Now with a  dramatic reading! Yes really! I was surprised too. Thank you LittleMissBloo for doing it. You are awesome! You can find it here.

Hello everyone! This is Rixizu. This is my first fanfic in awhile, so please be patient with me. Especially with my crappy grammar and spelling. Hopefully my snark and sense of humor will make up for it. Today we will be reading a fanfic called Guardians of Magic by Shire Folk. A pretty good Kingdom Hearts/My Little Pony crossover. I had a lot of fun with this one. This was a fun fic to play around with. The latter chapters will be even more fun.

If you have a fanfic recommendation, comments, or criticisms please leave a comment or PM me at my fimfiction account or my blog on Tumblr. Please NO clop or fanfiction with extreme violence. I am not going to do those. I want to do a more family friendly series and it is going to be relatively clean. Besides everyone else does them. Okay, I might do one for a special occasion. But otherwise no clop or extreme gore fics. Ok, enough rambling. On with the fic!

Special thanks to Shire Folk for letting me use his story.

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Doctor and Ditzy’s Science Theater

by Rixizu

Episode 1

The Doctor woke up with a groan. His head felt woozy and he had trouble getting back on his hooves. The bright light emanating from the ceiling was hurting his eyes. He took a careful look around. It didn’t look like any place he had been to before. It was a very white and very sterile looking room with almost nothing in it. The most notable item in the room was the large black screen on the Doctor’s right. He couldn’t see any exits. The Doctor hated finding himself in places like this; they were always so dull and boring. They could at least add a potted plant of something. He heard a groan from behind him. He turned around to find his assistant and companion Ditzy Doo slowly coming to her hooves.

“Ditzy are you alright?” The Doctor said with slight concern. She looked alright, but he had to be sure.

“Oh, I’m fine Doctor!” Ditzy got up and looked around. “Where are we? This isn’t the Tardis, at least I don’t think it is. I haven’t explored the whole thing yet.”

“Do you hear that?” The Doctor shushed her while raising a hoof.

“I don’t hear anything.” Ditzy replied a little confused.

“Exactly!” The Doctor responded like it was the most obvious thing in the world. “If we were still in the Tardis we could hear its hum.”

“Oh, of course! So where are we then?” Ditzy looked at the Doctor expectantly.

“Not a clue!” The Doctor chirped happily. Ditzy deflated at this.

“Doctor, there aren’t any doors! How did we get in here? How do we get out!?” Ditzy said starting to panic.

“I imagine we were transmatted in or perhaps the wall open somehow when their master commands it.” The Doctor replied simply. “Isn’t that right? I know you can hear me. How about you show yourself already? We are getting tired of waiting!” The Doctor yelled while he paced looking the ceiling.

“I’m glad to see your up Doctor, Ditzy.” A distorted voice said coming from the now lit black screen on a wall next to them. It was fuzzy and the distorted fuzz moved at the sound of his voice.

“Who are you?” Ditzy glared angrily at the screen. “What do you want with us?”

“You call me…Mr. X. and what I want is…” Ditzy interrupted him before he could finish.

“Mr. X? Really? That’s the best you could come up with? You might as well have gone with Mr. Generic Evil Pants!” Ditzy said incredulously.

“Yes, not terribly original.  It doesn’t exactly strike fear in the heart of you captives. “The Doctor replied with an obvious mocking tone in this voice. “You could have gone with something fierce and imposing like Terriak or the Chessmaster. But, no…you went with Mr. X”

“I thought it was cool...” Mr. X mumbled sounding genuinely hurt. He didn’t say anything for a few minutes before finally saying something. “Nonetheless, I have brought you here to…” Ditzy interrupted him again.

“Let me guess. You are going to make us travel through a maze full of puzzles and deadly traps while secretly trying to drive a wedge between us and make us hate each other?“

“No, nothing like that.” Mr. X. said simply.

“Oh, that’s a relief. Don’t want to go through that again.” Ditzy wiped her brow while saying this. The Doctor nodded knowingly.

“As I was trying to say!” Mr. X sounded very annoyed at the constant interruptions. “I brought you here for an experiment.”

The Doctor and Ditzy groaned at this very audibly. They had an idea where this was going. “You’re not going to test gas and deadly contagions on us are you?” The Doctor said wearily.

“Or make us fight deadly beasts with sharp claws and teeth?” Ditzy said just as wearily.

“No…I am going to make you read fanfiction…”

“What?!” The Doctor and Ditzy were genuinely stunned. They were sure Mr. X was going to send some life threatening peril their way with very sharp teeth.

“Bad fanfiction.” Mr. X laughed wickedly.

“Oh, is that all?” The Doctor didn’t sound threatened or even worried.

“It beats running for my life.” Ditzy seemed relieved she didn’t have to run for her life from something for once.

“…” Mr. X. didn’t seem too happy at their reaction. “Today’s fanfic will be Guardians of Magic by Shire Folk. A Kingdom Hearts/My Little Pony crossover. Enjoy.” He ended with an evil laugh. A door opened from one of the walls into a dark corridor. An alarm sounded when the door opening completely.

“Ready?” The Doctor said to Ditzy with a smirk.

“Ready!” Ditzy replied with a cheer.

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…I don’t even know where this came from. To all of my AoD fans,

Doctor: AoD? Oh great, is this a sequel to something?

this is almost completely unrelated to it at all and I’m not even sure what head canon I’m using.

Doctor: Oh…dear… I already don’t understand half of the things Ditzy explains to me about Kingdom Hearts, and now you are adding your own half thought out head cannon in this?! This is going to hurt.

Ditzy: *gulps*

All I know is that I’ve got one OC from AoD showing up,

Ditzy: (Author) My super awesome OC named Xesayurm! She’s a Nobody that’s Axel’s twin sister who looks like Namine with a black mane. She wields two keyblades and is a better fighter than Sora and Riku combined!

and that I’m ignoring Dream Drop Distance, 358/2 Days, Coded, and probably a bit of BBS.

Doctor: (Author) I ignore anything in canon I don’t like. So there!

To everypony else, take this as having jumped right into the middle of one of your standard post-KH2, pre-Before-The-Other-Games-Came-Out Action/Adventure/Romance fics featuring the ponies sharing the spotlight.

Doctor: (Author) A scenario I’m sure most of you are familiar with.

Ditzy: Romance? Dear Celestia…

I honestly don’t know when updates are going to be because I have a lot of work on The Annals of Darkness over on fanfiction.net to do.

Doctor: Oh, now he explains what AoD even means.

Anyway…

Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts or My Little Pony; those things are owned by Square-Enix, Disney, and Hasbro.

All: Thank goodness for that.

This is purely for entertainment purposes and I am not making any sort of profit from this.

Ditzy: (Author) But I am selling T-shirts of my super awesome OC if you are interested.

Note: “-G-M-“ stands for scene break.

Doctor: (Author) Normal scene transitions weren’t cool enough.

Ditzy: What does GM even mean?

-G-M-

Guardians of Magic

Ditzy: Oh, of course.

Prologue: Creatures in the Night

            The moon is beautiful tonight.

            Such were the thoughts of Starshine, the cobalt blue unicorn with an iridescent mane of silver standing underneath a poplar tree in the Canterlot gardens. The night sky was clear, allowing the stallion to gaze up at the moon and stars with his sapphire eyes in contented awe. A warm summer wind whistled through the leaves above him, bringing with it the scents of honeysuckle and petunias. Starshine sighed in the breeze, the air rippling against his coat and cutie mark of a bright, golden star.

            An owl hooted from somewhere else in the gardens, and Starshine dropped his gaze from Princess Luna’s full moon to the ground. He pawed at it with a hoof, slightly nervous. Moondancer was running late; perhaps something had happened to her?

Mr. X: Why aren’t you saying anything?!

Ditzy: Huh? What do you mean?

Mr. X: You are suppose to be commenting on the story while you read it!

Ditzy: What? Why? That seems kinda rude.

Doctor: And it would make this take longer.

Mr. X: Just shut up and do it.

Ditzy: Fine Mr. Grumpy pants. Sheesh.

Doctor: *sighs*

A quick glance from where he stood underneath the tree let him see that he wasn’t the only pony in the gardens this night. In deep shadows that blanketed a bench he could make out the forms of two others,

Doctor: Upon closer inspection they appeared to be no more than statues of Pegesi that appeared to be weeping.

and from their proximity he was sure that their noses were nuzzling against one another. Just thinking about it made him think of the white unicorn.

Doctor: Rarity?

Ditzy: Vinyl Scratch?

Doctor: Fleur Dis Lee?

            “Starshine?”

            The stallion smiled at the whisper and turned his head and neck in its direction. Slowly walking towards him was the beauty he’d been waiting for.

Doctor: (Starshine) Blueblood my love you’re finally here!

Moondancer’s brilliant red mane with a purple highlight running through it was veiled slightly by the lack of light, but that which the pale moon did cast on her and her marshmallow white coat only enchanted him further.

            Seeing his smile, the mare raced up to him

Dizty: And decked him.

and rubbed her neck affectionately against his. “I’m sorry I’m late,” she apologized, “but I lost track of time practicing the transformation spell Professor Hoofer set for us.”

Ditzy: (Moondancer) I was trying to see if I could turn into something called a huemon that Lyra won’t shut up about.

            Starshine chuckled and wrapped one foreleg against her withers. By Celestia she smelled nice tonight.

Doctor: Unfortunately, her breath ruined the effect.

“It’s okay. I’m just glad that you came.” Moondancer pulled back and nodded her head, smiling shyly at her coltfriend. He took one step forward, a smile now etched into his face

Ditzy: Mom always said don’t make that face or it will end up stuck that way.

as she joined him for a midnight stroll through the garden.

-G-M-

Doctor: In case you forget what fic you are reading.

            Watching from a castle balcony overlooking the gardens was another pony,

Ditzy: Batpony!

Doctor: (Batpony) I am the night!

this one a mare with both wings and a horn; an alicorn. Her mane and tail were a mantle of the night sky; dark blue with the white pinpricks of stars winking through it, and they constantly fluttered as if caught in a solar wind.

Doctor: Unfortunately this often caused them to get caught in something.

 A black tiara with three points rested on her head, and in front of her chest hung a peytral of black leather

Ditzy: That’s..that’s monstrous. How could anypony do such a thing!? I think I am going to be sick…

Doctor: I’m sure the cow was long dead of natural causes and gave consent before they…

Ditzy: That doesn’t make it any better!

with a white crescent moon on its centre. On her haunches the pony’s own cutie mark,

Ditzy: As opposed to my cutie mark or the Doctor’s.

that of a white crescent moon over an inky black splotch to resemble the night, was clearly visible against her midnight-blue coat.

            Princess Luna smiled gently down at those ponies she could see in the gardens.

Doctor: Luna really enjoyed watching the intimate moments between ponies without their knowledge.

Ditzy: Especially the really dirty parts.

The Princess of the Night was a romantic at heart, though she would not admit it, and was glad that even after one thousand years some things never changed between ponies.

Ditzy: She was especially impressed at the amount new positions added to the pony sutra during her banishment.

Her beautiful night that most ponies slept right through still had that calm, mysterious charm that led to events occurring like the ones happening right now.

Ditzy: (Luna) Look at those three ponies go at it! We have never seen anything like it!

Doctor: Are you going to keep doing that?

Ditzy: I can’t help it. It’s just too easy!

There was love in the air tonight, only accentuated by the beauty of the night that she’d brought. Perhaps she could make it a little more breathtaking.

Doctor: This unfortunately ended with the death of most ponies on the planet.

Ditzy: (Luna) We just don’t know what happened!

            Thinking of that, the midnight alicorn looked up to her sky. The weather teams from Cloudsdale had done well in her books by not scheduling for any showers to occur in Canterlot tonight; it gave her full view of her nightly canvas.

Ditzy: Luna then decided that they would never spoil her night ever again.

She hummed to herself and tapped a hoof to her chin,

Doctor: She couldn’t get the Winter Wrap up song out of her mind.

fixing her blue eyes on a particular grouping of stars. The alicorn’s horn became surrounded by a soft blue glow. Luna could feel the font of her magical energy reserves buried within her, much of it still untapped after her raising of the moon, and she accessed it again. A tiny trickle of energy left her, and the stars she was looking at brightened ever so slightly.

Doctor: Causing the death of at least three species.

            “Good evening, Luna,” a voice said from behind her.

            The midnight princess turned to peer at the newcomer. “Good evening Celly,” she said, spotting her older sister, Princess Celestia, coming onto the balcony.

Doctor: (Celestia) Peeping on couples again I see Lulu.

Ditzy: (Luna) N-No! We are just watching ponies enjoy the beauty of our night.

“I was just making Virgo a tad brighter.

Doctor: The poor poor Guleans.

Hm… do you think I made Polaris too bright tonight? It’s dwarfing a few of the other stars around it.”

Doctor: Luna often enjoyed messing with ship navigators.

Ditzy: Tia like to called it “trolling”. Which confused Luna, what do cave trolls have to do with anything?

            The other princess chuckled, her hoofsteps sounding lightly on the marble beneath them. Princess Celestia gazed skyward, the taller white alicorn looking as regal at night as she did during the day.

Doctor: Thought Luna bitterly.

“I think Polaris looks lovely, Luna. Another beautiful night you’ve made.”

Doctor: (Celestia) It’s unfortunate that it is too bright for anypony to sleep now.

            “True,” said the younger sibling, “and if I do dim Polaris a bit, then some lost pony who might be navigating with it might not be able to find it as easily. I just don’t know.

Ditzy: (Luna) Doomed lost sailors. Beautiful night for romantic couples. We just can’t decide!

The evening star is bright enough, but the Milky Way—” She cut herself off when her older sister began to laugh.

            “My dear sister, you really do try too hard,”

Doctor: (Celestia) The complete rendition of the Marelangelo’s Sistine Chapel was a bit much.

she teased. “You’ve brought another beautiful and perfect night.”

Ditzy: (Celestia) It’s just too bad almost nopony is awake to see it.

            Luna sighed. “If you say so, Celly.” She glanced down into the gardens again. “I just want it to be as beautiful as I can make it for them.” Celestia strode up to where her sister was lying down and peered into the gardens. She smiled warmly, and laughed.

            “You really are overly-romantic, Luna,” she told the midnight alicorn.

Ditzy: (Celestia) No really Lulu. This is starting to become a problem. You spend most of your time in your room working up new ways to make your night more beautiful.

            The Princess of the Night flushed. “Ce—Celestia! We are not overly-romantic. It is thou who makes baseless accusa—” She stopped again when her older sister began laughing once more, and Luna’s blush increased underneath her midnight-blue coat.

Ditzy: That’s actually really cute.

            “I think I’ll retire for the night,” said the Sun Princess. “You will wake me before it is time to raise the sun?” Luna cordially nodded her head.

Ditzy: (Celestia) And not wake up with my bedroom upside down this time.

Doctor: (Luna) We do not make any promises.

            “Of course we—I mean, of course I will.” Celestia and Luna shared a smile, and the radiant white alicorn began to walk back inside.

Ditzy: (Luna) Sucker. We think the sun could stay down for a few more hours.

            “Good night, Luna.”

            “Good night, Celestia,” replied Luna. She gave one more look to the gardens, watching Starshine and Moondancer for a few more moments,

Doctor: Only to turn away disgusted moments later.

before turning her gaze back to the heavens. How else should she improve the look, maybe by making the Aurora Borealis visible? Yes, that could work, but it shouldn’t be too bright, or else it might detract from the rest of the sky. However, she’d never known a pony to complain about seeing an aurora before. But then the Milky Way was rather dim tonight; even up here in Canterlot she needed to strain her eyes a little to catch sight of it. Perhaps she should improve on that instead.

Ditzy: I think Celestia is right Luna, you need a hobby or something.

            There were so many decisions. An artist’s work is never done.

-G-M-

            Moondancer was grateful for the shadows from the garden’s trees as she and Starshine

Ditzy: Tickled one another.

Doctor: *raises an eyebrow*

Ditzy: Come on, what do you take me for? Besides, that was way too easy.

lay  next to one another, both of them looking up into the night sky. The shadows were hiding the blush on her cheeks, almost certainly visible through her white coat. The unicorn pair had conversed with idle chatter about their respective days,

Doctor: (Starshine) So how was your day?

Ditzy: (Moonshine) Oh not so bad. Lyra came out of the closet today.

Doctor: (Starshine) Oh that’s... wait I thought she already was.

Ditzy: (Moonshine) So did I! Apparently Lyra was the only pony that thought that was a secret.

Doctor: (Starshine) Go figure.

but before too long they had fallen into comfortable silence and they’d set about stargazing.

            She tilted her head sideways towards Starshine and nuzzled her cheek against the stallion’s. Starshine nickered from deep inside his belly and accepted her affection whole-heartedly until she gave him the chance to do what he wanted, which was to place his neck over hers in a hug. Moondancer hummed in her throat and closed her indigo eyes, just happy that he was here with her in this moment. “Do you think we’ll always be together like this?” she whispered.

Doctor: (Starshine) Now that you uttered that cliché we won’t be.

            Starshine smiled inside of their neck hug. “I’m not sure, but I certainly hope so.” Moondancer sighed contentedly in response.

            “Me too.”

Ditzy: (Moondancer) I hope we don’t get brutally murdered in a few moments.

            Another minute passed in blissful silence, the only sounds the crickets chirping and the hoot of a distant owl. Starshine removed his neck from Moondancer’s, and laid it down flat against the grass.

Ditzy: Wincing in pain when he accidentally hit a rock.

The lawns of the garden were grazed meticulously; it felt so wonderful to lie down on it. Scents of the flowers drifted into his nose, and the moon and stars continued to shine and twinkle down upon them. It almost felt like they were the only two ponies in Equestria, even though there were probably no less than four or five other couples in different secluded hiding spots within the same garden.

Ditzy: Ugh, can we just get to the Heartless attack already?

            Sudden movement on the grass attracted Starshine’s attention, the silver-maned unicorn frowning and raising his neck. “What is it?” Moondancer asked. Starshine shook his head.

Doctor: (Author) Let’s see... Young romantic couple? Check. Over the top idealized romance? Check. Asking if they can stay this way forever? Check. Flowery descriptions to show how perfect the situation is? Check. One of them notices something is wrong? Check.

“I’m not sure,” he told her. “I thought I saw something, but I guess my eyes are getting a little tired.” He smiled apologetically at her, and Moondancer smiled back and laughed a little.

Ditzy: (Starshine) It had fangs and sharp claws but I don’t really think we should worry. It was probably nothing.

            “Then perhaps we’d better be getting back,” she suggested. “I doubt Professors Hoofer or Beaker will be forgiving if we’re late because—”

        Starshine stood up suddenly, startling Moondancer into silence. She followed the other unicorn’s gaze to where there was a black shadow on the ground, the shadow an inky black that looked like light had never touched it.

Doctor: Vashta Nerada? I thought this was a Kingdom Hearts crossover.

Ditzy: No Doctor, that’s a Heartless.

Doctor: Really?

Ditzy: Yep, shadowy Heartless can do that.

Two bright yellow circles were at what Moondancer suspected to be the shadow’s ‘head’, and she wondered what fireflies would be doing scuttling on the grass like that.

Ditzy: Um, fireflies aren’t native to Canterlot.

Moondancer blinked in surprise; the shadow started moving! She looked around frantically, but couldn’t see anything that could be casting that exact shape on the ground.

            Moondancer stood up and remained close to Starshine, and both unicorns nodded at one another before continuing to watch the shadow wriggle around on the ground. Moondancer dismissed her idea that the yellow things were fireflies; now she was hypothesizing that they were really eyes and that this was some sort of creature she’d never heard of.

            Both unicorns snorted in alarm and backed up a few hooves as the shadow came out of the ground to stand in front of them, fully three-dimensional.

Doctor: Then it turned four-dimensional then five.

Moondancer peered at it cautiously. The creature stood at about half their height and had a bulbous head, two curved antennae sticking out of the top of its head. It had four limbs attached to its abdomen, besides the head; two of them looked to be arms like Twilight Sparkle’s baby dragon, Spike, ending in claws, while the other two appeared to be stronger legs with flat feet; it was on these two appendages that it was standing.

            “Twilight Sparkle would give anything to study this,” Starshine said. Moondancer nodded,

Doctor: Yes…she can be a bit too enthusiastic in her quest for knowledge. When she found out I was an alien, she basically kidnapped me and strapped me to a table!

inclined to agree with him on that. The last time she’d seen the lavender unicorn, Twilight had declined to go to her Summer Sun Celebration Break party in favour of studying. She knew that the intelligent pony had a lot of pressure on her hooves, being Princess Celestia’s protégé,

Doctor: Pressure that often drives her to madness.

Ditzy: No kidding. *shutters*

but even her new friends in Ponyville probably wouldn’t be able to keep the unicorn away from a discovery like this.

DItzy: (Moondancer) The last time she got this excited three ponies ended up in the hospital!

            “Yeah,” she said, “but I just know that I wouldn’t.” She took another step back, and the creature cocked its head at her in an inquiring gesture. Moondancer shook her head. No matter how she looked at its eyes, she couldn’t see anything in them. Though, just looking at it caused her heart to quiver slightly, and she almost swore she could feel as though it was eyeing her and Starshine hungrily. “It’s giving me a bad vibe.”

Doctor: (Starshine) You say that about every strange creature we come across.

Ditzy: (Moondancer) Bu-but this time I mean it.

            Starshine nodded, and he began to back up as well. “Come on, Moon, let’s get back to our rooms.” No sooner had he finished speaking than the creature leapt towards them.

Ditzy: Into a big hug. It was all a misunderstanding!

-G-M-

            Luna’s attention was forcibly jerked away from the night sky as a pained neigh filled the night air.

Doctor: *looks at Ditzy*

Ditzy: What? I wasn’t going to say anything! I’m done with those kind of jokes anyway.

Her eyes zeroed in on the location in the gardens and she stood up. At once she was flapping her wings to take her towards the sounds, panicked and angry shouts now sounding through the night like blaring trumpets. Luna was certain that she would be the first there with her swift and powerful wings, but the guards would most certainly have heard the ruckus too and would not be far behind.

Ditzy: *sighs wearily* She’s clearly overestimating the royal guards.

            She cleared a line of trees and was forced to stop and hover for a second in surprise. A pair of unicorns was below, and they were being assaulted by no less than five buggy black creatures with beady yellow eyes that the princess had never seen the like of before. Luna took another second to survey the situation below. The male unicorn was bleeding from a tear in his chest, while the female had a trickle of blood running down her flank near her cutie mark of a glittery silver moon surrounded by eight red stars.

            The male unicorn took a step back, his head swiveling from one black creature to the next. Aqua light enveloped his horn as he began to cast a spell, and the same light covered one of the creatures, locking it in the unicorn’s telekinetic grip. He cast his head to the side, and the creature was flung violently against a tree, where it burst apart into dark wisps. Luna and both unicorns below were surprised at what happened to it,

Ditzy: (Starshine) I-I’m a murderer! *cries*

but the princess was the first to break out of her shock.

            One of the remaining four looked like it was about to pounce upon the cobalt stallion, and defiant anger rose up in Princess Luna. How dare these beings besmirch her beautiful night? How dare they put fear into carefree little ponies?

Doctor: How dare they forget to put onions on her daisy sandwich! Wait, no. That’s not right.

 She dove for the creature like a falcon,

Ditzy: Unfortunately it was with the grace of a drunkard and she crashed into a tree.

and with a shrieking whinny Luna stomped onto the ground, reared up and dropped her strong hooves onto the thing’s head. The black creature burst asunder underneath her hooves, wisps of dark matter rising up around her shins. The touch sickened Luna, but she ignored it as her rage mounted.

            “How DARE doest ye appear here!” bellowed the princess, unconsciously falling back into her Royal Canterlot Voice as she had traditionally used one thousand years ago. “Ye foulest beasts have far overstayed thy welcome. Begone from this place, for thy doom is nigh!”

Ditzy: (Luna) In the name of the moon. We shall punish you!

            “Princess Luna,” the unicorns behind her muttered in awe. Dark clouds were forming in the clear sky above the alicorn, and lightning began to stab the sky.

            Luna barely acknowledged, glaring at the creatures that had disturbed her preciously romantic night. None of them were making any sort of move to retreat, which Luna decided to interpret as a hostile act. Her horn began to glow midnight blue and her stare hardened. A beam of light shot out from her horn and struck the cloud forming above her, and a forked bolt of lightning shot out of it and struck two of the creatures in front of her, reducing them into nothingness. Luna’s horn’s glow persisted, and two more of the creatures she picked up with its glow and threw them into the third.

Doctor: Wait...what? Four of the heartless are dead. There should only be one left!

Ditzy: I don’t think the author can count.

The tangle of shadowy limbs and eyes she grasped with her magic, and raised it to just above chest height.

The midnight mare snorted and kicked back a hoof, lowered her head, and galloped straight towards the mass. She gored them with her glowing horn and took off with a powerful thrust of her wings. She climbed in a vengeful corkscrew into the night air above the garden, and paused only when she was three times the height of the tallest tree in the garden to throw her head down and fling the three impaled creatures from her horn. She watched with grim pleasure as they plummeted to their demise on the lawns below.

Doctor: Shouldn’t they have already dissipated when Luna impaled them with her horn?

Ditzy: *whispering* Shhhh. Luna is trying to have a cool moment.

Princess Luna descended quickly to where the two unicorns were, noticing that the Canterlot Royal Guards were now arriving at the scene, a few of the pegasi likely having seen her handiwork crashing to the ground. Even in her haste, though, she made sure to alight on the grass with dignity befitting her station.

Ditzy: Which was ruined when she farted after landing.

“Captain Crimson Horn!”

“Your Highness,” answered a scarlet unicorn in the golden armour of the Royal Guard.

“Thou must commence an entire search of the gardens and city.

Doctor: (Luna) Thy author might forget how many Heartless should be in the scene again!

None of these vile obsidian mongrels are to be left alive. Curfew shouldst be established as well with all haste. No little ponies are to be seen upon our streets until we are certain that our city is free of them.

Ditzy: (Crimson Horn) So no foals should be out on the streets at night. Got it.

Hast thou understood our wishes?”

Doctor: Isn’t that a bit of an overreaction? Why does she assume that more Heartless are out there and that they’re hostile? This could just be an isolated incident. And why does she assume their entire species is evil and should be exterminated on site?

Ditzy: But they are evil. They attack people all the time!

Doctor: She doesn’t know that yet! All she knows is that some unknown strange creatures attacked two ponies. I hardly think these extreme measures are need for such a minute incident.

“Yes, Your Highness,” answered the unicorn, nodding his head. “You heard the princess!” he shouted at his fellow guards.

Ditzy: This unfortunately led to the near extinction of a peaceful race similar to the Heartless called Shadow Wisps.    

 “Emerald Wing, you take Ivory Coat and Cloudmane and start checking the other areas of the gardens! Heavyweight, you and…”

Luna turned away from the guard captain as he barked out his orders. He knew best how to do his job. Instead, she settled her gaze on the two unicorns that had been out this night and run afoul of these strange beings. “We are concerned,” Luna began, “thy injuries. Are—” She cleared her throat as she remembered that this was not the form of speech of the day.

Ditzy: (Luna) Yo digily how your hurting at!?

“My apologies to you both; old speech habits die hard. Are you hurt much?”

The male unicorn winced. “A little,” he answered her, “but not too badly, I don’t think, Your Highness.”

Doctor: (Luna) We shall give thee CPR just in case.

Ditzy: (Starshine) I really don’t think that’s nes...

Doctor: (Luna) Do as thy Princess tell thee!

“Thank you for coming to help us,” said the female, bowing before the princess. Luna raised a hoof, waving off the formalities.

“Now is not the time for pleasantries,”

Ditzy: (Luna) You mother bucking moron!

she insisted. “Come with me to the castle infirmary. You are both hurt and shall be treated.”

Doctor: (Luna) They shall be taken to the special treatment room to rehabilitate.

Ditzy: (Guard) The one with the one sided mirror?

Doctor: (Luna) Shhh.

Ditzy: (Moondancer) What was that?

Doctor: (Luna) Nothing our little ponies. We hope you enjoy the special room thee are to be given. It will give thee plenty of time alone together.

“But Your Highness,” the male started, “we have class tomorrow and—Moondancer!” He stopped with a gasp as the female winced and dropped her head a little in pain. She had sustained another injury that neither he nor Princess Luna had spotted before, just against the thigh of her left foreleg.

Princess Luna frowned slightly and her horn became shrouded with a blue glow again. Moondancer was covered in the same glow and lifted from her hooves onto Luna’s back. “You shall both be excused from your classes tomorrow,” she assured the mare and stallion. “I will be sure to have a long talk with Princess Celestia about this.”

Ditzy: (Luna) We shall even bring out our royal hoof puppets to perform our daring acts of bravery during the fight!

Luna gave the clearing one last look, snorted agitatedly, and cantered back towards the castle, Starshine following her at a slightly slower pace.

Doctor: (Starshine) Oh sure. Don’t give me a ride even though I’m injured too! Jerk.

Above, the moon continued to shine unconcernedly.

All: (Moon) Screw you world!

-G-M-

So that’s it for the prologue, and I swear I’m going to need brain bleach for this fic.

Doctor: Oh dear...

Ditzy: This is bad.

 It’s not going to be really grimdark or anything like that, but I’m seriously going to need brain bleach.

Ditzy: (Author) This fic is going to get really dirty.

 I’ve got to be insane to write two KH adventure fics at the same time.

Ditzy: (Author) Expect me constantly confuse plot points between the two.

May the Grace of the Valar Protect You

Shire Folk

Ditzy: That wasn’t so bad.

Doctor: Wasn’t nearly as terrible as I thought it was going to be.

Ditzy: ...It’s going to get much worse isn’t it.

Doctor: Undoubtedly.

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“Did you enjoy the fanfic?” said Mr. X on his viewscreen.

“I rather liked it actually!” Ditzy replied in a chipper mood.

“It was interesting to be sure.” said the Doctor plainly. “It wasn’t what I expected.”

“I’m glad you like it. Me too! I loved Luna’s fight scene. She’s so cool and powerful! I can’t wait to see what happens next!” It seemed Mr. X really enjoyed the story they just read. The Doctor raised an eyebrow at this. Ditzy just looked confused. The Doctor guessed that Mr.X didn’t actually read the story before he sent it to them.

“So....what now?” Ditzy decided now would be good time to ask this. “Do we actually have a place to sleep?”

“Yes, of course” As soon as Mr. X said this a door opened to a living quarters. It was another simple room. It had several bookshelves full of all sorts of different books. It had another monitor and attached to it was a Pony Station 2. It had another shelf full games next to it. Many of them Ditzy recognized. Some of them were her favorites. She even saw some games the Doctor might even like. Strangely there was no couch, only a few fold out chairs.

Doctor walked up book shelf and looked at the assortment of books. They seemed random and not put in any particular order. They all looked well used. In fact many looked like they used to be library books. The Doctor opened one and looked behind the cover of the book. In printed letters it said “Property of Golden Oak Library in Ponyville. If found please return to Librarian  Twilight Sparkle at...” So, they were most likely still on Earth. It was the last place he remember being at before his memory became fuzzy. They were walking to Golden Harvest’s carrot farm for a visit.

“Do you like it?!” Mr. X’s voice appeared on the monitor. He sounded eager.

“It’s adequate.” The Doctor said simply.

“Not bad!” Ditzy was intensely investigating the games he had provided them with.

“I’m glad you like it. It should keep you entertained until the next experiment.”

“And that is..?” The Doctor asked.

“Next week and I will be sure to give you more things so you don’t get bored!”

Their captor was certain generous the Doctor surmised. “I see.”

“I have to go now. It’s past my bedtime. See you soon!” With that the screen Mr.X was using went black leaving a very confused Doctor and Ditzy.

“So Doctor. Do you see anything we can use to get out of here?” Ditzy whispered when she trotted up to him.

“Not yet, but I will keep my eyes open.” The Doctor whispered back.

The two explored the rest of the living area. It had a simple kitchen with a well stocked refrigerator and shelves with enough material to make plenty of muffins much to Ditzy’s delite. There was a simple bathroom as well, but what really attracted their attention was the bedroom. It had a single red heart shaped bed with red sheets and pillows. It looked like something somepony might find in a Neighpon love hotel.

Ditzy walked up to the bed and noticed it had a switch. “Hey Doctor. It looks like this bed can spin around in circles!” She thought for a moment. “Why would anypony want that?”

The Doctor just shrugged in response. “Ditzy you can have...”

“No Doctor. I am not letting you sleep on the floor or one of those folding chairs.” Ditzy said firmly. “There is no need to be chivalrous. We are both adults here. We can share the bed.” It didn’t seem like she would compromise on this.

The Doctor rubbed his neck with his hoof. “Fine. Fine.”

Meanwhile Mr. X was observing all of this. He chuckled to himself. Everything was a going according to plan.

“Ye foulest beasts have far overstayed thy welcome. Begone from this place, for thy doom is nigh!”

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