun and you’re sacrificing it for this old dock?” Timber mentioned as he glared at his sister, who glared back as only Sunset and Blaze noticed.
Rainbow gives out a encouraging speech about the Wondercolt having a reputation to uphold which just further fueled the camper’s ambition to fix the dock. Gloriosa gives Timber a sly look, while Timber wasn’t looked very pleased, which both Sunset and Blaze also noticed.
The campers have began to work on the improvements for the dock. It is said to feature a sign, a box of food for the ducks, lights for going to the dock at night, and more. Even though it was a lot to ask for and the time it’ll most likely take for them to finally finish the dock, the campers were set on rebuilding it.
“ALRIGHT! LET’S GET STARTED!” Pinkie yelled enthusiastically
The campers then worked on different parts on the dock by bring wood or continue working on the design of the dock. While that was happening, Twilight walked up to Timber and noticed he was working on a lantern and the two began chatting. Timber mention his expert craftsmanship and Twilight brought up in-depth subjects with Timber. The two spotted Cheese struggling to carry multiple planks of wood. Timber took the planks from Cheese and carried them near the dock.
“You’re welcome little guy.” Timber said to Cheese, who moved around excitedly as a way of thanking him.
“He really likes you Timber, you’re very helpful.” Twilight stated as she grabbed Cheese from the air.
“Don’t mention it. By the way, we’re going to tell campfire stories later on so don’t miss out.” Timber told as Twilight and Cheese nodded.
Later on the same day, it was getting dark and the campers sat around a campfire. Gloriosa brought marshmallows for the campers as they were about to tell some campfire stories. Rarity began to tell her “scary” story.
“"Her dress was purple and burgundy!" Rarity shrieks with her hands placed on her face.
Everyone didn’t know what to say and were left confused. They weren’t scared or had an reaction in the slightest.
“Did the dress transformed into a scary monster and ate the lady?” Charmy asked.
“Good gracious, never!” Rarity replied with a disgusted look on her face. “That’s far too terrifying!”
The campers were more confused and started murmuring to one another. Rarity noticed and pouted at everyone for not being understanding.
“At least ya did ya best Rarity.” Applejack finally spoke
“Can we get a really scary story this time?” Scootaloo asked.
“I got a story for you kid, but fair warning, I won’t be holding back on this one.” Timber stated and already some of the campers wrapped their arms around each other as the rest of the campers braced themselves.
Timber explained that long ago, his great-grandparents had arrived at the forest and decided to build a camp on the land for the future. In doing so, they had awakened the nature spirit known as Gaea Everfree, who despised trespassers. Gaea terrified his great-grandparents had managed to convince the spirit to let them build their camp, but she promised that they wouldn't have it forever and she would one day reclaim it for good.
“…"If you come across a trail of gem dust, know that it belongs to... GAEA EVERFREE!" Timber shouted as he finished the story. The campers saw a silhouette standing above Timber, causing them to scream except Shadow, Blaze, and Espio who were ready to attack the silhouette, but stopped when it turned out to be Gloriosa.
“Sorry for the scare campers. I brought some extra marshmallows!” the camp director apologized. While most of the campers were relieved, a few weren’t sure about it.
“That was odd? You showed a resemblance of Gaea Everfree before you revealed yourself. Do you happen to be Gaea herself?” Espio asked Gloriosa, who laughed it off
“Don’t be so scared everyone! Gaea Everfree isn’t real, now let’s go back to your tents!” Gloriosa told as the campers got up and walked away.
The Chaos Rainbooms met up with each other on the path to their tents. Fluttershy, Cream, and Cheese walked very closely with Metal whist they looked around nervously.
Ray notices and asks, “Are you three scared of the story? It’s a made up fantasy to scare us.”
“Well it did quite a good job scarin’ ‘em.” added Applejack as she rolled her eyes.
“But what if Gaea came from Equestria and is hiding in Camp Everfree until she regained her power to take control over everyone!” Rainbow worriedly suggested.
“I wouldn’t be to surprised if it was true, but we’re avoiding those things, not facing them.” Sunset told.
“The next we don’t need is someone using magic very irresponsible. It’s giving me a headache.” Rouge stated, but was nudged by Metal, who then pointed towards a uncomfortable Twilight and a annoyed Blaze. Rouge’s face froze and quickly covered it up by highlighting the positive outcome.
“I’m tired…I’ll see you guys tomorrow morning…” Twilight spoke as she walked away from the group with her head down.
“Could you guys stop bringing that junk up! She’s still hurt from the Friendship Games.” Blaze scolded the group, who looked pretty downbeat, especially Rouge and Pinkie.
“Calm down Blaze, they didn’t mean to bring it up. It was by accident.” Silver begged as Blaze eased up.
“It’s alright Silver, she right about the Friendship Games incident. We’ll tried our hardest to keep talking about the incident around Twilight.” Espio stated as the rest of the Chaos Rainbooms agreed.
“Maybe we should head to our tents before someone sees us.” Sunset said as the Chaos Rainbooms walked off and called it a day.
Author's Note
Seems like the problem our heroes are avoiding is slowly catching up with them, despite their disinterest. Growing suspicion on Gloriosa and her brother, Timber. And what will happen next in this story?
