Twilight arrived at the palace and found Princess Luna waiting for her in the throne room. "Twilight Sparkle, it is good that you came. Please follow me."
Twilight didn't even have time to speak, but followed Luna to a circular room with a large wooden table with four chairs around it. In one chair sat Princess Celestia and Princess Cadence sat in another. Twilight and Luna sat in the other two chairs. Celestia spoke first, "Thank you all for coming. Twilight and Cadence, you experienced a powerful blast of magic this morning, correct?" They both nodded their heads.
"It also seems that unicorns felt it, only on a smaller scale." Twilight added.
Celestia nodded her head, seemingly aware of the situation in Ponyville. "My guess is as good as yours as to what that means, but all that matters now is that we make sure whatever has appeared does not pose any danger to our people." She then turned to Cadence, "We will have messengers at the ready to deliver, any news of the object to the Empire. Twilight, you and your friends will be the investigation team. I will also send Discord to aid with your efforts."
Twilight wasn't too thrilled to hear that Discord would be involved, but his abilities would be necessary.
"We must be on high alert," Celestia continued, "I have a slight hunch as to what or who we are dealing with, but cannot be proven just yet. you are all dismissed."
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A hunch is an understatement you pathetic weakling, you know exactly who I am.

At this point He feared the worst. The Overlord was almost ready.

Indeed, everything is falling into place. I'll have the Elements all in one place with the Lord of Chaos as a bonus.

He could feel what was coming. The fear and suffering that will be afflicted upon this innocent world by His body and His power, the thought wouldn't go away. It gripped at Him like a leech, and He new it was The Overlord's doing.

It seems your cleverness hasn't abandoned you just yet. Indeed I wan't you to face the reality that this is all your doing, all this destuction will be by your hands

"No"

What?!

"I...said...NO!"

You shouldn't be able to do that

The Overlord suppressed His mind with ease, barley giving any effort.

And now...I believe it is time to make it known to the world what is about to come.
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Twilight felt the quakes at the halfway point on her flight from Canterlot back to Ponyville. She increased her speed, her concern for her friends growing stronger with the tremors. Despite not being on the ground, she could hear the rumble of the earth and feel the vibrations in the air. Just before Twilight reached the edge of town Rainbow Dash flew out of nowhere and stopped her mid-flight,
"Twilight! Your just in time. That...thing is opening!"
Twilight rushed to her house, not knowing why there was such a heavy sense of dread in her gut. She almost fell out of the sky when a beam of light from the sky hit the top of her house and the small castle suddenly exploded.

Author's Notes:

Happy New Years! Thought I'd outta get something in before 2015, hope ya like it, because now it begins...