Prologue
Admiral Abraxis stood there, watching the Festival of Lights as the fireworks exploded over Colony Prime. As he watched, he was tapped on the shoulder by a man, startled, he quickly turned around and he stood there for a few moments when finally the man spoke.
"Hello again Young One", he said calmly
"Platius? Is that you?", The Admiral replied, "I thought you would never return..."
"Ah, my young friend, I said I would not be far.", The man told him
"Why have you come back now?", Admiral Abraxis quickly asked
"I foresee that you will desperately needed my friend, you must come with me", The man answered
"Will I be able to return Platius?" Abraxis asked
"No, Young One," Platius assured him, "to where we will travel there will be no return."
And with his last sentence, Platius pulled out a device from his pocket and at the touch of a few buttons, a bright light shone above the two as they were sucked into a vortex.
Part One
"Fire!" Princess Celestia yelled as multiple unicorns fired their magic at the gooey blue menace that was slowly approaching them. The blue menace withdrawed some but soon continued on its relentless strike towards the ponies. Suddenly a brigade of pegasi flying in a V formation flew high over the unicorns, dropping spherical objects into holes where the blue goo had pooled up, with the exception of Ditzy Doo, who was flying out of formation and dropped hers on some earth pony's head. With bright red explosions, most of the goo in the holes had been completely annihilated, causing the blue menace to withdraw at the frontlines as a group of earth ponies rolled in high tech looking cannons. As they were preparing to fire the cannons, a bright light shone from above and a spinning vortex opened as Platius and Admiral Abraxis were beamed to the ground. Turning her head, Princess Celestia examined the two and recognizing Platius, she rushed to greet the two.
While rubbing his forehead, Admiral Abraxis soon asked, "Where are we?"
"Ah, for this is another universe that requires assistance fighting the creeper" Platius replied. As Abraxis' vision started to come back to him, he looked around and saw that many things looked familiar.
"Wait, I know this place.... this is Equestria!" He quickly declared, "I know this because there was this EXTREMELY popular television series called 'My Little Pony Friendship is Magic'. In fact, it was so popular that it ran for over 11,000 years! From the year 2010 A.D. to just before The Great Exodus! And the series soon resumed after the fall of the first creeper nexus. Aliana, my daughter, used to love to watch the show as a child." As he finished, Princess Celestia had finally come up to greet the two, but before she could say anything, Admiral Abraxis saw her and yelled, "And you must be Princess Celestia, Ruler of Equestria!" Princess Celestia stepped back, surprised that the mysterious man knew her name and status, but she quickly replied,
"And you must be Admiral Abraxis, leader of the New Human Alliance!" The Admiral jumped back, even more surprised that the large white Alicorn knew his name and status.
"Ah, Young One," Platius began, "I had told this Princess that you could be of assistance to the ponies in this universe to fight off the creeper (the blue goo), for they only have control of one planet, Earth, but they quickly lost ground on it, all the other kingdoms on this planet fell to the creeper's wraith, millions of ponies' lives lost, and Equestria is the only kingdom left under their control, and they're struggling to keep it. I had also seeded this race with 'encouragements' which gave them their magical powers which you see in action right now." Platius finished his last sentence as he took a deep breath.
"Yes," Princess Celestia began, "what your friend says is true, while you were fighting the 'creeper' in your universe, he was here helping us develop technology to fight the 'creeper' in our universe, our unicorns' magic were able to hold the blue menace off for a while until we had the technology developed for our earth ponies to use, and just in time too, many of our unicorns became fatigued and were unable to continue to fight off the blue menace."
" Have you been able to develop a way to destroy any of the 'emitters' (things that emit the blue goo)?" Abraxis asked.
"Not really 'destroy' them, but 'convert them'" Princess Celestia replied, "oh, and there's six ponies I'd like you to meet" As she finished that sentence, the Princess called out six ponies names: "Applejack", "Fluttershy", "Pinkie Pie", "Rainbow Dash", "Rarity", and finally "Twilight Sparkle". When all six ponies arrived at their location, Princess Celestia began to speak, "Hello my little ponies, there's two people I'd like you to meet." as she pointed her front right hoof at Admiral Abraxis and Platius. "one of them is the man who helped us create the technology to fight off the creeper and the other is the man who will help us lead the defense against the creeper and maybe even offense." All six of the ponies greeted the two with a hello and several moments passed before Pinkie finally said,
"Those 'things' don't look like ponies, who are they?"
" Ah, my little pony, " Princess Celestia began to say, "that's because they're from a different universe, the one you see on the right is a 'human', and his race had successfully fended off and defeated the creeper, the other you see is a person that is the last of his kind from long, long ago, before even I existed!"
"Oh," the group said in unison.
Suddenly there was a loud beeping noise emanating from Abraxis' pocket, who soon withdrawed a small scanning device and he read the readings displayed on the screen, after many moments of analyzing the data, he finally said,
"It appears that my pocket scanner is detecting large amounts of fractal energy being produced, and it appears that the source is those jewels all six of you ponies are wearing... wait, THOSE ARE THE ELEMENTS OF HARMONY!!!!!! Now, I remember, those gems vanquish evil, and it also appears that they're miniaturized high efficiency fractal energy reactors that generate their own unique amount and frequency of fractal radiation, that when combined in different ways can have many different effects, but are near useless when alone. If we study these, we can provide much new insight in many different fields of science!"
"Yes, and the Elements of Harmony are what we use to 'convert' the creeper emitters, and what we discovered that if each unleashes it's power at different, but extremely precise times, it can convert evil to good instead of just destroying or banishing it." Princess Celestia told him," would you like to see them in action?"
"Sure!" the Admiral replied. The Alicorn told the mane six to go convert the nearest emitter, the cannons (which were more like 'blasters') the earth ponies had pulled out earlier had destroyed enough creeper for the six ponies to get within range of the emitter. As they started chanting, the Elements started to glow and soon they each blasted a distinct frequency of visible light and other electromagnetic frequencies that were detected by the Admiral's pocket scanner, and all the colors blended together to form a rather "odd" rainbow with the order of the colors being much different than of a normal rainbow, The band of colors quickly engulfed the emitter, soon, the emitter was "converted", instead producing Creeper, it produced a white goo, which Admiral Abraxis soon realized was "Anti-Creeper".
The white Alicorn soon explained the two men how the emitter emits a white goo instead of the "evil" Creeper, which doesn't harm anything except "evil" creeper. She also explained that the ponies could "control" the emitter, telling it when to start or stop producing the white goo. Astonished at what just happened, Abraxis suggested that they should set up a command tent and discuss how they would defend this land from the creeper. Platius, Admiral Abraxis and Princess Celestia soon had a tent set up and inside, began to discuss defensive tactics to use in order to protect Equestria.
End of Part One
Authors note: Sorry this took so long, been really preoccupied at school, getting accustomed to the regular routine of things.
Part Two
Abraxis and Celestia were deep in discussion on how the creeper behaves in this universe, and what to use against it.
"We should have some of your pegasi.." Abraxis began, but was stopped short by a small explosion rocking the command tent. Looking out, he saw multiple blue, triangular pyramid shaped objects slowly floating towards them, and that's when he noticed the creeper slowly approaching the tent, but soon receded, having nearly missed their mark. "Blast those annoying spores (the blue triangular objects that release creeper upon impact)!" he spat as Celestia and Platius emerged from the tent to see what the commotion was about. Being informed about the threat at hand, their attention was soon taken to the air, as The Wonderbolts shot across sky, performing corkscrews and other stunts to disrupt the spore's trajectory. They were soon over taken by Rainbow Dash, who, still wearing her element, performed a Triple Corkscrew Sonic Rainboom. The Rainboom released so much energy in fact, it caused all creeper spores within proximity to implode. Rainbow Dash looked back, happy at her work, and landed close to the group of three, stunned in amazement. Rainbow peaked her head forward with beaming eyes and a smile on her face asked,
"How'd you like that?!"
Platius was the first to respond, and muttered,
"That... that was PURE AWESOMENESS!!" Abraxis looked at him blankly, blinking his eyes, he finally said.
"I never heard you talk like that Platius, and the Rainboom was beyond awesome."
"Ah, Young One, for there is much you do, and don't know about me." Platius replied.
"Are you two done socializing?" Princess Celestia asked with her soft and calming voice. "We have more urgent matters to attend to, don't we?"
"Well, uh..." Abraxis soon trailed off, still stunned in amazement of the Rainboom. He shook his head and followed to white Alicorn.
The group was standing on a hill, assessing the damage any spores may have done, they had already explained the tactics they had discussed to many of the earth ponies that were attempting to mount an assault.
“Seems like you ponies seem to have a good defense set up. However, we need to mount an offense soon as the creeper will continue to get stronger, and even with your magic, it will become extremely difficult to hold it off.” Abraxis said, breaking the silence.
“Well then, do you have any ideas on how we can eradicate the posing threat on Earth?” Celestia asked.
“Well, in my universe when we did a planetary sweep, we had systematic tactics of clearing away the creeper, we could use those tactics with the limited resources we have and see how far we get.” Abraxis replied
“Or the power of friendship” the mane six, that had suddenly appeared in front of the group, added.
“I think we would get killed before we could share the magic of friendship to the creeper” Abraxis retorted. “We should probably just go with normal planetary sweep tactics as there is nothing else we can do.”
The group agreed, normal planetary sweep tactics was the only option they had, friendship and conventional pony magic could not be used against such a menace. Abraxis explained what they had to do in order to remove the threat on the planet. However, the continuous process of Pegasus bomb, advance, and convert, soon became extremely boring and tired out every pony mounting an assault, at least now they knew how discord felt being encased in his stone prison. Mid way through, Twilight’s slave---er pet dragon, Spike, discovered that the creeper withdraws in reaction to his breath (Eeyup, repulsors), however this only proved useful in the situation he was in, as he couldn’t maintain his breath for long.
The process continued on for days, the Earth in this universe was quite large, and contained many creeper emitters. The group’s assault on the last emitter on the planet however proved peculiar.
“Ah, what in the hay is wit this goo?” Applejack yelled as another group of pegasi began their dive bombing runs, “we ain’t able to gain any ground from it!” The creeper here was exceptionally strong, Abraxis and Celestia were scrambling to decide on what to do, Pegasus bombing proved near futile and they didn’t have enough blasters to advance.
“Muffins!!!!!” Ditzy Doo yelled, chucking muffins at the creeper. Many ponies couldn’t help but giggle at her derp. As she finished her dive bombing run, she landing by Celestia and whispered something in her ear. She ushered the mane six ponies to join then as her horn began to glow. Soon an image of a blue, eight point star was projected in front of the mane six, Celestia, Abraxis, and Platius.
“ I HAVE LANDED ON YOUR PATHETIC PLANET AND THE PURITY OF NOTHINGNESS SHALL BE AMONG YOU!!!!” The image suddenly screamed, Abraxis and Platius immediately thought “The Creeper Nexus (leader of the creeper)”.
“Celestia, do you have any means of communicating with what is projected in front of us?” Abraxis asked.
“Well yes, what do you want me to tell it?” Celestia replied
“Tell him the magic of friendship will end all he has accomplished and let everything live in peace in harmony.” Abraxis declared.
“Sending now” Celestia said as she closed her eyes and her horn began to glow an ever brighter glow.
“NO, THERE IS NOTHING THAT WILL STOP US, WE WILL DESTROY EVERYTHING YOU HAVE ACCOMPLISHED AND THIS WORLD WILL BE COMPLETELY COVERED IN CREEPER!!!!!!!”
"Tell him, you have underestimated the power of friendship, and you lack of it shall lead to your downfall!" Abraxis yelled.
"Alright." Celestia mused, her horn glowing brighter again
"FRIENDSHIP IS NOTHING AND WILL ACCOMPLISH NOTHING!!! WE SHALL OVERPOWER YOU AND UNDO EVERYTHING YOU 'FRIENDHSIP' HAS DONE, THIS IS YOUR DEMISE!!!!!!!!!!"
"This big eight point star thing really bugs me." Pinkie muttered under her breath to Rainbow Dash as her and the other mane six's elements began to glow. Suddenly, The Elements began to emit their own specific frequency of visible light. All the beams of light soon bonded together to form a rather large white beam of light that shot forward in front of the group, completely converting all creeper that was in front of the group into "Anti-Creeper (already explained in Part One)". The beam pierced completely through the creeper and blasted the Nexus in the distance, and during all this, Celestia was still maintaining the image in front of her.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO........" The image screamed as the blue, eight pointed star in the image turned white.
"I'm.....I'm sorry....." The white star began to say, "I don't what got into me, I peered into another reality, a dark one, full of nothing, just darkness.... and when I looked away, something in me compelled me to go around the universe and undo all intelligent life has accomplished." There was a long and stunned silence among everypony within ear shot.
"Well, now you know the power of friendship, and its magic." Twilight said after the near minute of silence.
"Yes, friendship is very powerful, and underestimating it had very dire consequences for the other side of me." The Nexus replied, "I want this evil that corrupted me destroyed, and you just proved to me that you can do that. I don't want any other race to fall victim to its darkness, even in only this rather small multiverse of only three universes."
"Tell it, that we'll eradicate this evil in the dark and alternate reality that originally corrupted the creeper." Abraxis declared.
"Sure, I'll clear things up with the, umm, what was it again?" Celestia asked
"The Creeper Nexus" Platius answered, cutting Abraxis off short.
"Alright, have yourself and the Elements bearers prepare for our journey to this dark and alternate reality." Celestia replied.
"Did someone say darkness?" Luna questioned, suddenly appearing from the trees.
