Chapter 0: Prologue
Location: Canterlot Square
Time: 0200 hours
Date: 7-19-2013
The streets were silent, the lights were lit, and one shop was still as lit as the moon shone in the sky. A jewelry store, the Chaotic Charm Jewelry, was the shop that was still lit, while all other shops had closed up. Behind the counter was a silver coated unicorn stallion, wearing a yellow dress shirt with a green tie. His sky blue eyes were made brighter in contrast of his dark midnight blue mane and tail. On his flank was a ring with a red ruby adorning the ring. He was looking at a diamond when the bell to his shop door rang, signifying a customer had come in… At this hour?
"Hello, welcome to Chaotic Charm Jewelers, how can I help you this ni-." The unicorn stopped, when he saw a white coated alicorn standing right in front of him, remove a cloak from her being. She revealed the flowing pink, blue, and green gossamer mane and the gold crown with purple amethyst jewels adorning three points. It was the Princess Celestia herself.
"Your Highness, welcome to my shop. What can I do for you?" the stallion asked, bowing to the Princess.
"Hello, Silver Slinger, and yes, you can do something for me… I have had a terrible vision; the universe is in danger…" Princess Celestia said to the unicorn.
"…In danger? Why would the universe be in danger? What from?" Silver asked his regal customer.
"I don't know for sure… but I can tell you, that we all are subject to the same danger… which brings me to my request." Princess Celestia said, revealing a large, polished, wooden box, and placing it on his countertop.
"What is inside this box, Princess?" Silver asked, looking at the gold lock that shut the lid tight.
"They are Essences of 12 ponies who are able to help." The Princess explained.
"Whose Essences are these?"
"They are the 6 Elements, plus 6 more significant others."
"…T-The Elements of Harmony themselves are-?!"
"Shh… walls have ears, Silver Slinger. I need you to cut 12 special pieces of silver each one with a different Essence. And then I want you to deliver them to me personally, at the castle. Do you accept this responsibility I bestow unto you?" Celestia whispered into Silver's ear.
"Yes your highness," Silver said. "I accept this job."
"Great, I expect them to be done as soon as possible, I shall be waiting at the castle, and Silver, do not tell anypony else about this, the fate of the universe depends on this." Celestia said, turning around, giving him a small gold key, and leaving the shop.
"Yes ma'am." Silver said, after she left. He closed the shop, took the box, went downstairs into his workshop, set the box down, and opened it up with key. His workshop was more cluttered than his upstairs shop. The room and furniture was littered with tools, machines, mechanisms, and metals that he had bought from a miner in Ponyville. He took out a piece of silver from a bag, and began to form into spheres, but before finishing it, he took one of the Essences, opened the bottle up, and put one drop onto the silver sphere. There came from the sphere a small puff of pink smoke, which formed three butterflies, flapping their smoky rose-quartz-colored wings, and then disintegrating into the air, as the drop soaked into the silver. He made eleven more with a different Essence. He noticed that in addition to the 6 Elements, he noticed a Bubble Essence, an Hourglass Essence, an Eighth Note Essence, and a Big Apple Essence, a Shield Essence, and a Treble Clef Essence.
"Hmm… I wonder who these 6 are…" Silver thought to himself, as he kept working on the silver spheres.
Meanwhile, in somewhere in the mines, there were 3 shadows that formed a triangle. In the middle was a glyph that showed a desk, with different cloths and stuffing but, nopony was working at it. It looked like it was night, just like tonight.
"Is this the target?" A feminine voice asked.
"Haha, yes, this is the one I was telling you about. All we need to do is a small piece of our magical hair, and we watch us be made into plushies." An older, more masculine voice said.
"Hehehe. This will be a flawless plan, I know it." A darker male voice had said, chuckling evilly.
"Haha… That it will be." The older male voice said.
"Well, what are we waiting for?" The female voice asked, as she took a lock of her hair out.
"Of course, let's put it in." the older voice said, taking a piece of his fur off.
"Let's." the darker male voice said, taking a piece of his mane out.
"This night, we shall finally have our victory!" The older male said to the other two. They dropped their hairs into the glyph. They watched it go in, and as they laughed the night away.
The next morning, Silver Slinger walked out of his shop, and headed over to the castle. He looked like he worked all night on the silver spheres, although he showered and gotten himself together, there were still tired wrinkles under his eyes. He rushed over to the castle, and went in.
"I must speak with Princess Celestia." Silver said.
"Do you have an appointment?" A guard asked him.
"No, but it's important," Silver said. "I was requested to make something and deliver it to her as soon as possible!"
"Let him through." A voice said through the door, as the door opened, to reveal a large room with a glyph on the wall. The princess was standing on the wall where the glyph was. Silver went inside, and walked toward the princess, carrying a polished wooden chest.
"They are finished, your highness." Silver said, bowing, and presenting the chest, opening it, and showing it to the princess.
"Thank you, Silver Slinger, you have my deepest gratitude." Celestia said, smiling. She took the chest, and levitated the silver spheres over to her. "These 12 are perfect." Suddenly the glyph on the wall started to shine, and there came a morning lit room, with a workbench of a jeweler. The workbench had a paper on it, saying about 50 pendants of each popular character to be made. It was signed by someone by the name Jason.
"Where does that go to?" Silver Slinger asked.
"This goes to the human world. I just hope it isn't too late…" Celestia replied as she levitated the silver through the portal and onto the workbench. The spheres were placed on top of the document signed by Jason. As the glyph disappeared, the door that led outside the workshop opened up. A young man looked in the room and saw the 12 spheres.
"Hmm? What are these?" he asked, picking them up. He looked at them, and saw them glowing, his eyes shone brightly, as he sat down and began working on shaping the spheres into pendants. The calendar was marked at 7-31-2013, the words: 'Flight to Baltimore MD, Bronycon 2013'.