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Today was a big day. I really mean it this time. All the other times in the past meant nothing compared to this. Today was the first ever friendship festival or whatever Twilight called it. She wanted to do this because she wanted to "spread more friendship" around Equestria or something like that. I found it ridiculous, but it fits her title and this day was special to her, so I'll be nice about it. I overlooked everything that was going on and was quite bored with it. So, I decided to see what Twilight was up to. Of course, for some reason, it looked like she was meditating. So I decided to wait for the right moment. I heard her say "Ooommm MY GOODNESS! I CAN'T HANDLE THIS!" Yes, you can. You'll be fine. "Nothing is working." What do you mean? Everything is fine. There's nothing to worry about. This is the problem living with Twilight sometimes. I had to deal with this for over 3 years now. "I just have to get it together." Please do before I do something I regret.
"Just go in there, and ask!" You make it harder than it seems. Although, I can't really blame her. She's respected them all her life, so she would be nervous. However, I'm technically a foreign creature, so I don't need to worry as much. "This is your friendship festival! Everypony's happiness rests in your hooves." Really? Back to that? Did she learn nothing from that Zeppelin cruise back a couple of chapters ago? Oy vey. She hoofpalmed her face and sighed in frustration. I said coming out of my shadow form "Worrying about the friendship festival again? It's not that big of a deal." Twilight said "Of course it's a big deal! Everypony is depending on me to give them the best friendship festival possible!" I said, sighing "Twilight. You are letting that get to your head. You can't let ponies control your decisions. I know that's hard, but you can do it. Also, just go in there and ask. It's not that hard."
Twilight said "But I'm asking them a huge favour. What if they reject me?" I said "They won't." Twilight said "But what if-" before I cut her off saying "They won't. Just go in there and be yourself. I believe in you. You'll be fine." Twilight said "Thank you. You always seem to know what to say to me." I said "It's kinda my thing. Now go on already. The sooner, the better." She sighed again, and opened the doors. I had Spike grab the scrolls for me and he held on to them. Twilight went up to the front of the room and said "Good morning Princesses. Thank you all for seeing me." My pleasure. Oh wait. I'm not a princess. Oops. My bad. "I have an idea that I think will make our friendship festival the most wonderful celebration Equestria has ever seen." Okay. Do go on. Celestia said "Yes, Twilight. We are very excited." We are? Ow! Dang author. Why must you restrain me like that? Fine. Cadence said "Ponies have been arriving from all over all morning." I could tell. Luna said "I like to think it's to see us, but Songbird Serenade might be the bigger attraction." You think?
Twilight said "Yes, she is the main event, and to make it extra special, I could use your help. Zach?" I pulled over the whiteboard with my magic and put it behind Twilight. I stepped aside and let Twilight explain her "big idea." She said "Songbird Serenade's performance is not scheduled to start until after you begin the sunset." That's quite far away. Just kidding, not really. "And based on my precise calculation to get the very best lighting for the stage, Princess Celestia, I was hoping you could make sure the Sun stays about 28.1 degrees to the south, and Princess Luna, if you could raise the moon 62 degrees to the north at the same time, it would reflect the sunlight on the other side and really frame the ENTIRE stage perfectly!" How did you get those calculations? Is that what really happens when you do that? Or is that something Hasbro just came up with themselves? Do let me know in the reviews section. Of course, the princesses were very much confused and I don't blame them. This is a lot of very complicated math and science at play right here.
Luna said "I-" before getting cut off by Twilight saying "But wait! There's more!" Of course there is. Luna had an annoyed expression on her face as she was rudely interrupted. "Cadence, if you could use your crystal magic to create an aura above the stage, the sun and the moon will shine through it and create a truly amazing light show!" Then Spike did some ridiculous thing and poor him fell down because of it, and was kinda embarrassing. After that whole ordeal, the princesses didn't know what to say. Luna spoke up and said "So, you're saying you want to move the sun and the moon for the party?" That's pretty much it. Twilight said "Well, I'd do it myself, except I don't have your magic." I said "I could probably do that, but it would drain all my strength and magic, and I don't want that. I need to preserve it as much as possible." Celestia stepped forward and said "Twilight. Each of us uses our powers to serve Equestria in our own way. You are the Princess of Friendship. You already have all the magic you need." She is correct. Twilight said "So, that be a no?" I said "Pretty much. Now come on. It's time we do more important things than this. I'll see you out there."
After seeing what the rest of my friends were up to, I just sat on top of a cloud because I can. Get over it. I heard Twilight coming and I heard her say "Okay. Just 218 things left to do and then we're ready." Will you just calm down for once, please? I'm sick and tired of all this panicking. It drives me nuts. The rest of the gang said "Hey Twilight." She's not even paying attention. Rarity said "Hello Spike." Spike, bless his heart said "Uh, hi, Rarity." He was kinda nervous around his crush. So many ships have come from this. Probably one of the most overused ships in the fandom. The other two are Twilight and Flash, and Fluttershy and Discord. Those are the three most overused ships in the fandom in my opinion. If you disagree with that, let me know what you think the three most overused are. Applejack said "How'd it go with the other princesses?" I thought it went great. "They'd like your idea?" I wouldn't say that. Pinkie said from afar "I bet they loved it." Yeah, you wish.
Twilight sighed and said "Not exactly. They think I can make today perfect without their magic." I said "They have every reason to. Not everything requires magic. Relax." Twilight just stared at me while Rarity said "And they're absolutely right darling. This festival is your brilliant idea, and we know you're up to the task." However, that didn't seem to calm Twilight down at all. She said, panicking "But what if I'm not? What if Songbird Serenade hates the stage? Or nopony makes a new friend? If I fail at the festival, then WHO AM I?" I said "Will you just calm down for once? Oh my cereal. You just need to trust us and not worry about every tiny little thing. It's starting to get quite annoying." Twilight said "But what if-" before getting cut off by Pinkie who said "Twilight. LOOK AT ME! This will be the biggest celebration Equestria has EVER seen! As the Princess of Friendship, you cannot fail! This day will define who YOU are, the pressure is intense, it's ALMOST TOO MUCH FOR ANY SINGLE PONY TO HANDLE! AHHH!" Uh, that was weird. I think you made it worse Pinkie.
After whatever that was, Pinkie jumped back and said "But you have us. So stop worrying." Yeah, honestly. They sang for who knows how long, but it would help Twilight see that things will be fine at least for now that is. At the end of the song, a giant party cannon fired off a large cake and landed on Twilight. Really Pinkie? Don't worry, Twilight. I can get rid of this cake in mere seconds. Everypony gasped and I knew why. The guest of honor has arrived. After the secret service agents came passing through doing crowd control, she was right there. She said "Hiya. I'm looking for the pony in charge." Then she did all these poses for the camera and boy she did it rapid fire. Impressive. "I need to set up for my sound check." Right. Twilight asked "Songbird Serenade? Um, I was just going to check on you. I'm Princess Twilight. And sorry about the mess, I'm usually not so.." before accidentally getting some cake on her shirt. Oh dear. That can't be good. I need to clean up this cake pronto. Songbird asked "Caked in cake?" Yep. PRetty much. I charged up my scepter and cleared away all the mess from the cake that was everywhere. The secret service agents whispered something and one of them cleared it away. Okay, all good here.
Suddenly, I heard thunder. No, it wasn't me this time. I swear. I looked over and saw this huge storm cloud as if we were going to have a natural disaster happen. Twilight said, confused "Storm clouds? I ordered perfect weather! Rainbow Dash!" I said "Um, Twilight. That wasn't her. It just randomly appeared." Rainbow said "He's right. I don't think those are storm clouds. Out of it appeared a logo that was on a giant blimp that soared through the sky like crazy. Yeah, that thing is freaky. However, I'm not scared in the slightest. I think I know who this is, but I need to confirm to make sure. I heard Pinkie say "Oooh! I bet those are the new clouds I ordered!" I don't think so. It would not be that scary. Most of them wouldn't come like that. Not even Amazon packages would come like that. The blimp stopped moving and descended quickly. It caused some of the pillars to fall and smash a crate of stuff filled with party supplies. "Or definitely not the clouds I ordered." Yeah, they're not. A blimp wouldn't have that threatening of an entrance and cause property damage. Also, I'm not paying for that. Y'all are on your own for that cause I'm not doing that.
Once the blimp landed on the ground, the door opened and crushed the balloon. Everypony gasped and I heard somepony say "Ryan! NO!" Boi, it's just a balloon. Get over it. After a second, there was some hedgehog looking creature carrying a very heavy box and I just stared in curiosity. I looked back from the castle and I saw the other princesses were curious as well. Once he set it down, it turned into some contraception. It was a loudspeaker with a microphone. My goodness was that massive. He said through the microphone "Ponies of Equestria! We come on behalf of the firecesome, the powerful, the almighty Storm King!" NO! It was the Storm King. Also, let me tell you that NO ONE is more firecesome, more powerful, and more almighty than I. I will take you down in five seconds if you stand against me. Everypony was chattering amongst themselves, while Applejack had a suspicious look. I know who this creature is, and he's a nasty one. I don't like him one bit. "And now, to deliver the evil, EVIL message, put your hooves together for COMMANDER TEMPEST!" Yeah, no. I'm not doing that, and nor should anyone else.
Out came the unicorn and I noticed the broken horn. Ouch. That probably hurt. I can't imagine how that felt like. Twilight asked "Is that a unicorn?" Yes it is. Wait. I think I remember how she lost part of her horn. Spike said "I think so. But what happened to her horn?" I said "She lost it after an Ursa Minor tore it off with it's claws which resulted in her magic becoming very unstable. It's quite sad, but it's no reason to turn to darkness." The three princesses came down and Celestia said "Tempest is it? How may we help you?" Uh, you might want to bear yourselves. I know what she's gonna do. Tempest said "Oh, I'm so glad you asked. How about we start with your complete and total surrender?" HA! Not in a million years. You can't get rid of us so easily. Twilight came over and said "Hi there. Princess of Friendship. Not exactly sure what's going on, but I know we can talk things out." I doubt that. Tempest said "Oh, goodie. All four princesses." I said "Actually there's FIVE OF US! If you're looking to pick a fight, then I'll give you one." After I said that, lightning and thunder went off. Yeah, you ticked me off.
"Also, we don't surrender so easily. So you can just take your sorry rear end and get the HECK out of here! Your choice." Tempest simply just laughed at that and I charged up my scepter ready for battle. She said "Here's the deal ladies. I need your magic. Give it up nicely please. Or we make it difficult for EVERYONE!" What makes you think we will bow down to you, you stubborn and arrogant fool? Luna asked "And why should we cower before you? There's one of you, and hundreds of us." Tempest again just laughed and said "I was hoping you'd choose difficulty." Suddenly, more blimps appeared and these "Storm Creatures" began invading Canterlot. I don't think so. NOBODY attacks Canterlot and gets away with it! NOBODY! Suddenly, Tempest jumped in the air and fired off an orb. NO! I knew that orb. Whoever it touched would turn into stone. It was headed for the princesses, but I put up my obsidian wall to stand against. Tempest grew frustrated and I said "You are only making this easier for me. Even if you manage to take down everyone else, you can't get rid of me." Tempest tried throwing an orb at me, but I went into my shadow form, so it went right through me.
However, I didn't notice that it bounced off the walls and somehow still turned Cadence to stone. DANG IT! Tempest rushed through the crowd to get the next princess, but I was refusing to allow it. She was headed for Celestia next. So, I decided to distract Tempest so she couldn't get to Celestia. I charged up my scepter and began firing magic at her. She fired back, but stood no chance against me. I heard Celestia tell her sister to go south past the Badlands while I was fighting Tempest. However, she used that slight distraction to her advantage to get Celestia. UGH! You are really pushing my buttons Tempest. The storm creatures came at Luna, but pushed them back with her magic. She took off flying, but Tempest fired another orb. OH NO YOU'RE NOT! I grabbed that orb and threw it back at Tempest. She tried throwing it back at me, but I went into my shadow form. However, I didn't realize Luna was right behind me, so it got her too! ARGH! You WILL PAY FOR THIS TEMPEST! Luna fell, but Twilight caught her with her magic. Tempest just laughed again and fired one last orb at Twilight. NO! YOU WILL NOT TAKE HER OUT TOO!
I put up fangs against Tempest and it bit her pretty hard. That was just a long enough distraction for Rainbow to get Twilight out of the way. I went into my shadow form and took off. Tempest laughed and said "Easy as pie." Not quite, you blind fool. There's still two royals. Once the dust settled, it turned out to be Derpy instead of Twilight. Told ya you wouldn't have her. She said angry "That's not the Princess! Grubber, get HER NOW! AND FIND THAT RIDICULOUS PRINCE CREATURE TOO!" I'm a lion, you idiot. Grubber was his name. He said, scrambling like a chicken with their head cut off "GUYS, WE'VE GOT TO GET THE PRINCESS!" Not on my watch. Applejack said "Over here, y'all!" We're coming Applejack! We ran across the bridge, but the storm creatures followed us. Just before we could get to the exit, the storm creatures blocked the way out. I summoned fangs that injected poison in them and shook the Earth to get them off. However, it caused the bridge to crack and all my friends fell. NO!
I flew down the cliff and used my magic to grab everypony. It was using a lot of my strength. I held them up and flew down to the bottom. That was exhausting. Thankfully, my magic recharges quickly, so I should be fine. I looked over at the river and I heard Applejack say "Everypony okay?" I said "I think I'm fine. It's not everyday you are saving your friends from drowning by using most of your magic and strength, but I think I'll be okay." Rarity said "I think my bottom is on backwood." What does that mean? Pinkie said "We just got our cupcakes handed to us by the worst party crasher ever!" I've seen worse. Rainbow said "We got to go back there and FIGHT!" It's a little bit more challenging than you think, Rainbow. I'm able to fight, because I'm practically invincible. But not everypony has the same kind of magic I do. Spike said "You saw the size of those goons. You seriously want to go BACK?!" Those goons don't scare me at all. They can't stand against me. Applejack said "Now what?" I don't know, head south? "We can't hide here forever." Sure we can. It'll just be like the Lion King when Simba met those two creatures that said "Hunka manta."
"And let's be honest, we can't go back." I could, but it would take a bit. "Look at what they did to the princesses." Don't remind me. "We got to keep them from Twilight and Zachary too." I believe I'm fine, Applejack. My magic and strength won't wear down just fighting Tempest and the rest of the storm creatures. I heard Twilight say "The queen." That's the most random thing, but okay. Pinkie came over and said "Yeah, the Queen. Uh, what Queen?" The Queen of the Hippogriffs. It wasn't the hippos, for they do not exist in this realm. That's only on Earth where they exist. But Celestia couldn't finish the sentence because of you know who. Twilight said "Celestia told Luna to find the Queen of the Hippos. Luna can't, so I have to." I'm coming too. These lands beyond Equestria can be quite dangerous and you don't know what's out there. Rainbow said "Uh, Hippos? Seriously?" I shot her a death glare and she backed away. Pinkie said "I've heard they're surprisingly graceful for their size, but they're always hungry." Well, that's back on Earth, not here in this universe. Spike asked nervously "Hungry?" You're fine Spike. They don't exist here. Chillax.
Applejack asked confused "Hippos?" That's what Celestia said, but I know what she meant. Rarity and Fluttershy looked at each other confused and Twilight explained "They're somewhere south. Past the Badlands." Fluttershy said, nervous "That means we'll have to leave Equestria." And that's bad how? Rarity said "I'm not even packed!" What's that got to do with anything? Twilight said "I understand you're scared. And nopony else has to go. But I have to find this Queen. She might be our only hope." I said mentally "I'm coming too." "I knew you would go. You practically never let me out of your sight." "Yeah, that's kinda my thing, although I give you your space." "That's true. I don't know about everypony else." "You'd be surprised. I don't think they would let you go by yourself to the lands beyond Equestria." "I guess you're right." Rainbow said "Uh, you're not getting all the glory." No one ever said she did. "We're in this together." We know that, Captain Obvious. Applejack said "We got your back." As do the rest of us. Pinkie said "Indeedy!" That's not a word, Pinkie. Rarity said "I'm ready to save Equestria!" Yeah, just don't complain about it. Fluttershy said "Yay." quietly. I don't know what that does, but okay.
Spike said "We're all behind you Twilight." Once again, thanks Captain Obvious. Pinkie said "Let's go find this hippo!" First of all, it's a hippogriff, second, you're going west, not south. Spike said "Uh, south?" Pinkie realized that and headed back in the right direction. We all followed her and began walking towards the Badlands. Pinkie said after bouncing up and down "Anypony up for a game of I spy?" No thank you, I'm good. Everypony else just groaned in annoyance and Pinkie continued. She said "No, Really? Come on. I spy with my little eye something that is orange. No takers?" there's only one thing that's orange. "It's you, Applejack!" Ha ha, so funny. Yeah, that's pretty obvious and quite ridiculous. I heard everything that was happening back at the castle and rolled my eyes at it. Tempest thought she could catch us, HA! Good luck! You can't find us all the way out here. However, we were walking through the desert. It was REALLY REALLY HOT outside. It felt like I was walking through the Sahara Desert, which is the world's hottest desert covering a third of Africa.
The hottest place I've been to is Arizona and that's pretty hot. I cast myself a spell to stay cool and have plenty of water. If any of my friends requested any, I gave them an entire gallon of water for it. I was drinking like three gallons of water every second. I was that thirsty. However, I probably needed to pee soon. I have a pretty big bladder, but when you're drinking that much water every second, it doesn't last long. Apparently, Spike said something about a road and something clicked inside of Twilight's mind. She said "Hmm? A road? Where there's a road, there's a…" Yaah a city. They all admired it and I heard Rarity say "What is that?" I said "That is Klugetown. It looks pretty nice from here, but beware, the creatures that live here are very shady and dangerous. So stay close together because one of them might try to sell you for bits. It's quite weird out there." They all nodded and headed inside the town.
We walked through town and I knew already that I was right. This place might be one of the shadiest places I have ever seen. There was someone that said "Ooh, hey! You with the horn. You selling?" I said to her "Don't listen to him. All of these creatures are dangerous." Twilight asked me "How do you know about this place?" I said "Because I've secretly been here before." Twilight said "WHAT?! How come you never told me that?" I said "It's not that big of a deal. Now we have to keep going." We saw this creature and Twilight said "Hi there. Oh, I'm sorry. Here. Let me help you with that." That's nice, but none of these creatures care about friendship. After Twilight put the crates in the right place, the creature got angry and said "HEY! NO magic around my merchandise!" Geez, what's the big deal? He tried to attack us, but we fled from him. I saw a cat was paying attention to what was going on and realized he was different from the rest.
Twilight said "Okay, we just gotta stick together. And like Zach said, be careful who you talk to, and try to blend in." That's kinda hard for you to do that. I could get away with it, but not you guys. You stick out like a red umbrella in a sea of black ones. As we walked, we suddenly heard Pinkie yell from afar "CAN I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE?!" Bruh. Twilight just groaned in defeat and I facepalmed. "CAN ANYPONY TAKE US TO THE QUEEN OF THE HIPPOS?!" This is how you get yourself captured and sold for bits. One of the creatures said "Want something? You gotta give something." Pinkie jumped up onto the creature and said "Well, how about a big warm hug from a grateful pony friend?" That's not giving something. Clearly, you don't understand how business works. You need a physical item to give. The creature looked at her with disgust and dropped her. However, Pinkie didn't stop. She asked someone else "How about this comb I've never used?" Yeah, no one wants that. "A picture of my sister Maud?" No one cares about that either.
"This breath mint? Seriously, buddy. Help me help you." The pig just breathed on Pinkie and that caused her to turn green. It was probably very disgusting. Somebody needs to brush his teeth. Twilight said, annoyed "Pinkie. You can't just take off." Exactly. These creatures are very shady and will do something to you if you're not careful. "And you don't need to announce it to every-" before getting cut off by Pinkie who said "Relax Twilight. I totally got this." Uh, we'll see about that. One of these creatures asked "How much for the GIANT Gecko?" What? Spike is not a Gecko, you idiot. He's a dragon, blind fool. This offended Spike and he said "Who are you calling a Gecko?" Apparently, these dangerous fools. Twilight said "Uh, Spike isn't for sale." Another creature said "I want that FANCY PURPLE HAIR! I'll give you two starbucks for it." Wait. WHAT? Starbucks is a coffee place, not currency you idiot! Also, her hair is worth far more than that. In fact, you don't sell hair. You just want money and other valuables for yourselves.
Rarity was offended at this and said "Two starbucks?! It's worth more than that!" Twilight was confused at that and the crowd got closer. I heard one say "I WANT THAT COOL STICK THING!" I became enraged at that and blasted him with my scepter just to show it's not some stick. That didn't stop the crow though. Now everyone wanted it because it can fire magic. I was about to shake the Earth, when that cat came over. I think his name was Capper. He said "Back up everyone! Back it up!" Man, he knows when to not let things out of control. "Y'all in serious danger." I guess that's true considering I can wipe you from the face of the Earth in a matter of seconds. "Now you didn't touch any of them, did you?" Thankfully not. "Just look at all those colors. You think that's natural? They're infected with pastellis coloritis." That caused the crowd to gasp and Applejack said, offended "Now you listen here fella, there ain't-" before getting silenced by Capper's tail. Hang on, Applejack. I know what he's doing.
Capper said "Don't worry. Don't worry. As long as you're not covered in purple splotches, you'll be fine." I saw him throw purple paint on one of those creatures. How he did this is truly incredible in my mind. "Uh oh." The creature with the purple paint was horrified at what he saw and asked "WHAT DO I DO?!" Capper replied "Enjoy your last moments and don't touch anyone. Because parts will fall off." That scared the crowd and they all took off. How this is allowed in a kid's movie, I have no idea. That's quite graphic if you ask me. But I'm fine with it. He said "Well, alrighty." He went off, but Rainbow said "You are AWESOME!" That thing you did, I admit, was pretty great. I would have wiped them from existence. Rarity said "And quite charming." That got Spike jealous. Calm down, Spike. She doesn't mean it that way, so relax will ya? Capper said "Capper's the name. Charming's my game." Does that rhyme? I can't tell. "So, to the hippos then?" Yes sir. Pinkie followed after him, but Twilight flew in front of her. She said "I don't know if we should trust him." I said "Twilight, as far as I can see, he's the only one that actually cares out here. All the rest of them wanted to either take things from us to sell to the highest bidder, or try to trade with them for money. So I think you should have a little more trust with him. I don't sense any malicious intentions here, and I'll tell you if I see any."
Pinkie said "I agree. We could definitely use a friend out here." Capper must have overheard and said pulling down Twilight's wing "You know what? Little cotton candy and lion with the crown is right. And if I do say so myself…" He began to sing a song about how dangerous it is out here and that he's the friend that we need to get through here. Everypony was on board, but Twilight was skeptical. I promise Twilight, that he has good intentions. The scepter can tell when someone has bad intentions. It can read anyone's thoughts. When we got to the other side of town, we came inside Capper's home and it looked quite nice if you ask me. Rarity called it something that I can't pronounce or have any idea what it means, but whatever. Capper said "Apologies for the state of my litterbox. I wasn't expecting guests." I hope no cat litter is in here. That stuff stinks. If you own a cat, you know what I mean. The rest of the group went on and on with Capper while I took a look around. I heard Twilight gasp as she probably found a book and I looked outside. Wait. WHAT?! HOW DID TEMPEST FIND US?! Oh no, she better not find us.
That Grubber dude asked Tempest "You really think the ponies got this far?" If she's smart, yes. But I hope she isn't. Tempest sniffed the air and said "Oh, they're here." DANG IT! She saw a piece of Pinkie's hair. Gee, that helps. I heard her say "Attention. A little purple pony passed this way." She's not little. I rather get electrocuted from your broken horn than let your evil hooves get on her. You will NOT touch her and I WILL do everything in MY power to prevent that from happening. "Tell me where she is." NEVER. I'll cast a spell to prevent you using your magic to track our location. I cast that spell and I hope it works. Grubber said "Or something real bad is going to happen." Yeah, you become my breakfast and I will wipe Tempest from existence. That's what will happen if any one of you dares to touch Twilight or my other friends, but especially Twilight. She means everything to me and I won't let a creature like you get your hands or hooves on her. Grubber backed down at the creature standing there, but Tempest stood her ground. That creature said "You think we're gonna fall for this again?" Maybe, you blind fool.
"I don't know what kind of scam you're working with Capper and the rest of your friends with-" before getting cut off by Tempest who asked "Friends?" The creature replied "Poison or no poison. You're gonna pay." I don't think so. Tempest may be my enemy, but you don't pick a fight with her. The creature tried hitting Tempest, but she dodged and kicked him in the stomach. She then tripped him up and finally sent him flying in the air and body slamming him to the ground. That mare is tough if you ask me. Grubber said "OOOH! Fishman got dropped!" He sure did. It was actually quite entertaining. Seeing these sick, twisted perverts getting what they deserve. Tempest went up to the "fishman" and asked "Now, about this Capper…" before charging up her horn and probably burning this guy to a crisp. Meanwhile, all the girls were still talking to Capper over there but I could tell something felt wrong about him. He seemed depressed. I don't know why, but the scepter won't tell me, so I kinda have to guess.
I heard Twilight say "Guys! We've been looking for the wrong Queen! We don't need the Queen of the Hippos. We need the Queen of the Hippogriffs! Part pony, part eagle." I said "I kinda knew that already." Twilight looked at me and said "What? Why didn't you tell us? This could have been useful information several hours ago!" I said "I know. But where's the fun in that? Nothing I tell you." Twilight rolled her eyes and said "Okay, Discord." I said, offended "I AM NOT DISCORD! FOR THE LAST TIME, I didn't cast the world into eternal chaos and make it rain Chocolate milk with cotton candy clouds!" Twilight said "Geez, calm down Zach. I was only joking." Oh. It's not that funny. "Maybe to you." I growled in annoyance and looked out the window. I heard Capper say "Oh. Oh, the hippogriffs. Now the trouble with that is, no one knows where they are." We don't have to go that much farther. It's right down the street.
Twilight said, annoyed "Says here they're on the top of Mount Aris!" Geez, calm down Twilight. "I wasn't talking to you!" Curse you author. OWWWWWW! OK OK GEEZ WHY IS EVERYONE SO MAD?! UGH YOU GUYS ARE RIDICULOUS! Pinkie said "You mean the mountain right outside the window?" Yes, Pinkie. That one.
Capper looked around nervously and said "Objects and windows may be less mountainous than they appear." However, Twilight didn't feel any sympathy towards him and said "Let's go everypony!" Capper gasped and stood in front of the door. He said "WAIT! You can't make it by yourselves. You need an airship and lucky for you, I can get you a ride." However, Twilight didn't like the way he was touching her and nor was I. Strangers don't touch others without permission. Twilight said "I think we can get there on our own." I said "Uh Twilight? How are we going to do that? Not everyone here has wings. And teleporting all the way over there requires a lot of magic and I don't want to waste it when we can just use a different mode of transportation." Twilight looked at me for a second and then sighed. She said "You do have a point. But how would we get there?" I said "Go by airship." Twilight sighed again and opened the door. OH HELLO! There was a creepy pig on the other side and he said "Here's Verco!"
Is that supposed to be a reference to The Shining where the guy with the axe says "Here comes Johnny!" while breaking down the door? If you've watched it, you know what I mean. If you haven't I recommend you don't watch it. It's a very creepy movie and is not suited for young audiences. Most of them might get traumatized or even have PTSD for the rest of their lives. Twilight backed up and gasped in fear. That disgusting pig said "These ponies better shoot rainbow lasers out their eyes if they're gonna settle your debt! Brought the big cage." Wait. You plan on selling them?! WHY I OUGHTA- hold on. What's that? Yes, yes, uh huh, yeah okay. So the deal is that Capper got forced into this and feels bad for doing it, but he'll help us later on. Okay. "Let's load them up!" That's gonna leave a bad impression. Everypony gasped with horror and Rarity said upset "You were… You were going TO SELL US?!" It appears that way, but I believe he has an idea.
Twilight said furious "I knew IT! We gotta get out of HERE!" I said "Wait! It's not what it looks like. Also, we have a bigger problem on our hooves or claws or whatever it is." After I said that, evil laughter was heard. Twilight gasped in fear yet again and I growled in annoyance as I wanted to take down this pony once and for all. She said "Silly little ponies." Twilight said loudly "Tempest!" Spike gasped in fear, and Fluttershy put a lampshade on her head. She can still see you, but whatever. Tempest just laughed and said "Trusting strangers? Big Mistake. Big." I could say the same about you, blind and arrogant fool. Gubber said "Huge." Okay we get it. I stood up against Tempest and said "So we meet again. I let you know right now, that if you try to get to my friends, you WILL suffer my wrath." I went into my shadow form and went up against her face continuing on.
"You think that the Storm King is firecesome, powerful, and almighty? Well, let me tell you that NO ONE is more firecesome, more powerful, and more almighty THAN I! NOTHING can stand against me! NOTHING! So get lost or things will turn ugly. Your choice." I went back in my lion form and motioned for everypony to get out the window and escape. I said "GO! GO!" I headed out and I heard Tempest say "Get HER NOW! AND THAT RIDICULOUS LION CREATURE!" You can't catch me, you loser. Grubber said "You gonna be scared now ponies!" Oh yeah? Watch this. I summoned fangs and everyone except Capper hissed in pain. I'm more terrifying than some unicorn with a broken horn, a hedgehog, and storm creatures that are a sad excuse of scary. The group got up on the windmill, but the storm creature stopped it and tried pushing it back. OH NO YOU'RE NOT! I blasted the storm creature with my magic and pushed the windmill upwards with my strength. The storm creature tried again, but I blasted him even harder that sent him flying.
I teleported the rest of us to some building and we began running away, but Tempest broke off the windmill and threw it at us. I saw it coming, so I charged up my scepter and destroyed it. We went to the other side as balconies on buildings were falling and Twilight said "We have to get there! To the DOCKS!" Yes madam. I sped up towards the ship and Twilight said "Hurry!" Then, I turned on my supersonic speed and flew right into the ship. The rest of us managed to get on, but Pinkie fell. I flew down at fighter jet speeds and picked up Pinkie with my magic and teleported us back on the ship. That was a close one. Twilight thankfully got on safely and we went to the other side behind the crates. Pinkie said "BEST ESCAPE EVER!" WHAT? I would not like to go through that again. You nearly died! How could you say that? I heard a voice say "Did you hear something?" Probably. I hope my fighter jet noises weren't loud enough to be picked up by anyone. "Eh, probably just the rats. If we find 'em, we'll eat them." Uh no you're not. I ain't no rat and I will take your sorry rear end and blast it back to last Tuesday.
The ship went through the sky and we managed to keep quiet. Applejack and Rainbow peaked through the boxes, while Twilight was looking at the map and I was looking out for any signs of Tempest. Applejack said "What do you think, Twilight? Should we just ask them to take us?" I don't know. They just seem like they're being forced to what evil force is telling them to do. She said "The last time we trusted somepony, he tried to sell us!" I said "No, he did not. I know what he was doing, and you should be grateful. He was only doing that so we could escape from Tempest. He knew about it and was trying to find a way to get us out of there before she got there. As you can see, that didn't work out too well." I heard the boxes move and I hid in my shadow form where no one could see me. It looked to me like they were parrots of some sort.
This parrot that moved the box said "Hey guys. Come check this out!" Another one said "Looks like a pack of stowaways." Who are you to call us stowaways? I'll smack the crap out of you if you say that again. A female one said "What are we supposed to do with them?" Be nice and not try to sell us for profit? That would be nice. The one that moved the box said "I think we tie them up." OH NO YOU'RE NOT! YOU WILL NOT CAPTURE MY FRIENDS! I DON'T THINK SO! The pink one said "Nah, we'll clip their wings!" Are you insane? The other green one said "We scar them!" I'll give you a nice fresh scar with my claws if you do that. "Emotionally." Now you made Poor Fluttershy scared. "Wait wait wait. What say the book, Captain Solano?" Oh sure, bring out the captain. It was female actually. Huh, pretty cool if you ask me. She said "Storm King's rule book says throw them overboard." They all gasped and I was beyond furious at this point. I said loudly without anyone hearing me "You think that you can just throw off anyone you wish? Oh, you're so wrong. PREPARE TO FEEL MY WRATH!" At that moment, lightning and thunder appeared and I came in my shadow form.
I said "Since you guys want to throw them overboard, why don't I throw you overboard?" I charged up my scepter and everyone was scared for their lives. Suddenly a large clock rang and I was confused. The captain said loudly "ALRIGHT THAT'S LUNCH!" Wait what? That was the most random sequence of events I've ever seen. When we were at the table, Twilight said "What?" I'm just as confused as you are, Twilight. Rainbow wasn't liking what she was seeing and said "Whoa whoa whoa. So you were about to toss us overboard and you stopped for a lunch break?" Twilight looked over at Rainbow angrily and I just rolled my eyes. It's not the most rude question I've ever heard. I've heard worse. The guy that moved the boxes said "Storm King only allows one break a day for meals and it's back to hauling goods." That seems pretty boring to me. That doesn't sound like a good lifestyle. Spike asked "So you're delivery guys?" Pretty much. The captain said "And gals. These uniforms aren't doing us any favours." I can see that.
Twilight said "Then can you deliver us to Mount Aris?" I doubt that will work Twilight. The captain said "Sorry, we do what the Storm King orders, or we suffer his wrath." The only wrath you should be worried about is mine. The Storm King can't stand a chance against me. Twilight said "Right. Still going overboard." I doubt that. The pink bird said "Eh, it's nothing personal. Pudding?" That's odd. But when you only have one meal a day, you got to eat as much as possible. Are there bathroom breaks as well? There better be or else the Storm King is too cruel. Rarity asked "There's pudding?" Someone slid a bowl over to Rarity and it was the same stuff as lunch. That's pretty much disgusting pudding if you ask me. Rainbow asked "You weren't always delivery birds, were you?" No they weren't. But the Storm King forced them under his control. "What about before the Storm King?" Probably better than this crap. The captain said "Yeah, we used to be much more adventurous." I bet. Those were probably good times.
The captain pulled back the Storm King poster and there was a cross n bones flag behind it. Rainbow said "Woah. You used to be pirates?" Apparently so. Much better lifestyle than what the Storm King has for ya. The one with the eyepatch said "Uh, we prefer the term swashbuckling treasure hunters." Isn't that the same thing? That sounds cooler, but pirates are less of a mouthful. Rainbow said "So, pirates?" Yeah, pretty much. "You birds have a choice to make. You can let some cloven hoofed Storm King tell you how to live your lives, or you could be AWESOME again!" I would choose being awesome. Twilight said "Rainbow Dash! This isn't a really good time for a-" before getting cut off by Rainbow singing. Just let her do this Twilight. It will let her get it out of her system and we can move on to more important things. The song went on and on, while Twilight ignored it trying to stay on task. After nearing the end, the colors showed up beautifully. I heard Rainbow say "I know you had it in you! Now for the finishing touch." Oh no, what's that? Wait. She's flying high in the sky. Pinkie's shouting Rainboom chants, but I'm still not sure. Twilight is panicking while I'm observing.
Rainbow then descended super quickly and went supersonic speed breaking the sound barrier and causing a sonic rainboom. Woah, that looks so cool. I've seen it on the show before, but seeing it in person looks way cooler. Wait. WHAT?! OH, I KNEW THAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN! I said "I hate to burst the party, but WE got company!" Everypony looked in my direction and gasped. The captain growled in frustration and said "Storm Guards! Looks like they found you." Twilight said, fearing for her life "Tempest!" I said "Not on my watch. This is the last straw." I went up in the air and charged up my magic and sent a massive lightning bolt at the ship that was headed our way. I also blasted magic at Tempest and she countered it with her own magic. However, since my magic came from the Tree of Harmony, her's cannot stand against mine. It lunged forward and came crashing into Tempest also weakening her.
This caused Tempest to grow furious and throw an orb at me. I picked it up with my magic and threw it back at her causing the steering wheel to be turned to stone. Now she couldn't control it. I headed down underneath the ship and surrounded myself around them. Rainbow said, nervously "You think she saw my Sonic Rainboom?" Obviously. Twilight said angrily "Are you kidding me?" I said "That thing can be seen from a million miles away. It's quite obvious. Also, it sticks out like a red umbrella in a sea of black ones." Suddenly, I heard something launch at us and the ship had a hole in it now. Oh, I see what this is. Not on my watch. Once it latched on there, I took my scepter and sliced it with my magic. HA! Take that Tempest! Now how are you going to get us now? I heard Tempest say for all of us to hear "ARGH! That lion is DRIVING ME NUTS! Once I get my hooves on him and the precious princess, he will be SORRY HE EVER CROSSED ME!" Oh, I don't think so. Like I said, you can't STAND against me nor can your stupid Storm King. He's just a weakling that pretends to be a King.
We all listened to the conversation upstairs to see what was going to happen. Tempest said "Where's the pony princess and that pathetic excuse of a lion prince?" I'LL SHOW YOU PATHETIC EXCUSE, BLIND AND ARROGANT FOOL! I charged up my magic as my anger flared, but Twilight signaled for me not to. Fine. The captain was confused at this and said "Princess? Prince? Princess. Princess. Prince. Prince. Nope. All we're hauling is Storm King merchandise." Sounds about right. Tempest said "You do realize that if you were to shelter fugitives, the Storm King would be quite explosive." I don't give a heck if he's mad. I can wipe him from the face of the Earth in like two seconds and his explosiveness is NOTHING compared to mine. Trust me. I'm not scared of some sad excuse of a king that conjures up storms in theory. I would be a better king than him.
Twilight was nervous as heck and said "We have to get off this ship before they tell Tempest we're HERE!" I doubt that. We have their loyalty and they won't go down without a fight. Trust me. You got them back into their spirits, they'll cover for you. Rainbow said "We helped them get their mojo back. They're not going to give us up." She's right. Now that we're friends, they'll stick up for one another and have our backs. Twilight looked over at each of her friends and they all had different reactions. Rarity was panting with Spike trying to comfort her, Fluttershy hid in fear, Applejack put her hat down ready to give up, and Pinkie fell behind the boxes and put her hind hoof upwards. Twilight just sighed and shook her head annoyed. Twilight looked around and saw some things that could help us. She said "I got this!" I heard Tempest say "Now, I'm going to count to three and if you don't tell me where they are, your ship is going down." Oh sure, that's threatening.
"One." Twilight grabbed a rope and took the flag down. She told Rainbow to hold it and Rainbow asked "What are you doing?" She's getting us an escape route. Tempest again said "Two." I could tell that these birds were not budging and the captain tightened her grip on the sword while Grubber was saying "Oh, this is getting intense." Yes, you could say that. But it will be against your favour. Tempest said "Three." That's when we dropped. You could hear screaming from on top of the ship. "What?" Ha ha! See ya later, Tempest! Good luck trying to find us now! He he. I heard Rarity say "OH, FOR CELESTIA'S SAKE!" Yeah, this was terrifying. Twilight told me to put everyone in the box and she would put everything together. I did that and let Twilight do the work. She put it all together, but Applejack asked "What the hay is she doing?" You'll see. After she put it all together, I charged up my magic and lit fire into the balloon causing a lot of heat to rise and making the balloon go afloat.
I was able to get it just in time before the "balloon" hit the trees. They all let out a sigh of relief and Rarity said "Thank goodness." Yes, you almost hurt yourselves. Applejack said "Whew. Quick thinking, Twilight." Hey! What about me? I helped too. "Oh, and you too Zachary." Thanks Applejack. Twilight said "Yah-hoo!" Pinkie said "That was fun." Uh, not really. That was a life or death situation right there. "Can we do it again?" I said "Please no. That was quite freaky let's just say." Rainbow said "Next stop: Mount Aris!" Yes, to the abandoned mountain we go. Twilight said "We're home free!" Yes, we are for now. Once we arrived there, I saw how abandoned it was. We made it to the top and Twilight said "This is it." The one and only. Pinkie just squealed in excitement, while Applejack said "Well, I'll be. Hippogriffs, here we come!" They aren't here though. I think I know what happened here. Rarity asked "Are you sure this is the right place?" Yes, Rarity it is. Applejack just yelled out hellos, but no answer.
Pinkie said "This place is empty!" Yeah, we figured that out already, Pinkie. Quite obvious. Twilight said "But Celestia. The map. They have to be here." They are, just not where you expect them to. Spike said "Something bad happened here." I believe I know what it is. "Something that turned this whole place into a ghost town." Yep. It was the Storm King. Fluttershy was scared to death and said, shaking "A gho-ghost town?" Yes, Fluttershy, but it's not as bad as you think. There are no ghosts here. That's just what they call it. It's basically another name for abandoned. I said "I believe I know what happened here. The Storm King invaded this palace just like Canterlot, and the Queen, Queen Novo, had the entire kingdom hide underwater to protect themselves." Twilight asked me "How did you know that?" I said "The scepter knows that." Twilight again said "But I thought it was only on Equestria that did that." I said "Nope. It records anything on this entire planet. It records every single thing. But only the major events make the timeline." Suddenly, there was a voice that could be heard. I said "I think I noticed something over there. I'll go take a look."
I went over and disappeared in my shadow form. I went down the mountain and saw a ship that was out there. It looked like it was about to sink. I went over and saw there was a storm. I had to save them. I went and grabbed everyone that was on that ship and brought them to shore. Then I roared as loud as I could to get rid of the storm and it disappeared. I went back to the beach and they were gasping for air. One of them said "You saved us." I said "Ah, it's no big deal. I saw you out there sinking and I just knew I had to save you. Oh, my name is Prince Zachary by the way. What are you guys doing out here?" The hippogriff said "Oh, well, Queen Novo told us to take a look out here for danger, but we saw nothing." I said "Well, it was nice meeting y'all. Have a nice trip home and be careful next time." They all nodded and I headed back to the other side of the beach.
I heard gasping and I looked to see all of my friends coming out of the water soaking wet. Oh dear. I saw all of them get out of the water and lay on the ground. Applejack said "What were you thinking? I mean, stealing their pearl?" Wait. YOU DID WHAT?! Hold on. Yes, yes, uh huh, okay. I see now, but that's still wrong to do. Twilight sighed and said "It was the only way to save Equestria.." Was it really though? Pinkie said "Except it wasn't. The Queen was going to say yes. We did what you told us and that made her realize that we were ponies worth saving." Yeah, you were this close. Pinkie gasped and then said "Unless, you didn't really want us to show the best time ever. You just wanted us TO DISTRACT HER!" Even though Twilight had the best intentions, that's still wrong to deceive the Queen like that. You did that in the Roman Empire, you probably got executed for it. The rest of them gasped in horror.
Twilight said angry "I never would've done it, but this isn't Equestria! We can't just dance around with con artists, making Rainbooms, and expect everything to work out!" There's a reason they did that. A reason you fail to see. "It's not enough! We are not enough." What does that even mean? Pinkie countered "No Twilight. We stuck together. We were going to get the help we needed. The only thing that stopped us was YOU!" Twilight argued back "Well, I'm DOING THE BEST I CAN! It's all on me. I'm the one Tempest wants. I'm the last princess." I said "She's after me too, in case you've forgotten." Twilight said coldly "Oh, and where have you been? Out doing some ridiculous thing?" WHAT? I said with anger "No, I did NOT! I actually saved someone's life out THERE in the OCEAN! It seems that you have been blinded by anger rather than what's important." Pinkie said, still angry, "You're also the one who doesn't trust her friends!" That set off a trigger in Twilight and she yelled "Well, maybe I would've been better off without FRIENDS LIKE YOU!" What? Oh, you're screwed now.
This caused Pinkie to gasp in horror and she drooped her ears in sadness. Twilight realized what she's done and the rest of her friends were in shock too. Yeah, it hurt them too. It hurt all of us actually. Yes, even me. I won't do anything, but that was really hurtful. Twilight said pleading "Pinkie. I.." All Pinkie did was cry and say "I just can't talk to you right now." She walked away and the rest of her friends did the same thing. Spike was still there and I said "You really screwed up this time. That really did hurt. You're lucky I don't get as offended like they do because of my cold stone heart, but I didn't like what you said either. I hope you're happy." I went off to look at the ocean from the rocks. After a bit, I saw Spike walk up to Twilight. He said "Twilight. It's okay." Not really Spike. I appreciate you trying, but it doesn't solve the problem. "We'll figure it out." Sure we will. Twilight however, didn't think that.
She said crying "No. I can't. I ruined everything. There's no chance to save Equestria now. It's all my fault. *chokes a bit* Spike?" She looked over and that Storm creature was back! She tried firing at the creature, but got stuck in a cage. NO! She screamed and the cage began to move up very quickly. I'm going after her! She kept spamming no so many times and then she said "SPPIKKEEE!" The dragon was able to burn the creature's arm and he called out "TWILIGHT!" ARGH! YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS TEMPEST! YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE LAST OF ME!
To be continued….
AN: I know the movie could possibly be fit into one chapter, but I decided not to. I thought it would be better to split it up. I'm already on 22 pages and I don't want to go further than 27. If I keep going, this chapter would probably be over 50 pages long. Yeah, I'm not doing that. So, this is how it'll be just to even it out a little bit. It might not be the halfway point of the movie, but I think it's a good cliffhanger in my opinion. Hope you enjoyed this first part.
Next Chapter: The final battle! After Tempest captures Twilight, she plans for the Storm King's arrival to Canterlot to unleash the storm. Zachary is secretly watching and is waiting for the right moment to pounce. What he doesn't notice is that the Storm King eventually betrays Tempest. Before that, Zachary makes a sacrifice that will be forever remembered and causes Twilight to have super strong love for him. Will Tempest be able to find the light, or will it be too late?
Until then, my fellow readers