Arrival
The land of Equestria: a world of wonders, beautiful landscape and adventure. Ruled by Princess Celestia and Luna and protected by its greatest heroes, the Mane 6: Applejack of Honesty, Fluttershy of Kindness, Pinkie Pie of Laughter, Rarity of Generosity, Rainbow Dash of Loyalty, and Twilight Sparkle of Magic. The fate of Equestria has always rested on their hooves. But what if one day, they faced a more formidable threat from another world? That day is today.
Twilight was trotting towards her home with her number one assistant, and baby dragon, Spike. They have just left the market and were on their way home to make dinner. The night was silent and yet, the stars gave off cheerful hope. Twilight broke the silence.
"Okay, Spike." Twilight said. "Is that everything we need for dinner?"
"I think so, Twilight." Spike replied as he checked the checklist. "Milk, check; grass, check; cabbages, check; tomatoes, check; apples from Sweet Apple Acres, triple check."
"I'll take that as a yes." Twilight gave a small smile. "Let's just head back to the library and-"
Before Twilight could say anything, she saw eight stars. But these were no ordinary stars; instead of pure white, they glowed red, purple, green, cyan, blue, grey, yellow and brown. The eight stars then transformed into eight different symbols: a mountain, a gear, a gust of wind, a drop of water, a leaf, a set of flames, and an eight-tipped star. This did not lose the shock of Twilight, as well as it caught the attention of her number 1 assistant.
"W-what is that?!" Spike asked in shock.
"I don't know, Spike." She replied. "But judging by its arrival a whole week after Nightmare Moon's return, it cannot be good."
Before anything else could happen, the eight symbols each separated into four beams of light, one of which is heading to the Golden Oaks Library. While the others landed in several random locations.
Twilight saw one of the purple beam crash through one of the windows of her home and galloped straight ahead. "Come on!" She exclaimed. "We have to find out what that light was!"
"Or… we can just stay out here 'til morning." Spike gave a nervous as Twilight glared at him. "Okay! Okay! Sheesh!" He gave in and jumped on top on Twilight's back before they continued running back home to see what that light show was about.
Fluttershy was sleeping in her bed with her pet bunny, Angel, cuddled up next to her. This young pegasus was a shy, timid mare who isn't really much of a loudspeaker, if you know what I mean. When ever she was in the face of danger, she'd run in the opposite direction, where it's safer. But even if she's a bit scared of everything, she can also be really brave whenever her friends are endanger. She always manages to find the courage she needs to help. Anyway, the mare and bunny suddenly awoke from her slumber when they heard a crashing sound in the main living area.
"Huh?" Fluttershy said before hearing grunts and groans. "W-who's there?" She almost whispered as she and Angel got out of bed and tip-toed to the source.
She approached her door, opened it a crack to see who or what was in her home. She saw one of the walls turned to rubble, as if something just blasted through, and there was a crater in the floor. She saw a red claw grabbing the edge of the hole and lifted its owner out. And when Fluttershy saw whatever it is, her mouth dropped in a bit of fear.
Standing in the room was a green dragon which looked like it was made of plants. The tail resembled a leaf, it had yellow horns on its head and spikes going down the spine. Its eyes were red with yellow irises and were not slitted, but round, which was odd for a dragon.
"Oh, my goodness!" She squeaked in fear, accidentally catching the green dragon's attention.
The green dragon approached the door as Fluttershy and Angel tried to hide themselves in her mane. Her began to shake as she heard the door being pulled open. The door was now completely open and the dragon saw Fluttershy as she grasped herself in her front hooves. What the dragon saw was not a violent beast, but a rather shy, gentle, kind creature.
The dragon tapped Fluttershy's shoulder to get her attention. "Excuse me." He spoke in a french accent as Fluttershy peeked out her mane a bit. "Are you alright?" He asked in concern.
"Oh…" Fluttershy slightly gasped at the dragon's concern as she began to stand up. "I am… I am fine. Thank you for asking."
"Not a problem." He replied. "But if you don't mind, I would like to know where I am."
"Oh, well, you're in my cabin." She answered.
"I can see that, but I was talking about which world." He explained specifically.
"Oh…" Fluttershy retracted in embarrassment." Well, you're in Equestria."
The dragon's eyes widened at that last word. "Equestria?!" He exclaimed before circling around the room. "How can that be? I thought it was just a-!" He stopped circling to see Fluttershy scratching her hind legs. "Oh, how rude of me. My name is Camo."
"Oh, well, nice to meet you, Camo." Fluttershy said. "My name is Fluttershy and this is my pet bunny, Angel." She introduced herself and her rabbit as Angel crawled out of her mane.
"Nice to meet you both." Camo said. "And if what you say is true, I'm going to have to find the protectors of this world." He said as he ran out the broken wall.
"WAIT! Where are you going?!" Fluttershy shouted as she galloped after him.
Rainbow Dash was snoring in her bed in a cloud near Ponyville. She always liked being close to her friends so she could help them. She was always the loyal type. However, sometimes her popularity and quick racing skills go to her head, making her think like she's 20% cooler than others. But even though she be a bit self absorbed, she means really well.
A loud crashing sound in her room woke her from her slumber as she fell out of her cloudy bed. She got back on her hooves and rubbed her head, waiting for the dizziness to disappear. Once she could see clearly, she noticed a large crater in the center of the room, dark smoke emitting from it.
"What the heck?" She said as she approached the crater. Once she was close enough, she could almost see a small statue-like object, which resembled a turtle with spikes riding a tornado on a cloud-like pedestal.
"What's that supposed to be?" She asked herself before the small statue began to glow. The statue then shattered like glass in a flash of light as Rainbow Dash took cover. Once the light died down, Rainbow Dash peeked out from her hiding spot. She looked at the crater and before anything else happened, a reptilian claw reached out, shocking her, before she snapped out of it and came out of hiding and got into a battle-ready stance.
"Don't even think it, monster!" She exclaimed.
"Monster?" A voice came from the crater, which was soon revealed to be the turtle creature, only not a statue. "What monster?"
"What the..." Rainbow Dash gasped as she stood up straight and stared at the large turtle creature, a bit surprised that it wasn't a small statue anymore. "Who the heck are you?"
"Me? The question is who are you." The turtle shot back.
"You're the one trespassing on pegasus territory, bub!" Rainbow exclaimed.
"Hmm... Well played." The turtle said. "The name's Warnado."
"Rainbow Dash, the coolest pony you'll ever meet here in Ponyville." Rainbow Dash said as he bean to calm down.
"Ponyville?" Warnado echoed. "Don't know any place like that in Skylands."
"Uh, Sky-what now?" Rainbow Dash raised a brow with a hint of suspicion.
"Wait. You never heard of it?" Warnado asked in surprise. "How could you not have heard of it?"
"Well, for one thing, this is Equestria, not... uh... wherever you're from." Rainbow Dash pointed out, shocking the blue turtle.
"WHAT!?" He shouted as he got in Rainbow's face. "You mean to tell me that I'm not in Skylands anymore?!"
"Uh..." Rainbow Dash began to answer. "...I guess so."
"Then I need to find a way back home fast!" Warnado exclaimed as he curled up into his shell and spun. As he spun, the tornado that was once beneath him as a statue appeared and surrounded his entire body. Rainbow Dash stared in utter shock at this ability, her mouth literally hitting the ground as the tornado mad it's exit stage up, through the hole Warnado made.
"Sweet Celestia!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed. "I gotta go after him before he reaches town. Who knows what he's gonna do?!" Rainbow Dash then spread her wings and took off after him, leaving a rainbow streak behind.
Rarity was up late at her house and fashion store-the Carousal Boutique. She had an order to take care of and a lot of work to do in the morning since mares come from everywhere to buy her creations. She knows this is a difficult job, but she's also aware that this very job pays very well. But when it comes to her friends, she always willing to help them anyway she can without asking for anything in return. She can as generous as she is beautiful, but she is still unaware a certain young dragon has a crush on her.
When Rarity was about to pack up the last of her order, she heard a little girl scream from downstairs. Her eyes widened in shock before speaking up.
"Sweetie Belle?" She said before a little filly came galloping into the room and wrapped her hooves around the mare's leg. "Sweetie Belle! What in Equestria is wrong?"
"Rarity, there's a big rock monster downstairs!" Sweetie Belle replied in utter terror. "I think it wants to eat me!"
Rarity looked at her little sister with a dumbfounded look as she said, "Sweetie Belle, are sure you didn't have a bad dream? Because a rock monster doesn't make any sense."
"I know what I saw, Rarity!" Sweetie Belle shot back. "It appeared after a small toy shattered in a flash of brown light."
"Sure you did." Rarity said sarcastically before hearing something breaking and some grunting from downstairs, which got her attention. "But... maybe we'll go and see for ourselves."
"Good idea." Sweetie Belle said as she and Rarity held hooves and trotted down the stairs. Once they reached the bottom, the two ponies poked their heads out of the entrance, trying to see what all the commotion was coming from. At first they saw nothing, but then Rarity and Sweetie Belle heard more grunting from the room where all the available clothes are. The two gulped before trotting over to the very room and peeked inside. Rarity gasped slightly when she saw Sweetie Belle's 'dream' standing there. It was a hunchback rock monster with yellow-orange eyes, green rocky texture, and emeralds instead of hands and as shoulder armor.
"What in Equestria..." Rarity began before the rock monster jumped. Rarity then closed her mouth with her hoof as the monster faced them. "Oh... um... hello..." Rarity stuttered.
"You two live here?" He simply asked, surprisingly in a nonthreatening voice. Rarity's fear began to fade a little, but she and Sweetie Belle were still a bit terrified.
"Y-yes." Rarity answered. "We do live here, but who are you?"
"The name's Prism Break." He answered before shouting. "And who are you two?"
"Well... my name's Rarity, and this is my little sister Sweetie Belle." Rarity answered again.
Prism Break looked at the two ponies, especially the little filly. He knows her from her screaming and running away as soon as she saw him. The rock creature then approached Sweetie Belle and spoke up as she shook a little bit.
"Sorry." He simply apologized, surprising Sweetie Belle.
"What?" She asked.
"Sorry for scaring you earlier." Prism Break pointed out. "I figured my appearance gave a bit of a scare back there."
"Oh, well, thank you for apologizing." Sweetie Belle smiled.
"You're welcome." Prism Break replied. "But one more question: where am I and how did I get here?"
Neither Sweetie Belle nor Rarity knew how to answer that question. Not once have they ever seen anything like this creature in Equestria. In fact, they don't think any pony has seen anything like him before. In this case, Prism Break is one of a kind here.
"Well..." Sweetie Belle began to answer. "... I don't know where you came from, but I did a small toy that looked like you come flying in through the window. Then you appeared as the toy hit the ground."
"Wait. I was a toy?" Prism Break asked in surprise.
"Um... yeah." Sweetie Belle gulped.
"I must've shrunk and froze up while I was travelling across space." Prism Break assumed. "But that would mean I'm not in Skylands anymore!"
"Excuse me, but... Skylands?" Rarity questioned with a raised brow.
"It's my home world." Prism answered before it donned on him. "Speaking of which, what world am I in now?"
"Well, my rock-shelled friend, you would right happen to be in the world of unicorns, pegasi and Earth ponies: Equestria." Rarity replied, shocking Prism Break.
"Wait, where?!" The rock golem exclaimed before a green flame came through the window before transforming into a note. Rarity picked up the note and saw that it was from a friend of hers.
"It's from Twilight." She said as she read the message. "She says she and Spike saw a shooting star coming our way. My guess that was you they saw coming down at us."
"Maybe, Ms. Rarity." Prism Break agreed.
"Please, call me Rarity." The unicorn said before she continued reading. "She also says that more shooting stars were scattered across or around Ponyville. Some of them in the Everfree Forest." That last sentence made Prism Break's eyes widen in shock.
"That must be Spyro and the others!" He exclaimed.
"Spyro? Who's Spyro?" Sweetie Belle asked with a raised brow.
"No time to explain!" Prism Break said as he ran towards the door. "Right now, I need to find my team!"
Prism Break ran out the door-or should I say ran over the door because of him breaking them down-and sped off to find this 'team' of his. Rarity turned to her little sister and said, "Sweetie Belle, head to your room. I'm going after that walking pile of rocks."
"But Rarity-!" Sweetie Belle began to object.
"No buts!" Rarity cut her off as she followed the rock golem.
"Aw." Sweetie Belle groaned in disappointment.
Back at the Golden Oaks Library, Twilight and Spike have already arrived to see what hit their home. Once they were inside, they saw barely anything was damaged, save for the floor which now had a giant crater in it. Twilight was relieved that none of her books were damaged, butshe hid her relief, knowing that whatever was in the crater is more Important at the moment. She looked down at Spike, and the young drake looked back at his unicorn friend with a terrified look on his face. He wanted nothing to do with whatever the crater held within, but he knew Twilight would want to find out all about it. To avoid checking it out, he spoke up.
"Uh... maybe... we should, I don't know..." Spike stuttered in fear. "...leave whatever's in there... in there."
Twilight rolled her eyes at the baby dragon. "Honestly, Spike." She said. "Where's your sense of investigating?"
"Back in Canterlot... where it belongs!" Spike shook in fear before the crater began to glow bright purple. "W-What's happening?!"
"Let's find out." Twilight said in determination as she slowly trotted over to the glowing crater. The young mare peeked over the edge of the hole, trying to see what was the source of the glowing. She saw a small statue of a dragon on bronze pedestal with stars and monos, but before she could describe it even further, the object began to crack. The cracks seemed to let out some kind of energy that increased the glow of the statue, as if something powerful wanted out really badly. More cracks appeared on the object until it looked like it was about to break, and Twilight did not like where this was going.
"DUCK!" Twilight shouted as she jumped away from the crater and covered her eyes as Spike turned around and shielded his own eyes.
The then heard a loud booming sound, like a stone breaking apart into a thousand tiny pieces after being hit by something. Twilight and Spike then uncovered their eyes, and turned back to the crater. The two looked at each other in relief-a little freaked out but in relief-before hearing a groaning sound, startling Spike as he clung to Twilight's front-right hoof and chattered his teeth.
"W-W-W-W-What was that?!" He panicked as Twilight stared at the crater, standing there with a battle-ready stance and her horn lit-up like a firecracker.
"I don't know, Spike, but whatever is inside that crater, I'm not gonna let it hurt you or my friends." She said, her eyes still locked-on the crater.
More groaning came from the crater, and Twilight didn't need to wait long to see what the source of the groaning was. The two saw a purple claw reach out of the hole and grabbed the edge, followed by another claw. Twilight was ready to blast this... thing back to where came from, but she was not prepared to see what it actually was. The creature pulled itself out of the hole, and it's appearance shocked Twilight-it was a dragon, but unlike any dragon she has seen before. It had a purple body and wings with orange-yellow scales from his neck and down between his legs, red irises in his eyes, and orange-yellow horns with an end of a tail, spikes going down from his head to his tail, and wing vertebra to match in color. The dragon shook its head to get his thoughts straight before noticing Twilight and Spike standing a few feet away from him.
"Um... hi." The purple dragon spoke up as he waved his claw as Twilight then stood up straight before backing away slowly. "No!"
Twilight froze in fear at the dragon's yelling before he spoke up. "Sorry for yelling." He apologized. "Please, don't be afraid. I'm not gonna hurt you."
Twilight and Spike didn't know what to think right now. At first, they thought he was trying to to trick them, but his voice sounded sincere and kind-not the usual attributes for a dragon here in Equestria-as he looked at them with smile. The two looked at each other for a second before turning back to the purple dragon and spoke up.
"W-W-W-Who are you?" Twilight stuttered. "Where are you from?"
"The name's Spyro." The purple dragon replied. "And before I answer that question, you are you two?"
"Oh, well, my name's Twilight-Twilight Sparkle." Twilight answered. "And this is Spike, my number-1 assistant."
"Well, it's nice to meet you both, Twilight and Spike." Spyro said. "But where am I exactly?"
"Oh you're in our place." Spike replied. "The Golden Oaks Library."
"The Golden Oaks Library?" Spyro raised a brow. "I know a lot of libraries in Skylands, but I definitely know for sure there's no place called Golden Oaks."
"Skylands?" Twilight and Spike raised a brow.
"You say that like you don't know what our own world is." Spyro said. "Why's that?"
Twilight didn't know how to respond. She read about a lot of places and legends about different worlds, but Skylands... that was something completely new to her. She didn't want to say anything, but she spoke any way.
"Probably because..." She hesitated to speak. "...This isn't Skylands... you're... in Equestria..."
Spyro's eyes widened for a second as he said, "I'm in where now?"
"Equestria." Twilight repeated.
"Equestria?" Spyro asked. "You mean to tell me that I'm not in Skylands anymore, but in a completely different world that most of my world thought was a legend?"
"Yes." Twilight answered. "I never even heard of this 'Skylands' before..." Twilight then paused before realizing what the purple dragon just said. "Wait, your world thought our world was just a legend?"
"Yep." Spyro said. "A lot of the people did, but I was always so interested in the stories about it from Master Eon."
"Master Eon?" Twilight raised a brow. "Who's that?"
"Um... I think it might be a bit... complicated for you to understand." Spyro replied. "Anyway, do you know how I got here in the first place?"
"...Well, I don't know how you wound up here, but I can tell you this: Spike and I were heading back here from buying some food." Twilight began. "But just when we were near the library, we saw these eight symbols in sky, and they each separated into four objects and fell down to the ground different locations. And you were one of those objects."
"Really?" Spyro asked before looking up at the ceiling. "Oh, well, that explains the hole in the ceiling."
Spyro wasn't lying-there was definitely hole that was broken from the outside up on the roof.
"Yeah, when we found you, you were like some kind of small statue." Spike finished.
"Small statue?" Spyro raised a brow before gasping. "Wait! You mentioned there were other objects that fell from the sky, right?"
"Yeah, but why do you ask?" Twilight asked.
"Those objects must've been the rest of the Skylanders." Spyro hypothesized, further confusing Twilight and Spike.
"Skylanders?" Twilight said.
"What are Skylanders?" Spike asked, but before Spyro could answer, another voice spoke up.
"Hey Twilight, Spike!" A pink Earth pony with goofy hair-obviously Pinkie Pie-zoomed into the room. Pinkie then turned her head and saw Spyro and zoomed right over to him, getting into his personal space and making him lean back a bit. "And I see you also made a new friend. My name's Pinkie Pie. You must be Spyro. Wait 'til we throw a 'Welcome to Ponyville' PARTY!"
Same old Pinkie. As the wielder of the Element of Laughter, she the hyper-optimistic one out of her friends, throwing parties on multiple occasions: birthdays, celebrations, festivals-you name it, she'll make it happen. Although, sometimes her sense of humor can go a little too far, especially in serious situations. But even so, it's her job to put a smile on everyone's face, and she always loves doing so.
"Uh, can't wait to see it, but..." Spyro spoke up. "...How'd you know my name?"
"And what did you mean when you said we also made a new friend?" Twilight asked.
"Yeah, what was that about?" Spike also asked.
"Oh I met a friend of Spyro's." Pinkie answered. "He was so cute, I couldn't even say no to him when he asked for help."
"Wait, a friend of mine?" Pyro raised a brow. "Who would that be?"
"Spyro?"
The purple dragon's eyes widened at the sound that familiar yet squeaky voice. He turned his head and a saw a familiar creature-a giant blue grub worm on four three-clawed feet with yellow spikes on his back, three blue and red antennas on one point on his forehead, two sharp teeth each on the top and bottom of his mouth, and green eyes instead of white. Pyro knew who this was...
"Wrecking Ball!" Pyro claimed as he ran over to the big bug.
"Spyro!" Wrecking Ball replied. "I was worried about you."
"Same here, Wreck." Spyro said, relieved to see his friend alive.
"Um..."
Spyro heard Twilight's numbing and turned around to see her giving off a weak smile. Pyro then realized hadn't properly introduce his friend to them.
"Oh right!" He said. "Twilight, Spike, meet my friend Wrecking Ball." He then turned to introduce Wrecking Ball to the others. "Wrecking Ball, this Twilight, Spike, and you've already met Pinkie."
"Nice to meet you all." Wrecking Ball said with wide grin before his stomach grumbled.
"You hungry again, Wreck?" Spyro asked.
"Uh, not this time." Wrecking Ball said before his cheeks puffed up and he spat out something, unfortunately hitting Spike in the face.
"Ew, gross." He complained as he tried wipe it off before...
"Don't touch the wings." Spike placed his claw down at the sound of the voice. The spit that hit Spike then began to move before it removed itself from his face, revealing itself to be an insect. The insect then shook off the saliva, revealing his true colors-literally- as golden dragonfly with arms.
"Ugh!" The dragonfly groaned in disgust. "Next time, I'm going with Spyro, okay, Wrecking Ball?"
"Heh, sorry, Sparx." The grub worm apologized as Spyro's face lit up with excitement.
"Sparx?!" He exclaimed. "You're here too?"
"Yeah, that explosion must've sent us far." Sparx replied. "Where are we anyway?"
"Equestria." Spyro said.
"What? You mean that made-up place full of ponies?" The dragonfly said before noticing Twilight and Pinkie giving him a glare-or at least Twilight was glaring. "Oh, uh... no offense."
"None taken." Twilight said bluntly.
"Sorry about my brother Sparx." Spyro apologized. "He can be a bit of blabbermouth at times."
"Wait, that dragonfly is your brother?" Spike asked.
"Well, his family raised me-it's a long story." Spyro explained. "Let's just say we were born on the same day, so it technically makes us twin brothers."
"Hey, hey, hey!" Sparx interjected. "You said you wouldn't bring that up."
"Sorry, Sparx." Spyro said before hearing a loud scream. "What was that?!"
"It came from outside!" Twilight exclaimed as the two ponies, the two dragons, and the two insects ran outside. Once they all made it out the door, they saw a large blue turtle with spikes on his shell in front of a small yellow filly with a pink bow in her mane. The poor thing seemed terrified, but Spyro knew how to handle this as he sighed deeply.
"What is that thing?" Twilight said in a bit of panic.
"Don't worry, Twilight." Spyro calmed her down. "Wrecking Ball and I got this."
"Yeah, just wait here." Wrecking Ball agreed as he and Spyro walked over to the giant turtle. Spyro then cleared his throat loudly, catching the turtle's attention and making him see the dragon and grub worm.
"Spyro?" The turtle gasped. "Wrecking Ball? Is that really you?"
"Yeah, it's us ,Warnado." Spyro reassured the turtle before turning his attention to the terrified filly. The purple dragon slowly walked over to the pony and reached out his claw. The filly was too terrified to see what we was going to do, so adjusted herself into a ball, her face hidden in hooves. Spyro felt sympathy for the little creature-he knew she was terrified, and he knew he had to show her he wasn't a threat. Spyro reached out again gently petted the filly's head, making her look up at him in curiosity.
"Hm?" She mumbled.
"It's okay." Spyro said calmly. "I'm not gonna hurt you, and neither will Warnado or Wrecking Ball."
The little filly was reluctant, but she eventually stood back up on her four hooves, no longer showing fear. The purple dragon smiled and was followed by the turtle and grub worm as Twilight and the others joined in. Twilight then spoke up.
"Apple Bloom?" She said in confusion. "What are you doing up this late at night?"
"Oh, hey Twilight, Pinkie Pie." Apple Bloom said. "I didn't mean to scream like that, but I was running from somethin' I saw in the orchard, then I ran into this big turtle."
"Orchard?" Spyro echoed. "What orchard?"
"Oh she's talking about Sweet Apple Acres." Spike replied. "It makes the best apples and best apple cider."
"You bet they do!"
The group heard a voice that was familiar to Twilight, Spike, Apple Bloom and Pinkie. The group of creatures looked up and saw a blue pegasus with a rainbow mane and tail. The ponies all knew this mare as...
"Rainbow Dash?" Twilight said in more confusion.
"Was following Warnado here." Rainbow Dash replied as the others looked at him.
"Yeah, I landed in her house." Warnado said sheepishly. "Anyway, what did you see in the orchard?"
"It looked something like a green lizard on two legs muscles, and sharp teeth." Apple Bloom said, making the non-pony creatures' eyes widen.
"Wait, did it happen to have two boomerangs, red spikes on its head and have been wearing armor?" The purple dragon asked as he, Warnado, and Wrecking Ball knew what it was-or who it was.
"Yeah, when I saw it, I ran as fast as I could in the other way." Apple Bloom said before realizing something. "Wait. How'd ya know all that?"
Spyro and his two friends looked at each other before speaking in unison as an answer. "Dino-Rang."
"Dino-Rang?" The ponies said before another voice spoke up.
"Someone mention me?" The voice asked from a nearby alley that the others looked towards. A green dino-like creature stepped out of the alley's shadow-wearing brown and gold armor, and weilding two boomerangs-which was assumed to be the source of the voice as he spoke up.
"Hey, hey!" The dinosaur said as he recognized the dragon, turtle, grub worm and dragonfly. "If it ain't Spyro, Wrecking Ball, Warnado and Sparx the dragonfly! Good to see you all again, mates!"
"You too, Dino Boy." Warnado said as Dino-Rang approached the group. Once the dinosaur noticed the ponies, he decided to introduce himself.
"Good day, mates." Dino-Rang said. "The name's Dino-Rang."
"Nice to meet you." Twilight said. "My name's Twilight Sparkle, and thee are my friends-Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Spike, and I believe you're familiar with Apple Bloom."
Dino-Rang looked over to Apple Bloom and immediately recognized her from earlier. "Yeah." He answered. "You're the one that found me out there and ran away once ya saw me."
"Oh, sorry 'bout that." Apple Bloom apologized sheepishly before Dino-Rang placed his clawed hand on her head.
"No need to apologize, mate." He said.
"Bloom!" a voice familiar to the ponies and Spike called out.
"That's Applejack!" Apple Bloom exclaimed. "She must've heard me screamin' earlier."
"Maybe." Wrecking Ball said as he rolled towards the source of the voice. He then saw an orange mare who the ponies all knew as Applejack.
Applejack, being the wielder of Honesty, is one pony who is to never lie. She always tells the truth to her friends, even her times of need. However, there are times when she tries to lie her way out of things, but it all backfires whenever she makes a face. In other wors even though she's a bad liar, she's a really good friend.
Applejack looked down and saw Wrecking Ball right in front of him.
"What the hay!" Applejack gasped. "What are you supposed to be?"
"I'm Wrecking Ball." Wrecking Ball answered.
"I see, but have you seen my sister Apple Bloom?" Applejack asked.
"Right over there." Wrecking Ball pointed with is small claw, making Aj look in that direction and saw her little sister.
"Apple Bloom!" She exclaimed as she galloped over to her sister and hugged her tightly. "I heard ya screamin' in the orchard, but I couldn't find ya." Applejack then noticed her friends with the other creatures and Wrecking Ball before releasing her sister. "Uh, what's happening here and who are these guys?"
"Spyro." The purple dragon answered.
"Dino-Rang."
"Sparx."
"Warnado."
"Wait, do ya'll know anyone named Slam Bam, Ignitor, Terrafin and Bash?" Applejack asked the group, making the non-ponies eyes widen in shock.
"You called, Aj?" A voice spoke up and the group all turned to see a four-armed yeti, a shark creature with rocky scales on his arms, a dragon with no wings, but with a morning star on his tail, an some kind of knight with nothing but fire inside of him.
"Guys?" Spyro gasped as he, Sparx, Dino-Rang, Warnado, and Wrecking Ball went over to them. "You're all okay!"
"Why wouldn't we be, Spyro?" The shark-man asked before he and the others noticed the five ponies and dragon.
"I see you found some civilians here." The fire knight said.
"I think we should introduce ourselves." The yeti suggested as he went over to the civilians. "The name's Slam Bam. What're your names?"
"I'm Twilight." Twilight said. "This is Spike, Apple Bloom, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie and you already met Applejack."
"Nice to meet you all." The fire knight spoke up as he lifted his flaming blade. "I'm Ignitor, fair maidens and fellow."
"My name's Bash." The rock dragon said."
"And I'm Terrafin!" The shark exclaimed.
"Well, it's nice to meet you all." Twilight spoke up before remembering something. "Wait, Spyro, you still need to answer my question from earlier-what exactly are Skylanders?"
"Skylanders?" The ponies all echoed.
"Oh, that's easy." Spyro said. "That's what me, Warnado, Dino-Rang and the others are."
"What you guys are?" Rainbow raised a brow. "Warnado, didn't you say you were from a place called Skylands?"
"That's right, Rainbow Dash." The turtle replied.
"What's Skylands?" Apple Bloom asked.
"A world of magic of floating islands and a sea of clouds." The group then heard another voice and turned towards its source-a rock golem with crystals for hands.
"Prism Break!" Spyro exclaimed in joy. "You made it."
"Yep, and I'm not alone." Prism Break said as a three more figures stepped out of the shadows, turning out to be Rarity, Fluttershy and a plant dragon.
"Camo!" Spyro's smile grew.
"Rarity?" Twilight said in confusion. "Fluttershy? What are you two doing out here?"
"Well..." Fluttershy began. "...Camo landed in my house and after some talking, he ran towards Ponyville, where we eventually found Prism Break."
"With Rarity following him." Camo finished.
"What about you, Prism Break?" Terrafin asked the rock golem.
"I was told by Rarity that I crashed into her place." Prism Break said. "When she and her sister found me and explained where I was, I took off to find you guys. Then I found Fluttershy and Camo right before we found you guys."
"Are you guys Skylanders too?" Spike asked.
"Yep." Camo nodded. "On a more serious matter, where are the others?"
"I don't know, Camo." Spyro replied. "But we need to find them ASAP before Kaos takes over."
"Chaos?" Twilight repeated. "What chaos?"
"No, not that kind of chaos, I mean Kaos." Spyro cleared up. "K-A-O-S."
"That guy still owes me five dollars!" Terrafin exclaimed.
"Kaos is a pony?" Rainbow asked.
"No, he's more like a... um..." Spyro was about to explain, but before he could, Spike burped out a scroll from his green fire.
Twilight grasped the scroll with her magic before opening and reading it.
Dear Twilight,
I sense that something of great power has come to Equestria, and I just received a message from Ponyville showing eight symbols in the sky that separated into four objects each, falling down to Equestria. I want to know if you're alright. Be careful, my student-whatever has entered our world, it's very powerful.
Your mentor,
Princess Celestia
"Princess Celestia?" The Skylanders all echoed in confusion.
"Yeah, she's in charge of all order in Equestria." Spike explained.
"My guess she was alarmed when you SKylander fellas fell from the sky." Applejack suggested.
"Maybe, Applejack." Twilight agreed as she grabbed a pen and sheet of paper with her magic. "I better let her know that we're alright, and what-er... who we found."
Twilight started writing down her reply to Princess Celestia.
Dear Princess Celestia,
I am alright, and so are my friends, and we know what fell from those eight symbols. They call themselves the Skylanders and they come from another world that also has magic. Whoever they are, I don't know why they're here, or how they even got here in the first place. But I'll let you know that they're not here to hurt us. Anyway, write back to me as soon as you can.
Your faithful student,
Twilight Sparkle
With one last stroke of the pen, Twilight rolled the message into a scroll and let Spike grab it. Once he had a hold of it, the baby dragon breathed green fire upon it in one blow, surprising the Skylanders as the flames traveled to Canterlot.
"Whoa." Sparx said in surprise. "What was that about?"
"Oh, Spike's fire is enchanted to send messages to any pony, anywhere in Equestria." Twilight explained. "I wonder how she takes this news."
"My guess she'll be quite surprised at this development." Ignitor replied.
"Agreed." Spyro said. "But in the meantime, we should find our friends."
"I couldn't agree more." Warnado nodded. "But where do we start, I mean, they could be anywhere."
"Not exactly..." Twilight began to speak, getting the others curious.
"What do ya mean 'not exactly'?" Dino-Rang asked as Twilight teleported a map to he with her magic.
"You see, before I galloped back home, I saw that when your symbols separated, they four from each landed in some locations." Twilight explained as she showed the map to everyone. "And judging by their trajectory, I'd say they all landed in these three locations-the Everfree Forest, the Castle of the Royal Sisters, and near the mountain that Canterlot stands on."
"But how are we gonna find them if they're all scattered, Twilight?" Pinkie Pie asked.
"Easy, there are nineteen of us, and three locations that are the most possible places they'll be in." Twilight answered, and Spike and the other ponies didn't like what she saying.
"Twi." Applejack spoke up. "What exactly are ya saying? You're not saying we should split up, are you?"
"We have to Applejack." Twilight replied. "It's the quickest way to find them."
"Yes, darling, but do really think that's a good idea?" Rarity said in a bit of concern.
"I agree with Rarity-I prefer not to be away from my friends for so long." Fluttershy agreed with her generous friend.
"Don't worry, every pony, as long as we each stick together as a group, I believe we can find them and return the Skylanders to their home." Twilight reassured them before looking at the Skylanders, who almost all them smiled, mostly because nobody here can see Ignitor's face, and they all nodded in agreement. "Hopefully it won't take long until morning."
"I hope so." Spike said as he let out a yawn. "So... who goes where...*yawn*... exactly?"
"I think it should be six per party." Twilight said. Big mistake there, Twilight.
"PARTY!? WHERE!? WHY-WASN'T-I-INVITED!?" Pinkie Pie shouted in panic. "I-need-to-find-some-more-party-favors-so-every-pony-will-have-the-best-'Right-Back-at-You'-Party-EVER!"
The Skylanders couldn't help but chuckle slightly at the mare's enthusiasm. Twilight and the others just rolled their eyes as they smiled at her before she said, "Anyway, Spike, Applejack and I will head to the location near Canterlot Mountain, accompanied by Spyro, Sparx, and Bash." Twilight then turned to the orange Earth pony. "Rainbow Dash, you and Pinkie Pie take Wrecking Ball, Warnado, Terrafin and Camo into the Everfree Forest." And then to the white mare. "And Rarity, you and Fluttershy will take Ignitor, Prism Break, and Slam Bam to the Castle of the Royal Sisters."
Hearing those words made Fluttershy freeze up as she stuttered, "C-C-C-Castle of the... R-R-Royal..."
It wasn't long before the shy pegasus fainted, concerning the Skylanders.
"Is, uh... is she alright?" Spyro asked.
"She'll be fine; she always faints when it comes to something scary." Applejack answered. "Any who, let's get moving, y'all!"
"Yeah!" Everyone exclaimed, hoping it wasn't very loud because of every pony sleeping before walking away, Twilight's team heading to the train station and Rainbow Dash's ad Rarity's team went towards the Everfree forest, since it both there locations were in the same direction.
"Wait for me!" Apple Bloom called out as she galloped towards Twilight's group, trying to catch up with them. When Apple heard her she turned around and stuck her hoof out, sipping the filly in her tracks.
"Whoa there, Bloom!" Applejack said. "The only place you'll be heading is home."
"But big sis, I wanna help." Apple Bloom said.
"Sorry, little sis, but no means no." Applejack shot back.
"But Applejack-!"
"No buts!" Applejack cut off her sister as she pointed towards Sweet Apple Acres. "Now march, little filly. March!"
"Hmph!" Apple Bloom huffed as she started to stomp back home with a frown.
Applejack watch as Apple Bloom walked away, and as soon as she was far away enough, Apple went back to her group. It was then that they realized that the groups were now already far away from each other, searching for more of these Skylanders. That was a word every pony had in their minds; who were these Skylanders, and what is this Skylands?
Within the shining walls of the castle of Canterlot, Princess Celestia was finishing up writing down some notes. Although she had a smile on her face, her mind was deeply telling her to be concerned for her student Twilight. She was waiting for her student to reply to her message, hoping to find out if she and her friends were all right, but her patience was going to a level in which her concern was way up.
Celestia took a break from writing down her notes and stared out the window. She got back onto her hooves and trotted over to the outside of the window. She stared down at Ponyville, the home her most faithful student, wondering what has happened to her as she thought, 'Twilight, I hope you're alright.'
Before Celestia could turn back around to her room, a green flame appeared and turned into a scroll. Celestia grasped the scroll with her magic before unrolling and reading it. Once she read it, she gasped in excitement...
...It was the message Twilight just sent to her, reassuring the princess that everything is fine.
Celestia then continued reading before raising a brow. True, she was relieved to find out her student was fine, but the word 'Skylanders' is what caught her eye really. She gave the word some thought before gasping in realization.
"Skylanders?!" She exclaimed before galloping back inside, towards a bookcase. There, she skimmed through every single book until one caught her eye: The Legends of Skylands by Starswirl the Bearded.
"Of course!" She exclaimed again. "Why didn't I see this coming? I need to find out more about these Skylanders, and there home world."
The sun princess then opened the book and began to read it as she sat down, hoping to find out what's really happening.
A/N: I worked hard on this chapter, with all the thinking, remembering things that were deleted, and trying to find out how this goes down. I'm going to basing this story off the main games, the tv series, and the movies. And if you don't like it, please, don't comment.
And just so you know, in future chapters, the Wonderbolt who is called Spitfire will now be called Fire Flight, because one of the Skylanders Superchargers characters has that name and when the two Spitfires meet, it will probably be confusing.
Anyway, here's the Skylander of the day:
Spyro!
"All fired up!"
Biography: "Spyro hails from a rare line of magical purple dragons that come from a faraway land few have ever traveled. It's been said that the Scrolls of the Ancients mention Spyro prominently—the old Portal Masters having chronicled his many exciting adventures and heroic deeds. Finally, it was Master Eon himself who reached out and invited him to join the Skylanders. Now calling Skylands his home, Spyro remains one of its most valued protectors, with evil facing a new enemy—and the Skylanders gaining a valued ally."
Abilities:
-Fire Blast
-Dragon Ram
-Flight