Disclaimer: I don't own My Little Pony, Friendship is Magic; it is the sole property of Hasbro and its creators, Rob Renzetti and Lauren Faust. Original Characters are my own design. Except for Toby Morrison, aka, Crimson Dawn; he is the sole property of seniorcopycat. Also, the designs of the characters came from Mauroz on his Deviantart site. His artwork and comic are the major inspiration from this, so credit goes to him on this story.

Equestria Guardians; Friendship is Magic

Chapter 1: The Return of Friendship pt.1

A long time ago, in a world separate and different from our own known, lived a race of sentient ponies. Ponies of different species and function of the three races: Earth, Pegasus, and Unicorn. They all lived together in the magical land of Equestria. And this land was governed by the two regal sister Alicorns, Princesses Celestia and Luna; ponies that were earth, unicorn, and Pegasus all in one. To do this, they used their powers to control the changing of the days; Celestia used her powers to raise the sun at down, the younger, brought out the moon by night. Thus, the two sisters maintained balance for their kingdom and their people.

But as time went on… a darkness crept into Luna's heart; like a poison, its venomous influence blinded her of the coming evil that would soon inflict on them all. In her blindness, the darkness convinced her to become resentful. The ponies relished in the day her elder sister brought forth, while they shunned slept during her time at night.

The darkness convinced her one fateful day, to refuse to lift the moon down, thus creating an everlasting night. The Darkness took advantage of this, and seized control of the kingdom, while Luna demanded her sister to give her control of night and day.

Celestia tried to convince her sister to see reason in this, but the Darkness's influence on her only caused her heart to be filled with bitterness and hate. The Darkness, seeing her as a perfect vessel, transformed Princess Luna… into Nightmare Moon: the Darkness's manipulated champion. She vowed she would shroud all of Equestria within an eternal night.

Reluctantly, Celestia harnessed the most powerful magic known to Equestria: the Elements of Harmony.

Using the magic of the Elements, she defeated and banished her sister to the Moon, sealing her off. Thus the Darkness banished, but vowed to forever swear revenge on Celestia… by destroying the Elements themselves, and reeking only havoc on her world.

But Celestia managed to think ahead of the Darkness, and sent herself, the Elements of Harmony as well as a proper guardian, to seek out those who would be worthy of becoming the Guardians to the elements. She prayed that the new world after Equestria would safeguard the magic within the elements, and that the Darkness's threat would forever be left in the wind.

But should the Darkness rise again, the Elements of Harmony would seek out the chosen ones destined to wield their magic, and one day… defeat the Darkness once and for all. But during that, Celestia had to find the one who would help band them together, and thus began the search for her apprentice.

Over time, Celestia fought many evils who tried to free the entrapped Nightmare Moon, as well as to steal the hidden Elements of Harmony. Celestia searched for centuries. And never, it is said, will Celestia waver from her quest, for the world she was reborn in would never be safe, until the Mare in the Moon was destroyed by the Guardians of Harmony.

Earth

Ponyville City

2010

In a place called Ponyville City, the quaint little city down roads were swarmed with a few cars and wagons making their way from here to there. The people of the city were walking up and down the streets, all day and every night, going about their business without a care in the world. There were also tall, concrete buildings that stretched towards the sky, almost making the place look like a giant prison. Well, more like a quaint country town turned into a thriving but nice metropolis that still cared about the townfolk.

Down the road, during the afternoon, a bus drove down the little busy streets. A school bus carrying a bunch of kids to go to their destination. A whole bunch of the kids were excited to go to wherever they were headed to, while one occupant was busy with her studies. She was a young girl around the age of ten, with Caucasian pale skin, purple eyes that were sharp in reading her book, and a head of dark violet hair going down to her midback, with a pink and indigo streak on the right side was visible. She wore a purple t-shirt with a dark purple jacket, along with a pink skirt and socks, complete with purple shoes. She had a brown backpack with her name etched into the back of it by stitching. The name on the backpack was Twilight Sparkle.

Her violet eyes scanned the pages intently, while the others just chatted and played around. It felt like she was the only nerd oddball in the bus.

"Hey, Twilight," a young girl spoke up behind her. She had hair that was a mix of ivory and pink, curly at the bangs and ends of her hair, electric blue eyes, Caucasian, and wearing a lovely pink dress. Her name was Twinkleshine, a classmate of Twilight, as was another girl sitting next to her. She was Caucasian with a cerulean head of hair, ruby eyes, and wore a yellow shirt with blue jean shorts, and blue and yellow sneakers. Her name was Lemon Hearts, and Twinkleshine's best friend.

Twilight stopped her studying, as she looked up to see Twinkleshine and Lemon Hearts. Awkwardly, she waved, "Oh hi."

"Hey," Twinkleshine smirked. "Moondancer's having a little get-together over at her boat house. After the field trip, you wanna come along?"

Twilight went a little wide eye on that, but shook erh head, as she returned to normal, "Nah, I'm sorry. I got a lot of studying to catch up on. I don't have time for stuff like that."

Twinkeshine huffed, as she and Lemon Hearts sat back down, as Lemon Hearts pointed out, "See? I told you she wouldn't come along. All she does is study."

"I know, right," Twinkleshine agreed. "I think she's more interested in books than making friends. She's just a weirdo."

Their insults didn't go unheard, as Twilight curled up in a ball on her seat. Ever since she was littler, she had never made any friends. The only people she had ever counted on was her big brother, Shining Armor, and her adopted baby brother, Spike, who had turned six this year. She knew that as long as she had those two, she didn't have any need for friends. And so she told herself silently, "I'm not werid. I'm just… different."

She then looked at the window, and saw the buildings go by. She lit up a little, as she knew that they were passing a certain area. She pulled out a marker, and started doodling on the window. Nobody bothered to notice it but her, as she went on uninterrupted. As she finished, she had drawn an illustration of what appeared to be King Kong being attacked by an airplane, as he fought it off, while climbing empty space. But as soon as the bus was passing a tall tower, the illustration lined up with the building, which made Twilight smile.

"Cool."

Twilight nearly jumped at that voice, as she looked for the source of it. But then she spotted someone smiling at her, and made bullseye with the one who said cool. He was a young Caucasian boy of ten, much like she was, with blue eyes, and dark blue hair that was short and shaggy on the bangs. He wore a white T-shirt, blue jean pants, red and white sneakers, and had a black sweatshirt tied around his waist.

The boy smiled to her honestly and waved to her casually. Twilight, on the other hand, shyly waved back in reply, and then looked away, feeling a burning feeling on her face, as she let a small smile appear on her face.

Later On

Greensfield Park

Greensfield Park was a bit like Central Park to say the least. Big, green, and possibly the only bit of natural forest around Ponyville, aside from the Ever-Free Forest that surrounded the city town. The kids were sitting down on stone seats, as their teacher, Ms. Cramtree, was going over the history of Ponyville in this sector of town, "… which means that before Greensfield Park, much less Ponyville was built…"

Twilight was paying very close attention to the lecture, taking notes with everything the teacher was saying. However, the boy, who was sitting far away from her, just finished down a note, and looked to another boy. He was around the same age as the blue haired boy, Caucasian with slightly tanned, red hair combed to the right side, blue eyes, who wore a pair of blue jeans, a white T-shirt, and had on a red vest, as well as a red cap.

"Crimson," the boy replied, getting Crimson's attention.

"What's up, Flash," Crimson asked.

He then handed the boy a note, and then pointed to Twilight, "Can you pass this on down to that girl?"

Crimson looked down, and noticed the very-focused Twilight, as he looked to Flash, "Wha… Twilight Sparkle?"

"That's her name? Twilight Sparkle?" Flash asked. Crimson nodded, but hten Flash took back the letter and wrote on the letter, To: Twilight Sparkle. "Okay, pass it to Twilight."

Crimson shrugged, as he gave it ot the person next over, "Pass it on."

"Pass it to Twilight. Here."

Once the note made its way down, it was placed on Twilight's notes, which surprised her. She stopped her note taking, as she opened the letter. And was surpsried to say the least, as it read a cross list, with only two options.

In Five years, what would be our relationship?

*Friends?

*More than friends?

Twilight practically blushed at that question. She slammed the note on her pad, as she looked around, wondering who had sent the note in the first place. But then, when she turned to her right, she saw that boy again, as he waved innocently at her, smiling. She gulped, and pulled back, wondering with frantic thoughts in her head, 'What? What's going on?! What did I do to get that boy's attention? And the whole more than just friends thing? I barely know him, so why…'

But before her mind could panic even more, a gust of wind blew in the air. Everyone felt the air blowing at them, even Twilight as she shielded herself from the wind. However, in doing so, she lost her grip on the note, causing it to get blown away. Twilight spotted this, as she shot up, "No. NONONONONONO!" And then without thinking about it, ran after the note.

Ms. Cramtree noticed Twilight running away, as she called out to bring her back, "Ms. Sparkle!"

"I lost my notes," she only said half-truthfully, "I'll be back!" And continued to run after the note.

After a few minutes of running after it through the park, the letter stopped into a puddle. Twilight stopped, as she huffed and puffed, having to run after just to keep up with it. She leaned down to pick it up… until a bike messenger rode nearby, and somehow the note got attached to the bike wheel speeding off.

Twilight sweat dropped, as she complained, "UGH! HOW DOES THAT EVEN HAPPEN?!" She then ran after the bike messenger, as she shouted, "Hey, wait! Stop! You've got my note!"

A Few While Later

The bike stopped, having reached 3rd Street, as the note fell off onto the ground. Twilight, nearly exhausted from running a marathon, slowed down, as she was huffing even more, and finally stopped, seeing the letter fall off the bike. She leaned on her knees, as she saw the note down near her feet. She sighed, catching her breath, "Finally…" And reached down for the note…

…only for a French Poodle to run out there, and snatch the note in its teeth, as it sped across the quiet and less-busy street. Seeing that happen, Twilight stared at the dog's form, until she blew up, "ARGH! WHY IS THIS STUFF HAPPENING TO ME!?"

She then chased after the poodle, dodging the slow traffic in the streets, as she called out, "Hey, stop! Heel! Desist!" But the dog kept running away from her, as she snarled, "Ugh! This is why I hate dogs!"

Twilight had chased the dog down in a brick alleyway full of electric stores. After they had reached the end of the alleyway and back into daylight, the dog spat out the note, and sped off elsewhere. Out of breath and fear of collapsing from a heat stroke, Twilight managed to get to the letter. She stopped, as she huffed out, "Okay. No dogs, no bike messengers. It's just you…" and reached down to grab the note, "… and me…"

But suddenly, the wind picked up, blowing it away from her, as Twilgiht saw the futility in this, as she almost cried out, "Ugh… please somebody make this stop."

But then she saw the note fly over to what appeared to be an antique shop as it stuck to the front door. The shop looked like a duplex from the 1930s, made of brick and harldy seemed to be updated at all. There was a display window of the inside of the store, but it was too foggy to make anything out. But on the window, it said the store's title: Canterlot Cabana. Antiquities, Oddities, Mystical Artifacts, Unusual Gifts.

The street around the store was eerily quiet, almost no activity was happening around the place. It was as if the store and the neighborhood around it was in some time-space warp that only had Twilight be the only person present in the area. But Twilight didn't bother to notice it, as she was too fixated on retrieving the note that had been quite slippery from her grasp. Twilight ran up to the store's stairway leading to the front door, as she spied the store's sign.

She arched an eyebrow, as she credulously scoffed the advertisement, "Mystical Artifacts? Unusual Gifts? Pfft! Boy, these people will do anything for a sale." She then saw the note on the door, still stuck there, and sighed in relief, "Finally. This chase is…" and reached to take it.

But like before, it got away from her, this time, by slipping through the mail slot on the door. Twilight just looked there, frozen in place. A look of calm shock was on her face, showing that she was taking this in. and then a vein popped onto her head, as she shouted, "WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?!"

Getting fed up with this, she opened the door, and closed it behind her.

Inside the Store

Once inside, Twilight looked around to see where the note was, not caring about the place in particular. But then she spotted the note with her eyes, lying on the floor. She was about to run after it, but then stopped as she took it deep in thought. If she ran after it, the wind or something in particular, like maybe a rat popping up, would take the note on the spot. She had to be careful about this, as she slowly crept her way to it. She tip-toed towards the note, like a thief staying out of sight, with every slow step. Little did she know that someone within the room was watching her from behind a bookcase.

Twilight finally made it ot the note… and tackled it, catching it in her hands. "AHA! Gotcha," she said, as she finally grabbed it. She let out relieved chuckles, as she glared dangerously at the note, "Heheh! AHAHAHAHAHA! Let's see ya get away from me now, you…" But then stopped, as she took notice of the room around her, and of the store itself.

As she looked around, she noticed the place had a variety of exotic things that even she didn't know where they came from. 'Unusual' was hardly the term to describe the store, as she felt the title of the store's wares was a bit limited. In fact, she felt it was an understatement, as she got a good look at it. The store was narrow, but deep, and packed to the brim with a variety selection of unusual and amazing artifacts. An Egyptian mummy casing, weird expressionistic paintings, caligari-esque furniture, a yellow-eyed stuffed owl that Twilight swore was casting weird animated shadows on the wall, as she passed it.

She stopped at a small statue on the desk. The small statue was that of a little dragon. He had diamond-like scales on his head, giving him a kind of slick haired scale look on his head, two eyes narrowed down into a glaring frown look, a fat but long tail ending with a diamond-shaped barb, and a small pair of wings.

She wanted to reach out and touch it, but she felt like she was being watched in the store. Unbeknownst to her, the figure hiding behind the bookcase was slowly walking out, not making a sound or a board creek with their footsteps. Twilight was about to walk out, when something else caught her attention.

A strange looking macabre urn of sorts caught her eyes. It was about two feet in height, and had spooky illustrations painted on them. illustrations of tortured souls and men in agony in writhe on it. In truth, the urn made Twilight gulp in fear, as she was about to step away… when someone spoke up.

"You know the Second Emperor of the Han Dyansty locked his least favorite lover in that urn for five years to the day."

Twilight yelped aloud, as she whipped around to find the owner of the voice. Once she did, she was in bewilderment. The owner of the voice was in fact a young and beautiful woman. She was Caucasian, pale skin almost glowing in light, with dazzling light violet eyes, and aquamarine hair streaked with violet and pink colors, and almost seemed to flow like her hair was water, a body well-proportioned for a woman in her mid twenties. She was dressed in a white button up shirt showing her collar bone and a little cleavage, and exposed what appeared to be a rainbow sun pendant around her neck, a khaki vest buttoned up tightly around her chest and waist, violet pants with khaki high heel boots, as well as white fingerless gloves, and a beautiful white duster jacket that didn't seem to have any trace of dirt or stains on it. The woman had about her a wise, fair, and kind atmosphere around her. Something that Twilight deeply seemed to admire, as her surprised startlement faded from her, as the woman smiled to her.

She walked over to Twilight, as she gently warned, "They say that if you open it, the same thing will happen to you."

Twilight, a little bit freaked out, but still in awe at the woman's amazing beauty and grace, especially in a store like this, spoke up, "I'm sorry, I wasn't trying to touch anything. I was just…"

"Looking for a letter," the woman asked as she knelt down to Twilight's eye level. She nodded, "I saw you in the room, tackling it ot the ground." Twilight blushed in embarrassment, as she looked away, but the woman lightly chuckled, "That's the first time in this store that something like that happened."

"Yeah, that's not usually what I do when a note gets blown, dragged, gnawed, or blown away again," Twilight explained, rather embarrassed. "And then all of a sudden it gets sucked into the mail slot of your store door." That last part caught the woman's interest, as Twilight went on, ignoring the surprised look on her face, as she went on, "I mean, what are the odds of that happening? It's one heck of a coincidental accident."

The woman's surprised look then went relaxed, as she smiled and turned Twilight to her gaze, as she said, "My dear Twilight… there are no accidents. Either fate or destiny." She then stood up, and began to walk to the other side of the room.

But then Twilight's eyes lit up with surprise, as she finally managed to ask, "Wait! How did you know my name was Twilight? I-I-I never said anything…"

But then the woman whipped around, and declared, rather dramatically, "Because I can read minds!"

Twilight jumped back, seemingly surprised by that answer. But the woman's seriousness melted down back to her gentle smile, as she let a small chuckle escape her lips, as she truthfully replied, "No, your name's etched in the back of your book bag."

Twilight blinked, as she pulled her backpack off… only to accidentally knock down a jar of water, as it smashed onto the ground, spilling its contents. She gasped at that, while the woman remained calm about it, as Twilight apologized, "Oh no. I'm so sorry! I-I-I-I'll clean it up. Oh, I hope it wasn't something important."

"Oh, it was nothing special," the woman shrugged. "It was just a jar that had the remains of the springs from the Lost City of Atlantis before it sank into seas." Twilight's face went pale again, as she gulped. But the woman chuckled again, as she stopped, "No, no. it was just a jar of water. As I said, nothing special."

Twilight frowned, as she felt like she was just becoming the butt of a joke now. She sighed, as she turend around, "I should get going. My class is probably looking for me, since I ran so suddenly."

"Well, before you go…" the woman replied, as she walked to Twilight, and stopped nearly a foot from her. "I'd like to give you something."

Twilight frowned, "What? Is it another so-called oddity? Or just some…" and then turned around, as she lit up with surprise. The woman held out by a gold chain to show to Twilight, a beautiful pendant of a six-point star made from what appeared to be rose quartz. Twilight was in awe, as she managed to whisper, "Wow."

"This is a very special gift, not many are afforded by a mere stranger," the woman simply smiled. "If it likes you, you can keep it."

Twilight was hesitant, but she gently took the pendant from the woman. She looked at it, as she found a clamp on the back, and undid it. She then pulled it around her neck, and fastened the lock on it, as she looked at the pendant. It did nothing to indicate that it liked her, which confused the little girl, as the older lady sighed in sorrow.

Twilight looked to it, and then to the woman, as she asked, "I don't understand. How do I know if it likes me?"

Suddenly, her question was answered, as both saw the star glow as brightly as its color. Then suddenly, a pillar of rose quartz light lit up around Twilight, as air seemed to push under her, causing her hair to fly up, and her skirt, if she hadn't put her hands down to keep it from blowing up. Until finally, the light pillar died down, as did the wind, leaving both women surprised by the scene, as all Twilight said in bewilderment, "No… way." She then looked to the woman, as she asked, "What was that? A light show and air effects? I mean, how did you hide the equipment for all that?"

But Twilight stopped, as she saw the lady, silently letting tears stream down her face, as she looked to Twilight. It was almost as if she had seen someone she had been separate from a long time ago. Twilight lightly walked up to her, as she asked, almost reaching for her face with her right hand, "Ma'am? Are you okay?"

But suddenly, the girl was startled, as the woman pulled her into a warm hug, as she wept, "It's you, Twilight. I finally found you."

Twilight blinked in confusion, as she asked, "Found me? What do you mean?"

The woman pulled away, as she dried her eyes, as she smiled, "I'm sorry. It's just…" She took a deep breath, as she finally spoke up, "In truth, Twilight. We once knew each other a long time ago, even before you were born. I have been searching a very long time for you." She then chuckled, as she confessed, "And like magic. True magic. Here you are before me as you once were."

Twilight wasn't sure she understood that, but tried to guess, "Once were? You mean, like in a past life?"

The woman nodded, "Yes, Twilight." She pointed to the pendant around her neck, as she explained, "That pendant around your neck is part of a set of six gems that are important in the future. It means something, Twilight. It means you're going to be a very important person in the future one day."

Twilight was blinking in surprise by that, but before the girl could ask anything, the woman got up, as she walked towards the stairwell that led to the basement. "Wait there," she asked. "I have something important I wish to give you." And then ran down the stairs as fast as she could, leaving Twilight confused.

Basement

Down in the musky basement, the woman walked over to a stone wall and stopped there. Her pendant glowed a little, as she gently tapped on four bricks on the wall. Suddenly, the wall slid open, revealing a small compartment, like a safe, hidden inside of it. There, she pulled out a small hand journal wrapped in a leather coat, and held by a buckle. The next time she pulled out, was a circle casing, with red linen fibers inside it, with a glass lid locked on top of it with golden designs to seal it up. And inside the container were six compartments, with only one vacant.

The other spaces each had a jeweled pendant in them. The first one was a jeweled sapphire balloon going up. The second pendant was an orange topaz shaped like an apple with an emerald leaf on it. The third was a beautiful amethyst carved into a diamond. The fourth gem was a dazzling pink gem shaped like a butterfly spreading its wings. And the final one was a dazzling ruby carved into the shape of a lightning bolt. And the sixth pendant was currently being worn by Twilight at the moment.

The woman smiled, but then turned to a picture buried in the compartment. She pulled it out, revealing a picture of what appeared to be a strange creature of a white horse with wins and a horn. The creature had her exact features, but next to her appeared to be a burnt spot on it; someone else in the picture, but was blurred out due to whatever burnt the image.

The woman hopefully looked at it, as she spoke to it, hoping for a response, "I found her, Luna. Soon, you'll be free of the Darkness that infected you. And hopefully… we can be a family again."

Main Level

Twilight was looking at the pendant, wondering what the heck made it and her so special to each other. When she didn't look at it anymore, it faintly glowed a little activating on its own. Absentmindedly, she shook her hand… and in that action, caused a few books to fly off the shelf, surprising her a little in the process. Twilight blinked at the sudden action, as she gulped, "Did… did I do that?"

The world that she knew was beginning to change, whether she wanted it to or not. But at that moment, her wonderment turned towards something else. There, to where the books were knocked to, was a strange blue onyx mini statue of what appeared to be a horse with wings and a unicorn's horn, flying past the crescent moon carved with it. Twilight walked towards it, a bit creeped out, but entranced by the beauty it seemed to emit.

She slowly reached for it, enthralled by the dark beauty of the statuette. She gently took it up, making sure not to break it, hoping to see and learn who carved such a fine statue, hoping ot find the name of the artist on it…

But the star pendant she wore began to glow a mixture of violet and ruby. Once Twilight noticed this, the statue began to crack, letting out dark blue and black energies. Twilight yelped as she dropped the statue, it crashing into the ground but not breaking of the fall. Slowly though, as Twilight backed away, the statue started to crack and break, until finally, it erupted into a small explosion.

And out of the statue, came a pillar of blue and black energies that reached past the ceiling, but didn't go noticed by anyone outside the store or beyond it. Twilight was startled to say the least, and more so frightened, as what happened next. Within the pillar, a female body was forming from a shadowed silhouette. The body was naked at first, featureless, until dark blue energy as illuminescent as the night shot and stuck to the head, forming it into hair. And then black and dark blue bands wrapped around the well-proportioned body, taking the form of clothing and headwear, as the figure lowered back down on the floor. Once that happened, the pillar of light died away, revealing who it was that had formed for Twilight to see.

The figure stood before her, revealed to be a Caucasian eighteen year old woman. She had the same color skin as the woman she met earlier, but her hair was dark blue, wavy and short, reaching to her mid-back, a killer body, dark blue eyes like the night, and a face that said she was serious and firm. She wore a blue button-up shirt with a black corset around her waist, pushing her breasts up, almost threatening to burst out of the buttons that were undone, a black mini-skirt with blue trimming, black stockings as well as black high-platform lolicon boots with blue buckles and belts on them, black fingerless gloves, a black duster jacket with a blue belt around the waist of the coat, a blue scarf, and around her neck was a dazzling pendant that looked like a diamond crescent moon, and a sapphire full moon.

The woman drew in breath, as she exhaled it, sighing in pleasure and relief, "Ah, freedom. At last, freedom."

Finally, Twilight couldn't take it anymore, as she screamed out in fright, "GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!"

The woman in Black and Blue smiled, as she cackled evilly, "Ah, music to my ears." But then she turned to face Twilight, giving her a death glare that silenced the little girl, as she demanded, "You! When am I?"

Twilight managed to speak out, as she answered, "Uh, uh… y-y-you're in Ponyville, USA. It's near the Eastern coast of America, near between New York and Maine…"

"I know where I am, you twit," the woman spat out coldy, as her eyes glowed into blue slits, like a reptile. "What I want to know is 'When' I am. The date!"

"AUGUST 23RD 2010!" Twilight screamed, as she huddled near the cashier register.

The woman sighed, calming down, "Thank thee. Thou hast no idea what thy bondage in that moon rock hath been like." But then she went wide eyed, as she spotted the pendant around Twilight's neck, and her attitude changed from calm to anger. And then suddenly, to Twilight's already frightened visage, a pair of ten foot black and blue wings sprouted from her back, as energies of the same color sparked from her hands, "Thou is a Bearer of Harmony. My sister's chosen apprentice." She aimed at Twilight with her right hand, as she hissed out, "Thou shall die before thou have a chance to…"

But suddenly a yellow orb of what could be described by Stephen Hawking as a sphere of plasma energy, shot right at the woman. The ball struck her, as it sent her flying ot the ceiling, pinning her in bands of glowing energies to keep her at bay and stay in place. The woman tried to break free of her bonds but to no avail, as she finally screamed out, "CELESTIA! SHOW YOURSELF, YOU COWARD!"

"I thought I asked you not to touch anything, Twilight," the woman, now known as Celestia had arrived in. Twilight turned around, and saw that her left hand had been extending outward, glowing with the same golden energies, as she walked in with a book and jewel case in hand.

"Oh, this is not very sporting of you, Celestia," the teenage girl replied down to her.

Twilight regained her courage, as she apologized, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to let her out…. Whoever she is…"

"I AM NIGHTMARE MOON, YOU WHELP!" the teenage girl screamed out, as she glared at Twilight with murder in her eyes, "And I WILL HAVE THE ELEMENTS OF HARMONY!"

"Silence!" Celestia demanded, but then looked to Twilight, as she calmed. "I'm sorry, Twilight. It's not you, she's been like this for what seems to be since she was sealed in that prison of hers."

Finally, Twilight asked, "What's going on?"

"Well, it's a good news/bad news scenario, Twilight," Celestia replied. "Bad news, in that Nightmare Moon, the most dangerous magic user, has been freed." But then smiled to Twilight, as she handed her the book and the jewels, "The Good News, is that I have found one of the bearers of the Elements of Harmony: the only thing that can defeat the darkness that plagues Nightmare Moon."

The young girl blinked at that information, but then looked to the book in confusion. But Celestia replied, "That's the Enchantus. It'll help you prepare for when you and the others will be ready."

Twilight blinked, "The others?"

Suddenly, they heard a crashing sound, as Nightmare Moon had broken through the gold bands with her wings, as she landed on the ground, "I'm sorry, Celestia, but her assignment will be incomplete!"

Suddenly, with her wings, Nightmare Moon charged at Twilight, who dropped the book and jewels. However, Celestia charged at her, with white wings erupting from her back and in the same length, but with golden crescent tops of the outer wings like armor, and flew at Nightmare Moon, tackling her from getting to Twilight, smashing into the bookcase. A huge brawl erupted, as the two fought each other. The two pulled apart, firing dark and light plasma bolts at one another, nearly hitting each other. And Twilight was in the middle of it, as she gulped, "This isn't happening. This is impossible…"

During the fight, however, the urn that Celestia warned about was knocked to the ground, opening it up. Once that happened, a giant vortex gust of wind began to suck up everything into the urn, including what appeared to be a paged report from Twilight's backpack, as it got sucked in. the little dragon statue was sucked in there as well, along with the Enchantus. And soon, Nightmare Moon and Celestia were being sucked in there as well, as Nightmare Moon grabbed her sister, as the two fell to the floor, with Nightmare Moon being sucked in first.

Celestia was close to getting sucked in fully. But Twilight grabbed her by her hand, struggling to help her. "Twilight! You have to let go," Celestia warned her. "You'll be sucked in along with me and Nightmare."

"NO! I'm not letting you get trapped in there," Twilight screamed out.

"Five years will pass, Twilight," she said. Twilight looked to her in fright, but Celestia smiled calmly, as she assured her, "I'll be alright. Knowing you're alright." And was sucked in as well, the lid closing up, as the suction died down.

Freaking out, Twilight grabbed her backpack, and absentmindedly the jewel case as well, and ran out of the store.

Outside

Once she got outside, Twilight stopped outside the steps, but then paled at what she was holding in her hands. She had brought with her the jewel casing with the five other games. Wanting to forget all that had happened; she tossed the gems out to the street, and turned away, never wanting to see them again.

"Twilight!" Ms. Cramtree called out, grabbing Twilight by her shoulder. "Young Lady, where have you been?"

Twilight looked to see not only her teacher, but her homeroom class as well, as well as the boy who gave her the letter. Ms. Cramtree looked to the door, as she asked, "Is this where you've been?" And then walked to the door.

Twilight realized she was going into the store. Fearing what else might go wrong, she ran after her, "Ms. Cramtree, don't go in! There's…!" but Ms. Cramtree brushes her aside, as she opened the door. And much to Twilight's surprise, the store was quiet and cleaned up; exactly how it looked when she first entered.

Twilight pulled back, as Ms. Cramtree looked ot her and asked, "Twilight, what has gotten into you?"

"But there were two women! They both had wings, one of them was trapped in a statue," Twilight rambled out, still feeling like crazy after what she had just witnessed. But then she blinked, "The pendant! It glows, look!" She pulled out the star pendant given to her by Celestia, and stared at it, commanding it to glow, "Glow. Shine out. Levitate." But nothing happened, causing her to frown at this, as she finally screamed out, "DO SOMETHING MAGICAL ALREADY!"

"Twilight, Twilight, relax," Ms. Cramtree said, as she held Twilight by the shoulders, as she reassured her, "It's probably low on batteries. You're an intelligent girl. You know just as much as I do: there's no such thing as magic."

Twilight looked at the store, and noticed to where the Urn was placed… on the urn along with the scary figures, Celestia and Nightmare were there. She walked back, with the teacher tried to reason with her, as Twilight turned around, and saw all the students. Suddenly, they started laughing, claiming that Twilight was crazy, and pointing fingers at her. She felt like she was spinning out of control, as she sped off, with the teacher calling her to come back. Flash watched her run off, not sure of what to do, but he didn't laugh like the others, or did anything to upset her.

But at that moment, a raggedy homeless man, or one that looked homeless, walked past the jewel case containing the elements of harmony… and scooped them up, as he joyfully walked away.

Later that Day

Sparkle Residence

The residence that Twilight occupied was an apartment complex, and Twilight's family inhabited the 10th floor. After the incident, the school called up Twilight's parents and told them that hteir daughter had a mental breakdown. She kept rambling about angels that fired bolts of energy, and were sucked up in an urn. Twilight was taken home that day, as she was resting in her bed, out like a light.

But as she slept in her bed, the pendant slowly glowed a little, almost like a beacon. No matter how much she wanted to run, Twilight Sparkle's life would never be the same… and that her destiny would soon come to light to her.

Next Chapter: The Return of Friendship pt.2