Hey everyone, a quick note before I start off the story or even the short story. you see, I've decided to go ahead and start making MLP Analysis videos on YouTube! I already have one up under the same username as this account on FanFiction, 4428Gamer. It's about Spike's character. I hope you all enjoy it just as much as the story.

With that said, I think it's about time that we get the short story out of the way so we can start the finale! ENJOY EVERY PONY!

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The Shadow: Issue #1 (1/5)

3rd Pony POV

"Please tell me that's the last time we need to worry about him." Robin asked as the two heroes went inside The Stable. An underground area that The Shadow had built strictly for his own use. Of which only his most trusted acquaintance, a butler named Flare, was entrusted in knowing about.

Flare was the one and only butler of the biggest bit millionaire, Bruce Mane. Flare was a dragon that was the age of one-hundred and twenty. A common age for teenage dragons. Flare not only helped Bruce, but handled all of his business. One of the few things ponies knew about dragons were that they could send and receive letters of any kind. And by simply using a slight aura mark on the dragon in question, any unicorn or fellow dragon could send a letter.

In a shorter way, it worked like trading phone numbers, and there was no way for letters to be intercepted.

"You know as well as I do that he's not going to stay in custody for long. That clown always finds a way out, and we need to try and figure out how." The Shadow told her as he went over to his chair and sat down. Using his magic to create all the Magic Screens. Each magic screen worked like a security camera. Of course, it was only one way, and couldn't change it's direction.

"Ugh, it's so annoying!" Robin said as she took off her mask. Revealing it to be a small unicorn filly known as High Class. When Bruce had become the bit millionaire of Goatham City (THAT'S THE SECOND TO LAST PONIFIED BATMAN PUN, I SWEARE!) he one day adopted a baby filly that was brought in after an accident from her family. She was given the name by Bruce and is acknowledged as an upper class filly to most every pony.

Something that she hated above all else. Luckily, after finding out about The Shadow, she was soon a masked super heroine herself. Only the three of them knew the secret of who The Shadow and Robin really were.

"Why can't we just put him in a prison that's, oh, I don't know...In a different city?!" She asked with annoyance, jumping onto a couch that they had moved in here for her to lay on when she was bored.

"Really?" The Shadow asked, taking off his own mask to reveal Bruce Mane himself. "You think any pony else like The Power Ponies can manage The Joker?" He asked calmly, playing the cards right.

Class sat up and opened her mouth to answer, but after two more seconds had passed, she closed it and fell on her back. "Ugh..." She grunted, knowing he was right. "No, they can't. They can barely take on that walking mane disaster they call a villain. Not to mention, they have the most annoying sidekick ever!"

"Oh. Sure. Humdrum's the most annoying sidekick." Mane said sarcastically as he kept watching the screen.

"..." Class nodded silently in agreement. Taking a good ten seconds before she had caught on and jumped up. "HEY! What's that supposed to mean, Mr. Mane?!" She asked, calling him that name purposefully. It was kind of a shot through the heart since they were basically father and daughter, but Mane looked unfazed.

"I knew it got rowdier down here."

The both of them turned towards the entrance as Flare the butler came in. He had dark red skin and dusty yellow scales to match. Along with a black bowtie around his neck to try and at least keep all the snobby upper class ponies that met him from saying anything. He also had with him a small platter of light apple cider for Mane and a wheat soda for Class.

He looked towards Class first, who was standing on top of her normal, not too fancy, dark red couch. Class was a unicorn that had an orange coat, and a red-purple mane/tail to match. Her mane was usually brushed to fit the fancy lifestyle, but it was left a mess like she wanted to keep it when not around any pony else. Or out beating the tar out of some goons.

Flare then turned to the second unicorn in the room, Mane. Who was still calmly sitting in his chair. Even though he had been out fighting too, with a mask no less, his hair was still the same as it usually was. Combed down and professional. He had a black coat and a white mane and tail and the same as ever calm and professional look on his face. One that Class always said a Buckington Palace guard couldn't match.

"He called me a sidekick!" Class shouted out as Flare let her levitate her wheat soda off the platter.

"Wait, he what?" Flare asked, walking over to Mane next. "Not cool dude." He told him with a shake of the head while letting him levitate his own drink.

"It was meant to be a joke. Guess I should just keep from telling those." Mane said with a light sigh, taking a sip of the cider. "So, any news lately?"

"Commissioner sent a letter to The Shadow saying how there have been a few odd sights in the Northern District. No crimes yet, but he wouldn't be surprised if something started up tonight or tomorrow." Flare said while belching up a report. Which was immediately levitated over to Class.

"Some guards spotting a few weird figures..." Class said, looking serious as she took another sip of her soda. "Yeah why not. I'll go ahead and look into it myself. Besides, I might as well try and be a useful sidekick." She said dropping the paper and getting up. Levitating her mask onto her head and walking out of The Stable with her drink in tow.

"I really don't get why she's so angry. Ponies refer to her as a sidekick already." Mane said with a shake of his head before going back to the screens. Not looking back towards the door Class wen through.

"Uh...Sir Mane? You do realize that she's actually going out to check on that suspicious behavior right?" Flare asked with a raised eyebrow, gesturing towards the door behind him with his thumb.

"Yes. Why, do you think she'll need some help?" He asked, giving him a questionable look. "I may look to her as my daughter, but I know when a child needs their space. Besides, she can handle any criminal from off the street. Hay, she can take care of some of the goons from The Joker's team, or any other crime lord's lackeys. After all, we spent three months teaching her some defense magic, hoof-to-hoof combat, and even briefing her on the Grapple Line. And let's not forget her scooter that runs on her magic alone."

Flare simply sighed and shook his head. "I guess either way it's a losin' battle. Just remember that surprisingly enough, heroes before you have had sidekicks. And when those sidekicks feel like they've been kicked more than they have appreciated, they may just become your worst enemy." He then walked off to take care of something else. Leaving Mane to his thoughts.

"She'll be fine." Mane said to himself before downing the last of his cider. "High Class is as smart as she is tough."

Before he could even put his glass down, however, one of the screens that were pointed towards the Ancient Museum showed the large front doors rusting and rotting completely before collapsing outwardly. Revealing four Earth ponies in black suits to be walking out of the museum. Two of them carrying bags of miscellaneous objects.

And in an instant, all of them dropped one smoke pellet each. Making a small cloud of smoke appear around the group for a few seconds, before fading away just in time for the guards to catch up to them. Only, the four ponies that were there before, were left without a trace.

"And speaking of tough." Mane said, jumping up and running for his own mode of transportation. Putting on his mask and utility belt in the process. "It's going to be a long night."

Disclaimer: I do not own MLP or anything related to it. All I own are the ideas, Blitz, Joe, Big Mike, Morgue, and a few of the OCs that will be used. Some OCs are provided by you the readers. ENJOY!

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Blitz's POV

Canterlot...In all the time I've been here, I've never actually come here. I went to Broncolyn to build Gilda's house, and accidentally helped her and Dash become friends again. I went to Appaloosa for a few days to train my more dangerous bionics, and ended up discovering a whole new substance called Appaloosan Snake Venom. I always kept a few vials in my tool belt for emergencies, and if it wasn't for the fact that it was snake venom, Twilight would probably be studying it too.

I've been everywhere in and above Ponyville to the point of being able to navigate it blind. I even know a good bit of Everfree too. Or, at least the places that don't have too much wildlife to the point of it being annoying.

But I've never been to Canterlot. Which seemed surprising since one; Twilight was the student of Princess Celestia. Not to mention, sister to Prince Shining Armor. Two; Rarity came here for business on making fancy dresses. And three; I was a Protector of Harmony by being the Element of Courage. And on top of all that, I was pretty well known as the Cypony of Equestria, and I was apparently on par with Canterlot's Construction Crew. However, despite all of that...

I hated every second I was here.

It felt like every step towards Canterlot Castle was a step towards my own execution. Could any pony blame me for acting like that though? Here I was, living it nice and easy in probably the most peaceful dimension in the universe...Or at least, peaceful meaning fights or wars, not calm an relaxing. Celestia knows that all the supernatural and magic monsters in this world destroy any idea of relaxing.

Anyway, I was going from this world. To Earth. And what was worse was that I had to not only go back, not only try and keep the mane six and Spike safe, but...I also had to try and save the three jerks who made my life a living nightmare...

Yes, executioner? Please make my death a quick one. In fact, if you could slit my throat before putting the noose on, that'd be great.

"Blitz? Are you okay?" Twilight asked me as we all kept on walking towards the castle. It's admittedly amazing architecture getting closer to us by the step. In fact, on the ride here, they had all started joking about how I would probably be in awe by the up-close architecture and even more so about the inside itself. So much so that they even started to burst into laughter about it.

They didn't think much of it when I wasn't so much as cracking a grin at their jokes at the time, but as we got here they started to pick up on it. And even though all of them were either nervous or excited, or for Pinkie "Nervicited!", my depressing act was bringing the morale down. So much so that at this point, talking out loud was awkward enough.

"Mmhmm..." I mumbled a 'Yes' in response and just kept walking. Only looking forward as if to just simply get this all over with. We then came up on the entrance of the front courtyard. Where the guards smiled at the sight of us, but noticed the depressed tone and simply stepped aside to let us through. Almost inaudibly gulping at my stern expression.

Of course, not of them even believed me for a second, so AJ ran up beside me next. She saw how I was reacting right about now, and knew that if I didn't cheer up soon, I wouldn't get any better on my own.

"Hey Blitz, I just remembered somethin'." She told me. And when I still didn't pay him any attention, she just went on as if I asked. "Every time all of us, er even just a few of us come 'ere to Canterlot, we all get some donuts from Donut Joe's before we head home! And I hear he's startin' ta sell soda now too!" She finished with a smile on her face. Which made the others cheer up too. Thinking it would help a little.

"Joe..." I muttered with a glare. And as I kept that one glare on my face, the next two guards who at the halfway point of the courtyard flinched in response. Tightening their grip on their spears, and needing an apologetic look from Twilight to know everything was fine. That was probably normal for rookie guards though. Only, the problem was that those two were two low leveled captains. Ones that have been guards for a while now.

"Uh...Oh! Blitz, look at those castle doors up ahead! Pretty awesome, am I right?!" Rainbow Dash said as she flew up next to me and nudged me with her elbow to hopefully get a response. She saw how I was scaring the guards, not to mention Spike and Fluttershy, all by accident with how angry I was getting.

"Sure." I answered uncaringly, not even paying attention towards the doors as the two guards at the top opened them for us. Revealing to us all the inside of the castle. It had a giant staircase just up ahead, with two hallways that went out to the left and right, and two doors on either side of the staircase that led either down under the castle itself, or to more rooms at the base floor.

Not to mention, there was a royal red carpet that went from the front doors and split off in the three directions. Going down the two hallways towards the significantly smaller, but still pretty big for normal sized, doors and up the stairs without so much as one fold or crease on any of the steps.

Even if I wasn't in a foul mood right now, I wouldn't be too impressed. It was the same design as every other run of the mill castle entrance you would see in video games and TV shows. Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Fable III, etc. Hay, Luigi's mansion was more original than this Layout!

"Woah! Look at the Entrance Room, Blitzy! You could fit half of Ponyville in here! Now that is a party room!" Pinkie said, jumping up and down on top of my head in excitement. Which surprisingly enough, it felt as if there was no weight at all.

Still, that didn't snap me out of my frown like Pinkie had hoped. "It's called a Main Hall, Pinkie." I told her emotionlessly as I walked forward toward the one pony who was standing ahead of us. Who took a deep breath before facing me with as much professionalism as she could muster.

"Correct, Sir. You must be that stallion the Princesses had told me and the royal guard about. I am Check Chart, The main royal advisor for the Princesses." She introduced with a small nod while looking to a clipboard she had levitated beside her to try and see if everything was going right as it should.

The mare was a unicorn with a pale-ish white coat and a dark brown mane/tail to match. She also had glasses on that looked like they had to be constantly adjusted an a Cutie Mark with a clipboard that had a checklist on it.

Rarity then stepped up and looked to Chart with a slightly confused look. "Wait, main advisor? So what you mean to say is that-"

"There are other advisors, yes. Each advisor looks over a certain subject. One advisor looks over agriculture, another looks over social matters, one for political issues. In total, there are twelve advisors each looking into different subjects. They all then come to me, separately to avoid their constant annoying bickering and on occasion, fights, and I then decided what's more important as efficiently as possible. Now, Master Spike, Master Electric Blitz, if you two would be as so kind to follow me. The Royal Council are awaiting your arrival in the Throne Room." She concluded her long, yet somehow very quick ramble. And I swear, I had to think over what she said because she had to have said it twice as fast as Pinkie could.

Chart then side-stepped out-of-the-way and gestured for the two of us to walk up the steps. When we started to do so, she quickly walked up ahead of us in order to guide us to the room.

"Wait a second, what about us?" Rainbow Dash asked. A little annoyed that the rest of them were being ignored for now.

Check Chart then turned once she got to the top of the stairs and looked down upon them. "I am sorry, but they only asked for the presence of Sir Spike and Sir Electric Blitz."

At this point, Spike leaned over towards me and whispered, "Why is she calling us 'Sir'?"

"No idea." I whispered, more confused about this turn of events than mad about the whole situation. Don't get me wrong, I wasn't about to crack a smile anytime soon until I got some more answers, but I was still left confused. "Maybe she's being friendly?" I offered questionably.

"Doubtful." Spike answered, earning a nod from me. She didn't seem like a mare that wanted to make friends. Still, how she talked seemed energetic enough.

"You will all meet up later at...Another location, but for now you'll have to separate. Don't worry though..." She then went on to let out a frustrated sigh. "He will take your saddlebags and tell you when it's time to go."

Before any of us could even question what she meant, some ominous voice sounded out to answer. "Well that's hardly the introduction I was hoping for. I mean really, all those charts and clipboards, and not one of them teaching you how to give some pony a proper introduction?"

Suddenly, the chandelier from the ceiling of the room melted to the floor...Yes. Melted. As in it was almost like the chandelier was made out of clay and sat in a furnace. So once the entire chandelier melted onto the carpeted rug below, the remains of said object rose up and shaped into...The potato head of all animals?...

"Ladies." The thing then bowed to the six of them. "May I take your bags?" ...Oh, and I guess I might as well mention this: The Pawn Shop Mammal was also wearing a bellhop uniform.

"Oh great, it's you again..." I heard Rainbow Dash mumble annoyingly.

"Come on Rainbow Dash, be a little nice. He has changed his ways since then, remember?" Fluttershy said, handing the bellhop guy her saddlebag.

"I think I'll agree with Fluttershy on this one darling. Especially since Discord is offering to take our bags for us. That does show true initiative after all." Rarity agreed as she levitated over her bags to Discord. All ten of them...Oh, and both of her saddlebags too. In fact, I think the only reason she was agreeing with Fluttershy was because she couldn't trick any of us, not even Spike this time, into carrying her bags.

As they all reluctantly put all of their bags on the bellhop cart that this mutant had made appear out of nowhere, I couldn't help but speak up. "Is...No pony going to question why a bipedal Billy-goat in a bellhop uniform melted from the ceiling?" I asked, very lost right now.

Of course, all I got in response was the Mane Six, Spike, all the guards, and even Check Chart laughing in response as the Where the Wild Things Are Reject just joined in as well. This not answering my question at all.

"Come on Sirs. We don't want to be late." Check Chart told us as she tried to recover from laughing. And while still chuckling, she wiped a tear from her eye and went on. Leaving me confused next to Spike who was about to fall off the step he was standing on top of.

That left me to pick him up and fly over to catch up to Chart. "So seriously, who was that?" I asked, hoping to get some kind of answer. Luckily as I landed and let Spike just ride on my back since he was suffering from a busted gut, Chart composed herself pretty quick and answered.

"That was Discord. He's part of the Royal Council, and was asked to make sure the Mane Six stayed away from the Throne Room while you all answered to the rest of the Royal Council. They don't want the six of them to overhear about the show." Chart recited quickly while approaching the Throne Room door.

I wasn't paying attention to that though. Because the moment she said 'the show' not only did Spike quiet down, but so did my heart too. Everything felt frozen in time for me while I sat there. Remembering the worst part about all of this. While coming up to this castle, I kept thinking about all of us leaving Equestria for Earth, and how we had to meet those three.

But not once did I think about the show.

"We're here." She said as we all stood in front of the door. Spike hopped off of my back and both of us stood up straight with blank faces. Now completely unsure of how to react about this. We didn't know how to respond, but we knew that looking confused wasn't a good idea. So we both had the same idea to look emotionless until we figured something else out.

The two guards at the Throne Room doors then went on with their usual routine of opening the doors and all hope of backing out was gone. As if we ever thought to back away from this anyway. From something this big, it was almost selfish not to show up at all.

We both walked in as soon as the doors were completely opened. And after taking a few steps ahead of the doorway, the guards quickly closed the doors behind us. Slamming the doors and startling Spike by accident. I stayed completely calm, but now Spike's heart rate was going nuts.

"Hello Blitz. Hello Spike." Princess Celestia greeted us as she sat in her own throne. To each side of her was one throne. On her left was a dark blue colored throne with a Moon crescent symbol along the top of it. Which was where Princess Luna was sitting.

And to the right was a throne that looked as if it was entirely made of crystals. Except for the cushion, but still it didn't exactly look comfortable to sit in. A third Alicorn with a pink coat was sitting in that throne while a White unicorn was standing besides it.

Both of them were completely new to me, so I didn't know what to think of them. The only odd part about them though was that the unicorn looked so excited to see me.

"Hello Princess." We both said in unison as we bowed. By this point, I had gotten the whole bowing thing down and knew what I was supposed to do whenever I greeted royalty.

"Please, it's alright. You two don't have to be so formal." Princess Celestia said with a light smile. To which we simply rose silently.

"Yes. To you two and the other Elements, it is alright for you to simply give a polite nod." Princess Luna agreed while giving us a light smile of her own.

"That goes for me too. You don't have to greet me with a bow at all either. Especially when Spike is technically a brother of mine and Electric Blitz is great friends with my sister Twilight." The third princess said with a slight chuckle herself.

"...Well, I guess that's a year's worth of etiquette lessons down the drain." I mumbled to myself. Though it was just loud enough for every pony else to hear and give a small laugh to.

"E-excuse me, Electric Blitz? Err, sir?" The unicorn took a single step forward, looking nervous for some reason. "Are you really The Sheriff Lonestar Alamo?" He asked, sounding amazed that I was just standing in front of him.

"Uh..." I started, not sure how to respond to this. Apparently, this guy was one of the Royal Council members. So it was a little weird how a guy probably twice my age was looking to me as if I was a hero. "Yeah, I guess I am." I answered confusedly, looking towards the three princesses for some help here.

"Shining Armor, I don't think now is the best time." Princess Celestia told him with a slight chuckle. In the next instant though, she got serious. "I think the real reason we're here is to discuss the matters at hoof."

"Yeah...Going back to Earth." I said with a slight depressed look on my face. "With all due respect, I think I already know some of what I have to do. As does Spike. We're going to Earth to save those three, and the others have to come too since their the Elements. Not only that, but I need to make sure that none of them find out about..." I stopped for a second and remembered how Spike was standing right next to me. "The thing..."

"You mean the show?"

I then looked up immediately and towards the Royal Council. It was a male's voice, so it wasn't either of the Princesses. In fact, the three of them weren't even reacting to how that was brought up around Spike. And Shining Armor hadn't said it either since he had been standing at attention this entire time.

"Isn't that is what you meant? All of them like to call it MLP, right?" Spike asked, looking directly at me.

I didn't even dare try to open my mouth to answer him, because I knew I had nothing to say. So I just kept a completely dumb look on my face the entire time. Seriously, how was I...

"Uh...Blitz?" Spike asked, waving a claw in front of my face in order to try and snap me out of it. "If this is your reaction to me knowing about MLP, then I'm almost afraid about how you might react to this next part."

"N...Ne...Next. Part?" I asked with my ever still dumb expression on my face, just barely able to refocus my eyes.

"Your response is very understandable." Princess Luna told me, making me snap out of it just enough to let me shake my head and get focused on what was going on again. "In fact, your response was much better than that of Princess Mi Amore Cadenza. By this point, they had started to stutter and question just how it was possible."

"Actually...Now that you mention it, how is it possible?" I asked, looking towards Spike in confusion. "With how you all already knew about this, I guessed that you have to have something to do with the show being created. But how does Spike come into play?" I looked back between Princess Luna and Spike afterwards. As if expecting to just see the answer myself.

Princess Celestia simply gave a nod. Earning all of our attention right away. "I guess it's about time you learned the explanation." She then took a few seconds to take in a breath and collect her thoughts. Getting ready to explain it all to her.

"You see, as you may know My Little Pony was created long before you were born. The first generation, which I tried to create. By that point in time, Princess Luna was..." She turned over towards Luna, offering if she wanted to go on or let Celestia keep going.

Luna chose to explain the next part. "While I was banished on the moon, Celestia decided within these last hundred years that the prophecy was soon approaching of Nightmare Moon's return." I heard about all of that from Twilight while she was explaining the Elements to me. And almost every time that name was mentioned, I couldn't help but flinch a bit. Could you blame me though? An evil form of some pony the strength of a God that nearly took down Celestia? Yeah, that's something to give a slight reaction towards.

"So she tried to use Dream Magic to plant the idea of My Little Pony into a human's mind. Of course, since Celestia is not that good at Dream Magic..." She couldn't help but chuckle a little at the memories. To which Celestia looked down in slight embarrassment. "Well, I think you know the result of the first three generations of that imagined creation."

"I think just about every human does." I said with a nod. I was never a Brony. At least, before coming to Equestria I wasn't a Brony. If I still was a Hater while living in Equestria, I think that would technically make me a terrorist in this world. Regardless, I knew about how girly and stupid the rest of the generations were. Which was why most ponies-err, humans-were Haters in the first place.

"Yes. While trying to portray the world of Equestria via dreams, which humans can then interoperate as creativity, she got many things either mixed up or was not able to bring them forward at all. Thus Spike was in a few generations, as were one or two of the other Elements for a few times. But for instance, Rainbow Dash was mixed with the personality of Rarity, humans were added in one generation, many errors in nearly-"

Before Luna could go on explaining how badly she messed up three times, Celestia cleared her throat loudly and stopped Luna's rambling. Only letting her giggle a little as Celestia explained the rest. "Soon enough, the Elements of Harmony had appeared. Showing me that the Protectors of Harmony were not far behind. Knowing that I was hopeless to bring the world of Equestria to light for humans alone, I planned something else. I had used what knowledge of Dream magic I had to put something else together. I had Hasbro arrange to meet a creator that would do Equestria's design justice."

"That creator, was Lauran Faust." Luna then came in to explain the next and final part. "By this point, Nightmare Moon had returned and was defeated. Which had brought me back to my sister, who then explained to me her plan. I watched some of the previous attempts, and accepted to help her with my much more skilled ability in Dream Magic." She sounded like she was boasting, but with how she had tried once and made MLP that it is today, in one try no less, she had all the right to boast.

"Soon enough, the episode was under creation. And after some opinion changing through dreams, it was perfected. The only problem that was left, was to give all the writers the stories." Princess Luna told me, looking off to the side towards Spike.

And looking towards him myself, he only smiled in joy. "That's where I came in!" He told me with a grin. "Since I wrote all the letters Twilight and the others sent, all I had to do was secretly send another letter about everything that happened that day! I've even seen all the episodes too! And they're pretty great! Only...Around the third season, they stopped listening to what happened and did something else."

"Yeah." Shining Armor now took over. Looking a bit confused. "They made Twily an Alicorn."

"I know! How toyetic could they get?!"

"Wait a second," I said in confusion. "Isn't that the same voice as from the-" As I spoke, a bright light flashed in between all six of us. Showing the same Goat-Dragon that was in the Main Hall as before. "Yeah, it is..." I said almost tiredly. Honestly, just trying to figure out what this thing was seemed exhausted enough.

"Hm? Oh! Why if it isn't Mr. Namecaller himself! Hello!" The Animal Mix N' Mingler said with a friendly grin. Or, what looked like a friendly grin anyway. "Tell me, do I really look like a Billy Goat? It's the beard isn't it? I knew I should've gotten it styled a few decades ago. It's a handful to take care of, as you might imagine."

His small little beard then came to life. Going as far as to growl at me with some kind of mouth before going back to normal. When he saw that I barely raised an eyebrow at...Whatever his beard just did, he frowned in annoyance and flashed away. Reappearing in a throne of his own that was made out of a piece of hedge that was in the shape of...A pony version of Abraham Lincoln sitting in a chair?

"Discord, why aren't you out there? I thought you were to make sure that Twilight and the others would stay away from the Throne Room." Princess Celestia said in a scolding tone. "Why are you here?"

"Oh come now Celestia, did you really expect me to just stay outside the room while the only Cypony in Equestria was talking to the rest of you? Was that supposed to be my punishment for replacing the frosting on your cake with expired peanut butter?" He asked with a confused look before turning towards me.

"No. You were the only one that could have kept them from hearing about..." She then paused with a sudden look of calm realization. "What was that you just said?"

"Oh, that's right. You skipped eating a piece because of this important matter." He muttered to himself before clearing his throat. "I didn't say anything. No need to worry about it." The hedge pony, Abraham, then came to life for a few seconds and smacked Discord upside the head because of the lie.

"Where are Twilight and the others?" Shining Armor commanded as all of them frowned at him. Me and Spike even went as far as to stand up to him. Ready to take him down if it was something that was bad.

"Well, they were asking me why you all only wanted to talk to the Rust Bucket and Purple Lizard," He then suddenly appeared in between the both of us and smirked. "See? I can do this too."

"Oh, don't worry. I'm holding back on the names right now." I told him with a glare. Every pony knew that I hated being called 'Robot'. So imagine just how much I hated being called anything else.

"You do know that you're staring right into the eyes of the very monster that played the Mane Six like fools, put the two princesses under house arrest, and nearly ruled Equestria twice don't you?" Discord asked with an annoying grin on his face. Probably waiting for me to wipe it right off of his face because of my hot-headedness.

Sadly, I was one step ahead of that. "Really now? And here I was thinking I was having a staring contest with a Beast Boy reject who lost a fight with the Sandman." I insulted, glaring right back at him and waiting for him to go ahead and attack me.

"Hehehe..." He then chuckled darkly a few times. Not effected by my insult at all. "Well, I'd be lying if I'd say I wasn't expecting that kind of response. You are Electric Blitz after all. Known for not only your bionics, but your endless supply of courage. Of course, every pony's afraid of something." He told me as he started to slither around me like the snake that he was probably made up of.

"So what is it that you're afraid of? How every pony might start to act towards you if they found out the truth?" He asked, hoping to get it out of me with his own conniving ways. Only, he should've known better than to try and leak it out of me.

Because the only way to get him back was to play along. "Well I wouldn't want any pony else to know. I had more than enough of a reaction thanks to that fan mare that tackled me down." That was enough to make Spike burst out in laughter from the memory. It was in the past now, so I didn't hold it against him anymore. After all, it was funny enough.

"Don't you hate it when fan mares try getting close to you?" Shining asked, playing along too. He knew exactly what I was playing at and decided to jump in too.

"You too? They can get pretty crazy, huh?" I asked him, hoping to maybe get some advice on how to stop them.

"She try to kiss you?" He asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Came outta nowhere." I told him with a nod, to which we both started laughing along with Spike.

"Okay..." Discord said, making the rickety old wooden roof form above me. "Then what about one of these, hm? If I recall correctly, roofs are the reason you have your bionics. Not to mention how your mother left. Tragic, I'm sure." Discord said as he pulled out a small squeaky toy hammer.

"DISCORD!" Princess Luna yelled out, jumping out of her throne with her intent to kill Discord three times over for saying that.

"No, it's alright Princess." I told her calmly as I took a step towards Discord. "Besides, he's only half right." I told her before calmly turning my attention to Discord. Who looked about ready to hit one of the four thin supports that was holding up the rickety roof over my head.

"You see Discord, it wasn't the roof that gave me my bionics. To be fair, I owe Princess Celestia for the razor sharp tail, music playear, and the power to absorb electricity and reuse it. Here's a demonstration." I then simply tapped his elbow with my metal hoof. Transferring 5,000 volts of electricity into his body. "And to give more credit where it's due, it was the turn of events from Shining Armor and Twilight's ancestor, Sparkle Bright, that led to me getting an enchanted eye and-"

"Your grapple hoof. Right?" The third princess offered with a raised hoof. As if being a patient student.

"Correct!" I said with a laugh before hearing a piece of the condemned roof crack. "And it works simply by thrusting my hoof in the direction I want it to fire and flicking my wrist at the same time. Like this," I then jumped away from the small roof and used my grapple hoof to break the joke of a roof into mulch.

"Oh, by the way, I'm sorry but I never got your name." I said sheepishly as I let the grapple hoof retract and lock into place before scratching the back of my head in embarrassment.

"You can just call me Cadence. The 'Princess' part isn't necessary." She said with a polite nod. "Also, that was different than what the history books said about your strange skill. How did you even make a grapple hoof in those ages?"

"Well...It took a spring, some rope, a campfire, a pair of earrings..." I took a deep breath as the memory of the pain came back. Mentally making it hurt. "A hatchet, and a lot of pain. But since then, I've made a few more improvements. Along with some new bionics too."

"That. That takes guts." Shining Armor said with a gulp. "I just want to say that you are one of my biggest idols." He told me in complete awe.

"Oh...Uh...Thanks?" I said confusedly. But as I saw Discord out of the corner of my eye start to get back up, I got serious again. "You still didn't answer my question by the way. Where are the others?"

"Don't worry, I didn't do anything bad to them. But when Pinkie said something about cupcakes, I admit I flinched a bit. Before I could recover from it though, they started drilling more questions in. I tried to stay quiet and distract them about something else, but when they got suspicious I resorted to sending them off ahead of time." He told us with a nod.

"Send them away? You mean that you brought them to..." Princess Celestia started, sounding unsure about the whole thing.

"Yes. But don't worry. I made sure that they wouldn't get up after going through the portal." Discord reassured her. Although it alerted me and Spike as we got ready to take him down out of anger.

"What do you mean 'wouldn't get up'?! What'd you do?!" Spike asked, demanding an answer. I stayed right beside him, ready to use my bionics at even the slightest twitch from Discord.

"What did I do? Why simply enough, I put them to sleep. And since Blitz was so kind to demonstrate how a few of his bionics worked, let me return the favor by showing how I did so." He then snapped his fingers from his lion paw and-

Suddenly, a twenty pound dumbbell landed on top of my head while a full sandbag smacked Spike on his own head. Spike didn't stand much of a chance as he passed out on the ground. Sadly, I didn't have that kind of luxury as I withstood the hit to my own head.

I fell to the ground, but was still wide-awake and in a lot of pain right now. I couldn't form words or that many thoughts right now, but I could still hear what they were saying.

"DISCORD! WE'VE BEEN FORGIVING UP TILL NOW, BUT THY ACTIONS HAVE GONE TOO FAR!"

"Luna, stay calm! And Discord! For what purpose was that for?!"

"Oh please, what did you expect me to do? Sing him a song from the show like A-whoops!"

Before I could even try and open my eyes, I was splashed by a small glass of water. This instantly sending me into an electric shock. The pain of the dumbbell, plus the water that equaled the pain of a heart attack to me, caused me to black out while surging with wild electricity coursing through my body.

Treating this visit like an execution wasn't too far off now, was it?

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Great going Discord! First chapter and you fry Blitz!

Oh well, I guess that was only to be expected. Looks like the only thing left to do now is wait for every pony to start waking up. Still, this is only the first chapter of many to come! And remember, I don't have a set limit on this finale! So be ready for this finale to be rightfully fleshed out!

I hoped you all enjoyed this episode as much as I did enjoy writing it! And I know I'm kind of drilling this in, but while making this finale I'm also going to make some YouTube videos. MLP Analysis videos to be exact. It has the same username as the name I have on here.

Another thing to mention, don't forget about the poll that's on my profile page here on FanFiction! On it is a poll to vote for your favorite of the three thieves! Pick your favorite, and remember it'll be reset every five chapters.

See you all either here or YouTube! BYE EVERY BRONY!

QotC: Blitz called Discord a few insults this chapter. But let's see if any pony can top him! What's the best name to insult Discord with?!