A/N: Just a reminder, all OCs will be used if submitted, but when they are used depends on my daily Inspiration Check. Also, requirements for OC submission are as follows:

Name (Must be a valid Pony name, unless you are not a pony)

Race (Unicorn, Pegasus, Earth Pony, Alicorn, Gryphon, Dragon, etc, etc)

Color Pallet (Coat, Mane, Tail)

Cutie Mark

General Personality & Quirks (Death Strike was described as calm, flirty if assassins could be flirty. Midnight Moon is prone to bouts of insanity and is easily angered, but otherwise is a very happy pony.)

Basic Bio (Again, Death Strike was an assassin for hire, and Midnight was partially responsible for Nightmare Moon's escape.)

*Note: Long, in-depth Bios will have (what I believe to be) interesting parts used and the rest will be forgotten*

Without these things, or if I get just a few of these things, you could end up with your OC being entirely out of character, but you'd be the only pony who'd know that, because I wasn't told anything besides Name, Color Pallet, and Cutie Mark. I could make you a Pegasus, when you are actually a Unicorn. So please, to save us all a little trouble, use the above format when submitting OCs for the Hour.

That being said, STORYTIME!

And so we go

"Come on! Don't leave me hanging!" Discord said, now standing beside Pinkie, "Who are we talking about?"

"Ooh! Ooh!" Pinkie started bouncing up and down, "I know! I know!"

"PINKIE!" Twilight shouted, silencing the Perpetual Sugar-Rush, "Thank you. If you must know, Discord, we were discussing what to do now that Midnight Moon here is back in Equestria. Surely, now that we have four fully grown Alicorns again, this war can be turned around."

"War?" Midnight asked, "What war?"

"The War between Equestria and Gryphonia, silly!" Pinkie exclaimed, before throwing her hooves over her mouth, "Oopsie. Sorry, Twilight."

"It's alright, Pinkie. She would have found out eventually. Better she hear it from us than somepony she doesn't know," Twilight said as she rubbed the bridge of her nose with her hoof.

Midnight's face showed confusion as she attempted to process what she had just heard. She held up her hoof, imploring for Twilight to be quiet for a minute while she tried to figure out everything.

Turning to Pinkie, Midnight spoke, "Just how long has this war been going on, exactly?"

"A little over ten months," Pinkie said with a grin, "Why?"

"Because," Midnight sighed, "that's how long the Civil War between the Gryphons and Surface Ponies has been going."

"You keep saying Surface Ponies. Does that mean just the Unicorns and Earth Ponies?" Twilight asked.

"No. The Surface Ponies are all ponies who live on or above the ground. This includes the Pegasi. So far, the Sea Ponies and the Changelings have avoided getting involved, but I don't know how long that will last. Last I knew, the Gryphons were setting up huge excavations, trying to gather resources for their massive war machines. This could cause cave-ins in the Changeling Empire, at which point the Changelings would swarm from their caves all over Equus Prime. If this were to occur, the Gryphons would cease to exist on Equus Prime, as the Changelings there are more feral than their Homeworld cousins, this world's Changelings.

"As for the Sea Ponies, the Gryphons should be fine, so long as they don't start dumping any trash into the oceans. If they do, their ships will never be able to leave their ports. The Sea Ponies are Sirens by nature, so they will enchant the gryphons as they swarm their ships, slaughtering any Gryphon aboard, from the Toughest soldier to the Weakest infant. No quarter will be given, for to corrupt the Pure Waters of the ocean is to corrupt the Sea Ponies, and they will not rest until all violators are sufficiently punished."

"I always thought Sea Ponies were a myth, just another part of ancient mythology. But then again, I thought Changelings were a myth as well, until they disrupted my brother's wedding, so I guess it's not that hard to believe."

Midnight looked incredulously at Twilight, "You still don't believe in 'myths', even though you yourself were a myth several years ago?"

"I'm sorry?" Twilight was utterly confused.

"When you first moved to Ponyville, what was the first thing you did?"

"Try to understand why Pinkie gasped in my face and ran away," Twilight responded with a completely straight face.

"Got Mitt Uns," Midnight said as she facehoofed, "I meant what was the first important thing you did when you got to Ponyville."

"Make sure that the preparations for the Summer Sun Celebration were proceeding at the proper speed," Twilight was still trying to figure out what this had to do with her being a myth.

Midnight was about to strangle Twilight when Discord spoke up, "I believe she may be talking about you finding the Elements."

"Thank you…" Midnight started to say.

"Or she could have been talking about that massive Apple Feast you had the first time you met Applejack."

A pair of birds several miles away took off of their branch as a loud slap reverberated over the hills. Lowering her hoof from her forehead yet again, Midnight was unsurprised to see a little blood on it.

"Why dost thou keep hitting thyself?" Luna asked.

Midnight went to respond, but gave up immediately, lowering her hoof back to the ground. Twilight, meanwhile, began a conversation with Luna and Discord over whether or not Midnight had anything psychologically wrong with her, or if she had a mental disorder that caused her to hit herself.

"I'm surrounded by idiots," Midnight muttered as she sat down, shaking her head.

"It's not that bad," Pinkie said as she sat down next to Midnight, "You get used to it eventually."

"How do you put up with it?"

"By being generally random and silly, that way they don't say anything if I disappear. Usually I do that so I can go somewhere quiet and relax."

"But doesn't that get annoying? Being random all the time?"

"You have no idea," Pinkie sighed, "I may show you how I deal with it someday. Just remind me about it sometime."

"That may end up being in a couple hours, if things continue at this rate."

Pinkie giggled, then quickly hugged Midnight, "Don't worry. They only stay like this for a couple minutes at most, then they go back to normal. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go check on my daughter."

'Daughter?" Midnight asked, but Pinkie was already gone, "Wonderful. I'm stuck with them by myself now."

"What was that, dear?" Luna asked, finally able to remove herself from the now-argument between Twilight and Discord over the merits of Chaos on the battlefield.

"Nothing, mom."

"If you say so. I do think the two of us should leave now. If these two keep going at it, there's going to be a magical explosion soon. I would rather not get caught in it, as I am not sure we'd survive."

Midnight was confused, "But we are both Alicorns. How much could they do to us?"

"If it were any other two Alicorns going at it, we'd have nothing to worry about, but these two are manes and tails above even Celestia. Only the Dragon Queen could survive the explosion these two would cause unscathed."

Midnight was suddenly very worried, not only from her mother's words, but also from the fact that she could feel the magic in the air flowing into the two arguing beings.

"Can we leave now, then?" She asked.

Her answer was a flash of Midnight Blue light before she found herself in an underground room. Standing before her was a giant stone unicorn, it's horn encased in a gray light, almost as if it was channeling magic.

"Unknown Magic Wavelength Detected. Initiating Defense Protocol 17," the stone unicorn said, startling Midnight.

"Stand down, Midnight Rumble," Luna said from beside Midnight Moon, startling her yet again, "This is Princess Midnight Moon, my daughter. And she will be treated the same as you would treat me, understood?"

"New defensive parameters set. Princess Midnight Moon added to catalogued list of Magic Wavelengths," Rumble said, "My apologies, Princess. I wasn't aware you had a daughter."

"Think nothing of it," Luna waved his concern off, "Twilight would be proud that you take your charge so seriously."

"Mistress Twilight was very specific about what my punishment would be if any harm came to her daughter. I would rather that not come to pass. Though I cannot help but wonder where Death Strike is. His shift was supposed to start exactly fifteen seconds ago. Mistress Twilight will not be happy when she finds out he threw the whole schedule off."

"HEY! WHERE'S MY HUG?!" a teenage voice cried out, soon followed by it's owner.

Crimson Dawn was growing at an incredibly fast rate, even for an Alicorn. She was already as big as the three Crusaders, who happened to be her best friends. Though she wasn't even three months old, she already had the body of a twenty one year old, and the intelligence to match.

"Wow!" Luna exclaimed as she embraced her sister/niece, "You've gotten so big!"

"It's only been a week since you saw me last. I haven't grown that much!" Dawn said.

"Are you kidding? You only looked seventeen last time I saw you!" Luna said, causing Dawn to giggle.

"Stop it Auntie. You're embarrassing me," Dawn finally noticed Midnight standing by herself in the middle of the room, "Who's that?"

"That's your cousin, my daughter, Midnight Moon. She just got back from a really long trip, and I wanted her to meet you."

Dawn started walking around Midnight, making her feel like she was in the middle of an interrogation, before sitting down in front of her with a smile, raising her hoof to Midnight.

"Hi! My name's Crimson Dawn! How have you been? Where was your trip to? Was it fun? Did you regret having to come back here? Would you go back if you could?" The red Alicorn didn't give Midnight a chance to answer between her questions, which left her even more confused than before.

Midnight struggled to remember all the questions as she responded, "Um, Hi Crimson Dawn, I've been good, I can't answer that question, yes it was fun, yes and no, and I would go back if I could," She looked proud that she had been able to answer all of the questions her 'Cousin' had asked.

Luna came back out of the kitchen with 3 glasses of water held in her magic, which surprised Midnight and Dawn, since they didn't even see her leave for the kitchen. Right as they accepted the glasses from her, a deep vibration could be felt clearly.

"Seems it was a good idea to bring us here after all," Luna remarked, completely calm.

"Mother and Discord again?" Dawn asked.

Luna silently nodded.

Dawn sighed, "I don't see why they don't just get together. It's obvious to everypony that they like each other," she remarked as if talking about the weather, causing Midnight and Luna to choke on the sip of water they had just taken.

Midnight was still coughing while Luna attempted to regain her composure.

After several moments, Luna was able to talk again, "Why do you say that? What makes you think they like each other?"

"Isn't it obvious?" Dawn asked with a completely innocent face, "Yes, they fight constantly, but they always forgive each other immediately afterwards. And, you haven't heard some of the late night conversations they've had. I never needed some of those images of my mother in my head," Dawn shuddered subconsciously.

Before Luna or Midnight could respond, Twilight appeared in a flash of light, albeit covered with light singes on her coat from the explosion she and Discord had caused, "I swear, someday I'm going to stop holding back, and then we'll see if he'll still be laughing then," she muttered to herself with a half smile.

"MOTHER!" Dawn yelled, before tackle-hugging Twilight, startling her.

"It's… Good to… See you… too," Twilight said, struggling to breath in the bone crushing bear hug her daughter had her in, "Could you please… loosen your hug?"

"Sorry," Dawn said as she released Twilight, but only slightly.

"If you keep growing at this rate, you might be bigger than me in another month," Twilight said with a smirk while she messed up Dawn's mane with her hoof.

"Mother," Dawn said, exasperated, as she backed away and attempted to fix her mane, "I hope Aunt Rarity doesn't walk in right now, otherwise I won't have my mane back for hours. Again."

Twilight laughed, before finally noticing Luna and Midnight, who had finally stopped coughing, and was just regaining her composure.