Author's note
Hey folks! JusSonic here, ready to make another Halloween fanmake, and this one is very freaky and scary as it fanmakes 'American McGee's Alice' with the characters of My Little Pony. Prepare to get entertained or scared, folks.

 

Prologue: A Shocking Death

 

Not so long ago, something happened that changes a girl's life for the worst as well as the land she travels through.

In her house is a girl sleeping while her book of 'Alice in Wonderland' is opened. She is a blonde haired one with blue eyes, blue overalls over a white shirt and pink shoes. The girl herself is wearing a pink bow in her hair. She is known as Megan, a girl who time and again comes to a magical world called Ponyland, saving it from villains and even helping the ponies with their home, making some sort of kingdom called 'Equestria'.

As Megan sleeps on, her bed is close to the fireplace as she can hear voices in her dreams. One of them, Surprise, exclaims happily, "Megan wake up!"

 

"Heehaw, it's time fer some tea party!" Applejack's voice exclaims happily.

 

"Oooh, ooh; I got a funny riddle! Why is a raven like a writing desk? Come on, figure it out, please, please, please?!"

 

Megan is happy, having fun in her dreams of playing with the ponies of Ponyland. She can't wait to wake up and do it again sometime tomorrow! Unknown to the girl, something terrible soon happens that will prevent that.

Megan's pet cat was waking up nearby, yawning and rubbing his eyes...but then he bumps into a stack of books nearby by accident. The cat meows in horror as he run away. Meanwhile, the books fell and knock down a lantern that is on top of it, breaking it in the progress.

And as if that's not bad enough, the lantern is lit. The flames lands on the oil on the ground, beginning to start a fire in the house...

 

"Oh no, oh no; Fire, there's a fire!" Surprise's voice screams in terror and fear. The fire appears to be affecting Megan in her dreams as of right now!

 

"Surprise, yew must save Megan, quickly!" Applejack's voice exclaims to her friend frantically.

 

"Megan, wake up; wake up!!!"

 

Megan finally wakes up and gasps as she saw the fire happening in her room. The girl screams in fear, "Oh no!" She ran out of the room as flames spread throughout the entire house like mad. Megan tries to rush to the other bedroom where her parents are at, hearing coughing, "Mom; Dad? Danny, Molly? Where are you; what's happening?!"

Megan gasps as she hears a crashing noise, making her budging the door to her parents' room. She can hear her mother coughing, "Megan, get out of here!"

"Save yourself, Megan, get out of the house now!" Megan's father is heard shouting.

Megan is frightened; her house continues burning all over. The girl rushes to a window and crash through it, landing on the ground outside. As Megan hears a scream, she looks up in fright and horror.

 

Three Years Later

 

Megan looks up from the bed at the asylum. 3 years has passed since that night which took her family's life. Her hair is more messier; she is now wearing a orange shirt and bow, a brown vest, blue pants and brown boots.

Megan felt depressed as she is the only one who survived that terrible night...enough that the girl tried to kill herself. Megan was eventually committed and has been in the asylum since, trying to recover.

A maid looks at Megan who looks up at the ceiling while holding a plush dragon that looks like Spike, a dragon friend of her. She said, "Poor child...after what has happened...maybe that Dragon will bring her around."

The maid closes the door, leaving Megan inside. The girl hears thunder roaring outside the asylum but pay no attention. She just held her plush tight with her arms...

But suddenly the plush dragon turns to Megan, making her gasps as it spoke up, "Save us, Megan!!!"

As if in a moment, a picture of her and the plush was taken as if by magic, falling down with some sort of toy, a card of an alicorn, a broken watch and the plush dragon that fell to the ground...

 

Author's note
The story has truly begin. In the next chapter, Megan follows Spike's grandson the new Spike as she meets Twilight Sparkle and some new friends. The girl must save Equestria from Celestia, who has become corrupted, while fighting off the Royal Guards. Then Megan must find help from Zecora to become small. Read, review and suggest.

 

Surprise and Applejack (the original) are from the first series.

Author's note
nobodiez, as it is Halloween, I thought I could work on this one as a fanmake fic for the season.

 

Chapter 1: Problems in Equestria

 

Megan screams as she fell downward through some sort of portal. What's going on? The girl yelps as she lands onto the ground hard.

"Ouch, that hurt." Megan groans as she got off from the ground. The girl saw something waiting for her nearby, "Spike?"

The one called 'Spike' is a baby light purple Dragon with moderate sap green scales, a greenish gray underbelly and light lime ears and chartreuse green eyes. Weird, this one looks different than the one that Megan knows.

"I am Spike but not the one you know. He's my grandpa." Spike said to Megan in concern. "Let's not dawdle, Megan, "We're getting late as it is!"

"Late for what," Megan ask in confusion as Spike rush off to an opening. "Spike, wait!"

"So Megan, you're here." A voice spoke up as Megan finds seven ponies arriving. One of them is a light blue female Pegasus pony with a rainbow mane and tail, pink eyes and a marking of a cloud and a rainbow shaped lightning bolt on her flank. Her name is Rainbow Dash.

The second pony is a purple mane light azure grey unicorn with light blue eyes and three diamonds on her flank. Her name is Rarity.

The third pony is a little filly that had golden yellow fur and a red mane that had a big red bow in it. Her name is Apple Bloom.

The fourth pony is another filly foal whose is small, adorable-looking and has a whitish-coat, big sap-green eyes, a unicorn horn and a purple and pink mane and tail. Her name is Sweetie Belle, Rarity's sister.

The fifth pony is a Pegasus foal that has an orange coat, grayish purple eyes, and a ragged, pale short pink mane as well as a pink tail. Her name is Scootaloo, Rainbow's fan.

The sixth pony is a foal Alicorn with moderate opal to Dark opal and a Light opal outside eyes, a dark blue violet mane and a very dark cornflower blue. She has a shield on her flank. Her name is Nyx.

The final pony, the one who spoke, a female Alicorn with moderate cyan eye, a moderate cobalt blue mane, a light dark sapphire blue coat, a magic aura of moderate cobalt blue and a crescent moon on a dark purple background. Her name is Princess Luna, one of the rulers of Equestria.

"Luna?" Megan asks with a sigh as she hugs Luna. "Thank goodness, I'm relieved to see you again...but what happened? Is that Spike really the grandson of the one that I know of?"

"Sure is!" Rainbow exclaims to Megan with a nod. "Time we go after him."

"Right, Equestria has gone through terrible changes since you were away, Megan." Luna said to Megan seriously. "You will see that everything isn't how you remember it."

The group then spots something appearing. It's a female violet unicorn with a black-purple mane and tail that had Pink stripes on it, purple eyes and a pink star marking on her flank. Her name is Twilight Sparkle, Nyx's mother.

"Mommy; is that you? You look terrible." Nyx said to Twilight in concern.

"Whatcha expect? Twilight changed just like Equestria did." Scootaloo said to Nyx in concern.

The group came closer to Twilight, smiling a bit crazily. Rarity said with a smile, "You appear to have gone quite...mangy, Twilight."

"Yes, but at least your smile is a comfort." Megan said to Twilight with a nod.

"Looks like you've picked up a bit of an attitude." Twilight said to Megan with a smirk. "You must be still curious and willing to learn."

"Luna, why does Twilight have the same name as the one that I know of?"

"That's because Twilight Sparkle is her descendant, a unicorn and a student of my sister Celestia whom you remember." Luna said to Megan, much to the human's surprise. "The nasty changes of Equestria have changed Twilight for the worst."

"Ah. Well, Twilight Sparkle, Equestria has become quite strange since I was here last." Megan said while looking around the area. "How am I going to make sure that I find my way around and not get lost?"

"Knowing where you're going is preferable to being lost. Just ask. My assistant Spike knows a thing or two. As for me, I don't need a weathervane or Rainbow Dash to know which way the wind blows. Let your need guide your behavior. Suppress your instincts to lead and pursue Spike." Twilight explains to Megan before she teleports from sight.

"I like it much better when Twilight is an egghead and not like that." Rainbow remarks with a frown. Twilight has gone strange lately.

"That's mommy for you." Nyx said happily.

"Come on, let's go after Spike." Apple Bloom said to her friends and Megan in concern.

The group leaves the area, going across some boards and arriving at some sort of residence. Sweetie gasps at the area that looks devastated, "What happened here? We haven't been to Ponyville in quite a while."

"Sweetie Belle, our land is destroyed." A pony named Golden Harvest said in sadness. "Our spirit is crushed."

"Reminds me of the asylum," Megan said with a sigh, recalling how there is no hope or joy at the asylum.

"Is there no joy here at all?" Rarity asks Orange Harvest in concern.

"Too bad slavery and happiness doesn't dwell in the same house." Golden Harvest said while leaving the area.

"How long have you ponies been out of Ponyville?" Megan asks the ponies in her group in worry.

"Ever since it happened, we have 'ta make a break fer it. Some o' us like mah sis an' Fluttershy aren't so lucky." Apple Bloom explains sadly to Megan.

"But how did this happen? Who is responsible?"

Before the ponies could answer, Twilight appears near a steamy pit, saying, "When the path is problematical, consider a leap of faith and ride the wind."

Twilight disappears from sight. Scootaloo glances at the steamy pit, saying, "Looks like we will have to ride across this steamy pit."

"Come on, let us continue." Luna said as the group prepares to head off to continue their journey.

"Hold it, ponies, stranger," A voice spoke up. The group turns and saw the Mayor of Ponyville nearby, looking worried. "Be careful not to stir up any trouble. The agents of Princess Celestia are ruthless."

"What?! Celestia as in the one who controls the sun, the one who I look after like a daughter up to..." Megan said, shaking in shock and disbelief. "But she is a nice princess! Celestia couldn't be responsible for this madness!"

"Sadly she is." Rainbow said with a frown. "The princess went nuts, controlling everything with an iron fist, making us all miserable."

"No one knows. When the sun went down, Celestia suddenly and without warning, turned wicked like I was, torturing and destroying anyone who dares to oppose her." Luna said seriously to Megan.

"Kinda like how I was used to, long story." Nyx explains to Megan with a sigh. "When she sent her Royal Guards to attack Ponyville, weeding out the opposers, some of us manages to escape."

"So why didn't you all stand up to her and those brutes?" Megan asks Mayor Mare in concern. Has the ponies truly gave up hope? Has Celestia really turned evil?

The Mayor shakes her head while saying, "Defiance is useless for some of us. As long as Celestia still rules, only our death can release us from the misery."

"Or her death, I bet." Scootaloo said with a frown.

"Scootaloo," Sweetie said to Scootaloo with a frown of her own.

"What? Come on, it's the only option at this point!"

"No, there may be a way to save Celestia...we just need the Rainbow of Light." Megan suggests to her friends thoughtfully. Maybe if she uses the Rainbow of Light...

"The Rainbow of Light is now the Elements of Harmony." Rarity explains to Megan with a sad sigh. "And even then though, we can't use them. They are locked up in Canterlot where Celestia is...and some of us are still missing."

"We can't give up...even though I am at my lowest."

The ponies leave the Mayor. The group jumps up the windy shaft, going to the other side, moving on. They came across some weird essence as Twilight appears.

"Twilight," Apple Bloom ask Twilight, wondering what the mother of her friend Nyx wants.

Twilight motions to the essence as she explains, "Meta essence is the life force of Equestria. That of your enemies is especially potent. Collect what you can and use it wisely."

Once Twilight is gone, Megan touches the essence, absorbing the stuff. The girl said, "Whoa." She then spots some sort of knife on the ground before taking it. Just then Twilight shows up once more.

"Your knife is necessary though not sufficient. Collect what is useful and reject only your ignorance...hopefully that way, you can survive."

"Thanks, mommy," Nyx said with a nod as Twilight disappear. The group moves on then came across a familiar Dragon who smiles and rushes through a hole. "Spike, wait!"

The group rush over but Spike is long gone. The hole that he went through is too small for any of them to get through. They must became small themselves to follow Spike.

Luna spots the Mayor arriving, saying, "Mayor, every pony appears to be completely dejected. Has things really gone bad as all that?"

"The truth will turns those into blubbering babies." The Mayor said with a sigh then looks hopefully to Megan. "Miss, I have never seen you before. Are you the savior that the princesses, before Celestia has turned evil, and the Mane Six, along with Spike, been telling us? Are you...the Mag'ne?"

"As in a god, no, but as a hero, yes; I am a human and right now we need to become very small," Megan said then makes a motion of Spike's size, "About this big."

"That calls for serious twisting. You will need to go sideways, not forward. If I knew how, I'd go sideways myself."

"Uh, Miss Mayor; Ah done think Megan meant 'de size o' a Dragon." Apple Bloom points out to the Mayor. "Kinda like us Cutie Mark Crusaders...but enough 'ta fit into 'dat there hole."

"The Fortress of Doors hold a lot of secrets, but it will take more than a wish to get inside." The Mayor explains to the group. Looks like Megan's group must get into the Fortress of Doors to continue following Spike somehow.

Just then Twilight appears, making Rarity exclaims, "Twilight!"

"Doors have locks and they need keys." Twilight explains to the group. "But you don't have them. Better hope that the doors are opened."

"Well, if not, there's more than one way to skin a unicorn." Megan chuckles a bit, making the unicorns frown at her comment, "Oh, sorry."

"Bad metaphor, Megan. Try not using it again in the future."

Once Twilight disappears, the group heads up the creaking ramps and enters a new area. The heroes gasp as they came across an Earth Royal Guard about to attack.

"Look out!" Rainbow exclaims as the group dodges.

"One of the Royal Guards," Megan exclaims with a gasp. "But why is he attacking us?"

"The Royal Guards had become corrupted just like my sister." Luna explains to Megan seriously. "They are vicious!"

"Give up, you're under arrest!" The Royal Guard snaps to the ponies and Megan sternly.

"Not a chance!" Rainbow snaps as she flew around the Royal Guard, making him dizzy. "Megan, kill this guy before he recovers!"

Megan didn't hesitate as she got her knife out. The Royal Guard recovers and prepares to attack Rainbow but the human slash at him, cutting the pony's head right off. Blood came out of the body as it fell to the ground dead.

"Oh my...goodness," Sweetie exclaims in worry and alarm.

"I'm sorry, I didn't have a choice." Megan said to Sweetie with a sigh. "Please forgive me."

"I know, I know..."

"Let's move on." Rarity said as the group moves on. They move throughout Ponyville which now looks like a disaster area. Has Celestia truly let this place go to waste?

"Oh this was our home!" Scootaloo exclaims in sadness. "Why has Celestia gone mad?'

"I wish I knew, Scootaloo."

After going through the ramp, a stallion named Lucky saw them, saying to Megan, "Spike told us that a champion will come with the only sane Royal Sister and our friends. Are you that champion, newcomer?"

"Maybe, I could be." Megan said to Lucky with a nod. "Can you get us into the Fortress of Doors?"

"Afraid not, I wouldn't dare. Ever since the upheaval, we have become half wits or worst, even I can barely risk crossing the road. But...make your way to the Everfree Forest to the pit. A zebra, one wiser and brave than I am, might help. She still lives free."

"That must be Zecora!" Apple Bloom exclaims with a grin. "Ah knew she would be free!"

"Zecora; A friend of yours," Megan ask the ponies curiously.

"Yeah; if anyone could help, it's her!" Nyx exclaims before turning to Lucky. "Thanks, Lucky. Come on!"

The group goes out of town and heads to the Everfree Forest. Twilight is heard saying, "Even Rainbow knows that every adventure requires a first step. Even here, it's true."

The ponies enter the Everfree Forest, avoiding the creatures while looking for Zecora. After a while of searching, they jump down (or flew down in Luna and Rainbow's cases) into a deep pit. Inside is a female zebra with turquoise eyes, a striped mohawked mane of white and dark gray, and a coat that is striped of dark and light gray. She wears ornate jewelry and has a spiral sun for a cutie mark. Her name is Zecora.

"Zecora, you're safe!" Apple Bloom exclaims to Zecora while rushing off to nuzzle her zebra friend.

"Apple Bloom and friends, it's good to see you again." Zecora said before glancing at Megan. "But who is your new friend? And why did you pursue me to this deserted place?"

"My name is Megan and we came to benefit from your wisdom." Megan explains to Zecora.

"I see, but even blurred vision is valued by the blind. If I were clever, would I not be hiding here?"

"What, you're not wise, but grown old?" Sweetie asks Zecora confused.

"Sweetie Belle; what a rude thing to say!" Rarity scolds Sweetie for what she said to Zecora.

"Actually, Sweetie Belle, I say 'would I not be', meaning if I wasn't clever, I would be foolishly fighting off a futile battle." Zecora explains to Sweetie clearly. "I came here, seeking a plan and maybe some help to stop what has occurred. But even I must accept the hopeless reality...and I have grown old."

"Zecora, we wish to become small." Luna explains to Zecora clearly. "As small as a Dragon no less like Twilight's assistant Spike."

"Right, do you have any idea on how to do that?" Megan asks Zecora hopefully.

Zecora looks thoughtfully as she answers, "Only that? Yes, I believe I could help with that...for a price."

"Ugh! Figures there was a catch!" Rainbow exclaims with an annoyed groan.

"Rainbow Dash," Most of the gang exclaims to Rainbow in annoyance.

"What?"

"But we don't have any cash or anything valuable that we can give you." Megan said to Zecora in concern. How will she or her friends pay for the zebra' help?

Zecora chuckles while explaining to Megan, "You all have nerve and your health...while mine is nearly gone. I have seen too much suffering and I have grown very old indeed like I have mentioned before.

"So what do we have to do?" Rarity asks Zecora, wondering what they can do for Zecora for her help.

"Simple. There is a Royal Guards' Compound nearby. A particularly rough diamond holds the key. Get it and I will repay the favor."

"Is that all? We will get it for you!" Nyx chirps to Zecora happily. "Leave it to us!"

"Come on." Megan said as she and her friends head on off to receive a diamond for Zecora.

 

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The group heads through the area of the Everfree Forest, on their way to the compound, arriving at some sort of elevator. They got on and rode it off then it went onto the rails, going down them like on a roller coaster.

The ride turns nasty as a few rocks destroyed part of the rail up ahead. Apple Bloom screams, "Great horny toads! We're going 'ta crash!"

"No we aren't! Rainbow," Luna exclaims quickly to the Pegasus pony. They quickly grab the ride and hit the rails upward, causing the cart to jump up in time. The gang continues riding and hopping over the missing tracks then saw a dead end.

"Jump," Megan exclaims to the ponies as they abandoned the cart, jumping/flying off it. The empty cart soon rides off the rails, falling downward until it crashed.

"Phew, that's a close one." Nyx said with a sigh of relief.

"We still got a long way to go...and we're not out of the woods yet!" Megan exclaims as the group saw a Royal Guard charging at them. "Look out!"

Luna uses her magic to hit the Royal Guard with a lightning bolt, killing him. The Alicorn exclaims, "Come on!" The group moves through the area and enter the compound where the diamond should be at.

As Megan's group continues on, they heard Twilight's voice, "52 Royal Guard Pickup is a shape of juvenile humor. But when it comes to ponies slicing and dicing, it's not a laughing matter."

"What does that even mean?" Scootaloo ask a bit puzzled by Twilight's explanation.

"I think we're about to find out, Scoots." Rainbow said with a frown.

Soon the group saw more Royal Guards coming at them. They quickly fight them off with their attacks with Megan and Luna killing them, though the fillies aren't use to seeing death.

Megan and her friends got to the death where the diamond is at. The last Royal Guard prepares to attack Sweetie making her gasps. But Rarity quickly kicks at him, sending the Royal Guard into a hole and towards his demise.

"Thanks, Rarity." Sweetie said, hugging her sister in relief.

"I can't believe that I did that." Rarity said with a shiver. "Killing some pony. That is so un-ladylike!"

"Get over it, we have no choice." Megan said as she takes the diamond. "We found what we're looking for. Time to go."

"There's a portal, come on." Apple Bloom said upon spotting a portal nearby that the gang jumps into.

 

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In another area, the ponies gasps as they saw the water in the area turning slimy green, the bars nearby lift up as more of the Royal Guards appear. Megan exclaims, "More of those Royal Guards...and there's Zecora going into that portal."

The group saw Zecora going through the portal, disappearing from sight. The Royal Guards then makes their attacks on any intruders. Megan and her friends made their move, jumping over the green liquid.

Megan and her friends attack the guards, knocking them into the green liquid or just killing them with their bare hooves and knives. Soon they reach the portal and go through it. On the other side, there's Zecora waiting for them in a small hot air balloon with a bicycle propeller attached to it.

"Zecora, we got 'de key!" Apple Bloom exclaims as Megan shows the key to Zecora.

"You have it, wonderful!" Zecora exclaims with a smile, "Very resourceful. Yes, Spike's confidence is misplaced. That baby Dragon is no fool."

"Of course, Spike is very smart for someone his age." Rarity said to Zecora with a smile.

"Well, sometimes anyway." Rainbow said as the group got into the balloon while the Pegasus pony and Luna just flew with their wings. Zecora then begins to pedal as the bike's propellers begin to rotate.

Soon the hot air balloon flies off with the flying ones following. Zecora looks seriously as she explains, "Use the key to free the ponies from the oppressive burden that they carry. Any fight against the Goddess of the Sun is a good. They've suffered long enough..."

"Yeah, we have a lot to do." Megan said sadly, feeling sorry for what the ponies has gone through. She is still horrified by the fact that Celestia is behind this.

"Yeah, we all are but what does that have to do with shrinking us?" Nyx ask Zecora in confusion.

 

Author's note
And so, the adventure moves on. In the next chapter, Megan and her friends goes into a school and fight off new monsters and enemies. Read, review and suggest.

Author's note
To D.J. Scales, no plans at this time; Continuing on with the fic!

 

Chapter 2: Getting into School

 

The group flew through the sky to their next destination: the fortress which would hold the key that could help them grow small and track down Spike.

"There is a school inside the fortress which has the items for creating the potion that you will need to make you all small." Zecora explains to the group.

"So what items are we looking for?" Megan asks Zecora as everyone is heading towards some sort of fortress.

"Items, items, my friends; you will know them when you get them. Speaking of which seeing things, hopefully we shall avoid being seen by the Royal Guards."

"That must be them down there." Apple Bloom said as the ponies sees a few Royal Guards in front of the fortress.

"All right, hang on!" Zecora exclaims as she peddles faster. Hopefully the gang can avoid being seen by the Royal Guards until...

"Too late," Rainbow gasps as the gate of the fortress begins to open up. This isn't good.

"We've been spotted!" Scootaloo exclaims in alarm. The Unicorn Royal Guards came out and fire magic blasts at the group in the air, causing Zecora to pedal as hard as she could.

"Hang on!"

"To what," Rarity demands. Luckily, the gang avoids the guards, with them sighing in relief. That's a close one. In another area, they saw what appears to be a castle with more of the Royal Guards firing at them.

"Is that Castle Canterlot?" Megan gasps in shock to her pony friends at what she's seeing.

"Unfortunately, with those tentacles around it," Luna said to Megan sadly and seriously.

"Eventually you got to break through such walls but for now, jump!" Zecora exclaims to her friends seriously.

"Say what?!" Rarity gasps to Zecora in alarm. Needless to say, Megan's group but Zecora in the balloon jumps down, landing on the ground with Rainbow and Luna flying down safely.

"Okay, we see an opening. Let's use it." Megan said, spotting an opening nearby. "Come on, my little ponies."

The group goes into the fortress, looking at what appears to be cracks in the floor. Nyx exclaims, "Oh goodness!" One false move on those cracks and they're dead.

The gang of course jumps around reaching a door. Sweetie exclaims happily, "Yay! We made it....wherever we're at."

"So how can we get into the school?" Scootaloo ask her friends with a frown.

"Maybe he can tell us?"

The group saw someone interrogating two creatures. The one interrogating is another dragon who looks like Spike, except his body is dark purple and green, he has long messy green hair, and the ghost has a large scar over his eye. His name is Lorcan, Spike's twin brother.

The ones he's interrogating are two Changelings, one of them has red hair and 'F' symbol on his flank in the same color, another has green hair as well as another 'F' symbol on his flank in the same color. Their names are Fred and Ed.

"Come on! You two know of a way in, now spill!" Lorcan snaps to Fred and Ed in annoyance.

"Uh, will you believe that this is the first time we came here?" Fred asks Lorcan innocently but yelps as the dragon growls at them. "It's true!"

"Lorcan!" Luna exclaims as she rush over to Lorcan.

Lorcan saw Luna, smiling as he hugs her, saying, "Luna. I'm glad you're alive."

"Who is he? Why does he look like Spike?" Megan asks her friends puzzled.

"I don't think we have time right now!" Nyx gasps as the group saw some Pegasus Royal Guards flying at them.

"Allow me." Lorcan remarks as he fires blasts, killing the first few cards quickly. Soon more came. "Oh come on!"

"Hey, what's this?"

Megan notices some sort of red box and touches it. Suddenly Twilight's voice is heard exclaiming, "Time to make some havoc!"

Suddenly the box laughs madly as it sprays Megan, making her groan. Some of the ponies exclaims in alarm, "Megan!"

"Wait, so this is Megan?" Lorcan asks in surprise as Megan before to transforms.

"The dogs of war are loose," Twilight remarks; Megan soon groans as she became red and grew horns, much to everyone else's horror.

"Oh Horse Apples," Fred and Ed exclaims with worry as they back away.

Megan soon roars as she ran through the other Royal Guards, slashing and destroying each one of them in the room. After they're dead, the girl changes back to normal.

"Megan, darling, are you okay?" Rarity asks Megan in worry as she and the others came over to Megan.

"I'm fine, but what happened?" Megan asks the ponies friends with a groan.

"You kill off the cards once you touched that red box." Nyx explains to Megan in concern. "At least we know what to avoid now, right?"

"Not necessary. Those red boxes are powerful to wipe those creeps out." Lorcan said to the ponies and Megan with a slight chuckle.

Scootaloo picks up a stack of cards, remarking, "Stack of cards, weird?"

"Hey, can we go? Maybe more of those guys would come back." Fred said to the ponies nervously.

"Right, we can help!" Ed exclaims to the ponies happily before falling on his face.

"Are we going to trust you?" Rainbow asks the Changelings doubtfully. "You Changelings gave us horse crap before!"

"But we can help!" The Changelings insists to the ponies playfully.

"Better let them, they don't know much anyway and I got bored interrogating them anyway." Lorcan remarks with a shrug.

"Right, time for us to go," Megan said as everyone ran down quickly. "So I still need an answer about Lorcan."

"I am Spike's twin brother, of course!"

"Twin brother?"

"Yes, it's kind of a long story." Luna said with a blush on his face. "He tried to destroy us but reforms; Now Lorcan is our...friend, yeah."

"Awwww," The Cutie Mark Crusaders exclaims to Luna, making her blush a bit.

"Not...not like that, come on!"

"There's nothing ashamed about being in love, Luna." Megan said with a light chuckle. Then the girl looks concerned as she ask, "Do you know what happen to the other members of the Mane Six?"

"I don't know. Let's say that after Equestria got messed up, they are shattered all over." Lorcan said with a sigh as the group goes past the rocks, noticing a doorway to the right.

"Thanks for coming with us, we really appreciate the help." Sweetie said happily to Lorcan.

"But can we really trust those two Changeling guys?" Nyx ask skeptically while glancing at Fred and Ed. "We don't know if they won't betray us or not."

"Right after your world got taken by darkness, that crazy Celestia invaded our kingdom and kill off our queen!" Fred exclaims, with tears in his eyes.

"Oh, poor Chrysalis," Ed sobs a bit, "Why must bad things happen to good queens?!"

"Give me a break!" Scootaloo groans a bit, "Chrysalis; A good queen? Ugh!"

"There's a portal, come on." Luna said as the group jumps into a portal behind themselves. On the other side, they saw the doors closing.

"Great, just great," Rainbow exclaims with a frown. Suddenly two Boojums appear, screeching and trying to hit them.

"Ugh, back off!" Megan exclaims as she attack the Boojums with Luna, Lorcan and Rainbow while the others hid quickly.

"Die!" Lorcan exclaims as he grabs a Boojum and rips it apart. Megan and Luna finish the remaining ones off. "All right, let's get going!"

"Right."

More essence was drawn to Megan as the group heads to the other side of the room. Suddenly the floor begins to break up. Nyx asks in shock, "What was that?!"

"Don't know but uh oh!" Fred exclaims in worry as the group jump/flew out of the way, positioning themselves with the middle platform.

The gang goes up the stairs to the right, walking around while Ed looks dizzy, groaning, "Wow, these are a lot of stairs."

"There's a floating path." Rairty said as she saw a floating path nearby. "Let's go."

The group heads to the floating path and run across it, jumping over to the other side where a portal's at. Then they jump through it.

On the other side of the portal, the group saw a metal gate with an Earth Royal Guard blocking it. Rainbow exclaims, "I got him!" The pony flew at the enemy and grabs him, struggling until she breaks his neck.

"Never saw Rainbow killing someone before!" Apple Bloom exclaims in amazement. "Not sure if we should be amazed or horrified though."

The group continues going to the right, seeing some blue Meta Essence as Megan took it, giving her some energy. The girl said, "There we go. Now let's see where that Royal Guard came from."

"Follow me." Lorcan said as the others follow him to where the Royal Guard came from.

Soon they came across some sort of strange object on a small structure, Megan ask Luna, "Luna, what is that thing?"

"That refills your Essence." Luna explains to Megan seriously. "It can help out."

Suddenly more of the Royal Guards came, attacking the group. Some of them corner the foals. Rarity gasps in horror, "Sweetie Belle!"

"Scootaloo," Rainbow exclaims in alarm. "Apple Bloom, Nyx!"

"Come closer and these brats die!" A Unicorn Royal Guard snaps, holding his horn right at the four foals, making some of them worry a bit.

"Okay, that's it. I'm drawing the line!" Lorcan snorts as he shoots out flames at the one who made the threat, burning him to death. The other Royal Guards gasps in horror, "All right, boys; your turn!"

The other Royal Guards scream as Lorcan jumps at them, ripping them apart. Megan and the ponies gasp at what the dragon is doing. Ed exclaims, "Dang! Your boyfriend..."

"I know, I'm glad he's on our side!" Luna exclaims in shock and amazement. Soon Lorcan finishes the Royal Guards off.

"That will show ya." Lorcan said while dusting his claws off, "Anyone okay?"

"Yeah, sure am!" Nyx exclaims to Lorcan with a smile. "Thanks for saving me and my friends."

"No problem; if anything were to happen to you...or Spike...heck, who knows what I would do?"

"I hate to think otherwise." Fred said, shivering in fear. He hates to get on Lorcan's bad side if anyone kill anyone that the dragon cares for.

"Yeah...especially if that someone is Celestia who ruined everything in Equestria," Celestia said in sadness. "We must stop her even if she's my friend..."

"Strange...I thought I saw a dark aura around Celestia before." Luna said seriously and thoughtfully. "It's as if some sort of darkness is possessing her..."

"Well, we got to get going before any more of those Royal Guards show up." Rarity said in concern.

"Let's go after 'de princess!" Apple Bloom exclaims eagerly and in determination. "We could be...Cutie Mark Crusader Princess Defeaters!"

"YAY! CUTIE MARK CRUSADER PRINCESS DEFEATERS," The Cutie Mark Crusaders cheers on wildly with Nyx.

"Wow, that's loud!" Ed exclaims while covering his ears by how loud that the three fillies are.

"What? I can't hear ya! Those fillies are too loud!" Fred yells loudly right back to Ed while covering his own ears to block out the noise.

The group moves on, heading to the small structure. They find some sort of box as Sweetie comments, "That box looks like the same one that changed Megan earlier."

"So much for healing," Nyx said with a frown at the box.

"I'm sure we can use whatever we can get." Megan assures her friends as they go into the same direction and turns right then left, finding a door. They went through it and more doors until they arrive at a crazy looking place.

The heroes spot a Boojum, though not attacking. Luna said, "I shall deal with that one, you all just deal with getting to the other side." The others go to the edge of the floor, seeing some panels appearing.

As Luna flew up and attacks the Boojum, the group follows the panels while the alicorn fires her magic spells at the enemy, killing it. Then she reunites with her friends as they follow the panels, making their way along with them.

Megan's group reaches the other side while doing some precision jumping, Luna comments, "You're almost there."

The group jump to the other side, running into a portal quickly. Upon reaching the other side, they heard a melody play and saw two more Boojums, making Rainbow exclaims, "Come on!"

Rainbow flew at one Boojum and fought it off while Megan jump and destroy the other. Once both Boojums are dead, the girl absorbs the essence that they dropped. Now the heroes head to where the levers were at.

Twilight teleport into the area, saying, "The proper order of things is often a mystery to me; you too?"

Once Twilight teleports right out, Fred in confusion ask, "What is that unicorn on about?"

"I don't know, I don't get riddles," Ed whines in confusion.

"I think what Twilight is saying is that if we pull different levers, it will do the sequences like when we heard that mysterious melody." Megan said thoughtfully while glancing at the levers.

Megan, Apple Bloom and Lorcan went to the levers. The dragon pulls the right one first, the filly the left while Megan pulls the last one in the middle. This causes the doors nearby to open up, allowing the group to go up the stairs.

Two Royal Guards attack, making Rarity frowns as she say, "Let's hurry, but let's beat these hooligans from far away!"

Luna fires two magic blasts at the two Royal Guards' heads, killing them both. After that, the heroes jump from one plate to another and reach the other side. They head to a portal on the other side but saw a Pegasus Royal Guard blocking the path.

"Die!" Lorcan snaps as he grabs the Royal Guard, snaps his neck and toss him over the side. "Good riddance!"

The gang goes through the portal, entering the next area. Now on the other side, they saw everything rearranging into what sort of a school. The floor is activated, splitting into several moving pieces that goes up and down.

"Do we have to climb those?" Scootaloo ask with a groan while looking at the pieces.

"Pretty much," Apple Bloom said to Scootaloo with a shrug.

"Let's get to climbing." Megan said as the ponies move up moving panels in different directions, heading their way to the top. Soon they found another portal, jumping in.

Now the gang enters another room where two more Boojums attack them. Fred groans a bit, "Ugh, not more of these things!"

"They are annoying!" Ed exclaims as he and Fred fights off the Boojum but got hit by the screeching. Luna flew up and kicks the two Boojums down. Megan and Lorcan slash at the monsters, killing them both.

Once the fight is over, the gang saw three doors in front of them. Rainbow looks curious as she ask, "Which door shall we go into?"

"How about the one that looks green?" Megan suggests as the group goes into the green portal on the left. Sure enough, the girl is right.

The group enters another room with another set of doors which goes to different areas. They choose the next green portal. In each one, Megan's group always choose the green one until they were out of doors/portals to use.

"Thank goodness that's over!" Rainbow exclaims in relief. "That door shuffle is annoying!"

Now the heroes are at a walkway with two Earth Royal Guards coming at them. Megan slashes at the two ponies, getting them like mad.

"Oh crap!" Lorcan yelps as he saw two Boojums coming out of the school. "Wait, why am I freaked out for?"

Lorcan got onto Luna's back as the two flew up and around them then goes upward to make the two enemies crash into each other while screaming. As they fell, Megan slashes them both, destroying the two Boojums.

"We can get into school now." Nyx said playfully. Just then a familiar unicorn teleports in. "Mommy!"

"Enterign school involves a real leap of logic." Twilight said before teleporting away from the area.

"We got it, Twilight!" Rainbow exclaims with a frown to the teleporting Twilight. "Honestly, she's more weirder than usual!"

"Don't be rude, we just have to jump." Megan said Rainbow before the gang jumps through a window, entering a school. Inside, they saw a crazy pony walking around, laughing stupidly. "Wow, what happened to him?"

"'Dat pony has gone plain crazy." Apple Bloom gulps a bit at the sight of the pony, "As if she was tortured!"

The group enters through a door, seeing a Unicorn Royal Guard. Megan kills as two more appears but Luna and Lorcan got rid of them quickly.

"That should do it." Luna said as the group goes through a door to their left, entering an auditorium. There's Zecora waiting for them by the stage.

The group saw trap doors opening on the stage as more crazy ponies appearing, laughing a bit insanely. Megan remarks to Zecora, "Damn, there's a bit more to do than what you actually suggested, is it?"

"Thanks for telling us, Zecora." Rainbow said to Zecora sarcastically.

"No need for sarcasm, Rainbow Dash. My memory isn't what it used to be but I'm here now so I will try to amend its deficiencies." Zecora said to the group seriously.

"Hopefully so what now," Fred ask Zecora curiously.

"The school library has a recipe for the potion. Consult the Book of Forbidden Spells for now."

"Oh no," Ed gasps in horror as he saw something. "Run!"

Sure enough, two more of the Royal Guards appear, ready to attack the heroes as Zecora disappears. Apple Bloom gasps in shock, "Zecora, come back!"

"We will deal with her later. Time we get to the library." Megan said seriously. Time is a wasting here!

 

Author's note
The gang's search of the school continues on! In the next chapter, they search the library for the book then go looking for the ingredients. Read, review and suggest.

Chapter 3: Shrinking for Ponies

 

The Royal Guards charge at the heroes who dodge their attack. Megan yells out, "Evasive action!"

Everyone dodges the Royal Guards who fire their weapons. Rainbow remarks, "Time these guys go out like lights!" Quickly, the gang attacks the Royal Guards, some of the heroes kill them instantly.

Once the fight is over, Megan's group leaves the room, heading to some doors. Sweetie comments, "I sure hope we hurry."

The group enters the doors to another room, which is the library that Zecora spoke of. Speaking of which, the zebra herself appear, heading to a bookcase and use some tricks to make the bookshelf. Zecora then disappear as the group arrives.

"Come on." Megan said to her friends with a nod.

The group head up the stairs and took the left path, following it to the end. Rarity said with a nod, "So far, so good...wait, what's that?"

Rarity saw some sort of croquet mallet. Megan takes it while saying, "A croquet mallet. What is it doing here?"

Twilight teleports into the room, smiling insanely while saying, "Here's a riddle: when is a croquet mallet like a Billy club? I will tell you: whenever you want it to be," The pony then teleport out of sight.

"Ah don't git it." Apple Bloom said puzzled.

"I think Twilight wants Megan to use the mallet as a weapon." Fred explains to Apple Bloom with a shrug.

"Ah didn't think thinking was yer strong point!"

"It wasn't???"

"We must get going." Lorcan said as he spots some double doors nearby. "We shall use the double doors on the right side."

The group heads off through the double doors on the right side. They saw two Earth Royal Guards appearing, attacking them. Megan uses her mallet to smash one of their heads in while Luna fires a blast through the other, killing him.

"Glad to see you're on our side!" Rarity exclaims to Luna with a grin.

"When it comes to saving Equestria from the darkness, hell it's kill or be killed." Luna said to her friends seriously.

The gang now goes through the next set door, arriving at the library, much to their amazement.

"Well, if there's a place to find mom, this would be a place to do so." Nyx remarks with a giggle. "She's a bookworm."

"Yeah, tell me about it. It's wonderful and beautiful." Megan said with a smile; Pity that a great place like this is in a crazy world like Equestria.

"Can we eat some of them?" Ed asks stupidly while looking at the books.

"No, stupid; we read them! I doubt we need a light meal anyway!" Fred snaps to Ed for his own stupidity, yet is ironically being stupid himself.

The group now goes to the left, continuing down the path. Then they go left, seeing a Pegasus Royal Guard there. Scootaloo exclaims, "Kick his flank, Rainbow Dash!"

Rainbow nods as she attacks the Royal Guard, hitting him a few times then send him through a wall, cracking his neck in the progress. The Pegasus pony glances as she comments, "Eh, dead end anyway."

"How appropriable."

"This way," Luna said as she motions to a direction. The group goes back to the main part of the area, following another part until they reach the main library room.

Eventually, Megan's group saw two Unicorn Royal Guards and two Earth Royal Guards there. Megan frowns while snapping, "Let's get those buckers."

"Finally, someone who spoke my language," Lorcan exclaims excitedly.

Megan and her friends fought off by the Royal Guards, attack viciously until they are killed or defeated. Fred exclaims, "I love mayhem...that isn't us!"

"Yeah," Ed exclaims with a stupid nod.

The group continues through the main part. As they move on, Nyx saw something to the left, making her asks, "Is that the Book of Forbidden Spells that we must find?"

"Must be," Scootaloo said with a nod while glancing at the book. "But how the hay are we going to get up there? I mean besides Rainbow and Luna flying of course."

Megan touches a book, activating something. The girl announces, "I think we activated something. Come on."

The group heads back the way they came and found a lift, which they rode to the top. Upon arrival, they saw Twilight near a bookcase, saying, "Steps to enlightenment brightens the way, but the steps are steep. Try to take them one at a time."

Twilight shot a blast at the bookcase, causing it to tip and look like a ramp. Once she teleports away, Fred comments in confusion, "I'm still confused."

"Yeah, I am." Ed said with a nod, misbelieving the comment.

Megan touches a few books, activating them. The girl said, "Perhaps if we were find more books like these, we could get to where we need to go."

"Then let's climb up the damn ramp!" Rainbow exclaims with a smile.

"Please, don't curse too much...especially in front of the foals." Rarity scolds Rainbow in annoyance by the use of language.

The group climbs the bookcase and finds another book there, along with two Pegasus Royal Guards charging at them. Sweetie grabs the mallet and whacks them hard with the weapon until they are dead. Apple BLoom then touches the book, resulting in another lift to be activated nearby.

"Come on, Ah done betcha 'dis lift can take us 'ta 'de last book." Apple Bloom comments with a smile.

The group rode the lift to the top, seeing a Earth Royal Guard. Lorcan jumps at him and breaks his neck, killing the pony. He spots another book, saying, "There's the final book."

Megan and Lorcan touch the book, activating all the books that floated up to the level that they were in. Nyx nods while saying, "This oughta be fun. I just wish daddy was here."

"Who's your daddy?" Megan asks Nyx curiously.

"Ben Mare...and that's a long story for now."

As Luna and Rainbow flew, the others jump from one book to another and reach the other side, where the Book of Forbidden Spells is at. Megan looks puzzled while sighing. How will she get this book to open?

As Twilight appears, Megan explains to her friends, "There is no lock but I don't think it will open. It's stuck."

"Great, just great," Rainbow exclaims in frustration.

"Treat it like a Neighese box or a stubborn lid." Twilight suggests to Megan. "A tap in the right spot might do the trick."

"Hmmm...maybe." Luna said thoughtfully. Megan, Lorcan and Rainbow have the same idea. "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"

"Oh yeah," Lorcan said with a smile. The four begins pushing the huge book together and push it off the shelf, causing it to fall to the bottom floor. That causes it to open up.

Twilight frowns in disapproval while asking, "You call that a tap? Glad that I didn't suggest force. Otherwise, you might have destroyed it."

"We got it opened, didn't we?" Fred protests to Twilight in annoyance.

"Don't get that way with me, Changeling!"

"Well, time we ride down." Ed said as he points a hoof to the books that float up and down.

The gang begins jumping onto a book, each one float down while Rainbow and Luna flew downward. Once everyone came to the bottom, they got off their rides and head to the book.

"Let's see..." Megan said as she begins to read the boom, "'Mushrooms, poppies, sugar and spice. All those are very nice. When combined the proper mixture makes a getting-small elixir'."

"I am not fond of sweets to be honest." Rarity said with a frown at the potion ingredients.

"We do, sis." Sweetie said happily to Rarity.

"Wait, this book looks like a..." Scootaloo begins to say. But the pony is too late as everyone got sucked into the bool, causing them to scream like mad.

 

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Megan's group found themselves in another part of a school with a Boojum flying around. The human said, "I got this one." She jumps up and attacks the monster with her mallet, killing it.

As Megan returns to her friends, they saw an Earth Royal Guard trotting around. Lorcan remarks, "I will handle that asshole." The dragon jumps forward and slices the Royal Guard's throat, killing him, "Told ya so!"

"Ah still can't git used 'ta 'de idea o' killing." Apple Bloom said with a sigh. "Ah mean, Ah know they're out 'ta git us but..."

"It's all right, Apple Bloom." Scootaloo said while hugging her friend. "Let's continue on."

The group moves on as they saw a Unicorn Royal Guard on the top level. Rainbow flew up and hits the pony, causing him to scream and fell all the way down to his doom.

"Wow, that's a nasty fall." Rainbow said with a cringe.

"But cool!" The Changelings exclaims with smiles on their faces.

The group together went to the left door and head down the stairs. Then they jump over to the floating platform. Fred saw something and pick up a pair of dice, asking, "What are these dice for?"

Twilight teleport in on the other side, smiling madly as she explains, "Oh, yes the diabolical dice. Better be careful. Do not use them when you're alone as the fiends lack loyalty...and their notion of nourishment is very disturbing."

"What do you mean?"

Twilight of course teleports away from the area instead of answering; Ed yelps as he screams, "Yikes; Boojums at 12 o'clock!"

"But it isn't even ten yet!" Fred exclaims in confusion by what Ed just said.

"That means they're coming you idiot!" Lorcan snaps to Fred in annoyance. "Use the dice!"

Fred nods as the Boojums arrive to attack the heroes. The Changeling roll the dice and it came to the side of the ones marked 'evil'. Luna blinks as she asks, "What does that mean?"

Suddenly some Tartarus Demons appear, attacking the Boojums and ripping them apart. Sweetie gasps, "Goodness! What are those things?!"

"Of course! Now I remember! Tartarus dice Demons!"

"What are they?" Megan asks Luna, looking for an answer.

Luna looks seriously to Megan as she explains to her adopted mother, "Those Demons help the ones who summon them as long as there's evil in sight. But if not one shows up...they attack us instead."

"Yikes!" The Cutie Mark Crusaders exclaims in worry and alarm. They decide that it's best to use the dice when there's bad guys to kill!

"Time for us to jump now."

Megan's group jumps back to the main part with Megan grabbing some Meta Essence before the heroes go back into the door. Soon they ran into more Royal Guards. Megan destroys them with her mallet while Luna and Lorcan uses their attacks to get rid of them.

Nyx opens a door that is labeled 'Grayd', seeing a Unicorn Royal Guard coming. Lorcan snaps, "Not today!" The Dragon rips the minion in half, killing it.

Once the Royal Guards are dead, the gang goes to the doors. Rarity looks around as she asks, "Which door shall we use?"

"How about all of them," Megan suggests to her friends thoughtfully.

The ponies open the door, each one of the heroes enter the gym area. As they look around, Scootaloo spots a lever and pulls it, asking, "I wonder what this lever does."

Soon the gym took some sort of shape of stairs, leading upward to the rafters. As they climb up, the group saw a familiar Zecora waiting for them at the top.

"Hey Zecora," Apple Bloom calls out as the gang jumps onto the wooden planks at the left part. As they follow it, the heroes dodge the lamps that are swinging in the area.

Once Megan's group arrives to Zecora, the zebra spoke, "The gym should be safe. The guards never exercise; can't afford to lose the weight after all."

"Lame pun," The Changelings exclaims in annoyance.

"I never cared for sports at school." Rarity explains to Zecora with a frown.

"Some of us do, Rarity." Megan said as Rainbow smiles a bit while flying around. "So do I have to put on a pinny?"

"What the hay is a pinny?" Rainbow asks Megan, a bit puzzled by the comment.

"No, it won't suit you at all." Zecora assures Megan while ignoring Rainbow's question. The zebra gave a mushroom to the group. "Here you go. I remember one of the potion's ingredients: mushrooms, such lovely texture...wait, what's that?"

Zecora ask the last part as three Boojums appear. The zebra disappears as Megan saw a familiar rage box. The girl frowns while saying, "Well, may as well use it now than never."

Megan jumps to the box while most of the others gasps in protest, "Megan, no!"

Too late, Megan touches the thing as she begins to transform like before. Twilight appears while saying to the human girl, "How fine you look when dressed in rage. Your enemies should be lucky that your condition isn't permanent. You're lucky as red eyes suit a few."

"Shows what you know!" Rarity snaps to Twilight who disappears from sight once more.

Megan growls at the Boojums coming to her and her friends. The monster jumps at each one and slashes at the other monsters, killing the three. Once the fight is done, she changes back to normal.

"Megan, are you okay?" Nyx ask Megan in worry.

"I'm fine, wow, that is crazy." Megan said, amazed by what she's doing so far which involves turning into some sort of monster.

"Let's go." Lorcan said with a nod. "We better leave before more of those freaks show up."

The gang returns to the main room while Zecora arrives in the lab. As Megan's group came out, they saw two more Boojums. Rainbow flew up and trick those freaks into hitting one another, allowing them to fall and get killed by Luna and Lorcan on the way down.

Once that's done, the heroes head to the spiraling stairs, heading up; Fred begins to get a bit dizzy while groaning, "Ugh, I feel like I'm sick."

"Me too," Ed exclaims, getting a bit dizzy himself.

The group arrives at the door, seeing a door that is labeled '2nd Grayd'. It opens up as two Earth Royal Guards and a Pegasus one came out. The Cutie Mark Crusaders exclaims, "Get them!"

The Cutie Mark Crusaders attack the Royal Guards, distracting them enough for Megan, Luna and the Changelings to finish them off. Rainbow chuckles a bit, "Another one bites the dust, yeah!"

The group enters the lab where Zecora is at. Rarity frowns as she comments, "Zecora, you are lucky that we all passed by."

"Luck has nothing to do with it. I was about to say that you are all lucky to have found me. I have found the last ingredient which is sugared-spice drops." Zecora explains as she gave the item to the group.

"It seems whenever we meet up, we always find a bit more trouble. Zecora, have you seen any Jumbo Grow about?" Megan asks Zecora sarcastically. The zebra chose to ignore the wise ass remark as she points to the flask inside the opened cabinet door.

"There's a bit in that flask on the sideboard, see? We should be set. Now bring back some poppy blooms and we will mix up the potion."

"I guess we have to find it without you, huh?" Rainbow asks Zecora dryly. To her frustration, the zebra nodded.

"No worries, Zecora! We will done get 'dat poppy blooms fer yew!" Apple Bloom exclaims to Zecora wth a smile. "Yew can count on us!"

Sweetie takes the potion while saying, "Thanks for the potion."

The gang now dash out of the room to look for what they need to find. They arrive in a room with 4 different doors in each direction. Lorcan points to the left, saying, "I say we go to the door on the left."

The group enters the left door, seeing a Pegasus Royal Guard and an Earth one; Megan and Lorcan kill them in an instant. They enter a door labeled '3rd Grayd'. Upon doing so, they ran into two Unicorn Royal Guards. Megan hits them with her mallet until they are dead.

The gang enters the next room where two Unicorn Royal Guards and a Boojum are at. Fred groans in frustration, "Give me a break!"

"Do we have more of these weirdoes waiting for us all over?" Ed asks in disbelief by the foes that the group is facing.

"Just help us kill them!" Scootaloo snaps as the group attacks the Royal Guards while Luna fires a blast at the Boojum, destroying them.

Soon the gang enters another room. Megan found the seeds nearby and takes them. The girl said, "All right, let's see if this works." Megan pours the seeds into the potion, causing a giant lollipop to appear.

"Looks yummy," Sweetie exclaims happily at the treat.

Sweetie takes the treat while Rarity opens the door, seeing a Boojum. The unicorn dash towards it and fires a bolt, killing it. Rarity calls out, "This way; come on!"

The group rushes out, heading back to the lab.

 

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Upon returning to the lab, Megan's group heads to Zecora. The girl gave the last ingredient to the zebra while saying, "Here you go, the last ingredient."

Zecora nods as she place the last ingredient of the potion into a condenser, adding, "This condenser shall make the potion. Not sure if it's good for anything else though."

"No duh!" The Changelings snaps a bit.

The gang waits a while as the machine went to work. It took a while but soon the potion was done for them. As they take it, Zecora hands over a star to Megan.

"Time for you all to leave, but not the way you came." Zecora said to her friends in precaution. "Go to the observatory. This star is for your stellar performance. It may open some doors for you."

"Thanks." Megan said. She and her friends watch as Zecora disappear for the last time. "Well, there she goes, maybe for the last time."

"At least she helped us." Luna said with a nod. The group goes through a portal nearby, ready to head to the observatory next.

 

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Megan's group return to where they found the mallet. That isn't the only thing that they found though.

"Yikes! Two Unicorn Royal Guards," Fred and Ed exclaims at fright as if wanting to piss whatever they use for pants.

"Well, time to kill them!" Nyx exclaims in determination.

The gang attacks the Royal Guards at each side, getting rid of them. Now they went to the double doors on the right side on the second floor while getting rid of two Boojums along the way.

Megan's group goes into the next room, following the path while getting rid of the Boojums and a Pegasus Royal Guard in the way. Next, they all rode the lift on the left and climb the bookshelf on the left too, where they kill two Earth Royal Guards.

"Ugh, when are we going to get to the portal and be small?" Rainbow asks with a groan of annoyance. "This is heavy."

"Weight has nothing to do with this." Ed said to Rainbow, much to the pony's annoyance.

The gang found a door with a star mark which opens upon Megan showing the star. The girl said, "Wow; Looks like the star that Zecora gave us has worked!"

Everyone went into the next room, riding the lift and entering the next room. Upon entering, three Royal Guards awaits them. Megan, Lorcan, Luna and Rainbow kill them all.

Finally Megan's group went over to the telescope where the girl takes the potion out while saying, "All right, here goes."

Each one of the group took a sip of the potion. During this time, a round table with an eye opened, revealing a portal that they all jump into while shrinking. Hopefully, they can catch up to Spike at last.

 

Author's note
The gang are now small as Spike now, at last. In the next chapter, the gang deal with small enemies then meets up with Derpy Hooves who wants their help in saving her daughter Dinky Doo from being turned into a meal by Gilda in exchange for helping them find the Moochick. Also, who is Alpha Prime? Read, review and suggest!

Chapter 4: The Carnivorous Gilda

 

Megan and her friends arrive at an area where a waterfall is at and where rocks are falling. As they look up, the gang saw Spike running through a passageway in the waterfall.

"Spike," Megan calls out to Spike. "Well we found him, so that's a plus, right?"

"Come on, let's follow him." Sweetie said as the group moves onward.

"I wonder if we can find my daddy in Equestria." Nyx said thoughtfully and in concern.

"I'm sure your father is safe and sound." Luna assures Nyx with a smile. "My daughter's son can take care of himself and his friends."

"Celestia has a son?" Megan asks Luna in surprise. "When did this happen?"

"It's complicated, but let's say it involves adoption. Let's leave it at that."

The roup goes up to the left, jumping over the chasm and saw a rock sign that was blurred out. Fred looks puzzled as he ask, "What the Tartarus is this supposed to be about?"

"Falling rocks?" Ed respond sin a very stupid matter.

The group moves up the rocky path until they jump over a waterfall. Soon they confronted a creature called the Toggle that pushes a boulder down the path that the heroes were going to take.

"Wait, you hear 'dat?" Apple Bloom asks her friends in concern, hearing a noise.

"Sounds like a boulder coming." Sweetie said in concern. The group saw a boulder coming down. "And I hate it when I'm right."

"Better wait until that boulder is gone." Megan suggests to her friends. Once the boulder went down and pass, the group jumps over. They continue onward until they themselves reach the high ledge.

"Everyone, jump," Rainbow exclaims. The gang jumps over and grabs the ledge while the flyers just flew up to it.

Now the gang turns around, jumping to another part of the path until they reach another waterfall where another Troggle is at, pushing another boulder at them; Lorcan calls out, "Get back!"

The heroes rush back with the boulder chasing them back to the ledge. Rarity exclaims, "I thought those Troggles were nice!"

"I guess someone must've forced them to do evil!" Sweetie exclaims to her sister. The gang jumps back to the ledge that they were on, spotting the boulder rolling by. "Close one."

"Come on, we gotta keep going." Megan said with a frown.

The group goes back and they continue passing the waterfall. The heroes continue doing so until they found the Troggle preparing to throw another boulder. The Changelings yell in horror, "Run!"

"Wait!"

Luckily, the gang saw that the boulder wasn't coming their way or right to them, making them all sigh in relief. Nyx comments, "That was a close one."

Just then, two ladybugs appear, attacking them while causing Luna to yell out, "Duck!" The gang ducks to avoid getting them by the bugs. Luna and Lorcan slash the two, killing the ladybugs. "And here I thought ladybugs were innocent creatures."

"Apparently not," Lorcan exclaims with a frown. "Everyone jump down!"

"Are yew mad?" Apple Bloom asks Lorcan in alarm. The Dragon pauses as he holds up a claw as if to indicate how mad he is. "Of course, dumb question."

The gang jumps down to the next part of the path, following it while flying or doing long jumps. Soon they came up to three Troggles.

"Die!" Megan snaps as she uses her knife to slash the Troggles, killing them. "You ask for it when you attacked us, buckers!"

"Whoa, big language," Scootaloo exclaims in amazement. "Cool!"

"A river stream," Rarity said, glancing at a river. Just then, she notices something. "And I see somepony shivering. Is that...?"

The heroes head over to the river stream, jumping over it while following the path. As they go over to the figure, they themselves saw a strange statue.

"Is that Megan?" Rainbow asks in amazement. Sure enough, there's a statue of Megan and her friends of Ponyland/Dream Valley of years ago. "She must've been famous!"

"Indeed. It was made in tribute of her helping Ponyland and Dream Valley many centuries ago." Luna said pleased. "Of course, years passed so little to her, a lot to us."

"That explains the years change." Megan said thoughtfully. The ponies saw a pony crying in sadness. It is a female gray-coated Pegasus pony with a yellow mane and bubbles for a cutie mark. Her name is Derpy Hooves. "What's going on? Did someone die or have you lost your family?"

"Derpy; what's wrong?" Rarity asks Derpy in concern before looking to Megan. "She's a friend of ours, mixed up at time but still..."

Derpy sniffs a bit while saying, "Uh, hey guys. My daughter Dinky Doo is gone! That mean griffin Gilda took her!"

"Ugh! Gilda, that bitch," Rainbow asks in shock and anger by the mention of the name. "What did she do now?!"

"I take it Rainbow knows her." Megan said to the other ponies in concern.

"They used to be best friends until Gilda is revealed to be a big jerk." Scootaloo explains to Megan in concern.

"Gilda kidnapped Dinky and tries to grab me, she wanted have both of us for lunch literally." Derpy sobs a bit. "I guess nobility must be served."

"Oh dear," Megan said to Derpy in pity. The poor Pegasus pony's daughter been grabbed and is about to made into lunch by that griffin.

Lorcan of course rolls his eyes while snapping, "Oh come on, stop crying! That deal isn't a big one! Just get another kid, you idiot!"

"Lorcan," Some of the group exclaims, a bit annoyed by the Dragon's insensitivity.

"What?!"

"You are really cold blooded for a Dragon." Derpy said to Lorcan with a frown. "I was almost soup!"

"He's a jerk, what did you expect?" Ed remarks to Derpy, making the Dragon growls at him. "Oops."

"Anyway, it's very tragic, I'm sure." Fred said to Derpy quickly. "Listen, we're pressing time so have you seen a Dragon named Spike around her?"

"Oh yeah, I remember him." Derpy said thoughtfully, her eyes move around a bit. "Small Dragon with green scales, got a crush on Rarity, loves gem, always freaking out to avoid being tardy though I thought it was Twilight. Yeah, he's a most peculiar little guy."

"That's Spike!" The Cutie Mark Crusaders exclaims happily.

"He's very dear to all of us." Megan said to Derpy in agreement. "We must find him so you can help us; perhaps that can be fine."

"Hmmm, not sure; But I betcha the Moochick can help." Derpy said thoughtfully. "The gnome may be absent minded but he knows everything there is to know."

"The Moochick? That little gnome guy?"

"You betcha!"

"And where is that weirdo hanging his hookah nowadays?" Rainbow asks Derpy impatiently.

"I doubt the Moochick smokes, Rainbow." Rarity said to Rainbow with a frown.

"Ever since the madness began, the Moochick has been in hiding." Derpy explains to the group, "Can't give you the secret. And I couldn't risk telling you...at least, not without something in return."

"So you want us to save Dinky in return for telling us where the Moochick is, correct? Risk nothing, gain nothing."

"Yes, I guess we could help you." Megan said with a nod. She will do anything to find Spike and help others.

"Goodie! The Moochick's whereabouts for my daughter's safe return," Derpy exclaims happily to the group. "I must warn you. Gilda won't give her up easily."

"In that case, she will have to do so unwillingly." Nyx said with a deep frown. "Time we teach that evil griffin!"

"Right, I knew you guys are brave. One thing I have to warn you. Gilda treats everything as prey as per her griffin way."

"I knew that she would." Rainbow said with a sigh.

The group looks up to see a leaf falling to the water. Derpy jumps on it, departing from them while riding off. Another leaf falls down near the heroes.

"Time for us to go leaf riding," Megan said to her friends with a nod.

"Right, let's get going." Luna said as everyone got onto the leaf. "Make sure you hang on."

As the group row on, more ladybugs flew up. Fred gasps, "Crap, ladybugs! Don't let them hit us!"

"Uh oh," Apple Bloom yelps as she points to the river, seeing some piranhas in the water, "Piranhas!"

"Better not fall in or we're lunch!" Sweetie exclaims in alarm at the sight of those piranhas.

The gang saw some roots up ahead. Rarity calls out, "Everyone, to the roots." The gang jumps onto the root as the leaf pass below them. They all ran, fighting off the ladybugs to make it to the end. "Now jump again!"

The gang jumps onto the leaf as they reach the left side of the river. Luna calls out, "More of those Troggles." She and Megan quickly got rid of the Troggles quickly. Soon more ladybugs appear above the gang, "All right."

Luna and Rainbow flew around, causing the ladybugs to crash into each other and falling right onto the leaf unconsciously. As the two flyers came back, the heroes jump onto the first leaf, then to another before heading to the next moving leaf.

"Here we go again." Scootaloo mumbles.

The gang saw some Meta Essence, Megan jumps off the leaf to get it before coming back. Now they continue the ride while going through the tunnel. Soon the heroes came across a waterfall from below.

"Jump," The Changelings exclaims as they jump right off before the big waterfall in time.

"Let's climb down." Megan suggests. The gang then climbs down, seeing some ladybugs which they all kill quickly. Next they rode the next leaf down before reaching another waterfall.

"Jump," Rainbow exclaims as the gang jumps off to the small rocky part to the left, some of them use the hanging vines to get across safely.

The gang heads back up to where they saw Derpy before, following the rocky up. Soon Megan and her friends saw her riding another leaf. Lorcan said, "Come on."

The gang jump to the next leaf, riding onward...until they saw Derpy falling into the waterfall. Fred yelps, "Guys, I think we should jump before..."

Too late, everyone fall over the waterfall, screaming like mad.

 

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A while later, everyone groans and woke up. Fred asks Ed stupidly, "Ed, you dead?"

"No, if we are, we would be in Tartarus." Ed said to his pal with a shrug.

The gang saw a path nearby. Nyx said, "There's a path. This way," The group heads through the path, seeing two Troggles. "Yikes!"

"I will handle them!" Rainbow exclaims, flying around and getting rid of the Troggles. The group moves on, reaching another set of Troggles. "Oh man!"

"Time we take them out." Megan said as the group quickly took out off the Troggles. Soon the group saw some leaves. "Here we go."

The group jumps to the first leaf, then to the second before reaching the big foot. They continue following the path on the right side until the gang got up onto the hill where two Troggles are at, attacking.

"Die!" Lorcan exclaims as he jumps and kicks the Troggles right at Luna who blast them.

Once the leaf stopped, the gang jumps onto the land, heading into the only possible direction, jumping over the leaf and onto the next part of land.

"Wow, look a big essence." Megan said, spotting a big essence. Just then a mushroom begins to wake up, "Uh oh."

"Got him," Luna said as she flies to the mushroom and kills it. Just then, a lot of Troggles and a plant monster appear, roaring, "Uh oh."

A blue laser beam blasts the enemies. Megan look surprised as she ask her friends, "What was that?"

"What's that? Wasn't me." Nyx said puzzled. She didn't fire the attack.

"Me either." Rainbow said puzzled as well.

"Then who..." Apple Bloom begins to ask in concern. If it wasn't any of the group, then who fire the attack?

"I did." A voice spoke. Suddenly a red Alicorn with spiky dark blue mane and tail, green eyes, and blue wings, his Cutie mark is the Autobot insignia appear. The new pony landed in front of them. "My name is Alpha Prime. And I am here to help."

"Weird looking Alicorn," Fred comments as Megan took the big essence while regenerating.

"But big help anyway, thank you." Megan said with a smile.

"Come on, let us be going." Alpha Prime said as the group heads over the hill, seeing a pair of Troggles in the distance. "They're mine."

Alpha Prime aims controlling, shooting each of the Troggles in the head, killing them. The gang moves on, jumping onto the hill then spots another plant monster next to the Meta essence.

"My turn," Lorcan remarks as she got close to the plant, waking it up. The Dragon shoots out a flame that burns the monster up. Megan finish the plant off but using her knife.

Another Troggle appears then yelps to find himself out numbered. The minion ran for it, but Ed charge at the guy and hit him, knocking the minion out.

"Well, can't kill all of these bastards, right?" Troggle ask with a shrug to his allies.

Megan grabs the essence as they head down the water to their left, jumping onto the leaf and rode it. Three more ladybugs came their way as the heroes attack and kill them. Soon, they spot smoke coming from a fire as well as two Troggles.

"That must be Gilda's home." Megan said in observation then spots a sign nearby. "'Gilda's Place: Come in and I will eat you'; Yes, definitely the place."

"Then let us be off then." Luna said as she and the others jump off the lead. The alicorn and Rarity kill off the Troggles while heading over to the house, ready for a confrontation with Gilda. Alpha Prime flew up ahead to see if there's any bad guys to deal with on the way to the place.

Rainbow Dash frowns while speaking, "I don't trust him. He could a spy for all we know."

"I'm sure he's not a spy." Megan assures Rainbow but is a bit concerned herself.
"But I can't help but think he's hiding something from us."

"I'm back. I've scouted the area and its all clear." Alpha Prime said upon his return. He looks around and saw the looks on the heroes' faces, "Something wrong?"

"All right we want the truth." Rainbow demands to Alpha Prime more than she asked. "Why are you helping us?"

"I guess it's time I come clean. Celestia is my mother."

"You're Celestia's son too?" Megan asks, surprised to hear that Celestia has another sun that the girl has no knowledge about until now.

Alpha Prime nods as he continues, "And Optimus Prime is my father."

"Optimus is an Autobot." Scootaloo said in shock. "If he's your dad and Celestia your mom, then how..."

"Let just say magic was involved and leave it at that. About a month ago, Nyx contacted Cybertron and told us about Celestia who had gone insane. My father and my of his friend went to Equestria to reason with her. But they didn't come back."

"Right, so I guess that means that Alpha Prime's my uncle." Nyx said with a nod.

"You might say that." Alpha Prime said as the group arrives at a house. Just then, they spot a pony nearby. "Who's that?"

"Berry Punch," Rarity asks in surprise upon seeign Berry Punch.

"Psst, over here," Berry Punch calls over to the ponies quietly.

"Don't I know you?" Megan ask Berry Punch puzzled and curiously.

"'Dat's Berry Punch, another friend o' ours," Apple Bloom explains to Megan. "She got a bit o'...a problem."

"I do not!" Berry Punch snaps to Apple Bloom in annoyance before clearing her throat. "Berry Punch is here at your service. Call me Berry...or not. Got any wine?"

"Afraid not," Megan said to Berry Punch with a shrug, "Only my wits."

"Then you got nothing! Wits are useless here; everything is down-side up!"

"Say what now?" Ed asks a bit confused and dumbstruck by the answer.

"We're here to see that bitch Gilda." Rainbow said to Berry Punch with a frown.

"Impossible! Gilda only sees those who don't wanna see her!" Berry Punch exclaims to the group, alarmed by that explanation.

"Doesn't sound right," Alpha Prime said with a frown by that explanation.

"Sounds perfect; Gilda is hiding from Celestia who wants her dead."

"Her head," The Cutie Mark Crusaders ask Berry Punch in concern.

"Yeah, that too," Berry Punch remarks with a deep frown. "Anyway, Gilda ruined my home, build this monstrosity and gone insane as Ursa Minor mash, just as tasteless."

"Ick," Nyx exclaims in disgust.

"Well never mind. We will be dead soon enough. You sure you don't have any wine?"

"We're here to get back Dinky Doo." Luna explains to Berry Punch clearly. "Gilda has kidnapped the filly to eat and we're here to save her."

"Right, we won't leave until we get Dinky out of there." Megan said to Berry Punch sternly.

"Won't you, eh? Stick your hoof in her eye, of course." Berry Punch said with a smile to the group. "Well, allow me to help. I owe her a bad turn myself. Follow me."

"Right, we can use all the help we can get here." Alpha Prime said as everyone goes over to the door. Suddenly it begins to pound like mad, making Berry Punch gulps in fear.

"Err, on second thought...you're on your own; AAAAAAH!!!"

Berry screams as she run off in terror. Suddenly the door opens as the gang were pulled into the place, screaming.

 

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"Coward," Lorcan growls as the gang find themselves in Gilda's home. They saw a path to the room up ahead, "This way."

Megan's group goes down the path together and looks around. Then they saw something on the table. The girl asks, "What's this?"

Alpha Prime picks up an item and read the tag, reading, "'Jackbomb: an explosive Jack-in-the box, with a secondary firing mode that makes it one Tartarus of a flamethrower.' Nice."

Megan takes the Jackbomb from Alpha Prime; it's probably useful, right? Suddenly the ground shook as the floors are pulled back, making the heroes yelp. Suddenly something came out of the fireplace with a screech. It's a griffin with golden eyes with a gray light purple around them eyes, a coat of moderate orange amber with darker wings and a white head. Her name is Gilda.

"Gilda," Most of the ponies exclaims upon recognizing the griffin.

"Help," A voice yells out. The foals gasps as they saw a gray unicorn being tied down to a table nearby, it's Dinky. "Help me! Gilda wants to eat me!"

"We're coming, hang on!" Sweetie exclaims to Dinky in alarm.

Gilda, holding pepper in one claw, sneezes then smirks evilly as she spoke, "Hey, come over here, lame-os! Oh yes, properly season. You all would make a handsome dish."

"Ugh, you're disgusting." Rainbow snaps to Gilda in disgust.

"I'm gonna enjoy eating rainbows!"

"And the reward for the 'worst joke' goes to...Gilda the Griffin." Lorcan jokes a bit, making Gilda growls furiously to him.

"Look, we are not edible and won't be eaten." Rarity said to Gilda sternly, "Especially by a brute like you who kidnapped ponies to eat them!"

"Eh, not a full meal, but a light snack," Gilda remarks with an evil chuckle.

"Well, we will have Dinky back now, you disgusting ogre of a griffin." Megan snaps while crossing her arms at Gilda.

"You will take her over my dead body!"

"Oh, we will try to accommodate you then."

Gilda screeches as she attacks, slashing while snapping, "Hold still, lame-os!"

Megan throws the bomb onto the ground while exclaiming, "Everyone, duck!" The heroes dodges, much to Gilda's confusion.

"What the..." Gilda was cut off as the bomb blew up, covering the griffin in soot. She shook it while screeching, "Damn it! You will die for this!"

Gilda flies at the group while attacking with attacking with pepper. Rainbow flew up and hits her former friend while snapping, "Take this lame-o!" The pony yelps as the villainess grabs her. "Hey!"

"You should've dropped the ponies when you had the chance, Rainbow Crash! Now you're going into my stomach!"

Suddenly Gilda screech as a laser hits her, causing the griffin to drop Rainbow. She growls at Alpha Prime, the only who fired, as he snaps, "No pony gets eaten today!"

"I will make you my main course!" Gilda exclaims insanely to Alpha Prime. "Time for you to..."

"Oh shut the hay up!" Rainbow snaps as she kicks the pepper shake right out of Gilda's possession, it lands on her huge beak, sending pepper all over.

"No, no! What have you done?! This is too much pepper, man! I'm gonna..."

Gilda then begins sneezing hard like mad. The ponies look shocked and disgust as her head begins to get bigger. Megan yells out, "Everyone, duck!"

The gang quickly ducks down. Gilda made one final sneeze until her head explodes. The headless corpse fell to the ground dead, much to the disgust of everyone.

"Ewww..." Everyone said in disgust at Gilda's remains.

"Well...at least Gilda is taken out." Rainbow said with a sigh.

Rarity and Luna meanwhile came over and untie Dinky saving her. The filly giggles while saying, "Thank you, Rarity, Luna!"

"It's our pleasure, child." Luna said with a smile as Dinky hugs her a bit. Just then, Derpy came into the room with Berry punch. The Alicorn floats the foal over to her mother, saying, "Your daughter, Miss Hooves."

"Dinky," Derpy exclaims happily as she takes her daughter, hugging her in relief.

"Well, I would have the Bushwoolies clean this mess up." Berry Punch said, a bit disgusted by the remains of Gilda.

"My daughter is in safe condition!"

"I believe thanks are in order." Megan explains to Derpy with a nod. The human is right; the Pegasus pony should thank the heroes for saving Dinky.

"Thank you for getting Dinky back." Derpy said as Dinky waves to Megan and her friends.

"Better and you're welcome."

"Ahem, we kept our part of bargain, Derpy." Scootaloo reminds Derpy of the deal earlier. "We got Dinky back. Now help us find the Moochick."

"Sure, fair enough!" Derpy exclaims with a nod as she begins to fly up with Dinky on her back. "I will take you on a trip. Just follow me and try to catch up. You'll muddle through."

"Not all of us can fly, Derpy." Sweetie explains to Derpy in concern.

"It's okay. Just climb onto us, non-flyers." Alpha Prime said to the non-flying ones with a smile.

Derpy opens up a part of the roof and flew up. The ones who can't fly got onto the ones who can and follows the Pegasus pony through a portal and right into the sky. They flew through after Derpy, using the clouds to catch up.

Megan and her friends go through dangerous areas, dodging dangerous birds but reach their destination. Unknown to them, something is about to happen that will signals the lost of someone very important to them as well as someone to leave them in another way.

 

Author's note
Gilda is gone and Dinky is saved. Now Derpy is leading the group where the Moochick is at. In the next chapter, Megan and her friends reunite with Spike...but disaster strikes that spell the end of one of them and cause another to leave. Read, review and suggest.

 

Alpha Prime is the OC son of Celestia and Optimus Prime (from Transformers). He belongs to nobodies.

Author's note
To Guest, I don't have the material or script to do so just yet.

 

To Peter, wrong, they're not.

 

To chipmunkfantatic, he has got a little crazy.

 

Chapter 5: Loved Ones' Passing

 

After a while, the group lands in some sort of forest, small and freaky. They all land though Lorcan lands on his tail, making him yelp, "Ouch."

The group got up and looks around. This must be where the Moochick is at. Derpy, as Dinky watch on from her mommy's back, smiles while saying, "Finish what you start, please. Don't forget, human girl thing. You're only a visitor. We have to live here."

"Yeah, we know that." Rarity said with a nod.

"Are we on holiday?" Fred asks a bit confused to the others.

"No, we aren't!"

"And I am not ungrateful! You are now all honorary Pegasus, well those who aren't anyway." Derpy remarks happily as she gave the gang some sort of bracelets.

"So what does this do?" Megan asks Derpy curiously.

"Oh, this allows you to fly without wings...and swim underwater! Press the button and see!"

The gang press a button on a bracelet each, causing wings to appear on those who don't got any. Apple Bloom remarks sarcastically, "Oh, lucky all o' us."

"You will think so once you're under water or in the air. Dinky and I gotta go now. Good luck in stopping the princess!" Derpy exclaims happily as she flies away with Dinky riding her.

Once the gang turns the bracelets off, Alpha Prime comments, "At least you all will know when to use them." Soon two ladybugs appear, not doing anything yet. "Well, come on, we should let Spike know that we're here."

The group heads onward, seeing a Troggle which Lorcan kills instantly. Nyx glances at a nice looking place with a waterfall. She said, "We should go this way."

"I see a ladybug up there." Ed said as he points right at a ladybug on top of the waterfall.

"I got it." Megan said as she goes at the ladybug on top of the waterfall and attacks it. A Troggle is seen waiting on a ledge until Alpha Prime fires a laser, killing it. There appears to be some sort of creature in the water, spitting stuff. "Let's try to be careful when jumping over. We don't want to be spit on by that thing in water."

"Allow me." Lorcan said as he fires a blast at the thing in the water, killing it. The ladybug that Megan thought got dizzy and fell, allowing her Dragon friend to kill it instantly.

"There're some leaves." Scootaloo said upon seeing some leaves.

The group jumps to the first leaf and head to the one near the hanging rope, some swam for it or flew. Upon reaching the rope, they all climb or flew up.

"For ponies, I'm surprised that we can climb stuff." Rainbow mumbles a bit, climbing while the rope is in her mouth.

Once reaching the end of the rop, the group follows a path until they saw a path attacking. Fred remarks, "I got this." The Changeling rolls the dice, causing the Demons to appear and kill off the plant in a fury.

"Here's some Meta Essence, Megan." Sweetie said. Megan touches the essence stuff, refueling her.

The heroes move onward until they found a glowing mushroom. Luna asks curiously, "I wonder what this mushroom does."

"I guess we're supposed to jump on it." Alpha Prime said while observing the mushroom carefully.

"Like 'dis?" Apple Bloom giggles as she and her friends got onto the mushroom and bounce on it, "Wheee!"

"This is fun!" Sweetie and Scootaloo exclaims happily while bouncing on the fun.

"This is not time for fun right now!" Megan exclaims as she saw a rope nearby. "Let us get to that rope and move on!"

The ponies and Dragon got onto the mushroom and jump on it, laughing while getting the hanging of the trampoline. They grab the rope and climb in, getting to the top.

"There's Spike!" Rarity exclaims upon seeing Spike waiting for them nearby. "Come on!"

The gang jumps over to where Spike is at. A ladybug appears to attack but Rainbow got rid of it. They came over it while Nyx exclaims happily, "Spike!"

"Geez, you all took your time in catching up to me." Spike remarks as he hugs Nyx who giggles a bit. "But you all made it."

"Hey come on! What do you mean, you didn't wait for us!" Rainbow exclaims to Spike in annoyance. "Anyway, we got reasons, right?"

"Never mind the reasons. They are useless! Anyway, come on. The Moochick is waiting for us."

"Oh yes, I remember him." Megan said, thinking of her past. "Old, goofy looking, forgetful at times, had a disagreeable smell, all that."

"Is that the case, why do we need him anyway?" Scootaloo ask Spike puzzled.

"No one in Equestria is as wiser as him, as far as we know." Spike explains to the group. "He's the only one who knows what Megan must do to save us. Now follow closely.

Megan and her group nods as they follow Spike who leads the way. Hopefully they can find the Moochick and figure out how to save Equestria. The heroes saw another ladybug coming, making Apple Bloom remark, "Ah done got 'dis one."

Apple Bloom takes the mallet from Megan and hits hte ladybug, killing it. Now the gang fell down to the platforms by the tree, spotting an ant which Alpha Prime kills. Next they jumped onto the rope and jump across, jumping over to the place where the Troggle were at.

"So the Moochick is this way?" Megan asks Spike hopefully.

"Sure is, come on!" Spike exclaims as the group moves onward while following the dragon.

"Do you know why my mother has turned evil, Spike?" Alpha Prime ask Spike seriously. "And what happened to father and the Autobots that went with him?"

"Not sure on both but some sort of darkness were said to be in the area when it happened."

"Suspicious."

Luna spots the ladybugs and the plant attacking, forcing her and her friends to strike it right back. Next, the gang continues on the battle while killing another Plant, Troggle and Ladybug.

Now the group confronts more of the ladybugs which Megan and Lorcan kills before reaching the ledge. Spike looks around in concern while saying, "This is too quiet. Strange, I don't like it." The Dragon saw a clearing up ahead. "Okay, listen, the Moochick is just beyond this clearing. We should sacrifice stealth for speed."

"Right, come on." Lorcan said with a nod as the dragons quickly rush through the clearing.

"Hey, wait for us!" The Changelings exclaims as the group follow after the rushing Dragon.

"Honestly, those two can..." Rainbow was cut off as everyone heard a rumbling sound that made them yelp. "What the hay was that?!"

The group heard another rumbling sound that got closer. The Dragons got closer, making Lorcan ask in alarm, "What the Tartarus is that?!"

"I don't know!" Spike exclaims, not liking the sound of those quakes at all. It's like something big is coming their way.

The foals scream in terror as they saw something coming: a pair of giant pink legs that bounce rapidly. Nyx gasps as she saw the creature who owns them coming closer to Spike and Lorcan, "Spike, Lorcan, look out!"

"Move out of the way!" Spike screams. The baby dragon pushes Lorcan right out of the way, knocking him right into some tall grass...and got stomped right on by the monster.

The group gasps in horror, "Spike!!"

As Lorcan got up and groans, he gasps as the tall figure disappear, revealing the remains of Spike...now dead and crush. The surviving Dragon looks stunned and saddened. Spike is gone...that big monster killed him!

"Spike..." Lorcan said as tears came out of his eyes.

As Twilight teleports in, Megan begins to cry as she fell to her knees, "Why must everyone I loves so violently and unnaturally?! Am I cursed?! Why go on?! I will only hurt others!"

Megan sobs some more as her friends look on in sadness. Twilight on the other hoof spoke up, "There isn't time for self-pity. Evade these savage soldiers and find the Moochick."

"What the buck is wrong with you?! He was your friend! He was..." Lorcan pauses to sniff a bit, "my brother."

"He was just an assistant."

"Ouch." Ed said with a groan of worry. That sounds a bit mean.

"That's...cruel." Fred remarks in agreement.

Twilight, now regretting what she just said, sighs, "Okay. Scratch that. He wasn't just an assistant. He was like my little brother too. But, blast it, we can't just stay here moping in grief. We've lost too many friends already. Hopefully, we'll be able to find a way to fix this mess so that it never happened in the first place. It's our only chance of getting our friends - including and especially Spike, back. In order to do that, we need to defeat Celestia and find out what corrupted her in the first place."

Lorcan calms down a bit while saying, "You're right, Twilight. Blast it, you're right. If we stop Celestia and whatever force corrupted her, we'll have a real chance of getting things back to the way things were before they went bad. That includes bringing back our dead friends as they were before the corruptions."

Twilight disappears from sight, leaving the gang to the dead Spike.

 

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The gang made a grave for Spike, burying him where he was stomped on and paying their last respects. Nyx in sadness said, "He was a good adopted brother to me, helping us whenever we need it. Spike was also loyal to all of us, right to the very end."

"I'm sure no matter what happens, Spike is watching over us." Megan said, patting the saddened Nyx on the head. The Alicorn filly sniffs a little as she put a flower on Spike's grave.

Lorcan glares a bit angrily at Rarity, demanding, "Aren't you gonna say a few words in remembrance to Spike; or are you just going to ignore his death?"

"Lorcan, I know how you-" Rarity begins to say but a pissed off Lorcan cuts her off.

"No, you don't! You never shared his feelings for him. He was devoted to you and you had my little brother wrapped round your hoof. No! No, all you cared about was fashion and absolute none stop whining whenever you see a bit of dirt! And oh, you know how you see yourself as higher class? Wake the buck up! You're in bucking Ponyville! All the high class snobs are in Canterlot!"

"Lorcan, come on!" Megan exclaims to Lorcan, trying to calm him down again. "We..."

"Buck you, Megan!" Lorcan roars furiously to Megan before she could finish. "It's because of you this is all happening! Well, I'm not going to stay with a bitch who should have died with her family. So long, freaks!"

With that, Lorcan storms off, leaving the stunned group behind. Luna calls out, "Lordcan..."

"Don't call me that!"

Luna prepares to go after Lorcan but Alpha Prime stops her with a hoof, saying, "Let him leave, give him time to calm down...we got to find the Moochick. Hopefully his advice can help us avenge Spike's death. We can't let the Dragon's sacrifice be in vain now."

Luna looks down but nods as everyone heads off to find the Moochick. Twilight appear briefly, take one look at Spike's grave and, with a single tear rolling down her cheek, say, "Goodbye, Spike."

Twilight disappears once more. Unknown to her, someone else is watching the scene, saying, "There is one way to save him. Undo all that was evil and all that has been done will return to what is was and the Alicorn with the Gold heart as his cutie mark is waiting for you. Be safe, my dear friend."

Then she is gone in a blink of an eye.

 

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Lorcan fumes as he storms away, mumbling, "I can't believe those buckers...they couldn't save Equestria, let alone Spike! And who is that asshole who took his life anyway?!"

"Oh, do you want to know?" A voice spoke up, making Lorcan startled as he turns to see someone in the shadows. The Dragon glances carefully, seeing who it is.

"You; what do you want?"

"Oh, I'm a friend who is saddened for your loss instead of your so-called other friends and Luna. I know who killed off your little beloved brother."

"How would you know?" Lorcan asks the familiar figure with a scoff. "You weren't there."

"True, but I saw who killed him. I can even take you to her and let you avenge Spike personally." The figure said slyly. Lorcan pauses to think. Spike needs avenging right now...and the scarred Dragon wants payback on the one who took his life.

"Take me to her...so I can end her life right now."

Lorcan's mind is on revenge right now, not noticing or caring that he is turning gray right now...

 

Author's note
No. Spike is dead...and Lorcan is turning gray. Who is responsible for either one? And who appears right after Twilight just left? In the next chapter, Megan and friends travels through the forest and meets the Moochick. And to get back to normal, the heroes must destroy the evil Grogar; Also, some more exploration; Read, review and suggest.

Chapter 6: The Nasty Grogar

 

The gang arrives in another part of the woods; some of them are still feeling saddened over Spike's head and Lorcan's departure, not believing what has happened.

"Lorcan..." Luna said in sadness.

"Can you believe that crazy dragon?! How could he call me a drama queen when I acted so much nice to him?" Rarity asks her friends while rambling in a drama queen style. "I mean, have I ever acted like that? I am not a drama queen nor do I ever act like one."

"Dis is why he called ya 'dat!" Apple Bloom exclaims to Rarity, much to the white unicorn's shock.

"How dare you!"

"No! How bout I show you...you." Fred said as he then morphs into Rarity. "Help me! Eeew, I hate mud and dirt! Ooooh, that dress you're wearing is a dress! No! My life is ruined, ruined because of bas fashion!"

"I don't act like that!" Rarity snaps to Fred in annoyance.

"Come on, we don't have time for this nonsense." Megan said to her friends with a sigh as Fred changes back to normal. "We still got to find the Moochick."

"I can't believe that Spike is dead, man." Rainbow said with a groan then frowns. "Whoever took his life is going down!"

"Huh. Those pink legs look familiar, especially the way they bounced." Nyx said in concern, wondering where she saw those pink legs before.

The group saw two ladybugs and attacks them. The minions try to escape but they got rid of them quickly. The gang took the right path, destroying the plant there.

"Into the hole," Alpha Prime said as the gang jumps down, following the path in the hole. They either jump across a gap while some of them flew across.

Now the gang reaches an intersection with Scootaloo asking, "So where do we go from here now?"

Outside the pathway, a familiar pair of pink legs bounces up and down again, causing one of the pathways to get destroyed. Sweetie yelps, "Oh great!"

"Troggle," Megan exclaims as the gang saw a Troggle which Luna fires at, destroying the thing.

"Come on." Luna said sternly.

The gang jumps onto a glowing mushroom and bounce off to a path with crystals. Next they walk onto the narrow bridge while taking the right path way, flying across in the next area.

Now Megan's group came to the ledge, heading to some cards by the crystals and following the path. Nyx comments, "Wow, more cards."

"Let's go." Rainbow remarks to Nyx. The group climbs onto the ledges at the end of the path and saw a plant. Alpha Prime destroys the creature before the gang continues on.

The gang now took the path while getting rid of two ladybugs in the way. Next they jump and grabs a rope. Rarity saw something, making her exclaims, "Angry plant and Troggles nearby!"

Megan uses her knife to strike down the Troggles while Alpha Prime flew down and took down the plant. Everyone jumps off and heads to where the Troggles came from, jumping into a hole and head down a tunnel.

Suddenly Megan and friends heard a noise, making a human girl ask in concern, "What the hell was that?" They look outside to see the ladybugs screeching like mad, then a few came with one of them holding a giant marble.

"Crap, everyone run!" Rainbow exclaims in alarm.

"Why?" Ed asks Rainbow in confusion. As if to answer his question, the giant marble was thrown, rolling onto the path at them.

"That's why, stupid! Run!"

Most of the group panic as they ran quickly. Rarity whines, "Oh, I didn't expect to be run down by a boulder today!"

"Stop whining and keep going, don't look back!" Fred exclaims to Rarity in alarm.

The heroes kept running down the path and saw some mushrooms. Alpha Prime calls out, "Quickly, this way!" The gang jumps onto them, allowing the heroes to reach other side to escape the marble.

Megan's group crosses the bone bridge, reaching an icy lake. As they run to the other side, the gang yelps while falling down through the ice, "Whoa!"

The gang lands on the ground, which is slippery. Sweetie exclaims, "Wow, this ice is sure slippery."

"How about we skate fro' here," Apple Bloom suggests to the others thoughtfully.

"I am not good at skating." Alpha Prime said a bit uneasily at the idea of skating. "Perhaps we should."

"Come on! It'll be fun!"

Alpha Prime looks concerned but agrees to do some skating, the gang slid on the ice, keeping their balance. Some of them laughs while Rarity exclaims eagerly, "Amazing! This is fun, actually!"

Once the gang got across the ice, they found a ledge that has two paths. Megan said, "Let's take the right path."

Megan and her friends climb/fly down some rocks, and arrive to the lowers ones then head to the lower stone bridge. As they follow it, Rainbow spots something and picks it up, asking, "What is this thing?"

"Looks like an ice wand." Nyx said as she observes the ice wand in Rainbow's possession.

Twilight appears, speaking mysteriously, "Withering cold freezes an enemy more completely than the deep wounds. Warning though: winter doesn't last forever."

Twilight disappears while the bridge fell behind the group. Luna said, "Best we take the narrow path."

The gang did so, dodging a falling rock while jumping over to the next part of the path. They walk around a big pillar and climb up the rocky part to the left, returning to the ledge where Megan's group first started at earlier.

Megan's group heads back to the stones to the right and right at the tunnel they went to before they themselves found the ice wand. Scootaloo sighs in annoyance, "Man, this is not going well."

"I know. How could things get worst?" Sweetie asks with a sigh.

As if to jinx it, a familiar boulder is heading right to the group. Apple Bloom exclaims in alarm, "Gah! Yew had 'ta say it!"

The gang run nonstop to escape the boulder, reaching the opening and going off to the side to cause it to past by them. They then saw more ladybugs, killing them before following the path to the right of the exit.

Megan and her friends spots some smoke and heads over to a clearing where someone is making dinner. It's a balding gnome with a gray beard, a green hat, a green jacket, a brown belt, a green suit, a pair of brown boots and an old cane. This is the Moochick.

"Moochick," Megan calls out to the Moochick who notices her and her friends.

"Oh yes, Megan...you've returned." The Moochick said to the group with a nod.

"Wait, weren't yew absent-minded or something?" Apple Bloom asks the Moochick in surprise.

"Yes, but I have gotten better over time. Must be the changes in Equestria; Spike must've send you to me."

"Yes, but he never told us why." Nyx explains to the Moochick in sadness.

"And now...Spike's gone with Lorcan leaving us." Megan said in sadness to the Moochick.

"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. As for the reason why, it's because Equestria, which was once Ponyland, is severely damaged," The Moochick explains to Megan and her friends sternly. "Megan, you and your friends must set right what is wrong! That's why!"

"But I barely recognize this awful place anymore. What is it to me?"

"It's home...well, it could be. Having lost what you loved, you nearly wiped us out. Megan, you've started rebuild but your task, as well as your pain, is not over."

"She's right, Megan." Alpha Prime said to Megan in agreement. "Equestria has been tainted with darkness since your last visit because of what happened to your family."

"How did you know that I lost my family?" Megan asks Alpha Prime in concern.

"Let's say that when you're an Autobot like me, you know these things."

"Still, why must I suffer?"

The Moochick pauses then sighs, "Because, Megan, your mind is fouled by self-deception, even your fantasies are being discorded into torture versions of themselves. You are wracked with guilt as you have survived, fearing the prospect of a life alone."

"But she isn't alone." Nyx said to the Moochick gently.

"She got us, all of us..." Luna adds in but looks a bit down in sadness. "Well, not all of us..."

"As long as we're here for Megan, she is not truly alone." Sweetie said with a smile on her face, making Megan feel a bit better.

"So what do you think I must do?" Megan asks the Moochick in concern.

"You must destroy Celestia...or at least the corruption that took her." The Moochick said seriously to Megan. "Once that's done, your entire world will be whole again. I must rest now. You all must regain your normal size."

"Yeah...but…"

"Grow up, Megan, and embrace the truth. Travel to Tambelon and nibble on the mushroom of life and take care. The voracious Grogar guards it sinisterly and rules over what you require."

"Grogar? As in the ruler of Tambelon," Rainbow asks the Moochick puzzled. "I thought both were cast away into that shadowy place centuries ago!"

"When Equestria got corrupted by the darkness, the barriers between our world and the shadow one got broken down, allowing Tambelon and Grogar to return." Luna explains to her friends in concern. "Celestia didn't bother to do anything about it due to her own corruption."

"Make sense to me!" Fred remarks in amazement.

The Moochick then uses his magic to make a portal. Apple Bloom said with a nod, "'Dat must be a portal 'ta where Tambelon is at."

The group jumps into the portal, heading to the Tambelon area. They must eat the mushroom of life to get big again, one way or another.

 

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Megan's group arrives at a strange place, landing on the ground as four monsters roar at them. Rainbow remarks, "I got these guys." The pony uses the ice wand before breaking them into pieces.

Megan and friends goes down the tunnel and found another monster which Alpha Prime got rid of quickly. Now they saw two Troggles with a fighter one which the two Changelings got rid of.

The gang continues onward, fighting another mushroom along the way. Rainbow comments, "Damn, and I thought that bitch Gilda was bad enough."

Two ladybugs came and attacking, Scootaloo uses the mallet to hit them before Nyx quickly finishes them off. As Megan and her friends move onward past a mushroom, a plant woke up and tries to attack.

"Freeze," Megan exclaims as she took the Ice Wand from Rainbow and froze the plant before destroying it.

The gang continues on, destroying three monsters and three Troggles. Once that's done, they went past the root and under a big tree where they found two Meta Essence in some water, along with a Piranha.

"I got him." Megan said while throwing a knife right at the Pirahna, killing it.

The ones who can't fly put on their bracelets and dive into the water, swimming and crossing it. After getting to land, the gang got rid of the monster and move on, dealing with a plant and another Troggle.

The group goes to the right, Alpha spots something as he pick them up, asking, "Another Demon Dice?"

"Best to save them," Nyx said to Alpha Prime thoughtfully. "We may need them for another time."

The group continues along the way, dealing with mushrooms on the right. Soon they came across a big dark city known as Tambelon. Upon arriving, a roar is heard, "You foolish weaklings of warriors! Form a line!"

"That must be Grogar." Ed said, getting a bit worried by the tone of voice.

"It is, I know that tone of voice anywhere." Megan said with a deep frown. The group heads into the castle and moves forward, seeing several Troggles that point their weapons at them. "Yes, I was right."

"No good!" Fred yelps in worry at the frowns made by the Troggles.

Inside a tower where a mushroom is at, a monster roars. It's a giant blue goat with bloody red eyes, the usual beard and is wearing a collar of red with orange circles and a silver bell. His name is Grogar.

"Bring the intruders to my tower!" Grogar roars to the Troggles sinisterly. "They shall pay for their insolence one by one as I dispose of them!"

The group yelps as they were forced into the tower where Grogar was at. The Troggles point their weapons. Megan sighs, "Figures Grogar is forcing you all into this."

The Troggles push the heroes into what appears to be a giant tiki mouth. They scream as Megan and her friends slide through a tunnel and right into a den where Grogar is waiting for them.

"What is this? The human known as Megan, the one who helped the ponies beat me before, has returned? And with no friends," Grogar taunts Megan's group as they got up, "Ha ha ha! And here I thought you couldn't get more foolish!"

"Watch it, jerk!" Rainbow exclaims to Grogar furiously. "We ain't afraid to take you on!"

"Right, get ready to fall once more, Grogar!" Megan exclaims to Grogar in agreement.

"Time to did, human," Grogar roars madly. He slams his hooves, sending out spiders at the group.

"Gah; Spiders," The Changelings exclaims in alarm as they and their pals dodge the spiders while hitting them away.

"Get away from us, disgusting freaks!" Rarity exclaims while using her magic to get rid of some of the spiders.

"Megan, listen, use the ice wand on Grogar. When he's frozen, I will use my lasers to finish him off!" Alpha Prime exclaims a plan to Megan in determination.

Grogar roars as he fires out a blast at the group, but they dodge it in time. Fred and Ed quickly distract the fiend as he slams his hooves right at him. Megan jumps at the goat villain and uses the Ice Wand, freezing all but his head.

"What; No! This cannot be happening!" Grogar exclaims in shock and alarm.

"Yes it is, now time to end this!" Alpha Prime exclaims as he points his laser at Grogar. "Never again will you and your Tambelon forces plague Equestria!"

Alpha Prime fires a huge blast at Grogar, the villain screams as he got blown into pieces. The heroes sigh in relief, Grogar is gone for good.

"Time for us to get big again." Megan said as she and her pals get some pieces from the mushroom that Grogar was guarding."Or at least back to normal."

Twilight teleports in, speaking up, "I never trust toadstool, but I guess some have their good points, I guess."

"Makes me wish I was hallucinating myself."

"Horrible choice, eh," Scootaloo ask in amusement to her friends. "Either be food for the insects or eat mushrooms. I rather take the second choice."

The group eats their mushrooms pieces...then feel the rumbling, making them all yelp in surprise, "Whoa!" Look like they are returning to normal somewhat.

"While it's rude to eat and run, sometimes it's unavoidable." Twilight remarks as her friends begin return to normal somehow...

 

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Soon Megan and her friends are in a new area. The girl looks around, saying, "I remember this place. We're near Flutter Valley."

"It's now the Flutter Province now." Luna corrects Megan in worry. "My sister Celestia has declared war on the Flutterponies, sending her special troops to take them on."

"We got to help them!"

Twilight appears once more, speaking, "The dimensions of this desolate tract are unknown to every pony...minus the inhabitants. Only one path will get you to the endgame."

Once Twilight disappears, Fred notices something, making him asks, "What is that thing?"

"Yikes, a Mini Demon," Ed screams like a filly as a Mini Demon appears, roaring.

"I will take care of him." Luna said as she fires a blast at the Mini Demon, sending the creature to the lava below. "We must go onward."

The group jumps/fly over the lava, following a path down and climbing down some stones. Along the way, Megan spots some sort of the staff and pick it up, asking, "I wonder what this thing is."

Twilight teleports in, speaking, "The Discord Staff is very powerful, but its individual pieces are worthless than the carcass of a Parasprite."

"Discord?"

"An evil Spirit of Chaos and Disharmony," Alpha Prime explains to Megan with a frown. "He loves to make chaos and madness throughout Equestria, appearing only twice."

"One thing, that creep discorded me and my friends." Rarity explains to Megan in an upset tone of voice. "If it weren't for Twilight, we would've been lost."

"Last time, Twilight and her friends has defeated Discord, turning him into a statue." Luna explains to Megan with a nod.

"You think Discord is loose again?" Megan asks Luna in worry.

"Must be the case, with Equestria turning darker and chaotic, I wouldn't be surprised."

"You need the pieces from somewhere else and Discord in order for the Discord Staff to work." Twilight explains to her friends a bit madly. "Good luck."

Just then a gate is heard opening. Nyx comments, "Sounds like a gate is opening. Let's go; Later, mommy!"

Once Twilight disappears, Megan's group head down to the path, following it back up before jumping over the lava again; They saw a sign nearby which Rarity reads, "'Beware of Lava Demons. Flutter Province is up ahead'; Lava Demons? Aren't they nice now?"

Of course a Lava Demon appears, making the group gasps. This made Nyx exclaims, "Try telling him that!"

Megan uses the ice wand to freeze the Lava Demon, destroying it. Then a Phantasmagoria appears at the group but they took it down before killing it. Next the heroes head through a tunnel. After getting out, Megan's group saw two Boojums and a Mini-Demon appearing, ready to attack.

"Not these jerks again!" Apple Bloom exclaims with a groan. Regardless, Megan, Rainbow, Alpha Prime and Luna quickly took out the enemies.

Just then Ed yelps as he saw two Unicorn Royal Guards up on the roof of the tunnel, "Yipes!"

"We got them." Megan said seriously as she and Alpha Prime took the two Royal Guards out and not for dinner, let me tell you!

Once that's done, the group heads to the right, grabbing three Meta Essence hidden on a ledge above the lava. Then they took the left path and saw two Boojums. Rainbow remark, "Kick their asses, Alpha Prime."

Alpha Prime nods as he attacks the Boojums, destroying them. Now the heroes follow the path further one, reaching a cave to the left.

As Megan's group arrives in a new area, a voice greets them, "To destroy the palace that is your mission, is the daring work of noble Megan. An endgame with Celestia is possible only after you defeat her ally, the vile, chaotic and vengeful Discord! Without the staff that bears his name, destroying it is a hopeless work of a wasted life."

The group glances at the cave while Megan shows the first piece that she found, saying, "We got one piece of the eye staff."

"Right, where are the others?" Nyx ask the voice curiously.

"Scattered throughout Equestria; only when you have them all in hoof will victory be possible, the Flutterponies may be of use." The voice explains.

"Obsure allusions to my friends are fine, but it troubles me that anonymous oracles seem to know more of my business than I do." Megan remarks to her friends with a frown on her face.

The gang goes over to the three Meta Essence which is located at the end of the place. Two Boojums attack the heroes as they got rid of them along with three Mini Demons. Once those baddies are dead, the good guys continue back to the path where they destroy another Boojum and more Mini Demons.

Megan and her friends move on, getting rid of another Phantasamgoria while getting three Meta Essences. Scootaloo notes that Rainbow is wearing black slippers, making her ask, "Hey, Rainbow? Where did you get those black slippers?"

"That is none of your concern, meatbag!" Rainbow snaps to Scootaloo. The others look a bit startled by the Pegasus pony's tone of voice...not to mention that it sounded rather...robotic; odd.

Megan and company arrive in the tunnel again and exit it. Now they head straight, taking a left turn to reach the home of the Flutterponies known as Flutter Province. Two Boojums appear and attack them. Rainbow and Luna got rid of them quickly.

Megan and her friends saw a few black ponies in armor appearing, wearing certain armor. Nyx gulps, "Those looks like members of the cult that used to worship me....but why?"

Twilight appears in front of the gang, startling the group. Rarity exclaims, "Goodness, Twilight! Don't do that!"

"You do know the moves, Megan. Best play the Flutterponies." Twilight advises to Megan carefully. "They go first here."

"Such order in the middle of chaos makes me woozy and disoriented." Megan said in amusement that such order can be found in a hell like Equestria.

"Yes, but the regularity of the battlefield disguises the major menace of certain ponies."

Twilight disappears as the armored ponies attack Megan's group. The gang got rid of them quickly and furiously. Soon they saw an Earth Pony Royal Guard with a Pegasus one. Alpha Prime kills them quickly.

"There's a portal!" Megan exclaims as she saw a portal heading to Flutter Province. A Unicorn Royal arrives to attack the good guys but Rainbow quickly slashes him, killing the guard instantly.

Megan and her friends nod as they jump through the portal, entering the Flutter Province itself.

 

Author's note
Looks like to defeat Celestia, Megan must assemble the Discord Staff. But where are the other two pieces? In the next chapter, the heroes arrive in the Flutter Province where they must help the Flutterponies fight off the cult members that used to worship Nightmare Moon (from 'Past Sins') but to save a friend of theirs, they must defeat the insane Sir Spell Nexus! But another old friend of theirs is waiting for them. Read, review and suggest.

 

The Moochick is the lovable but absent-minded gnome who helped Megan and her friends in the first series of My Little Pony.

 

Grogar is the evil leader of Tambelon from the first series.

 

I got the new name of Flutter Province from 'The Elements of Harmony and the Savior of Worlds'.

 

Notice something's not right with Rainbow Dash, eh?

Author's note
No, VISION-KING, that isn't how the Discord Staff works; it's a powerful weapon to destroy the nastiest of foes like Discord or Celestia. Plus, the Elements of Harmony aren't even coming to play here so whatcha on about? Two of the Element holding ponies will be dead while two are incapable when the final battle comes up.

 

Anyway, the events will happen because I planned on working on the sequel in the future.

 

And for the last time, Mystery Guy, Celestia is NOT a coward! She just has some bad luck! Honestly, you folks got to stop this nonsense at once.

 

Chapter 7: Flutterponies vs. Cult Members

 

Megan and her friends land on the ground in the Flutter Province. As they got up, Rarity asks, "Now where are we?"

The group glances at their new surroundings, the place looks like a war zone. Megan said, "This was Flutter Valley, now the Flutter Province. What happened? Did Celestia really went and declare war?"

"Unfortunately yes, and she has Sir Spell Nexus as the head of her troops here." Luna explains to Celestia seriously.

"Sir Spell Nexus, the former head of my cult?" Nyx ask Luna in surprise.

"Correct and sadly, he too is once again corrupted by the darkness. We can only hope to find the Flutterponies and help them in their battle while looking for the remaining pieces of the Discord Staff."

The group goes forward a bit and reaches a Flutterpony waiting for them. She must aside to allow a board to appear on the ground. Apple Bloom asks curiously, "What is 'dis fer?"

"Our war is like playing Chess for some reason so when this appears, you must step on this board to continue." The Flutterpony explains to Megan's group clearly.

"I see, figures Chess is invovled somehow." Alpha Prime said thoughtfully to the Flutterpony.

"Just make sure you get to the Central Area."

Alpha Prime got onto the board, now wearing bishop's clothing as his hooves got glued. Megan calls out to her friend, "All right, good luck."

"Just follow me, everyone." Alpha Prime instructs his friends carefully.

Alpha Prime took the following paths with the others following: Up-left, Right, Forward, Left, Forward twice, Right, Forward, Right, Left, Right, Forward, Right, Left, Forward, Left, Forward, Left, Right, and Forward. Once that's done, the board disappears along with the alicorn's bishop clothes.

"Nice work, Alpha." Sweetie said to Nyx happily.

"Thanks." Alpha Prime said with a grin. "Come on, to the Central Area.

Megan's group moves forward towards the Central Area. Just then, two cult members came of the right, attacking along with an armored member. Rainbow exclaims, "Get those assholes!"

The group attacks the cult members, Rainbow fires a blast at them, destroying them much to her friends' surprise. Did she just do that?

"Risk assessment analysis indicates the probability of your success to be low, ensuring your failure and my victory." Rainbow remarks to the minion, much to her friends' concern and confusion.

"Okay, that's weird coming from you, Rainbow." Fred said to Rainbow a bit uneasily.

"Yeah," Ed said while nodding in agreement. Something about this Rainbow Dash is a bit off indeed.

Megan and her friends continue on their way, going around the corner to see two unicorn cult members waiting for them. They quickly attack with all their might, destroying them.

They then took the first door to the right then attacked the Red Pawns that dropped down, destroying them. Now the heroes cross the bridge, entering a door to the right...seeing a cult member killing a Flutterpony.

"No!" Nyx gasps in shock at what the insane pony is doing to the Flutterpony one.

"Time to die, bucker," Megan exclaims as she, Rarity and Luna hit the cult member, killing him. The gang follows the path where the Changelings and Alpha Prime destroyed two more Pegasus Cult members.

Apple Bloom grabs some cards, commentating, "Neat, cards."

"Better save those." Sweetie suggests to Apple Bloom with a nod.

The group goes to an upper lever, entering a door on the right. Megan pulls a lever, causing a door to open and a Fluttershy to go through it below. Once that's done, the gang jump/flew down into the central and head northwest to the door that opened.

Megan and her friends saw more of the members while Scootaloo exclaims, "Let's take them down." The heroes quickly got to work on destroying the bad guys.

After going through another door, Megan's group went up some stairs just in time to see some sort of alicorn with a Gold Heart as his cutie mark fighting off a pony in armor.

"Golden Heart, we must help him out!" Luna exclaims to her allies in concern.

"On it," Alpha Prime as he and Megan attack the evil pony until he is broken into two.

"Ah, thanks. I thought I was a goner for a moment." Golden Heart said to Megan and her friends in relief. "You human must be Megan."

"Yes, I am. What's going on?" Megan ask Golden Heart in a bit of concern.

"I will explain once I take you to Queen Rosedust."

"Look out! Cult member!" Nyx exclaims. The heroes saw a huge cult member arriving which Fred and Ed destroyed. Two more minions are waiting in the corner which Rainbow and Rarity destroyed with their attacks.

"Nice work." Golden said to the two ponies in approval. "We must get going."

The gang follows the path and meets up with another Flutterpony who made another white board appears on the ground. Apple Bloom said, "Another one o' those board things."

"Let me do this, Alpha." Megan insists to Alpha Prime with a smile.

"Go ahead."

Megan got onto the board and in a white space, ending up in Flutterpony clothing, making her smile a bit. Sweetie calls, "Lead the way, Meg!"

Megan goes forward to get to the next destination then she did the following: 90 degrees left, 90 degrees left, 90 degrees right, forward which automatically turned right, forward twice, 90 degrees left, 180 degrees around, 90 degrees left, 90 degrees right, and forward twice which at the second point it automatically turned right.

"Is this done yet?" Rainbow asks the others a bit annoyed.

"Almost there." Rarity said. Megan now goes 90 degrees left and finally, 90 degrees. Soon the girl went back to normal. "Now we're done."

Golden Heart glances at an area, commentating, "We should raise the water level so we can swim across. I know where the lever to do so is at. Come on."

The gang goes around the corner, getting rid of another cult member. Now they went down some stairs, destroying another armored pony right there. Megan's group heads up the stairs and into the only opened door to the right the locked double doors.

The gang now saw two cult members in the corner and quickly fights them off. During the fight, Rainbow's slipper on her left hoof gets torn revealing a bit of silver.

Scootaloo, noticing, said to herself, "Weird. I don't remember Dash's hoof to be silver." The filly then looks closer. "And since when did she have claws..."

After the two cult members are destroyed, the group went up the stairs where Nyx grabs a Jackbox on the table before exiting. Another armored pony was around the corner which Rainbow kills off.

Megan's group follows the path, finding two cult members near a lever. Alpha Prime uses his lasers to destroy them. He then spoke up, "Time to make a flood. Is this it?"

"Of course, it should raise the water level." Golden Heart explains to Alpha Prime as he pulls the lever. Outside, the watermill begins to work as it pours out water like mad.

Megan's group heads back to the business and jumps into the water. Alpha Prime, with the lever behind himself still, jumps off to the left with his friends following, the gang swims beneath the floor that has spikes going up and down, making them sure to avoid them.

The gang reaches the end of the bath, swimming up and seeing an Meta Essence. Megan comments, "Another one." She took some of it to recover from the battle.

"There's a ledge, let's go." Fred comments as Megan's group heads to the ledge, where two cult members are waiting. The Changelings flew up while the heroes climb, tearing the bad guys to pieces.

Once the cult members are killed, Fred and Ed help Megan's group onto the ledge, the latter remarks, "And you thought hanging with was frigging stupid."

"Yeah, thanks I guess." Rarity said to the Changelings with a smile. Perhaps Fred and Ed aren't so bad after all. "Let's get going."

Megan and her friends go through the huge double doors, arriving in a new area. Megan comments, "Well, if you ignore the dead Flutterponies, this place looks wonderful."

"Yes, I know." Scootaloo sighs as she saw some of the dead Flutterponies on the ground. "What a waste of life."

The group heads over to the castle of Queen Rosedust waiting before them. Just then two armored ponies came out as two cult members dragged a struggling Flutterpony out. It is a green coated one with a long yellow mane which is in a ponytail and tail, she also has purple eyes. The Flutterpony has a green vine with three purple morning glory flowers also one bud on her right cheek for a cutie mark. Her name is Morning Glory.

"No, let go of me, please!" Morning Glory pleads to her kidnappers as they take her to the pathway bridge. "This isn't right; HEEELP!"

"They got Morning Glory." Luna said with a deep frown. "Spell Nexus has gone too far this time."

The Cutie Mark Crusaders yelp as some of the cult members appear to attack them. The heroes fight back, getting rid of them. The gang went into the castle via the double doors. Inside was a shocking gruesome sight: there are dead Flutterponies and ponies almost everywhere...and two live Flutterponies are about to get killed by two of the armored ponies!

"No!" Golden Heart exclaims as he and Megan destroy the cult members, killing them.

"Thank goodness." One of the Flutterponies said with a sigh of relief. "Queen Rosedust is waiting for you all in the throne room."

The gang took the northern right door, seeing another Flutterpony gasping as she watch a fellow pony get stabbed. Rainbow frowns as she destroys the minion, destroying the cult member in the progress.

Megan's group now enters the throne room where they saw a few Flutterponies coming to him. One of them is a yellow coated Flutterpony with a long light pink mane and a tail that has a blue bow in it, her eyes are pink. She has a red stem in her mane and she has three pink roses, seven pink and green rosebuds, one rosebud on right cheek as a cutie mark. Her name is Queen Rosedust, queen of the Flutterponies.

"Queen Rosedust." Luna said, bowing to Queen Rosedust.

"Luna, you're here...and Megan, it's good to see you again though I wish it's under best circumstances." Queen Rosedust said to Megan and her friends in worry. "You all must help us. Celestia's forces had grown stronger and show no mercy. Morning Glory is in terrible danger."

"We saw her got captured." Megan said in sadness. "I'm so sorry."

"This is terrible, without Morning Glory's leadership, the forces that once worshipped Nightmare Moon and is now under control of the corrupted Celestia will win. We will be doomed."

"No worry, Rosedust, we will beat those guys and saved Morning Glory." Nyx promises Morning Glory with a grin.

"But if the bad guys win, they are screwed." Rainbow remarks to Nyx in reminder.

"So are we if we can't pass through here." Megan said seriously. "We must collece pieces to the Discord Staff."

"Free Morning Glory; that would help us all." Queen Rosedust advises Megan and her friends hopefully. Maybe if they were to save Morning Glory, that can help everyone.

"But not all of us are war players or chess players." Sweetie said to Queen Rosedust in concern. "Can you tell us what the rules are?"

"Rules; sadly, there are no rules, barely any time for strategy. We don't have time. Just make a frontal assault on the cult's camp. I will not lie though. You all will meet deadly traps along with fierce opposition along the way."

"Should we be grateful for the truth?" Golden Heart asks Queen Rosedust, noticing a disturbed look on Megan's face. "Perhaps a lie or two will help."

"In the game of water, the truth is always first. There is always time for lies later." Queen Rosedust said seriously. "No worries, you won't face the enemy alone. Take this to help you."

Megan saw a white fairy going up to her, landing in the girl's hand. Ed asks Queen Rosedust in disbelief, "A fairy? Hell, is that the best that we can hope for?"

"Wait...fairies have the powers to resurrect the dead!" Fred exclaims in realization to his pal. "If Morning Glory were to get killed, we can use the pawn to bring her back to life!"

Scootaloo then find Rainbow speaking on a communicator to someone, but the pony sees her and rips off its slipper, revealing a metal hoof. The filly gasps, "Wait a minute!"

Scootaloo jumps at the one whom she thought was Rainbow Dash at first but the mare knocks her away. This caught the others' attention as Rarity demands, "What's going on here?!"

"Look out, this isn't Rainbow Dash! It's an imposter!"

"Oh come on! You don't expect to believe her, do you?" 'Rainbow' protests to the others in disbelief. Of course, she notices them staring at her hoof and saw that it's metal. "Ooh, about that, I..."

"Nice try!" Alpha Prime snaps as he fires a laser blast at the fake Rainbow. This causes a bit of her disguise to fall off, revealing her true form which is that of a droid. "But you messed up."

"Damn it; How did you know?!"

"I notice something's wrong when I noticed you were wearing black slippers, as well as you spoke...and I sense robots ever since I ran into you all a while back. But it was this moment that confirms my suspicions."

"What did you do to the real Rainbow Dash?!" Megan demands angrily to the imposter as she got her knife out.

"You will never see her again! Once I kill her, get the Elements, I will destroy all you meat bags!" The Rainbow Droid booms sinisterly. "Now have..."

"Oh just shut up and fight."

Megan's group quickly fights off the Rainbow Droid, even the fillies did. The Rainbow Droid would try to get her opponents but the mightiest attacks, end up causing severe damaged. During the fight, a bit of its skin suit around the face has been torn off, revealing a forever glowing red light for a eye

"Get out of here!" Luna demands as she fires a major blast at the Rainbow Droid, sending it right into a wall, severely damaged. The robot got up, cringing a bit then leaves the room.

"Get back here!" Scootaloo exclaims furiously at the fleeing Rainbow Droid. "Where's Rainbow Dash?!"

"We got no time to flee after her." Nyx said with a frown. "We got to save Morning Glory before that cult executes her. We will figure out what happened to Rainbow later."

"Right, go and return the way you came. My Flutterponies should know the way." Queen Rosedust advises the group who heads off into a portal, leaving the castle.

 

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The group now arrives at the camp of the cult, jumping down to the lower lever and killing off two cult members. Fred remarks, "Who knew that we were travelling with a robot the whole time?"

"Not me!" Ed answers his pal's question. "Then again, I barely know anything!"

"But where's 'de real Rainbow Dash," Apple Bloom ask in worry and concern. "Is she captured by 'de bad guys?"

The group continues into the camp, killing off the cult members in their way while getting Meta Essence. Luna picks up another Demon Dice, saying, "Better keep these in case of emergency."

 

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Morning Glory screams as she finds herself inside a guillotine, about to be executed. The cult members had learned that Megan and her friends are on their way from the Rainbow Droid and has decided to kill the Flutterpony quickly.

"No, please! Don't do this! You aren't really evil, I just know it!" Morning Glory pleads to the cult's leader. It is a male dark blue unicorn with slate gray eyes, a light gray mane and tail, and has a spell star for a cutie mark. His name is Spell Nexus, the leader of Nyx's former cult that is now working for the corrupted Celestia.

"It doesn't matter! Celestia's word is law...and you Flutterponies have lived too long in a world of darkness!" Nexus snaps to Morning Glory wickedly.

Nexus signals a cult member to pull the lever. Morning Glory screams for the last time before a slashing sound cut her off, along with her head. The unicorn smirks evilly.

"Yes...now the forces of Celestia will take over the Flutter Province..." Nexus said wickedly. "And once I deal with Megan and her friends, Celestia will reward us all..."

 

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The Rainbow Droid arrives in an area and thinks she is safe, it then see something staring at her and it was not happy.

"Who are you?" The Rainbow Droid demands to the newcomer, pissed.

The figure just stares with her blade drawn and smirks as she says, "This is ironic really."

"Ad why is that?"

"Because your number has come up."

The droid then remembers the fanfic from Rainbow's memories. If it had a fear feature, she'd be scared.

The figure then looks at the readers and say, "This maybe too gruesome to some readers and this will take long so move the camera to Megan and the gang to see some fighting."

 

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Megan and her friends arrive in a strange area. The human girl asks, "What is this place?"

"Your demise, foolish Mag'ne and friends," Nexus's voice is heard sinisterly. Suddenly a barrier appears in the area, blocking all exits.

"Eek, not good," Fred exclaims in worry. The heroes then saw a familiar unicorn appearing, chuckling sinisterly.

"You're too late. Morning Glory is dead, I have her beheaded the moment the Rainbow Droid has informed me of your coming!"

"Damn you!" Golden Heart exclaims to Nexus furiously, "How could you be so cruel?!"

"Because I can in the name of the true queen Celestia," Nexus said to Golden Heart with an evil smirk. To the unicorn, he doesn't give a damn as long as Nexus does what he can in Celestia's name.

"And where's the Rainbow Droid?" Rarity demands to Nexus furiously. "Where's Rainbow Dash?!"

"I don't know about the junk that looks like your friend. I haven't heard from her in a while. But as for your real friend, it matters not! The only thing that does is that I'm going to kill you all right here and now before Celestia rewards me for your deaths!"

"Then prepare to face the consequences." Luna snaps to Nexus as she made a sword appear while Nexus got his own weapon, which is a staff, out. The corrupted unicorn then fights off the heroes as they fight him right off.

"And to think, I thought you or the brat would be the rightful queen!" Nexus snaps sinisterly as he tries to strike Nyx but Alpha Prime blocks his attack. "At least now, I know the truth!"

"Yeah, that you're stupid and a jerk-off," Scootaloo snaps as she head butts Nexus hard.

"Grr, you're dead!"

"Not if I kill you first!" Megan snaps as she slashes at Nexus, making him gasps in pain.

"Take this!" Nexus snaps furiously as he fires lasers at the heroes who dodge the attacks. Rarity gasps as the villain shot her right in the mane.

"My Mane; He shot me in the Mane!" Rarity screams in shock then glance furiously at the laughing Nexus "Son of a bitch! It...is...on!"

Rarity screech in fury as she fires bolts from her horn right at Nexus who blocks the attacks. The evil unicorn yells out, "No one can save you all now! Now prepare to..."

Golden Heart however flew in and uses his sword to cut Nexus's staff in half, making the corrupted unicorn gasps in shock. He's about to use his horn but Megan uses the ice wand to freeze him inside a block of ice. The human, Luna, Alpha Prime and the Cutie Mark Crusaders quickly hit him at once, sending Nexus into pieces. He is no more.

"We did it...Nexus is gone...but it's too late." Luna said in sadness. "Morning Glory is gone..."

"Oh I wish we made it here in time." Nyx said, sniffing tears in sadness.

"Wait, hang on!" Golden Heart exclaims in realization before turning to the Changelings, "Ed, the fairy! Do you still have it?" Ed nods as he takes the fairy out. Suddenly a platform appears, landing nearby. "Quickly, use that fairy on that platform."

Megan takes the fairy from Ed and uses it on the platform. Suddenly it spins around and transform, before a magic flash appear. The heroes gasp in surprise as a familiar Flutterpony appears, alive and well.

"Oh my goodness," Morning Glory exclaims in surprise and amazement. "Where am I? I thought I was going to be beheaded and..."

"You were, Morning Glory old friend." Megan said, tears of happiness came out of her eyes as she hugs the Flutterpony. "But we revived you. Welcome back."

"Megan." Just then, the barrier disappear as cult members and armored soldiers appears, ready to attack. Morning Glory frowns as she summons two Flutterponies at her side. "Everyone else, get out of here. We will handle them; Flutterponies!"

The Flutterponies flew in to fight off the invading minions, leaving Megan and her friends to watch them. But before they could make their escape, something appears behind them...and hits them all with some sort of cannon, sending them to the ground, unconscious.

"Oh goody; some of my old friends are here including some new ones!" The attacker giggles madly. "Now this party just got super duper fun!"

 

Author's note
Crap! Megan and her friends are attacked by a mysterious figure but who is it? In the next chapter, Megan and her friends find themselves in an insane asylum where they must find a way out while dealing with the Diamond Dogs. Read, review and suggest.

 

Queen Rosedust, Morning Glory and the Flutterponies are old friends of Megan from the first series of My Little Pony as well.

 

The Rainbow Droid is a robotic creation given to me by a reviewer.

 

Rarity's mane getting shot off and her getting pissed is a reference to Spaceballs

Author's note
It's okay, VISION-KING. I am not upset, I was explaining to you how the Discord Staff works, that's all. BUT...I may use the Elements to restore reality, just keep memories. If you got any other suggestions, fine. As long as they work; I will use one way to get reality back to normal after all.

 

Chapter 8: The Pony Asylum

 

The figure chuckles madly as she tied up the droid, feeding him metal cupcakes while taunting, "Enjoying your cupcake, Droidie?"

Droid dryly answers, "Death is the only thing that awaits you."

"Oh, you are soo funny!" Before the figure can do anymore to the Droid she cringes a bit (she can feel that when her friends are in danger). She says, "My friends and Goldie are in danger."

The figure puts her weapons away and she says to the droid, "I wish I can stay but..." The figure stares at where Megan was, "I have matters to deal with."

She then heads to where the insane asylum is and any bad guy in her path would wish that they were never in her path. The figure says with anger, "I will not let you take the lives of my friends."

We can see her heading there and behind her was a trail of allot of dead bad guys on the ground...

 

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At a table, a book opens up as a familiar voice narrates happily, "Poor Megie's family were killed in a fire. Megie is the only one who managed to save herself."

 

We see the book opening to a picture of Megan herself.

 

"Of course, the failure to do anything to save them made her guilt grow stronger every day; Aww, how super duper sad!"

 

We see Spike with Megan and her friends while the voice continues.

 

"It eventually sent her into the local asylum where my old buddy Spike, along with my other friends, one day brought Megan back to Equestria, chide by her subconsciousness and now a chaotic nightmare for even Discord to enjoy."

 

The page now shows a corrupted Celestia.

 

"To save Equestria, Megan must face Princess Celestia and destroy her...or whatever darkness is corrupting her as well as a way to save her sanity. Hee hee, not that I mind to tell you the truth. Why, with the princess gone, I can take over Equestria where I can have fun parties all year long!"

 

The page was turned as we see Megan and her friends looking at the dead Spike in sadness along with a pissed off Lorcan leaving.

 

"Spike has been taken care of with Lorcan leaving the group. That Rarity obsessive gem-eating little lizard along with his short brother won't get in the way of my plan any further."

 

The next page shows Megan and her friends in the places where they were before while in their different size.

 

"Megan has already made it through the forest part of Equestria. That super meanie Gilda has not only failed to stop her and her friends, but she got so intoxicated with pepper that the griffin sneezed her brains right out."

 

We now see a page of Grogar roaring.

 

"Not even that pompous and powerful Grogar was unable to stop her progress."

 

We now see the next page showing the Flutter Province with the voice continuing.

 

"In the Flutter Province, after Dashie was revealed to be the Rainbow Droid and after Megan and her friends has putting Sir Spell Nexus to rest, I brought all my friends here to my domain."

 

The final page shows Megan and her friends in some sort of maze.

 

"Now Megan is to be found in the crazy funhouse; Now let then, let's see how she makes her way to Rover, Spot and Fido AKA the Diamond Dogs. Maybe my goodie good friends can join the real Dashie and me for Cupcakes..."

 

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Megan and her friends groan as they begin to wake up from their hit from before. Everything was dizzy until their eyes begin to focus clearly. Nyx groans, "Where are we?"

"Not back in the Flutterpony Province, that's for sure!" Golden Heart exclaims to his friends with a frown on her face.

"I see a pendulum up above...and some picture of a pink pony." Megan said as she saw a picture hanging on the ceiling above the gang. It's of a female pink Earth pony with dark pink curly mane and tail, bright blue eyes and two blue and one yellow balloons marking on her flank. Her name is Pinkie Pie.

"Pinkie Pie," Rarity asks in concern while glancing at the picture. "That means that she could be here..."

Just then, the group saw an insane pony walking on the wall, or so it seemed. Apple Bloom asks in surprise, "What 'de hay?" Another insane pony, which is a Clockwork Robot, looks up at a clock which broke.

 

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Elsewhere, three dogs known as Rover, Spot and Fido are working, keeping the peace so to speak, getting paid for doing so in gems. Fido himself chuckles, "Couldn't believe that pink pony spot has gotten them."

"Yes, they're captured but pink pony didn't tell us what she was going to do to them; hopefully something creepy," Rover comments to his fellow Diamond Dog. Just then a clock is heard breaking. "What is that?!"

"Blasted clocks, always breaking," Spot groans a bit.

"I've have enough of this."

 

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Megan and her friends find themselves strapped to a table while turning sideways. Alpha Prime demands, "What's going on?!"

"I demand to know as well!" Sweetie exclaims; Just then a familiar unicorn teleports near a rage box, "Twilight!"

"Glad to see you, mommy," Nyx exclaims to her mother happily.

"Look straight ahead or askance, whichever way you choose." Twilight explains to the group mysteriously. "You must always look in the right direction."

"So right then," Ed ask Twilight in confusion.

"Not what I mean."

"She means we must choose a path." Megan explains to the Changeling clearly.

"But isn't our right direction to our right?" Fred asks his friend, getting more confused.

"Let's just go to the left path." Luna insists as the gang got themselves free from the table and head to the left. A Clockwork Automation attacks the group before the Alicorn destroy it.

"So what shall we do now?" Apple Bloom asks the others in concern and worry.

"We smash the clocks." Alpha Prime said as he smash the first clock while Megan destroys the other one. "Whoever said that you mustn't kill time, haven't seen this hell!"

"Come on." Megan said as she begins moving onward. "We must get out of this asylum."

The group goes to where the first Meta Essence was at where a Phantasmagoria attacks. Megan, Alpha Prime and Golden Heart destroy it. The human girl grabs the Meta Essence.

"Much better," Megan said with a sigh of relief, getting regenerated.

"Come on!" Nyx exclaims. The group goes over to where the next automaton is at. The little filly Alicorn blast it with her magic while Rarity kicks it, sending the thing into pieces.

"My goodness, these things are pretty barbaric." Rarity said with a frown.

The group goes to two Meta Essences. Another robot came out to attack but the Changelings destroy it. Megan's group even grabs the Will Essence.

Megan's group now goes to a direction where another Phantasmagoria is at. Megan said, "I shall deal with this." The girl quickly slashes at the creature though two more appears. The Cutie Mark Crusaders and Nyx use their attacks and cards to destroy them.

The group saw another clock with Sweetie smashing the thing. Now the gang left and ran downward and round the corner, dealing with two more robots which attacks them. Luna destroys one of the robots with Fred destroying the other.

Next the gang headed to a wall where another robot appears, making Scootaloo exclaims with a frown, "Oh man!" Alpha Prime first a laser at the robot, destroying it. Another robot appears where some Jacks are at.

"I got this one." Megan said as she attacks the last robot, destroying it. "Perhaps I'm better off in the damn asylum."

"Shows what you know." Golden Heart said to Megan who grabs the Jacks. "You don't deserve to be there, my friend."

Twilight teleport into the area as she speaks to the group, "The simple game can turn nasty in a hurry. Never play alone."

Twilight appears as Alpha Prime notices an exit, making him say, "There's the exit of the maze. Let's get going."

Mean and her friends heads off to the exit of the maze and headed into it. Megan sighs while saying to herself, "Equestria...Ponyland, what happened to you?"

The gang goes through the tunnel and finding the Phantasmagoria in the end which they kill quickly. They tunnel begins to move until they find a new location. Just then they find allot of dead guards.

A figure is seen in the shadows as she says, "You will find Pinkie Pie where sweets were once made. Find it and enter a door that goes down into the earth. But be careful she is not herself these days and one more thing, the Alicorn with a Gold Heart as his cutie mark is a friend and my friend as well and yours as well. Good luck my friends."

Then the figure was gone in a blink of an eye. Megan looks puzzled but as she ask Golden Heart, "Golden Heart? Do you know her?"

"Long story but I see a door in the earth up ahead." Golden Heart said as he saw a door up ahead. "Come on."

The group enters the first hall, going to different rooms with clocks. Once they are all destroyed, a door blows up, leaving a room without it. Apple Bloom said, "All right, back 'ta 'de tunnel."

The group enters the tunnel, dodging spiders while killing them. Unknown to them, a security camera is watching them. Three familiar Diamond Dogs are in another watching the image of the camera on their TV, looking worried.

"Yikes, pink pony isn't going to like this!" Spot exclaims to his fellow Diamond Dogs in worry.

"So who's going to tell her?" Rover asks Spot and Fido with a frown. He notices them staring at him. "Oh, so I have to?!"

 

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There's another room with some sort of kitchen nearby. A familiar pony came in, with a creepy smile on her face. It's Pinkie Pie alright, but she's wearing an outfit that looks like certain cutie marks, a necklace with horn and Pegasus wings.

"Well, time for some Cupcakes! Oh, I just love a good party." Pinkie said with a mad look on her face.

Pinkie looks around in the room and bounces over to a lever, pulling it with her mouth. The floor opens up as a table pops out in the middle of the room. The pony hums while setting up chairs at the table. Anything for her guests...

"All right, gotta get the drinks." Pinkie said as she goes over to some sort of drink mixer with mechanical legs then taps it before pointing to a direction. "All right, wake up, drink mixer! Hop to it! We got a party for our guests! Come on!"

The drink mixer glances at some sort of strange contraption that has a pipe, wheel a screw on top and the sink nozzle while shivering. The machine glances back to Pinkie, shaking its head in hesitation.

"Come on, get going, go!" Pinkie snaps at the drink mixer impatiently while removing its lid.

The teapot groans and hops to the floor, hesitating then goes over to the nozzle. It then rose up to allow water to pour into the thing.

Pinkie smiles as she put a cup to where the other chair was, saying, "Perfect. One last thing to go with the cupcakes," The pony hops over to the cupboard and look through it. "Okie dokie lokie; 'Convallaria'...'Laburnum'...'Cicuta virosa'...here we go; 'Belladonna'!"

Pinkie takes a jar labeled 'Belladonna' while the drinker mixer came back to the table, almost slipping off. The Earth pony then pours the ingredient in there before tossing the bottle aside. She then pours some kool aid into the drinker mixer before closing the lid happily and madly.

"Hee hee; this is fun! And once we're done with the kool aid, I can help make some more...'Cupcakes'." Pinkie said with an insane look on her face.

Once the machine's lid is closed, it returns to the table while Pinkie Pie follows the thing. Then the machine jumps onto the table while pouring the kool-aid. The mad pony then takes out a pocket watch that has handles moving around like mad. Interestingly enough, she knows what time it is.

"Huh. Megan and my friends are running late. I don't like it when folks are late to my parties...then again, when's the last time that I was ever worried about that? I don't want my friends to be late!" Pinkie exclaims with a frown. Just then the bell rang. Something is calling her. The pony bounce over to a tube and open it, "Hey there!"

"Uh, it's Rover, Miss Pink Pony." Rover's voice is heard on the table. "And uh..."

"Come on, silly doggie! Don't keep me in suspense! Go ahead!"

"Ahem, that Megan girl and her friends have escaped and are on our way up here now to our doorstep. What shall we do?"

"Aww, that's easy! Megan's a bit iffy so don't let her fool you!" Pinkie explains to Rover with a groan. "Just interrupt or do something! I'm heading up right now!"

With that, Pinkie opens a pair of stairs heading up, bouncing up them happily. She can't wait to reunite with Megan and her friends...their number just came up so it's time to have a party that is to die for...

 

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Megan and her friends enter a room, which is big and lot of room. Just then, they saw three Diamond Dogs spotting them. Rarity frowns while snapping, "You three again!"

"Look, Rover, Spot, it's Miss Rarity and what her name from the Neurotics' Ward!" Fido exclaims to his pals while pointing to Rarity and Megan.

"Yeah, nurse's favorite lunatic!" Spot laughs madly. "Scrawny ain't she? Who let her out? They will blame us, probably!"

Rover nods with a sinister smile while saying, "Yes...human girl will need more medicine...strong stuff, even!"

"So she got anything to eat?"

"I doubt it." Fido grunts a bit while glancing at Megan in amusement. "The girl rarely finishes her grub at the asylum."

"Yes, if she had any meat on her, the girl would make a delectable dish!" Rover adds with a laugh, much to the disgust of the heroes.

"Ugh, you mutts are even more disgusting!" Rarity exclaims to the Diamond Dogs in disgust and anger.

"Right, even we find that disgusting as well." Fred complains about what the Diamond Dogs just said.

Twilight appears next to her friends while Megan snaps furiously to the Diamond Dogs, "Despicable, grotesque, and smelly mutts. I'll fill your bellies all right!"

"You know what they say, the bigger they are, the harder they fall." Twilight said to her friends with a shrug.

"Spare us the platitude." Luna snaps to Twilight impatiently. "Can you give us any useful advice?"

"Here's one: use their size against them."

With that, the next fight starts as the Diamond Dogs, sending out mini versions of themselves much to the annoyance and disgust of the heroes. Sweetie exclaims, "I don't think I wanna know how you did that."

"Move it!" Nyx exclaims as Spot throws a gas bomb at the group but they move out of the way in time. Fido madly ground thump towards the heroes.

The Diamond Dogs laughs madly, quickly they got their enemies on the run but Rarity took out the jack bomb, snapping, "Time to shut these bitches up!"

Rarity throw the bomb right at the Diamond Dogs, making them yelps as they got hit by the explosion. They groan and got back up. Rover snaps, "Ugh, and I thought dealing with white pony's whining was annoying!"

Megan and her friends tries their best to attack the Diamond Dogs, but most of them minus Rarity and the Changelings got knock down by the mini versions. Spot laughs madly, "Ha ha ha ha! You little ponies are taken care of! Plus, no whining involved!"

"Oh you wanted whining? I will give you whining!" Fred exclaims with a smirk. He suddenly transforms into Rarity and spoke in her voice, "Oooh, this place is a dump! Why don't you ever clean it? And where's my lunch? I didn't get it yet!"

"Ugh! No, anything but that!"

Rarity, smirking, follows along, whining, "And the ponies here are very mean! Why can't you tell them to treat us better? And where's my mint? Don't I at least get some AC in my cell?"

"No, stop! Stop whining!" Rover exclaims to Rarity in agony as he and his fellow Diamond Dogs covers their ears, but she and Fred kept on whining.

"But we can't help it! We're bored!" The two heroes whine to the Diamond Dogs. Even the miniature versions groan and let go of the others, holding their ears.

Ed transforms into Rarity, whining, "Why don't we get visitors? Oooh, the straps on our table is tight! Couldn't you loosen it? And this place has no pool or spa; why must we stay here?!"

"Enough!" Fido exclaims in agony some more.

"Stop whining!" Rover exclaims to Rarity and the Changelings in horror. The whining is too much for the Diamond Dogs.

"But we thought you wanted whining!" Rarity and the Changelings whine some more, making the Diamond Dogs, big and small, groans loudly.

"No more, no more!" Spot screams as he and the Diamond Dogs rush over to a door and opens it to escape. They can't take any more of this.

"We quit! No gems are worth all this whining!" Rover groans a bit in agreement. He has to get out of this hellhole and away from Rarity and the Changelings.

"Wow, good work, sis!" Sweetie giggles happily to her big sister as she and the others came over to Rarity and the Changelings, the latter changed back.

"Well, just because I am a lady, doesn't mean I don't know how to take care of myself." Rarity said with a pleased look on her face.

"Good work to you two Changelings." Alpha Prime said to Fred and Ed, making them smile a bit.

"Thanks, we did cool, didn't we?" Ed remarks to Alpha Prime with a proud look.

"Awww, bad timing," A familiar voice complains. The gang turns to see, to their shock, Pinkie in a scary outfit standing on a platform. "Shame, reliable help is hard to find nowadays!"

"Pinkie Pie; is that you?" Nyx ask Pinkie, getting a bit scared by her friend's appearance.

"She looks...not right fer some reason." Apple Bloom said to Pinkie uneasily.

"Awww; you wouldn't say that in the Cupcakes fic!" Pinkie exclaims to Apple Bloom happily, confusing the filly. "Anyway, you're here! Come on, you're just in time for our party! Dashie is waiting just in time for cupcakes!"

Megan frowns at Pinkie while saying, "I prefer to have parties with friends." For some reason, Pinkie's behavior appears to be not so normal at all.

"Well, count me to be among them! Really, honestly, that's the truth, Megie! Oopsie! I almost forgot: you and the truth are not on familiar terms!"

"Pinkie Pie, what are you saying?" Luna ask Pinkie in concern. Something is not right with the holder of the Element of Laughter at all!

"And you would know, Pinkie Pie?" Megan ask Pinkie suspiciously. The girl doesn't like what she is implying either! Plus, the Earth pony looks like she could be Surprise's descendant but her Pegasus friend wouldn't act this weird

"Truth is always bad for anypony too scared of it!" Pinkie remarks to Megan creepily.

"I am not scared of anything!"

"Wrong, Miss Lying Liar Pants! You fear much. For example, a return trip to the asylum...the memories that drove you there. As well as more years in supervised hospitalization...oh yes, you fear much big time! But all of that might be avoided."

"Pinkie Pie! What are you doing?!" Scootaloo ask Pinkie in shock and alarm. "And what did you do to Rainbow Dash?!"

"How," Megan demands to Pinkie puzzled. "What do you mean?"

Pinkie didn't answer right away. Instead she bounces up and down hard. Suddenly the floor begins to shake, much to the group's notice...and it breaks off, causing Megan's group to scream as they fell down to the unknown below.

 

Author's note
Yikes, this isn't good. Just when Megan and her friends has defeated the Diamond Dogs, they reunite with Pinkie Pie who appears to gone crazy...and is out to make cupcakes out of them, literally! In the next chapter, the gang saw how crazy their friend is.

 

Rainbow: (gulps) Especially since she wants to make cupcakes out of me! Damn!

 

Me: Right, we also find out what happened to Applejack and Fluttershy and meets up with Nyx's father Ben Mare and Spitfire. To help their friends especially Rainbow and get the next piece of the Discord Staff, Megan's group must defeat Pinkie Pie, as well as the returning Rainbow Droid, in a gruesome way. Read, review and suggest.

 

This chapter has some bits of reference to 'Cupcakes'.

 

Rarity's whining defeating the Diamond Dogs is a reference to an episode of the actual show.

Author's note
I know that Halloween is now over but I still got some fics left to be done of them so I will try to get them done nevertheless.

 

Chapter 9: Cupcakes: Megan Style

 

Megan and her friends wake up, finding themselves in some sort of strange room. The girl asks in concern, "What is this place?"

"Hey there, everyone," Pinkie exclaims happily as the group saw her hopping at her chair at a table. "Come on! Come over, have some cupcakes and drinks?" The group looks a bit suspicious as they came over to the table.

"Well...the cupcakes look a bit safe...my family wouldn't want me to turn down an invite to a party, even by a mad pony."

Cream and the others sat in their chairs while Pinkie sat in hers. As the group begins eating their cupcakes, Rarity mumbles, "Hmmm, something about these cupcakes...taste a bit odd..."

"Right, tell us, where did you get the recipe for these?" Golden Heart asks Pinkie curiously.

"Oh, that's no biggie! I made them myself from the finest ingredients, but with q special one!" Pinkie exclaims to her friends with a smile.

"Really; What kind," Nyx ask while chewing down on her cupcakes.

"Pony parts!"

Megan and her friends yelp and spit out their cupcakes in shock and disgust. The Cutie Mark Crusaders gasps in horror, "Pony parts?!"

"Oh come on, she's kidding...right?" Fred asks Pinkie nervously. "Come on, you're kidding!"

"Nope, I ain't! Some of my pony parts had parts of Gilda...but Megan has parts of Spikey whom I stomped on back in a previous chapter!" Pinkie remarks in a mad look on her face. Megan and her friends gasps in shock and horror. They can't believe what they themselves are hearing!

"You killed Spike!" Megan exclaims to Pinkie in shock and anger.

"Yep!"

"So it's because of you Spike died and Lorcan-one of the very few who understood me, the one who I loved, left us! Left me," Luna cries out to Pinkie in shock. The Earth pony, who was her friend has killed her own and now...

"And now, I'm going to make cupcakes right out of Dashie! As for you all, Megan's number just came up!" Pinkie exclaims evilly. She quickly pulls a lever, causing straps to lock the group in their chairs.

Megan gasps as she saw a buzz saw coming right at her. Luckily Alpha Prime in determination broke free of his strap with his strength then flew over to Megan, saving her in time.

"Megan, you all right," Alpha Prime ask Megan in concern.

"I am now!" Megan exclaims. Just then Pinkie quickly disappears, changing the table into a Boojum. "Free the others, this monster is mine!"

The Alpha Prime nods and frees the others while Megan uses her attack to dispose of it. Apple Bloom exclaims in disbelief, "Ah done don't believe it. Ah thought Pinkie Pie was our friend."

"I just don't know what to think anymore!" Sweetie sobs a bit, horrified to find out that Pinkie Pie has killed their friend Spike and is about to turn them into cupcakes.

"Worst yet, she's going to do the same to Rainbow Dash!" Scootaloo exclaims in horror and sadness, "If she hasn't already."

"Hopefully we can find Rainbow and stop Pinkie...even if we must kill her to do so." Golden Heart said seriously. "Come on."

The group leaves the room, following a path and arriving in a circular room. They go to each side and activate the levers, jumping onto the spinning wheel. The heroes rode it around until they found an opening with Meta Essence.

"Now," Megan said as the group jumps into the room, taking the Essence before entering the door. They climb the path and enter the room.

Twilight's voice spoke up, "Not everything is as it seems here. Some clocks are real, some are fakes."

"I wonder what mommy means." Nyx said a bit puzzled.

"I think we have to break the clocks that are real, but some are fake," Rarity answers her friends thoughtfully.

"But how can we tell that?" Ed asks Rarity, more confused as usual.

"Ever look in a mirror?" Scootaloo spoke up as she glances at a mirror nearby.

"Hey come on! That's not fair, making fun of my appearance like that."

"I mean look in a mirror! Maybe it can give us some clues."

The group looks into the mirror. Luna notices something off in the mirror while saying, "Yes, of course! I think I know what Twilight is talking about now! The clocks that are in the mirrors are there, but there are some that aren't there."

"Oooh, look in a mirror!" Ed exclaims in realization at what Scootaloo means now. "I get it now!"

The heroes work together as they destroy the real clocks. They then jump onto the real platforms to get to the lever, pulling it back jumping back. Megan and her friends jump along the platforms to the right to get to another part of the room.

Megan saw some Meta Essence and takes it while saying, "Phew. Good stuff."

"Now we got to find out where Rainbow Dash is, if she's still alive." Alpha Prime said making Scootaloo yelps a bit in fear, "Oops, sorry Scootaloo."

Megan's group took the left path while destroying the Phantasmagoria that is there, heading to the path further. They arrived at a small room with a hole in the floor and jump down, seeing two spiders that awaits them.

"Get them!" Rarity exclaims as they kill the bug before going into the hallway.

Megan's group gasps as they enter some sort of room where a machine is taking insane ponies and putting them into some sort of machine. The Changelings gasp in horror, "Yipes!"

"What kind of horrible place is this?! And why is Pinkie Pie doing this?!" Nyx ask while trembling in worry.

"I don't know, I really don't," Golden Heart said seriously.

The Cutie Mark Crusaders gasp as they saw two familiar ponies, one is hanging on the wall and the other is strapped to a table. Both of them are robotic but are still ponies. One of them is a orange female Earth pony with green eyes, blonde mane and tail, both in a ponytail, wears only a cowboy hat and has three apples marking on her flank. Her name is Applejack.

The other pony is a pale yellow Pegasus pony with a long pink mane and tail, cyan eyes. Her cutie mark is three butterflies. Her name is Fluttershy.

"Sis," Apple Bloom cries out to her sister.

"Apple Bloom," Nyx exclaims to Fluttershy in worry.

Applejack blinks a bit and saw the group. She smiles while saying, "Apple Bloom, everyone, boy howdy. Hey Fluttershy! Wake up! Our old friends an' some new ones came 'ta save us!"

Fluttershy wakes up a bit then yawns a bit, "Oh...it's our friends with some humans. How nice, I hope they aren't useless." She then begins to snore a bit next to a wall that has the writing, "Your Number Is Next."

"Oh, my dear friends. What has happened to you both?" Luna asks Applejack and Fluttershy sadly.

"Terrible thing, Pinkie done 'dis 'ta us." Applejack explains to her friends, "Mind helping us down?"

"Or give us some cupcakes or snacks...err, if you don't mind?" Fluttershy requests as well meekly.

"Were any of you impolite at the table? Slurping drinks? Eating while chewing?" Megan asks the two ponies curiously. "Go ahead, confess your crimes."

"Yeah, tell us!" Scootaloo insists to Applejack and Fluttershy.

"Nnope; did nothing o' 'de sort, Pinkie has gone plum loco if Ah do say so mahself an' Ah just did," Applejack explains to her friends in concern. "She strapped us here, then cut us done open wit' knives 'ta use our body parts fer her cupcakes!"

"Eeeew," Most of the group exclaims in shock and horror. Pinkie really is using her friends as part for cupcakes!

"But she ain't stopping there; Nnope!"

"How," Alpha Prime asks Applejack, almost scared to do so.

Fluttershy frightfully said, "She turns us into...into these things so she can keep on regrowing our parts and reharvesting us again and again! Pinkie Pie won't let us die!" The sad Pegasus pony sobs some more. "She won't let us die!!!"

"It's okay, it's okay, Fluttershy," Sweetie said to the sobbing Fluttershy gently. "I'm sure we can fix this somehow once we defeat Celestia."

"Which reminds me, why is 'de princess not like a typhoon?" Applejack asks her friends as if speaking a riddle.

"Simple. Both are powerful, destructively and very indiscriminately cruel. Of course, the typhoon doesn't mean to be." Alice answers Applejack's riddle. "Same with Celestia to be honest..."

"Shucks, nice answer. Wrong but good one."

The group heard some major screams, that doesn't sound good. Alpha Prima said seriously to the two prisoners, "My friends, you both are in real danger. Where is your host as in Pinkie Pie?"

"Danger; Again?! Applejack, I want to go home!" Fluttershy sobs some more. "I don't want to stay here anymore!"

"Pinkie will be here at six, she done never misses an opportunity 'ta deny us cupcakes or drinks. 'Dat plum cruel if yew asked me," Applejack groans a bit while yawning. "Her medicine is making 'de both o' us plum tired..."

The Cutie Mark Crusaders quickly freed the two friends, helping them down. Apple Bloom said in sadness, "Sis, yew an' Fluttershy git out o' here while yew can."

"Right, we will deal with Pinkie Pie and hopefully save our world." Nyx said in agreement.

Megan saw a lever and pulls it, opening up the doors up the stairs.

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Pinkie hears the door opening while she's preparing her knives. She frowns while saying, "Awww, they are now freeing AJ and Fluttershy? That isn't nice! I gotta distract them so I can work on Dashie!"

Pinkie hits the key that looks like an ax as it slid down the ground.

 

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Once Applejack and Fluttershy took off to group, the group leaves the area. The worried Megan ask Alpha Prime, "Those poor two...Alpha Prime, isn't there a way to shut that machine off?"

"Only if we destroy Pinkie," Alpha Prime said seriously to his friends. "Even then, it won't be easy."

The group goes up the stairs, destroying the robots along the way. They found a door to a room and open it. To their surprise, there are two prisoners inside. One of them is a brown coated stallion with a spiky like brown mane, green eyes, a long tail and a red collar. His cutie mark consists of three golden triangles…like the Triforce in the Legend of Zelda games. His name is Ben Mare, Twilight's true love and Nyx's father.

The other pony in a cage is a yellow Pegasus mare pony with orange/yellow stripe mane and tail with orange eyes, she's known as Spitfire, captain of the Wonderbolts.

"Daddy," Nyx exclaims happily as she goes up to Ben, nuzzling him.

"Nyx, you're all right." Ben said with a smile while nuzzling her right back.

"You're all right! Mommy and I were so worried about you!"

"So wait, this is Nyx's father?" Megan asks her friends curiously while glancing at Ben. "And is he Celestia's son? I have a feeling that he is since Nyx mentioned Alpha Prime being her uncle."

"That's correct." Spitfire said seriously. "And I am Spitfire, captain of the Wonderbolts. Let's say Pinkie Pie have brought us here for cupcakes if you know what I mean."

"Unfortunately," Fred shudders a bit. "Anyway, we just came from Applejack and Fluttershy."

"Damn, those two seem to barely comprehend their situation." Ed remarks to the prisoners in concern.

"Not their fault, Pinkie's torturing of them has driven them a bit crazy." Ben explains to his daughter and her friends seriously. "Now she made them into 'bluthering idiots'. No offense to them."

"But Pinkie does come at 6 on the dot." Spitfire said in agreement.

"For what, parties; we just have one." Megan said seriously to Ben and Spitfire.

"It's not that, it also to check on her cruel experiments or to make her cupcakes. The first one involves gears springs, lever and mechanical gizzards, seeking an impossible precision like a watchmaker obsessed with infinitesimal fractions or seconds...or a mathematician who tries to square the circle."

"Hay, for the cupcakes, she just cuts them open to make...well, you know!" Ben explains to the others seriously, much to their horror. "Pinkie Pie is no longer the friendly pony we knew her as."

"She will turn all inhabitants into automatons or cupcakes or kill them while doing so." Spitfire adds, making the others gasps. Pinkie Pie has truly gone mad!

"Eeew," The fillies exclaims in disgust and horror.

"That is soooo very low." Rariy remarks with a frown at what Spitfire just explains.

"Very awful; wait; you say six o'clock, right?" Megan asks Spitfire thoughtfully.

"Yes, 6 by that clock," Spitfire answers while pointing a hoof to where a watch is ticking.

"Yes...maybe 6 could come earlier today."

"What do you mean?" Scootaloo ask Megan a bit puzzled.

"I will explain later. Come on, maybe if we're lucky, we can stop Pinkie Pie and save Rainbow Dash." Megan said as the gang leaves the room, destroying a spider while taking the right path (literally).

Two more spiders appear which the Changelings got rid of. The gang enters the next door while following a path. Nyx attack another spider while Megan got rid of it. They enter the next set of doors while jumping into the portal

Sometime later, after dealing with flying balls and the remaining spiders, the gang set the clock to 6 earlier before arriving in a strange room. They saw some sort of piece nearby which Fred comments, "Look, a piece of the Discord Staff!"

"Right," Megan said as she takes the piece for the Discord Piece.

Just then, Twilight teleports in, saying, "The staff lacks only Discord's eye; He has two but I suspects that the chimera is quite fond of them both. Doubt that Discord will change his mind. Speaking of minds, where's Pinkie Pie?"

"Wait, I see a hallway over there." Megan said, spotting a hallway while looking seriously. "Let's go."

 

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When Dash regained consciousness, she found herself in a dark room. She tried to shake her head but found that a taut leather strap held it firmly in place. She struggled to move, but braces around her chest and limbs glued her to a rack formed from a series of sturdy planks, which spread her legs wide apart. Dash's wings were the only part of her not tied down, and they fluttered frantically while she struggled to escape. As she writhed, Pinkie jumped suddenly into her line of sight.

"Goodie, you're awake. Now we can get started," Pinkie stated gleefully. She bounded into the darkness, and quickly reappeared pushing a small cart covered with a cloth.

"Pinkie, what's going on? I can't move!" Dash said urgently.

"Well duh, that''s because you're tied down," chided Pinkie. "That's why you can't move. I didn't think you'd need to be told that."

"But why; what's happening; Why are you doing this?!"

"You are helping me. You see, I ran out of the special ingredient and I need you to get more."

"Special ingredient," Dash was now breathing heavily and starting to panic, "What special ingredient?"

Pinkie giggled and responded, "You, silly!"

Dash's eyes widened and her face contorted in fear. Then she started to laugh and said, in a voice bordering on hysteria, "Woo, you really got me there, Pinkie Pie. I mean, tricking me in to thinking I'm gonna get made into a cupcake? I gotta tell you, this is the best prank yet. For a moment, I thought you have gone mad. You win, you're the best."

Pinkie only giggled even more. "Aw, thanks Dash. But I haven't done any pranks today, so I can't accept your praise."

Dash was struggling again. "Pinkie, come on, this isn't funny. Celestia is destroying Equestria and we need to stop her."

"Then why were you laughing?" Before Dash could answer, Pinkie grabbed the cloth and whipped it off the cart. On the cart was a tray containing various sharp medical tools and knives, carefully organized and wickedly sharp, as well as a large medical bag.

Dash was now in full panic mode. She was starting to hyperventilate. Her mind raced as she tried to reason with the pink pony. "You can't do this, Pinkie! I'm your friend!"

"I know you are and that's why I'm so happy that I've got you here. We get to share your last moments together, just you and me." Pinkie was skipping again.

"But, the other ponies will wonder where I am. When they themselves see that I'm not with them looking for Megan, they'll come looking for me and then you'll get found out," Dash cried in desperation.

"Oh, Dash," said Pinkie. "Don't worry, the Rainbow Droid is taking your place in the meanwhile. And besides, even if they did found out, the ponies will be too late to save you. I mean, how long do you think I've been doing this?" And with that ominous statement, the lights suddenly came to life and revealed the rest the room.

"Oh no," Dash reeled in horror at the image presented to her. The room was decorated with a typical but twisted Pinkie Pie flair. Colorful streamers of dried entrails fluttered around on the ceiling, brightly painted skulls of all sizes were attached to the walls, and organs done up in pastels filled with helium were tied to the backs of chairs. The tables and chairs were made of bones and the preserved flesh of past ponies. Dash cringed upon seeing the center piece of the table nearest to her. The heads of four foals, their eyes closed as if they were sleeping, were wearing party hats made from their own skin. With a thrill of terror, Dash recognized one of them as Apple Bloom's classmate Twist. Dash's eyes darted back and forth and then fell upon a patchwork banner hanging from the rafters. Made from several tanned pony hides, the words 'Life is a party' were scrawled on it in blood red.

Dash's attention was brought back by a party horn unfurling and tickling her nose. She gaped at Pinkie Pie, who was standing right in front of her. The party pony was wearing a dress quilted from dried skin, emblazoned with Cutie marks. On her back fluttered six Pegasus wings, all of different colors. As the earth pony skipped in excitement, her necklace of severed unicorn horns clacked together loudly.

"Like it?" Pinkie asked. ""I made it myself."

Desperately, Dash pleaded with the smiling pony before her. "Pinkie please, I'm sorry if I did anything to you. I didn't mean it. Please let me go. I promise I won't tell anybody and we gotta..."

"Oh Dash, you didn't do anything. It's just that your number came up and, well, I don't make rules. We can't turn back now. Besides, Celestia can handle herself!"

Dash was tearing up. How could this be happening?

"Aww, don't be sad Dash," said Pinkie. "Look, this'll cheer you up. I brought you a friend."

Seemingly out of nowhere, Pinkie produced a brightly painted blue and yellow skull. It was about pony sized, but it had a very defining feature: a beak.

Dash gaped in shock. "Is...…is that…...is… that?"

"'Hey, Dash, let's hang together. These ponies are lame-os. Dweebs dweebs dweebs'," Pinkie mimicked. "Megie and our friends cause her brains to sneeze right out but luckily for me, I found her remains. Boy am I glad I did. It was worth it for the flavor alone. Griffons taste like two animals at once, it's amazing. I know she didn't have a number like everyone else in Ponyville, but when was I gonna get another chance to try griffon? I probably should have asked where she came from so I could have gotten more, but she was dead before then. I'll tell you what though, she was quite the fighter. She lasted a long time, which was a lot of fun for me except the meanie fought Megie and the others. It's too bad she had such a meanie mouth. You know, bad language makes for bad feelings, Rainbow Dash."

Dash didn't have anything to say. She just sobbed and writhed in her tight bonds.

"Well said," Pinkie with an air of finality, "that's enough reminiscing. It's time to begin."

Putting down Gilda's skull, the pink pony gripped a scalpel in the cleft of her hoof and walked over to Dash's right flank. But before the Pinkie can do anything, a voice shouts out, "NO!"

Pinkie yelps and bounces away as some jacks almost got her. Megan's group rush onto the scene, making Rainbow sighs in relief, "Guys...and Megan, right?"

"Yes, I am." Megan said as the others work on unstrapping Rainbow.

"Hey, no fair; we were in the middle of something!" Pinkie protests to the intruders with a pouty look.

"No fair; you were about to make cupcakes out of Pinkie Pie!" Nyx exclaims to Pinkie furiously. "You can't do that to our friends!!!"

"Give up, Pinkie Pie. We got you surrounded." Alpha Prime said sternly. Rainbow is let go, safe and sound...and ready to kick flank.

"Goody, more party guests and cupcakes! Droidie and I got more to play with, right Droidie?" Pinkie asks an offscreen guest just now.

Sure enough, Rainbow Droid appears, now upgraded and looking mean like. She said, "My heart is steel, my soul is blue and behind these false orbs shines a red light that sees all."

"Good thing I found ya and gave you one Tartarus of an upgrade! Now we can have fun!"

"Where the hay did you even come from, bolts for brains?" Ed asks the Rainbow Droid in confusion, "At least in the first place?"

"Didn't she tell who I am? Where I come from? Why I wear her skin over myself? Well, it's quite simple!" Rainbow Droid exclaims to the group evilly.

"I'll buck you Into next week, Larpy." Rainbow Dash snaps to the robot angrily.

"Be quiet you egotistical pathetic organic life form!"

"Less talking! Time to begin," Pinkie giggles as she fire missiles at the heroes who dodged them.

"Megan, the Jacks!" Golden Heart calls out to Megan who uses the Jacks to destroy one of the missles. While Rainbow deals with her robot counterpart, Pinkie disappears, leaving robots in her place. The heroes destroy the robots until they blew up.

"Pinkie, come out, already!" Rarity demands to Pinkie furiously.

"Okie dokie lokie," Pinkie exclaims madly as she pounces towards Rarity, fighting. The pink pony tries to stab the white unicorn until Alpha Prime kicks her right off, "Meanie!"

Rainbow head butts the robotic droid who slashes at her. The Pegasus pony snaps, "I betcha you kidnapped me before so that you can get Pinkie to kill me! Man, you are really uncool, damn it!"

The Rainbow Droid snaps, "Be quiet, you egotistical pathetic organic scum! Every time your mouth opens, I resist the urge to kill you quickly; always commenting on emails and the Wonderbolts as if they actually mean anything!"

"At least you were useful until you frigging blow up! Not my fault you were useless."

"Unlike less time, I'm going to take my time killing you, Rainbow Dash."

During within the battle of Megan and gang vs Pinkie, the human was sent right into a wall by the mad pink pony. As the gang keep fighting Megan gets back up and gets ready to keep fighting she hears a voice and it says, "Your heart and mind and soul are strong but the weapon you have is not strong to beat her blade."

Megan then saw the same figure but it was too dark to see her then holds out a knife that was bigger and looks more sharper than hers. She then says, "Take this. It will help you take on Pinkie's knife and the trials ahead."

Megan then puts her hand out and the figure then puts the handle of the knife in her hand. The human girl then looks at the knife and sees how well made it is. She turns to thank the figure but the unknown one was no longer there. Megan wonders who the figure was but she saw her friends still fighting Pinkie and she hurries back in the fight.

Apple Bloom yelps as she saw Twist's remains, crying, "How could yew do 'dis to our friends?!"

"Very easy! Sorry, your number didn't come up but no worries, it will soon!" Pinkie exclaims happily as she prepares to stab Apple Bloom.

Suddenly Megan jumps in and slashes Pinkie right in the face, making her scream. The others gasp as they saw something that replaces it: a robotic eye.

"She's a robot?!" Sweetie gasps in shock and alarm.

"Hey, no fair; I wanted that to be a secret!" Pinkie whines to her friends angrily. "Damn you, you're going to pay the buck for it!"

"Robot or no, you're going to pay for what you did! Sorry, Pinkie, it's for your own good." Golden Heart said seriously as he punches Pinkie all over and kicks her in the chest.

"Time to finish this," Megan said as she got her knife out, ready to finish the half robot off.

"You wouldn't let her kill me, could you?" Pinkie ask Megan insanely.

"We have to." Rarity said to Pinkie sternly. The white unicorn hates to do this but the pink pony has gone to the point of no return. At least once Equestria is restore, maybe Pinkie Pie can be her happy party loving self again.

"Hehehrhe," Pinkie laughs insanely. "Then what's the difference between you and me?!"

Rarity kicks Pinkie right into the air before Megan then slash at the pink pony, breaking her into pieces. The former Pinkie twitch a bit before dying, blowing up at the end.

"I don't make my friends into cupcakes." Rarity explains to the now dead Pinkie Pie, a hint of sadness is heard in her voice.

"It's been done." Megan sighs a bit.

"Poor Pinkie Pie," Nyx said sadly to Pinkie's remains. "What happened to Equestria has truly driven her insane..."

"She kept me here for weeks, probably knocked out for who knows how long." Rainbow snaps as she kept on fighting the Rainbow Droid. "Hey, a little help here!"

Alpha Prime answers as he fires a huge laser at the Rainbow Droid who turns and yelps, "Oh buck!" The robot got hit and blew up; his remains are shattered all over.

"It's been done." Alpha Prime sighs a bit. "Rainbow, I'm sure you don't really have hard feelings for what Pinkie did."

"To be honest...I don't hate her...Pinkie was driven mad. Poor Pinkie Pie," Rainbow sobs a bit. "If only we would've helped her..."

"It's okay, my friend. Pinkie Pie is now freed, her soul is at peace...or until we get Equestria back to its former happy glory."

Megan saw a pocket watch and picks it up. The girl glances while saying, "A pocket watch...this could be Spike's. Better keep this."

Twilight appears once more as she said, "This kind of watch stops time...for a time. Unlike death, time moves on. Those who stood still with it move on...until they're dead."

Just then Mini-Devils appear, making the Changelings gasp. Rainbow exclaims, "Time for us to get out of here. I have enough of this Tartarus to last a lifetime!"

The group rush over to the portals. Unknown to them, a familiar figure is arriving on the scene and spotting Pinkie's remains on the ground. Lorcan gasps in shock and fury.

"WHO DID THIS," Lorcan roars furiously to a Royal Guard who saw the whole thing from hiding. The Dragon came here with help from his new friend to finish Pinkie off for killing Spike...but the opportunity has been robbed from him!

"Hehehehe, if I told you, you wouldn't believe me..." The Royal Guard chuckles then whispers into the Dragon's ear.

"Grrr." Lorcan snaps the guard's neck before facing Megan whose jumps into a portal with her friends, his eyes glowing dangerously, "you..."

Lorcan didn't notice or even cares that he is turning more red with gray...

 

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The group returns to the cage area as they lift up, freeing Ben and Spitfire. Nyx rushes over to her father while saying, "Daddy!"

"Thank you for saving us." Ben said with a sad smile. "Though it means you must've been forced to kill Pinkie Pie to do so."

"I know, I know..."

"Dude, thanks; I offer you my services!" Spitfire said to Megan while bowing to her.

"Make sure you promise only what you're prepared to deliver." Megan said to Spitfire. She looks sad while adding. "I know now that I am destined to fight Celestia. The outcome is certain."

"You won't fight alone, everyone. Allow me to serve as your commander."

"Right, Spitfire will muster the forces whose allegiance that your courage and skills has won already." Ben explains to Megan with a nod. "Even now, my cousin Cadance and her Crystal Pony Empire are preparing to fight. They just need the time to do so."

"Once we get out of here, how shall we prepare for battle?" Megan asks her friends curiously.

"An assault on the princess depends on breaching the gates to her kingdom." Spitfire explains seriously to Megan. "Only the Discord Staff can pry them open. Once you do so, Cadance and I shall lead the troops to victory."

"It's time for us to right the wrongs of this world together!" Luna exclaims to her friends in determination.

"All aboard," Rainbow exclaims eagerly, "Time to go."

The ones who can't fly got on the ones that got on the ones that could and make their escape by breaking the roof window. Megan looks more determined but concerned. She needs one more piece to complete the Discord Staff.

But to do so, Megan must face Discord.

 

Author's note
Poor Pinkie Pie is dead...but the heroes move on. In the next chapter, Megan and her friends journey to find Discord, finally meeting the voice of the 'oracle'. And when they meet the Spirit of Chaos and Disharmony, the poor human girl gets doubts...and the gang meets up with an old friend turned evil.

 

Luna: Goodness.

 

Me: Read, review and suggest.

 

Some of this chapter is borrowed from 'Cupcakes' but luckily I modified the thing.

 

Think of the Rainbow Droid's new form as that of the Terminator.

Chapter 10: Chaos and Revenge

 

The heroes are flown back to a part of Equestria. Megan in concern spoke up, "In order to finish up the Discord Staff, we must meet him; But where?"

"He should be in this area somewhere...but where's Lordcan?" Luna asks in sadness and worry. "We haven't seen him since Spike's death."

"I'm sure Lorcan is doing okay...I hope." Nyx said in concern. So far, Lorcan has yet to return. Where could he be?

Soon everyone lands on the ground. Megan got off Spitfire as the non-flyers got off Rainbow and Luna. Spitfire said seriously, "Better get as many allies as you can, Megan. We will need them. I will be back with reinforcements."

"That includes Cadance and her Crystal Ponies, right?" Ben asks Spitfire curiously.

"We will need all the help that we can get to stop Celestia and get our world back." Rainbow said in agreement.

"We'll be okay, don't worry." Golden Heart said to Spitfire with a nod.

"Take heart, until we meet again!" Spitfire exclaims as she then flies off. "I will return, I promise!"

With that, Spitfire leaves, heading off to get some reinforcements and some help. Apple Bloom said, "Well, Ah guess we gotta go."

"Yeah, we still got a lot to do." Alpha Prime said in agreement.

Megan and her friends head off as Mini Devil appears, attacking in the distance. Ben, Rainbow and Megan kill them before the gang jump across the rocks in the lava. They work their way onward then came across some more Mini Devils along with a strange creature.

"A Discord Spawn," Luna said upon seeing the creature. "A creature of Discord, we are getting close."

"There's even two of them!" Rarity exclaims in alarm. Alpha Prime and Golden Heart uses their attacks to kill the Jabberspawns while Megan, Rainbow and Nyx work on the Mini-Devils.

More Mini Devils appears as Megan spots a rage box. The girl mumbles, "May as well get this over with."

Megan grabs the rage box and transforms into her demonic self. Her friends got the hell out of the way as she runs around, destroying the Mini-Devils via slashing and cutting them.

As Megan changes back, two Boojums arrive with Ben remarking, "I will handle these two goons." The stallion flew up around the creatures, causing them to hit one another. Ben then fires a blast at the Boojums, killing them both.

"Nice work, daddy." Nyx cheers on as Ben lands onto the ground.

"I still got it even after my wrongful imprisonment."

Megan's group now heads onto a small lava lake, seeing a lava-proof monster coming out. Scootaloo groans, "Oh man!"

"Well, we can't go that way." Sweetie said with a sigh.

Megan's group continues climbing the path while getting rid of two Mini-Devils. Then they found two Discord Spawns that the Cutie Mark Crusaders got rid of quickly. Soon they climb up the ledge onto the left where the heroes came up.

"I wonder. Once Celestia and the darkness corrupting here is stopped, how will we restored Equestria?" Fred asks Luna curiously.

"I don't know...the Elements of Harmony may be out of the question since one of the holders is dead and two of them are not capable of using theirs." Luna said seriously. "It's a dark day for Equestria indeed."

The group arrives at a cave as a familiar voice spoke from within, "The time for action has arrived. You should not waste a day. No lame excuses fo you contrive, nor tolerate delay."

Twilight appears as Megan frowns while saying, "Whoever is speaking talks like I'm on a holiday or something; wandering about while having a bit of fun."

"Tell me about it, what is up with that guy?" Rainbow asks Megan dryly.

"And yet...something about this guy feels familiar." Alpha Prime said suspiciously; the way that the oracle talks sound familiar.

"Hmmm, I say confront what frightens or offends you." Twilight suggests to Megan with a nod. "Reckless or insulting talk shouldn't go unchallenged."

"You're right..." Ben said as he notices a shadow in the cave. "All right, come out of there!"

Sure enough, a familiar old gnome appears from the shadows, much to the surprise and/or shock of the group. Megan gasps, "You?!"

"Bizarre creature!!" Luna exclaims to the Moochick with a frown. So the gnome was the oracle all this time!

"The Moochick, you were the one talking to us the whole time...while making some bits of insults no less?" Nyx ask the Moochick in disbelief.

"Awww, man; and here, I was starting to like you!" Fred groans in annoyance to the Moochick who sat down on a rock nearby.

"Me too," Ed complains as well. The two Changelings are liking this guy already but now?

"Like me or don't, it doesn't matter. Discord must be eliminated." The Moochick said seriously to Megan's group. "You must now blow open the gates and confront Princess Celestia."

"It won't work." Ben said to the Moochick seriously. "We don't have the final piece of the staff itself."

"Without Discord's eye, how can it be done?" Megan asks the Moochick seriously. After all, the staff needs Discord's eye to be complete.

"That I am not sure, but you must do so." The Moochick explains. "The situation is very urgent indeed!"

"Honestly, what good are you to us anyway?" Rainbow asks the Moochick in frustration.

"I know I'm supposed to attack this ferocious creature but I'm not sure if this is my fight at all." Megan said to the Moochick with a sigh. The girl must fight Discord but now, she is not sure what to do anymore.

"It is ours...but without Pinkie, Applejack and Fluttershy..." Rarity said sadly.

"Megan, it's no one else's but yours." The Moochick corrects Megan. "Only you can save yourself."

"What? Save myself from what? Death; is that it?" Megan asks the Moochick in doubt. "Is that way I'm here? If so, I'm not scared to die! Damn, there are times that I've welcomed death!"

"It's not death."

"What?" The group asks the Moochick, startled by his answer.

"What then? Is there a fate worse than death?" Megan asks the Moochick doubtfully. "I am not stupid; don't make me think you are!"

"Think of what you will but know this: You withdrew from your world after the fire due to the fact that you couldn't bear your terrible loss." The Moochick explains. The gnome is right. Right after the death of Megan's family, she withdrew herself from her world, Equestria, everything. "But once you answered the call of Spike and your friends, then you began to emerge from your tragedy."

Luna smiles as she put a hoof on Megan's shoulder, saying, "The Moochick is correct. You have gone through a lot of us, restoring from you loss. You're recovering from your tragedy and only by saving Equestria will you be fully do so...or close to there anyway."

"Stay on this path, Megan. Save yourself and only then will you and your friends save Equestria and restore us all."

"What I have been feeling...I am understanding now." Megan said with a slow nod. "It was thanks to me that this world broke and only I can repair it."

"Right," Twilight said in agreement.

"Go forth, Megan. Discord awaits you. With your friends, as well as Spitfire, you got a good reason to hope for success." The Moochick said to Megan. "Some of them are the strongest among us."

With that, Twilight disappears as the group heads on forward up the rocks. Once they reached the top, the gang saw a house. Apple Bloom asks in surprise, "What 'de Sam Hill? Is 'dat a house?"

"That must be where Discord is at." Golden Heart said seriously. "He may be waiting for
us all."

Megan and her friends drop down to the ledge below, jumping from rock to the rock until they reach the ground. A Mini Devil appears which Luna kills instantly, remarking, "It appears we get more of these things no matter where the Tartarus we go."

"Come on, we must continue onward." Megan said as the group head off to the right path on the rocks in the lavas while dodging Lava Demons, jumping carefully.

Megan's group reaches the other side where three Discord Spawns are at. Rarity and Golden Heart uses the Ice Wand and Jacks to kill them while Megan got rid of the remaining Mini-Devils. Soon they saw a portal and jumps in.

 

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The group find themselves in a strange building which appears to be a world of chaos. It involves chocolate milk clouds, upside down furniture and the whatnot. They look around in shock and concern.

"What kind of place is this?" Megan asks her friends in concern.

"This is...Discord's home." Ben said seriously. "And that must mean..."

"I'm here, my little ponies! Welcome to my world, especially you Megan!" A voice laughs from out of nowhere. The group saw something appearing in smoke, laughing. It's a creature with a horse-like head, a right deer antler, a left goat horn, a fang, a beard, a lion right arm, an eagle's claw on the left, a lizard right leg, a goat left leg, a bat right wing, a Pegasus left wing, a snake tail and tongue, and different sized pupils. He is called Discord, the Spirit of Chaos and Disharmony.

"Discord," Some of the heroes gasp in shock. Discord smiles wickedly to them all.

"Ah, good to see you again...so to speak; you have all kept me waiting, especially you Megan. What, never heard that punctuality's a virtue?"

"You and my dentist's assistant have so much in common." Megan snaps to Discord as the evil chimera flew around the girl as if taunting her.

"My, my, you are habitually late aren't you?" Discord taunts Megan some more. "Between you silly daydreaming and your preening vanity, the hours fly on by. There's barely time for anything else."

"Is that the best you can do, Discord? Send out second-rate insults? They don't hurt me in the slightest!"

Discord interrupts Megan with a wicked grin while saying, "And the fact that you committed robbery. Tsk, tsk, tsk; Shame on you."

"What do you mean?" Alpha Prime asks Discord with a frown.

"A certain friend of yours wanted so much to kill the one who took his dragon brother...but sadly, that may never happen because you kill Pinkie Pie first."

"You mean Lorcan?" Nyx ask Discord in shock and alarm.

"Discord, if you think on using guilt and such things against us, you are sadly mistaken." Luna snaps to Discord furiously. "We are not going to be effected easily!"

"Don't you want to know here your boyfriend went after his precious brother's demise?" Discord asks Luna with a sly smile.

"Where is he?!"

"Where," A familiar roar is heard, making the group turns to see a ferocious dragon with a scared over one eye, he looks like Lorcan only as an adult in baby dragon form size.

"Is that...Lorcan?" Ed asks a bit startled upon seeing Lorcan like this.

"Oh, my," Rarity begins to gasp in shock. "He looks like what he did as a adult..."

"But still a pipsqueak," Rainbow said in shock and disbelief. Lorcan is even gray and red as if Discord has discorded him. Suddenly the dragon breathes fire at the heroes who dodges it. "Hey!"

"I am not Lorcan anymore and I am not a pipsqueak, I am Roclan, kiddies!" Lorcan, now known as Roclan, snaps in a different voice. He turns to Megan while snapping, "You made me like this when you kill Spike...just like you did your family!"

"What? That's a lie!" Megan protests to Lorcan, getting a bit horrified. The girl is beginning to shiver, her friends saw that she is getting scared. "They were killed in a fire and..."

"Oh yes, they were expecting you all to come to them, right? Perhaps they themselves thought you would warn them of the danger since you were so close to the source as you were. But your family waited in vain, didn't they? They all died for their trouble!"

"I...we were all asleep! It was an accident...I..."

"You selfish, misbegotten and unnatural child," Roclan snarls as he stomps around the terrified Megan. "You smelled the smoke. But no! You were in your Pony Dreamland taking tea and having fun with your pony friends! You didn't want to be bothered! Your room was protected and spare while the rest of your family was roasted in a bucking inferno of incredible horror!!!"

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO," Megan sobs a bit as she fell to her knees. Her friends rush over to the girl in worry. What Roclan said has really made her doubt and feeling more guilty and hateful of herself.

"Oh my, my; isn't this a good show?" Discord laughs a bit while eating some popcorn. "Normally I would say those lines but that's much better coming from Roclan."

"What have you done to Lorcan?!" Nyx snaps to Discord furiously. "Did you discord him?"

"Maybe I did or maybe he did so himself. After all, Lorcan went to the dark side after the lost of his baby brother; would've sounded cute if I care about such things."

"Enough of this! We should kill them all, especially Megan for her crimes!" Roclan snaps madly at Megan.

"Megan, listen and listen carefully: I know what it's like to lose someone...not good at all." Golden Heart said to Megan gently. "I live through those tragedies time and again. But you can't blame yourself. If you do and continue living this fear...the darkness within you will win. You must face your fears if you are to save Equestria."

Megan cries a bit as she stood up, frowning while saying, "Right, let's do this...for my family and for all of Equestria. Discord, Roclan, prepare yourselves!"

"Well, finally! I didn't think we will get to the fighting part!" Discord snaps as he got rid of the bowl. "Roclan, some help please."

Roclan roars as he fires fire at the heroes who dodges the attacks. Discord then snaps his finger, sending out boulders but they dodge them. The heroes use their attacks with Alpha Prime firing lasers at Roclan and Megan and Luna using their attacks against Discord.

"Eat lasers!" Discord laughs while shooting a laser from his left claw.

"Great, what we don't need!" Fred exclaims in annoyance. "A laser shooting freakshow!"

"And I thought our enemies were jerks before!" Ed whines some more. The two Changelings yelp and ducks to avoid Roclan's flames.

Sweetie throws the Jacks at both Discord and Roclan, hitting them. The chimera frowns as he saw out Discord Spawns at them. Ben calls out, "Megan, listen! We will deal with the pawns!"

Ben and the ones not fighting Discord and Roclan then fight off the Discord Spawns, killing them. Roclan snarls at Alpha Prime spins and knocks him to the ground. Megan and Luna then combine their attacks, hitting Discord in the face.

Discord then wave a claw, getting Megan and Luna trapped in a force field. He remarks, "Sadly, I enjoy our little time together but I got a lot of chaos to spread so I will make your demise quick."

"Not so fast, jerk!" A familiar voice yells out. The group saw Spitfire arriving at the scene with Cadance and Shining (riding his wife's back) changing in.

"Let go of Megan and Luna!" Shining exclaims as he use his magic to make a sword float. Suddenly the unicorn swung right at Discord. The villain roars in pain as he was forced to let go of Megan and Luna...what's more shocking is that his right eye fell right off.

"Damn you all! I will make you all pay for this insult!" Discord exclaims furiously to Shining furiously. "Come on, Roclan, we're leaving!"

Roclan didn't say a word. He got on Discord's back as the two flew right out of the building. Luna calls out in shock, "Lorcan, wait...don't go..."

"Luna? Are ou all right?" Megan asks Luna in sadness and worry. The human is hurt, not only by Roclan's insults and bitter truth but by seeing her adopted daughter's heart torn that the love of her life has now join the dark side, discorded.

"We...we got to get him back. Lorcan deserves better..."

"Yo, Megan, hurry! The Discord Staff is yours!" Spitfire calls out to Megan as she passes the eye to her.

"My troops are already gathered, along with the Flutterponies and rebels." Cadance explains to Megan. "Everything is ready. Spitfire shall go on ahead to deal with Discord and his friend..."

"His name is Lorcan." Rarity explains to Cadance sadly.

"My wife Cadance and I shall head off to get the troops ready for our assault." Shining said in determination. "Megan, you and your friends are champion."

"Yeah," Megan said as she glances at the ones coming with her, ready to fight by the human's side. "I guess it's up to me at the end."

"Correct, Meg! Lead us to victory in Canterlot." Spitfire said to Megan with a smile. The human girl nods as she put Discord's Eye in the staff.

"Right; it's done now."

"Let's not stand here for now. We must venture forth to the castle." Golden Heart announces in determination. With that, Spitfire heads off to go after Discord and Roclan while Cadance and Shining leaves to get the troops, rebels, etc. ready for the assault.

Megan's group leaves the chaotic building, returning to the outside. Rainbow comments, "All right, next up: the Canterlot Castle."

 

Author's note
Hoo boy, Roclan has gone out of his mind now...but at least Megan, despite getting hurt emotionally by the bitter truth and insults, got Discord's eye. In the next chapter, Megan and her friends continue onward to Canterlot for a fight against Celestia. But soon they must confront Discord and Roclan after losing another friend...and the fight result in the end of an ally that was with Megan since the beginning and her love. Read, review and suggest!

 

Roclan is the evil version of Lorcan who is voiced by Mark Hamill (Lorcan's crazy voice). And while his insulting and accusing Megan was something Discord would've said (like the Jabberwocky to Alice in the actual game), I felt damn sure it sounded better coming from the now lunatic dragon.

Chapter 11: Destruction of Discord

 

Megan and her friends rush through the wastelands, on their way to what they know to be Canterlot. Along the way, they took on the Mini-Devils, Lava Demons, Phantasmagoria and the Royal Guards.

Soon the gang arrives at the barrier that's around Canterlot at. Luna said to Megan seriously, "Only the Discord Staff can pry them open."

"Right, it's time." Megan said. She aims the staff at the barrier and fires a blast. Soon the whole thing broke into pieces.

"Yew did it!" Apple Bloom cheers for Megan eagerly.

"Yeah, good thing," A voice groans. The group saw a stallion named Caramel arriving with a strange object.

"Caramel," Ben exclaims to Caramel in amazement. "Where have you been? What happened?"

"I barely got here alive. I got something for Megan." Caramel said as he gave some sort of item to Megan. "It's some sort of Blunderbuss."

"What does it do?" Sweetie asks curiously as Twilight appears into the area.

"A blunderbuss in the hands of a blockhead is a catastrophe waiting to happen." Twilight explains to the group. "None of you are dunderheads but better take care."

"So it's a gun. Figures," Rainbow remarked in amusement, "Caramel, better get out of here! This could get ugly."

"But what about you," Caramel ask his friends in worry. "I just got here and..."

"We will be fine, Caramel. Just go." Rarity insists to Caramel. "Besides...I have the feeling that Applejack may need your help, what with her condition and all."

"Yeah, you're right...take care, everyone!"

Caramel then rushes away as Twilight disappears from the scene. The heroes then enter what appears to be a maze, which appears to be wonderful despite the hell that Equestria's going through.

"Amazing how, despite how everything changed, this place still remains beautiful." Rarity said with a sigh.

"Tell me about it." Scootaloo remarks in agreement.

"Let me go first." Megan said. She threw two Jacks into the air. In one area, a Unicorn Royal Guard got stabbed by the weapons, screaming before dying.

"Well, you got one, Megan." Fred remarks to Megan with a nod.

"Right, now stay on your toes."

The group moves through the maze, running into more Royal Guards. One of them swung his ax right at Mega, only to miss. The pony tries again with Megan blocking the attack with her knife...then she slashes him into two pieces. The girl then smirks somewhat insanely, she could get used to this.

"More Discord Spawns," Golden Heart exclaims as the group kept on fighting the Royal Guards and the spawns. Alpha Prime fires lasers at the creatures, sending them to the ground dead before Megan finish the remaining ones off.

"My psychiatrist Dr. Urameshi would have a field trip with this." Megan mumbles, preparing to her psychiatrist who takes care of her back in the asylum.

"I found a pathway out of this maze." Luna said to her friends while motioning to a pathway. "Megan, better use that watch now."

"Sure, hang on."

Megan's friend held onto her as she presses the button. Everything all over froze, as well as an insane pony standing on a button to keep a gate open. Rainbow comments, "Come on, let's get!"

The gang follows Luna through the maze, going faster as the watch's power may not last long. Soon they came to a tunnel with a portal inside and jumps right in it.

 

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Megan and her friends find themselves in a new area just as time unfroze. There is wind blowing around in certain places.

"Check that out, thermal drafts!" Ed exclaims while pointing a hoof at the thermal drafts.

Twilight then reappears, commentating, "Ride the thermal drafts like an alicorn."

"What does that mean?" Rainbow asks Twilight with a frown. "Make sense, egghead!"

"Hey, if things make sense, they wouldn't be fun."

"Damn, you sound like Discord when you said that."

"Boojums," The Cutie Mark yelps as they saw Boojums screeching towards the heroes, causing them to duck quickly to avoid those monsters.

"We better care of this!" Ben exclaims to his friends and daughter quickly.

"Right," Nyx exclaims.

The flyers flew at the Boojums and hitting the victims, sending them right to Megan who slashes them with her knife. The human calls out, "All right, it's safe to continue."

The group uses the air stream to get across, floating over the wooden paths. They went through the same method in different areas while taking on the Boojums.

"All right, we shall go this way." Sweetie said with a nod.

The group found a portal, jumping right into it.

 

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In the next area, Apple Bloom comments, "Looks like we are going going 'ta be in one Tartarus o' a worst area here."

Megan's group head upstairs and turn to an intersection where a Pegasus Royal Guard is at with a Discord Spawn and a Phantasmagoria. The heroes got rid of them then go to the right path and downward.

Megan and her friends found two Unicorn Royal Guards, a Discord Spawn and a Phantasmagoria in their way. Nyx calls out, "Quick! Let's use the Jacks!" The four CMC threw the Jacks at the creatures, killing them.

Now Megan's group goes through another tunnel, encountering an Earth Pony Royal Guard, two Discord Spawns and another Phantasmagoria. Fred groans, "This is getting bucking ridiculous!"

Luna, Alpha Prime and Golden Heart kill the creatures with their magic. Megan and her group enter an opened hole where there's water.

"Piranhas," Apple Bloom gasps upon seeing Piranhas in the water.

"Prepare yourselves!" Megan calls out to her friends. The gang swam through the area while taking the lower path to their right, following it to some air bubbles.

Megan and her friends saw some piranhas which Rainbow, Ben and Rarity got rid of. They continue swimming until the heroes came to the surface, breathing in some air.

"We still got a long way to go." Luna said to her friends who find themselves in a big lake area. "We better get a move on."

Megan and her friends swam around and found a small place which helps them climb out of the way. Two Piranhas were about to attack but Nyx quickly hits them with the mallet.

"Not a chance!" Nyx snaps to the Piranhas sternly.

Megan's group climbs up the rocks, spotting two Unicorn Royal Guards up ahead. The gang jump across to the other rock at the right then follows the path until they were the structure where their enemies are inside, following it to find the Royal Guards.

Megan's group got rid of the evil ponies while going to the end instead of turning left. Fred spots a lever, saying, "Hey, I see a lever. What does it do?'

"Maybe we could..." Ed begins to say but the Changeling trips and slams onto the lever, breaking it, "Horse apples!"

Interestingly enough, the gate inside the water tunnel opens up, revealing a new day. Rarity, noticing, said with a frown, "Back into the water."

"Awww, not those piranhas," Sweetie whines a bit, not wanting to be dealing with the piranhas again.

The gang heads back and goes into the doorway from before, seeing two robots there. Megan and Alpha Prime destroy them before the gang goes out into the hallway, killing two Royal Guards lurking there.

"Looks like we got some stairs to climb," Megan said while glancing at a stairway nearby. "Come on."

Megan's group heads up the stairs, following the path to a small intersection, then took a left and jumps into the water waiting for them. Scootaloo groans, "Here we go again!"

Megan's group took the path between two metal bars, following it all the way back to the big lake. Next, they swam along the structure that the Royal Guards were at and found a pipe path which was revealed.

"Guess we should swim here." Ben comments. His friends nod as they head to the pipe path, following it along the way and killing off the two fishes in it.

Megan grabs some Mega Meta Essence, swimming the way up. The gang hit the source with Golden Heart commentating, "This will get more frigging dangerous from here."

A Pegasus Royal Guard is patrolling the area which the gang kills before continuing along the way, arriving at an intersection. Megan's group kills off the Royal Guards and Phantasmagoria before taking the left path to see what's there.

"What's this?" Megan asks as the gang saw a mirror on the floor, "A mirror?"

"Why in the world would it be here?" Rarity asks puzzled as the gang picks up the mirror to look at it. The white unicorn styles her mane a bit as if to fix it. "Well, my mane does need fixing."

Suddenly the gang yelps as a flash of white came from the mirror. Soon they find themselves invisible with Rainbow calling out, "Awesome!"

"We're invisible! Yay," The Cutie Mark Crusaders cheers wildly.

The gang heads back to take the first left turn. They came across an Earth Pony Royal Guard on a bridge that doesn't seem to notice them.

"Well, the mirror can be useful." Alpha Prime remarked in amusement by the mirror's power.

"Yes, but the effects are only temporarily." Luna explains while using her power to kill the Royal Guard.

Megan's group follows the path, destroying the enemies there until they came to a lever. Once they turn visible, the Changelings pull it on the right side, causing a portal gate to open up.

"We got through in one piece." Rainbow remarks to her friends in concern. "But we still got a way to go."

The group turns around, taking the right turn to find a Bone Gate, jumping down from the lower level from it. They turn to see a robot.

"My turn," Ed exclaims as he uses the card to destroy the room. The gang went to where it was where the Boojums begin to attack, "Awww!"

"Come on, Golden Heart." Alpha Prime said to Golden Heart. The two attacks the creatures with their powers, destroying them.

Next the gang saw two Pegasus Royal Guards and a Boojum guarding the portal. Ben said, "All right, me, Rainbow as well as Luna will handle those guys."

"Right," Luna said with a nod.

"Let's get them." Golden Heart said as he, Ben and Rainbow attack the enemies before getting rid of them.

"Dang, let's leave." Apple Bloom said in exhaustion, wanting out of this place. "Ah is can't stand 'dis horse crap more than Ah had 'ta!"

Megan's group nod as they jump into the portal, leaving the next area.

 

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The group came into another area, finding a bottomless pit nearby. Fred in annoyance groans, "Aw, hay! We gotta fly though this area now?"

Twilight, reappearing, comments, "Well, Derpy did prove at times that being a Pegasus pony has its advantages."

The non-flyers groan as they got onto the ones that can fly as they flew over the pit area, dodging nasty cloud monsters and crows. They continue onward and found the next portal that takes them out of the area.

In the next area, the group saw a lot of Cogswheels moving around like. Twilight teleport in, looking at the said Cogwheels while commenting, "Time to jump in time to jump through time...ugh; I'm getting dizzy!"

"Sorry, Twilight," Ben apologizes to his love whose disappears from the area.

The gang jumps to the left edge, seeing a standable Meta Object before jumping over there. They continue jumping to more Metal Objects until the heroes got onto a metal ledge with a cogwheel that they all rode.

"Man, this is a bit dizzy for me." Scootaloo groans a bit as she is getting dizzy on the cogwheel.

"Just keep yer lunch, okay?" Apple Bloom insists to Scootaloo a bit uneasily.

Megan and her friends rode the cogwheel then jumps to the middle, running around it and kill the Pegasus Royal Guard in the distance. They soon arrive to where the pony was by crossing the next two platforms.

"Phew, made it." Megan sighs in relief. The gang continues on, killing the Royal Guards and Boojums in their way until they reach the openings of the cogwheels. Then the heroes follow the path afterward before entering the next portal.

In the next area, Megan's group jumps onto the horizontal spinning cogwheel before jumping into the next three cogs that led them a bit upward, then onward to solid ground.

"Okay, so far so good." Megan said with a nod.

"Right, everything's cool so far." Rainbow said as the group moves on their way.

"Yes...but I wonder if Spitfire is doing all right." Alpha Prime said in concern, wondering how Spitfire is in her chase of Discord and Roclan. Hopefully the Wonderbolt knows what she's getting into by going after those two.

 

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Spitfire frowns as she stood her ground against Discord and Roclan. The Wonderbolt has caught up to them somewhere near the city of Canterlot and is barely struggling to fight the evil assholes.

"Come now, my little pony, you are no match against me." Discord said to Spitfire in amusement. "I mean, honestly, your Wonderbolts has since bitten the dust so give up while you can still live."

"No, never," Spitfire snaps to Discord furiously. "Now change Roclan back and maybe Celestia too! I know you discorded them!"

"You think I want to go back?! Dream on, toots!" Roclan laughs madly to Spitfire.

"Correct and while I may have a claw in Lorcan's transformation, I on the other claw did not for Celestia's." Discord explains to Spitfire slyly. "That is another evil of another form."

Spitfre frowns as she flew right at Discord. The villain sighs as he snaps and made a spear appears, stabbing her in the wings. The Wonderbolts screams as she fell to the ground. Spitfire groans and coughs out blood. Despite her injuries, she is still willing to fight.

"You really are hardhearted like Rainbow Dash, are you?" Discord asks Spitfire in amusement, "Oh well, time for our fun to come to an end."

"Discord! You've promised I would finish her off!" Roclan whines to Discord in annoyance. "Come on! Don't break promises."

"Oh very well. I did promise. Go ahead."

Spitfire growls as she charges at Roclan who shoots out fireball and lasers from himself. The Wonderbolt lands onto the background just as Megan's group arrives on the scene, the human gasps, "Spitfire!"

Spitfire flies at Roclan who laughs sinisterly as the two begins to fight fiercely. The Pegasus pony kept up on the assault but then one of Roclan's lasers hit her right in the heart. Spitfire gasps as she hits the ground hard, much to the horror of her friends.

"Spitfire," Rainbow screams. The gang rush over to the fatally injured Spitfire. Discord smirks as he blows up the bridge that Megan's group just crossed. No chance of them escaping, they are trapped. "No..."

"Too bad, my little ponies and friends; and the same to you, Megan," Discord taunts Megan sinisterly. "You were so foolish to think that you can overcome your own guilt."

"You should've come and saved her, and now...another pony is lost thanks to you." Roclan laughs madly to Megan who lies the injured pony down.

Normally, the insults would hurt Megan to the point of no return in the emotional state. But the girl looks furiously to Discord and Roclan while snapping, "No...the insults won't bother me anymore...you two will pay for what you did to Spitfire!"

Discord scoffs a bit, "You're quite the hypocrite, Megan. How many have you killed during your adventure? And you, Miss Rarity?"

"I feel no guilt!" Rarity snaps to Discord angrily.

"Oh, don't lie to me Rarity; I'm the one who makes people lie. Will you ever learn?"

"Hay, we learnt 'dat saving 'de world ain't easy." Apple Bloom remarks sternly to Discord. "But it's worth fighting fer."

"Now what we're going to fight for is taking you and Roclan down!" Nyx exclaims to Discord sternly.

"Megan, you deal with Discord." Luna said as she turns to Roclan, with tears in her eyes. "I will handle Roclan..."

"Come on, Luna! Spike was killed thanks to Megan's uselessness to save him!" Roclan insists to Luna madly. "Maybe your sister can let you live if..."

"No! I will not turn to darkness...not again! I will do whatever it takes to save my home even if I must die while doing so!"

"If you're not with me, then you are my enemy!"

"Only a corrupted one deals a absolute." Luna said, a hint of sadness is heard in her voice. The Alicorn summons a small hilt, which shoots out a white cored plasma beam sword with a dark bluish color; a beam sword. "I will do what I must."

"You will try." Roclan remarks as he activates his own beam sword; only with a black core and green glow.

The two charge at each other and start clashing with their beam swords. Discord laughs as storm clouds appear, "Now it's time for a big storm of chaos!"

"Did anyone hear the one about the dragon who killed his girlfriend? No? Stick around."

Thunder roars as the next fight begins. Discord send out candy knives at the heroes but Alpha Prime uses a barrier to block the attack. The robot snaps, "Hurry!"

Megan nods as she uses the Discord Staff on Discord, causing the villain to scream as he got hit, "No! It's impossible! No one can hurt me like that!"

Discord fires lasers at the group as they dodge and fire their own attacks at him. Meanwhile, Luna kept on clashing against Roclan who got the upper hoof, slamming him to the ground. The dragon laughs as he swings his weapon into the air, ready to stab his former girlfriend.

Nyx gasps as she rush over to Luna, much to Ben's alarm as he asks, "Nyx, what the Tartatus are you doing?"

"Helping my half-sister," Nyx exclaims as she jumps in and bites Roclan on the arm. The corrupted dragon roars in pain as he stops fighting to try to toss Nyx right off. Luna manages to get up and hits Roclan with a laser, knocking the filly off him.

"I shall continue on from me, Nyx." Luna said to her half sister as she resumes the fight against Roclan. Maybe she can knock some sense into him somehow.

Megan and her friends continues hitting Discord with their weapons and attacks while dodging his chaotic powers, the only weapons that did real damages was the blade that Megan has and the Discord Staff. Discord growls as he tries to hit his enemies who dodge his attacks.

Discord has Golden Heart and Megan in a corner. Megan is a little worried but Golden Heart then says, "It is ok, Megan, this is a good range."

"Indeed for me to end you." Discord said, unaware of what Golden Heart has in mind.

Discord then charges his attack but does not see the smirk on Golden Heart's face. Megan wonders why then she saw something jump over them and onto the chimera's head and wraps a vise around the chimera's neck.

"What the Tartarus," Discord exclaims as he tries to get the figure off his head, but she held onto her tightly. "Release me at once!"

"You have lost." Megan said to Discord with a smirk on her face.

"No...No...NO! YOU WILL DIE!"

Discord finally tosses the figure right off his head and uses his tail to knock Megan's weapons away, making her gasp. The Discord Staff and the blade are knocked away! She tries to get to them but Discord blocks her.

"Too bad, Megie, you lost this time!" Discord sneers to Megan sinisterly, "Time to face your timely demise. No problem, you will join your family soon enough!"

Megan is not sure what to do now. Just then, the group saw something that caught Discord's attention: Luna has finally sent Roclan onto the floor, the Dragon is getting close to death, about to be finished off.

Discord smirks evilly saying to Luna, "Good...Good. Now kill him Luna. Kill him now and became what you truly are."

"I won't kill my love." Luna snaps sternly. Roclan may be corrupted and was trying to kill her...but only because that bastard Discord made him to do so. By now, Roclan has limped to the chimera's side.

"So, be it...Alicorn."

Discord then waves his hand, hitting Roclan with an extra blast of Discord. The Dragon roars madly as he charges at Nyx, ready to kill her. Luna gasps as she flew in to block off the attack.

Then something horrifying happens: Luna got in the way of Roclan's attack in mid-air...and both got stabbed by their own weapons! The two gasps in pain and horror...even the corrupted Dragon is stunned by what he and Luna just did to one another.

Discord laughs madly, "Oh yes, this is rich! The two lovers ending at each other's hooves and claws; Priceless," The chimera was so busy laughing that he fails to see Megan picking up her blade and staff.

Discord screams in pain as he felt his tail getting stabbed. The villain saw the Vorpal Blade sticking his said tail to the floor, trapping him. Then he saw Megan charging up her Discord Staff for a huge blast.

"Discord, I've have enough of you!" Megan exclaims furiously to her enemy. "Your presence here in Equestria is done!!!"

"All I ever wanted was to have some fun like the last time I was unleashed, but it seems even you don't want me to have it! What gave you the right to take away my freedom?!" Discord protests to Megan. Just then a beam from the staff come flying at him. He simply said, "Oh."

Discord screams his last as the beam then changes him into stone once more. The statue villain then fell to the ground, shattering and breaking upon impact. The Spirit of Chaos and Disharmony is no more.

Megan goes over to the villain's remains, picking up her blade that was on Discord's tail, saying, "Sorry, but sometimes, fun has its limits."

Luna and Roclan meanwhile continues flying in mid-air...the Dragon is coming to his senses at last...and is close to dying with his true love.

"Lorcan," Luna said as she wraps her hooves round his neck and moves closer to him.

"Luna..." Lorcan said. He Mimics the action...just as their wings stop flapping and they start to plummet into the lava below. The two lovers free fall, their lips still pressed onto one another with their eyes closed.

"Luna! Lorcan," Megan cries out but it's too late for her and her friends, the two hits the lava, disappearing and melting underneath it.

"Noo," Nyx cries out in sadness as Twilight reappears on the scene. "First Spike, now my half sister and brother figure!"

"Nyx, I'm sorry..." Twilight sighs in sadness as she saw Spitfire, about to die herself. "I'm also sorry for Spitfire...there isn't anything we can do unless Equestria is restored."

"But how," Alpha Prime ask Twilight in sadness. "The only possible way is with the Elements...and two of its holders has gone crazy with Pinkie now dead!"

"No..." Megan sobs as she came over to Spitfire's death. The Wonderbolt doesn't have much time left.

"It's all right, Megan. You freed Lorcan even though he and Luna meant their demises at the end..." Spitfire said to Megan weakly. "You also destroyed Celestia's guardian Discord and avenged their deaths and mine as well. Prepare to enter the ultimate battle."

"But must I fight on? Can't Celestia be convinced to surrender?"

"I wish that is the case..." Golden Heart said with a sigh as he pats Megan on the shoulder. "Now if you excuse me..."

As Golden Heart heads over to the figure that was knocked off Discord during the fight, the weak Spitfire remarks, "To be honest...true words and logic could rarely defeat the evil intent. Celestia's still strong. And she has harmed so many thanks to her corruption. They want revenge which we call justice. Celestia made this world this way and she must pay...even if she was a good princess once before..."

"She's right. To save Equestria, we must kill my mother." Ben said in sadness while looking down. He has no choice; his mother must die to restore Equestria.

"You, Cadance and Shining must lead our forces against her, Megan!"

"But how; I am not sure how to lead?" Megan asks in sadness as she sniffs a bit. The girl is not sure if she herself could lead on after what happened.

"Do your best, Megan...you can only do you best...you...well, you get the idea..." Spitfire said weakly as she is getting closer to her demise. "Please...fight on, everyone...fight...o...n..."

With that, Spitfire went limp as the Wonderbolt has finally met her death. Megan sobs some more as the remaining others look at their friend in sadness.

"Poor Spitfire," Rainbow said with a groan. "This is bad..."

"All the ponies and friend I know...all killed!" Megan sobs some more, mourning for the loss of those killed by the darkness: Spike, Pinkie Pie, Luna, Lorcan...and now Spitfire.

"Spitfire, Luna, Lorcan, we promise. Your deaths won't be in vain." Scootaloo promises to Spitfire in sadness. The heroes will avenge the deaths of those taken.

"Without Spitfire, our forces had lost a leader. A battle has begun." Twilight said seriously to her friends. "Deliver us all from this evil or we are all screwed before perishing."

Golden Heart meanwhile checks on his friend. The male Alicorn ask, "You okay?"

"Yeah, I am. Discord tossed me off but nothing I ain't ill prepared for." The figure giggles to Golden Heart happily. "I'm ready and willing to help out at Canterlot now."

"Good...just remember, we're about to enter a battle that some of us may not kill throughout."

"Hey, I'm used to it! I can fight for my life if I have to! Bring 'em on!"

Soon the drawbridge to Canterlot is let down. The heroes nod as they rush through the bridge, entering the city. Megan knew that she and her friends must win this...even if they must kill Celestia to do so.

 

Author's note
Spitfire, Luna and Lorcan are dead...long live them. The final battle is getting closer. In the next chapter, the group moves on as the rebels fight off Celestia's force, the gang finally learns what happened to the Autobots. But when Twilight is about to reveal something important to her friends, another disaster has occurred that takes two more lives that devastates Nyx further. Read, review and suggest.

 

This chapter has references to the Star Wars series and the first Spider-Man film, as well as the actual series.

 

Caramel is in the role of Humpty Dumpty but since he has yet to appear, I will have to settle for a cameo.

 

Dr. Urameshi is named after a pal of mine, who is in the role of Alice's psychiatrist in the first game.

Author's note
This story has 3 chapters left until it's finally done. Two characters will die (both are my favorites sadly), so get your tissues handy, folks.

 

Chapter 12: Assault on Canterlot

 

Megan and her friends enter the city, heading to the palace. Upon reaching a lava area, the ground underneath begins to break, until it stops a few feet from where everyone's at.

"No turning back now." Megan said to her friends seriously.

The group continues on until they saw a familiar unicorn and alicorn arriving. Nyx exclaims, "Uncle Shiny, Aunt Cadance!"

"Hey kiddo, looks like you all made it." Shining said to Nyx with a smile.

"Wait, where's Aunt Luna?" Cadance ask in concern to the group, "And Spitfire?"

"There were killed during our fight with Discord, along with Lorcam." Alpha Prime said in sadness. "We couldn't save them."

"Oh...well, it's okay. They know what they themselves are getting into, as are we."

Sure enough, everyone saw a gruesome sight: the Crystal Ponies and the Flutterponies are fighting off the armies of Celestia, killing off the corrupted ponies. Shining yells out in determination, "Keep at it, everyone! We will need the distraction to get in to finish off Celestia!"

One of the Crystal Ponies finish off a Unicorn Royal Guard while saluting Shining then goes back to the fighting. Another Earth Pony Royal Guard swung his ax at him but a Flutterpony blocks the attack.

"We must go." Cadance said to the group sternly. "These ponies will hold them off as best as they could. Come on!"

The group heads off to the palace arriving to the palace. Just then a few of the Royal Guards arriving, preparing to kill them...but then a pony jumps in, slashing and killing them all.

The group looks startled as they saw that their savior looks like Pinkie Pie but her mane and tail were flattened and she got a creepy look on her face.

Rainbow gasps, "Pinkie Pie?! No way! We killed her!"

"Actually, this looks like Pinkie Pie but it's actually Pinkamena Diane Pie...my little sister as it were." Golden Heart explains to his friends with a smile.

"Hi everypony, Megie," Pinkamena said while waving a hoof to the group. "Glad for my help?"

"So you're the one who helped us during our adventure so far!" Rarity exclaims in surprise and realization.

"Yes, she's the one who show us to the Diamond Dogs and help us fight Discord and Pinkie Pie..." Megan said thoughtfully while smiling.

"Eeyup; I figure may as well stop hiding in the shadows now!" Pinkamena exclaims with a smile. "Come on, we got to take care of the corrupted princess."

"Right, mother is waiting." Ben said seriously.

The group fight off the Royal Guards and the Lava Demons with Pinkamena using her knives on two Royal Guards, Cadance with her powers on two more and Shining slashed through a Pegasus Royal Guard. Sweetie uses the Ice Wand the Lava Demon.

The remaining Royal Guards try to go after them, but ends up falling into the lava. Megan nods while saying, "We are closer to our goal than before."

The group reaches the entrance of the castle...then gasps in shock. They find a group of statues look familiar. Too familiar; They look like Optimus Prime and his friends.

"No it can't be." Alpha Prime said in a stunned way.

The gang rushes to the statues. Nyx looks at one statue while saying in sadness, "Bumblebee."

"You don't think...she did this?" Rarity asks Twilight who appears, looking down in sadness.

"Oh yes she did. When those metal foals begged the princess to stop, she turned them all to stone." Twilight sighs a bit.

Alpha Prime looks down, ready to cry. Fred said to the alicorn robot, "Hey...it's okay. I betcha when we save our world, they can change back."

"Right, no need to cry," Ed encourages Alpha Prime who looks at the Changelings. "Otherwise..."

"Yes, I understand. Thank you for the kind words...for Changelings." Alpha Prime said with a smile, making the two Changelings feel good for their words.

"What is this horrible place?" Scootaloo ask in concern while glancing at the palace. "Could this be what used to be Canterlot Palace?"

"Unfortunately," Cadance said in sadness. "It looks worst as Midnight Castle from centuries ago."

"It's worst than we thought." Shining said seriously. "We must find the path around the tower to continue."

"Ugh, disgusting!" Apple Bloom exclaims in disgust, but the ponies knew that they don't have a choice now.

"Come on, we can't stay here and do nothing." Megan said to her friends in encouragement. "Equestria needs us, all of us."

The group follows the path around the gross tower, jumping over to the rocky bridge and getting to the other side. They saw some dead Royal Guards while climbing up the solid part of the tower.

"Looks like some ponies got here before we did." Pinkamena said with a smile of amusement of her face.

"Where did you come from, actually?" Ben asks Pinkamena though she grins madly to her.

"That's for me to know and you to find out later, Benny!"

The group saw the Royal Guards firing their attacks at them. Nyx calls out, "Quick; The Jackbomb!"

Ben throws the Jackbomb at the Royal Guards, causing them to blow up. Now they jump down to the right side, entering a hole in a wall. Megan's group follows the path, climbing different stones while killing off many Mini-Devils, the remaining Discord Spawns, Boojums, Phantasamagoria, and the Royal Guards, getting a lot of essences in the progress.

"There's a door." Sweetie said, spotting a door nearby. "We should go this way."

Megan opens the door, making her friends scream, gasping in shock. There are some corpses on the floor, some of them are old friends of the ponies. They have been either killed by Celestia or the Royal Guards.

"Oh man, some of those are our friends." Rainbow said in sadness while looking at corpses of her friends.

"We must move on..." Shining said seriously. "Once we stopped Celestia...there may be a slim chance that they could be back to life."

"But how can we restore Equestria? The Elements are useless without Pinkie, Applejack and Fluttershy." Rarity explains to Shining in sadness.

"I'm sure there's another way...wait, Megan has used the Elements back when they were the Rainbow of Light, right?"

"Wait, it was...well, yes, I did!" Megan exclaims in surprise and concern. "But...it has been a long time and..."

"You can do it, Megan." Cadance said, putting a hoof on Megan's shoulder. "The Elements may been separated but as the former Rainbow of Light, they may still work for you."

"Yeah...if we can find the Elements," Alpha Prime said seriously then saw a few Royal Guards coming. "But until then..."

Fred throws the Jacks while Apple Bloom uses the mallet on the Royal Guards, killing them. Next they went towards a metal plate.

"So do we go there?" Apple Bloom asks while glancing at the metal plate.

"Must be." Scootaloo said with a nod. The group step onto the plate...causing them all to go upward.

"Whoa!" The group exclaims while flying upward like mad.

 

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The group now came up to the most disgusting castle that they ever saw. Fred groans a bit, "Oh, I'm going to vomit."

"Me too," Ed exclaims a bit, getting sick himself.

"Not on me, you dopes," Rainbow snaps as the group lands onto the ground. "Get away!"

Twilight appears, saying, "The princess, the princess; my horn for the princess. Where is that wretched alicorn?"

"Mom must be in the throne room." Ben answers Twilight thoughtfully.

"All righty, let's not wait here!" Pinkamena exclaims with a mad laugh while waving her knife in the air. "Come on!"

Megan's group moves a bit, seeing two Unicorn Royal Guards appearing. Megan, Rainbow, Pinkamena, Alpha Prime and Golden Heart kill them off. Next they enter the double door to get into the castle, killing all the Royal Guards there.

Megan and her friends goes to two different sides while killing a Royal Guard each then came to a lever. Twilight appears near the first lever while saying, "Only a few ponies find the way. Well, some don't recognize it when they do. Some don't ever wanna."

"One of these days, egghead, you will stop talking like that." Rainbow snaps to Twilight as she teleports away from the area.

Shining pulls the lever, causing the mirror to turn and face a picture on the right. The gang leaves the room, heading back to the entrance. Now they went to the back side of the two where the two Royal Guards came from.

Inside then next room, there is some Airstream. Megan calls out, "Anyone who can't fly, better hang on."

The non-flyers got onto the ones who can't fly as they flew on up, entering a door with the same symbol like the one they saw earlier in the mirror. Now they arrive onto the center platform, seeing three paintings coming up.

"Where to go...let's take the middle!" Megan exclaims as she slash the middle painting (the one shown earlier). Now they leave the place, with Megan and Pinkamena killing off two Pegasus Royal Guards that attack them

Now Megan's group fell down to the place where they came up from through the airstream. Now they got rid of two Earth Pony Royal Guards, entering another room with the mirror.

"Time for more," Cadance said seriously.

The gang ran around the room once more and jumps to pull the lever. They saw what the next bad guy is pointing at as well as the symbol it represent. Megan's group goes back quickly, using the airstream and enter the painting room once more.

"Now the next one's...at the right," Megan exclaims while hitting the right painting.

The gang repeats the same progress one more time, destroying the Royal Guards along the way. Once they came back down, the group moves and arrive outside the door to the throne room. Here is where they must fight Celestia...the corrupted ruler of Equestria and their former friend.

Megan looks hesitated, saying, "I don't know...we can still reason with her. After all, we can still bring back Celestia and..."

Twilight teleports near Megan, looking sadly and concerned; She spoke, "Bravery and I are not always on intimate terms. My natural curiosity is tempered with caution, which is why I've lived long."

"So what are you saying?" Fred ask Twilight puzzled.

"Well, now...I will ignore my instinct to flee or fight. I shall speak the truth without worrying for the consequences. Your courage deserves no less."

"Well, Twilight, you did help us in the past, before this madness happens, helping us all out of tight spots and saving us from Nightmare Moon, Discord, Chrysalis and more." Rarity explains to Twilight with a smile.

"And even when we doubt you...you still help us and you are still our friend." Rainbow said to Twilight gently.

"Megan, you've suffered great pain and caused some; you endured deep grief and feelings of guilt. But now...you will be tested by something even more wretching and of anger." Twilight explains to Megan with a sigh. Unknown to her, the door to the throne room opens up. Pinkamena notices as she gasps upon seeing a tentacle made out of sunray coming out to the purple unicorn. "The worst is to come. You and Celestia cannot survive. You see, you two are parts of the same..."

"TWILIGHT; LOOK OUT!" Pinkamena screams in terror.

But it's too late. Twilight turns and gasps as the sun ray tentacles hit her, cutting the unicorn's head right off. The heroes gasps in horror as Twilight's remains fell to the floor.

"Twilight," Some of the heroes scream in horror; Twilight is on the floor...dead.

"Mommy," Nyx screams as she tries to run over to Twilight but Shining held her back, shaking his head in sadness.

"No, Nyx...no," Shining said in sadness. His little sister, is killed by the ruler he once respected...his aunt in law!

Ben looks horrified as he trots over to his love's remains. His own mother has killed his true love. She's gone and worst yet, Ben has yet to propose to Twilight...and marry her.

"Twilight...your death won't be in vain...I will join you but first..." Ben said in sadness. He turns to the others while saying to Megan, "Megan, I know what Twilight was going to say. Even I suspected for sometimes now. You and her...you are the same..."

But before Ben could finish, the tentacle appears, stabbing right through him. Everyone gasps as the stallion fell down near the headless Twilight.

"Mother...why...?" Ben groans in fatal pain. He looks to the headless Twilight and held her hoof. "Twilight...we will be together..."

Ben closes his eyes as he lays still. Megan fell to her knees, crying while screaming, "NOOOOOOO!!!"

"Mommy, daddy," Nyx cries as she gallops over and hugs the corpses of her parents. Everyone she knows and cares in her adopted family are gone! Spike, Luna, Lorcan...and now her parents! All of them are killed by the darkness...and ironically enough, from her own grandmother!

"Ugh, that's it! Bitch is toast!" Rainbow exclaims with an angry scowl on her face.

"I hate to say this but Celestia has gone too far this tonight." Scootaloo said furiously, her friends nod in agreement. Celestia has made Nyx an orphan now! She must pay!

Just then more of the Royal Guards appear. Shining and Cadance prepare themselves while the alicorn yells out, "All of you, inside now!"

"But what about you," Megan ask Cadance and Shining, tears coming from her eyes; if she and her pals go inside...

"Don't worry, we will be okay. I promise." Shining assures the group gently. "Avenge Twiley and Benny. Save Equestria. Go!"

Megan hesitates but goes through the door with Rainbow, Rarity, the Cutie Mark Crusaders, the shaken Nyx, Golden Heart, Alpha Prime, Pinkamena and the Changelings. Shining and Cadance charge and fight the Royal Guards.

Even if the couple were to die, they won't go down fighting.

 

Author's note
No...Twilight and Ben are dead...

 

Nyx: (sobbing) Mommy...daddy...

 

Rainbow: Bitch Celestia must die!!!

 

Me: In the next chapter, it's time for the final battle against Celestia whom they must fight to save Equestria. But is she really the true villain?

 

Megan: No, especially when the true source of the darkness is revealed.

 

Me: Right, and to restore Equestria, the Elements of Harmony will be used...but by who? Read, review and suggest.

Author's note
Two more chapters left to go and this fanmake will finally be done for. It's a long road since Halloween but the time will finally be here to finish it. VISION-KING, I decided to use a bit of your earlier suggestion.

 

And to Matski, just read on and see.

 

Chapter 13: The True Darkness

 

The group goes further into the throne room. Megan notices Nyx sobbing while looking down. The girl pets the little one while saying, "Nyx, we must go on. Your parents would want you to go on."

"I know, I know..." Nyx said while wiping her tears off her face. She stood up and glances to Megan who held the Discord Staff while Golden Heart held the Blunderbuss. "Grandma has gone too far. We got to kill her!"

The throne room looks a big Tartarus as the group enters. They saw someone waiting on her throne which is made out of pony bones. It's very beautiful female alicorn with long flowing light blue/green, and purple mane and tail, a golden tiara on her head, a golden collar with a jewel in the middle around her neck, and golden hooves. Her coat is normally white but she is now flaming orange with tentacles coming out of herself. She is Princess Celestia, the ruler of Equestria, Twilight's teacher, Cadance's aunt and Ben Mare's mother...the one who was destroying this world.

"Celestia..." Megan mumbles to her former friend and adopted daughter.

"Mother," Alpha Prime said as they walk to the evil alicorn, her face appears to be seemingly frozen (hell, she appears to be smiling). Celestia chuckles sinisterly to them.

"Who am I?"

"Time to die," Celestia exclaims madly. Suddenly she flew up as her face, which is a mask, fell off her, showing her face of madness.

Celestia, while appear to be floating, has a tentacle on her back lifting the alicorn while the ground around her breaks around. The group yelps as magic blasts fire at them.

"Yipes!" The Changelings exclaims as they dodge the attack.

"We got to take her out now!" Sweetie exclaims in alarm.

"But how," Apple Bloom ask Sweetie while dodging a tentacle.

"Time to use the Discord Staff," Megan exclaims as she fires a beam at the corrupted princess. Celestia screams in horror as she flew down, sending down a blast at her former friends and relatives.

Megan and her pals dodge her attacks. Celestia tries to grab one of them with a tentacle in hopes to grab them out of thin air. Pinkamena however cut the tentacle.

"Wow, how come she knows how to fight all of a sudden?" Rainbow asks her friends in surprise.

"Whadda mean?" Megan asks Rainbow a bit puzzled.

"Look out!" Golden Heart yells out as Celestia fires a missile at them. The alicorn quickly knocks the attack away in time then fires the Blunderbuss at Celestia, hurting her hard.

Celestia gloat, "And just what do YOU plan to do, Megan? You can't exactly use the Elements of Harmony against me and THAT'S the only magic powerful enough to stop me."

Megan comments, "Who said anything about magic, Celestia? All I need to beat you are brains and courage."

The ground shakes as spikes came out of the floor and are sent right at the group, who ran to dodge them. Nyx looks furiously as some of the spikes almost nick the Cutie Mark Crusaders.

"You...you bitch! YOU KILLED ALMOST MY WHOLE FAMILY! I SHOULD'VE LEFT YOU ON THE SUN!" Nyx exclaims to Celestia in fury at her former grandmother as the filly begins to glow. "IT'S ALL YOU'RE FAULT! I HATE YOU, I HATE YOU!!!"

Nyx flashes around and hits Celestia in all sides with her powers that came from out from out of nowhere. The corrupted princess groans then screams as Megan fires a blast with her staff.

Celestia screams as she fell to the floor as Megan and Nyx lands nearby. The group came to the corrupted on. Megan sighs, "Celestia..." Just then some white essence glow, coming to the girl as she smiles a bit. "Looks like I'm healed."

"Looks like Celestia is defeated." Rarity said in concern. "Looks like..."

Suddenly the group notices something: Celestia begins moving around and around...and suddenly she pulls right into the throne. They look a closer look and saw that it's really a mouth of a monster.

"Celestia," Megan gasps a bit.

"Wait, what the hay is that?" Rainbow assk a bit startled.

Soon the throne broke open as everyone fell to the floor. Soon they saw a creature spitting something out, glaring at them. Megan gasps as she saw it to be a creature unlike anything they had ever seen. The bottom was that of a pony; four legs, hooves, and a tail. The bottom half was covered with steel-grey fur, and where the Cutie Mark would be, there was a strange white arcane symbol. However, what was really disturbing was the top half. Stuck to where the head would be was a muscular torso that led up to shoulders with arms and hands. On top of the shoulder was a vile head, surrounding by almost a lion-like mane of steel-grey hair. Out of the hair extended dark-grey horns that curved skin of the torso, arms, and face was a reddish brown, and a metal breast and shoulder plate was worn by the creature. The monster looks like a centaur of legend...one thought to be destroyed centuries ago.

"Megan..." The creature growls to Megan evilly.

"Tirek," Megan gasps in shock and worry. It can't be but it's true. This monster is the same one she and her pony friends destroyed centuries ago...the lord of Midnight castle.

"Tirek," The Cutie Mark Crusaders gasps in surprise and worry.

"The monster of legend," Pinkamena ask in surprise. "But I thought he was dead."

"I was dead, foolish pony, but I waited all these centuries for revenge!" Tirek hisses evilly to the ponies. "I waited but I got my chance..."

"Of course, that explains everything!" Megan exclaims to Tirek angrily. "You were the one who corrupted Celestia, possessing her and making the princess do all this."

"Of course! These foolish ponies believe all these years that their princess has turned evilly, but it was me all along! This world was meant to be ruled by darkness and fear."

"You monster," Nyx cries out to Tirek in fury. The alicorn filly is now relieved that her grandmother is not the real evil but is furious that Tirek is the true cause of everything. "You possessed grandma! You made her hurt everypony I know and loved...even mommy and daddy!"

"Yes, but your friend Megan here got some credit." Tirek explains, giving an evil grin to Megan while startling her at the same time.

"What do you mean?" Golden Heart demands to Tirek with a frown.

"Well, some big darkness invaded this world not too long ago...one that I team up with to make this possible. But if you want to meet her, here you go!"

Tirek opens his mouth. Megan and her friends gasp as they saw what appears to be Pinkie's head in it. That pony then opens her mouth to reveal a horrifying sight: Megan's head!

"Oh crap! We are all screwed!" Fred yelps in worry.

"Is that...me?" Megan asks in surprise, getting a bit shaken up.

"Megan; that is your darkness," Alpha Prime explains to Megan in realization. "It invaded Equestria centuries after your tragedy...it took over Equestria and help Tirek corrupt mother."

"Leave now!" The creature spoke in a mixture of Megan's voice with that of Celestia's and Tirek's. "I rule Equestria alone! You will not interfere any longer! This world is for the grownups." The voice soon became warped, "Raw, well-ordered, ruthless, careening on the jagged edge of reality! Self-pitying dreamers like you are not wanted here, they cannot survive here!"

"Leave Megan alone," Ed exclaims to Tirek angrily.

"Yeah, stop being so mean to her!" Fred snaps to Tirek in agreement.

Tirek/Megan's darkness ignores the Changelings, shouting to Megan who begins to cry, "You are scared of the truth, you live in the shadows! Your pathetic attempts to reclaim your sanity have failed. Retreat to the safely of your self-delusions or risk total destruction! Destroy me and you will destroy yourself! But if you leave now, some hollow part of yourself may survive. Stay...and I will break you down! You will lose yourself forever!!"

"I...I..." Megan pauses then saw her friends looking at her friends. The girl frowns as she took out her Staff, snapping, "Shut up, Tirek! I do not care what you say or do to me now. I am not going to let words like yours affect me anymore! Everyone depends on us to stop you once and for all!"

"Wabout all those you failed to save, eh? Your friends...your family," Tirek taunts as he shows images of everyone that died during the adventure. But then Megan fires a blast at them, destroying the images.

"Not this time! Those who die would want me to move on...and kick your sorry flank back to Tartarus!!!"

"You know what Tirek, your number just came up." Pinkamena remarks creepily as she took her knives out, laughing madly.

The heroes smirk as they run to Tirek who pulls himself back into the hole. Megan and her friends find themselves in area where most of the planet looks destroyed. The monster roars, preparing for the final assault.

"Megan, get ready to face yourself." Golden Heart said to Megan sternly. "You must do so so you will end Tirek once and for all.

Tirek roars as everyone moves from one platform to the others. Rainbow calls out, "Move it!" The centaur fires a huge blast at the group who dodges it. The ponies and the Changelings assault the monster while Megan fires a beam from her staff.

"Everyone, keep it up!" Megan exclaims to her friends in determination.

Rainbow kicks at Tirek while Nyx uses her new found powers to hit the centaur in the table and tentacles, making him roar in pain. The filly's anger due to the lost of her loved ones is fueling her enough to help put an end to Tirek.

"Use 'de staff, hurry!" Apple Bloom calls out as she uses the Jacks to hit Tirek. "Yew don't wanna Celestia because Tirek's possessing her but we ain't got a choice here."

Megan nods as she rose the staff and aims at Tirek who tries to attack everyone. The girl aims creatures then fires a full blast at the centaur who screams as the attack hits him. The heroes perform the same tactic as Megan kept getting more Essence, firing each round.

Tirek appears to be getting more weak but he appears to be getting better. The centaur fires a rainbow blast at Megan's allies, knocking them down. Pinkamena exclaims, "Whoa!"

"I don't know if..." Megan begins to hesitate. No matter how many blasts she gave her, Tirek came back, more stronger than ever.

"Please, Megan..." A familiar voice came out of Tirek, making Megan gasp in surprise.

"C-Celestia?"

"Use the Elements...destroy Tirek."

"But I don't know where the Elements are!" Megan exclaims to Celestia as her friends look at her in concern. How will the girl uses the Elements if she doesn't know where they are.

"Summon them...I hid them before I became corrupted. Only the original owner of the Rainbow of Light came do so." Celestia's voice explains to Megan, the girl looks silence. "I know you don't want to destroy me, you will be losing the last of your family. But please...let go. Destroy me to destroy Tirek..."

Suddenly Tirek shakes a bit while roaring normally as he takes back control, "Nothing you can say will save you now, Celestia! I am in charge of this world now..."

"No, no, you're not...I won't let you harm anyone, anymore!" Megan snaps in determination as he holds out the hands, "ELEMENTS!!! COME FORTH!!!"

Suddenly a flash appears, almost blinding Tirek. Everyone else gasps as six trinkets of power appear, going to Megan. They watch as the items strapped themselves to the girl...the Elements of Harmony has been summoned.

"The Elements of Harmony," Rainbow and Rarity exclaims in surprise and amazement.

"Whoa!" The Changelings exclaims in amazement.

"No, it's impossible!" Tirek exclaims in horror as Megan, now wearing the Elements of Harmony while holding the Discord. "You can't use the Elements! And don't you know what happens when the Discord Staff comes in contact with them?! Never mix things that keep things in harmony with something that causes disharmony!"

"Doesn't matter; we are all in agreement...Celestia, I'm sorry. Goodbye." Megan said, saying the last part softly. The Elements glow as they and the Discord Staff fires a huge blast at Tirek.

Tirek roars as the blasts hit him, causing him to glow in a huge explosion. A familiar voice calls out, "Thank you, Megan..."

The magic goes into a crazy overtime, effecting everything; The Space around them, the Time that has pass, even Reality that has shaped itself to the present, all ends up becoming a chaotic mess before..."Zoop!" The light shrinks down like a star about to go out, and implodes like a supernova, flashing its unstoppable magical force all around.

 

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Suddenly the fire and stone stone flashes, changing into a familiar grassy plain. Three familiar ponies wake up, alive and well. Spitfire exclaims, "Whoa! What happened?"

Luna looks around and gasps as she saw Lorcan, "Lorcan!"

"Luna." Lorcan said as the two lovers hug each other. "You're alive...and so am I."

"I know. They did it. They must've stopped my sister...or whoever is responsible."

"Luna...I'm...I'm sorry...I..."

Luna smiles as she kisses Lorcan, saying softly, "It isn't you who've done those terrible things. It was Discord and something. It was never you."

"We are all alive! But what happened to our friends...and Celestia?" Spitfire asks her friends in amazement and concern.

 

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Equestria begins to be restored back to normal, with town and cities being rebuilt and flowers and grass growing back. In the Flutter Province, the Flutterponies and former corrupted ponies are restored, waking up.

"Where am I?" Nexus ask in surprise, looking around. He saw Queen Rosedust and Morning Glory coming. The unicorn gasps, remembering what he has done under the influence of darkness, and bows, "Queen Rosedust! I...I'm..."

"It's okay. You weren't yourself." Morning Glory said to Nexus with a smile of assurance on her face.

"What matters is that our world is safe again...thanks to Megan." Queen Rosedust said with a happy giggle.

 

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In the woods where Spike was killed, the dragon, normal size, coughs and woke up while mumbling, "Man, where am I?" Spike looks around then smiles. "Megan, Rarity, thanks...I better get to Canterlot."

 

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In Ponyville, the whole place is restored to normal as is the ponies who cheer in happiness. Zecora looks around, smiling as he said, "Megan, friends, thank you."

 

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At Canterlot, all of it begins to be restored to normal as the Moochick smiles while saying, "Megan, you did it. Thank you."

In front of the former corrupted throne room, two familiar ponies woke up, Twilight's head back on. The purple unicorn gasps in amazement and happiness, "Ben, are we..."

"We're alive. They did it." Ben said with a smile while hugging and kissing his true love. "Megan and her friends had destroyed the true monster. All of Equestria is saved!"

"Yeehaw, there yew are!" A familiar voice exclaims. The two turn to see three of their friends galloping towards them. It's Applejack, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie; the first two are back to normal while the last one is alive and no longer mad (no more to the point of killing).

"You three are back to normal and alive!" Twilight exclaims while nuzzling her friends. "Pinkie, you're back to your cheerful and nice self again!"

"Yay! I don't wanna make ponies into cupcakes anymore!" Pinkie exclaims happily while bouncing up and down. "This calls for a party!"

"Pinkie Pie, you are so random like Rainbow said."

In front of the palace, the statues begin to change, restoring the Autobots back to normal. Optimus Prime gasps as he exclaims, "We're back to normal! Equestria is saved..."

"But what about the others; the ones who saved us all," Bumblebee ask his fellow Autobots in concern. "What happened to them?"

 

Author's note
All right! Tirek has been destroyed and Equestria is restored, everyone who was killed is restored back to normal. The final chapter is coming up so read, review and suggest.

Author's note
Here we go, the final chapter of the fanmake and once it's done, so is one of my late Halloween fics. Hope you folks are excited.

 

Epilogue: Return of Equestria

 

"Megan? Megan?" A voice spoke up. Megan groans as he wakes up and open her eyes. She saw her friends with the girl smiling to her. Golden Heart, the one who spoke, exclaims, "You did it!"

"We did, didn't we?" Megan asks her friends with a smile as she was helped up to her feet.

"Yes...you did." A familiar voice spoke up. The group saw a familiar alicorn trotting over to them, alive and well. Some of them gasp as they saw it to be Celestia...no longer corrupted but is restored back to life

"Celestia."

"You did it, Megan." Celestia said with tears in her eyes while nuzzling Megan. "You have saved us all...revived the ones who were killed and even change me back to the way I was. I knew you would be the one who can use the Elements to do so."

"But I thought only the Element users can use them!" Sweetie exclaims, making Celestia smiles.

"True, but they were once the Rainbow of Light...which means Megan, as long as she got all the Elements in her heart, can use them as well. I saw the corruption overtaking me so I hid the Elements before I was consumed, hoping that someday that Megan can save us all."

Megan smiles a bit. Celestia is right, thanks to her, the Elements have restored all of Equestria and those who were killed all thanks to Tirek and the human girl's own darkness.

"Princess, everyone," A familiar voice exclaims. The group saw Twilight, Applejack, Fluttershy and Ben coming into the throne room.

"Mommy, daddy," Nyx exclaims, tears of joy came out of her eyes as she rush over to nuzzle her own parents. "You're alive, you're alive again!"

"I know, its okay, Nyx. We're back." Twilight said while nuzzling her daughter, Ben hugs Nyx. A family has been reunited.

"Applejack; Yer're not a robot no more!" Apple Bloom exclaims happily while nuzzling her sister.

"Eeyup an' Ah am ready 'ta buck some apples as a celebration feast!" Applejack exclaims with a smile.

"Don't forget to save them for my super duper 'Equestria is not corrupted and grim any more' party!" Pinkie exclaims while bouncing up and down. Then she saw Rainbow, feeling guilty about what she tried to do to her before. "Dashie...sorry about...I didn't mean to..."

"Awww, forget it, Pinkie Pie." Rainbow laughs while hugging Pinkie, giving her a noogie. "That wasn't you, just a ripoff. I'm glad you're alive and not wanting to do that anymore by the darkness."

Pinkie grins happily, excited that her friend has forgiven her. Fluttershy blinks to Pinkamena while asking, "I hope you don't mind me asking...are you Pinkie's twin sister?"

"Well, I could be...nah!" Pinkamena exclaims to Fluttershy confusing her a bit.

Celestia looks down to her student and her son, feeling miserable that she killed them before thanks to Tirek. The alicorn said softly and sadly, "Twilight, Ben...I'm sorry."

"For us; For killing us," Ben ask his mother, noticing her sadden face.

"I wasn't myself thanks to Tirek. I killed you both without a moment's thought! Oh, what kind of mother would do that to her own child? Or worst, what kind of..."

Suddenly Twilight and Ben hugs Celestia, interrupting her. The purple unicorn said happily, "We already forgive you. We knew you wouldn't kill us. We're glad to have you back."

"As are we," A familiar voice spoke up. Luna and Lorcan came into the room, alive while the dragon is back to normal.

"Luna! Lorcan," Scootaloo exclaims with a grin. "You're alive..."

"Yeah, we're both alive." Lorcan said with a chuckle, then rubs the back of his head while saying, "Megan, Rarity...sorry about what I said to you before, especially the others. I was angry and...Discord did something to me later and..."

"Hush. We already forgiven you, Lorcan darling." Rarity said with a chuckle then sighs. "I just wish that Spikey Wikey is here to celebrate with us..."

"Then consider your wish granted, my lady!" The familiar voice of Spike exclaims as the baby dragon came into the room with a smile. The others gasps in happiness and delight. Their friend is alive!

"Spike," Lorcan exclaims, tears in his eyes as he and Rarity rush over to hug Spike, being reunited with their no longer dead friend.

"Spikey-Wikey," Rarity exclaims while kissing Spike. "You're alive! I miss you so much!"

"Yeah, I miss you too. I feel like being in limbo after my death, where's it lonely and all that." Spike said with a smile to his true love.

Pinkie looks down sadly, remembering that she killed Spike earlier. The Earth pony said, "Spike...please forgive me for stomping on you! I should make myself into cupcakes for doing so and killing you and..."

"Pinkie, as far as I'm concerned, I forgive you and you weren't yourself; let's move on, please!"

"Okie dokie lokie!"

"Well, she didn't take long to recover, did she?" Rainbow jokes to her friends who laugh along with her.

"Hey, is this a private party or can any bot join in?" The familiar voice of Bumblebee spoke out as the Autobots came in, much to the happiness of the ponies, Megan and their friends, especially Nyx, "Nyx!"

"Bumble Bee." Nyx said as she jumps into Bumble Bee's arms. "I'm so happy you're back my BBBFF."

Celestia looked down, getting depressed once more, regretting what she did to the Autobots while under the influence of Tirek and the darkness. The alicorn spoke to her love, "I'm sorry for what I have done and what I have put you through. Can you ever forgive me?"

"Do not worry my love." Optimus assures Celestia as she held her hoof. "I knew it from the moment I last saw, I knew you weren't acting of your own free will."

"I can't hate you. You're my mother." Alpha Prime said.

Celestia wrap her wings around her son to hug him. Twilight turns to Ben while asking, "Feeling a bit worried?"

"To be honest, not really; I will just let mom have her own happiness. She needs it after what happened." Ben said to Twilight, nuzzling her a bit.

"Come on! Let's have that party! My treat," Pinkie exclaims happily and anxiously.

"Yeah, I want to party too, come on, please!" Pinkamena exclaims, giving cutesy eyes to Golden Heart.

"Oh brother and once again you give me those cute like eyes, Pinkamena." Golden Heart said uneasily, making the others laugh in amusement.

The Changelings look nervous. Ed spoke up, "Uh, Princess Celestia?"

"Hmm," Celestia ask, glancing at the Changelings and recalling them to be part of Chrysalis's Changelings army.

"What you gonna do with me and Ed here? I mean we did help the others save Equestria and all that crap." Fred said nervously to Celestia.

"Cut them some slack, Celestia." Luna said to her sister with a smile. "They did help us out..."

"Well, I do have one idea in mind." Celestia remarks, giving out one mischievous smirk.

 

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"We have to help out in the party?!" Fred whines a bit as he and Ed assists Pinkie and Pinkamena out in their party back in Ponyville. Celestia insists on the two Changelings helping out.

"Well, at least we get to set up the camera." Ed said as he sets up the camera. "Too bad we have to time it."

"Oh, I am happy to see my old friends." Fluttershy said with a giggle while hugging her animal friends, especially Angel. "It's great that the nightmare is over."

"So what shall we do with the Elements, princess?" Twilight ask Celestia curiously.

"They shall go back to their previous place...until the next time they would be needed." Celestia explains to Twilight with a smile.

The princess is relieved to be welcomed back into Ponyville. The ponies learn the story of how the darkness took her over and forgave her. Granted, there are some who won't forgive so easily but the progress can be a bit slow.

Ratchet spoke up to Optimus, "Optimus, I just talk to Cybertron. Things have been quite except for two Decepticon attacks. But nothing was stolen and there were no casualties."

"That's good news." Optimus said with a nod.

Bulkhead then spoke up, "Well I think it's time for us to go home."

"Perhaps you're right. But me and Alpha will stay for a few more days; To spend some time with Celestia. The Council can handle Cybertron for a little longer."

"Can I stay too? I haven't seen Nyx for some time." Bumblebee requests to Optimus Prime hopefully. The Autobots leader glances to his friend, noticing how anxious he and Nyx are.

"Permission granted." Optimus said with a smile behind his metal mask. It would be a shame to separate Bumblebee and Nyx now.

"All right, ponies and everything else, get ready for the picture!" Ed calls out as he times the picture.

Megan stood along with the Mane Six, Ben Mare, Spike, the Cutie Mark Crusaders, Nyx, Celestia, Luna, Lorcan, Alpha Prime, Golden Heart, Pinkamena, the Autobots, the Flutterponies, Nexus, the Moochick, Derpy, Dinky Doo, Zecora, Shining, Cadance, and some ponies wanting to be in the shot, including two Royal Guards (no longer corrupted), Berry Punch, Caramel and more friends. The Changelings rush into the shot and trips a bit.

"Oh brother," Shining sighs a bit. The Mane Six gathers around Megan and hugs her, making the girl smile. Everyone did their poses as the picture was taken.

 

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The picture is inside a familiar book on a page that said 'Happily Ever After' on the top. Below it are the words '"MEGAN, you did it! You've saved us!" And Megan did more than saved her friends...she has saved herself as well; The End'.'

"The end," Megan said with a smile as she looks up to the sky while leaving the asylum. With her sanity restored and the darkness gone, the doctors declare her fit to leave at last. True, Megan will be send to an orphanage to stay at and to work, but at least she isn't suffering much anymore.

Megan smiles as she saw a familiar cat waiting for her and picks the feline up. She smiles and left the asylum. The nightmare is now over...

But for Megan, her trip to dealing with her childhood tragedy lives on...

 

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The Discord Staff is on the battlefield, long forgotten until some pony grabs it; Somepony with a four digit mechanical claw and a robotic laugh…

 

The End?

 

Cast list
Kath Soucie: Megan Williams
Tara Strong: Twilight Sparkle
Ashleigh Ball: Rainbow Dash, Rainbow Droid
Andrea Libman: Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Pinkamena Diane Pie
Tabitha St. Germain: Rarity, Princess Luna, Derpy Hooves
Cathy Weseluck: Spike the Dragon, Mayor of Ponyville
Nicole Oliver: Princess Celestia
Michelle Creber: Apple Bloom
Claire Corlett: Sweetie Belle
Madeline Peters: Scootaloo
Daveigh Chase: Nyx
Vic Mignogna: Lorcan the Dragon
Rob Paulsen: Fred the Changeling
Eric Stuart: Ed the Changeling
Yuri Lowenthal: Alpha Prime
Orlando Bloom: Golden Heart
Brenda Crichlow: Zecora
Jonathan Winters: The Moochick
Russi Taylor: Morning Glory, Queen Rosedust
Jason Marsden: Ben Mare
Maryke Hendrikse: Spitfire, Gilda the Griffin
John de Lancie: Discord
Michael Bell: Grogar
Corey Burton: Sir Spell Nexus
Scott McNeil: Rover
Richard Ian Cox: Fido
Lee Tockar: Spot
Mark Hamill: Roclan
Victor Caroli: Tirek the Abomination
B.J. Ward: Surprise
Sandy Duncan: Applejack (original)
Jayson Thiessen: Royal Guards
Cathy Cavadini: Dinky Doo
Andrew Francis: Shining Armor, Lucky
Britt McKillip: Princess Cadance
Chuck Huber: Caramel
Peter Cullen: Optimus Prime
Johnny Yong Bosch: Bumblebee
Jeffrey Combs: Ratchet
Kevin Michael Richardson: Bulkhead

 

Author's note
And another Halloween fic done and finish (better late than ever). I hope you all like this fanmake as I did making it. I hope to make the sequel someday.

 

Well, I planned on getting to the third season of Rainbow Dash's E-Mails very soon. Until then, read and review