It was around half-way through the morning time where the sun was shining across all of Equestria in bathing it in it's warm light. Things seem quiet in Ponyville, nothing out of the unusual was going on and everypony was just doing their basic average day thing, like always. Some of the folks we see are like any other citizen having doing things. Like Big Macintosh pulling a heavy hay cart for some locals, Granny Smith sitting down to play chess with a elder stallion named Geri, and Cheerilee having some foals follow her for an active activity to try today. Dashing a bit in the skies were those like Thunderlane giving his little brother Rumble a ride, Derpy was seen trying to help move a piano in another Pegasus Movers Company, but lost her grip hold along with the other employees which made a pony named Crafty Crate frowns at this and made Derpy with the other associates made sheepish smiles at being in trouble. The next scene shows Daisy, Lily and Rose partaking in a little corner cafe having something to eat and drink while discussing things about flower-relatives and other stuff that's gone on in Ponyville. Even the Cutie Mark Crusaders were just running around, having fun with Apple Bloom in the lead with Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle chasing her. But it looked like the lead filly got tackled down by Nyx from her high flying dive that caught Apple Bloom by surprise. And instead of being upset, the girls laughed it up followed by the other two CMC seeing that they were just playing a simple game of tag. Phobos of course is nearby, keeping an eye on the little filly.

At this motion of time, we take a look at how the Mane Six are doing, resting under a nice hill spot for a quiet picnic in Ponyville's little park areas. Applejack had brought out the apple treats, Pinkie Pie brought out the desserts, Rarity had made certain all things were elegant and graceful to feel pleasant of their stay, Fluttershy was nuzzling a few wild chipmunks that wanted to check out the picnic, Rainbow Dash was relaxing in a tree with nothing to do but just lounge around, Twilight was catching up on a book of hers while hanging with her friends. The girls also invited Spike to come along to join them which the baby dragon was excited to have a meal with Rarity, the pony he's got a crush on, and even Ben Mare came to join with Twilight's friends. The stallion pony has had a few issues in getting along with Ponyville from two things: One being Celestia's adoptive son and Second was the trouble of knowing he was a Demon Pony long ago. But that's all in the past, and Ben's much more happy now that things have been fixed and settled that the citizens just treat him like any other pony and not famous all the time.

"Ahhhh, nothing can ruin this day!" Rainbow Dash stretched her hooves out in just keeping her eyes closed and enjoying the nice comfort on where she's napping.

"Ain't it 'de truth; 'Dis here was a fine idea, Twilight." Applejack stated from holding up another plate of her apple prepared treats for her friend to take.

"Thanks, from everything that's happened, we needed a break." Twilight Sparkle responded in accepting her meal from Applejack while mentioning how it's nice to just settle down and enjoy themselves.

"Yeah, I mean, it's been almost weeks end meet since the Demon Pony event!" Pinkie Pie popped in-between her friends to state out in joy in recalling the incident that involved their time hunting the Demon Pony that time. "Oh, then there was that time where we defeated that super-meany of all Earth Pony Hating Jerky-Jerk-watt Boris!" The pink pony frowned a bit in muttering her gritted teeth in remembering how much Boris, the former known Hero of Canterlot, was in treating Earth Ponies and then some. "Oh, and it's been about a week since the whole state of Ben Mare about to leave Ponyville from feeling no privacy and…." Pinkie was smiling and would have gone on and on about more things from the time Ben Mare came to live in Ponyville with them except…. "Mhump-mhmphm…" The stallion put his left hoof in Pinkie Pie's mouth to get the excited pink pony to stop for a moment.

"Okay-okay Picnic Pie, I think we get it!" Ben Mare stated from a few loose chuckles in seeing how much Pinkie Pie like to chat a lot about stuff, it was unbelievable, "We've all had quite an adventure!" He stated this with a sigh of relief in knowing those things are in the past now as he removed his ove from the pink pony's mouth then.

"And let's not forget our baby's birthday with her new pal Phobos." Twilight giggles as she smiles to Phobos who is now playing with Nyx and the CMC.

"Indeed, but it's nice to finally settle down and relax now and then, darling!" Rarity spoke in a noble sentiment while using her magic to stir her cup of tea before sipping it like a lady.

"Oh yeah, the view here is…just perfect." Spike sighed with wide lovey-dub eyes in watching Rarity nearby in how beautiful she is to his eyes.

"Oh yes, and the animals are so friendly. Right Mr. Chip & Mr. Dale," Fluttershy nods in a happy agreement before speaking with two chipmunks by their names which they chirped something that only the yellow Pegasus understood. "They say it's very nice to be here too." The shy pony stated with a happy response that her friends knew that they are in a perfect spot on their time for a picnic.

"In the words of Big Macintosh, 'Eeyup', is the right word!" Rainbow Dash responded off from leaning from in the tree to look down at her friends in stating that things are good here, just in using something another pony likes to say a lot at times.

"Hehn, couldn't agree more in how mah Big Brother puts them words o' any discussion 'ta be right on 'dat dot!" Applejack shook her smiling expression in seeing that Rainbow was right, her big brother does say the right words for any conversation.

"He-he-he, and after we're done, we'll play some games!" Pinkie Pie giggled in feeling so, pinky-kean, and that afterwards, will play some games.

"Don't worry Pinkie Pie; I'm sure we'll get to that later on." Rarity held her left hoof up in kindly stating that they will play some of Pinkie's games, knowing the pink pony insisted that they do after their picnic.

As the ponies were settling nicely for their nice picnic day, Spike was collecting some of the paper plates from the meals the group ate when suddenly…. He looked up in the skies above, stared puzzled, cock his left eye and then the right in trying to get a better view at what's above them.

"Um, Twilight," Spike spoke off from using his left claw to shield his eyesight from the bright sun to focus in what he's seeing and exclaiming of it. "Did you by chance invite Princess Celestia to our picnic time?" The baby dragon asked off something in feeling a bit puzzled if his friend was expecting Celestia by some random chance of a question.

"No Spike, I didn't. This is just a small gathering of us." Twilight responded a bit distracted and puzzled by this odd question of times by her number one assistant. "I mean, come on, I have prepared something a little more nicer than a simple outside picnic for the princess!" The smart pony exclaimed that if Celestia were to come join them, she have prepared a lot more things in a more finer manner for a princess to feel welcome.

"Well I'm sure my mother wouldn't mind Twilight, you're just over thinking things." Ben Mare patted Twilight's nervous shoulder to let the girl he loves relax a little as he knows that Celestia, being his adoptive mother, would understand completely.

Twilight began to blush when he love told her this; maybe she was overly concerning a bit.

"Then mind explaining why she's coming down to Ponyville in her chariot pulled by her royal Pegasus guards?" Spike stated with his puzzled expression never fading as he sees before him, what looks to be real.

True to Spike's words, up in the skies was a chariot being pulled by four to six Pegasus stallions in guards' armor and once more, they were pulling someone along. This was the Royal Princess that rises the Sun, Celestia! And she was approaching Ponyville at a fast amount of speed, like it was urgent.

"The Princess!/Mom!" The Mane Six gasped out surprised while Ben Mare responded a bit puzzled to seeing this. What was Celestia coming all the way to Ponyville for and without informing them of her arrival? True, she pops in from time to time without letting the group know, but that's on different accounts, so what was the princess of the Sun doing visiting? With nothing more to say, the group rushed off from the picnic to go on after where Celestia might be heading towards.

Which at this moment, the actions of seeing the princess coming from the sky was not only noticed by the Mane Six's group, but many other ponies dropped their activities in seeing Celestia coming to their village. Then it wasn't long until right in the center spot, at Town Square & Town Hall did Celestia's royal chariot come to a stop in front of the place. The princess left her chariot to walk up the stairs in a delicate royal manner as she came to the Mayor of Ponyville that was just outside the building itself. The Mayor was gasping in shock, never knowing or wondering why oh why was the princess herself here, and without notice.

"Pri-Pri-Princess Celestia," The Mayor uttered out in both shock and surprise and just speechless. "To-to what do we own the honor of your…unexpected visit to Ponyville?" She bowed in humbly meeting with the Royal Princess of Canterlot and all over Equastria.

"Mayor; I need you to have everypony be gathered here for an important announcement I'm decreeing!" Celestia issued in keeping her royal standard appearance in what she needs the Mayor of Ponyville to do.

"Why-why yes, I would gladly do it, but…" The Mayor nods with a few slip words coming out of her mouth, but then she looked away in feeling that something was off.

"What is it Mayor?" Celestia asked in wondering what could have the Mayor not gather her citizens right now for something she has to tell them.

"Um, that task of request might not be needed at this time because…." The Mayor stated a little sheepishly before looking behind the princess to point at something. "Well, everypony in Ponyville…is already here!" The pony exclaimed that she won't need to gather all the ponies in their village, 'cause there's no need to do it in the first place.

True to those words, Celestia turns around to witness many of the ponies that gave up their daily activities to bear witness their princess' chariot and herself at their Town Square & Center. Celestia bows her head to let off a fresh of air in seeing that the task to get her subjects gathered here has been done in a manner way ahead because of her sudden appearance.

"Ci-citizens; Please calm down, please everypony, just calm down!" Mayor spoke out in getting up to a stand and spoke in her mike to wave out to the citizens to calm themselves of their worrying minds. "Now I know this is quoted a surprise that Princess Celestia has come announced but she has an important announcement to make." She stated in getting the ponies to try to settle down as their princess has something to tell them.

This cause many ponies in the crowds to start chattering in being completely lost, puzzled and confused all rolled into one. Just what was the news their princess had to tell them that it couldn't wait until the announcing she come by message so they be more prepared.

"Your highness," The Mayor bowed before stepping away from the mike's stand to allow Celestia the chance to speak now.

"Thank you Mayor." Celestia responded kindly for the Mayor's generous approval of her as she held the mike to speak her voice loudly for all to hear and listen. "Citizens, I come to you in this unexpected manner with an important announcement of a warning decree!" Celestia declared out her message that was gravelly important that everyone had to hear about it.

This causes a bit of a yelp reaction from the citizens in the crowd. There were chatters among chatters, whispers & silent talks in discussing what the 'warning' announcement was supposed to even be about. Those like Big Macintosh and Granny Smith looked puzzled at this, the CMC were just lost in what was happening here, Daisy, Lily & Rose looked with caution and fear about this, even Derpy with her cross eyes could see something that this might be trouble. Even the Mane Six, Ben Mare and Spike joined the crowd and came around their other friends & family members in seeing something was happening and needed their attention.

It was this time that Celestia took a breath before announcing this for all the ponies to listen carefully. "My subjects…I bring news…that we will soon have a new enemy upon us." This brought a lot of folks listening to their princess to start muttering out loud even more, looking a bit cautious now. "Settle down my subjects, please listen!" Celestia waved out to those panicking, trying to regain the quiet of her subjects to hear her out. "My sister, Luna, and I, are aware of this new enemy and are preparing for the worst should it reach Ponyville!" She stated out in declaring how the Royal Sisters are trying to do everything they can to protect their citizens. "My Captain of the Royal Guard shall assist in protecting your town." The princess waved to her left side in wanting everyone to know who shall take charge in protecting them and their homes.

A lot of ponies were muttering in hearing this, but their attention was soon turned to see the approach of many of Princess Celestia's Guards from Unicorns to Pegasus, lead by their armored captain; Shining Armor!

"My brother," Twilight gasped in surprise to see her brother was here and not in Canterlot suddenly.

"Uncle Shiny," Nyx exclaimed in surprise to see her uncle is here and with a large brigade of troops too.

"This new enemy may pose a threat from similar events we've gone through, but unlike the others…" Celestia spoke in reminding many citizens of previous foes that they've gone through which the Mane Six had to deal with in the past. "This being is more dangerous than what we've encountered before." The princess stated which earned a few gasps from the crowds, finding this message scary to believe. "The new enemy possesses powers to rival that of other foes of fearsome power, like Nightmare Moon, but is not as a trickster like Discord, and worst of my fear…is that like the Changeling event, the enemy has brought together an army to invade." The princess spoke with a very clear and stern expression that this new enemy is as fearsome, as strong, and a military strategist in having an army to outnumber them all.

Now this really got a lot of ponies riled up in fear, if this was all true, what can be done to ensure their safety?

"Everypony, listen, listen…" Celestia tried to get her citizens to calm down, but there was too much noise of panic, nobody was quieting down enough to hear what the princess still had to say.

"WE DEMAND SILENCE!" There came a loud, booming voice which made everyone quiet down, and who to arrive at the scene, then Princess Luna along with her own guards to add to the army they've gathered.

"Thank you Luna." Celestia nodded her head to her sister for calming the crowds as Luna nods back before the princess of the sun continues. "The enemy's followers are unknown at the time, but…I fear they are some common beings in which we may or may not know of. Some were those that came to Ponyville in the past or caused mischief behavior, even those banished maybe among their ranks." Celestia explained that in a way, some that are in this new enemy's army might be those that Ponyville knows or those that the Mane Six have dealt with before, "Shining Armor, please step forward." She turns to her trusted captain of her guards to stand before her now.

"Yes, Princess," Shining Armor responded as he approached up to the Town Center and stood before the princess. Many of the crowds were whispering in wondering what Celestia wanted of her guard's captain.

"You once were given the task of creating a magical barrier over Canterlot that repelled the Changeling Army. I ask you now to prepare the same spell for Ponyville." Celestia spoke in recalling how Shinning once made a powerful barrier at Canterlot to keep out invaders, and now, she asks him to do the same for this village.

"But…but princess, forgive me for asking this, but what about Canterlot?" Shining Armor responded a bit off guard in why Celestia needs him to make a barrier spell just in Ponyville and not in Canterlot.

"The new enemy stated that an attack will be a place in which I cannot protect." Celestia shook her head in telling her captain that this is a situation that she finds most puzzling. "He may most likely was referring to Ponyville. While I maybe inside Canterlot, this enemy could strike at anyone of them or perhaps Cloudsdale," The princess feared that protecting one place is not worth the risk of losing other homes for other ponies.

"Which is why you shall stay here with your guards, as my sister and I watch over Canterlot & Cloudsdale, should the enemy try to launch more than one attack." Luna explained to the captain that the two Royal sisters will be protecting the other places while Shining Armor watches Ponyville. "If it was but one, we would not fear much, but the forces gain by the enemy could divide & conquer us without any of us knowing of it." The princess of the moon motion that if this was but one foe, then the sisters could try to handle this, but it's more than that and they can't risk the chances of an invasion.

"Indeed, you know as much as I do, in who we are dealing with." Celestia stated before looking to her captain, with a serious face in stating about this enemy is well known to them.

"Ye-yes, your highnesses," Shining Armor spoke with hesitation but nods with a sorrow look; He understands perfectly well what the princesses mean and why he is given the task to protect this place…it also has his sister and niece living here along with Ben Mare who he's thought of like a brother when he hang with Twilight.

The citizens chattered in seeing the atmosphere becoming heavily dry as they are seeing things start to affect them as well.

"Shining Armor, prepare your magic before us." Celestia issued off to her captain of the guard to prepare his spell to protect this place.

"We sisters shall bestow a stronger force boost to your spell." Luna step forth in which both she and Celestia shall increase Shining's magic.

"Alright, here goes." Shining Armor sighs to take a breather as he prepares himself to cast a strong spell that he's got.

Soon Shining Armor closed his eyes as he was having his horn glow of a strong magical aura color. Then the Royal Pony Sisters each had their horns glowing before a bursting beam was shot into the air. It glow a powerful blue aura of magical light as the spell spread out until it covered all of Ponyville. Soon the three casters stopped and from noticing their work, the barrier was in place, hopefully, this shall shelter this place if it's the one place to get attacked the most.

"The barrier is up, now we must take our leave." Luna stated to her sister that with their work finished, they must make leave quickly. "We have station enough guards here to protect the citizens, the rest are awaiting for our orders back at the castle." What Luna stated was that she and Celestia need to get more of their soldiers, so that they can protect Canterlot and Cloudsdale soon after returning to the former.

"My subjects; have faith." Celestia turned to face the crowd, asking that they have belief and faith in what she and Luna are doing. "We will do everything that we can to insure that no pony shall be harmed by what's to come." The citizens felt silent, but slowly chattered and nod in willing to go along with Celestia's words. "Captain Shining, please take care here." The princess looked to her captain in pleading that he keeps this place safe and all will be alright.

"At once, princess," Shining Armor bowed in a humble manner in accepting Celestia's request, he will stay and protect this place.

Soon the chariots of Celestia and Luna were being pulled by their Pegasus guards up to the barrier which at that time made a magical opening for them to leave which the Royal Sisters exit out of before the magical barrier closed the opening. Now all of Ponyville could do is have faith in the princesses and hope they can survive what is to come as it doesn't sound good for them at all. A new enemy, an army at the command in waiting, and from the princesses' serious faces, they know that this is a foe that needs the utmost precautions to handle against.

"Uncle Shiny; Uncle Shiny," A voice belonging to Nyx called out as she ran up to rub her head against her uncle's left hoof side followed by Phobos.

"Hey little kiddo, what are you doing here?" Shining smiled in seeing a friendly face and looked down to see what she's doing here, "Hey there, Phobos."

"Glad to see ya again, Shiny boy," Phobos chuckles a bit.

"Mommy, daddy, and everyone saw what grandma was warning them about the enemy." Nyx explained out from looking up to her uncle in telling him that she and the others saw and heard what Celestia warn them about.

It was then that the rest of the Mane Six, Spike, Ben Mare & the CMC approached the captain by surprise.

"Oh, I guess the Mayor was right…hugh, everypony in Ponyville came to hear this." Shining Armor responded with a sheepish face in seeing that from this view, a lot of ponies did come to hear the message, including those he knows so well.

"Afraid so Shining, how's Cadance doing?" Ben Mare nodded before asking how his cousin was doing since Cadance wasn't with Shining.

"She's fine; she's back at the palace where it's safe." Shinning Armor responded with a small smile in being asked how his wife is doing, and she's okay and out of danger…for the moment that is in his mind to assure.

"And not with those Crystal Ponies I keep hearing about?" Phobos asks Shining curiously.

"That's classified info, Phobos."

"I can see why, after hearing what Celestia said, but still…isn't this much!" Spike exclaimed in understanding that things are gonna get crazy as this much protection was…much, in a way of speaking from one to an army threat.

"It's never enough Spike, the enemy is very much, dangerous." Shining Armor stated with a serious tone that the enemy they are going to face, is anything 'BUT' dangerous to handle.

"Eh, I handle much worst before I met Nyx." Phobos remarks with a shrug. "I can handle whatever this new enemy is."

"I wish that was so simple, Phobos."

"So the princesses put you in charge of guarding Ponyville?" Twilight Sparkle asked from looking to her big brother's eyes, wondering if everything can be alright from what's happening here.

"Believe me Twilley, it's only the start." Shining Armor shook his head with feeling plenty of sorrow. "While I'm here for Ponyville, Celestia is staying in Canterlot and Luna is off to Cloudsdale to keep them safe if the enemy should attack any of them." The captain stated that each of them is being put in spots to keep whatever's coming to not take another bit closer to invading their homes, friends and family.

"Just between us, how tough is 'dis vermint?" Applejack whispered to the captain while most of the other pony folks were scattering away from the area after that announcement was finished.

"Well I…" Shining Armor reposed a bit off in not knowing if he should really say about the enemy's strength to his sister's friends.

"Is he big, is he creepy, or is he something that eats ponies for breakfast? Eep," Fluttershy was asking from looking around, fearing if the enemy was something terrifying before she let from…a leaf that tapped her shoulder. This made her jump in the air, flew up for a few moments before quietly landed on the ground again.

"Oops, sorry," Phobos apologize to Fluttershy, standing behind a tree. "I bumped into the tree and it made that leaf fell."

"Oh, that's okay, Phobos."

"Well I'm not sure if that's it, but…" Shining Armor was almost about to state about the enemy being something of that 'detail', however…

"Well have you seen this enemy or told of it's description? Surely we be prepared what the dastardly villain at least looks like?" Rarity asked if perhaps Shining was knowing what the enemy looks like so they can be equally ready.

"Oh, does he look like bull? No, an alligator; No, a Manticore; No, a Hydra? No a Quarray Eel; No, a Windigo? No, an Ursa Minor! Or is it an Ursa Major?" Pinkie Pie was speaking out a bunch of random ideas in believing what the enemy could possible appears to them as, and boy was it a long list of some ferocious creatures. "Or a…?" The pink pony would have gone on none stop if somepony didn't put a stop to this.

"Pinkie, please…I can't say, but I can tell you that this enemy is dangerous!" Shining Armor held up a hoof in stating that the enemy they'll be preparing against is highly dangerous.

"Just how dangerous is this guy?" Scootaloo asked from a raised eyebrow in liking to know this answer herself.

"Or is it a girl?" Sweetie Belle asked off in wondering, if the enemy wasn't a he, but a she.

"Could ya at least tell us what the enemy is, if he's a he or a she?" Apple Bloom asked Shining to at least tell on what kind of gender creature they got here.

"Ugh, fine. It's a he, but that's all I can say." Shining Armor sighed in seeing he may as well say the enemy's a male type, but he really doesn't wanna give away too much to the civilian ponies.

"Is it a plant or animal? Is the doctor's his mother? Is it Professor Plum?" Phobos asks Shining, making most of the ponies gave a 'are you serious' look to him.

"You're silly, Phobos." Nyx giggles to her best friend.

"Please, we'll have your back in facing this bad boy, so relax." Rainbow Dash waved off her left hove in feeling pretty much ready for action anytime and anywhere.

"I'm sorry, but I can't allow that." Shining Armor sternly rejected Rainbow's statement of even joining this battle to come.

"What?" The Mane Six & CMC responded off surprised and shock, did Shining say that they can't partake in this, at least it was more concerning with the CMC, but the Mane Six?

"But why, we've handled situations like this before, Shiny?" Twilight Sparkle asked her brother in why he's refusing to allow her and her friends to help out.

"This enemy is not like Boris or the Changeling Queen not even that crazed God of Chaos, Discord, or even…" Shining Armor was about to go on in stating about the horrible enemies the Mane Six went through before he paused. "Ugh…" He looked down to Nyx; the stallion knew from her innocent eyes, he had to be careful with his words, especially around a 'certain' subject. "Well, the 'evil' Nightmare Moon that you guys managed to face off. This one's different." The captain of the guards concluded that this new enemy isn't like the others the group has dealt with.

"Shining, is there something you're not telling us?" Ben Mare spoke in coming up close to Twilight's brother, who looked back at the stallion's serious expression. "Because I could help out too, there's a reason I have this Triforce Mark for a Cutie Mark here. So tell us, we're going to know sooner than later, right?" The stallion made a good point, if the invaders show up, what's the point in keeping secrets?

"Hugh…Ben, the enemy I'm referring to…well, you might know him a bit." Shining Armor sighed in defeat as he was seeing that he's being forced to say something, something that he states Ben knows about.

"How's daddy knows him so, Uncle Shiny?" Nyx asked a bit puzzled about Shining saying Ben Mare knows the enemy.

"That's an easy one to go with Nyx." Shining Armor responded with a still sorrow look as he tried to stare at the ground a bit longer than at the others.

"And…" Ben Mare asked in liking the answer to be told to him already.

"Twilight told me that you believe that someone helped Boris and set you free from your cage when as the Demon Pony, right?" Shining Armor explained out his basic knowledge as he lifted his head up in reminding Ben Mare of something he's experienced before.

"Ugh, I still get cramps just thinking about it." Ben Mare sighed in a moan before shaking his head off in remembering the guy that did that to him as the Demon Pony.

"The thing I'm fearing is…that the new enemy we're about to face him & his army." Shining Armor state off with a determined look on his face as he looked to the gathered ponies as the pony soon spoke these words, "Might be the same person that freed you…and killed our littlest brother, Starlight." The captain of the guards declared out in knowing this new enemy is someone that had done these noted evil deeds.

This left the group to gasp in shock in hearing this, none more than Twilight in hearing this. The new enemy that they are preparing for was the one who killed her little brother, who tried to have Boris kill Ben Mare, and now this? Many questions entered the unicorn's mind in wondering just who or what this new enemy was, could she face him, could she and her friends defeat someone that might be more powerful than their previous foes? The bigger thing was…if Twilight believed she could face someone like that who killed Starlight, would she have the strength…or control her rage in facing a murderer? That answer remains to be waited and then shown when the time is right…

"Okay, I am starting to think I may know who this guy is..." Phobos begins to say slowly, "But I was wanting to forget that part of my past and move on but..."

"It's okay, Phobos, no need to worry as long as the barrier's up." Shining said though he's a bit unsure himself.

Pretty much, everyone in Ponyville just tried to shrug off the feeling of a barrier over their heads and that it was keeping them all inside while keeping danger out.

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Meanwhile, it was reaching up to about high noon by the timing of the sun's position in the skies. Even with danger from a new enemy about to appear, Celestia still keeps track of performing her duties in moving the sun as her sister Luna does the same for the moon. But at this moment, somewhere near the outskirts of Ponyville, near some part of the ever known area, the Everfree Forest, something 'vile' was happening near the area. Coming out near the shady spot of the forest, there were a number of suspicious characters all lined up. There appearances were well known; Trixie, Glida, the Flim-Flam Brothers, the Diamond Dogs trio Leaders, Boris the Red Devil and even his minions, Boxco & Dum Dum. They were the Brotherhood of Tadaka, and in front of this group was none other than the black hooded character figure known as Lorcan.

"Ah-ha; they never learn." Lorcan responded in a smug tone in watching how Ponyville struggles to deny him, "Such a pity." He stated on watching how them little ponies are trying so hard, it's sad to see that it'll all end soon.

"Lorcan," Trixie spoke out the hidden figure's name as she steps forth to speak with him. "Shouldn't we wait?" Trixie asked in they should wait a bit longer, they are still not sure if they should strike now, especially since the Royal Pony sisters brought forth a barrier by their own magic.

"No, the time to attack is perfect," Lorcan remote off in stating that the time to attack is just right for them as Trixie step back in line when she heard him say this. "You all know your task." He stated this out in looking behind his members in remembering what they must do once they've begun.

"Yes." The members responded with a bow in hearing Lorcan and knowing full well on what they must do from here.

"Then…is the setup complete?" Lorcan spoke off towards two brothers that were standing by something hidden under a large sheet.

"My brother and I have just the weapon you need, sir!" Flim exclaimed in announcing that he and his brother have what this group needs right under the sheet.

"Behold the latest in bombardment barriers…" Flam declared out as he and Flim soon used their magic to levitate the sheet off from their latest creation.

"The Octo-Apple Launchers 7000," The Flim-Flam Brothers declared out in announcing their latest creation before the audience's eyes.

From under the white sheet came off some giant-size octopus mechanical device. Had to be about 20 feet tall by height, width, & length with a camouflage design on its plated body with only black orb eyes and a big head of storing from a glass window, were apples. And from eight tentacles that had cannon design features and a ninth tentacle line trailing way back from those in the Everfree Forest, straight at Sweet Apple Acres. Now some of the Brotherhood stared at this machine with odd expressions on their faces, except for Gilda that had a dull face in seeing this while Lorcan stared at this creation the brothers made to serve as their attacker on Ponyville.

"It's top of the line in taking from normal apples to magically mixing them with potent energy to make them highly explosive and harmful on barriers." Flim explained in how this machine can take normal day apples, cover them in a magical force to create something powerful enough to cause damage even on strong barrier spells.

"And in our special deal-lilo, you get a connector set! All station around Ponyville without being seen by camouflage standards, guarantee to do the job!" Flam exclaimed off from moving is yellow hoof against his mustache in feeling very proud of this work as he pointed below were an attached cable connected this machine and being traced back to more of these Octo-Apple Launchers 7000 devices. And they were hidden from rocky fields to trees in covered leaves as they were all right there and lined to attack Ponyville.

"Ugh, like hanging with salmon ponies aren't bad enough." Gilda groaned to slap her forehead with her left talon in just watching these guys work is kinda annoying her.

"Just be thankful they don't do a song number." Boris moaned out in telling the griffin that if anything, it's hearing and listening to the Flim-Flam Brothers singing of their travel salesmen songs.

"Well now, let's…begin!" Lorcan slowly responded with a dry, yet cocky expression as he signaled his members that the time to attack…was now.

Soon the Flim-Flam Brothers throw the switch as their machine started to start up with bright lights. Then through some connector cables went from one machine to the next until all were lit up and the tentacle cannons raise up in the skies in a perfect aiming projectile state. The other side was sucking in apples from the Apple Family's Sweet Apple Acres field, and all were going into the Flim-Flam Brothers wicked machine. "Bang-Bang-Bang-Bang…" Then without warning, the machines had fired their shots that looked from 10, to 25, to 50 to nearly up to a barrage attack of over 100 energized blast heading straight for Ponyville before… "Boom-Boom-Boom-Boom…" Like the Fourth of July, those attacks impacted the barrier surrounding Ponyville that literally light up the area.

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At this time in Cloudsdale, things appeared to look peaceful and quiet at this time during the day. Or so it kinda lasted until without warning, dark clouds drifted in different travel paths to Cloudsdale and even stranger was when it touched the place? Instead of passing through the place in the sky, it collided against the structure of clouds, damaging the home of Pegasus. Which speaking of which, many Pegasus were flying for their scared lives while many were taken by some of Luna's guards in protecting them.

It was around this time, after the troops had arrived to secure the area, Princess Luna dissented on the clouds and noticed the damage happening from an unexpected attack.

"Every citizen, evacuate to a safety shelter, hurry now!" Luna yelled out her slight booming voice to point to the subjects in Cloudsdale to evacuate the area as fast as they can.

"Boom-boom," There was a loud booming sound that shook Cloudsdale but the princess stood firmly. She watched many citizens fly off and followed her guards leading them to shelter.

"What's attacking us?" Luna turned to one of her guards in charge her and demanding to know what was happening at this time.

"Your highness, it's the clouds themselves." The Dark armored guard responded a bit bewildered in what he said sounded crazy, but true.

"What? But that can't be right; clouds are but the softest known subject to never be harmful!" Luna exclaimed a bit shocked and surprised, how could soft clouds become hard enough to destroy Cloudsdale, it's impossible!

"Then you best tell them that." The guard pointed in a direction, which, from Luna's sight, found something slipping through an invisible barrier she set up, how could such a feat be done?

"I'll handle what's happening here, protect the citizens!" Luna ordered her soldier to standby in protecting their people as she would go and deal with the danger ahead.

"Yes Princess Luna." The guard responded in a salute formation in understanding the princess's command.

Soon Princess Luna went up into the air, flew towards her barrier and phased through it since it was her own magic. Then she came face to face with the strangest thing, big size gray clouds the grand size of being 30 feet tall in height, width and length were approaching Cloudsdale, and Luna had to act fast.

"What is this?" Luna held her left hoof up to catch a piece of the destroyed cloud she hit, the mare could see and feel that it was not a soft fabric of air, but the hard sturdiness of a rock mineral. "That's impossible! Who could change clouds from their soft fabric nature into rock shape boulder?" Luna asked in not only being lost and confused, but this matter of the situation was not making any sense, it was very much…discorded.

"Bwahahahaha, isn't that a puzzling question that spells…Chaos," Cackled a voice within the air of covered clouds from their surrounding areas.

"Wha; this presence, could it be? Is such a thing possible?" Luna yelped to look up with her gazing eyes, something was approaching, and it was…familiar to her.

"Hahahahah, haaaa," Soon something came out of some dark clouds above as it appeared to be a long serpent creature swimming in the sky. "Ah, it's been a long time, Princess Luna." The creature spoke as when it stopped in front of Luna, she instantly recognized the creature from the head to the body parts that were a mix match; it was Discord.

"One thousand years to be precise; But then again, who's counting or keeping tracks?" Luna remarked off with a sly comment about how long it's been since she's seen this God of Chaos. "You, of all beings are not welcome here, Discord!" The princess of the moon snapped in declaring how Discord was not welcome here or any place for that matter.

"Oh, I'm hurt that you feel that way." Discord patted his chest in pretending to feel hurter by such mean words.

"How was that you were set free?" Luna asked puzzled in how someone that was turned to stone again by Twilight & friends is now flesh now? Did whoever stole the statue of Discord someone had powers to completely release him?

"Let's say, I made a 'new' friend. And thanks to him, I'm having a fun time here!" Discord made a sly smile and tapped his fingers together in knowing, he had a little 'help' from someone that got him out of being a statue.

It all became clear to the princess, the darken clouds attack Cloudsdale that were hard as rocks were Discord's doing all along, it made sense now. "I won't stand by and let you get away with this!" Luna made a stern expression in declaring how she won't stand by and let this God of Chaos cause anymore problems.

"On, says the girl that was so jealous of her sister, she ended up becoming a being of darkness." Discord remarked off in finding that comment to really die from laughter. "Tell me something now, which of you is more Nightmare Moon, the 'Evil' part in truth?" The being of Chaos asked from slithering around in the skies, trying to taunt the princess by his words, "You for once being her but a separate personality? Or is it little Nyx for being reincarnated yet lack her last piece of jealousy, pride, EVIL hatred, to which from that, she was incomplete?" Discord remarked off in slow and then annoyance, but wanted to toy in having Luna struggle with her 'old' life long ago as the original, Nightmare Moon.

"That is NONE of your concerns!" Luna snapped out loud against the creature of Chaos. "My actions were of my OWN, not HERS!" She declared out that whatever has happened as Nightmare Moon during her time of performing evil deeds are hers to take responsible for and not for the innocent Nyx to be blamed for, she would not have that happen to the little filly...ever again.

"Ohhhh, looks like I hit a nerve; Haahahahha, but seriously." Discord smirked off to tease Luna with a laugh before sighing so quickly to return to the subject. "What can you do now? When it took your bigger, stronger, wiser sister to have the combine strength of the two of you and the Elements of Harmony to beat me?" The being of Chaos and Disharmony rhetorically asked in how what took the power of the Elements to beat him, plus Celestia, can Luna do…all by her lonesome.

"You'll just have to see how much times have changed?" Luna challenged off with a determined face as her horn glowed brightly which sent a bolt in the clouds. Discord saw this and saw the clouds reacting like a storm was created and would zap him. But Discord smirked in seeing Luna's tactic and felt he was going to have some 'fun' here indeed.

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During this moment, in Canterlot, Celestia's forces were safe guarding the citizens in their own homes and keeping off the streets for rushing across the streets were bizarre creatures never before seen. They were large stallions of a muscular mass, fast speed and powerful strength to break the stone pavements on the solid ground floors with ease as they charged. But these stallions were strangely spooky because of their appearance, black coat, blazing flames of their manes and tails, even their orange-yellow eyes were just glowing with no pupil marks. It's even freakier when they got weird firry style marks on their hooves with a line from under their bellies and a line starched under their necks. It's as if these beasts were made from tar and lava but in the form of some devil station brigade. These monsters were rampaging across the streets, bashing, smashing, crashing; the whole lot without caring or thinking of their actions. Their strengths broke anything, their flame-lit bodies could burn anything, it was like watching the nightmare of the near Apocalypse.

"ENOUGH!" A loud shout was yelled out before a bright green beam shot below that blow up a spot the flaming stallions ran to and were knocked off balance to lay on the ground. "You creatures, whatever you are, shall not bring harm to my subjects!" The owner of the voice was Princess Celestia, she flew from high in the air to land on the pavement, to meeting her gazing eyes against the flaming stallions standing up and staring at her in puzzlement.

"Oh Celestia, how rare it is to see you lose your temper?" Spoke a conniving little voice that caught Celestia by surprise as she saw some flames behind the flaming beings forming something.

"That voice…it's…" Celestia spoke from wide eyes as she recognized that voice from anywhere.

"Surprise, surprise…" The voice responded as it flames cease flaring around and brought forth a being that stood among the proud flaming stallions. "I see even the fare princess is speechless, I have that with the mares." It was Boris, the Red Devil, he had appeared and made himself humble in greeting Celestia, even daring to say she was stunned by his presence and how it's almost that kinda affect this guy had with many fine mares.

Two words; Yeah, Sure.

"Boris!" Celestia spoke out this villain's name in anger in who was behind this. "You're behind this attack?" The princess snapped off in demanding to know if Boris was in charge of attacking Canterlot.

"That is a yes and no, and need to know basics, Celestia." Boris spoke off with a smug attitude, as he rub his free hoof against his devil body he's appearing in.

"So you managed to escape the Void?" Celestia sternly stated in noticing this stallion still was the same especially since that time Boris became a Devil, it was while under the rays from a Forbidden Spell that created the Devil's Red Sun. But then once destroyed, the Ex-Hero of Canterlot was sealed in a place some have never escaped from, the Void.

"Yes, of course I wouldn't have BEEN in such a predicament if YOU & Twilight's pesky group didn't get in my way of killing the Demon Pony!" Boris remotely waved off before lashing out in fury in how that ended up happening to him in the first place.

"That Demon Pony just happened to be my long…lost…son you tried to kill!" Celestia stated with a very deep, upsetting tone in how Boris was mentioning her son in such a tone before her.

However, Boris seemed little to worry in hearing the princess say to him that Ben Mare was Celestia's son, which would have left many surprised to hear. "Oh my, Ben Mare, the little Earth Pony, is the son of the famous Princess Celestia!" Boris exclaimed out in making some little taunting and teasing joke remarks that he should pay attention and watch out in knowing Ben Mare is someone important now. "Baugh, like I care if he was even close to being your ACTUAL child!" The Devil Pony remotely remarked off that he wouldn't have cared if Ben Mare was Celestia's REAL child or not, it makes no difference to him.

"I see you know that he is my adoptive son, but I love him as a real mother would!" Celestia sternly stated out while advising Boris that while she was not a real mother to Ben, the love she gave to him was real enough like any other mother would give for their child.

"You're delusional to believe you, of all ponies, think that Earth Pony was important! It is why that thanks to his coming to my life, Twilight Sparkle has slipped from my hoof grasp!" Boris snapped off at the princess in saying she's crazy to think an Earth Pony was special to be under her care and that from Ben Mare's interference with the Devil-pony, the villain lost what he almost could have been Twilight as his prize. "So I started to show him who was TOP Stallion, and even if he's cured of being the Demon Pony, it only makes me want to kill him even more!" Boris exclaimed off that when Ben came and beaten him in having Twilight, he pushed him around to being the big bully that gets what he wants, and even now, after hearing the stallion's cured, Boris will wanna enjoy killing that stallion himself.

"Try to harm MY Son Boris and I'll show you that the Void is far more comforting to have been imprisoned in!" Celestia stated with such an angry and ferocious glare, she stomped closer to Boris and his flaming troops to not allow them to put her adoptive son in any harm's way.

"Oh, how lovely," Boris remarked off in pretending to feel frighten but that was a ruse. "But you'll have to do better against me, and my newest form of magic!" He exclaimed from having his horn glow in a devilish aura that from the flames, created some new flaming stallions to his growing troop collection. "Like them, I call them Lava Stallions from it's from the lava and ground that they are forge, even by fire itself and serve me by loyalty without question!" Boris declared out that he's been able to handle controlling his newly found powers of being a devil and was enjoying them. "I once was known as the Hero of Canterlot, but that title is burned to me now after being robbed of all that was MINE!" He snapped off in snaring at the princess in knowing what happened to Boris on the day he tried to kill the Demon Pony and ended up becoming…like he is now. "Now prepare princess, for you face…Boris, The Red Devil!" Boris declared out from waving his front hooves which burst the nearby flames to shoot upwards in hearing and following this villain's commands.

Soon Celestia was using her horn's magic to blast some of Boris's Lava Stallions or bash them with her hooves having far more strength then average ponies. But while the princess was busy handling Boris's crew of devils, some parts by the allies of Canterlot were disturbed by moving paths of dirt. From belong the patch of dirt were none other than some Diamond Dog troops, digging underground and passing through all the commotion without ever being seen or spotted. Following these Diamond Dog soldiers was someone in a purple hooded cloak to hide their identity from us knowing 'who' else was sneaking under Canterlot's noses.

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Back at Ponyville, when things looked peaceful, even with the barrier, many soon took noticed up something heading towards the barrier. Then like a blast of lightning and thunder, it was impacting the barrier enough to cause a shake for the entire village. Many were shocked to see what Celestia said came true, the new enemy and his army are attacking. Worst was seeing some cracks on the barrier's outer surface from taking a few impacts. But the worst yet was that as the citizens started to panic & feel scared, and they should because that was just the first wave.

"Everypony take COVER!" Granny Smith screamed out loud while running with herself covered in pots and pans for some reason. "It's the Civil Pony War!" The senile mare shouted out like the ponies were going to war or something.

"Ahhh…Ahhhhh!" Many of the ponies in Ponyville were screaming to running off wile lost sheep, they were afraid and unsure what to do.

"Everypony, take cover in your homes and shelters," Shining Armor shouted out to get the citizens under control and issuing what they can do to keep themselves safe from harm.

"Boom-Boom…" Of course, many looked up in seeing the brutal attack on the barrier is still going on and even from the Royal Pony sisters, it's almost about to shatter.

"Oh man, look at what the display show," Pinkie Pie pointed out in seeing the flashy works above their heads.

"Pinkie, this hardly would be considered a display of showmanship." Rarity remotely stated to her friend with a frown that this was hardly the time or place to admire what the enemy is trying to do.

"Bamgruvhmm…" Suddenly without warning, something bashed into the ground from where the Mane Six stood which luckily, it missed them.

"Look out; it's flying stuff that we don't know what they are!" Phobos exclaims in alarm and worry, Nyx yelps in alarm near him.

"Eeek, something got through the barrier!" Fluttershy yelped to move backwards in fright, seeing that attack size 'whatever' might be dangerous from its steamy body from clashing with the barrier to break through.

"Wait a second here." Applejack spoke out from going over to inspect the wreckage of what fell in the ground and pulled out something of a familiar shape. "Ah know what 'dis is…it's an apple." She gasped in shock in seeing this but not believing what she ended up finding, it was shocking that an apple fell from when it hit the barrier.

"They're bombing us with apples!" Rainbow Dash responded a bit awkward in finding this weird, what kinda enemy uses apples as ammunition.

"No, I can sense it…these apples were tainted in magic to explode of contact?! Twilight Sparkle came up, had her horn glow near the apple in revealing some awkward aura surrounding it.

"That's what's weakening the barrier, even from your brother having the strongest barrier spell combined with my mom and aunt's magic!" Ben Mare exclaimed in seeing what's going on, the new enemy is using a spell on a large amount of apples to break through in sheer numbers against the barrier.

"Oh good, I thought it was something disgusting." Phobos remarks with relief.

"I doubt our enemies would do something like that, Phobos!" Nyx exclaims to Phobos in concern.

"Oh, just thinking o' them varmints using Apple Family apples fer an attack is going too far!" Applejack growled in being pretty ticked off in not believing it, the enemy has some nerve using her family's apples to harm ponies.

Back with the attacks on the barrier, Lorcan was watching the assault still go on, many of the Flim-Flam Brothers barrage of magical apple bombs were harming the barrier bit by bit.

"Looky there, we're hitting them hard!" Dum Dum pointed in watching their display of attacking Ponyville go on without much trouble, it's easy.

"Yeah, but that barrier's still holding!" Boxco responded that they are doing this, but the barrier is only slowly getting weaken, they need more stronger hitters.

"Then it's time I speed up the process while Celestia and Luna are kept busy." Lorcan stated from seeing that they need to pick up the pace in their assault on the barrier before the Royal Pony Sisters return from their 'preoccupied' states. "I've waited too long; the hour is finally at hand…I…wait…no…longer…" Lorcan exclaimed with a serious expression on his face as the last things he spoke were a heavy, deep meaning and he's about to let loose now. "WRARRUUUUGHH…. Lorcan roared out as he pointed his right claw into the form of his middle and index fingers that shot forth…a green bolt of flames. "Boomvhmm…" There was an explosive force from the barrier glowing from taking such an impact.

Shining Armor looked up at the barrier and noticed the damage that's been hit the hole marks above were growing. The Mane Six noticed this with a worried expression; it was also shared by their other friends and family witnessing what's happening. The Guards were in position and held their weapons at the ready from watching and hearing the rumbling of the barrier quake.

"Ouch time." Phobos mumbles to Nyx who nods nervously to her friend.

"Hrruagh," Lorcan pulled back his attack as he stopped his lightning spell from over doing his end work. But from noticing from the barrier, the spell was scattering and cracking it's form apart. "Yes….it's fading!" The villain exclaimed in seeing that his final attack against the powerful barrier was the last piece to bring it down.

Twilight noticed things were not looking well so she had to lead her friends from where they were at observing this action.

"Twilight, where you going," Rarity asked from noticing what the girl was doing, leaving the others behind.

"We have to get to the front lines girls, my brother's forces might not handle this alone!" Twilight shouted to her friends, they can't just sit back and do nothing if now the enemy can get into Ponyville now.

"Alright, there's no arguing with her, believe me, I've tried in the past! Come on!" Ben Mare nods in understanding what Twilight's doping, so the rest may as well just follow along.

Soon the group ran pass a few scared civilian ponies that were running from seeing the danger.

The barrier was fading in a bright orange color as it's scattered remains were vanishing in the air. Even Trixie reached his hoof up to pick up the tiny remain of the barrier before it vanished in her hove completely, the spell was broken.

"It's down…" Trixie stated in seeing that the barrier has fallen, they can now invade Ponyville now.

"Then march off and let them know of our coming!" Lorcan waved out his left claw in issuing that his followers go forth and show the citizens who they are.

Suddenly, the theme Tikimon is being played as Lorcan and his remaining forces prepare to march in to invade Ponyville. The barrier was down and now it's there time to go in and 'introduce' themselves to the citizens, only Lorcan had chosen to remain behind.

"Aren't you coming?" Spot looked back to ask if their main leader guy was coming along with them or not.

"Yeah, to invade," Fido stated that they are going to invade, shouldn't Lorcan come with them?

"You wanted to invade ponies' homes, did you not?" Rover reminded the black hooded cloak person that this was his idea; doesn't he want to take part in the invading march?

"I'll let you all take this chance moment to invade first, I'll catch up….when the moment is right." Lorcan waved off in stating he'll let his Brotherhood members take the first chance to start things off and he'll arrive when it's time for him to make an entrance.

The other members were unsure about this, but decided that if Lorcan wanted to arrive later for the battle, then who are they to argue? Trixie used her magic to fly in the air, Gilda took to the air by her own wing power, the Flim-Flam Brothers detached one of their Octo-Apple Launcher 7000 machine off to ride from an open console seating spot on the big head, and for Boxco & Dum Dum, they carried some weapon spears with the Diamond Dogs trio Leaders wielding their own to march off in an army fashion approach. Lorcan smirked while watching this all happen, soon, he'll make a grand appearance, and make all fear him, especially those he wishes to suffer the most…Twilight & her friends.

At the moment when the barrier fell, outside of Ponyville, came a large crowd of figures that were coming out from the dust and smoke clouds made from the attacks. Many ponies were gossiping in wondering who could be appearing out to invade them. Slowly, each hidden figure were slowly coming out of the clouds to which each one made a different reaction happen to many ponies that recognized the invading army. The first one to appear was someone with a lion's body but wings and head of an eagle to which it flew out of the clouds to be…Gilda!

"No way…Gilda?" Rainbow Dash responded completely shocked in seeing that her former friend was a part of this army.

"Hey there Dashie, you still hanging with your loser friends?" Gilda remarked off by insulting the once friend she hang out with as long as she was cool to be around.

"Hold on, Gilda, the Griffin girl that was mean to us ponies and played awful tricks, is on the side of the enemy?" Pinkie Pie exclaimed out completely shocked to believe that the griffin the ponies had to deal with, even tried to be nice to her, is now their enemy.

"Hugh, surprise to see the pink one's smart enough to know that I found to hang out with 'some in particular' cools club?" Gilda rhetorically stated out in saying that she found some folks that were 'close' to being cool like her to hang around with.

"Ugh, and she doesn't appear to be the only one we've meant to be here!" Rarity sighed from looking pass Gilda in taking a notice that coming out of the clouds were…three familiar dogs she and Spike once came across with; The Diamond Dogs!

"Well, well, it's the whiny pony that drove us to giving up our gems!" Rover remarked off with an annoyed snarl in remembering Rarity from some time ago.

"Yes, she is hard to handle with!" Fido complained out in remembering how hard it was to stand Rarity's behavior or personality.

"And much harder in dealing with," Spot pointed out one more fact about handling Rarity.

"Ohhh brother, the Diamond Dogs," Spike sighed to moan in seeing these three dogs again that caused him and Rarity trouble before. "This new enemy's gone and got THEM then that means it's more than these three guys here!" Spike criticized in seeing that it might not just be these three, but all of the Diamond Dog soldiers that follow their leaders here.

"More like they are desperate to bring any losers into their group," Phobos comments since Nyx and her friends had told him about the ponies' enemies in the past.

"Oh what little minds and brains to not see the true elegance of our might," Spoke a familiar female voice that was levitating from in the air and coming out of the clouds of smoke.

"What, that voice…isn't that…?" Twilight Sparkle responded a bit surprise in recognizing that voice; it could only belong to none other than…

"That's right; it is none other than…." Then the voice owner appeared by a grand flashy entrance of fireworks show to be none other than… "The Great & Powerful Trixie has arrived!" Yep, it was Trixie, as she landed beside the others, and was still as showy-offy as ever.

"Oh boy, of all ponies to be our enemy, it's the show off." Rainbow Dash groaned to slap her left hoof on her face in seeing Trixie again.

"Well yew ain't much foe stating yer share o' being a show off yerrself, Rainbow!" Applejack remarked off annoyed by Rainbow for being the same in wanting to show off. "But Ah wanna know is which of you dog-gone crooks were harming mah Family's Apple Crops!" The cow girl pony snapped in demanding to know which of these foes were misusing her appeals.

"Maybe you like to see what you're looking for?" Flim's voice was heard from within the cloud of smoke in responding to Applejack's question.

"Is closer then you can imagine, dear pony?" Flam's voice responded a bit afterwards from where he was also hidden in the smoke cloud.

"Oh crud, I know those voices." Nyx mumbles to herself in annoyance and concern.

Then coming out of the smoke cloud was the largest creature that the Flim-Flam Brothers were piloting, which as it crawled by its tentacles, gave quote a surprise shock of its appearance to the locals.

"Eeek…what-what is that?" Fluttershy yelped to hide behind her friends in seeing the giant mechanical octopus creature that really frighten not just her, but a lot of the other pony citizens.

"Looks like an octopus monster...that looks like a robot!" Phobos chirps out in surprise.

"Our latest creation, the Octo-Apple Launcher 7000, it sucks in apples by the swoop of a vacuum power, transmits them inside…" Flim stated out in wiggling his left hoof in explaining what the brother's creation can do for starters.

"And aim from our tentacle design cannon lockers can blast magical apples to rain down to break down any barrier." Flam finished off in stating that it was their creation that it was used to break down a bit of the barrier around Ponyville.

"Oh, it wasn't enough yer fellas wanted 'ta take our farm an' Apple business! But now yew've gone 'ta make apple's vitamins into something 'ta harm a pony! 'Dat there's crossing it!" Applejack was exclaiming off in feeling the anger boiling in her, these two were misusing apples like they were meant to hurt ponies instead of helping to feed them; that's a new low.

"So, this is just business!" The Flim-Flam Brothers shrug off in a non caring manner in hearing Applejack complaining.

"Okay, who else is in this Legion of Losers?" Phobos calls out with a shrug. "Is he so desperate and crazy to do something like that?"

"Yeah, its business that keeps us from going up!" Dum Dum's voice was heard from making a weird statement.

"No, that's from going down, you mean!" The voice of Boxco corrected his pal in what he said was off.

"Dum Dum & Boxco," Twilight responded surprise to hear those voices as who else should appear out of the cloud but the trouble minions of Boris. "What are you two doing back here?" The smart pony snapped in wanting to know why these two minions that served a pony Twilight never got along with are here now.

"That's right, my mother banished you guys!" Ben Mare declared with a stern face in pointing at the two that they were sentenced away.

"I thought they were only kicked out of Canterlot." Phobos said, pointing out that Boxco and Dum-Dum was banished from Canterlot from Nyx has told him.

"Well, that's beside the point right now!"

"Ha, the only ones we pay attention to listen are Boris and the new boss!" Dum Dum proclaimed that they take orders from no one except those two mentioned beings.

"Hey, don't tell them that, it's supposed to be a secret!" Boxco elbowed his partner to not give away that secret yet.

"Secret; what secret are you hiding? I can tell if it's a surprise, and judging from you all, it's no happy-fun-time surprise!" Pinkie Pie spoke out in randomly demanding to know what these gathered bad guys are up to and what they are trying to hide.

"Let's say, there's more to us than you're figuring out?" Gilda wave her talon out in inspecting in, and that she wasn't paying much attention to that demand tone.

"Yes, and this not all of us," Spot stated off from looking to his dog pals in knowing what he mean.

"Right; there's two more of us!" Fido stated out in pointing out how there are more of them around here.

"Hehe and the one more is the new leader we Diamond Dogs are following for reward!" Rover cackled in rubbing his paws together in joy of getting a reward out of this.

"Two more enemies," Sweetie Belle repeated out completely surprised to hear that there's more than these guys.

"Plus this leader, that equal's three?" Apple Bloom responded in realizing that the last one has gotta be leading these troublemakers.

"But who are they?" Scootaloo asked in having a hard time knowing who these three other missing members are including the new guy. Phobos frowns, having a good idea who the new leader is.

"So tell us, who are the others?" Spike shouted with waving his left claw in snapping to demand an answer.

"Two of them, the so-called wielders of the Elements of Harmony have only stopped in the past from last time but not permanently we're afraid." Trixie remarked off in mentioning that two of the missing members are those the Mane Six have met before and know who they are. "And the two of them are dealing with your princesses right now!" The blue pony stated with a sly smile in admitting that the others are taking on Celestia and Luna at this time.

This made some ponies gasped in shock, their princesses are fighting two of these enemies before them, but who can they be?

"Oh no, that means daddy's mommy and her sister are facing some really tough villains? But who," Nyx spoke in shock to look around in wondering just who would be facing Celestia and Luna if it's to hold them off and are they that powerful to do the task alone.

"Settle down Nyx, my mom and aunt won't fall to just any old foes we've dealt with before." Ben Mare rest his left hoof on the black filly to calm her nerves, but in truth, inside, he felt worried just as Nyx is.

"Oh sure, your mom, who got her flank kicked by a Changeling who once impersonated your cousin. That's good." Phobos remarks dryly, making Nyx and Ben frown to him. "What? It's kinda true!"

"You will tell us who you are all working for and you will surrender to Celestia's Royal Guard!" Shining Armor declared out in having his guard troops come up forward as they shielded the citizen ponies to not come another step closer to these enemies. "As Captain, I won't let you bring this village to any harm!" Shining Armor declared out with a serious expression as he'll stop these enemies before anymore damage can be done than it already is.

"Ahhhh, Shining, as protective as ever, I see," Spoke a chilling voice that made Shining's eyes widen in recognizing that voice anywhere.

Then at a sudden moment, as if things hadn't gotten much worse off than they are now…they just went and got worst. For soon came a pillar of green fire that came from between the front of the Brotherhood of Tadaka and the citizens of Ponyville. It was around here that many were fearful of what was coming from a strange force of magic the fire was producing, but what was scary was it was shaping into a figure from within. The ponies flinched when the figure waved his claws at the flames to cease what he was enshrouded in which spooked many out. Judging from this character that stood before the Brotherhood was clearly the leader and…the new enemy. This was Lorcan, and it seemed that Shining Armor gritted his teeth in seeing this foe appearing now of all times. It was also around here that the background music ceases being heard at this time.

"Hey, who killed the music?" Nyx demands in annoyance, making some of the ponies look at her oddly. "Fourth wall breaking, I picked that up from Auntie Pinkie Pie."

But what was almost scary, was that even from his face hidden, there was a state of where his glowing scar was that shape a painful memory for one pony particular. "Huuagh…" Twilight gasped from seeing this person, even Ben Mare growled in remembering this guy from his day back as the Demon Pony. But during this moment, Twilight saw her friends getting prepared, but the smart pony found Spike & the CMC to give them this order. "Spike, take the girls and hide somewhere!" The smart pony told Spike in what he had to do quickly at this moment and time.

"Whah," The CMC yelped up surprised to hear Twilight wanting them to leave and not stay around to see what happens.

"But Twilight, what's the big deal, it's just one more villain to tussle? We can still…" Spike was resenting the idea of leaving when he can be a big help, however…

"NOOOWWW…" Twilight Sparkle snaps out in a very angry tone and looked close to almost bursting in flames…almost, but that seriously annoyed face said otherwise.

"Wooh; Um…okay, com-come on girls," Spike yelped in shocking fear, shared by the four fillies of the CMC and the baby dragon swallowed his bravery to listen to Twilight's orders without making it get any much worst.

Spike immediately ran off to hide with Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo and Nyx tagging along, Phobos tag along as well. The CMCs and baby dragon has never seen Twilight get that mad before except when she ignites herself into flames. The others near Twilight were wondering why their friend had to be so sternly mean to get the younger ones out of here; it was kinda much in their minds. But the gang stayed hidden behind the guards to watch in seeing what was going to happen from here.

Soon all focus returned to Lorcan as he stood from the blazing flames around some damaged parts of Ponyville.

"Citizens of Ponyville," Lorcan spoke out loud in waving his claws to get the citizens to quiet down while he speaks. "I give you my greetings as you have no doubt met my fellow members: The Brotherhood of Tadaka!" The hooded villain exclaimed from motioning over to those behind him with each of them smirking their own sneaky smile.

This caused a lot of ponies to gossip in hearing that the ones behind this new being has stated in what the group is called.

Lorcan soon continued to speak to the very lost and puzzled ponies while Shining kept his guards prepared for anything this villain might try, "My name…is Lorcan! I am the leader of our Brotherhood!" The being spoke in presenting himself by name and his standing of the Brotherhood here. "Listen to my will, and I 'might', just spare your lives!" The crowds were nervous, the guards held a stern expression for any tricks this guy might pull, but they all heard him out. "My reason for being here is clear and simple! I want the Elements of Harmony!" Lorcan declared off in demanding the very powerful elements that Celestia holds in secret. "And also…gurhum…to kill…a certain pony." He spoke from a mix of a chuckle in bringing up another fact which many ponies were spooked in what this villain meant. "And it's none other than…Twilight Sparkle…gurhumhmhmh…" Lorcan smiled off with a wicked expression as he let a tiny cackle sound escape his voice.

This caused more ponies to gasp in shock in hearing this demanding threat. Many know Twilight but to think someone came here to kill that pony, why do such a thing?

Twilight & her friends were just as lost and confused, why does Lorcan want to kill her? The ones that seem pretty ticked up at hearing this demand was Shining Armor and Ben Mare, if this Lorcan guy makes one, just ONE move on the pony's little mane or coat body, they won't resist to attack this vile villain.

"Give into these demands and your lives are spared, resist and…" Lorcan stated off that he'll let the ponies go, but just in case they don't, he revealed a hidden apple from within his cloak. "Like this apple….it will be…CRUSHED!" Lorcan exclaimed with his wicked nature in what he'll do to those that won't listen as he gripped the apple before… "SQUASH," The very apple was squashed in his claws, and dropped to the ground which spooked the citizens if this villain would do that to them. "Or maybe…instead of one apple…you go on hungry as I BURN your apple fields to cinder!" Lorcan declared off with a vile smirk in thinking maybe he'll make the ponies suffer if they refuse to cooperate and destroy a source of their food supplies.

"Gaaughh…" This made more gasped and yelps from the pony crowd. Lorcan was threatening to destroy their precious apples, a source that they get to have tasty meals and special stuff like the great flavor making Apple Cider & Zap Apple Jam! If that was to happen, what would become for many of the ponies in Ponyville with no apples?

"Now see here mister high an' mighty, yew can't just threaten one o' our own an' threat 'ta destroy our apple supplies!" Applejack pushed against the guards to actually snap at Lorcan for even thinking that any pony weasel out their own or for saying thatr he destroy their apple fields that belong to the Apple Family.

"Oh my, she certainly is brave to stand up to Lorcan, isn't she brother?" Flim responded in being very surprised to see Applejack speak that way to Lorcan without fear.

"More like a foolish choice that's just asking to be eliminated, dear brother." Flam remarked off with a teasing tone that what that pony is doing is a foolish choice.

"Ah, you're one of Twilight Sparkle's friends, aren't you?" Lorcan exclaimed in staring at Applejack from the crowd while many of the citizens yelp in fear and the guards just stood with serious faces, weapons wielded for anything.

"Ah won't lie, Ah am, an' it's 'de honest truth!" Applejack spoke with a clear and determined face as she's never one to lie about who her friends are and that takes courage to admit.

"Hmphm-hmpm-hmphm, so very honest; I can see how one of the elements picked you." Lorcan chuckled under his breath in seeing Applejack was serious and it explains why one element picked her for being so honest. "But they say the truth is more painful…than a lie." He spoke with a hidden and wicked expression in his message which made Applejack puzzled and tried to see what this villain meant.

"Brzizivhmm…" Without warning, Lorcan raise up his right claw's two fingers and fired off a flash flaming bolt right at the cow girl pony that didn't dodge in time before being shot off from her spot.

"Gaugh…" Applejack had then later smacked into a tree while the lightning spell cease a moment later with this tough Earth Pony feeling a real bad sore on her shoulder and head.

"Siiss," Apple Bloom cried out from where she hid with her friends, Phobos and Spike as she was near Granny Smith and Big Macintosh. They just saw Lorcan go forth to harm a pony, many were shocked to see that happen but then Granny saw Apple Bloom almost about to run off out there if she didn't put her hove down on the filly's tail.

"Now don't do nothing foolish, youngin'!" Granny Smith exclaimed to warn her little loosely grandchild for trying to go out there and pick a fight at the wrong time and place. "Big Macintosh, help me settle her down before she goes hoofing off like a crazy pony hero…um, Big Mac?" She tried to get the elder sibling to talk sense to his younger sister that she shouldn't be doing this, just one problem…Big Macintosh wasn't standing beside them.

"Nnnope," Big Macintosh declared off in charging and ousting agains the crowd with a 'MAD-ANGRY' face of a charging bull.

"Looks like Big Mac is pissed!" Phobos exclaims, not caring about the fact that he cursed in front of little fillies.

"Oh boy," Granny slap her free hoof on her forehead while holding Apple Bloom back. She should have know that even the eldest of the siblings lose their cool when some fella goes and hurts someone, whether it be friend or family, when they meet Big Macintosh, well…that's left to be seen.

"Urraggh…" Applejack tried to move, but yelped from the sore bruise that she felt in her left arm.

"Applejack," Rarity cried out, as she, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash came to inspect their friend while Twilight kept herself hidden, since Lorcan seem interested with her.

"Are you alright?" Fluttershy asked cautiously in wondering if her friend was not hurt too badly.

"Speak to us! Say something! ANYTHING," Pinkie Pie asked out, and repeated until she shook the cow girl while yelling in her ears.

"Ugh, Ah ain't deaf, ya'all?" Applejack groaned from Pinkie Pie yelling a bit too loud by her ears that made her head start ringing from the echos.

"More of Twilight's friends, goody," Lorcan remarked off in a humorist tone in seeing who else are friends of Twilight Sparkle. "Maybe I can lure her out of the crowd by targeting you all!" Lorcan stated out in plotting something as most citizens gasped but the guards held their weapons to keep them out while watching carefully that they don't let another slip up of a pony being hurt by the villain happen twice.

"You looking to pick a fight, then we'll fight!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed in putting up her dukes, as she held her two hooves in preparing to have a few smacks at the guy.

"Rainbow, don't be hotheaded enough 'ta go out there without thinking first." Applejack groaned to stand up in warning her friend to watch for Lorcan, he's more dangerous than to believe.

"Well, if no pony's going to make a move..." Lorcan shrug off in a dry response as he held his two index/middle claw fingers on his left side to aim at the corner ponies. "Then I guess…" However, that sentence was never finish cause Lorcan didn't notice something…behind him.

"Bashfruvhm…" Then without warning, Lorcan got bashed by some pony's head that pushed him across the ground.

"Oooh, points to the big stallion." Phobos remarks in hiding at what happened.

"Gaaaugh…" Lorcan cried out from smacking against the ground, completely unaware of what just hit him from behind.

"Nnnope," Big Macintosh responded in standing over Lorcan, looking really serious and ticked off.

"Big Macintosh," Applejack responded surprised, and a bit relief. Her big brother came out from the crowd, and tackled the villain which surprised a lot of ponies of that brave and crazy maneuver.

"Urraugh…" Lorcan turned himself over to stand up, but the big red stallion farmer was not about to let him.

"Oooh, no you don't," Big Macintosh remarked off in seeing Lorcan try to stand up again, as he approached, raised his two hooves up against the villain just as he got on his feet. "Punch-Punch-Punch, Punch…" And then Big Macintosh was throwing out a left and right fast hookers that were smacking Lorcan side from side.

"Augh-Uragh-Arrugh, Graugh," Lorcan yelped out every cry from what this stallion hit him with until he lost balance and fell onto the ground.

Then Big Macintosh did something surprising that some thought was just as crazy. He lean down, used his teeth to grip Lorcan's cloak good and tight.

"Huuagh," Lorcan yelped out loud by a sudden surprise in what this big brute Earth Pony was trying to do to him, HIM, Lorcan, of all villains.

"Sweet, kick his butt, Big Mac!" Nyx cheers on Big Macintosh.

"Nrrugh…" Then Big Macintosh started to do the next crazy step in spinning himself with Lorcan still being held on by his teeth to spin him enough times until both were spinning at a fast pace. Then soon the big stallion stood on his high back legs and was rotating his right hoof before it connected with Lorcan's face. "Powwvvh…" Then the big pony lets go of the cloak and lets the extra force he increased followed by his punch knock Lorcan in an uppercut jab maneuver stunt.

"Graaauughh…" Lorcan made a loud cry from being hurt by that sucker punch that with the rotation spin and throwing force sent him swirling in the upper air.

"So long, Lorcan!" Big Macintosh remoted off to the villain spiraling in the air as the stallion was still looking serious in that 'nobody' harms his family.

"Woo-hoo! He got him!" Pinkie Pie cheered with a smile, many other citizens smiled in seeing that Big Macintosh just helped save them.

"All soldiers, aim your horns and magical spears, and fire at will!" Shining Armor held up his right hoof in issuing that all guards are to aim and fire their attacks at the distracted Lorcan.

"But I thought his name was Lorcan, not Will?" Pinkie Pie asked off from hearing what Shining said and tried to correct him.

"Pinkie, it's a figure of speech." Rarity sighed to state to her puzzled friend that it was just a metaphor statement.

"FIRE," Shining Armor shouted to his troops that took aim, horns and spears glowing before… "Pow-Pow-Pow-Pow-Powvhmm…." All front sides before the group of villains were firing their attacks in one direction to hit Lorcan.

"Hahahaha, child's play," Lorcan spoke from his swirling motion in the air and actually cracked a smile from what's about to happen to him.

Then without warning, time seems to slow down as we see the magical bullet shape magic shots were heading towards Lorcan. He bends himself in a curve motion to dodge one magic shot appearing near his left side. Then Lorcan was swinging his body motion to end up dodging two magic shots passing over his stomach area. Then another shot almost got him when he was in a crab state position toy dodge one, then a few others in that steady pose while another just barely miss his left leg.

"Well that's something you don't see every day." Spike cut across in breaking the silence in seeing how Lorcan was dodging the shots and with such a strange dance style too.

"Are you kidding? I saw dance moves at the local arcade every day." Phobos said to Spike unimpressed.

"Yeah, but this is happening in the sky!"

"Pow-Pow-Pow-Pow-Pow-Powvh.../Bam-Bam-Bam-Bam…" The attacks were still going off, but now in a faster, more normal state than before. In fact, some would have thought they were hallucinating because the dodging looked much faster that Lorcan was leaving after-images of himself that was more than the normal eye can follow. Many times Lorcan dodged some, but some ended up impacting and exploding which resulted in the same matter again until the guards were just making a large cloud of smoke while seemingly hitting something inside.

"Cease attacking!" Shining Armor held up his left hove in issuing a cease firing which his guards responded.

Soon the smoke was clearing, and the citizens were seeing…Lorcan was gone. Many of them were whispering in wondering if the villain was hiding or if he was finished off by the guards' attack of magical fire power.

"Yes! They got him!" Rainbow Dash cheered off with a wide smirk that the guards with Shining took down Lorcan in two shakes of a pony's tail.

"Huuuagh, what a relief," Rarity sighed in feeling relieved that the worst enemy is long gone now.

"Um, I hate to ruin our enjoyment, but…why don't they look upset?" Fluttershy suddenly broke this happy moment to have the others focus on the Brotherhood members. They showed no emotion after watching Lorcan take such a beating and more so, they seem to be…smiling.

"Hey, Fluttershy's right, usually, I be pretty upset in losing, but they seem rather…fine. What gives?" Pinkie Pie responded in seeing the same thing her friend saw. Something weird was going on and this pink pony can tell it, and believe us, she can sense these things.

"Ah don't know, but something ain't right. It's like they see their leader getting blasted means nothing 'ta them." Applejack rubbed her chin in feeling seriously lost here, if the villains aren't feeling mad, then what do they know that the others aren't aware of?

Suddenly, as Twilight watched from her spot in the crowd, she doesn't notice something of a green emerald aura slipping pass the crowd and coming to her until…

"Wooohooohhoooh," Twilight screamed out, as she not only lost her balance, but something pulled her in the crowd. The misty emerald green aura had snared between the pony's back legs and was dragging at a fast rate.

"Twilight," The Mane Six, Ben Mare, Shining Armor, the CMC, Phobos and Spike shouted out from seeing their friend got swiped in the crowd.

"Waahh-waaahh...gaugh," Twilight was yelping before whatever held her soon tossed her to have the pony land hard in Town's Square, the Town's Center part of Ponyville.

Then without warning, through a magical green flames burning from the strange aura mist, the figure of the black cloak being Lorcan amerced to take the stage by the board stand.

"What now Captain?" A random Guardsman asked his captain what to do as all units were aiming their weapons at where Lorcan appeared now with Twilight nearby.

"Lock onto Lorcan, but don't fire unless I say so! We might hit my sister in the crossfire!" Shining Armor issued out his orders to his soldiers to standby but not to fire in fear that he'll get Twilight if the stallion does.

"Hahahaha, that was most surprising, citizens," Lorcan laughed at this event in presenting himself to the citizens once more but looked over at where Big Macintosh was. "I see that you had within your village a very strong fighter in your mix." Lorcan had noticed the serious face the big red stallion was expressing as the villain was clearly talking about him. "You've earn my attention, what was your name?" Lorcan waved off in finding this pony somewhat amusing and would like to know this person's name.

"His name's Big Macintosh, yew big bully!" Apple Bloom snapped out loud from where she, her CMC & Granny Smith were in telling this villain who the name of her big brother was.

"Yeah, the guy that kicked you around like a rag doll!" Scootaloo declared out in telling Lorcan without fear that Big Macintosh totally got the upper hand, or hoof in this case, in catching the villain by surprise.

"And sent you flying," Sweetie Belle stated off in knowing how Apple Bloom's big brother had the strength to throw this creep up in the air, cause he's very strong.

"Now, now girls, please stop before we make things worst!" Granny Smith spoke in trying to keep the little fillies out of trouble, but the way things are that's better said than done.

"Hmmm, I'll remember that name. Big Macintosh, a fitting name for a big, large, simple-minded brute that works on a farm," Lorcan rubbed his unseen chin in remoting out how he'll remember this pony, seeing that he's by far the strongest Stallion in Ponyville, even for just a simple farmer.

"Hmphm…" Big Macintosh huffed in feeling insulted that Lorcan was calling him something that was meant to hurt his feelings.

"Hey, that's not a nice thing to say!" Derpy spoke out from the crowd in seeing Lorcan was now picking on others, just in how he sees them.

"Hahaha, and now a cross-eyed freak, I must say…you ponies are coming out in all shapes and sizes!" Lorcan taunted off in cackling at those that surround him are of all different feature appearances. "You're showing some resistance, and we can't have that, now can we?" The villain return to the subject in seeing that the citizens are now beginning to rise up against him when they should coward in fear. "Maybe I'l start with another demonstration." Lorcan stated from motioning his eyes at a certain pony on the stage with a wicked expression as he slowly lifts up one claw hand before only bringing two fingers together for something…nasty.

"Uagh…" Twilight flinched in seeing Lorcan's familiar lightning spell was aiming for her, the villain was going to use her as some demonstration to not cross him or face the consequences and she was the example.

"No! Leave Mommy alone," Nyx yelled out in demanding that the villain not hurt her mother.

"Lorcan, if you so much as hurt her again, I'll…." Ben Mare was beginning to lose his temper if this guy so much harms Twilight in any way, then he'll just...

"Oh now this is a laugh!" Lorcan remarked off in witnessing in front of him, two beings he's got knowledge on. "The former beings are darkness is before us, my dear Brotherhood members!" Lorcan looked out to his members in stating that they have those that were once feared beings of darkness, before being brought into the light.

"Heheheeh/hahaha/hihihi," The other members of the Brotherhood of Tadaka chuckle in delight and insulting those that were known once, but are now nothing.

"Do you really think I haven't noticed about you?" Lorcan remarks off towards Nyx & Ben Mare in remembering who they are, or in another matter, once were, "The fact that you, Nightmare Moon, having chosen to live as a simple filly. And you, the once known Demon Pony, that was saved by an accursed item & picked to hold a great power!" The villain pointed and explained out each one's story of what's happening to them in the past. "Both stand to save this mare's life, just because she saved you from staying what you were!" Lorcan looked to Twilight, insisting that it's thanks to her that Nyx & Ben Mare are no longer the renown Nightmare Moon and Demon Pony, thanks to her interference.

"With all my heart, I'll beat you so fast, your eyes will be spinning!" Ben Mare exclaimed with a determine expression as his three Triforce Marks were glowing in just awaiting to spring into action.

"And I maybe not like Nightmare Moon, but if I had that power, I kick you were it hurts!" Nyx snapped off in feeling that if she had her full powers, like before, she hurt Lorcan in a way he feel pain all over.

"And you better include me in that count!" Rainbow Dash declared out in flapping herself up in the air in siding with the others.

"Me too," Applejack also stood up in siding with this argument.

"Me three," Pinkie Pie popped up to stand near her friends.

"And me Four!" Rarity declared out in a humble manner to what she does too.

"And me as well!" Fluttershy spoke with a serious motion on her face to help her friend.

"Eeyup," Big Macintosh also step up in agreeing with the mares on this one of what Lorcan would do not go unpunished.

"I'm in too!" Derpy flew up to side with the others in going along as well.

"Yeah, me too/Yeah, so will I/Yeah-yeah!" Now some of the other residence was feeling like the same thing. They were losing their fear and willing to stand up to defend one another, including to helps their citizen friend, Twilight Sparkle.

"Hmph, you ponies get a little cocky, it only shows you are fools!" Lorcan rhetorically stated in seeing just what fools the ponies are being with him.

"Oh, shut up, moron!" Phobos growled, having enough of this as he jumps into the fray.

"Oh, well, well, it's the Moon Dragon...a former part of a dragon army once imprisoned! Tell me, why do you decide on joining these ponies when you should've been with your rightful kind?"

"Look, the ponies are my friends and I hate those stupid jerks in the army, insulting me...and I don't want anything to do with their leader Tadaka whom you stupid heads named your group after! We may have never met before but the dragons told me about you, how they met ya long before the imprisonment. It's thanks to him that we got imprisoned in the first place and I rather be a freed good dragon than a monster who wants to kill ponies!"

"Big words for a little guy whose species was once associated with Princess Luna," Lorcan remarks dryly to the little dragon, "But perhaps I am being a bit too harsh, "Tell you what: rejoin my little army and I may forgive the betrayal."

Phobos pauses as if thinking about it...then turns around and slaps his rear to Lorcan, making the ponies laughs as he remarks, "See this? This is my tail, jerk! Kiss it! Your father was a Smell-a-Saurus, your mother was a hamster!"

"Ha ha ha! Good one, Phobos!" Nyx laughs at what her best friend has done.

"Very well, if you want to side with the ponies, then you will die with them!" Lorcan remarks to Phobos darkly. "You are a bigger fool just like that big foolish who took me by surprise a few seconds ago; big on muscles, short on brains!"

Big Macintosh grunts a bit then charges onto the stage to save Twilight, but Lorcan reels back his fist and punches Big Mac, knocking him flying. The others yelp as they rush to check on the stallion.

The villains smirks and states, "That may have work before but it no longer does. But perhaps, while the demand of the elements is still needed of time, I might rethink killing you, Twilight, for something else!" The villain exclaimed in now suddenly getting a new change of heart about killing Twilight Sparkle.

"Uagh…and what…would that be?" Twilight Sparkle stood up from after her falling from before as she stared at Lorcan in wondering…what this guy wants if not her life.

"Tell me the whereabouts, of the baby dragon that lives in this village!" Lorcan stated off to the smart pony to tell him, the known whereabouts of a baby dragon in the village.

That message made Twilight froze in fear, Lorcan was asking for Spike, but why? Why would this new enemy be wanting with Spike, of all things, it made no sense?

"Wha…what are you talking about?" Twilight Sparkle resisted to say an answer to the question, trying not to look the villain in the eye.

"Which dragon," Phobos ask Lorcan as if playing dumb.

"Don't you two play dumb with me; I know all about a purple dragon living among you ponies!" Lorcan snapped at Twilight in fury for her insolence and Phobos for his pretend stupidity in pretending not to know. "I recently came across a green dragon who told me of a dragon trying to live on his own and was saved…by a pony!" He exclaimed out with his teeth gritted, but the mention about a green dragon…flashed in Twilight's memory. Lorcan must have met the green dragon when Spike ran away in once thinking he was being replaced by her owl pet. "I've recently saw him again, during your final confrontation with Boris when he transformed into the Red Devil!" Lorcan exclaimed in knowing that Spike is with the ponies when he saw Boris's fight with the Mane Six helping the Demon Pony event.

"Why the hay would that green dragon creep told him that?" Rainbow asks in disbelief. "I thought right after one of Megan's visits as well as visit from King Spykoran the Old, the matter was settled when Spike got him the gems to make up for what happened."

"Ugh, apparently that big brute just kept that grudge of his." Rarity groans in annoyance.

This surprised many who were there during that incident. Some were shocked that they never saw this person after they had finally got everything settled down.

"I knew he was there during that celebration, and he wasn't just there to say hello!" Shining Armor spoke under his breath in recalling from last time, spotting this villain during their time in Canterlot. "I saw you on that day, so did the princess, what was your gain?" The Captain of the Guards snapped in demanding to know why Lorcan was there at the castle grounds.

"Oh, how thoughtful that you remember it, Shining Armor," Lorcan pretended to feel happy that the captain remembered his visit from last time. "In truth, I needed Boris to kill Ben Mare, when he was the Demon Pony… All to make Twilight Sparkle here…SUFFER!" Lorcan mentioned off slowly and darkly in mentioning what his evil and wicked plan was to be for…to hurt Twilight.

"Huuagh," Twilight gasped in shock, Lorcan was trying to harm her emotionally by having the love of her life killed.

"You…you wanted me dead to just hurt the pony I care for?" Ben Mare spoke in feeling really mad in seeing that it really was this guy that let him out of his cage when as the Demon Pony to be killed and hurt Twilight.

"Oooh, busted!" Phobos exclaims to Lorcan in amusement.

"Why would you do that?" Nyx asked with a frown in not liking how Lorcan was trying to hurt her parents.

"Oh believe me, I have my reasons, and it's why I did it! NOW TALK!" Lorcan remarked off in telling his answer to those demanding to know, but cut back to Twilight again. "WHERE…IS…THAT DRAGON!" The villain roared out with his lightning spell aimed again at the pony to talk or else.

"I'll never tell you!" Twilight Sparkle declared with a stern face, she won't let this creep know where Spike is just so he could hurt him.

"Then you shall suffer…a SLOW…AND PAINFUL…DEMISE," Lorcan spoke with a slow, hissing, voice of a grim reaper…coming to end a life.

Just as time seem slow with Lorcan aiming his spell about to fire and many of Twilight's friends, family and lovers were trying to move, but it might not make it until…

"Nooooo…. Yelled out a young voice that broke the time barrier that kept things slowly frozen, "Powvhmm…./bam…" Then in an instant, a green fireball was shot out so fast that Lorcan didn't see it coming until…his eyes turned on reflex to see something about to hit which exploded on contact.

"Gurraaugh," Lorcan yelped to shield his arms up from the unexpected fireball surprise attack which during so cease his lightning spell.

Many of the ponies gasped in seeing that happened, but not as much at who should enter the scene. While Twilight got helped up by her friends, Ben Mare, Derpy and Big Macintosh and Shining Armor had his troops block off the Brotherhood from making any moves if they should try to help their leader as he stared back at what's happen. As Lorcan recovered from that surprise attack, the smoke was clearing to show that between him and Twilight was the dragon he was looking for…Spike.

And boy did this baby dragon look mad at Lorcan for what he was trying to do here. "Listen buddy, I don't know what your game is, but I'm demanding that you leave us ALONE!" Spike pointed out to Lorcan, snapping out that while he has no idea of this villain's reasons, he won't let him hurt his friends and so he's telling him to leave.

"Spiky-wikey," Rarity gasped upon shock in seeing that Spike, managed to not only save Twilight but was facing a dangerous villain.

"Boy, 'de little fella sure is brave!" Applejack exclaimed in seeing how Spike was trying to be brave there.

"Yeah, did you see how he blasted Lorcan without him knowing it?" Pinkie Pie exclaimed with a smile that Spike totally caught Lorcan off guard.

"He helped saved Twilight, he's very brave." Fluttershy smiled in relief, Spike saved Twilight and that's all that matters.

"Ahh, I could done better, but I'll give him credit here." Rainbow Dash waved off in stating what she would have done, but decided to let the baby dragon have his moment.

"Spike…" Twilight muttered out surprise, Spike managed to save her, even when she told him to hid and fearing Lorcan asked to find him…just what was happening around her?

Soon, time stood still when Lorcan stared at Spike and let off a gasp of shock at seeing his appearance, "Gaugh-haaugh!" Lorcan saw Spike, and then without warning, memories were flashing in his head. He was recalling his seeing of Spike rushing to his friends' aid after Boris the Red Devil was at first, thought to have been defeated during his last match against the Demon Pony. The image of Spike was zooming closer and closer until the image of the dragon froze and then zoomed it up before fading…against the real full appearance of Spike. "Ugh…ugh...uughugh…" Lorcan was acting strange, his words were not coming out right, most of the citizens were puzzled, this action made even Lorcan's members of the Brotherhood look at his behavior in confusion.

"Looks like Lorcan is getting sick. Don't surprise me none, never thought to deal with another dragon." Phobos comments in amusement by what's happening.

"What's the matter, my flame proves a bit too much for you to take?" Spike asked with his arms cross in seeing Lorcan was acting pretty awkward after taking a dose of his flames. "Then you better scram before I get serious and toast your…waaaugh…" The baby dragon was declaring out for this villain to take a hike, but he was cut off from a shadow overlapping him by a fast and unexpected surprise.

Then suddenly without a second, Lorcan stood over Spike from a flashing blur effect, his arms wide and claws opened up, as his eyes stared down at the baby dragon. Many of the viewers gasped in fear if Lorcan was gonna hurt the little dragon for attacking him. Shining Armor issued his soldiers near the stage to standby and wait his signal, the Mane Six's group stared wide eyes in seeing this but Twilight stared in horror if the villain was gonna hurt the poor dragon. Granny Smith shielded the CMC's eyes to not watch what maybe a horrible fate to poor Spike. But then while Spike held his arms up to prepare for the end, something was off…it never came. However, what did come was something a little more shocking than a villain about to kill someone for their defiance.

Lorcan had bend a little low and then grasp Spike's enter body into…..A HUG. Now as you can image the many spectators viewing this really found the scene a little more…awkward and surprising.

"Ugh, gross!" Phobos exclaims, covering his eyes in disgust. "Make it stop!"

"Um, is it my imagination, or is Lorcan hugging Spike?" Derpy asked a bit puzzled in seeing what she saw, was actually true.

"Eeyup; He is!" Big Macintosh nods in exclaiming that they weren't seeing things, this was for real.

"That's a little more freaky than anything else we've seen. It can't get any weirder!" Ben Mare exclaimed from seeing that things are pretty much weirding him out and that it can't get much more weirder than this.

"Ugh…hello; I um…" Spike was trying to speak in the hug Lorcan was giving him as he felt completely lost in this sudden change of the situation. "I'm a little lost here. Why are you…hugging me all of a sudden?" The baby dragon asked Lorcan a question in why this guy was hugging him when Spike sees him as a complete stranger.

"Huugh," Lorcan's eyes from under his hood went wide eye before lifting his head up and letting Spike go of the hug to only hold him on his shoulders? "What are you talking about? Don't you a dragon, know who I really am?" Lorcan asked slowly and hesitatively in asking Spike a question in what he says if what this dragon says is no lie in how his reaction is to Lorcan.

"Well as far as I'm knowing of you, you're nothing but an EVIL villain, trying to hurt my friends!" Spike shrug off before pointing at the guy with a frown in stating about him being evil and bringing harm to his friends and love ones.

"Augh…" Lorcan's eyes widen even more slowly as he narrows them away from Spike, and stood up to walk a bit away from the baby dragon, much to his and anyone's confusion.

"Keep a lock on him men, something might just happen here!" Shining ordered his men with a serious face in seeing Lorcan's strange behavior is still acting and something else might come soon?

"You…truly…have no idea…who 'we' are?" Lorcan slowly asked off with much hesitation as he was gripping his claws with tiny sparks being admitted, but kept the force under control.

"Um, no…Why, should I know you?" Spike responded more puzzled then before, still clueless in where Lorcan is going with all of this.

Suddenly, the air around Lorcan seems to be heating up at a fast rate. "Aaauuu…AARRRUUOORRAAGHHH…" He was letting off a low growl before it exploded into a scream from him facing upwards to the skies. "POWWFRVUUHMM…" Then in another scary motion, from Lorcan's hidden face, he shot forth green flames that stretched as high as 30 feet. This caught many ponies to shrink down in fear in not liking this scene, the ones also puzzled were the Brotherhood members seeing Lorcan act so…indifferent. "FRrusuvhmm…" Then the flames finally died down, enough that the bright light show ended with many staring at the still Lorcan, even Spike and the Mane Six and friends with Twilight saw this villain let loose a temper, why.

"Wow, and I thought Tough Apple was a loose cannon when he loses his temper!" Phobos exclaims in amusement.

"Ceeeeeelessssstiaaaaaaaaah!" Lorcan screamed out loud into the heavens above, many of the citizens cringe in hearing this guy shout out their princess's name in a Pit of rage. "You mean-to-tell….me..." His voice was hollering out every loud word spoken in demand, "That YOUUUUUU….AND YOUR STUDEEEENT! Had the AUDACITY," Lorcan was appearing to be shouting up to Celestia, listening in in what she and Twilight seem to have done. "NOT to tell Him….Who 'I'….Aaaaaaammmm!" Lorcan screamed out with such fury that he raised his claws and unleashed a strong voltage of flaming bolts that seem to shock the skies and terrify many citizens in seeing him lose his temper.

"Wha…what do you mean?" Spike muttered out a bit nervous in seeing something was happening here and he's the source. "Not telling me, who you are?" The baby dragon hesitated a bit in fearing the answer, what is it that he has to know about Lorcan, what was it?

Lorcan lowered his arms as he slightly had his hood with his one left sided eye stare at Spike's simply innocence question in which, it felt like a heavy sorrow in this being's presence. "You shall bear witness to the truth that has been ROBBED of your knowledge…for all…these…years." The villain slowly spoke in a soft voice as he reached his claws up to take his hood, and pull it down for all to see…

"Huuagh…" Spike gasped out in shock in seeing something…that caught in by complete surprise.

"Wuuagh.../Huuugh/Aaugh.../Ahhhh…" Even those from Twilight, the Mane Six, the CMC, and the rest of the citizen gasped in what they saw were hidden under Lorcan's hood.

"Whoa, I don't know if I wanna be impressed or be annoyed!" Phobos exclaims at he's looking at he here.

For we slowly zoom up from the villain's feet, to notice some features which are…dragon. Yes, he had dark purple and green body coloring, long messy green hair and a large scar over his eye that many found familiar to be seen. This guy, this was Lorcan but he almost looked similar to Spike, but the newcomer seem to be a bit taller, like in his dragon-teen years.

"I am….your older sibling, little brother." Lorcan announced out with a straight, sorrow expression that soon shocked all that heard the news and left many gasping to here this.

"Bro-bro-bro, I-I-I, Wha-Wha-Wha…." Spike was so overly whammed that he was jibber-jabbering his words until… "I HAVE A BROTHER? FOR REAL," Spike yelled out in complete shock and disbelief, that standing before him is his brother, his actual family, though he can't deny they do look similar.

"Aaaaand here's where things get uglier." Phobos comments a bit.

"Okay…things just got weirder now?" Ben Mare rephrased his earlier statement of things can't get much weirder, cause they just did.

Many ponies and even the villains that didn't know this were chattering up a storm. Of course, while some choose not to make any remark comments about this, one to two little known fillies were not like the others.

"Ugh, like I can't believe this!" Diamond Tiara remarked with dry expressed eyes in seeing this as for real.

"What is it, Diamond?" Silver Spoon asked her friend in what she can't believe to be true.

"That about everypony is scared of a dragon who about the same appearance as Spike!" Diamond Tiara exclaimed in pointing how anyone in their right minds could be afraid of Spike, a baby dragon of the least threatening nature, to be afraid of someone that looks particularly like him.

"Well the only thing is, he looks taller?" Silver Spoon spoke in taking another look to Lorcan as he did look a tiny bit different from Spike's appearance, but her friend brought in a good point. Why be scared of someone that looks just like Spike, it sounded silly, right?

"Brizizvhm/Baamm…." But then again, that could be wrong, especially when a bolt was fired and blew up a portion of the ground near the two fillies.

"Waaaaughh!" The two snotty fillies screeched with Diamond Tiara & Silver Spoon hugging the other in fright as they saw that was Lorcan, aiming his left claw's finger position claw at them without looking to them.

"A lesson for you to learn," Lorcan spoke from never looking behind him. but still talking to those little snotty fillies. "Appearances….can be deceiving!" He slowly exclaimed out to those that think he appears harmless is actually very much mistaken. "And lastly, never backtalk to a powerful being unless you have the smarts to stay…ALIVE!" He snarled off to Diamond Tiara and Silverspoon who duck behind Filthy Rich in being frighten if this villain would come and hurt them.

Diamond and Silver Spoon looked real scared and really sorry for what they've done, most of the other ponies saw this and agreed, never to judge Lorcan, just because he may look similar to Spike, there is a BIG difference!

"Oh brother, give me a break." Phobos groans a bit. "I mean, appearances, maybe, but I can backtalk if I wanna! And why bother hiring these losers to be your private little army?"

"That's my business, not yours traitor!" Lorcan snaps to Phobos angrily.

"Wooh, for being Spike's brother, he's kinda scary!" Scootaloo responded a bit surprised to seeing a guy that's Spike's brother after all this time, he really seems like a scary dragon.

"Well they did make him angry." Sweetie Belle spoke in concern that Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon were making fun of Lorcan and Spike's appearance.

"But what's Spike's brother doing 'dis for?" Apple Bloom asked the major question, what was Lorcan doing, causing this trouble for them.

"Well youngins, in truth…we don't know." Granny Smith kneels down to cautiously tell them that the answer is unknown to them at this moment.

Soon Lorcan turned his attention back to the crowd as he had more to say. "To all you Ponies, listen here and now!" The crowds cease their whisper chatter as to not get Lorcan madder than from what he shown earlier. "Your deaths…shall be a slow….and painful process…to be forever locked in your souls!" Lorcan grinned in stating a fate that will equal all those here, to be finished off.

"Haugh…" Many of the citizens of Ponyville gasped and were muffling under their breaths in terror. Was what Lorcan said going to be true, did they have to fear him and his power? Many wonder where Celestia and Luna are and hoped they can be saved.

Lorcan yelps as a rock hits him in the head. He glares at Phobos who remarks, "Where did you get that quote; 'Moron's Digest'?"

"I will deal with you another time! Brotherhood of Tadaka," Lorcan turned to his menders on the other side as they were listening to his calling. "We shall fall back!" This order issue was something that completely caught the members off guard there.

"Wait, as in retreating?" Gilda asked off in disbelief that this guy was saying they had to run away after finally invading this village.

"But we got them ponies on the bum!" Dum Dum pointed off something, which again, was spoken wrong.

"No, no, that's on the run." Boxco corrected his partner that they had the citizens under their control.

"Why leave when winning?" Fido rubbed his noggin in being clueless to what's going on here.

"Yes, yes, why leave now?" Spot nods in asking what they need to run away for.

"Diamond Dogs want answers for this!" Rover declared off with an annoyed expression in why they have to leave, what was Lorcan up to by doing this?

"Because…we have made our terms clear in whose we are and that there is nothing…" Lorcan stated off with a sly smile in that this was nothing but their declaration of announcing the end to all ponies, "Nothing that from no pony or great heroes…do to stop us!" The villain declared that they cannot be stopped by any means or by anyone to stand against them. "We're announcing their doom, so that they can have a moment to live out their lives before…the end comes!" Lorcan waved up in stating the citizens shall have their last moments to enjoy their lives before they lose them that is.

"Well, if our situation of business is over." Flim spoke in shrugging off the shoulders in seeing what's going on here.

"Then there is no reason to stay here after all." Flam stated in agreeing with his brother, that they have nothing else to gain now.

"Yes, we already have a few 'things' well in prepared. Right…Trixie?" Lorcan spoke off with a smirking grin as he looked to one of the embers and gave a little secret tone signal to the blue pony.

"Hmph-hmmm, all is as you plan, my dear Lorcan." Trixie nods from a humming effort before smiling with a dazing of her eyes to Lorcan's direction.

"Um, is it just me, or did those two made…" Rainbow Dash felt somewhat, unease in seeing something just happened there.

"Goo-goo eyes; I saw it, Trixie was like being sooo over the guy!" Pinkie Pie pointed out in stating in what she saw were the two enemies making lovey-dobby faces.

"Do you think they're…in love?" Fluttershy asked a bit puzzled if Trixie and Lorcan were..a 'thing' together.

"How could Trixie actually be having a relationship with a dragon?" Rarity asked completely stunt that a pony with have a relationship with a dragon.

"'De same way Spike's fallen heels high in love wit' you?" Applejack smirked off in rubbing this little fact to the surprise Rairty's face in getting served with her own medicine.

"Awww, guys!" Spike moans in overhearing the girls bring up his crush on Rarity, it's hard for a dragon to have feelings for a pony he likes very much.

"Ugh, ugh, disgusting, more disgusting than the brother hugging," Phobos exclaims in disgust. "You two belong in a freak show than wherever you are now! I mean, come on, you two don't belong together. Now Luna, I saw Lorcan with..."

"Shut up or I will cut your tail right off!" Lorcan snarls at Phobos, snorting a bit.

"Ooooh, I am so scared! Bring it on, shorty!"

"I AM NOT SHORT, I AM SMALL BONED!"

"You're not going anywhere; I've gotten this place completely sealed off!" True to Shining's words, every corner around Ponyville has more guards surrounding the place. During the confusion, Shining had many of the Unicorn troops teleport and surround the enemy forces to cut off from any escape.

"Then we'll take the scenic exit route! Magic," Lorcan exclaimed with a sly face as he snapped his claws in making something happen.

Suddenly, the Brotherhood of Tadaka was vanishing inside some strange portals of unknown origin. The Flim-Flam Brothers exit by a yellow exit that took them and their machine, Gilda vanish off by flying in the skies and going through a brown portal, Boxco & Dum Dum vanish through a share violet color portal, as for the Diamond Dogs, they went through a gray portal. But when it came to Trixie, she didn't go through her own blue portal like the others, instead…her body faded into magic dust particles into the portal and vanished without explaining the situation of her 'latest & grandest' exit stage that was different in the past.

"Cap-Captain…they've completely vanished!" A guardsman stated in shock and surprise that the Brotherhood of Tadaka have all escaped save for Lorcan.

"Uurgghaaa," Shining Armor snarled under his breath, Lorcan had an escape plan all along; how could he have not prepared for that trick.

"Hmmhmmhmmhmm…" Lorcan was chuckling under his breath in looking at Shining's face, priceless in his mind.

"Lorcan…" A tiny voice spoke out in which Lorcan turn to see…a still wide eye shock Spike in seeing him and his actions.

"Spike wait; don't go near him!" Twilight Sparkle shouted to her friend from where she was, the last thing she wanted was for Spike to get taken by this villain even if he stated they were brothers.

"But Twilight, I'm….he's…well we're…ugh!" Spike frozen where he was, he looked back and forth, pointed side to side, trying to explain, but…he grip his head from a headache. "I'm too lost and confused to understand what's what anymore!" The baby dragon exclaimed in having about enough of all this, just what is he suppose to do now or what to believe at this time.

"Hmph, this news surprises you, I guess I shouldn't be too surprise by your reaction." Lorcan spoke in feeling somewhat sentimental in how Spike learning they are brothers still hasn't sunk in enough. "Still…Spike. What an original name for you." Lorcan responded with a brotherly greeting face in hearing his little brother's name as he found it almost too perfect for him. "The same one used by another nearly long before our time. It seems to suit you very well…" Lorcan spoke in waving to Spike, that his name, is must suiting from another dragon of legends past from long ago.

"Yeah, thanks, King Spkyoran the Old would've thanked you...if you weren't evil..."

Lorcan looks shocked and surprised then thought to himself, 'So, he is still alive! This makes things more complicated...'

"Lorcan," Shining Armor yelled out to the villain as he came up on the stage, but Lorcan was already having his green flames preparing to enshroud him.

"Ah Captain Shining Armor." Lorcan spoke with a sly expression in seeing this pony, before giving…a salute pose. "As I depart, I give you, my farewell salute to you." Lorcan made a mocking remark in saluting to the Captain of Celestia's guards. "As before I go, you shall have the honor in knowing this." At those words, half of Lorcan's body was fading in a vanishing teleportation spell, but he let off these words. "The next time we meet, well…you'll see Starlight again." The dragon villain exclaimed something that sent Shining to grit his teeth in hearing him mention his deceased little brother, it was a statement that this captain…shall be with the little brother…in the afterlife.

Soon afterwards, Lorcan vanished into his portal of flames, leaving nothing of his trace behind. Many citizens were being very troubled in seeing that Lorcan has escape and that he'll come back to kill them all. Shining Armor saw this and felt with a heavy sigh to forget about Lorcan now and focus on keeping everypony here from going wild with fear. It's like Lorcan & his made Brotherhood of Tadaka were up to something that they just came to announce the end for all ponies, and left with only minimum damage. Whatever the plan they were up to was, the captain of Celestia's guard would not like the answer.

Phobos pauses while remarking, "Say what you want about these guys now, at least these losers and their boss knows how to make an exit."

"Phobos, you sure you did a good idea in standing up to him like that?" Nyx ask Phobos in concern. "He looks pretty mad."

"Bah, I have been imprisoned long before I met ya, Nyx and knows about him...of course, wished I could've before but I don't wanna talk about him EVER."

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At this time, we see things in Cloudsdale with Princess Luna VS. Discord; There were lots of oddly form and shape stuff collided in the clouds and many of them you hardly EVER seen in the skies, believe it. Right now, Luna was standing on a single cloud, looking a little scarred with cuts & bruises and looking like she's breathing hard from her handling her opponent. But at this time, Discord looked to be not once bit tired, even from a few lightning bolt blast shots, a few hoof prints that should have dislocated his body, and beyond that…he looked perfectly okay. Now we understand why this guy is known as the God of Chaos, there's no sense to how to hurt this guy.

"Well Luna, I'm impressed, and I'm hardly ever impressed." Discord spoke from smiling at his opponent in finding her quote a surprising challenge to take on. "You dodged my flying silver Razor Fish, my snap-trap Eating Clams, and survive against singing birds sounding like…SCREECHING CHALKBOARDS! Gwaahahahah," The villain proclaimed out all the senseless mischief he had thrown at Luna, and he even laughed madly at knowing that last attack musta really been something painful that not a lot of brave ponies could dare say they make it out alive from such a harsh noise.

"Hugh…hugh….I'm not through yet, Discord." Luna panted from keeping herself well balanced on her form so that she appear strong and not weaken one bit.

"Well, if that's the full extension of your power, wonder how much 'CHAOTIC', it would be if you return to being Nightmare Moon." Discord spoke a bit puzzled in thinking of a very wicked and sinister idea he just came up with.

"I rather cease breathing…hugh-hugh…than becoming the evil creature, just for your delight!" Luna spoke with ever fibber of her breath, rather to die than be the evil creature that brought fear and terror to her subjects just for Discord to get a laugh.

"Very well, have it your way." Discord shrug off in seeing there's no use arguing when the decision has been made. "PREPARE TO…" Just as Discord was waving his arms out, summoning forth a large magical sphere of tremendous energy, enough to obliterate the princess of the moon and ALL of Cloudsdale with it, except for one thing… "Beep-Beep-Beep-Beep," Discord was getting a ringing sound, and it was coming from…his wobbling head, what now? "Oh, wait a second, I'm getting a call!" The villain ceases his attack to tell Luna to wait as he did another unexpected thing by removing his right horn to speak into it…like a telephone. "Hmm-hum, hmm-yes-yes, oh really, I see, very well, alright then." Discord responded to a few 'muffled' voices on his other line before hanging his horn up to return to the other conversation here, "Well now, looky at the time. Appears our time of playing together has expired," The chimera pulled out from nowhere, a pocket watch, looked at the time before throwing it away without caring where it lands.

"What game are you playing here?" Luna snapped in demanding to know why Discord was choosing to just pick up and leave suddenly. Was this some sorta trick to catch her off guard or something?

"No game, I just have to be going, is all." Discord shrug off to state simply which at this time, all the wounds he received, were healing exceptionally fast, much to Luna's shock, "Until next time we face each other, Princess Luna!" Discord waved a little goodbye before swimming and making splashing sounds in the skies, "Hachachachachaaaaughh!" He even made a wicked cackle before something of a green vortex opened in the clouds and Discord vanished into it before the vortex closed and leaving things in the skies…in peace.

"Huuuagh, huuagh, I need to rest." Luna was breathing a bit before she took this moment to sit down on the cloud, feeling very tired. She didn't know what would have happened if Discord didn't suddenly cease his attack to leave, would she have been able to stop it in her weaken state, the alicorn dare not think otherwise. "Few, I guess it was by miracle that Celestia and I managed to defeat Discord. But something feels different with him…" Luna spoke with a deep thought about how she fought with Discord as something seem off, more than usual? "He seems stronger than before. Could it be that 'he' had something to do with it?" She spoke from thinking of a possible thought, that perhaps it was 'that' being that freed Discord from his prison and made him stronger. Luna will need to rest to get some of her strength back to tell her sister, all she could do was trust her guards to help the citizens of Cloudsdale until then.

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Now the scene shows much demolition work on Canterlot's streets as the battle of Celestia VS. Boris still had a mildly stalemate. A lot of Boris's Lava Stallions were no longer producing flames as they seem to have been extinguished or some broken to pieces. Right now, Celestia was just handling crossing the path of her power with that of a pony wielding the powers of a devil. And in a fair share of battles, the princess of the sun had never once met someone that wielded such firry abilities or the ego and personality that Boris carries with it. Right now, both competitors were in a stare down, not one was gonna make a move unless the other did first.

"RAARUUURRGHHH," Boris was the one to make the move as he went charging off to attack the princess.

"HAAAAUGH," Celestia roared out in charging for Boris as well and soon they rise their fronts up to deliver a blow.

"CLASP-POWWVHMM…" Both alicorns clashed their front hooves that created a shockwave force which pushed both competitors off from the other.

"My, my, to image I ever managed to dance to your powerful melody, I'm quite amazed!" Boris spoke with a smug expression in seeing how he's able to handle fighting Celestia move for move.

"Save your flattery Boris, I'm not like any mare you tried to fool." Celestia sternly exclaimed the so-called 'kind gesture' of flattery this pony-devil was trying to snare the princess in his trap of not resisting his 'devil' charms. "I've already plowed your Lava Stallions to smoldering ashes, you're all alone." Celestia declared out that she had more of the advantage, Boris had lackeys to do his task while he looked good for others, but not this time.

"You think this was the extension of my power, please!" Boris remarked off in finding what Celestia stated to be ridiculous if this was all he could really do. "True, I was invincible under the Devil's Red Sun, but 'he' managed to teach me a few surprises!" The Red Devil Pony exclaimed off with a sly smirk in stating how he's now gain much more than his time when he was last fought in this devil form.

"Explain yourself, was the being that freed you from the Void called…" Celestia spoke out in a royal demand to wanting Boris to tell her what she wanted to know, but was soon cut off.

Suddenly, Boris's eyes flashed and his mane raise up in a strange aura feeling that caught Celestia off guard. But then he soon return back to his senses from what happened to him, though still in his Red Devil form, something seem to have caught his attention.

"Seems we'll finish this little date some other time," Boris shrug off with a sly smile in stating that his time facing the princess will have to be postponed for now until later.

"Oh, do you think it's polite to leave a mare hanging?" Celestia spoke in trying to catch Boris's attention in how his actions are never something to be done especially someone of his known personality to get any mare to fall hooves over heels for him.

"Alas, for you princess, you'll have to make an expectation, I'm being called back." Boris made a mockery bow to Celestia while stating that he had other matters to attend to. "And besides, you might wanna check up on your sister and other subjects." The Devil Pony made a wicked expression that the princess has other matters to worry about then just him which made Celestia's eyes shot off in what this villain dare say to her.

"What! Boris? Stop! What do you…" Celestia snapped off in demanding a snowier while flying off to stop this villain from escaping, however...

"Farewell, hahahaahah!" Boris responded off before something appeared behind him was a vortex of firry properties that the Devil Pony gone through and then…vanished before Celestia could even touch where he was.

"That was a Gate Spell, a very powerful teleportation magic." Celestia stated in being surprised to seeing what spell that was and a very powerful one to boot. "Boris has indeed become much more dangerous than when Ben, Twilight & the others last fought him." The princess thought over in seeing how much dangerous Boris has grown from the last time she or anyone else ever saw him. "I must find Luna and make sure she and other subjects are alright!" After Celestia stated this, she used her wings to fly up into the air, planning to firstly head to the nearest place, Cloudsdale where her sister is watching over. "I truly fear that 'he' was very much behind commanding Boris…and others that may cause trouble for us all!" Celestia spoke under her breath as she was leaving Canterlot further and further behind while knowing her royal guards are helping to protect the citizens until then of her return. But she still doesn't know…that it's not above that the damages are concerning, it's what's going on…'under' Canterlot.

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Back with Ponyville after Lorcan had left, things were still very much wounded from every crazy thing that happened. The Mane Six of all but Twilight were helping out in settling the citizen ponies from all that's happened. Pinkie Pie was trying to do a few goofy and silly cheer up routines to bring back their smiles. Fluttershy was helping to care for any that were injured or hurt from the attack on Ponyville. Rarity was giving away some nice clothing's to help cheer a few faces up with something stylist that fits a pony and their personality. Applejack & Rainbow Dash were using their strengths put together to round up sand carry any that needed medical needs to Ponyville's Hospital. The CMC of Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo were helping Granny Smith with the Cake Family pass off some tasty sweet treats to help ponies regain their strengths and feel better. Shining Armor and his guards saw how much a few ponies were being treated and were thankful, but had to continue patrolling the village so that nothing catches them off guard. At this time, near Twilight were only Phobos, Big Macintosh, Derpy, Ben Mare & Nyx as they were keeping the mare companying while everyone else were busy with tricky task.

"Twilight, you gonna be okay?" Ben Mare asked from checking to make sure his love was not seriously hurt from what Lorcan may have tried to do to her.

"Right, you were a bit freaked out." Phobos said in agreement.

"Yeah, I'll be fine, really." Twilight Sparkle spoke in assuring her love and her daughter's pet/friend that she is very much fine, just…a little on the shock part.

"But you don't look very sure, Mommy." Nyx spoke in feeling something was wrong with her mother, something she's not telling them.

"It's okay Nyx, I'm not hurt on the outside that much of tiny bruises." Twilight nuzzle Nyx in calming her daughter's worries to settle a bit.

"But what about the inside," Derpy spoke in stating a different problem that Twilight might be having be affecting her.

"Eeyup," Big Macintosh nods in agreement, the outside might not be hurt, but what about the smart pony's emotions and spirit.

"I'll…just need some time, but right now..." Twilight Sparkle stated to her friends that she'll be fine, as of right now, she's more focus on someone else; Spike. "Hey Spike, you…you alright," The smart pony approached the baby dragon who sat over by the stage, looking up to the skies in feeling very lost about now. After all that's happen to him and to Ponyville, who wouldn't be around now?

"Twilight…" Spike spoke with a very quiet voice, but still went on to talk to Twilight. "You know everything, being Celestia's number one student and all that, right?" The baby dragon was asking something in knowing Twilight's position of being the very smart person out of many others around here.

"Well, mostly so, what's…the matter?" Twilight Sparkle spoke in being humble about that answer being a little much, as she was being modest but spoke in wondering, what could be troubling Spike after this hard event they've dealt with.

"Could you please tell me…what that was about?" Spike asked off something in which he felt he really wanted to be answer more to his troubling heart. "About me, having a brother and that it was…Lorcan?" The bay dragon wanted to know more than anything, if what was stated before him was true; that he and Lorcan, are actually; Brothers &…his REAL family.

This left Twilight to be like a deer in the headlights, frozen in fear and unable to move or dodge away at what's coming at her. She did not know how to answer such a question at this moment or the time, not after everything they've just been through? The smart pony only signed in feeling that for her situation and with Spike, what her assistant, her…friend throughout his life…is wanting answers about his past. Can she have the strength to tell Spike of that what he wishes to know, the pony only wishes that Celestia could be here to help explain what Spike wants to know? But everything is going to get a lot harder, before anything even gets remotely better.

"Awkward." Phobos remarks in concern.

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However, unannounced to everyone that are going through tough times, something is happening at a secret chamber at Canterlot Tower where the Elements of Harmony are being kept stored. The mysterious blue cloak hooded figure walked in from a secret tunnel made by some Diamond Dogs keeping a look out for trouble. But the mysterious blue hooded figure came to a room, the same one that has a secret seal door which need a unicorn horn to unlock, but it can only be done by Princess Celestia or Princess Luna (since she was trying to get the elements to the Mane Six before Discord ambushed her one time). However, the blue figure press her head to show a horn, stab it into the keyhole spot, but something green from under the cloak flashed which mixed with the magic and…made the secret seal door…open. The flash of light happen which after it open, it blew the hood down to reveal it was…Trixie.

"At last…they are just as Lorcan said they be!" Trixie declared out in seeing from the secret seal door, was a chest litter with important gems around it. "My clone did wonders to make everyone think, I, The Great & Power Trixie, was there and not here!" The blue unicorn exclaimed that the Trixie in Ponyville was nothing more than a clone she created to fool everyone. "Now, for the opening…" Trixie declared as she used her horn's magic to levitate the case up before opening it.

Soon from opening the case, Trixie stared at the wonders of power themselves, the six elements of Harmony were right there. The same ones Twilight and her friends of the Mane Six used to defeat great odds when all seems but lost. Trixie set the case down on the ground, the thing still open with the elements still inside.

"They say Celestia could break the powerful spell to protect the chamber but that doesn't matter when you have something just as strong. And now, the unavailing," Trixie declared out in knowing how Celestia could be the only one to open the chamber, but she had something just as powerful. From within Trixie's cloak, there was a glowing green emerald gem of strange magical essence…of evil. "With this Link Gem, my dear Lorcan gave me, shall transfer his essence to the Elements!" Trixie declared in stating what she holds is and was now preparing to use the gem trusted to her by Lorcan as a tool on the elements. "Take it away, darling?" Trixie exclaimed from using her magic on the Link Gem as it hovered over the six elements in the case.

"Yesssss……" Lorcan's voice spoke from the gem stone, as from its surroundings, the emerald aura of the villain came out and let his claws touch the elements in which they tried to repel his will with their rainbow light. "You cannot resist me…my essence…my will…shall control you!" Lorcan's spirit essence declared out as his claws were nearly reaching the elements until…

"CLASPVHMM..." The claws grasped the elements, and their rainbow glowing light…faded a bit. Once Lorcan's essence lifted his claws, his very spirit form smiled in seeing his essence has been transferred into the elements. Now 'he' controls them and no one will know about it until it is far, far too late.

"Trixie, I have given my essence to the Elements of Harmony, Phase Two is complete!" Lorcan's essence looked to the girl in stating the accomplishment that they have done now.

"Then that means, Phase One of distracting our foes, went off without a hitch to complete this next step." Trixie stated with a smile in seeing that all their careful planning, the attacks, were but to distract everyone so they never know of what they were really up to.

"Now return and seal up your tunnels so the princesses not see of what's happen." Lorcan's essence pointed to Trixie in stating she leave with his Link Gem and cover their trail so none may know what they've done. "I want it all to be…a surprise." The spirit essence of Lorcan tapped his claws together to make a wicked smile, that when the ponies decide to use the Elements of Harmony, what they'll get will be, as Pinkie Pie would say, a 'BIG' surprise.

"At once, my dear Lorcan," Trixie blow to her master and lover, before using her magic to close the case with the elements, put them back in the chamber and reseal it to make it look like none ever came here during the invasion.

"Soon….very soon…the time will be near." Lorcan's spirit essence spoke as it was fading back into the Link Gem, but as Trixie finished her work to run back to the Diamond dogs in waiting, she never heard what else her leader had to say. "The day when ponies shall meet their end, will be by…The Dragon Army & Tadaka! Bwahahahahahaaaaahh," Lorcan's wicked intention spoke off where none heard as he made a sinister cackle that would echo inside the gem before the light faded from no longer transmitting himself to where Trixie is. Which speaking of the blue pony, she reached the Diamond Dogs to pack up and leave as she used her magic to cover their trail and fix the dug hole in the castle so that everything…is how it should be…for now.