Hello everyone, Gold here. Again sorry for the late chapter uploads, been busy for a bit. Time for another chapter, let's get to the reviews!

Glimpse: YES, LIFE IS COMPLETE I MADE GLIMPSE CRY XD You are becoming a big star here.

Captain: What didn't you do! Right, forgot about the Eon guns...It's the truth, Unknown=OP

Aura: Dawnstar Night eh? Good name. Gold isn't that injured from Glimpse's accidental rage, so don't worry. I thought it was ironic I used your line XD

WinterBlaze: It's alright, one missed review is okay. Tell Zero to hold your horses about Tails! Jeez!

Werewolf: I don't even know what that is...moving on...thanks!

Maverick: Yeah, I think criticism is really helpful to me. At first I kinda get depressed that I missed something or could have done something better, but the criticism helps me correct it. The Eon lore stuff was really a simple idea that grew over many years. I agree with the canon thing, it is just that sometimes you have to keep some canon in or else it gets too...all over the place. Expanding into my own stories, what do you mean by that? Like a real book? And the Twilight thing, not all hedgehog OCs ship with her. Aura is with AJ, Blade can be paired with Fluttershy, and Glimpse is actually not paired with Twilight in this story. I don't know why I picked Twi as Gold's love interest, it just seemed to fit in. AND THAT WASN'T A SEXUAL JOKE XD

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Okay, let's get this show on the road!

Disclaimer: I do not own anything except Gold, the Eon, the plot, etc. All OCs belong to their respectful owners.

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Gold the Fox presents...

Eon Chronicles

Darkened Dawn

Chapter 22: All Fired Up

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After the weird incident with Twilight, Gold and Glimpse assumed she was in a bad mood for some reason, possibly over Gold telling her what to do. For a couple of hours, they did nothing but relax, Gold slowly healing after Glimpse attacked him accidentally while watching some television. Glimpse meanwhile went out back to do some light training with Chaos, aiming attacks at the strong tree in the backyard that Gold would use during training. As Glimpse trained, he remembered something.

"Hey Gold?" Glimpse yelled from the backyard.

"Yeah!" Gold yelled back from inside on the couch.

"Where did Aura go?" Glimpse asked while walking inside, tired of yelling from outside.

"Oh yeah, Aura. Thought he came back here." Gold wondered, remembering Aura was still in their group.

"I have no idea where he is now though..."

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"Applejack, you shouldn't be out of that basement." Aura said, walking along with Applejack at his side.

"Trust me partner, Ah am perfectly safe. You don't need to worry about anything." Applejack reassured her hedgehog companion.

"After you show me where you found this shard, I'm taking you back." Aura said sternly.

"Aura, Ah'll be fine. And Ah can be with you if Ah don't go back." the pony said, being slightly flirty with the last sentence.

Aura got a bit nervous at the little flirt she gave but concealed his emotions.

"Riiiiiight. So are you sure you found an Eon Shard in some random cave, or was it just some random rock." Aura asked.

"Ah'm the Element of Honesty, you can trust what Ah say, Aura." Applejack said to him.

Aura could see she was lying, which was very, very odd considering that she was the Element of Honesty. Aura was going to say something but then had a better idea. The idea was to see where this was going. If it was a trap, then something was up. Or maybe it was a kind of joke from Applejack, but still, it would be very strange.

"Well, there it is." Applejack pointed a hoof toward a granite cave entrance that went down.

"Well, if there is an Eon Shard down there, it is going to help tremendously. Now AJ, I want you to go back to Tails's while I explore this. I don't want you getting hurt." Aura said, still a bit cautious.

"I can count on me, partner! Ah'll stay outta harm's way just for you."

Aura nodded at the comment and jumped into the cave to search. On the surface, Applejack started to walk away back toward the suburbs where everyone's house was at. However, something was up. There was nothing out of the ordinary in the air or ground, and nothing wrong with anyone. Only one thing was amiss. On Applejack's cutie mark, one apple had a bite in it, and another was brown.

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"Probably hanging out with Applejack in the basement or something." Gold assumed.

"Speaking of love interests, what's Twilight doing?" Glimpse asked.

"I don't know, she locked my door from the inside." Gold said with a sigh.

"Seriously?"

"Serious."

"Dang, she must be really pissed at you then." Glimpse said.

"Yeah, I don't even know what I did!" Gold complained.

"You locked her and her friends in the basement." he reminded Gold.

"Well, yeah, but it was for her safety, and she's acting like she doesn't even care!" Gold complained further, a bit saddened by this fact.

Glimpse put his hand on Gold's shoulder in reassurance.

"Ah, don't worry about it, she just has to calm down a bit. Now speaking of ponies in basements, we should go to Blade's and tell him it is his and Ensis's shift." Glimpse said.

"Yeah, it is their turn, isn't it? Let's go then."

"Race?"

"What's the point if we both run at the same speeds?"

"How do you know what our speeds are?"

"...I think Pinkie is giving me her abilities..."

And they ran off to Blade's house.

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They arrived and were stopped by a random scene happening at the door of Blade's house. Fluttershy was there and was violently pushing Blaze out of the door, while Blaze was cursing and yelling as she was getting kicked out. When Blaze was outside the door, Fluttershy slammed the door shut in Blaze's face. Blaze got fustrated and lit her hands on fire and was going to swing at the door, but her arms where stopped by Glimpse grabbing her shoulders.

"Easy there, hot stuff." Glimpse warned.

"That pony deserves a-wait, what did you call me?" Blaze said, realizing what Glimpse said.

"Uh, uh, you know, hot stuff, cause you are on fire! Yeah, that's why!" Glimpse said, a bit nervous.

"Riiiiiiight." Gold said with a grin and got a hard punch to the shoulder by Glimpse. "OW!"

"Serves you right. Anyway, what's going on here?" Glimpse asked Blaze about why she just got booted from the house.

"I was just setting up the guest room for myself when that pony-" Blaze started to explain.

"Her name's Fluttershy." Gold interrupted.

"I don't care. Continuing, that pony burst into my room and told me to leave. And she was like...like...screaming! I would have punched her right in her-"

"Careful now." Gold warned.

"Fine. I would have done something if Blade and Ensis were telling me not to hurt her. I don't know what her deal was." Blaze said, mad at the pony that was Fluttershy.

"Okay, so first, why is Fluttershy here! I thought Snow and Bright were watching them! And two, Fluttershy, the Element of Kindness and the quietest pony I have know, YELLED at you?" Glimpse asked confused.

"Remember, Fluttershy could have went to the hangar at Tails's place and escaped there. Bright and Snow wouldn't be able to detect her." Gold said.

"And yes, she yelled at me." Blaze answered simply.

"Alright, we need to talk to them." Glimpse said and knocked on the door.

"Just a minute!" Blade yelled from inside and moments later came and opened the door.

"May we come in and talk?" Glimpse asked.

"Yeah, sure, I think we do need to talk." Blade said, opening the door wider for them to come in.

"KEEP THAT STRAY FELINE OUT OF HERE!" a voice yelled from a room inside.

"Wow." Gold gawked at the comment, obviously Fluttershy's.

"Yeah, she's a bit rowdy for some reason." Ensis said from the couch and everyone sat down.

"So, first, it is you two's turn to watch the ponies." Gold said.

"We figured it would be our turn soon. Do you know how Bright and Snow did?" Blade asked.

"From the ponies showing up like Fluttershy and Twilight-" Glimpse started to say.

"Twilight is out too?" Blade said, surprised.

"She teleported out and is currently at Gold's house in his room, which is locked from the inside." Glimpse explained.

"Ooooo...someone is getting the cold shoulder." Blade said, looking specifically at Gold with a smirk.

"She's just a bit mad at me! She'll get over it." Gold said, waving his hand like everything was fine.

"You better hope she does or next thing you know, you got Twilight and Glimpse." Ensis joked, making Blade laugh with her.

"Funny." Gold said with a serious sarcastic attitude.

"Yeah, real funny." Glimpse said with the same attitude.

"I agree with Blade and Ensis, this is funny." Blaze said, chuckling a bit.

"That was a one time thing, alright! Don't remind me!" Gold said, crossing his arms.

"Alright, alright, we are just playing with you. We should get going then." Blade said, calming down.

"Well what about Fluttershy?" Glimpse asked.

"What about me!" somepony said behind Glimpse, making him jump a bit and turn around quickly.

"Where the hell did you come from!" Glimpse asked with a pointed finger.

"When your hairy rat's butt was talking I came out here." she insulted Glimpse a bit.

"What was that!" Glimpse nearly yelled.

"Glimpse, how about we deal with our anger later and go to the basement and drop Fluttershy off." Gold said, ending what could have turned into a nasty argument.

"Alright, but no freaking rodent comments." Glimpse said, glaring at Fluttershy.

"Whatever you say...rodent." she said as she started to fly in the direction of Tails's house.

Glimpse was going to go do...violent things to her for saying that, but was held back by Gold and Blade because one person wouldn't be able to hold his rage. Once he had simmered down a bit they started to walk to Tails's house.

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They arrived to see Snow and Bright sleeping on the job. Normally you would think they would spazz out on them. But luckily for the two phoenixes, they didn't know Bright and Snow didn't go in the basement. So instead, Gold and the group figured they were overworked. Gold poked Bright's wing to wake her up but nothing happened. He did it again, and this time Bright's eyes shot open and she started flapping her wings furiously in different directions.

"AH HA! MEPHILES! DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE!" she shouted.

"Bright, it's us! Calm your wings!" Gold said, dodging random wings being flung at him.

Bright calmed down and looked at the group and nudged Snow to wake her up as well. Unlike Bright, Snow woke up peacefully with no wing flapping.

"Your guys time is up. Blade and Ensis are up now." Glimpse said.

"Well, great!" Bright said and was about to fly outta there as quick as possible but was called by Gold to stop.

"Hold on a minute, I gotta give you your job evaluation." Gold said with a slight smirk.

Bright and Snow took a gulp knowing they hadn't been down there for a while. The actually did check once and luckily the ponies were sleeping. But they hadn't checked since.

"Al...alright..." Bright said and landed right in front of the door.

Gold and his company went into the mass elevator and opted to go down to the living space. Unlike the other times, they knew to hold on to the bar to avoid flailing in the fast elevator. They halted to a stop at the bottom and a ding rang from the elevator, telling them that they arrived. I bet you are all expecting something bad to happen right now, but nah. The doors opened and the group peeked inside to see...four sleeping ponies, Rarity, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Pinkie Pie were all sleeping.

"Good...all of them actually listen." Gold said, directing the comment to Fluttershy with them.

"I can go where I want I don't need to listen to you!" she said and flew out of there, leaving everyone in shock.

"Damn it Gold, now she's gonna be hiding somewhere!" Glimpse said angry.

"I didn't mean to!"

"Alright look, we can worry about Fluttershy later. Right now, it's our turn to watch everypony." Blade said, before something arose.

"Alright then...make sure no more of them leave." Gold said as they got into the elevator to go back up.

"We will be checking in every once and while, we promise." Blade said as they went up the elevator.

Back in the basement, however, the ponies weren't asleep. The four ponies mentioned above were all awake but yet asleep at the same time. The REAL ponies were asleep on the couch like Gold and company, but they weren't asleep, but unconscious. Two of the mentioned ponies, Rarity and Rainbow, came walking from the rooms on the side, but these weren't the real ponies. Rainbow's normally multicolored mane and tail were now a grayscale rainbow, black replacing the red and the subsequent colors becoming lighter and lighter til it got to a white replacing the violet. Rarity had dirt in her normally clean and curled mane and tail.

"So, they believed they were asleep. Just like we wanted it." the fake Rainbow said.

"Yes, they are actually unconscious." the fake Rarity said.

"No duh. Anyway, with that out of the way, are you gonna teleport us to meet with the other two." fake Rainbow said rather impatiently.

"It's my teleportation spell, go get your own!" fake Rarity said selfishly.

"Seriously, we planned this, let's not waste it."

"Oh alright, only this once. Oh, Pinkamena watch over the place for us will you?" fake Rarity said to the air.

In the dark corner was the Pinkie clone, with little pink in her and her mane and tail deflated to near straightness. The evil and twisted pony known as Pinkamena. Hearing her name, she got a bit excited of what she could do.

"No experiments though!" fake Rarity yelled again.

"Awwwwww, but I just sharpened my new tools!" Pinkamena complained.

"No experiments or cutting or anything!" fake Rarity said over her shoulder to Pinkamena but then back straight ahead with an evil grin.

"Yet."

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PINKAMENA, RUN FOR THE HILLS! The rest of the Dark Mane 6 have been revealed. What will happen next? What are the members of Dark Mane 6 meeting about? When will our heroes figure it out! Find out soon enough.

Okay, alright, important message here. Me and Glimpse are calling all people with any flash or sprite animation skills. If you want to and can, you can use Gold and Glimpse for some animation type stuff. We both would really appreciate if anyone stepped up to the plate to do this, it would be awesome if you could! We both really want to see some kind of flash animation/sprite animation or whatever it is called of Gold or Glimpse. Hell, if you want, you can just use Glimpse or just use Gold. We both really want to see this happen and if you are considering it, PM one of us or leave a review.

Thank you for reading and reviewing, leave a review if you liked this chapter, and as always,

EOOOOOOON OUT!