I heard a knock on my door which woke me up. I rubbed my eyes and looked at my pocketwatch to see it reading 8:00am.

"Now why would anypony wake me up at a time like this?" I asked myself. "Ugh...I hate Mondays...wait, is it a Monday, oh who cares."

I then shook my head before I heard the door knock again.

"Hold on...I'm coming." I said in a grouchy voice.

I then opened the door and took a deep breath to stay calm.

"Morning Bond." Twilight greeted.

"Oh, morning Twilight, why did you wake me up at a time like this?" I asked.

"Sorry but Celestia has asked us to go to the abandoned castle and have it repaired. She's thinking of getting it restored to it's former glory."

"As long as it's during the day, I don't mind...I'll be on my way after I had my breakfast."

"Alright but don't be too late. You don't wanna disappoint Rarity, right?"

"Yeah real funny Twilight...anyways, I'll see you all shortly."

Twilight stuck her tongue out before she giggled and closed the door. I then let out a huge yawn before I got myself a drink to wake me up. After I had my breakfast, I got cleaned up and dressed before I left my home and flew over the Everfree Forest and towards the castle and landed outside.

I walked inside to the tumbled throne room to see the six mares working along with Spike who was reading the book he got from the Canterlot Library yesterday.

"Looking good, everypony! Let's keep this magical makeover moving!" Twilight ordered.

"You got it!" Dash replied as she and Fluttershy carried a huge piece of fabric around the room.

"Bond is here, ready to do his part." I said to them.

"Oooh, good you're here. Help me with this, sugarcube." Applejack said as I adjusted the frames on a wall.

I then saw Spike with his book in his small bag and walked towards the others.

"You sure you don't need any help?" he asked.

"Nah, that's okay." Applejack replied.

"We have everything under control!" Pinkie added as she surfed around, creating bubbles whilst wiping the floor.

"Dash?"

"I'm good!" Dash replied.

"Isn't there anything I can help you with, Twilight?" Spike sighed.

"Don't worry about it, Spike! It's all good!" Pinkie answered quickly.

"I think she's right. It looks like we've got it, Spike. Looking great, everypony! Why don't you find a quiet spot and finish reading your comic? Aren't you right at the part where Hum Drum was about to stop the villain?"

Spike then pulled out his comic book and left the throne room to probably read in a quiet place.

I then noticed Rarity beside me. "Surprise darling." she said before she kissed me.

"I love it when you surprise me, my love." I replied, kissing her back.

"Okay you two, we've got work to do around here." Twilight winked.

Soon, with my help, we finished off the work needed and we agreed to take a break.

"Let's look for Spike." Pinkie said.

"Agreed." Twilight replied.

We left the throne room and walked through the halls.

"Spike! Where are ya, Spike?" Applejack called.

"We're breaking for tea and biscuits!" Rarity added.

"Spike!" Dash also called.

"Heeeeeelp!" Spike yelled from a room.

We gasped and galloped to where he was and when we barged into the room, we saw a bright light and we began to get sucked in by the comic book...a huge light enveloped everything.

When we woke up after what seemed like a few seconds, Spike gasped first.

"Is this... Maretropolis?" he asked himself as he looked around.

"Somepony wanna tell me what the hay is goin' on?" Applejack asked.

"Holy new personas, ponies! You're the... Masked Matter-Horn! Fili-Second! Zapp! R-Radiance! Mistress Mare-velous! Saddle Rager!  Agent Voice! You're the... Power Ponies!"

"Well I'll be..." I said as I looked at my agent outfit. "...go go Power Rangers!"

The other stared at me, wondering what I just said.

"No it's Power Ponies." Spike corrected.

I then looked at Rarity...or Radiance now and my Celestia, she looks stunning. If only Spike wasn't with us right now...just then, we heard a small explosion and all us rushed to where it was coming from as we looked down from the top of a building we were on.

"Power Ponies!" a mare laughed who seemed to have separate strands of hair like Medusa, "How kind of you to join us!"

"Huh?" we all wondered.

"Did she just call us... Power Ponies?" Applejack asked.

"You're the...the superheroes from my comic book! It somehow zapped us all in here!" Spike replied.

"So somepony zap us back out!" Dash demanded.

"My comic book! It said the way to get back to where we started was to defeat the Mane-iac! Your arch-nemesis!"

"Time for the mane event!" Mane-iac boasted as she used her strips of mane to lift up a pretzel stand and threw it at us.

We then saw a letterbox thrown at us which headed towards Pinkie, when it landed, we looked to see wasn't there.

"Pinkie! Where'd she go?!" Dash asked.

"Wheeeeeeee!" Pinkie exclaimed as she zoomed across the buildings.

"She could be miles away from here by now! Pinkie is Fili-Second, the fastest pony in all of Maretropolis!" Spike explained.

Applejack used her rope to whip at Mane-iac but missed an she ended up lassoing a streetlight pole and speeded down from us and wrapped herself around the pole. Mane-iac laughed at this.

"Twilight! Freeze her mane!" Spike yelled.

"Do what?" Twilight asked.

"You're the Masked Matter-Horn! You can shoot all kinds of crazy power beams from your horn!"

Twilight used her horn but only created snowflakes.

"You know, I'm beginning to enjoy this." Mane-iac smirked.

"Dash! Quick! You're Zapp, and your superpower is controlling the mighty forces of nature! Unholster the lightning bolt!"

Dash flew up and used he necklace to bring in a tornado.

"Lightning, not a tornado!" Spike yelled.

We all then got sucked in the tornado and began spinning around.

"Fluttershy! You're Saddle Rager! Lose your temper, and you'll turn into a huge, super-strong monster!"

"Oh, gosh! That wouldn't... be very... polite!" Fluttershy replied.

"Ugh! Rarity! You're Radiance! Use your jewellery to create attack constructs!"

"What's an attack construct?!" Rarity asked.

"Just think of something, anything, and your bracelet makes it appear!"

Rarity used her bracelet to make a complete tea set appear.

"Something useful!"

We continued getting spun around until Spike was flown out of it.

"Well, this has been quite the mane-raising experience. But I really must be going." Mane-iac said as we heard her leave us, laughing all the way.

Shortly then, the tornado got bigger and wider before it popped, leaving us lying on the ground.

"That was spin-tastic!" Pinkie giggled as I saw Radiance land down on a small table and glass case she probably created.

"Lemme get this straight: We've been sucked into some kind of comic-book world?" Applejack asked.

"Technically, it's called Maretropolis." Spike answered, "And if we wanna get back to Ponyville, I think we have to stop the Mane-iac from using her doomsday device to destroy it!"

"No biggie. I was already awesome. And now we've all got superpowers!" Dash boasted.

"Almost all of us have superpowers..."

"But you must have them too, Spikey-boo. Your character is wearing a cape!" Rarity said.

"Yeah, for absolutely no reason. He's pretty much useless..."

"Good thing you're not really Hum Drum, then." Twilight added.

"Yeah, good thing..."

"If I may interrupt, what exactly am I dressed as?" I asked.

"Oh you're Agent Voice, you have the power to imitate any voice in this comic world as well as dress the smartest."

"Really...that's it? Ugh, I never asked for this!" I replied, intimating the voice who said that line.

"So the six of us Power Ponies will take care of Mane-iac, and get us back to Ponyville!" Dash said.

"Spike, where is the Mane-iac building her doomsday device?" Twilight asked.

"Her top-secret headquarters! But you'd better get there quick." Spike said as we all began walking, "That glowing orb she just stole is what she's going to use to power it up!"

"Lead the way, Spike!" Applejack said.

"Then leave the rest to us!" Dash added.

Spike sighed as he led the way and walked in front of us. When we arrived at a tall warehouse, we stopped walking.

"There it is!" Spike exclaimed as he pointed out the warehouse.

"Is that a... shampoo factory?" Applejack asked.

"All right, Power Ponies, here's the plan. Rarity, you, me and-"

"Come on out, Mane-iac! Or the Power Ponies are comin' in!" Dash yelled, cutting Twilight off as she used her lightening to zap the neon lights off the sign.

"So much for 'element of surprise'."

"Guess I'll just hang back here doing nothing." Spike sighed.

Now I was beginning to feel concerned about him, as if he was being left out.

"Oh, I don't think she's home. Maybe we should just come back later." Fluttershy said, trying not to panic.

We then heard the Mane-iac laugh villainously.

"She's home." Rarity responded worryingly.

The warehouse door then lifted up and we saw a huge group of unfriendly ponies.

"Time to Power Pony up!" Applejack announced.

"Ooh! Nice catchphrase!" Pinkie commented.

"Freeze ray!" Twilight yelled as she threw a beam at one of the hench-ponies, but it was only a snowball.

"It's an improvement, darling." Rarity commented as she flew up on a flying carpet. I hope she didn't borrow it from Aladdin...

Two of the hench ponies galloped towards me, I leapt up and used my strength to knock them both out.

"Did somepony wanna double up?" I remarked.

"Ooh, I do so love a functional accessory!" Rarity said as she laid out her hooves with the bracelet on.

Fluttershy whimpered as a pony came towards her before he got stopped by a zap from a lightening.

"My hair!" he exclaimed as he galloped away.

"Seriously? You aren't even just a little angry right now?" Dash asked, confused by what he just said.

"Nice work, Power Ponies!" Twilight praised, "Now let's take care of the Mane-iac and get ourselves home!"

"I don't think so!" Mane-iac replied as she showed herself, "I have a city to destroy, and I'm not about to let the Power Ponies stop me! Not this time!"

"Yeah, like I haven't heard that line before." I muttered.

"Just watch us!" Dash yelled.

Mane-iac then brought out a hairspray can.

"The Hairspray Ray of Doom!" Spike exclaimed, "It stops you in your tracks and renders your powers useless!"

Dash zoomed towards her before Mane-iac sprayed at her which stopped her instantly and she fell on the ground like a glass object.

"We'll just see about that!" Rarity exclaimed as she and the others all galloped towards her.

Mane-iac used her spray at them and they stopped instantly. I had then noticed that Fluttershy and Spike weren't with them and neither was I. I hid behind the mailbox like a coward, noticing Fluttershy and Spike were behind there too.

"Fluttershy, please! Just a little anger?!" Spike asked quietly.

"Well, I'm not so much angry as I am concerned, bordering on terrified!" Fluttershy replied nervously.

"Well I hate to point this out, but we've got company." I said, pointing to Mane-iac who was in front of us.

She then used more of her hairspray but I bought up a shield to protect myself and galloped away out of sight. I turned around a corner and looked back to overhear the commotion.

"Don't spray!" Spike yelled.

"Oh, Hum Drum, why in all of Maretropolis would I use the Hairspray Ray of Doom on you? Rather pointless, don't you think?" Mane-iac asked before she laughed and brought the six mares who were trapped like statues into the warehouse and closed the door.

When the coast was clear, I came from behind and walked over to Spike who looked really depressed.

"What am I supposed to do? I'm useless. No wonder my friends never need me to do anything important."

"Spike, you know that is not true. You know that you always come through for Twilight and the rest of us when we need you."

"But you and the others are the ones with superpowers. They've probably already figured out how to escape."

"After the way they got captured by that hairspray can? I wouldn't be so sure."

"What makes you say that?"

"Listen Spike, I know what it feels like to not be useful and to not be offered a chance to help. But that doesn't mean you have to think you're useless."

"Really?"

"Yes, I mean you do help out a lot when Twilight asks you and so does Rarity at times. Besides, I'm the only power pony the Mane-iac hasn't captured, so I can offer to help you out and rescue our friends together."

"You're right, we have to do it for our friends!"

"That's the spirit! Now let's sneak inside and see what's happening."

Spike got on my back and I flew up to the rooftop of the warehouse and looked for a way in.

"Spike, you go into that vent and sneak in until you find an exit so you can see what's going on."

"Got it, you go to the warehouse entrance and imitate a voice of whatever you can do to get that door open."

"Right, don't you worry Spike, I believe in you."

"Thanks dude."

Spike smiled and snuck in the vent shaft whilst I flew down to the entrance. I knocked on the entrance door and began to imitate a voice.

"Pizza delivery!" I called.

The door opened and a hench pony came out.

"Uh, we didn't order pizza, it's ruins our style." he complained.

"You sure? This is the shampoo factory, right?"

"Go away!"

"How about no?"

The hench pony slammed down the door, I took several steps backwards and lit up my horn and created a huge blast, exploding the door down and galloped inside to find Spike watching over the mares who were trapped in a cage.

"Over there! Idiots!" Mane-iac ordered as the hench ponies came towards me.

"Time to kick flank, Power Pony style!" I exclaimed.

Spike then jumped from the walkway and landed on a hench pony, knocking him out. Whilst I got my daily exercise by knocking the others out and freeing the mares from the cage in the process, before Spike spotted Fluttershy not moving.

"Fluttershy, why are you hiding?" Spike asked.

"You seem to have everything under control." she replied.

"Fluttershy, we need you! You have to power up!"

"I'm sorry, it's just that nothing is making me mad."

We then saw a firefly get mane-whipped by Mane-iac and collides into the wall.

"Oh, goodness! Are you okay?" she asked before she got mad at Mane-iac "Are you kidding me? I mean, I know you're evil and everything, but you hurt a teensy, little, harmless firefly?! Really?! Well you're just a great, big, meanie!" her voice began to go deeper. "There! I said it! What makes you think you're so special?! Like the rules of common courtesy don't apply to you?! Why don't you pick on somepony your own size?!"

She was now huge and let our a big roar.

"Holy Celestia!" I yelled in shock. "Has the Incredible Hulk been around these parts?"

Fluttershy or Flutterhulk as I now saw her jumped onto mane-iac superweapon, knocking her off and smashing the weapon to pieces before stopping, feeling embarrassed. We then saw Mane-iac tied up in her own mane, thanks to Applejack.

"My mane! My maaaaaane!" Mane-iac laughed insanely.

"Once again, the day is saved by-"

Spike got gut off as we began to feel a force pulling us away from the comic world and back into our own world, landing on in same room we were in before.

"I'm starting to feel like Alice in Wonderland at this rate." I muttered.

"Awesome!" Dash yelled. "Did you see how I was raining down a storm of justice at the end there?!"

"Eh, we had a good half second before we got sucked back out of the comic, and the Maretropolis bakery was only sixty-five blocks away!" Pinkie added.

"I'm just glad to be back." Spike said.

"We wouldn't have made it without you, Spike and of course you too Bond." Twilight said to us, "And I hope you realize that just because we don't always need your help, it doesn't mean that we don't think you're helpful."

"And that you don't have to have superpowers to be a super friend." I added.

We all nodded in agreement.

"But I do have one question. Where exactly did you get that comic book?" Twilight asked.

"This one I got in Canterlot at the House of Enchanted Comics. Well, I didn't know it meant they were literally enchanted!" Spike answered innocently. "I thought it just meant, like, the comics they sold there had really enchanting storylines! Hey, wait up! I'm an important part of this team, remember?!"

As we left the castle and seeing the sunset, I walked alongside Rarity and quietly as Spike caught up with us and got on Twilight's back.

"Pssst, Rarity, want me to come over and save the world tonight with you?" I whispered her slyly.

"Oooh darling." she replied, giggling like a filly. "You'll always be my superhero."

She then kissed me quickly as we all made it back home.

"Ah gotta go straight back to the farm, ya'll." Applejack said as we exchanged our farewells. "By sunrise tomorrow morning, it'll be applebuck season again and this time, ah'm sure ya'll can help me out from start to finish."

"Of course Applejack, anything we can do to help, just say and we'll be there." Twilight replied.

"Thank ya kindly, not only that, ah have a little surprise for ya'll when ya come on over, goodnight ya'll."

After the coast was clear, Rarity grabbed my hoof and took me to her home.

"I have to confess, you looked incredibly stunning with that outfit on. You were indeed quite a radiance." I complimented as we walked into her home and upstairs to her bedroom.

"I suppose I was, but you were a handsome stallion too with that fabulous agent suit." she replied, "Speaking of which, I still have that costume you wore on Nightmare Night that was almost like that one."

"Really, shall I wear it for tonight?"

"Only if I can design my power pony outfit which shan't take long."

We got into her bedroom and as soon as we closed the bedroom door behind us, I got on the bed and then Rarity pounced on me, causing me to fall backwards on the pillows.

"Now, you just lie here while I go and get your outfit and make mine."

In no time at all, I saw my agent costume from Nightmare Night and dressed into it whilst Rarity designed her radiance which looked almost exactly like the original one. My wings flung open as I started at her heroic beauty and design.

"Let's go and save the world, Agent Voice."

"My dear Radiance, anything for you."

No more words were needed, we got on the bed and exchanged romantic kisses...it was a night of passion for sure. Next Chapter: Bats Estimated time remaining: 11 Hours, 17 Minutes