(Castle of the Royal Pony siblings)

        Like anyone else in his position, Discord was bored. Worried, but bored. It had only been a few hours since his daughter had disappeared with Anson and Nicko and now he was wondering where they could’ve possibly ended up. This question though answered itself the moment that a galactic vortex was torn open and the sounds of bodies crashed onto the floor. As the smoke cleared up, Discord found a rather unusual sight.

His daughter landing face first on the ground followed by Anson landing right on top of her. The sight made him chuckle a bit as they looked back at the elder Draconequus.

“Well, this is a surprise.”

    Both of them soon scrambled to each other’s feet as Eris and Anson looked at each other before looking at Discord. “This isn’t what it looks like.”

   Before they could even explain anything, Molly and Amy rushed into the room from a corridor in a nearby hallway. “There you two are! Where the hell is Nicko?”  Looking around, Anson soon realized that his brother was indeed missing.  

“Oh great the short guy is missing, quick someone get me a magnifying glass so I won’t step on him.” Amy said sarcastically. Before anyone could saying anything a holographic image of a familiar foe reappeared.

“Well, look at that. You made it through my little funhouse. Unfortunately, you’re suppose to be dead right now… Well, we can change that.”

   With a snap of the Esper’s fingers, something new began to form about the heads of all five individuals in the room. It seemed… demonic in nature and soon, the hologram faded away to reveal what Eric had left behind for them.

Right now, the sheer size of the Beast that the Tracer had left for them was what surprised all of them. Anson though, had the perfect words to describe the situation.

“SON OF A TAINT!!! ”

(Elsewhere)

“Ok so what the hell am I looking for again Selena?” Asked Jane.

“It’s called the stone of sound mind, something that your daughter will need later on in her life.” Selena said as she handed Jane blue color stone. “You need this in order to find it, when it glows then you’ll know it the right stone.”

“And how do I know this isn’t some kind of evil plan to take over the world?”

*OF COURSE!!!*

“Who said that?”

“Please I’m not that stupid to do that, I’ll leave that to the religious nuts. Anyway while you’re finding the stone, I’ll be going back to where Amy is.”

“Wait a minute you’re leaving me to find the stupid stone?”

“Well someone has to keep an eye out for your daughter, plus I brought you back from the dead so you pretty much owe me that much right?”

“.....Ok fine I’ll find the stupid stone, but if my daughter’s die I am so gonna hunt you down and kick your ass.”

“Noted, now if you’ll excuse me I’ll be off.” With that Selena teleported off to where Amy and her friends are. Leaving behind a very annoyed mother, who didn’t like to be left doing someponies work.

“Great now where’s the hell is that stupid thing?”

“Excuse me, ma’am?”

Jane turned around, her eyes briefly looked at him with a bit of shock. “Y-you’re one of Ciela’s boys! Nicko, right?!”

“H-how do you know my mother? Matter of fact, how do you know about me?!” Nicko asked, taking it as a possible sign of caution and not knowing if this individual was a threat or not. He gripped his blade just in case.

“I knew her for a long time. In fact, you know my daughters… Amy and Molly.”

    Nicko was unsure of what the hell was going on right now, but something about this made him feel uneasy. This only made things more complicated with what he asked next. “Are you…… Their mother?” Jane nodded yes to one of his questions, but now had a few more questions pop up inside his head.

“Wait… Yuri told me that you… died. If that’s true, then how the hell is this happening? Are you a ghost or something?”

“No, it’s not like that.” The Noblesses replied, sighing to herself. “Would you happen to know some girl by the name of Selena?”

“Yeah. She was helping keep Amy alive when she was nearly killed.”

“MY DAUGHTER ALMOST DIED!?” Jane shouted, shocked by when Nicko told her just now. She had energy coming from her hands and was tempted to grab the boy and demand answers from him.

“Woah!! Wait a second!” The Rune Slayer told her as he backed away a bit. “Are you even aware of what’s going on right now?”

  “No, but that’s not important right now. Selena needed me to get something from the Canterlot Archives, only telling me that the item in itself is a surprise. Not to mention that once I actually complete this task, I can see my daughters again.”

“Okay, but how can we tell what she needs?” Nicko asked the question. To his surprise, he saw the Noblesses pull out what looked like a crystalline teardrop as it faintly glowed.

“This would glow brightly when we get closer and fade when were farther away from whatever it is.”

“Well, we have a location and something to help us. Now we need to get there… and thankfully, I’ve been there before.”

   “Alright, lead the way.” Jane replied. She was starting to become impressed by the child. He surely had grown, but also had picked up many useful skills that he did not have when he was the six year old child the woman had let stay in her family orphanage. Through the streets in the dimly lit alleys they went as the two of them soon arrived at the huge library. Sneaking past the guards that were on duty, the two of them were now in the main lobby as they looked around.

“Alright, how much time do you think we have before somepony notices were here?”

“Somepony?”

“It’s how they say somebody.”

        “Ah, well I say we got ten minutes. Maybe fifteen?” She replied as the Noblesses lit up a torch to use as a light source. Fifteen minutes was all the two needed for them to find what Selena wanted. But in the back of the Rune Slayer’s mind, he began to worry about if Eric had already began to attack Ponyville.

Ponyville

  Inside Ponyville’s library, a young Alicorn was sound asleep. Over the past few days, she had been extremely busy with her newfound duties of being the princess of friendship and right now, Twilight Sparkle was in a deep sleep. Nothing was able to disturb her since she casted a soundproof barrier around her room so she wouldn’t be able to hear any late night shenanigans from the townsfolk that were returning from the bar or just anything that she wouldn’t consider as normal. However, she did not take into account the possibility of a Draconequus sneaking in through the second floor balcony.

“Psst… Twilight… Wakey wakey……”

  “F-five more minutes, Spike.” She moaned as the Alicorn began to toss and turn. Discord sighed a little, facepalming himself with his lion paw. Using his chaos magic, the spirit summoned a small firecracker and soon lit the fuse, having it set off in the middle of the room and startle the princess. She first was shocked for her life, but sighed once she saw who woke him up.

“Discord, what are you doing here? Don’t you know what time it is?”

“It’s time for you to get up. We got an emergency.”

Twilight raised an eyebrow as she looked at the Draconequus. He wasn’t one to be serious, so what was with the change in attitude? “Oh? What kind of emergency?”

“The kind where we need to evacuate everypony in Ponyville. Eric is on his way here right now.”

The name of the Diabolic Esper sent chills down her spine. “H-how do you know this?”

“Long story, but I was with Anson investigating the old castle that you wanted to refurbish. Turns out, he was using it as a place to conduct his research and plan an attack on Ponyville. He left Anson, Amy and Molly to fight against an overgrown Diamond Dog, Eris is trying to find Nicko, and last time I looked outside, Luke and the others were defending the town against a swarm of changelings since Chrysalis is working with that Diabolical Creep.”

Twilight herself was shocked for multiple reasons, but did not have the time to inquire every bit of information that she wanted to know. The town’s citizens came first and she had to make sure that every one of them was safe. “If what you say is true, then we need to act now. Do you have any ideas on how to get everypony out of here.”

The Draconequus smiled. “Yes I do. Would Cadence have happened to teach you how to use the Royal Canterlot Voice?”

(Ponyville)

“Caliburn!! On your right!!!”

The sounds of sword and steel clashing with one another echoed through the night sky as both Leo and Caliburn had to defend themselves from their attackers. It was a small battalion of changeling troops that arrived through the underground tunnel system that was connected to the Hive. Despite Leo using his mechanical arm to have the tunnels cave in, these changelings attacked them before the Reckless Fist destroyed the caverns. Right now, both the guard pony and the human were making their way towards Fluttershy’s cottage as they cut down any changeling attackers that tried to harm them.

The two of them soon made it to the cottage as Leo knocked on the door. “Fluttershy? Are you in there?!”

   The squealing of animals and hearing a faint voice trying to calm them down told the two swordsmen that she was okay. By the time she reached the door, Fluttershy herself was surprised to see Leo and his friend be at the door. “Oh my… I didn’t expect any guests right now.”

“Fluttershy, we have an emergency. Everypony in Ponyville needs to be evacuated as quickly as possible. The same person that attacked Amy is making his way towards Ponyville according to what Discord told us.”

“O-oh dear. That sounds serious.”

“Indeed. Is there a place where your animals can hide until the conflict is over. I don’t want Angel or any of the other animals here getting caught in the Esper’s crosshairs.”

  The pony nodded, telling all of her animals to follow the bear named Henry to his cave to the east where he normally would stay during the winter for hibernation. It was deep in the Everfree forest, so it would work for right now. Before the three of them were able to get back to town though, a loud shot ran through the air as it caught their attention.

“ATTENTION ALL CITIZENS OF PONYVILLE!! THIS IS PRINCESS TWILIGHT SPARKLE AND I AM HERE TO TELL YOU THAT THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!! ALL CITIZENS OF PONYVILLE NEED TO EVACUATE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!! THERE IS A PORTAL IN THE TOWN SQUARE THAT WILL TRANSPORT EVERYPONY THAT PASSES THROUGH IT INTO CANTERLOT!! THIS IS A ROYAL DECREE!!! WE NEED TO LEAVE BEFORE THE DIABOLIC ESPER REACHES TOWN-!”

   Before the statement could be finished though, purple lightning began to surge and a loud explosion could be heard from the Ponyville Library. In the town of Ponyville, all of the Changelings that were in the town were nothing but piles of ash as Eric crackled with mad laughter. His attack on the princess might have missed, but at least he was able to stop her message.

“And just when everything was going so well, you have to wreck everything.”

  Twilight was trying to get back on her hooves, but soon was relieved when two girls with spears landed right in front of her.

“Twilight, hurry and get out of here. We can hold him off.” Yuri told her as she and her sister prepared to fight the Diabolic Esper.

“You really think that you could stand up against me?” The Esper said, laughing insanely. “The Burning Crusader wasn’t able to handle me when I skewered her with my shards.”

The comment though, made the Little Specter named Jade become fueled with rage. This man was the one that hurt Amy and she was going to make him pay. “YOU’LL PAY FOR WHAT YOU DID TO AMY!!”

“Jade, NO!!”

“Heh… Come at me then.” The Esper smiled menacingly as his power surged through his hands and took a pose that resembled a stance Frieza would take. “Your fate will be the same as hers.” Next Chapter: Chapter 5: You done goofed kid Estimated time remaining: 2 Hours, 47 Minutes