15 minutes through heaven, hell and everything between

-Kingdom of Equestria, Ponyville-

   Only thing that fills the Town hall is Nightmare Moon's laugh. “Seize her! Only she knows where the Princess is!” Mayor yells to guards. They try to restrain her but in vain. “Stand back, you foals!” Nightmare yells while laughing and turns back to smoke. After completely turning she starts to fly out of a window into a forest near town.

“Come back here!” Rainbow Dash yells while trying to chase Nightmare without luck. “Nighttime? Forever?” She says while hovering outside the town hall. Suddenly she hears set of hooves coming out of the hall and going to the city. “Where's she going?” Rainbow says when she notices who it is.

         -Ponyville town library-

Twilight Sparkle trots to the town library so she can get her assistant to sleep somewhere safe. “We gotta stop Nightmare!...” Spike says while sleeping. Twilight looks at him with motherly gaze. “You've been up all night, Spike.” She says while shaking her head and sighs. “You are a baby dragon after all.” She says and tugs him in bed. After she ensures that Spike is comfortable she goes back down.

In down stairs she starts to search feverishly something that would help against Nightmare. “Elements, elements, elements..” She chants while throwing books away. “Ugh! How can I stop Nightmare Moon without the Elements of Harmony? “ She says with frustration. “And just what are the Elements of Harmony?” Comes suddenly a voice behind her. She turns and sees that Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, Pinkie pie and Rainbow Dash All followed her. “And how did you know about Nightmare Moon, huh? Are you a spy?” Rainbow says, but gets yanked away by Applejack. “Simmer down, Sally. She ain't no spy.” Applejack says to calm Rainbow down. “But she sure knows what's going on. Don't you, Twilight?” She continues with raised eyebrow.

Twilight looks all of them little while before she sighs. “Before coming here i read about the prediction of Nightmare Moon.” She says with faraway gaze. “Some mysterious objects called the Elements of Harmony are the only things that can stop her.” She continues and turns to look the others. “But I don't know what they are, where to find them, I don't even know what they do!” She says with frustrated voice. "The Elements of Harmony: A Reference Guide." Says pinkies voice from behind all of them. Everypony turns to look at her and sure enough she really has book of that name.

“How did you find that?!“ Twilight yells with astonishment. She had just searched from everywhere and this mare just comes and finds it. “It was under ‘E’!” Pinkie answers with sing song voice. Twilight Looks baffled. “of course it was.” She thinks and takes the book from Pinkie. “let’s see here.” Twilight says while browsing the book before her. Finally she stops and waves others near her. “There are six Elements of Harmony, but only five are known:Kindness, Laughter, Generosity, Honesty and Loyalty.” She tells them. “The sixth is a complete mystery.” She continues and raises her left eyebrow. “It is said, the last known location of the five elements was in the ancient castle of the royal pony sisters.” She reads and looks others before continuing. “It is located in what is now the Everfree Forest.” Saying this makes everypony in room look at her in shock. Twilight closes the book and puts it back to bookcase. After that she starts to trot out of the library. After Everypony else finally gets over their shock they look at each others and start gallop after Twilight.

-Edge of Everfree forest-

   “You can’t be serious about going in there alone.” Rainbow says to Twilight. She turns to look at her for while and starts to trot inside the forest. “Look, I appreciate the offer, but I'd really rather do this on my own.” Twilight says without breaking her steps. “No can do, sugarcube.” Applejack Says to her. “We sure ain't lettin' any friend of ours go into that creepy place alone.” She Tells her with stern gaze. “We're stickin' to you like caramel on a candy apple.” Applejack says and everypony agrees to her words. “Especially if there's candy apples in there.” Comes from Pinkie. Everypony turns to look at her with raised eyebrows. “What?” She asks with surprise. “Those things are good.” She continues which makes Twilight sigh in defeat.

     “So, none of you have been in here before?” asks Twilight after a while. “Ugh, Heavens no! Just look at it - it's dreadful.” Rarity answers with disgusted face. “Then why did you come with us.” Twilight thinks to herself. “And it ain't natural.” The country mare interjects Twilights thoughts. “Folk say it don't work the same as Equestria.” She continues with shaking voice. Twilight just looks at her. “What's that supposed to mean?” She finally asks. “Nopony knows.” Comes Rainbows voice form shadows. “You know why?” She asks and comes towards all of them. “Rainbow, quit it.” Applejack tries to order The cyan pegasus, but she doesn’t either care or listen. “'cause every pony who's ever come in, has never come OUT.” She says the last word louder. Suddenly the ledge that they were standing gives out under them. They all scream in fright when they start to slide to their doom (exclude pegasi). “Fluttershy! Quick!” Rainbow yells and flies after her friends. Fluttershy follows her as fast as she can.

Twilight was sliding to her (almost) certain doom. Before she slid fully over the edge she got hold of it and stopped only her rear legs over it. Applejack notices this and starts to slide down. “Hold on! I'm a-comin'!” She yells at Twilight, while sliding down. As she comes to the ledge only thing Twilight can do is give her pleading look. “Let go.” Applejack says to her. Twilight looks at her like she was some kinda of mad mare. “I promise you'll be safe.” Applejack says to her in reassuring tone. “That's not true!” Twilight gets out of herself. “Now listen here. What I'm sayin' to you is the honest truth. Let go, and you'll be safe.” Applejack says. For little while Twilight doubts her, but decides to trust her. Twilight lets go of her hooves and starts to fall. As she falls she can see her life going through her mind. her first spell, the moment when she became Celestia's student and got her cutie mark. Suddenly she can feel some pony's hooves taking hold of her and lower her gently down.

   “T-thank you.” Twilight says while shaking slightly. “Eh, no problem.” Says Rainbow who drops down. They all can see how Applejack comes jumping down from the ledge. Finally When she is in ground she turns to look Twilight and smiles to her. Twilight looks her little while and returns the smile.

            -15 minutes later-

“And once Pinkie and Rarity were saved, whoosh... Me and Fluttershy loop-de-loop around and WHAM! Caught you right in the nick of time.” Rainbow tells again. “Yes, Rainbow, I was there” Twilight says and looks at the cyan pegasus. “and I'm very grateful, but we gotta-” is everything she says before loud roar interrupts her. What she sees is large feline with scorpion tail and bat wings. “A manticore!” She yells. “We've gotta get past it!” She says with determination. Rarity decides to go first and kicks the manticore straight to nose. “Take that, you ruffian!” She yells to it. This only aggravates the manticore and makes it roar in anger. “My hair!” She yells and runs from the manticore. “Wait.” Tries silent voice. “YEE-HAW! Get along, little kitty.” Yells Applejack and jumps to back of the manticore. “Wait. “ Tries the voice little louder.

After little while the manticore throws Applejack off from its back. “Whoa! All yours, partner.” She says to Rainbow Dash while flying near her. “I'm on it.” Rainbow says with salute and takes to the manticore. “Wait!” Comes now clearly louder voice, but no one hears it. Rainbow starts to fly around the manticore so it would get dizzy, But before she can fly long the manticore hits her with its tail and throws her off course. “Rainbow!” Comes Twilights yell when she sees her companion get hurt.

Now they were all seriously pissed and even the manticore was aggravated. As they are going to attack Fluttershy jumps in front of them. “Wait!” She yells to them so that they stop.Everypony looks at Fluttershy with wide eyes. “Why did you stop us?” Twilight asks, but Fluttershy doesn’t listen her and starts to go in the direction of the manticore. The manticore (i’m gonna call it Manny, because i’m too bored to call it ‘the manticore’) watches Fluttershy with suspicious eyes and growls a little bit. As she gets near Manny, she looks into its eyes without any fear. After a while Manny shows her its paw, in it is big and dark looking thorn. “Shhh... It's okay. Oh, you poor, poor little baby.” Fluttershy says after she sees Mannys paw. “Now this might hurt for just a second.” She says and grabs the thorn in between her teeths. Suddenly she yanks her head back and removes that thorn from Mannys paw. Manny roars in agony and a while it seems that it’s going to attack Fluttershy. Rest of our heroes gasp in fear, but after they see that Manny is just licking Fluttershy they release their breath. After they get away from Manny twilight decides to ask her question. “How did you know about the thorn?” she asks from Fluttershy. “I didn't. Sometimes we all just need to be shown a little kindness.“ She answers with smile.

“Eugh. My eyes need a rest from all this icky muck.” Rarity says with disgusted look. After walking some time, clouds start filling the sky and hide moons light. “Well, I didn't mean that literally.” She continues and looks perplexed. They try to continue their journey, but it finally becomes too dark. “That ancient ruin could be right in front of our faces and we wouldn't even know it.” Twilight says with little anger in her voice. Everypony starts to tumble and hit each others in the dark. “Oh wait, I think I stepped in somethin'.” Applejack says, but gets cut of by Fluttershys scream. “It's just mud.” She continues and turns to look at Fluttershy, but when she sees what made Fluttershy scream she yelps herself. All around of them is trees with creepy faces. They all start to scream from the sight of those trees and they continue until something snaps them out of it. What they hear is laughin. All of them turn to look at the noise and what they see is Pinkie pie. “Pinkie, what are you doing?! Run! “ Twilight shouts in fright. “Oh girls, don't you see?” Pinkie says and suddenly a music starts to play. (yeah, I’m not gonna put those lyrics here.) After the song ends everypony collapses and laughs in joy.

         -10 minutes of boring walk-

Twilight and her companions comes near a river. “How are we gonna cross this? Rainbow asks as they watch the foaming river. Suddenly they start to hear muffled crying. “Huh?” Pinkie says and they all turn to look where they heard those cries. What they saw there was gigantic purple sea serpent (or is he river serpent?). He had sleek Hair and moustaches, except his right moustache was missing. “Excuse me, sir. Why are you crying?” Twilight asks from the serpent. He turns to the group of ponies and looks at them with teary eyes. “Well, I don't know.” He started. “I was just sitting here when this tacky little cloud of purple smoke just whisked past me and cut my beloved mustache clean off.” He continued, his eyes starting to water again. “and now I look simply horrid.” He says and breaks back to sobs.

Everypony looks at him with different expressions. Finally the silence is broken by Rainbow. “Are you serious? All of this just because of one moustache.” She says and facepalms (hooves? whatever). “Well of course it is.” Rarity says and looks Rainbow with angry eyes. “How can you be so insensitive?” She continues and turns to look at the serpent. “Oh, just look at him. Such lovely luminescent scales.” Rarity says with smile. Hearing this snaps the serpent out of his sobbing. “I know.” He says and dries the tears from his eyes. “And your expertly coiffed mane.” Rarity continues with her compliments. “Oh, I know, I know.” The serpent says in proud tone. “Your fabulous manicure.” Rarity says and looks at his claws. “It's so true!” The serpent says with happy look in his eyes. “All ruined without your beautiful mustache.“ Rarity states with furrowed eyebrows. After hearing this The serpent starts to cry like a little filly, Again.

“It's true, I'm hideous!“ He says with self pity. Hearing this makes rarity take a determined look in her face. “I simply cannot let such a crime against fabulosity go uncorrected.” She says and yanks one of the scales from The serpent. He yelps and looks at her with surprise. Twilight watches her with quizzical look. “Rarity, what are you-” She starts to say, but is stopped when suddenly Rarity swings the sharp scale and makes her own tail fall off. After cutting her own tail Rarity takes it in her magical hold and glues it in the face of that serpent. “Oh-hohohoho! My mustache. How wonderful.” The serpent yells with happy look. “Oh, Rarity, your beautiful tail...” Twilight says to her. “Oh. It's fine, my dear.” Rarity tries to reassure Twilight, but fails. “Short tails are in this season. Besides, it'll grow back.” She continues more to herself than others. Twilight looks at her with pity. “We can cross now. Let's go.” she says and starts to trot over the river.

       -20 minutes later in front of Castel of royal pony sisters.-

“There it is, the ruin that holds The Elements of Harmony. We made it.” Twilight yells with relieved tone and starts to run. Rest of the group looks each others and start to follow her. “Wait fer us!” Applejack yells to Twilight and tries to make her slow down. “We're almost there.” Twilight yells back. Suddenly she feels that there is nothing under her fore hooves and tries to backpedal. “What's with you and falling off cliffs today? “ Rainbow asks with smile and pulls Twilight back up. our group of mares looks at the broken bridge with quizzical looks. “Now what.” pinkie asks with sigh. Suddenly she feels something slam in the back of her head. She turns to look behind of her and sees Rainbow Dash. “Well, duh!” Rainbow says and waves her wings. Everyone looks her with approval. She starts to hoover first and flies to search the other side of bridge. She finally finds it and goes to tie it in to poles on other side.

Suddenly a noise comes from fog (when did it get foggy?) and makes Rainbow whip her head around. When she can’t find anything she just shrugs and continues what she was doing. “Rainbow... “ Comes a sudden voice from fog. “Who's there?” Rainbow yells at whatever it was that called her. “Rainbow...” Comes same call again. “Okay, come on out so i can beat you senseless.” Rainbow yells with anger in her voice. Suddenly Three ponies in shady attires come from the fog. They stop right in front of Rainbow and look at her. “We've been eagerly awaiti-” Starts their leader, but gets stopped by Rainbows glare.

“Were you the ones that just called me?” She asks and continues her glaring. “Y-yeah, that was us, but could you listen what i have to say?” The leader of that group says with unease look in her face. Rainbow looks at them and nods. “As i was trying to say. We've been eagerly awaiting the arrival of the best flyer in Equestria.” The leader ( Her name is Foggy Night.) says while she looks at Rainbow. Rainbow just looks at Foggy and finally breaks the silence. “You mean me?” She finally asks with one eyebrow raised “Well yes. is there any other pegasi here?” Foggy asks from her and looks around. Rainbow looks at the pony before her with eye twitching and facehooves to her question.

“Are you fucking serious.”  Rainbow thinks to herself and sighs. “you know you’re really bad at this.” She says in tired tone. “I mean, you could’ve even tried to do something. But all you can do is try to tempt me and even it was really badly done.” Rainbow continues and turns back to the bridge. “I-i... W-wouldn’t you even try to reconsider my offer?” Foggy says to Rainbow with stutters. “No i’m not gonna rethink it. you probably would’ve said that i had to choose between my friends and you. Besides i don’t even really like those attires of yours.” Rainbow finally answers to Foggys question. Foggy looks at Rainbow and suddenly tears start to fall from her eyes. She turns and gallops away from the bridge and Rainbow. “Ugh, why do i get allways these morons.” Rainbow thinks and finishes her job.

Twilight and the rest of group couldn’t see what happened on the other side of bridge because of all  fog. Suddenly Rainbow comes flying out of there with big smile. “See? I'd never leave my friends hangin'.” She says and starts to fly back to other side. Every pony just shrug and follow her over the bridge.

-Inside of the Castle of royal pony sisters-

    Finally they are at the end of their journey. “The Elements of Harmony, we've found them.” Twilight yells with happiness in her voice. In front of our group of heroes is pedestal with big stone orbs. As they lower them from the pedestal, Pinkie counts them. “One, two, three, four... There's only five!” Pinkie says while looking confused. “Where's the sixth?” Rainbow asks as confused as her pink friend. “The book said: when the five are present, a spark will cause the sixth Element to be revealed.” Twilight answers to both of their questions.  Rest of the group looks Twilight with confused expressions. “What in the hay is that supposed to mean?” Applejack finally asks. Everypony else nods to her question and looks at Twilight. “I'm not sure, but I have an idea.” Twilight says and starts to charge her horn. “Stand back. I don't know what will happen.“ She continues with her horn in glow. Her friends look in her way and start to walk away. Suddenly a dark twister appears out of nowhere and teleports away with Twilight and the elements. Rest of the group starts to panic and search where she went. Finally they notice bright light in one of the towers and start to run towards it.

                     -?????-

Minute floats in darkness. he’s unconscious, but is starting to wake up. “Ugh, what the hell happened and where the hell am i?” He says and holds his head with one hand. “You’re in the void.”Says a voice suddenly. Minute stops and starts to scan the area where he is. “ How did i end here?” He asks from the voice. “You don’t remember?” It asks in amused tone. “Well, i would be impressed if you actually could after all of that alcohol you consumed.” It says and chuckles little. “All i can remember is that i was drinking with those knights and then i wake up here.” Minute says in bemused tone. “Could you tell me what the hell happened and how did i end up inside the void.” Minute continues. “well, i could...” The voice says while sounding thoughtful. “Solitude!” Minute says in angry but calm voice. “Alright, alright i tell you what happened.”  Solitude says with sigh.

           -Heleria 1 hour earlier-

“-And that is why you shouldn’t use carrot as a sacrifice when you’re trying to summon archdemon.” Minute ended his story. His audience just stared him awhile and then burst in laugh. “Oh god, that was hilarious.” One of the knights said while laughing. “especially that part where the summoner went and insulted that demon with his incantation.” Other knight said in fit of giggles. “What about when he tried to ward it off with rhubarb and spinach?” Yet another one of them said. This just made all of them laugh harder.

Minute looked at his audience with small smile and took sips from his drink. It had been long time since he last could just stop and have a drink in good company. He sighed and looked at sky with saddened face. “How long has it been since i last could just stop and look at stars.” He thought. He stood there awhile and then shook his head. “Better just enjoy this moment.” He said with quiet voice and took gulp from the mug. Suddenly one of the knights came to him and slapped his back. “What are you doing here alone?” The knight asked from Minute. “Come and drink with us.” He continued and started to pull Minute at the celebration.

-30 minutes later-

        Everyone at the celebration were completely and utterly drunk. Minute had started to show what he could do and had collected big audience again. He showed his sword and different moves he used in his battles. He had also loaned bow from one of the knights and had shot nine out of ten targets. Everyone laughed when he stumbled and shot the last arrow far away. He himself had also good time and got many laughs from both of the commanders. “Uh, Minute maybe you should slowdown little.” Solitude said to Minute with little concern in his voice. “Oh don’t be a party pooper Solitude.” Minute said out loud. “It has been long time since we last had party like this.” He continued while drinking. Solitude just sighed to his drunken words. “Just be careful. I don’t want anything to happen that you would regret.” He finally says. “Oh, shut up Solitude!” Minute yells and starts to laugh. Solitude grumbles something, but Minute doesn’t listen him. Suddenly Minute gets bright idea. Why wouldn’t he show these people one of his powers?

   “Hey everyone come here” Minute yells with excited voice. Everyone turns to look at him and comes his way. “so, what did you want?” One of the knights asks. “I wanted to show all of you something cool.” MInute sas and smiles wide drunken smile. All of the peoples look at him confused until one of them asks. “Why would you want to show us something cold?” He says. Minute just frowns to his words. “No,no i meant that i wanted to show you something amazing.” he says with enthusiasm. This makes the crowd interested. “What did you want to show us?” That same knight asks again. Minutes grin widens “I want to show you portal.”

The whole crowd looks at him with confusion. “Um, what is portal?” One of them asks. “Well, portal is gateway between long distances or different universes/dimensions.” Minute lectures. His audience gasps in shock when they hear his explanation. Minute just chuckles at their reaction. “Okay everyone, stand back.” He says and starts to gather power. Suddenly he releases all the power in one strong burst and everyone is blinded by strong light. After they can see again they look at what Minute did. What they see is... just an empty field. They start to laugh and call him good jokester. After they have all left Minute looks the field with confusion. “That should have worked.” He thinks. Minute scratches his own head and turns to go after the group of knights. Suddenly he feels ground vanish underneath him. He hadn’t noticed that instead creating the portal in front of him he created it behind of himself. On the ground.

-The void-

“-And then you fell here, lost consciousness and woke up.” Solitude ends his tale. Minute tries to comprehend all of the things that happened in that short time. “Why didn’t you try and stop me.” He finally says to Solitude. “Even if i had tried you wouldn’t have listened me.” Solitude answers. “By the way. you should probably move.” He continues. Minute just raises his eyebrow to this. “Why?.” He asks in suspicion. “Because, next portal is going to-.” Is all Solitude can say before Minute starts to fall towards next portal. “-Appear below you.” Solitude finishes. “FUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-” Is all Minute can yell to this before he vanishes.

-The castle of royal pony sisters-

    Twilight gets blown off from the twister that teleported her and the elements of harmony. She looks at the point where it was and what she sees is... “Nightmare Moon.” Twilight yells in surprise. Nightmare just laughs at Twilights surprise. “You little fool!” She bellows. “Did you think that i would let you just get the artifacts that banished me to the moon.” She continues. Twilight tries to come up with something that could help her against Nightmare, but only thing she can think is to... “Charge!” Twilight yells and starts to run towards Nightmare. “You're kidding. You're kidding, right?” Nightmare says to her and starts to run against her. Just before they collide Twilight uses teleportation spell so she gets near the elements. “Just one spark.” Twilight whispers and starts to gather power in her horn.

She continues gathering the power and releases all of it. The surge of power throws her back and makes all of the elements glow. “No, no!” Nightmare yells in horror. The element glow little while, but dim back to gray. “But... where's the sixth Element?!” Twilight yells at the sight. Nightmare starts to laugh. She stomps her hooves and breaks all of the elements.”You little foal! Thinking you could defeat me?” Nightmare says in triumph. “Now you will never see your princess, or your sun! The night will last forever!” [insert evil laugh here].

Twilight looks Nightmare in horror. Suddenly she hears hooves and voices coming towards them. When she hears them she feels something click inside of her. She turns to Nightmare and smiles to her. “You think you can destroy The Elements of Harmony just like that?” Twilight says in brave tone. When Nightmare hears this, she stops laughing and looks Twilight with confusion. “Well, you're wrong, because the spirits of The Elements of Harmony are right here.” Twilight says as her friends come up. (this is where she tells Nightmare what element each of her friend represents)

As she says her friends names parts of the elements float to them. “The spirits of these five ponies got us through every challenge you threw at us.” Twilight says in triumph. “But you don’t have the sixth element.” Nightmare says in panic. “The spark didn't work!” She continues. Twilight turns to look at her with power filled gaze. “But it did!” She finally says. she turns back to her friends. “the spark, that resides in the heart of us all, it creates the sixth element.” she says and smiles to them. “the element of-” Is all Twilight can say. when suddenly a burning ring appears over the mares. They all look the random rip in space with perplexed looks on their faces. Suddenly, voice starts to come from the portal and all of the mares (including Nightmare) look at it with confusion. “-UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.” The voice says and something falls from portal. All of the ponies look at the new arrival With different reaction.

Twilight blinks in confusion, Rainbow glares at it, Applejack facehooves at the sight, Rarity looks at the clothes of the creature (and frowns at what she sees), Pinkie has a wide grin plastered on her face, Fluttershy is hiding behind her friends and Nightmare has ‘ what the fuck is going on’ look on her face. after a while the creature starts to stand up and rises to its two feets. First it doesn’t say anything and everypony in room looks at him with confusion. “Son of a mother fuckin, cock sucking-” He starts suddenly yell curses. As the cursing continues and starts to get creative about someone's rectum and cactus becoming one, The mares in room start to blush furiously to his words. “-With a stick sideways!” He finally ends his burst of curses. After taking deep breaths he finally calms down.

“Sorry about that.” He says and turns to look at the others in room. What he sees makes him go silent. For little while no one says a word. Finally The newest arrival breaks the silence. “Hmm, not the weirdest thing i have seen.” He says with shrug.