Episode 2: Friendship is the Cure, part 2
"Stop following me!" Twilight stomped her hoof when she reached the Everfree Forest. "I need to do this myself!"
Hikari was only a feet away from her. "Why?"
"You're just involving yourself into this for no good reason. I don't know your name. YOU don't know my name, so why are you even trying to follow me all of a sudden?!" Twilight demanded.
"You can't do everything by yourself." Hikari said confidently, slowly walking over to her. "I was just worried about you. You seemed to be troubled when you went back to the other room."
"How am I not troubled?!" Twilight shouted, not caring if there's anypony here to hear. "All day I have been trying to get through the preparations so I could go to the library and try to find a way to save Equestria from Nightmare Moon but I kept being distracted with everypony trying to be my friend!" Twilight panted, trying to calm herself down in front of the little group.
"What's wrong with trying to be friends-popo?" Pollun asked.
"Well, I don't have time for that! I'm trying to save everypony I love from an eternal night! Do you know what will happen if there's an eternal night across Equestria, across the entire world!"
"Then you need friends to help-lulu!" Lulun pouted. "With more friends, things are easier that way-lulu."
"I don't have time for this." Twilight sighed, having a feeling that they'll just be stubborn. "I need to go now and do this myself."
When Twilight turned away from Hikari asked, "Would you allow me to come with you at least?"
The purple unicorn let out another sigh, but since she was pretty sure the pegasus will follow her anyway, she said, "Alright."
Hikari smiled. "Lulun, tell the others that we're in the forest."
The little rabbit's eyes widen, almost teary-eyed. "B-But I promised to protect you-lulu. I can't protect you if we're not together."
She gently pet her head in comfort. "Nagisa and Honoka needs to know where we are, and the only way they would know if one of us can go to them and tell them what are we doing. Can I trust you to do it?"
The rabbit creature nervously nodded, and try her very best to run away, saying, "Lulu!" with every step she took.
Twilight would had protest to this, but she highly doubt that the others would reach them in time.
"So how do you know that we can save Equestria by going into the forest?" Hikari ask the unicorn.
"The Elements of Harmony: A Reference's Guide." Twilight simply explained as they enter the Everfree Forest.
"Pretty Cure? I've never heard such a childish name before," Nightmare said as her horn glowed blue. "But allow me to make an example of what happens to those who go against me!"
"Everyone, get out of here!" Ponies screamed, flooding out of the city hall with the guards guiding them out.
From Nightmare's horn, she shot several beams of energy, cratering the city hall. With each shot, Pretty Cure was able to dodge.
"You can't dodge forever, you foals-" She was suddenly face to face with Cure Black, who grabbed onto her long horn and threw her entire body across the room with great force.
"Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh!" Rainbow Dash almost squealed, watching the fight as she stood at the side.
"Rainbow Dash, I don't know how you got pass everypony else through all that hoopla but we need to get out of here now!" Applejack practically growled, pulling on the blue pegasus's rainbow tail.
"Come on, they're literally punching her in the face!"
"Do you want to get hurt?!"
"Come on, we've never seen anything like this before!"
"And I've never seen an exploding volcano before, and I don't want to see it myself!" Rarity tried to use her magic to drag the pegasus outside to safety.
"Pinkie, that's not really a good idea." Fluttershy said, seeing Pinkie and Spike were watching the scene in from of them, eating popcorn.
"Oh, don't worry you guys. These things never hurt bystanders before," Pinkie paused for a moment and added, "Depending on the show."
"Wait, what?" Spike said, but then was distracted when Rainbow, who's suddenly by his side, "Look! Look! They've just thrown Nightmare Moon into a wall!"
The city hall itself could be the considered the moon's surface with how many craters there are. Nightmare Moon panted, standing on the opposite side of Pretty Cure. A wicked smile curled up on her face, filled with confidence. "It seems we're evenly matched, Pretty Cure." The alicorn practically spit out their name with such mockery. "Once I defeat you-"
The area around them turned golden as the two mares held hooves. Standing on their back legs, the duo held up their free hooves in the air. Odd looking bracelets were attached to them. They held their forehooves together and raised the other in the air.
"Black Thunder!"
"White Thunder!"
Black and White lightning came from above, striking their raised hooves. The duo shined, letting a rainbow aura form around them.
"Our beautiful souls..."
"...Shall crush your evil heart!"
"Pretty Cure Marble Screw! Max!"
A powerful black and white beam shot from their hooves, heading straight for Nightmare Moon.
"No!" A forcefield appear over her as an attempt to defend herself.
"Spark!" The beam intensified by the shine of their odd bracelets, turning into a rainbow of colors.
"NOOOO!" Nightmare Moon screamed as she was consumed by the beam itself.
Black and White panted, by their eyes widen at the state of Nightmare Moon.
She didn't change. Not at all. It was like the attack didn't effect her at all. Nightmare Moon smirked at this.
"Why didn't that work?!" Black exclaimed.
"I guess she's not possessed by a Zakenna-mepo." The yellow mascot nervously chimed in.
"What are we going to do-mipo?" Mipple worriedly added.
"What was that fanfare? Are you really that weak?" She let out a wicked laugh, which was interrupted by the repeating sound of 'lulu'.
"Is that a... rabbit?" Fluttershy felt herself being rather puzzled as a rabbit plushie pass by the 'audience' and into the 'battlefield'.
"Black, White, Hikari is in the forest-lulu!" Lulun shouted, approaching the duo.
"The forest? I think I know where she's heading." Lulun cried when she found herself inside of a blue aura, squirming. "I must thank you for the information, little creature." Then she threw her in the direction of Pretty Cure, who caught her onto Black's back.
As Nightmare Moon disappear into a mist, Black and White heard Rarity say, "The forest? Does she mean she's in-"
"The Everfree Forest!?" Their little audience shouted together.
"What are you guys doing here?" Cure Black asked.
"There three wanted to see you fight." Applejack sighed, turning her direction towards Pinkie, Rainbow, and Spike.
"Would you blame us? We've never seen this type of action before!" Rainbow exclaimed with a smile.
"I love the big beam, even if it didn't work." Pinkie Pie added.
"It might be even cooler than my... comic books..." Spike fell down on the ground, curled up to sleep.
"What's wrong?" Cure White asked as Cure Black gently kicked him.
"Oh, he is a baby dragon, so of course all this excitement gotten him all tuckered out." Fluttershy said, picking him up onto her back. "Maybe I should let him stay at my cottage for now."
"As long as you're safe." Black sighed. "We'll be entering this Everfree Forest to find our friend."
"And the purple one-lulu." Lulun added.
"Wait, purple one? Are you talking about Twilight?" Pinkie asked.
"Is she the one with the horn-lulu?"
"Yes!" Lulun let out a little frighten squeak, but nodded. "You two! Let us join you!"
"...What?" Black looked rather puzzled.
"I don't know what Twilight's doing there in that forest, but she's our friend and we don't want her in any danger," Rainbow determined. "And there's nothing you can stop us from doing otherwise."
"Well, besides being these super powerful ponies who can-" Rarity close Pinkie's mouth with her magic.
"What Pinkie's trying to say is that you may be powerful, but you still meed our help." Rarity explained.
"I did?" Pinkie's voice was muffled by the unicorn's magic.
Black look at White as White look at her. The duo nodded, feeling a sense of trust from them.
"You can join us." White said, earning a cheer of joy from the group.
"How are we going to cross the bridge?" The three were in front of a broken rope bridge that was their only way of reaching the ruins.
"Are you serious? You have wings!" Twilight exclaimed, shocked by the fact she've said that.
"Oh, I don't really know how to use them."
"Don't be mean to Hikari-popo!" Pollun glared at the unicorn.
"I'm not! I'm just shock that she haven't realize she can fly yet." Twilight sighed, approaching the broken bridge. "Okay, stay close to me. I think I can teleport us to the other side."
"There's no need for that." A chilling voice met their ears.
"Nightmare Moon!" Twilight screamed as the three of them suddenly found themselves in a magic orb of their own. Their location was changed into the stoney ruins they were heading for.
"Finally, somepony remembers my name." Nightmare Moon sighed, petting a stone orb.
"The Elements of Harmony!" Twilight shouted, slamming her hooves against her magic orb.
"Hm? Oh, this?" Twilight knew she was mocking her, watching the black alicorn roll the element around. "I wonder, should I keep them or crush them so they'll never banish me again?"
"Hikari-popo! Hikari-popo!" Pollun pounded his little nubs against the magic's surface, trying to get to his friend.
All Hikari could do is look. She can't transform nor fight against her without Pollun.
Nightmare cackled, "You should thank the rabbit for warning me."
"What did you do to Lulun-popo!?" Pollun shouted, glaring at the dark mare.
"Don't worry your pretty, little head. She's safe for now, but along with your other friends, it wouldn't last for long."
"What are you talking about?" Hikari asked with widen eyes.
Nightmare didn't say anything as her horn glowed blue. Their magic prisons turned dark for only a moment until they found themselves in the outdoors, in the Everfree Forest, and right there, they could see the others.
"Lulun-popo!" Pollun shouted with a hint of happiness, seeing the pink rabbit ride on Cure Black's back.
"Don't even try to call for help. They can't help you. All you can do is watch." Nightmare's voice echoed in their heads.
Twilight simply stared at the group of ponies in front of her. She didn't know how to feel about all of this, about them.
"So, the Everfree Forest is strange because the animals can take care of themselves and all that stuff?" Black questioned as the group walked on the mountainside.
"How isn't that strange?" Rainbow said. "Just where did you guys came from again?"
"You see, um... Shouldn't we be finding Hikari, Pollun, and Twilight?"
"By the way, what's with the talking plush-" She was interrupted by screaming as the ground under them collapse.
"Fluttershy! Quick!" "Oh my goodness, oh my goodness!"
The two pegasi was able to save Pinkie and Rarity, but as Applejack grab onto a root, she notice the mountain seemed to have some sort of vendetta against Black and White. Every time the duo land on a safe-looking piece of land, the ground under them crumbled and fallen off every single time. Just seeing the two bounce around kind of made her feel tired herself, almost as if she's the one bouncing around like some kind of rubber glob.
Applejack let go of the root and let herself slide down onto a cliff. She continued to watch their struggle for something safe until an idea popped up in her head, noticing the area around them.
"Hey, you two!" Applejack shouted. "You need to fall down."
"What?!" Black and White shouted in shock, still hopping from place to place.
"She's crazy-mepo!" Mepple shouted.
"I promised you'll be safe."
"That's not true-mepo!"
"What I'm saying to you is the truth. Fall down and you'll be safe." The look on her face didn't show malice at all. It's more for concern than anything else.
Falling off a mountain would normally seem like a good idea if you want to kill yourself, but... Black and White trusted her judgement, her honesty. So, the two let themselves fall down.
Their mascots screamed in terror as they fell closer and closer to the ground, feeling the rushing air until it stopped.
Opening up their eyes, they notice they were hovering, or rather they were slowly falling.
"Um, I'm sorry. I'm not used to holding anything more than a bunny or two." Fluttershy said as she and Rainbow struggled to safely put down the Pretty Cure.
"It's okay. It's okay." White said as Black let out a relaxed sigh.
The trapped Twilight can't help but to look at Applejack as the orange earth pony hop down the mountain by the leftover ledges.
"And once Pinkie and Rarity were saved, whoosh... Me and Fluttershy loop-de-loop around and WHAM! Caught you right in the nick of time." Rainbow fly around in the air as the group continue on their journey.
"We were there." White smiled.
"I'm pretty sure we would still be alive even if you let us fall." Black said, a bit annoyed with Rainbow's boastful attitude.
"Nagisa..." White now sighed.
"No way! I know you two took on Nightmare Moon, but there's no way you could survive a fall like that."
"We could-" A roar interrupted her. "What was that?!"
The creature on question ran towards them. "A manticore!" Applejack shouted.
"We've got to past him!" White shouted as a worry look appear on Fluttershy.
"Don't worry. We can take care of him." Black said with confidence, already changing after the manticore. Fluttershy's worry spiked up tenfold.
"Wait!" Fluttershy suddenly found her voice rise up in volume much louder and higher than usual once the creature earned a punch and a kick from the duo so hard that the manticore broken a tree on impact. "Stop! Stop!"
"What is it?" White asked as the two held their stance.
Fluttershy quickly flown to the manticore, practically zipping around him to check on his wounds. The manticore let out a weak roar. "Shh... Shh... It's okay." The yellow pegasus gently nuzzled and pet the creature in comfort. The manticore seemed to trust her, showing her his paw. She let out a soft gasp, seeing the thorn. "Oh, you poor, poor little baby."
"Little?" Rainbow and Black said in confusion.
"Let me help you." Fluttershy pleaded, grabbing the thorn. "Now this might hurt for just a second."
Once Fluttershy pluck out the thorn, the manticore roared powerfully, grabbing onto the pegasus.
"Fluttershy!" Before the group jump into action, they saw the manticore was basically hugging her, licking her face.
She giggled. "Aw, you're just a little ol' baby kitty, aren't you? Yes you are, yes you are."
As the event seemed to be calm down, Black and White approaches the manticore, who've stopped at first, then cowered, slowly backing away from them.
"I'm sorry!" Black bowed, shocking the group by the action.
"I'm sorry!" White echoed her partner's action.
The manticore stopped in place, watching the two. There doesn't seem to anything angry about them. With a nod and a smile from the manticore, the duo smiled at each other as the group ran off.
Twilight stared at Fluttershy as the yellow pegasus approach the Pretty Cure and said, "It was nice that you apologize to the manticore, girls."
"We only did that because you were able to show he's nice." Black said.
"Well, I believe that we should show a little kindness... and not hit them." Fluttershy quietly added the last part.
"Sorry, sorry. It's pretty much our instinct to fight anything threatening." Black let out a nervous laugh as the group ran deeper into the forest.
"Ugh. My eyes need a rest from all this icky muck." Rarity complained as the group continue on walking through the forest.
As if the trees heard her wish, they found themselves in a much darker patch of the woods.
"Well, I didn't mean that literally."
The girls let out complains of their own, bumping into each other.
"What are we going to do?" White said, trying to paw around for any obstacles.
Fluttershy let out a shriek as there was a red glow to the trees.
"What is it, Fluttershy?" Rainbow came to her side until she finally notice the trees around them.
A petrifying fear came to the group once they saw they were surrounded by the trees now designed with gaping, sharp mouths and eyes looking everywhere they move.
Lulun let out a cry, cuddling against Black's neck as the trees growl at them.
All of them were terrified by the trees, except for Pinkie Pie. She simply made funny faces and noises at them.
"Oh come on, they're pretty harmless." Pinkie laughed with a wave of her hoof.
"But they're scary-lulu." Lulun sniffled.
She let out s squeak when Pinkie picked her up and held her up to one of the trees.
"No-lulu! They'll eat me-lulu!" Lulun squirmed. She calmed down, noticing the trees aren't really doing anything else besides growling.
"Oh girls, don't you see?" Pinkie said as the area around them seemed to lightened up.
"When I was a little filly and the sun was going down..."
Hikari glanced at Pollun from her magic prison. He's definitely cheered up form the last time she've seen him, seeing how he's hopping up and down to Pinkie's song. Even Twilight seems to be a smig happier than she originally was since she was first trapped here.
"How are you feeling?" Hikari asked the unicorn.
She didn't say anything to the pink pegasus, making Hikari wonder what's going on in her mind.
"Well, that was fun." Black smiled as they hop out of the woods, laughing.
"Yeah, but I feel like you two could had beaten up those trees." Rainbow Dash said.
"We were distracted!" Black pouted. "Those trees surprised us."
"Don't you mean scared?"
"You were too!"
"So you admit it."
"Wait!" Pinkie shouted.
One by one, they bumped into Pinkie as they notice the rapid waters and the sounds of crying.
"What a world, what a world!" They notice a serpent crying, his tail splashing the water.
"You're not going to beat him up, are you?" Rainbow whispered over to the duo.
Apparently the serpent heard her, giving off a gasp and splashing water towards them now. "You ruffians!"
"No! No! We don't mindlessly beat up others!" Black shouted, waving her front hooves at him. In defense. "We just want to know why you're crying."
"If you're not..." The serpent said, stopping. "You see, there's this tacky little cloud of purple smoke just whisk past me and tore half of my beloved mustache clean off, and I look simply horrid." He continued on to wail, falling into the water, causing them to be wet.
"Oh, give me a break." Rainbow glared.
"That's what all the fuss is about?" Applejack said.
"To be fair, I've never seen anyone make a half of a mustache look good-mepo." Mepple said.
"Why, of course it's worth the 'fuss'." Rarity said as she walk over to him. "Just look at him. Such luminescent scales, expertly coiffed mane, your fabulous manicure."
"All so true." The serpent sniffled.
"But they're ruined without your beautiful mustache."
"It's true. I'm hideous!"
"I don't think you're helping." Black sighed.
"I can't let a crime like this continue on." Rarity proclaimed.
"Ow!" Rarity pluck out one of his scales. "Why did you do that?" The serpent cried.
Her next set of actions were so shocking that the serpent fainted along with a roaring amount of gasps from the girls.
Rarity cut off her tail, using it as his other mustache half. He let out a cheer. "My mustache. How wonderful!"
"You look smashing." Rarity complimented.
"But, your tail..." White said with wide eyes.
"It's fine, my dear. Short tails are in this season. Besides, it'll grow back."
"So would the mustache." Rainbow whispered.
"At least we can cross the river now." Once Black step into the river, she let out a yelp as the serpent's body rises up like a bridge.
"Allow me."
"How are you feeling?" Hikari asked once again, looking over at the purple unicorn.
The two could hear Pollun's cheering for the others.
"Hopeful." That was Twilight's answer as they watch Rainbow refuse Nightmare Moon's Shadow Bolts.
"Hopeful?"
"Yeah, I feel hopeful."
A low growl met their ears. Their visions of their friends was replaced with the ruins' scenery and Nightmare's furious look at them.
"This wasn't suppose to happen!" Nightmare declared. "They're suppose to fail! You're suppose to feel despair!"
"Our friends will save us-popo!" Pollun shouted, but was given a shrinking bubble instead. "It hurts-popo!"
"Pollun!" Hikari cried out.
"Let them go!" Two voices shouted.
At the ruins' entrance were two mares jumping in with the others stampeding behind them.
"Can't you see we're busy here?" Nightmare sighed as if she's talking to an annoying neighbor. "Besides, what can you two do to me? Your little light show from before didn't work on me, and don't even try to make me laugh if you're going to say your friends are going to help you."
"No, you're wrong." Cure Black took a step forward. "They can help us."
"Okay, I'll admit you're giving us a little too much credit." Rainbow Dash whispered.
"We'll admit that we would had gone through the forest ourselves much more on our own, but with the help of these five, we were able to help out others and stay focus." Cure White said.
"Exactly!" Twilight exclaimed. "Nightmare Moon made us watch your adventure through the Everfree Forest, but even when she tried to make you fail, you were able to solve them."
Her eyes widen when she heard something break.
"Oh my, these break much more easily than I thought." Another sound of stone crumbling made Twilight's stomach drop.
Her bubble was now positioned in a way where she can see the black alicorn's actions. Under her armored hoof, she crushed an Element of Harmony into just a pile of pebbles, making her feel even more sick.
"The Elements of Harmony!" Twilight shouted in horror.
It clicked in their minds that they must be important in some way to Twilight. The Pretty Cure jumped into action and headed towards Nightmare. A combination of the two's attacks was only able to push the tall mare back.
"Even if you continue on fighting me for the rest of your lives, we both know you'll never defeat me no matter how many times you perform your beams. The only way to defeat me is with the Elements of Harmony, and as you can see," She used her magic to crush the stone orb as an example. "They're nothing, and as a bonus." She soon crush the last stone orb.
Twilight stared in horror for so long that she haven't realize her magic bubble have been popped.
"You three are no longer much of a threat to me," Nightmare said, frighteningly calm. "Doesn't mean I won't destroy you."
"Pollun-lulu! Hikari-lulu!" Lulun shouted as she ran over to the pink pegasus.
With two poofs, her little mascots turn into strange devices.
"Luminous! Shining Stream!"
In a bright, golden light, right there she've transformed in front of them.
"Shining life, Shiny Luminous! The light's heart and the light's will, for the sake of uniting all as one!"
The Mane Six were in awe at the transformation while Nightmare Moon looked at her in disgust.
"It doesn't change a thing if there's three or thirty of you-"
"What about..." Pinkie paused for a moment, trying to count in her head. "...59 as of right now? Is that right? I mean, I think that's how many if you exclude all of the-" Pinkie interrupted at first until she realize no pony was listening to her.
Nightmare tried to ignored her nonsense. "You'll never be able to defeat me. I'll continue on kicking until the day I die!"
Black, White, and Luminous pounced into action after the armored mare.
Twilight tore her eyes off the broken elements to look at the others just as Rarity, Rainbow, Fluttershy, Applejack, and Pinkie ran to her through the chaos.
"Oh my goodness, are you okay, Twilight?" Fluttershy asked as Pinkie hugged her tightly.
"Did she hurt you? You can tell us." Applejack worried.
"Even though I'm pretty sure those three has it okay, I'll beat her up for you too!" Rainbow proudly announced.
"Rainbow, I think she has enough violence for one day." Rarity said, gently pet her cheek in comfort.
She stared at them, hearing them how worry they are for her as she realize that they've gone through all of that trouble for her. Twilight felt something when she look at the five, seeing their determination to protect her. She felt a spark.
"No!" Twilight suddenly shouted, standing back onto her hooves. The five took a step back in shock.
The four battling foes stopped to look back on the purple unicorn.
"We can defeat you!" She proclaimed, stomping her front hoof.
"How? It's obvious that these three can't defeat me." Nightmare suddenly released a blue beam at the trio, causing them to fly back into the rubble of the ruin walls. "Five of the Elements are destroyed, and you haven't even attempted to make the sixth appear." Nightmare mockingly said.
"You may believe you have destroyed the Elements, but you're wrong." A smile appear on her lips. "Their spirits are here!"
The Elements' fragments glowed several different colors, floating in the air. The Pretty Cure watch in awe.
"Applejack, who reassured those two when they were in doubt, represents the spirit of ...honesty!" Glowing, orange shards circled around the orange mare. "Fluttershy, who tamed the manticore with her compassion, represents the spirit of ...kindness!" Glowing, pink shards circled around the yellow pegasus. "Pinkie Pie, who banished fear by giggling in the face of danger, represents the spirit of ...laughter!" The blue, glowing shards circled around the bouncing, pink mare. "Rarity, who calmed a sorrowful serpent with a meaningful gift, represents the spirit of ...generosity!" Glowing, purple shards circled around the white unicorn. "And Rainbow Dash, who could not abandoned her friends for her own heart's desire, represents the spirit of ...loyalty!" Glowing, red shards circled around the blue pegasus. "The spirits of these five ponies got through every challenge you threw at them!"
Fear were in the black alicorn's eyes, trying to deny herself of the situation. "You still don't have the sixth Element! You haven't made a spark!"
"I did! A different kind of spark. I felt it the very moment I realized how happy I was to hear you, to see you, how much I cared about you as I've watched your journey. The spark ignited inside me when I realized that you all... are my friends!" From above, a stone orb appeared, floating over them. "You see, Nightmare Moon, when those Elements are ignited by the... the spark, that resides in the hearts of us all, it creates the sixth element: the element of ...magic!"
One by one, the fragments around the five ponies turned into a golden necklace, each with a different gem. The orb from about turned into a golden tiara for Twilight.
The six mares glowed brightly together as a rainbow beam was twisted up and straight down into the black alicorn herself.
The mare didn't move from her spot. Was it fear? Was it stubbornness? Was it secretly confidence from the Marble Screw? For whatever reason, she didn't move in that spot as the rainbow was heading for her.
Once the rainbow beam hit her, she screamed, "Noooooo!" The rainbow spun around her like a tornado, getting bigger and bigger by the second. Doubling, tripling in size. "NOOOOOO!"
Then the whole place turned white when Twilight opened her eyes.
The six mares groaned, finding themselves curled up on the ground as Black, White, and Luminous ran up to them.
"Guys, what was that?!" Black shouted.
"Ugh, my head." Rainbow groaned, picking herself up.
"A little tiny bit disappointed that we only got these." Pinkie said, batting at her necklace. "Was expecting something a little more, like a frilly outfit."
"What are you talking about?" Rarity said. "There's nothing wrong with a piece of accessory," A big grin appear on her face. "And my tail's back! Oh how I missed you."
"I thought they were in 'season'." Applejack murmured with a bit of annoyance.
"And they look like our cutie marks." Fluttershy pointed out.
"This is amazing!" Rainbow shouted.
"Gee, Twilight! I thought you were spouting a lot of hooey, but I reckon we really do represent the elements of friendship." Applejack smiled.
"Indeed you do." Ponies gasp as they saw a bright light from outside. The sun.
Once the sun rose to the very top of the sky, a ball of light came down and enter the ruins. The ball of light soon transform into a grand, white alicorn with a long, colorful, flowing mane.
One by one, the Mane Six bowed down to her with the Pretty Cure soon copying their action, but Twilight let out a gasp, seeing a familiar face.
"Princess Celestia." Twilight said, approaching her.
"Twilight Sparkle, my faithful student." The white alicorn said, nuzzling her. "I knew you could do it."
"Princess Celestia!?" Black happily exclaimed as she look up at her.
"But... you told me it was all an old pony tale."
"I told you that you needed to make some friends, nothing more. I saw the signs of Nightmare Moon's return, and I knew it was you who had the magic inside to defeat her, but you could not unleash it until you let true friendship into your heart. Now if only another will as well."
Among the broken, blue armor was a small, blue alicorn laying there. Her eyes open up with a jump when the solar princess said her name. "Princess Luna!"
As the white alicorn approaches her, she said, "It has been a thousand years since I have seen you like this." She was on her knees. "Time to put our differences behind us. We were meant to rule together, little sister."
"Sister?" Twilight and Rainbow said in shock.
"I feel like we're missing something here." Black whispered, leaning over to White and Luminous.
"Will you accept my friendship?" Princess Celestia ask the smaller alicorn, standing up.
Ponies waited for her answer in great anticipation. With a leap to close the distance between the two, Princess Luna nuzzled her and said, "I'm so sorry! I missed you so much, big sister!"
With tears in their eyes, Celestia said, "I've missed you, too."
Pinkie let out a loud wail, making a river of tears flow on the ground, but soon cheered herself up. "Hey, you know what this calls for? A party!"
And it was an amazing party. Not just as a grand welcome for Equestria's returning princess, but also as an announcement for Twilight's mission to learn about friendship after noticing Twilight's sadness. Still, even with all happiness throughout the town, the Pretty Cure still needs to ask the Princess.
"Princess Celestia," Honoka firmly said as she and her friends approach the two. "Truth be told, we're not from this land."
There was a large amount of gasp from their audience.
"I somehow knew it." Rainbow said with suspicion lacing her voice.
"We don't mean you any harm-mipo!" Mipple announced, using Honoka's back as a platform. "We are from the Garden of Rainbows, and we simply would like a way back hone please, Princess Celestia-mipo."
"We want to go home-popo!" Pollun shouted.
"Oh that's where those voiced were coming from." Pinkie said in realization. "I thought I was going crazy or something."
"They're adorable." Fluttershy whispered.
"Please-mepo! They are the Pretty Cure-mepo! You must have heard about them-mepo!" Mepple exclaimed.
Princess Celestia look at the group in front of her. "While I never have of 'Pretty Cure', you did help save my student, so for now, the least I could do is a place to stay until my scholars could find a way back to the Garden of Rainbows." She looks at the purple unicorn. "Twilight Sparkle,"
"Yes, Princess Celestia?" Her faithful student walk towards her.
"If it isn't too much a hassle, would you allow them to live at the library?"
She nodded. "Of course, Princess Celestia! I'll make sure they're welcome." Twilight walk over to the trio with a smile on her face. "We've never actually introduce ourselves. I am Twilight Sparkle."
"I'm Misumi Nagisa, and this is my friend, Yukishiro Honoka and Kujou Hikari." "Hello." "Nice to meet you."
"I am Mipple, Princess of Hope-mipo." "And I'm Mepple, chosen protector-mepo." "Pollun, the Prince of the Garden of Light-popo." "I'm Lulun, Princess of the Garden of Light-lulu."
"We promise that we'll try to help out anyway we can, Twilight." Nagisa said.
Twilight simply nodded. With the addition of these colorful characters, she knew that Ponyville won't be boring anytime soon.
AN: This chapter was much longer than I thought (I'm pretty sure this is my longest chapter ever written too. I mean, it's literally over 6000 words). Okay, I know this is a big project, especially since MLP is going to have nine seasons by the time I'm writing this (which from what I heard, the ninth season is the final season it'll have) and Pretty Cure is going to have many more than that as time goes on, but I want to give myself a challenge (it's also an excuse to rewatch those seasons too). So how this will go is the episodes are going to mostly focus on the Pretty Cure and how they react to the events, maybe going on their own 'adventures' that are going parallel to the original episodes, and maybe some other ideas too. I hope you enjoyed this and please tell me if there's anything I need to work on. I tried my best to make this different from the original episode, but ended up making the second half pretty similar to the original episode, so I hope you aren't too bothered by that (and I'm also sorry about the lackluster fight scenes. I'm not good at those too, but I want to improve on that).