The Nightmares of Equestria

by ThunderingAlicorn

Rating: everyone
Tags: Comedy, Random, Adventure
Length: 1373

After the Mane Six become alicorns, Princess Celestia sends them to investigate the shards of Nightmare Moon. Chaos, hilarity, and evil ensue.

This story takes off near the end of The Magical Mystery Cure, right when Twilight gets teleported to the Astral Plane. Only now, it's all of the mane six, the complete enchilada, the whole shebang, you get the picture, and they ALL become alicorns. The trouble begins when the mane six are sent to investigate the shards of Nightmare Moon, and in the process, Nightmare Moon's corruption takes hold of them, and they become malevolent, wicked versions of themselves, bent on becoming the new rulers of Equestria. Will three certain blank flanks be able to stop them? Will Celestia, Luna, and Cadence make it out alive?? Will the corruption take over those three certain blank flanks we all know and love??? What will happen??? No, seriously, I haven't figured out the details yet… Anyway! Stay tuned!

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2013-04-21 01:41:57 UTC

Chapter 1: Good Vibrations

Chapter 1: Good Vibrations

Twilight, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Fluttershy were all gathered around Twilight as she completed Starswirl the Bearded's unfinished spell. "From all of us together, together we are friends, with the marks of our destinies made one, there is magic without end!" Twilight said.

As she closed the book and set it down on the table, she felt something vibrating in her tiara. She thought, "Why is my tiara vibrating? Is it broken? Is there a book I should read on do-it-yourself Element of Harmony repair? Should 'Elements of Harmony' be capitalized? Is it a crown or a tiara???" What Twilight was unaware of was that the five other ponies in the room were experiencing the same curious feeling in their respective elements. Though they weren't all thinking about it in the same way...

Rarity's thoughts: "I simply can't understand how my hair was sopping wet one minute, then looking freshly styled the next. Wait, we are certainly not fighting some raucous evildoer, so why is my lovely necklace vibrating?"

Rainbow's thoughts: "Geez, do all spells sound that dopey, or is it just Twilight being an egghead? Hey, are these necklace thingies supposed to vibrate?"

Fluttershy's thoughts: "It sure was nice of Twilight to help us rediscover our true selves by having us preform acts of kindness or helpfulness. I hope  she doesn't get offended that I haven't done anything in return! Eeep! Why is my necklace vibrating? Did I do something wrong? Am I going to explode?"

Applejack's thoughts: "Wow, that sure was some fancy magical stuff Twilight pulled there. Ah wonder if she got tired from all that- what in tarnation is happenin' with mah necklace?"

Pinkie Pie's thoughts: "Ooh! Yay my turn to have my to have my deepest and most personal thoughts laid out for all to see! I hope that there aren't meaniepants that want to look at them- hey, that tickles! My necklace is tickling me, oh that's so cool!"

Then, suddenly with a blast of light and magic, they were gone! Spike, who had been looking on and wondering what the jewels in their necklaces would taste like, let loose a scream that would rival one of a horror movie actress's. Then he turned to Owlowiscious and said, "Well, we have to wait 24 hours to file a missing pony report, and Twilight will probably be back before then." Owlowiscious face-winged, and went back to sleep.

Meanwhile, in Celestia's chambers

Luna was looking out her telescope at the beautiful sunset and stood on the balcony, ready to take flight into the heavens and raise the moon, she stopped. She had witnessed the strange events that took place that day and was ready to signal her sister at the first sign that "it" had happened. They had prepared for this for years, and had been let down once before by a certain somepony who shall not be named. (Ahem, cough-StarswirltheBearded)

She called across the cavernous room to Celestia, "Celestia! Celestia! It's time!" The pearly white alicorn had been taking a nap, and woken suddenly from a rather strange dream yelled, "That foal isn't mine!" She looked around, and then at Luna's face, which looked extremely shocked for a moment, then burst into peals of loud, snorting laughter. Celestia ran across the room to the dark blue alicorn who had just stood up rather weakly after rolling around on the ground and proceeded to whisper in her ear, "We shall never speak of this again!" Luna replied after stifling numerous giggles, "Agreed, Tia. I would not 'spill' secrets of which thou didn't want spilled." Luna cringed, while she did not at all mind having to learn the New Equestrian way of speaking, she very much minded how she sometimes would fluctuate between Old Equestrian and New Equestrian grammar. "So, as you were saying Lulu?" Said Celestia, Luna replied seriously, having regained her composure "It's time. The sparrow has entered the birdhouse." The princess of the day groaned, "I know that you like to play games where the characters use code words, but honestly! I can't understand a word you're saying." "Very well," grumbled Luna "Twilight AND her friends have entered the Astral Plane." "Happy?"

Chapter 2: Luna Got Pwned

Chapter 2: Luna Got Pwned

There was only darkness. Then there was light. Six ponies appeared, first suspended in midair, then collapsing onto... nothing. They woke up, two unicorns, two pegasi, and two earth ponies. The pink one sprang up and proclaimed in a royal voice, "I HEREBY DUB THIS PLACE, 'SUPER SPARKLE LANDIA'!" The rest of the ponies groaned, but were secretly thankful that at least one thing was still the same wherever they went.

The ponies got to their hooves, but nothing could be seen except what looked like fuzzy stars and nebulae. Instead of space being black, it was many different shades of blue and turquoise. One might have said that there were "50 shades of turquoise" It was getting serious now. Rarity called out, "Hello?" then she said, "Darlings, I think we may be all alone here. No one else seems to be around." At this Fluttershy started to panic.

Everyone was screaming for help, no one was remaining calm. Pinkie was the only one who wasn't incredibly worried. Lets find out why. YOU KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS! It's time for deep-personal-thoughts-exposing-time! So Pinkie, why are you not panicking? Pinkie repies, "Well I just read the last chapter and the princesses are gonna come to the rescuery rescue and save us!" Well. I just don't know about that.

Meanwhile, in Celestia's Palace

The white alicorn was literally jumping up and down with joy, whereas the dark blue alicorn was becoming rather irritated. "Celestia! We are going to be late! The very ponies that are going to soon become our co-rulers of Equestria are STUCK in the Astral Plane, and you are prancing about like a FOAL!" Luna bellowed. "Hush sister." Celestia said calmly with suppressed elation, "When was the last time you let your mane down over something exciting? Honestly Luna, you are being a bit of a pill." Luna grumbled,"I am NOT a pill." "Come on, hurry up Lulu! We'll be late!" Celestia exclaimed as her horn took on a warm golden glow, as did the rest of her body. The Princess of the Night facehoofed, as her horn and body were encased in a midnight blue color as dark as the night sky, and joined The Princess of the Day as they traveled out of this world and into another.

A Note From The Author

A Note From The Author

Hello everypony! Sorry about the corny greeting, but you know how it goes. This is my first FanFiction, and I am going to try to write chapters fairly often. I have lots of free time on my hands and I will attempt to write a portion every day, so I will probably have the first chapter finished in about a month, hopefully.

A few guidelines for comments about this:

1: There is only one thing that is certain when it comes to ponies becoming alicorns, you either love 'em or you hate 'em.

    So please do not call any characters "Mary Sue" or anything along those lines. Just look at it like this; If you don't like

    reading about characters transcending the evolutionary scale and turning into alicorns, THEN WHY ARE YOU READING

    THIS HATER! :D

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Thank you everypony! And have a merry whatever day of the week it is when you read this!