A/N: Yay 10,000 hits! I'm so happy, also I meant to update this yesterday, however the chapter went on longer than I thought it would... any ways enjoy!
Chapter 25: The War Begins
Pinkie couldn't sleep the entire night, her doozy was too strong.
The next morning she talked to Mr. and Mrs. Cake about it…
"We understand if you're twitching like that." Said Mr. Cake.
"So what is it about?" asked Mrs. Cake.
"I don't know." Said Pinkie who got another shudder, "And I usually can sense where it's going to happen…"
"You should figure out what's going on." Said Mr. Cake.
Pinkie nodded and left.
When she was gone.
"So should we head into the bunker?" asked Mr. Cake.
"Not yet, it might not be dangerous." Said Mrs. Cake.
At the Devil's Alliance HQ, the black unicorn came up with pictures of ponies they shouldn't kidnap. Along with the elements barriers and the others helping them fight on the list were the rest of the apple family, Scootaloo, Rarity's family and the Cakes as well as all of the Devil's Reincarnations in Town as well as Lily, Daisy and Lyra.
"Okay, I get why we should leave the Devils' Reincarnation not fighting and their loved ones…" said the brown earth pony who heard about what happened before, "But who are the these ponies."
"They're the families of the Elements Bearer, one of their friends and the Cakes who sees Pinkie Pie as a daughter…" explained Thunder Cloud.
"I see." Said the brown earth pony, "So everypony else is fair game… good to know."
"Now let's go in with our plan." said the black unicorn.
Back in Ponyville, Pinkie was walking, while shuddering, of course Ponies began to run away from her for obvious reasons.
At this time Applejack and Golden Delicious were setting up a stall when they saw her.
"What are you doing?" muttered Golden Delicious.
"Oh just going through a Kenbunshoku Haki fit." Said Pinkie who went through another shudder.
"It doesn't work that way…" muttered Golden Delicious.
"It foes for me…" said Pinkie, "Besides I didn't even understand until recently."
She let out another shudder.
"Okay! Where is this happening?" asked Applejack.
"I don't know! Said Pinkie.
"You've seen this before?" asked Golden Delicious.
"Long story." Said Applejack she looked as several Ponies were running away, "Maybe we should get you inside."
"I was headed towards Bluey's…" said Pinkie.
"Fine… we'll take you." Said Golden Delicious.
Not too far away two of the ponies who were running away sighed.
"So what should we do?" asked Lemony Gems.
"I have no idea…" said Lemony Hearts.
"Hey there…" said a voice.
They turned and saw the brown earth pony.
Unfortunately no pony heard their screams.
Not too long later at Prince Blueblood's house both him and Spring Breeze were explicating Pinkie Pie.
'You don't know where it's happening or what it is?" asked Prince Blueblood.
"Noooooo…" said Pinkie as she got his with another shudder.
"This isn't good." Said Spring Breeze.
"What do you mean?" asked Applejack.
"Let's say this was happening to a pony who can control their Haki.." said Spring Breeze, "They would be able to see what's going on… Every little detail… including who's in danger…"
"And that means…" said Applejack.
"We need somepony to check on Fluttershy now." Said Spring Breeze, "They're making their move today!"
At Fluttershy's cottage, Cherry Branch was helping Fluttershy prepare the meals for her animals.
That was when the door busted open.
"You again!" yelled Cherry Branch, "Fluttershy get behind me!"
Fluttershy listened to Cherry Branch, as all of the animals left the cottage knowing it was best to leave, even Angel putting his faith into Cherry Branch. Cherry Branch took out his shorts then put them on.
"Why are you putting on shorts?" asked the lavender Pegasus.
That was when Cherry Branch turned into his human form.
"Oh… okay! I get it!" said Hollow, "It's because of his Happy Stallion."
"Gas masks on." Said the lavender stallion.
The two put on some sort of breathing apparatus
"Now let me introduce myself, the names Gaseous State." Said the lavender Pegasus, "In my past life I was Cesar Clown."
Cherry Branch's eyes widened.
That was when he turned into his gas form. Both Fluttershy and Cherry Branch fell to the floor. Neither one could breathe, the oxygen around them was absorbed by Gaseous State.
"Don't worry, I don't intend to kill you." Mocked Gaseous State, "After all we need Fluttershy alive."
Hollow Air picked up Fluttershy while Lace transformed her leg into a gun and aimed it at Cherry.
"Don't move… well if you could…" mocked Lace.
"I have her,…" said Hollow Air.
The three of them vanished with Fluttershy.
"No…" muttered Cherry Branch right when he passed out.
The animals were thankfully untouched by what happened and all of them went to him to make sure he was okay. Cherry Branch laid on the ground for a few minutes that was when Applejack and Golden Delicious arrived.
The two volunteered knowing there was nothing they could do to help Pinkie.
"Cherry!" yelled Applejack.
"Is he breathing?" asked Golden Delicious.
"He is…" said Applejack.
Cherry Branch regained consciousness, "Cesar Clown's reincarnation…" he managed to say.
"Why that…" muttered Applejack.
Cherry Branch looked at the animals, "Thanks." He said to them, then looked at a dog that Fluttershy was pet sitting.
"Hey girl can you sniff her out?" asked Cherry Branch.
The dog gave a sad sounding bark.
Cherry Branch began to get up.
"We need to gather every pony." Said Cherry Branch.
"Are you sure should be standing?" asked Applejack.
"I'm fine, just some minor affixation." Said Cherry Branch.
Angel jumped onto his back and said something.
"Fine I'll take you." Said Cherry Branch.
Out in a strange warehouse like building in the Everfree Forest.
"I can believe they forgot me when divvying up jobs…" muttered Coil.
"You should have said something." Said Shadow Streak.
That was when the brown earth pony showed up.
"How many do you have?" asked Shadow Streak.
"I lost count." Said the brown earth pony.
That was when he unleashed a large mound of mud with many ponies stuck inside.
"Have fun." Said the earth pony leaving.
"It looks almost half the town." Said Coil.
That was when the three kidnappers arrived.
"You caught her." Said Coil.
"That's right." Said Lace, "Oh and weren't you the first pony to go after her…"
"I was…" muttered Coil.
"Now's not the time to fight." Said Hollow Air.
"He's right." said Shadow Streak, "We have half the town and Fluttershy, Coil, go inform Target."
"Fine…" said Coil.
Coil went to inform Target who found an axe.
"What do you want?" asked Target.
"We need you to deliver the letter to the Princesses." Said Coil.
"Okay." Said Target.
Target sent the letter to the Princess.
In Canterlot Princess Cadance was reading a book when a letter in through the window.
"Not this again." Said Princess Cadance.
Much like Blueblood she had decided to burn the letter, stick something flammable then burn it again… however she noticed it was to Princess Celestia and not in the same writing that her stalker used.
She met with her aunt and gave her the letter. The Princesses eyes widened when she read it.
"What's wrong?" asked Princess Cadance.
"We need to gather my sister, Shinning Armor, Glacier as well the three Admirals of the Fruit Brigade, right now." Said Princess Celestia.
Princess Candace knew this had to do with the Devil's Alliance.
They all gathered in the Throne Room,
"What's in the letter?" asked Warring Skies.
Princess Celestia read the letter to them.
"Dear Princess Celestia, I write to inform you that we have captured at least 50 percent of Ponyville's population as well we reached our goal of capturing Fluttershy. We are building an army… I won't say what kind of army. We will completely take Ponyville and defeat your little group before we take Canterlot. See you soon, signed Darkness Horizon." Read Princess Celestia.
"Darkness Horizon?" asked Glimmer.
"Who is that?" asked Princess Celestia.
"I haven't heard of any report of Darkness Horizon." Said Glacier.
"Why would they take half of Ponyville?" asked Shinning Armor.
"I don't know…" answered Princess Celestia, "However we need to get them to Canterlot as soon as possible… and I know the pony for the job…"
In Ponyville, Time Turn were acting weird like looking over everywhere while protecting Derpy and her young daughter Dinky from something unseen.
"You're acting stranger than usual." Said Derpy.
Before Time Turner could respond he felt something, he took out what looked like a wallet and looked at a piece of paper.
"All right we're almost in the clear." Said Time Turner, "I'll explain everything on the way to Canterlot…"
At the same time in the library, Twilight was doing her weekly re-shelving.
"Seriously…" said Spike, "Can't you just let thing remain one way for more than a week"
That was when he burped up a scroll.
Twilight grabbed, read it and paled.
"Oh no…" she whispered.
"What's wrong?" asked Spike.
"According to Princess Celestia Fluttershy's been kidnapped." Said Twilight.
"What? How! When!" yelled Spike.
"What's worse is that according to this… they kidnapped half the town…" said Twilight.
"Is that even possible?" asked Spike.
That was when there was a knock on the door.
She opened it and found it was Applejack, Golden Delicious both of them helping Cherry Branch walk since he hadn't fully recovered yet, Angel rode on his back.
"So it is true…" whimpered Twilight.
"What?" asked Applejack.
"Fluttershy was taken…" said Twilight.
"She was…" muttered Cherry Branch.
"How did you know about it…" said Golden Delicious.
"Princess Celestia found out before I did." Said Twilight, "The Mad Stalker sent them a letter…"
"We came here so we can send a letter to Celestia." Said Golden Delicious.
"Do you think Pinkie has stopped shuddering yet?" asked Applejack.
"Hopefully." said Golden Delicious.
"Pinkie's shuddering?" asked Twilight, "Where is she?"
"At Blueblood house." Said Applejack, "We're headed there next."
"Spike, we have to go." Said Twilight.
"You're not going to finish…" muttered Spike.
Twilight gave him a look.
They headed to Prince blueblood's house and found that the streets were practically empty.
"It true…" said Twilight.
"What is?" asked Applejack.
"I'll explain at Blueblood's." sighed Twilight.
Meanwhile in the ever forest, Thunder Cloud just killed a large hydra.
"This should be good for a lot of parts." Said Thunder Cloud.
"Seriously? Only a hydra?" asked the black unicorn.
"Did you kill something worse than a hydra?" asked Thunder Cloud.
"I won't say." Said the black unicorn.
"So… is the monster killing import?" asked a voice.
They turned to see it was Fire Stone.
"Hey Fire Stone, that you got my letter." Said the black unicorn.
Fire Stone said nothing.
"So it's almost ready?" asked Fire Stone.
"Almost… we still don't have the whole town…" said the black unicorn.
Fire Stone raising an eyebrow.
"I'll explain later." Said the black unicorn, "Help us carry this carcass back…"
"Fine…" muttered Fire Stone.
Meanwhile in the strange warehouse Fluttershy woke up, finding herself tied to a chair.
"Hello dear Fluttershy…" said a voice.
She turned to see Gaseous State.
"Now I know what you must be think… if you don't help us it wont' work…" said Gaseous State, "Well you will agree to help us…"
"Are you going to threaten my friends?" asked Fluttershy.
"Oh no, no, no…" said Gaseous State, he held up a vial, "You're going to agree to help us with this."
Fluttershy looked at the vial, she didn't know what it was… and something told she didn't' want to.
At the hospital, Nurse Redheart went into a room.
"All right time for…" said Nurse Redheart that was when she noticed the room was empty.
She decided to go to the nurse's station to report this… but all of the other nurses were gone. She began to look around the hospital, but found every single pony was gone…
She took a breath and ran out of her as fast as she could…
She knew she had to go to find Prince Blueblood because this screamed of Devil's Reincarnation.
At the rather large house that Prince Blueblood stayed in, both he and Spring Breeze continued to watch Pinkie who shuddered, but it was happening less frequently.
"I don't get it." Said Prince Blueblood.
"I don't get it either… it's weird." Said Pinkie.
That when Applejack and Golden Delicious returned with Twilight, Cherry Branch, Spike and Angel.
"What happened?" asked Pinkie.
"Well..." said Twilight.
Before she could finish anything, Nurse Redheart arrived.
"Something strange is going on." Said Nurse Redheart, "Everypony is gone from the hospital!"
Twilight sighed she knew she to explain a lot.
"I'm going to get the others." Said Golden Delicious, "I already know everything… so I don't need to hear."
He left, leaving Spike confused.
"Wait… how would he be able to get Rainbow Dash?" he asked.
"He can sorta fly…" said Applejack.
"What? Really?" asked Spike, "That's cool."
That mysterious warehouse, the black unicorn, Thunder Cloud and Fire Stone all arrived.
"Oh a dead hydra…" said Full Plate, "That will be tasty…"
"Oh come on, I've seen you eat a cactus and broken glass." Said the black unicorn.
Full Plate glared at her, but said nothing.
"So has Fluttershy woken up yet?" asked the black unicorn.
That was when she they heard Gaseous State screaming, "HELP! HELP!"
"I'll go help him…" muttered Thunder Cloud.
"There's something you're not telling me." Said Fire Stone.
"Remember a few months ago…" said the black unicorn.
Fire Stone didn't know why but he got a chill all of sudden.
Meanwhile both Lyra and Bonbon decided to take a walk… however they began to get scared, the entire town was like a ghost town.
"Is anypony out there!" yelled Lyra.
"We're here!" they heard a voice call out to them.
They ran towards it and saw Daisy and Lily freaking out, Rose looked worried but she knew what was really going on.
"The entire town has been abandoned!" yelled Lily.
"The horror! The horror!" yelled Daisy.
"Why aren't you freaking out…" said Bonbon.
"I think you know the reason." Said Rose.
"The Devil's Alliance." Said Bonbon relaxing it too.
Rose gritted her teeth.
"I think I know why weren't taken…" muttered Rose.
"Let's go find Pinkie…" said Bonbon.
"Why her?" asked Daisy.
"Because what ever is going on… I'm sure she'll want to know about it." Said Rose.
"Unless she's having a huge twitch fit." Said Lyra.
They looked at her then remembered the Pinkie Sense.
Meanwhile Rarity was having lunch at her parent's house.
She stared at the food on her plate.
"So how are things going with your business?" asked Rarity's mother.
"Fine…" said Rarity still staring at her food.
Meanwhile up in the sky, Rainbow Dash, Spitfire and Soarin' were practicing tricks.
"Okay! It's time for you to see the Buccaneer Blaze." Said Rainbow Dash.
But before she could do it, she heard somepony called out "Hey!"
She turned to gapped as she saw Golden Delicious with his lower body in smoke… and somehow he was flying.
"How are you able to do that?" asked Rainbow Dash.
"Does smoke even work like that?" asked Soarin'.
Golden Delicious sighed.
"Something happened, there's a meeting going on at Blueblood." Muttered Golden Delicious.
Rainbow Dash froze, "Wait? Was it Fluttershy?" she asked.
Golden Delicious didn't' anything, Rainbow Dash flew towards Prince blueblood's house.
"Rainbow Dash!" called out Soarin'.
"Let's go." Said Spitfire.
"I think we should try to catch up… she need to know the whole story." Said Golden Delicious.
That was when father thought he saw somepony at the door but there wasn't. He shrugged it off and ate some of his food.
Back at blueblood place… Twilight finished her explanation, Pinkie gasped in shock.
"They aren't going to get away with this!" yelled Pinkie.
"Um… said Applejack, "Is it okay."
"You can go home and make sure they're safe." Said Twilight.
"Then bring them back, we need to make sure everypony is safe."
Applejack nodded and left.
"But why was I the only one left." Said Nurse Redheart.
"It must because you're a Devil's Reincarnation." Said Prince Blueblood.
Nurse Redheart sighed.
"Twilight! Go get Rarity and round up as many ponies as you can find." Said Prince Blueblood.
Twilight nodded…
Unfortunately… they were unaware of the fact that the brown earth Pony had captured every pony he was able to…
At the warehouse, the brown earth pony had returned.
"I got everypony that wasn't on the list." Said the brown earth pony.
"Not every pony." Said Thunder Cloud, "Three ponies skipped town… before you could get them."
"Seriously?" asked the brown earth Pony.
"Don't worry about them." Said Thunder Cloud, "Two of them have a habit of disappearing then reappearing… with sometimes the third… I don't get their conversations… it's weird."
"We should be done in a few hours." Said Shadow Streak walking towards them.
"IF you say so." Said Thunder Cloud.
In Ponyville Golden Delicious brought in Rainbow Dash, Spitfire and Soarin'.
"We heard." Said Spitfire.
"Where did Twilight and Applejack go?" asked Golden Delicious,
"To find other Ponies." Said Spring Breeze.
"Hey… I just realized, where Golden Field." Said Pinkie.
That was when Golden Field came in.
"Hey, the town's empty for some reason." She said.
She sighed as she saw who was there and figured something happened "I just had to choose this day to go shopping." She said.
Back in the Everfree Forest, Sandy was breathing heavily. Why… She had been fighting Cockatrices… they were useful for what they had plans but fighting was a pain.
"I am tired of these freaking Cockatrices in this freaking forest!" yelled Sandy.
"But you've been living in this forest for how long?" asked Gold Brick.
"Shut up!" yelled Sandy.
"All right, all right…" said Goldbrick rolling his eyes, "They can't even effect you…"
Indeed, thanks to the fact Sandy could turn into sand she was immune to effect… unless she was turned completely of course…
Twilight meanwhile arrived at Rarity's parent's house.
"Oh hello Twilight." Said Rarity's mother, "what are you doing here?"
"Long story…" said Twilight, "But it's an emergency and I have to bring you all to Prince Blueblood's house."
"Oh Prince Blueblood." Said Rarity's mother, "Why haven't you tried to snag him yet…"
"Now's not the time mother…" muttered Rarity.
Rarity looked at Twilight and she could tell something really bad happened.
At Sweet Apple Acres, breathed sigh of relief when she saw Big Macintosh plowing the fields.
"Can you get Granny, something's big going on, I'm going to find Apple Bloom." Said Applejack.
Big Macintosh nodded.
Applejack went to check the Cutie Mark Crusader's Clubhouse and was extremely relieved when they were there…
Though what concerned her more was what they were doing.
"What are you doing?" she asked.
In front of them were large logs and all three of them had chainsaws.
"Chainsaw cut wood sculptures." Said Scootaloo
"Seriously?" she asked.
"I know it's dangerous" said Apple Bloom, "But it might just be cutie mark."
"It's fine, I'm just glad you're here." Said Applejack.
"Why? What's going on?" asked Apple Bloom.
"I'll explain on the way." Applejack.
At Sugar Cube Corner, Cheerilee was drinking coffee while grading tests. Mrs. Cake gave her some more, while "Mixie" was also there entertaining the twins
"Thank you." Said Cheerilee.
"Thank you so much Mixie for keeping the twins busy…" said Mr. Cake.
"Where is Pinkie Pie anyways?" asked "Mixie".
But before either one could tell them about the twitching, Lyra, Bonbon and three flower ponies entered the place.
"What's wrong?" asked Cheerilee.
"We don't know." Said Bonbon, "But we need to see Pinkie!"
"Everypony else in town has disappeared!" said Rose.
"What?" asked Mrs. Cake.
"That explains Pinkie's twitching…" said Mr. Cake.
Thankfully Twilight's group entered.
"Good you're all here!" said Twilight.
"Twilight! What's going on?" asked Rose.
"Devil's alliance is behind the disappearances." Sighed Twilight, "I'll explain it to you later but for now anypony who wasn't taken is meeting at Prince Blueblood's house."
"Looks like since every pony here will know the truth." Said "Mixie" she took out her horn and put it back on, "The Sly and Talented Mixie was the Great and Powerful Trixie in disguise!"
Lyra gasped, "The shock!" she said very, very sarcastically.
"Shut up! The Great and Powerful Trixie knows you knew…" said Trixie.
"So…" said Mr. Cake to Rarity's parents, "Do you know anything yet…"
"No clue…" said Rarity's father.
Back at Prince Blueblood's house… Applejack arrived with her family as well as Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo.
"Where's Rarity?" asked Sweetie, "Is she all right?"
"I'm sure she's fine." Said Pinkie.
"Well it looks like the twitches stopped." Said Prince Blueblood looking at Pinkie.
'Yeah…" said Pinkie.
A few minutes later, Twilight's group arrived.
"I was right…" said Prince Blueblood, "They're not targeting Devil's Reincarnations…"
"What's going on?" asked Mr. Cake.
"I'll explain…" sighed Twilight.
"Wait… I will." Said Pinkie.
Twilight looked at how serious Pinkie had become. She realized it something she must have inherited from Luffy.
"All right." Said Twilight.
Pinkie explained it them, the Cakes took it rather well… they had learned long ago Pinkie was a strange filly and not to questions these things.
Rarity's parents took it well as well, but then again none of their children were Devil's Reincarnations…
They waited for several hours for a sign, but there wasn't one… at all…
No pony showing up, no letters from Princess Celestia. Nothing…
"Well I guess we should play Monopoly." Said Pinkie.
"Again?" asked Rarity.
"Hey, I wasn't there for the first game." Said Pinkie.
At the Devil's Alliance new warehouse, Shadow Streak took a breath.
"That was a lot work…" he muttered.
Full Plate was near by complaining.
"I can get the taste from my mouth…" he muttered.
"Hey, you're lucky you didn't have to fight those things…" said Sandy, "I got partially turned so many times I lost count."
"But it looks like we're almost all set." Said the black uncaring, "We just have to take Ponyville first."
Sometime later in Ponyville they were still playing Monopoly.
"All right, chance." Said Pinkie.
She picked up the card and it was the go to jail card…
"Oh…" muttered Pinkie.
"Remember Pinkie, you can't break out of this one." Said Trixie.
"It wasn't a break out… it was break in." said Pinkie.
"What?" asked Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo.
"Inside joke." Said Trixie.
Twilight was looking out the window.
"What are we supposed to do?" she thought.
The sun was setting, that was when the sky darkened in a way that made her nervous.
"Everypony get out of this house now!" she yelled.
"What?" asked Pinkie. That was when she got a strange series of twitches.
"What's that supposed to mean?" asked Spring Breeze.
The building we're in is about to get struck by a giant bolt of lighting." She said.
Golden Delicious engulfed the entire room with his smoke, grabbed everypony but Spitfire and they all escaped the building before it could be struck by lightning.
"How did that happen?" asked Rarity's mother as the smoke cleared.
"Uh… maybe you should look around…" said Scootaloo.
They looked to see many horrible creatures surrounding them… horrifying mish mash of creatures… some look like they had parts of Hydras or Manticore… a few had Dragon parts.
"What are those things…" said Rainbow Dash.
"Zombies… isn't it obvious…" said a voice.
They turned to see the black unicorn, who were there along with the rest of the Devil's Alliance including Fire Stone.
Twilight slinked away when she saw him.
"Zombies!" yelled Spike.
"They're the type you're thinking of… don't worry they're just made of shadows and monster part." Said Shadow Streak.
"Wait… so that why every pony was kidnapped…" said Pinkie.
"That's right…" said the black unicorn.
"I was the one who did this." Said the brown earth pony, "The name's Muddy Bog."
"Caribou's reincarnation…" said the black unicorn.
"Who?" asked Pinkie.
Muddy Bog face hoofed, though everypony ignored this reaction.
"That right, that's why we kidnapped everypony." Said the black unicorn.
"Where's Fluttershy! I swear!" yelled Cherry Branch.
"Don't worry… she's fine...you want to see her…" said the black unicorn, "But you won't like what you see…"
"What's that supposed to mean?" asked Pinkie.
"I don't want to see you either!" yelled a voice that sounded like Fluttershy but… mean somehow…
She showed up, however everything about her was grey… much like with the time with Discord.
"What?" asked Cherry Branch.
"How? Tell me how!" yelled Pinkie.
The black unicorn just laughed, they had everything… they had an army and Fluttershy… and soon they would have everything…
Next Time: They learn what happen to Fluttershy. Now they must fight the zombie monsters and the Devil's Alliance or do they? Will the pony Princess Celestia sent come and bring them to Canterlot or will they fall to the Devil's Alliance? Find out next time!