"They Can Take Your World, They Can Take Your Heart, Cut You Loose From All You Know. But If It's Your Fate, Then Every Step Forward Will Always Be A Step Closer To Home"

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It showed the vast star systems and what looked like a ship traveling amongst them.

As it moved on, it approached a world, and a dark presence was sensed.

But after traveling through a keygate, the ship was ready to dock, hopefully, they'll make it in time…

The CMC galloped through town where several ponies were setting up to witness the show that was coming up.

“Apple Bloom! Wait up!” Sweetie called as she galloped after AB and Scootaloo and they went out of town to a designated spot.

“I think we’re almost there!” Scootaloo said.

“Ah hope we make it!” AB said as she and the other two made it to the top of a hill.

As they paused they were glad to see that the shooting star shower had just started.

“Whoo hoo! Look at 'em go!” AB said.

“So pretty!” Sweetie said.

“Wow!” Scootaloo said.

“It’s moments like this that are worth remembering right?” Sweetie chuckled.

“Yep!” Her friends agreed.

As the three continued to watch from the hilltop Scootaloo noticed one star moving weirdly…

It seemed to be weaving around in the sky a little.

“Uh, guys?” Scootaloo asked.

“Yeah?” AB asked.

“Is it normal for shooting stars to do that?” Scootaloo pointed at the star weaving around… and then it got bigger.

“Guys… somethin' isn’t right,” AB said squinting at it… then they realized.

“I think it’s headed right this way!” Sweetie exclaimed and she galloped off.

“Wait for us!” Scootaloo cried as they ran off away from the blast zone and then the star hit the ground with an explosion.

“AAAH!” The three were flung and they tumbled, when they popped their heads out of the bush they all landed in they looked to see the crater.

“Whoa… this was a surreal way to start,” Scoots said.

“What in the tarnation?” AB said as she got ready to get closer.

“Waitwaitwaitwait!” Scoots pulled her back into the bush “Are you loco? It’s always a bad idea to approach the smoldering crater! There could be an alien in there waiting to lay eggs in you or something!” Scootaloo said.

“You’ve been reading too many comics,” AB said.

“It literally just happened!” Scootaloo said.

“Guys!” Sweetie finally got their attention and they turned to see what she was pointing at.

The giant rock had broken open… and to their horror small black creatures began exiting.

“Told you so!” Scootaloo said fearfully.

“Sorry….” AB said wondering if they should be here.

Suddenly a portal opened and the small black creatures turned to it… and out came-

That morning

“A WITCH! An some big fat dog thing!” AB recanted to her sister.

“....Did ya eat poison joke again? Cause that sounds ridiculous,” AJ said with a deadpan.

“Ah ain’t lyin!” AB said looking panicked.

“We saw the whole thing!” Sweetie said.

“It was scary!” Scootaloo said before glancing around and coughing into her hoof “For these two, but I was brave,” Scoots said.

“Is that why you were cryin when we got home?” AB said teasingly.

“Shuddup!” Scoots snapped.

“Girls!” AJ said getting their attention “Ah can understand it was nighttime, maybe ya’ll were seein things?” AJ said.

“We’re not kidding sis!” AB said.

“Sorry, but till ah see it, Ah’m not sure ah can believe that ya saw a bunch of shadow creatures, a dog and a witch,” AJ said.

“But-” AB said before AJ walked past her.

“Now come on, we’ve got chores t’day, we’ll chat with Twilight if anything weird has been happenin as of late afterwards,” AJ said.

“Ok…” AB said dissapointedly.

Spike made his way through town carrying a few books Twilight sent him to collect.

“It’s times like these that I wish I had a wheelbarrow,” Spike said as he made his way over to Twilight’s castle.

“Hey! Twilight!” Spike called as he entered and he went over to the study and saw Twilight working on several tomes.

“Thanks, Spike, please put them with the others,” Twilight said as she busily worked on several piles of paperwork.

“Ok,” Spike said as he set them down and sighed “Whew,” Spike wiped his brow.

“Alright, I need you to find from the second library area a book on Starswirls theory, we need to crack this code,” Twilight said.

“Can I ask what we’re doing again?” Spike asked.

“Sure, The cutie map is going haywire and we need to find out why,” Twilight said as she went over to the Cutie Map and saw it was flickering when she tried to turn it on “I need to find out if there’s some kind of mass magical shortage, we need to cover all bases,” Twilight said.

“Gotcha,” Spike said as he ran off to find that book.

As he ran out into the hallway and made his way upstairs he saw something moving… out of the corner of his eye.

He turned and looked but he saw nothing.

“Hmph,” Spike walked on and entered the library and grabbed the book.

Not noticing several shadows entering the room as well.

Spike turned and ran out of the room and the shadows suddenly emerged from the floor as small black creatures with yellow eyes and they immediately began searching for something.

One pulled a book on summoning rituals and the shadows made their way out of the room…

Fluttershy was feeding her animals and she trotted around spreading feed.

“Come and get it darlings,” Fluttershy said to her animals as they gathered around and began picking up the feed.

“Alright, that’s the chickens and quails fed, now to move onto the hedgehogs,” Fluttershy said as she made her way to the hedgehog area and she began spreading the hedgehog-safe feed.

“Come here,” Fluttershy said and the hedgehogs made their way over to her and began eating.

“Next up is the porcupines,” Fluttershy grabbed a few carrots and made her way over to them.

It was at this moment she heard the noise of panicked clucking and caws.

“Oh dear! A predator?” Fluttershy went to go diffuse things but froze when she got there as she saw something scary.

“AAAAHH!” Fluttershy cried as several strange creatures were attacking her pets.

“Shoo! Shoo! Please stop!” Fluttershy cried as she tried to chase off the strange creatures but they quickly turned their attention to her.

“N-nice… whatever you are’s,” Fluttershy said as she was backed up by the small floating knight-like imp creatures that approached her and one took a swing at her cutting her leg a little.

“Eeep!” Fluttershy backed up as the creatures closed in… before a bear roar could be heard and they turned to see Harry running to the rescue.

He immediately knocked down the knight creatures and roared at them.

They backed away and suddenly vanished as if they teleported.

After looking around Harry turned to Shy and licked her injury.

“I’m ok dear, thank you for coming to my rescue,” Fluttershy coo’d petting Harry “I have to go tell Twilight, I’ve never seen animals like them, Harry, can you guard the house for me?” Fluttershy asked.

Harry nodded and Fluttershy took off into the air.

Pinkie Pie pronked past plenty ponies perusing plentiful pastries.

“Good one!” Pinkie congratulated the author as she delivered food to ponies around the restaurant.

“Pinkie dear!” Rarity called as she and Rainbow Dash came in.

“Hey guys!” Pinkie cheered.

“We were on our way to invite you to a big shopping adventure,” Rarity said.

Pinkie drew a prolonged gasp.

“Shopping! I love love love shopping! I didn’t know Dashie liked it too,” Pinkie cheered.

“Eh, I mostly came because she offered to buy lunch and i’m a little hungry, speaking of, could we order something?” RD asked.

“Sure thing! What’ll ya have?” Pinkie said pulling a paper and pencil out of nowhere.

“Cinnamon roll,” RD said not noticing the door opening and closing behind her.

“I would not mind a cupcake today, just one though, I am trying to watch my figure,” Rarity said.

“Alright, and what about your big friend who totally wasn’t there a second ago?” Pinkie asked.

“Big friend?... It’s just us,” Rainbow said.

“Then whose that?” Pinkie gestured behind them.

“Huh?...” They both turned to see a hug fat creature staring down at them.

“......Huh…” Rainbow said rooted the spot, Rarity took several steps back.

“Hi big fella!” Pinkie approached and it looked at her.

“What’ll you ha-” It smashed it’s fist down where she was standing.

“Pinkie!” Rainbow cried.

“Soooo, one pound cake?” Pinkie was standing to its left and it looked at her with an admittedly surprised look before it smashed at her again and suddenly she was to its right.

“Two?” Pinkie guessed.

It got angry and smashed both its fists down at her but suddenly she popped up behind the counter.

“If that’s sign language for three I am afraid there will be a wait,” Pinkie said obliviously.

“Pinkie! I think this thing means you harm!” Rarity said a mix of exasperation and fear.

“Nah, he’s looks-” Pinkie ducked a swing from it “-Harmless,” Pinkie said.

“Hey! Leave my friend alone you… whatever you are!” Rainbow said getting into a defensive position as the other ponies in the establishment began to flee, sensing a fight brewing.

It turned and tried to hit her but Rainbow dodged back and flew forward bucking it right in the belly, only to bounce off.

“Whoa!” Rainbow exclaimed as she flew into a wall “Talk about having guts,” Rainbow said.

It approached her to smash her before a magic blast struck it in the back and it turned.

“That is enough you ruffian! We can talk like civilized beings instead of- eeep!” Rarity was scooped off the ground by it and thrown across the room.

“Rares!” Rainbow flew across the room and caught her.

“Thanks dear!” Rarity said.

“Hey! I don’t appreciate you hurting my friends, I’ll have to ask you to leave!” Pinkie said.

It turned to her and grabbed at her and she ducked its grab and came back up with her party cannon and blasted it in the face sending it onto the ground and it vanished.

“Huh? Where did it go?” Rainbow asked.

“What matters is that it’s gone,” Rarity said and they gathered up.

“What the hay was that thing?” Rainbow asked.

“I don’t know but I feel we should put the shopping trip on hold and approach Twilight on this,” Rarity said.

“Ok,” Pinkie said.

“Let’s move,” Rainbow said and they ran off.

Twilight was trying to figure out the Cutie Maps problems when Spike came back.

“Hey Twilight, I’m back!” Spike called and he approached.

“Thanks again Spike, we’ll find this out,” Twilight said as he brought the book to her and she looked it over.

“Ok, I will try this,” Twilight said as she used her magic on the map and it stopped flickering.

And the weirdest thing seemed to be happening…

There were warning signs all over the map, warning of strange activity.

“What?” Twilight stepped back a little.

Then suddenly she saw something else, three cutie marks in a distant field, they were of a wand, a crown and a shield… odd…

Suddenly the map started distorting again and resumed flickering.

“Twilight… what does this mean?” Spike asked.

“It means that something is terribly wrong…” Twilight said grimly… before the door was busted open and she spun to see… her friends.

“Twilight!” Her friends cried.

“And I think the problems are starting to hit close to home….” Twilight said.

In a distant cave an inscription was drawn on the ground and a figure reached forward and flickered magic onto it, causing smoke to emerge from the circle and it formed into a pony shape, this pony shape fell to his knees and shook his head a little before looking around.

“Wha…what happened?... Where am I?” The pony asked.

“In service of me, for now,” a female voice said.

“Who are you to order me?” The pony revealed to be Sombra stood up glaring.

“Someone who can send you back to the depths easily, but you may call me… Maleficent,” The woman stepped forward revealing herself as Maleficent said.

“Yeah, and I’m Pete! Remember the name,” Pete walked forward.

“...What are you?...” Sombra demanded.

“There will be time for that later, come, we have work to do,” Maleficent said as she left.

“Hnngh…” Sombra growled but followed as if just to get out of there.

In the far distance was Ponyville and three figures stood there, still getting used to their new… accommodations…

“Gwarsh, this is new,” a silly-sounding voice said.

“Ah forget it, we’ll figure it out, we always do,” A second slightly harder-to-understand voice said.

“Well, new form or not the wings are cool, can’t wait to use them,” A third tween voice said.

“Welp, let’s move, Heartless concentration is lookin really bad here,” An earth pony with a shield said.

“We can handle it,” a unicorn said.

“Let’s go then!” A pegasus cheered and they ran off towards Ponyville.

To adventure!

Author's Note

Kingdom Hearts ahoy!

I had a bit of a shaky time with this chapter, beginnings are always tough.

But I managed, hope you all will enjoy it!