A/N: Hey, my readers! Yes, this is a new fic! It's a fic of many firsts: First crossover ever, first SSB fic ever, first MLP fic ever!
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The Elements of Harmony.
A very powerful magic and Equestria's main defense.
There are six bearers of the different Elements.
The Element of Honesty goes to Applejack.
The Element of Loyalty is Rainbow Dash's.
The Element of Kindness is Fluttershy's to bear.
The Element of Laughter, Pinkie Pie's.
The Element of Generosity belongs to Rarity.
And the Element of Magic is Twilight Sparkle's.
Twilight Sparkle was an alicorn, one of the Princesses of Equestria. A lavender-colored, magical, smart, book-loving pony.
Who was deep asleep.
As she turned in her sleep, a dark figure slipped into the room. Looking around, it saw its prize.
The tiara that housed the Element of Magic was sitting harmlessly on the nightstand, next to the sleeping Twilight's canopy bed.
It slithered towards it, but came upon an obstacle. It had nearly stepped on Spike, Twilight's baby green-and-purple dragon assistant, sleeping peacefully in his basket on the floor.
It let out a barely audible hiss in indignation.
Stepping over Spike, it reached the bedside table.
Picking the crown up delicately, it placed the crown in a bag it had with it.
It leaned in close to Twilight's muzzle, and whispered something.
"Princess Twilight…Come find me where the stages are set and the smashers play…"
It then slunk out of the room.
It hid from the guards roaming the halls, then slipped into a closet marked 'Janitor'.
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAGH!"
The whole castle was woken by Twilight's screams.
Racing into the Princess' room, her five friends were in an uproar.
"Twilight, what happened?"
"What's wrong?"
"Is it bad guys?"
"Did somebody sneak in?"
"Are you hurt?"
Princess Celestia entered at that time, and the voices died down.
"Twilight," she spoke in a deep, calm, and commanding tone, "What is going on here?"
Twilight, looking severely distressed, responded, "M-my tiara! It's gone! A-and…" Twilight trailed off, staring at the wall.
"And…?" Rainbow Dash asked, placing her hooves on her hips.
"Somebody…w-whispered something to me. They said 'Come find me where the stages are set and the smashers play!"
Twilight started to hyperventilate, and Rarity rushed forward to try and calm her down.
Fluttershy hid behind Rainbow Dash, who had stopped flying and descended onto the floor.
"What in the hay is a 'smasher'," Applejack questioned, rubbing the sleep from her eyes.
"I believe it's a term that you would call someone who is a raving beauty," Rarity said, petting Twilight's back.
Rainbow snorted. "As in, 'You're a smasher'? That's idiotic."
Pinkie bounded forward. "Your tiara got stolen again? Maybe we should glue that thing to your head!"
Everypony in the room glared at the pink pony.
"What? It's a great solution," Pinkie cried in indignation.
Fluttershy squeaked something.
"What was that," Applejack asked the cowering pony, while Rainbow Dash moved away from Fluttershy.
Fluttershy gulped and stood up a little. "What did they mean by stages set?"
Twilight spoke up. "Well, a stage is usually something ponies perform on. Combine that with smashers, and I suppose we get something like a fashion runway?"
Celestia shook her head. "I think that our perpetrator is a little smarter than that, being able to get away with a warning without being noticed by the guards or waking either of you up. If it was indeed placed in a runway, ponies would be sure to notice it. No, I think he meant something else."
"What else could a smasher or a stage be," Twilight cried in exasperation.
"Ooh, ooh!" Pinkie jumped forward again. "What if they're ponies who smash each other on stages for entertainment?!"
Everypony looked at her strangely.
Celestia sighed. "Unfortunately, I think our Pinkie might actually have a tangible lead."
Applejack looked at the princess. "But nopony in Equestria would resort to violence for entertainment!"
"Nopony in Equestria," Celestia echoed, placing a sense of foreboding on our heroines.
"Princess," Twilight began, walking towards the white alicorn, "do you mean something like the incident with Sunset Shimmer a while back?"
Celestia nodded. "Follow me."
As they trotted down the lightening corridors, Twilight allowed herself to think back to that incident.
It had been a little creepy finding out there were human incarnates of her friends in an opposite world. Things called hands, high schools, feet, they were all new to her.
Thankfully, she had managed to get back in the three-day period, where she had to explain of her adventures to her friends. Hopefully, she'd never have to go back to someplace as strange as that again.
Celestia stopped them in front of a Janitor's closet.
"Uh, Princess," Rainbow Dash asked.
"No, there is no mistake. I hid this mirror away, hoping that no more of that world's evil would stain Equestria. It is a vile place, full of bloodshed and anger." The Princesses tone sounded disgusted, and her face looked like you had just shoved something distasteful under her nose. "Unfortunately, if Pinkie's guess is correct, then you must go there."
"WHAAAA," Pinkie exclaimed, hanging off Twilight's shoulder. "That was just poking some fun at the situation!"
Celestia opened the closet, and magicked a mirror out. "Let us move this monstrosity somewhere where there is more space."
They placed it in an abandoned room, with a small film of dust layering the floor and the empty shelves full of cobwebs.
Celestia began to wipe the dusty mirror off with magic, and Twilight took this chance to take a better look at it.
It was a rectangular mirror, with strange markings on the sides. On the top left corner was a mushroom that seemed to have eyes, on the top right was a pyramid of three triangles. On the bottom left was a star, and on the bottom right was a strange ball that looked like it was split into three parts.
Twilight looked at the mirror in confusion. What on earth were those symbols? Maybe they meant something…
Living mushroom, three stacked triangles, star, split ball?
The mushroom falls off of the pyramid in the stars into a ball? That didn't sound right somehow…
A servant interrupted by bringing Twilight a saddlebag full of necessities, probably given the order by Celestia. Twilight fitted the bag over her withers and turned back to the princess.
"Now, Twilight," Celestia said, startling Twilight out of her pondering. "Be very careful when you go through this mirror. Don't get too close to anypony, and try to stay safe. This time, though, you will not have a time limit, but do try to return as soon as possible. Equestria is not safe without the Elements of Harmony protecting it."
Celestia turned back around and tapped the surface of the mirror with her horn. It rippled, the texture reminding Twilight of satin, and shivered back into place.
"When you get there, seek out Master Hand. Tell him of your plight; he will surely help you." She turned again to her former student. "Be careful."
Twilight nodded, looking to her friends. They gave her encouraging smiles, Pinkie looking as if she smiled any bigger, her face would fall off.
Twilight took a deep breath, and stepped over the edge of the mirror, into a new world.