Starlight joins the legion

Starlight woke up to the feeling of someone tapping her shoulder, she opened her eyes and saw the image of a green unicorn mare starring at her.

"Hmm? Oh, Chrysalis. You did your part riling the unicorns?" Starlight asked the changeling former queen.

"Indeed, and Cozy did her part freaking out the pegasi. Have you found the bell yet?!" Chrysalis interrogated Starlight as she changed back to her default form.

"I did! And I'm going to bring it to you all to activate before Grogar returns! I think I know how to get it to work...." Starlight stated.

"Really?" Chrysalis asked.

"Yes! But you need to wait with the others while I set it up. Trust me, very soon, Equestria will be ours......." Starlight "assured" Chrysalis, as she went back to join the others in waiting for the bell.

"Yes......... Our Utopia. You forget Chryssie, I don't want Equestria, I want equality! And I'm going to get it one way, OR ANOTHER." Starlight sweared, as she placed the bell on the table and read the pages from the book.

"Let's see....... Apparently, 'this artifact can steal any creatures magic. It holds that magic, until it is released by this spell.' Interesting.......... But of course, I'm going to hold the magic only temporarily. Once I defeat all the un-equals of Equestria, and it is in it's natural equal state, I will join them in equality by giving up my own cutie mark, something I should have done a long time ago........" Starlight gave off exposition to herself, as she blasted the bell with the spell.

The bell floated in the air, and with a ding ding ding, the magic was released from it's prison.

Starlight looked on as the bell emitted it's aura. And with a flash, it zapped Starlight, causing her to lose her vision momentarily.

When Starlight opened her eyes, she gazed at her shadow, and two wings emerged.

All Starlight could do was laugh maniacally, as she knew it was only a matter of time until cutie marks were no more........

"What is taking her so long?!" Cozy whined and complained to her two partners.

"Starlight said that she figured out how to get the bell working, and she will demonstrate it to us before Grogar returns." Chrysalis stated to the impatient bratty filly.

"Personally, I suggest we go find the bell ourselves! In case Starlight turns out to be more forgetful then we thought." Tirek suggested.

"And turn our back on one of our BFF's? Not even I'm that heartless!" Cozy lied through her teeth.

"Regardless, we're running out of time! Starlight better return with the bell soon, or we're going to have to take it from her, BY FORCE." Chrysalis stated.

"Oh, that won't be necessary, your majesty." Starlight said out of nowhere, from within the shadows. Until suddenly, she blasts the mean three with a shield spell, blocking any kind of magic they could use against it.

Then she flew up and revealed her new form, a more taller pony with a larger horn and wings. She then pulled out the bell with her magic.

"What the-?! Betrayal?! You said Equestria will be ours! How could you lie to us?!" Chrysalis was shocked and upset how Starlight could betray them so suddenly, especially when she thought they all agreed on the same goal.

"Yes well, villains do that once and a while. Hmm?" Starlight merely stated, before she activated the bell and drained the three of their magic.

She de-activated her shield, and Cozy dropped to the floor, Chrysalis fell on the ground, and Tirek shrunk back to his more elderly body.

"Oooh, what am I going to do with you three? Hmm......" Starlight pondered, as she walked across the room with the bell using her magic.

"Only Cozy has a cutie mark to give up, while Chrysalis and Tirek don't...... No matter, mark or no mark. You will learn the ways of being truly equal, when I take you to your reformation shack." Starlight stated.

"Re-reformation shack?......" Cozy asked, before Starlight gave her an evil smirk. Before proceeding to simply remove Cozy's cutie mark and replace it with an equal sign, no longer needing to remove the mark from their bodies outright.

Cozy just simply shrieked in response, before Starlight lifted the three villains with her magic and flew outside to her "Reformation shack."

"No! Not the reformation shack! I'll do anything! Please!" Cozy gave heartfelt pleas as Starlight tossed the pony, changeling and centaur into the shack and locked it.

"Oh no! There's no food or water here! We'll perish!" Chrysalis exclaimed dramatically, hoping Starlight would let them out.

"No you won't! There's a functioning sink and plenty of fruit for you to digest!" Starlight assured them, as the three troublemakers saw that indeed there was something for them to swallow, Cozy simply gave a bite to a banana.

"Well, even without my mark I can tell this tastes delicious!" Cozy simply exclaimed, as the other two groaned in frustration over this sudden betrayal.

"Choose Equality as your special talent." A voice on a speaker came up.

"Oh no." Chrysalis merely stated, as she knew that all three of them were in trouble.

Meanwhile, "Grogar" returned from his trip, and saw the shack outside his lair. He approached it, and overheard the speaker.

"Be your best, by never being your best." He overheard the speaker say.

"What the-?!" Is all "Grogar" had time to say, before he felt his magic being pulled away from him.

Starlight simply smiled sadistically, but her smile slowly faded when she saw "Grogar" take on a familiar shape, as he screamed and squirmed, he eventually fell to the ground.

When he opened his eyes, Discord looked up and saw Starlight's new body. And was shocked at this turn of events.

"What in Tartarus?......" Is all Starlight could say, as she soon realized what was really going on here.

Discord wasn't really thinking when he chose his next words.

"What are you staring- nope, never mind not going with that." Only for him to change his mind and instead run off to warn Twilight and the others, not willing to double down and insist he IS Grogar still after being betrayed.

"Discord was Grogar all this time?! Hmm..... Regardless, it's time to prepare Equestria's age of equality." Starlight stated, as she went back inside the lair to plan her next move.........

"Oh... This is not good... Not good at all..." Discord mumbled to himself, as he made his way to Canterlot, eager to tell twilight the bad news.

Twilight, however, was dealing with "pre-coronation nerves" as all the ponies in Canterlot keep giving her and her friends stink eyes and weird looks.

"Ow! My aching metatarsals! You know you forget how convenient snap travel is....." Discord muttered as he arrived to Canterlot.

"Did you just walk here? ON FOOT?" Spike was shocked and surprised to see Discord not use his magic for once.

"Yes, and I have a confession to make. You see, I might have made a tiny, little, small, insignificant mistake....... Something that might result in the end of individuality as we know it but a small mistake compared to-" Discord was about to continue until he was interrupted.

"WHAT?!" All si- I mean seven of the mane seven shouted upon hearing what Discord said.

"Well....... You remember that whole thing with king Sombra? That was because I kind of, sorta....... Accidentally........ Intentionally......... Brought him back?........" Discord revealed.

"But why?!" Twilight asked the lord of chaos.

"Well it seemed like a good idea at the time! Which is why I also bought back four other villains, but one of them managed to double cross the others and is now on the loose and is......... really upset at you for taking away her village so............... My bad." Discord sheepishly admitted.

"STARLIGHT GLIMMER IS BACK?!" Twilight gasped in shock of this horrifying news.

"Yeah........ Not my smartest move.........." Discord admitted.

"NO KIDDING!" Rainbow Dash told him straight.

meanwhile........

Chrysalis was trying to break down the door, but it was no use. She had no magic, and therefore couldn't change into a larger creature to bust it down, all the while the speaker continued to play messages of accepting the ways of equality.

"Oh, give it a rest will you? You've been at that for half an hour! You're not going to get it open." Tirek stated, while laying down on the floor. Meanwhile, Cozy Glow was simply eating some mango she picked off the table.

"Well we can't just sit here and do nothing! That scowl of a grub Starlight Glimmer betrayed us! And is now doing who knows what with that bell!" Chrysalis exclaimed.

"She's probably going to convince the ponies to accept equality to banish the wendigos." Cozy wildly guessed.

"What makes you think that?" Tirek asked the surprisingly intelligent filly.

"Since we spread distrust and hatred among the earth ponies, unicorn, and pegasi, it's only a matter of time before the wendigos return and try to move Equestria into a new ice age. I've learned about them in school, they come when ponies start to argue and cause disharmony between each other. Starlight will no doubt use this to her advantage to try and convince the ponies to embrace equality, as that will no doubt bring them "closer", and able to banish the wendigos. After that, she's practically won......" Cozy was able to guess exactly what Starlight's plan was, leaving the changeling and centaur to think about what they should do......

"We could try and convince Starlight that we 'conformed' to her ways of equality...." Tirek suggested.

"It will never work! She's too smart for that kind of trick........" Chrysalis admitted.

"I could try and convince her that I 'conformed'." Cozy suggested.

"What makes you think you can do it?" Chrysalis asked.

"You didn't get zapped with a spell that made you 'equal', I did. If I can convince Starlight that the spell has completely affected me, I could be able to escape and find help!" Cozy suggested to the group.

"And who exactly is going to help US?!" Tirek reminded the pegasus that they are notorious villains.

"Look, we need to find somepony or we're doomed! And do you really want to take that bet?" Cozy asked the two, to which they both sighed in agreement that they do need help.

"Good, now we just need to wait for Starlight to return and see if one of us is ready to 'conform'." Cozy stated.

Meanwhile........

"So, all of Discord's chaos magic is inside this bell.......... " Starlight pondered what to do with the magic inside the bell now that Discord's magic was inside it.

"I can't absorb any magic from it now, if Discord's magic were to infect me I'd lose my mind! Hmm....... I know! After I planted the seeds of equality in the poor, senile ponies minds, I'll invade Canterlot and make Discord tell me how to control his magic by FORCE. Then, using it's power I will capture Twilight and her friends and send them to be equalized. It's the perfect plan!" Starlight settled with that plan, before leaving with the bell to engage her mission until......

"Starlight! I'm ready to conform!" Cozy yelled out loud through the door.

"Hmm?" Starlight flew over to the shack and gently unlocked the door.

"Oh, golly Starlight! You were right! Being equal is way better then being empress of friendship! I don't want anything to do with superiority ever again!" Cozy said while making a pouty face.

"How can I trust you?......" Starlight asked the notoriously dishonest filly.

"I can tell you for a fact that the others don't want to be equal! They would rather become the rulers of Equestria and have all the power for themselves! You can punish them however you like! I just want to live the rest of my days living amongst pony kind equally!" Cozy stated, while giving an adorable smile.

"Hmm....... Very well, you may proceed to leave. I will be leaving to do.......... Errands." Starlight stated, she didn't want to tell Cozy what she had planned, as she didn't trust her not to tell anypony what she was up to. But just to be generous, she let Cozy out as long as she was telling the truth.

"Why thank you Starlight! Thank you thank you thank you! You won't regret it!" Cozy told Starlight, as she flew off to find somepony that could help her defeat Starlight.

"Right........." Starlight doubted if that was a good idea, but assumed she wouldn't be able to stop her seeing as she had no magic and was on her own.

Never the less, she flew off and proceeded to head to ponyville to in act her plan.

At Canterlot.............

"Let me get this straight...... You wanted to boost Twilight's confidence, so you bought back Starlight Glimmer to attack her?!" Luna interrogated Discord.

"Don't forget Chrysalis, Tirek, Cozy and Sombra!" Discord mentioned the other four villains he bought back.

"And while you united these villains, YOU pretended to be Grogar?!" Celestia was baffled about how Discord could have done something so horrendous without thinking it through.

"Discord, how could you do this to us?!" Fluttershy was saddened to hear what Discord did.

"I intended to prepare Twilight for anything, by putting her through an elaborate training program of wits, if anything had gotten too serious I would have snapped my fingers and sent them back to Tartarus, but Starlight seems to have caught me off guard..." Discord stated, as he snapped his fingers, which caused nothing to happen as he looked down saddened.....

"Is there anything else you'd like to tell us?!" Celestia lashed out at Discord.

"Would you like the good news, or the bad news?" Discord asked.

"What's the bad news?!" Luna demanded.

"All my magic is trapped in Grogar's bell." Discord stated.

"So, what's the good news?" Spike asked.

"Starlight Glimmer now has all of the real Grogar's magic." Discord answered.

"IN WHAT WORLD IS THAT GOOD NEWS?!" Rainbow Dash yelled and questioned Discord.

"Compared to me losing my powers anything else IS good news!" Discord stated.

"Twilight, Luna, we need to make a plan. Maybe it's not too late to stop this...... DISASTER from happening!" Celestia exclaimed.

"I......... I need some time to think first." Twilight exclaimed, clearly dealing with the revelation that Discord set up her success against Sombra.

"Twilight........ It doesn't matter if Discord set up your success's or not, we believe in you. And always have." Celestia comforted Twilight.

"Lean on your strengths, to counter your weaknesses." Luna stated.

"My strengths?" Twilight replied, as she saw all her friends standing before her, which gave her an idea.

"Right, Spike! Send a letter to Starswirl! Tell him we need the pillars to guard the boarders of Canterlot. If Starlight is coming for a fight, we'll have one waiting for her! And warn Cadance and Shinning Armor, they're our final line of defense if we fail. The ultimate battle for the fate of Equestria, is coming!" Twilight announced, as she flew up in the air and prepared all her friends for battle.

Meanwhile..........

Cozy Glow made her way to the crystal empire, seeing as how it was likely one of the only places where it wasn't known that she drained all the magic.

"Excuse me, do you mind if you could help-" Cozy asked an earth pony, only for them to turn away from her. The paranoia must have reached the crystal empire.

"Hello! Do you think you could take some time to-" She asked a unicorn, only to get the same result.

Cozy growled in anger, regretting that they ever trusted that destiny defying unicorn, until she bumped into a stranger with a blue coat.

"Oh! I'm so sorry little filly, are you ok?" The orange unicorn stallion sheepishly apologized.

"Ugh, I'm fine. But listen, we need your help! A mad alicorn is on the loose and is trying to make everypony the same!" Cozy explained to the stranger.

"Oh my! That is bad! But, what do you want me to do?" The stallion asked.

"She locked my friends in a shack that can only be unlocked through magic! Since your a unicorn, I was hopping you could unlock it for me?......" Cozy asked the stallion.

"Hmm, a door that can only be unlocked through magic?..... Fascinating........ I knew of a unicorn who could perform all kinds of spells like that but.......... I moved away from her when I got enrolled into Celestia's school for gifted unicorns......." The stallion said, sadly looking at the ground.

"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that mister. I'm sure she does miss you a whole lot....... But, maybe once you save my friends we could get her to help us! She sounds very useful, do you know where she lives?" Cozy asked the stallion.

"The last place I saw her was in our home town, sire's hollow. But it's a long way from here...." The unicorn stallion stated.

"Oh..... Well we haven't any time to lose! My poor friends are probably suffering in their poor room as we speak!" Cozy exaggerated.

"You're right! Where are they?" The orange unicorn asked.

"Follow me!" Cozy commanded as she flew towards their destination while the stallion followed.

Meanwhile, at the reformation shack..........

Chrysalis and Tirek were playing a game of go fish.............

".............. Got any nines?....." Chrysalis asked Tirek.

"Go fish." Tirek replied.

"What?! No way! You're cheating!" Chrysalis accused.

"Am I though?" Tirek denied, as he held a card with two nines behind his back.

Meanwhile, in ponyville.......

"Where is our food?!" One earth pony mare shouted, as she couldn't find any food in her home.

"Those darn unicorns and Pegasi stole it! They don't want us to live healthily and live!" One earth stallion stated.

"What are we going to do?!" One earth filly asked worriedly.

However, before anypony could respond, They heard roaring and shrieking coming from the sky. When they looked up, they saw three horse like creatures in ghostly white swirling around the clouds.

"Oh no! The wendigos are back! What do we do now?!" One mare gasped in shock.

"Oh my! All this fighting, and hatred amongst pony kind must have been what bought out the wendigos. If only there was a way to make it stop!....... Oh wait, THERE IS." Starlight Glimmer stated, as she arrived to the scene on her own two wings.

Multiple earth ponies whispered amongst themselves as they were standing in front of a new alicorn they've never seen before.

"Umm, excuse me miss.... Are you a princess?" One filly walked up to Starlight and asked.

"What? No! These wings are just temporary to help me get my message across wider, they helped me spread it to the unicorn and Pegasi after all." Starlight simply stated.

"What message?" One mare asked.

"Equality!" Starlight announced, causing everypony to chatter amongst themselves, confused as to what she meant.

"Think about it. Everypony has their own differences and opinions that lead them to disagree with one another, you argue and fight so much, that stuff like THIS happens." Starlight pointed out, as she pointed her hoof to the wendigos.

Starlight's words gave concern to the earth ponies, as they continued to chat over what she was going with.

"When you were living with the unicorn and Pegasi, you all had different talents and abilities that lead you to getting hurt one way or another. Especially when one friend gets a cutie mark that separates one friend from another, causing all kinds of heartbreak." Starlight went on.

"If we all, I don't know....... Gave up our cutie marks, and united all pony tribes in an equally balanced society, it could be enough to banish the wendigos permanently! Then we could live in a world where nopony would ever fight or argue or disagree again!" Starlight suggested, causing chatter amongst the earth ponies.

"I don't know........ What would princess Twilight think about that?" One filly asked Starlight.

"She just needs to see how perfect an equal society can be! But...... If you don't want to live peacefully, and would rather freeze into an ice cube by the wendigos....... I completely understand." Starlight merely commented, before she flew off to spread her message further.

This caused several chatter from the earth ponies, debating on whether they should take Starlight's words to heart.

In Canterlot........

"We've faced enemies of Equestria before, and we've always succeeded. That wouldn't be possible without all of you." twilight stated to all of her friends.

"You're welcome!" Discord simply commented.

"Dude, read the room." Spike told Discord to snap back to reality.

"So I ask for your help again today, in what is our biggest battle yet! All of Equestria is at stake. And I can't do this alone! But I'm not afraid, because with friendship as our armor, and teamwork as our power, nopony can ever bring us down!" Twilight claimed while raising her hoofs in the air.

THUD!

"Is that supposed to MEAN something?" Starlight asked as she barged into the room, with the pillars all defeated as she dropped them to the floor.

"Starlight?! You're-" Twilight was about to speak until Starlight finished her sentence.

"About to teach you a LESSON!" She yelled, as she zapped her with her magic, which caused Twilight to fall into her throne, badly hurt, which made her friends all gasp.

"Sorry, but I'm not here for your precious princess, I'm only here for YOU DISCORD." Starlight stated, as she zapped at Discord.

Meanwhile..........

"Well, I think it's time we waved the white flag. We're doomed." Tirek stated, while looking glum.

"NO! Cozy Glow WILL be back with help! We just need to be patient!" Chrysalis stated to the centaur.

"It's been three hours Chrysalis! Help isn't coming!" Tirek told Chrysalis. But just when it seemed that way, they heard the sound of the door knob turning.

"I'm back!" Cozy announced, as she bought back with her the unicorn who unlocked the door.

"Oh my! You're friends are Lord Tirek and Queen Chrysalis?!" The stallion was shocked to see how a filly could make friends with two infamous villains.

"Listen, they are weak, as they don't have any magic! We need your help taking down an even bigger threat right now!" Cozy stated to the unicorn.

"I see....... Well, I don't know what I can do, since all my time in the school for gifted unicorns is useless! I'm no magician, I'm just some nerd who looks at magic! Not actually practice it....." The stallion stated.

"Wait wait wait, what did you say your name was again?........." Cozy asked.

"Oh, I didn't actually give you my name...... But if you want it, it's Sunburst." Sunburst revealed to the filly.

"................. I think you may be of bigger help to us then you think." Cozy stated, as she looked back at her two friends with a smile.

At Canterlot.........

"You're coming with me!" Starlight demanded Discord, pulling at him with her magic.

"No he's not!" Twilight rebuked, as she too pulled at him with her magic.

"Umm.... Getting a little queasy here!" Discord stated, as he was tired of being pulled constantly by two alicorns.

Fortunately, Celestia and Luna both jumped out and blasted Starlight with their combined magic.

"Grr..... You'll pay for that!" Starlight threatened the two former princesses.

"Stand down Starlight Glimmer!" Celestia warned.

"No, never! Not after your 'faithful student' RUINED MY LIFE!" Starlight shouted, as she blasted at the princess of friendship.

Fortunately, she created a shield to protect herself before the blast could hit her.

"You leave us no choice Starlight!" Celestia stated to the titular alicorn, as she and Luna flew up to face her.

"What are you doing?!" Twilight was worried for her mentors.

Unfortunately, Starlight pulled out the bell and drained every last ounce of magic from the two alicorns, and they could only scream and squirm as they felt their magic being taken from them.

"NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!" Twilight yelled, as the two former princesses fell to the ground, and Starlight zapped equal signs on their cutie marks.

"So THIS is what I needed all along, the bell takes away all magic! And no more magic means no more talent!" Starlight monologed, mocking Twilight.

"That's what you think! NOW!" twilight called, as her friends leaped from behind the throne and attacked Starlight.

Rainbow Dash spined around Starlight and made her dizzy, surrounding her in a rainbow tornado.

While Pinkie Pie stuffed her into her party canon while she was dizzy, then blasted her into Fluttershy's bee hive.

Starlight screamed as multiple bees stunned her, then ran around with the bee hive still in her head.

"Let me get that for you darling." Rarity stated, as she wrapped a giant necklace around the hive and whipped it across the room, which sent Starlight falling with it.

Finally, Applejack whipped Starlight into the center of the room, smashing the bee hive on impact.

Starlight, now surrounded, grabbed the bell. As Twilight prepared to use her magic against her.

"ENOUGH!" Starlight shouted, as her magic sent them all flying into the walls.

Twilight's throne broke into a million pieces, which revealed Discord trying to hide from Starlight.

Starlight turned around, and with a smile, lifted Discord off the ground with her magic.

Twilight and her friends woke up to see the damage Starlight caused.

"Well it's been fun catching up, but I need to leave with the one person who can tell me how to properly use his magic." Starlight stated.

"You're not going to put us down that easily Starlight! We will not let you hurt anymore ponies!" Twilight stated to Starlight. But Starlight could only laugh, as she now realized that Twilight had no idea what was really going on with the ponies of Equestria.

"Didn't you all notice something was wrong in Equestria? My 'pals' were busy." Starlight stated, causing confusion amongst Twilight and her friends.

"Oh yes, it started as a whisper here, a rumor there, destroy some crops, cause some damage, turn pony against pony. Until the wendigos have returned! Meaning that the only thing that can save them, is equality between ponies." Starlight revealed her true plan, which caused all of the mane seven to gasp in shock.

"Hah ha ha! Yes! They all should have turned to equality while I kept you distracted! Now without further ado, I really must be going. Adieu!" Starlight bid, before she blasted the celling with her magic, causing it to collapse as she left with Discord.

The mane seven could only watch as Starlight blocked the only exit.

"Celestia! Luna! Please wake up! Please! You have to wake up now!" Twilight begged desperately for the two alicorns to wake up, but they didn't..................

To be continued.