G5 Adventures in Scooby-Doo! in Where's My Mummy?

When the Mane 6 returned from their latest Unity Quest in Piqua, Ohio, they knew it was probably the best thing to tell Allura that her brother, Alterro, was free from his binds and wanted his revenge on her, the ponies and Equestria… as well as him wanting to find the alicorn realm of Skyros, for a reason that the Mane 6 weren’t sure of yet.

And needless to say... Allura was heartbroken. She had told the ponies previously that she and her brother had been so close when they were cubs, and to hear that he wanted revenge on her, the ponies and all of Equestria?

It was truly devastating.

But Allura also understood that if Equestria was in danger, the ponies needed to do whatever it took to protect it.

After the Mane 6 told Allura and Twitch about what had occurred, Hitch scheduled a meeting in Maretime Bay that Pipp was able to broadcast to all Equestrian communities, telling all ponies that Alterro was now a very dangerous threat, and they needed to remember their training just in case he were to attack.

But lately, Sunny’s had something other than the threat of Alterro on her mind.

Her mother.

She had disappeared when Sunny was just a filly, and Sunny missed her mother terribly. But at the same time, she couldn’t help but wonder...

...could all this talk about the realm of Skyros and the disappearance of her mother be connected?

That's exactly what Sunny was determined to find out.

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“Thanks for agreeing to help me with this, guys,” Sunny said to her friends early one spring morning. “My mom and dad left all of their old research and collectibles in the lighthouse basement, so if we're gonna start anywhere, we need to start here.”

“We're happy to help you search the basement, Sunny,” Zipp said slowly, “but... you should know, we knew this wasn't going to be a simple job, so... we asked a few more ponies and... non-ponies... to come and help us search the basement for clues.”

Sunny blinked in surprise at this. “Really? Who did you invite exactly?”

It was then that the other ponies moved aside to reveal some familiar faces-- Allura and Twitch, along with Grandma Figgy, Alphabittle and Paradise, Queen Haven… and some faces that Sunny hadn’t talked to in quite some time.

The first was a red-coated earth stallion with a slick blonde mane, white fetlocks, maroon hooves, a wavy blonde tail, green eyes, thick, dark red eyebrows and his cutie mark was a purple beetroot.

And the second had a light peach pink coat, slightly lighter fetlocks, reddish hooves, and pale blue eyes. Her eyebrows, tail, and mane are all golden blonde, the latter of which consists of large curls bundled atop her head. She wears hot pink glasses with eyelash silhouettes attached via silver screws, as well as a pearl necklace and earrings. She has subtle lavender eyeshadow. She also wears a brown lanyard with her ID tag on it. Her cutie mark was a graph of three purple bars with a hot pink arrow going over it, depicting rising stocks.

Sunny blinked in surprise. “Phyllis and Sprout Cloverleaf?”

“Hello, Sunny,” Phyllis said with a sincere smile. “I know it’s been quite some time since we spoke, but… Sprout and I overheard Hitch and Grandma Figgy talking the other day, and…”

“We all figured,” Paradise added, “since you’ve done so much for us…”

“...the least we could do is help you sort through your mom’s stuff,” Sprout added with a bit of reluctance. “After all… a mom is one of the most important ponies you can have in your life.”

“And we all want to help,” Alphabittle added. “Just tell us where you need us.”

“...thank you… thank you all so much!” Sunny said, trying not to cry as she wiped her eyes with her hoof. “This means more than you’ll ever know. Okay, so… let’s divide into groups. Hitch, Grandma Figgy, Phyllis and me will start in the west part of the basement. Alphabittle, why don’t you, Izzy, Misty and Paradise search in the east section? Allura and Twitch, you take the north and Queen Haven? You, Pipp and Zipp can take the south end. We can all work our way up to the middle and regroup there.”

“Sounds like a plan to us,” Allura smiled warmly. “Let’s get in there and start searching for answers.”

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And so, the search began, with each group taking a different part of the basement. The search seemed to last for ages when only, they had been searching in the deep dark for an hour, with only just the light from Sunny’s hope lantern and the glow of the unicorns’ horns to illuminate the underground space.

A lot of the stuff they found was very old but had sentimental value to Sunny, like her baby crib, her Guardians of Harmony toys that her father made for her, and a lot of old maps and paintings that Sunny's mother had collected throughout her life.

Unfortunately... it didn't seem like they were going to find anything useful right away, and Sunny was getting a bit discouraged.

Grandma Figgy placed a hoof on Sunny’s shoulder. “Don’t worry, Sunny dear. We’re going to find something sooner or later… perhaps maybe when you least expect it.”

“I know, Grandma Figgy,” Sunny nodded. “It’s just… hard to think about what you might find when there are so many pressing matters at hoof.”

Pipp suddenly thought of something in that moment. “Sunny... I can't believe I never asked before, but... what was your mom's name?”

“...Velvet,” Sunny smiled fondly. “Velvet Starscout. Dad said that I got my last name from her, and it always stuck.”

“She sounds lovely, dear,” Queen Haven said gently. “And she sounds like she’s been a firm believer in unity as long as your father has.”

“She’s always believed that all pony kinds were meant to be united,” Sunny smiled. “I remember that she left to go and find something that might bring magic to Equestria, but… that was so long ago. I don't even remember what she was looking for.”

“Uh… ponies?” Zipp spoke up after a moment, holding something in her hooves. “I think I might’ve found something!”

“So did Twitch and Sparky!” Allura said as she watched the two young critters holding something in their paws, which Misty inspected. “This is the tapestry we brought back from Opaline’s lair… we put it down here for safe-keeping.”

“And these…” Sunny looked at the books Zipp brought over. “These look like some of my mom’s journals! Some that I’ve barely seen before!”

“Journals can be a way to see what a person was thinking,” Paradise spoke up. “Opaline often kept some when I was growing up in her care, and a lot of the things she wrote were related to her fury. Maybe there are some clues in there that can tell us where your mother went, Sunny.”

“Could be,” Misty agreed with her mother. “Let’s take these upstairs and study them closer-- maybe then we can get to the bottom of this cold caper.”

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The group looked at the tapestry and the journals Zipp had found with curiosity, wondering how these two different items could be so closely connected to the disappearance of Velvet Starscout.

After a few minutes, Izzy hummed in curiosity. “This is weird... this journal is describing a place that's similar to the picture in the tapestry! Weird, right?”

“Huh... she's not wrong. Listen to this,” Sprout said he took the journal and read from it. “I dreamt of that place again... a land in the clouds where alicorns lived freely and were happy all the time. The stars showed up every single night, a blessing from Princess Luna. If I can find this place, I know it would have the answers I need to bring magic back to our world.”

“Alicorns...? She must've been talking about Skyros!” Hitch realized. “Isn't that where Opaline and her two sisters were from?”

“Yeah-- Princess Celestia and Princess Luna,” Misty nodded. “Velvet must've been seeing Skyros in her dreams, and she must've thought going there might give her some clues on how to bring magic back.”

“But... if she went to find Skyros,” Phyllis muttered, “why didn't Velvet come back once she had?”

Sunny let out a heavy sigh. “Something must've happened to her... but I don’t know what.”

Grandma Figgy looked over at Allura with a worried look. “Do you think your father might have had something to do with it?”

“I'm not sure, Figgy. I wouldn't put it past him, though... he was ruthless,” Allura shuddered. “But... if my brother is trying to find Skyros, he would need a map, wouldn’t he?”

“Maybe... we'll just need to keep looking for signs,” Zipp said. “And we need those signs to show up soon, so we can try and find Skyros and warn the alicorns that live there before it's too late.”

Suddenly, Pipp looked down at her cutie mark to discover it was glowing, and then looked at her friends’ cutie marks to discover they were doing the same. “Well, that’s a good sign if I ever saw one!”

“We’ll be back as soon as we can, Granny,” Hitch said as he put Sparky onto his back. “Keep watch over the Brighthouse for us?”

“You can count on us, Hitchie,” Grandma Figgy said warmly, just before the Mane 6 galloped upstairs toward the Crystal Room to start their next adventure off right.

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But, before we get to the main part of our story, there's another story that you need to hear... one that happened many, many years ago.

In the year 41 B.C.E., as the Roman army invaded Egypt, Cleopatra (otherwise known as the last of the pharoahs) escaped upon the River Nile. Her kingdom had fallen, yet she was still Egypt's queen. And then, vowing to defend the ancient treasure of her people, Cleopatra and what troops she had left set forth for the Egyptian pyramids.

There, beneath the Great Sphinx (which was a statue that looked like it had the head of a man and the body of a lion), lay a hidden tomb. And inside that tomb was an impenetrable maze of deadly traps and secret dangers, forever guarded by an ancient horror...

...the army of the undead, which consisted of a thousand mummified warriors awaiting the call to rise from the grave and defend Egypt's last great treasure... including Cleopatra's crown.

The ancient traps were set, and the tomb was sealed.

But before she could leave the sphinx, Cleopatra had to pray to the goddess, Isis, and make sure her tomb would forever be protected, even with the army of the undead guarding it. “Under the golden crown of Isis, I cast my curse. The curse of Cleopatra! Let it be written!”

But what was this curse, you may be wondering? And how would this effect our heroes going forward?

Well... you'll just have to read the rest of the story in order to find out.