Starlight joins the legion

Four months later..........

Starlight was wearing a dark cloak, roaming the streets of ponyville. She made her way to a market around the corner, and threw some bits on the table.

"Hmm, I'm afraid that this mango costs thirty bits for purchase." The shopkeeper stated.

"What?! But that's all I have! Please, you have to lower the price!" Starlight begged the keeper to let her have the mango.

"I'm sorry ma'am, but rules are rules." The keeper simply stated, much to Starlight's chagrin.

Starlight looked at her stomach, which was growling. She wasn't going to survive much longer in the past if she had kept picking off the little bits off the ground. She contemplated what to do next, until suddenly she is taken by a dark swirl of magic. Leaving the shopkeeper shocked, but only until he takes the bits Starlight gave to him anyway.

Starlight found herself in a dark cave, surrounded by figures she recognized based off stories she heard in her youth.

"Lo-lord Tirek?! Queen Chrysalis?!" Starlight announced in shock at the presence of two infamous conquerors.

"Does nopony care about Cozy Glow?!" Cozy asked, disappointed Starlight didn't recognize her but the other two.

"Why did you summon us here?! What do you want?!" Chrysalis demanded Starlight for answers.

"But I didn't bring you here! I was brought here from many years ago from the past! Am I back in the present?......" Starlight beamed hopefully of the possibility of being back in her timeline.

"Time travel?! Whoever pulled you from THERE must have been somepony very powerful indeed." Chrysalis merely stated, before they all heard an evil laugh coming from the top of a rock, they looked up and saw the form of king Sombra, who looked down on them with a prideful grin.

"King Sombra! You have returned? Why did you bring us here?!" Chrysalis barked, as she and the others prepared for battle.

"He didn't." A voice stated from behind, they looked and saw an old ram who made his way to the table in the center, causing Sombra to disappear into black smoke as the ram placed his hoofs on the table.

"It was I. You may call me, GROGAR." The one who presented himself as such stated, earning several gasps from all the villains.

"THE Grogar?!" Chrysalis gasped in amazement.

"I thought you were a legend!" Tirek stated.

"Oh my...... You're-........ You're real......." Starlight couldn't believe her eyes, as she had only heard tales of Grogar and his villainy, but never thought she would see him in person. Causing her to be extremely terrified.

"I've heard of you!" Sombra out of nowhere said.

"Who?...." Cozy wondered, as she was just a child and never heard of Grogar before.

"I assure you, I am very real. And you have all been bought here as part of my plan to rid Equestria of Twilight Sparkle and her friends! Once and for all." "Grogar" stated, as he let out a menacing laugh that could make any creature quiver in fear.

"I am so sorry, but the name Grofar? That just doesn't ring any bells." Cozy said, unaware of who she was talking to.

"GROGAR!" The ancient ram of legend corrected, causing Cozy to fall back.

"I have been away far too long if my name no longer strikes fear in the heart of one so tiny!" "Grogar" spat, insulted that his name didn't mean anything to the little filly.

"Perhaps a demonstration of power is in order?" He said, as he took a ball of yellow energy from his collar and blew it at Tirek who devoured it, causing him to gain more power and grow a couple inches. He looked at his new biceps, and kissed one of them.

"Grogar is ancient and extremely powerful, the land that would become Equestria, was merely a collection of farms and pastures until he declared himself emperor of all he saw. I remember hearing tales of his tyranny when I was young." Tirek stated to the other villains in the room.

"I have also heard of the first emperor of Equestria. The 'father of monsters.'" Sombra added.

"I know of this rams evil, the monsters he created. The creatures who would take whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted. A dystopian fear soaked epoch of darkness in Equestria, it was madness." Starlight monologed in a hypnotic trance as if she were in some sort of bad dream.

"HAH! Until Gusty the great rose up and banished him." Chrysalis snickered to Starlight trying to lighten her up.

"That fool believed taking my bell would defeat me! But she only weakened me temporarily." "Grogar" stated.

"Um, Tirek is really old. No offense, you look great. But if he knew about you when he was young, we have super different ideas about what 'temporarily' means." Cozy added.

"SILENCE!" "Grogar" commanded, causing Cozy to fly into Tirek's beard.

"I've spent millennia gathering power, biding my time, waiting for the perfect opportunity to seize control of Equestria! And watching all of you. I've seen each of your humiliating defeats, at the hoofs of six puny ponies. And do you know why they've always bested you?" "Grogar" asked.

Sombra was about to speak, until he was interrupted. "Because they cheat!" Chrysalis accused.

"because they are annoyingly lucky." Tirek pouted.

"because they just don't know when to quit!" Starlight stated.

"I'm just a kid, so......" Cozy said.

"It is because they work together. Where one is weak, another is strong, and thus unified, they are a formidable force! But we shall use their own strategy to defeat them." "Grogar" stated, while giving a confident smirk.

"What are you suggesting?" Chrysalis said while pointing her hoof at him.

"I suggest nothing..... I DEMAND that you join me, and together, Equestria will be ours!" "Grogar" announced.

Starlight thought about this, she did want revenge on Twilight and her friends. But was it really worth it working with these egotistical power hungry lunatics? She just wanted everypony to be equal, she didn't want to rule Equestria.

"I don't do 'ours', I only do MINE!" Sombra roared at "Grogar", before teleporting to the table.

"I shall take back the crystal empire on my own! And I shall destroy anypony who gets in MY way!" Sombra announced while giving the most confident grin he can manage.

"Such confidence." "Grogar" amused.

"Go, TRY to take back your kingdom, I shall even send you there myself. If you prevail, you may keep it. However when you fail, you will submit to ME." "Grogar" declared to the prideful and arrogant king of crystals.

"And if I refuse this, DEAL?" Sombra challenged the father of monsters.

"Then I shall return you to the darkness from where you were summoned." "Grogar" threatened.

"Fine. But this is a waste of time, as I will crush those who defy me! I will defeat all who get in my way! I-" Sombra rambled on until he was whisked away by "Grogar's" magic.

Starlight thought about Sombra's demand to reclaim his empire on his own, then proceeded to jump at "Grogar" with her own demand.

"I want to go to! I don't want to work with creatures who want power for themselves! I have a vision of equality to maintain! Take me back to my village, and I will make sure Twilight and her stooges don't take it away from me this time!" Starlight growled at the one who presented himself as "Grogar".

"NO!" "Grogar" refused Starlight's demand.

"Why not?!" Starlight was baffled how "Grogar" would let Sombra leave, but not her.

"Because we need your power Starlight! Your magic is greater then any unicorn in Equestria, and we'll need it if we have any chance of defeating Twilight and her friends! Sombra can keep his kingdom of crystals for all I care, but I need your magic! IS, THAT, CLEAR?" "Grogar" growled at the stubborn unicorn, before motioning her to sit with the others.

Starlight, though reluctantly, ultimately did, but not before spitting at him in defiance. "Grogar", un phased, simply proceeded to leave the cave.

"I advise you all to learn to work together!" He said before walking away.

"Gee..... Working together sounds an awful lot like making friends, so........ You three are in luck because I know all about that!" Cozy stated as she sat on Tirek's shoulder, before he proceeded to flick her away.

"Heh, as if anypony knows more about making friends then I do." Starlight stated.

"What are you talking about?" Tirek questioned the cutie mark hating mare, as Cozy flew back to them annoyed at being tossed across the room.

"The key to friendship is equality, being equal among your peers eliminates any differences between you and them. Without differences, you and your friends will agree with everything. There will be no arguing, no fighting, no decisions that could lead to heartbreak. It's the true way to friendship." Starlight declared proudly, before Chrysalis laughed in her face.

"Please! True equality is unattainable! You may not have any special talents, but unicorns still have horns, pegasi still have wings, and earth ponies have none of those! The only way to truly be equal would be to remove all those extra limbs!" Chrysalis declared to the delusional unicorn.

"You know nothing about equality! What I in vision is fair and just! And you can't tell me otherwise!" Starlight snapped at the former queen of the changelings.

"Are you sure? Come on! You don't need to be equal to be friends, a little disagreement is what makes a friendship interesting! If you always agreed on everything, it would get pretty boring." Cozy said to Starlight.

"Ugh, you sound like Twilight." Starlight simply stated to the evil filly.

"I do not!" Cozy snapped at Starlight.

"Regardless, I'm not planning on working with any of you! I know what you all tried to do in the past, and I don't want any part of it! I don't want to rule Equestria like the rest of you, I just want everypony to be equal!" Starlight told the rest of the villains.

"If you remember correctly Grogar wants all of us to work together, and he isn't taking no for an answer. You don't have a choice in the matter, for you wouldn't want to face the wrath of the father of monsters would you?" Cozy stated, while giving Starlight intentionally adorable eye blinks.

Starlight could only groan in frustration with the other two.

"Believe me! I can get all four of us to be working together in no time! All we have to do is-" Cozy began to chit chat with her comrades.

three hours later.........

"Now me and Starlight will say something nice about Centaurs. Tirek, you say something nice about changelings. And Chrysalis, you say something nice about ponies!" Cozy told the other villains while holding hoofs and hands with them.

"NEVER!" Chrysalis snapped.

"Why you...." Starlight was ready to pick a fight with the ex changeling queen, until..........

"Let us hope the four of you will be enough for my plans." "Grogar" stated, causing the four of them to stop holding hoofs and hands.

"And what of King Sombra?" Chrysalis asked.

"Did he succeed?" Tirek added. To which "Grogar" gave a simple laugh, as he showed through his magic orb that Sombra was obliterated by the elements.

"I'd say he gambled, and lost! But at least he can serve as a warning to those who doubt continuing with my plans. Unless any of you have doubts." "Grogar" asked the four villains.

"Uh, not I." Tirek conformed.

"Nope!" Chrysalis followed.

"Who, me?" Starlight added, as she too was willing to stick around as long as she didn't have to face "Grogar's" wrath.

"I'm good!" Cozy finished.

"Then we shall join forces and work together to bring Equestria to its knees!" "Grogar" stated, as he began to laugh evily.

The others were reluctant, but they laughed a little bit with him to appease him.

Starlight laughed too, as in her mind she knew she couldn't stick with the ancient ram of legend. However, she had an idea. She knew she couldn't get to "Grogar", but maybe she could get her "partners" to see things her way. And with their help, spread her message to the rest of Equestria.

She knew she could get through to them, it was only a matter of time............