And the second part to Season 4 of MLP. I'm really excited for the upcoming episodes I get to turn into chapters. Especially a few certain ones which are personal favorites of mine and one specifically for spawning an idea that's gonna happen a bit later in the story. My friend Petrus knows what I'm talking about. So I hope you guys enjoy what you read!
Currently the Mane 6 and Spike were busy evacuating the ponies from Ponyville. Some ponies were seen stuck or tangled up in the vines of the Everfree forest, but luckily with Twilight's magic and Spike fire breathe, they were able to free anypony that was caught and help them evacuate the town.
"Alright. Ah think that's everypony." Applejack said as she and everypony gathered up again.
"Good. Because I think I'm fired out." Spike responded in a raspy voice as he coughed up a bit of smoke. He's never had to use that much fire breath before, so he was a bit out of practice.
"Thanks again for your help Spike." Twilight told the young dragon in a grateful tone.
"I do hope Lincoln and Luna get back with the elements quickly. I don't know how much more of this we can take." Rarity said in a tired tone as Applejack stomped a vine that was sneaking up on Rarity.
"Oh, I don't know." A familiar voice said as everypony watched as suddenly they witnessed as Discord appeared in front of them laying on a lawn chair wearing a red Hawaiian shirt, red rim sunglasses, and drinking out of a coconut. "I rather like the way things are right now. It has a certain 'chaotic charm' to it don't you think?"
"Of course you'd think that." Rainbow muttered with the roll of her eyes.
Just then Fluttershy flinched as she heard the sound of flapping nearby and looked around frantically for the source. When she looked to the sky, she pointed a hoof up and said. "Look. They're back."
Everypony looked up and saw Princess Luna and Big Chill flying down towards them with the Mane 6, Spike, and Discord seeing that in Luna's magical aura she was carrying none other than the 6 elements of harmony.
Everypony approached them as they landed, with Big Chill turning back to Lincoln, with Luna speaking up to them. "Sorry that took a longer than anticipated there were…issues…" Luna muttered quietly while averting her gaze from everypony looking at her and the white-haired human.
"That's putting a lightly…" Lincoln muttered while scratching the back of his head. The state Celestia was still very fresh in his mind. Especially the fact that her mane seemed to have lost its magical properties.
The Mane 6 and Spike all moved their heads away as they scratched the back of their heads awkwardly. The only exception to this was Twilight who simply glared at no pony in particular and looked to the ground and scoffed.
"Yeah, I can imagine getting them from you-know-who was probably a little more than awkward." Spike slowly as Lincoln nodded. However, he didn't seem to get a proper response from Luna as she simply looked down sadly.
Lincoln knelt down a bit and put a hand to Luna's shoulder as the Night Princess simply took a deep breath in response and looked at the Mane 6. "Come. Let's fix this mess." Luna said as she levitated the Elements of Harmony to the respective pony they belonged to.
When they got them, they looked at their reflection in the gem for a moment before putting it on their neck. Once again, Twilight was the exception as she looked at the gem that resembled her cutie make and gave it a hateful glare. "I haven't forgiven you for what you did to Sunset." She told the gem in spite at a volume nopony could hear. And due to her smashing the crown around the gem, she had no efficient way of carrying it. Yes, she could use her magic but considering where they were about to go it might be hard to keep track of the Element and keep a hold on it.
So instead, Twilight levitated the Element of Magic with her magic and hovered it over towards Lincoln. "Hey Lincoln, do you mind holding onto it for me until we get there please. I don't really have a good way of carrying it." The Purple ex-princess asked while looking at the Loud boy.
Lincoln simply shrugged in response, not seeing any issue with it, and grabbed it from Twilight's magical grip. "Sure, no prob." Lincoln answered as he put the Element in his pants pocket.
Twilight gave him a nod as a way of thanking him before she turned and looked to the entrance of the Everfree forest and all the vines moving around inside. "Well, get ready everypony. We got a tree to find."
A few in the group gulped in response as they looked inside the forest for themselves. Rainbow Dash then turned to the Princess of the Night and asked her. "You remember where the tree is, right?" The blue Pegasus asked with a raised brow.
Princess Luna frowned a bit as she put a hoof to her chin. "It...has been a rather long time since I've seen the tree." Luna admitted as everypony groaned a bit in disappointment. "Plus, there's no telling how much the Everfree forest has changed since then and how much more it's changed with recent events. I think I remember the general location but there's no telling what we'll run into."
"So unknown dangers and obstacles. What else is new?" Lincoln said in a joking tone, trying to lift everypony's spirits. "Come on guys, let's do this."
That seemed to bring a smile to everypony's face as they looked at the entrance of the Everfree forest and nodded. "Come on, we've handled that forest once and we'll do it again!" Applejack said with determination.
"As long as we stick together." Fluttershy said as everypony smiled and nodded.
Spike then proceeded to climb onto Twilight's back and point towards the forest. "Forward march!"
"Yes sir!" Everypony said as they started heading right into the Everfree forest.
Meanwhile Discord simply took a sip from his coconut before snapping his fingers and making a box of popcorn appear. He then pulled down his shades and looked towards the audience. "Well, this should be quite the show."
As they were inside the forest, the Mane 6, Spike, Lincoln, and Luna were constantly having to swat or cut away vines that were trying to attack them. Currently their search for the tree was proving fruitless as they saw no signs of the tree or where it could be.
"Things certainly do change after 1000 years." Luna muttered as she used her magic to cut away a vine that was right in front of them. "Everything's completely different."
Rarity was staying close to Applejack as she kept her eyes peeled for vines and for the tree. "Well how hard could it be to find darling?" Rarity pointed out as they kept moving forward. "I imagine it should stand out quite a bit."
"Yeah. Big magical tree probably under attack by some monster. You think it would stand out like a sore hoof." Rainbow Dash said as she swatted away a vine that was coming down from the tree above her.
"Heh, if only everything was that easy." Lincoln said with a blank expression. "I doubt the tree is just gotta be out in the open. It's probably hidden somewhere to keep people away that aren't really supposed to be around it."
"You're quite right." Luna confirmed as she looked back at Lincoln. "It took me and my sister searching extensively before we found it."
Meanwhile Pinkie Pie was happily bouncing forward along with everypony with her usual smile on her face. "Well I just hope we can help this tree quick so we can get to our super special best friend party tonight!" Pinkie Pie said excitedly, not at all experiencing any fear from the magical forest.
"Th-That w-w-would b-be n-nice." Fluttershy stuttered as she made sure to stay close to everypony so that maybe being this deep in the Everfree Forest wouldn't be so bad.
Just as they kept moving forward, suddenly Luna spread her wings making everypony coming to a stop. "Look." Luna told them while pointing her hoof forward.
They all looked to see that they were standing in front of a swamp with green water that to be releasing some kind of steam. Everypony's muzzle scrunched up in response as Lincoln covered his nose and tried to fan the air away from him. "Geez, this smells worse than Stinkfly."
"No arguments here." Spike said as he mimicked what Lincoln was doing.
Twilight looked forward and saw some rocks sticking up from the swamp and pointed to them. "We can use these to jump across." The purple Alicorn said as she set Spike down on the ground and started to jump on the rocks.
"Twilight! Wait!" Luna called out with a concerned expression as she saw Twilight start to jump from rock to rock.
But suddenly, the 'rocks' started shaking and rising up from the water. "I don't think those are rocks…" Lincoln said slowly as everypony started backing up.
Twilight struggled to maintain her balance before the 'rocks' completely emerged from the water and launching Twilight back to land. Everypony then witness as the 'rocks' turned out to be a large crocodile-like creature with its body being covered in rock-like material.
"It's a Cragidile!" Luna shouted as the Cragidile started approaching them.
"Everypony run for your lives!" Rarity shouted as she and a few members of their group started running away from the incoming Cragidile.
Lincoln, however, stood his ground as he activated the Ultimatrix and started scrolling through aliens. "Alright Cragidile, let's see how you like Humungausaur!" Lincoln yelled as he slammed down the face plate, blinding the incoming Cragidile with the green flash.
But when the flash died down, standing in Lincoln's place wasn't Humungausaur, but a 9-foot-tall bipedal tiger-like creature with green eyes and a wolverine-like mask around his eyes and a large claw on each of his wrist.
The transformed Lincoln to to himself before yelling and stomping his foot on the ground in irritation before pointing at the Cragidile. "Let me tell ya something Cragidile! Rath is not Humungausaur. But Rath is gonna make you HUMUNGAU-SORRY!"
Everypony then watched as Rath screamed and charged right at the Cragidile and tackled the creature right into the swamp. When both emerged the Cragidile snapped its jaws at Rath, but the Appoplexian quickly dodged and punched the Cragidile back. "Is that all you got Cragidile?! Well take this! And this!"
Everypony then watched as Rath picked up a log and smashed it over the Cragidile's head before jumping up and pile driving it under the water.
The ponies and dragon watching winced at every hit the opponents landed on each other. But for some reason they couldn't help but watch. It was like they couldn't look away. "Well, glad to see Lincoln is so...enthusiastic about this." Luna said before wincing as she watched the Cragadile tackle Rath.
"It's like his whole personality has changed." Applejack said in surprise as she's never seen Lincoln act so...aggressive before.
"He's turned into a total brute." Rarity said as she watched the fight in front of her.
"Oh! Oh! Oh! I know this one!" Spike said as he rose his hand up. "That's Lincoln Appoplexian form Rath. Raths species are known for preferring brawn over brains as well as punching first and asking questions after more punching."
"Yeah, we can see that." Twilight said slowly as they all watched Rath start spinning the Cragidile by its tail.
"Should, um, should we try to help him?" Fluttershy asked quietly as even she couldn't help but watch the scene in front of her.
They then all watched as the Cragidile open its jaw wide and tried to bite down on Rath only for the transformed Loud boy to easily hold its jaw open. Rainbow Dash smirked as she said. "Let's just kick back and watch for a bit."
"Way ahead of ya!" Pinkie Pie said as she was wearing a soda drinking hat as she watched the fight.
Rath growled as he held the Cradidile's jaw open and said. "Is that all you got Cragidile?! Because Rath's got loads more! In fact, I should give ya some of mine so that way it'll be a fair fight. And then everything I gave you I can take it back again! AND MAKE YOU LIKE IT!" Rath then roared as he lifted the Cragidile up and threw it up into the air.
Rath then jumped up while spinning before rearing his leg back as the Cragidile came to be in front of him and shouted, "Sirius Butt-Kicking!" Rath then performed a powerful kick right at the Cragidile butts and launching it a great distance away from everypony.
"Woooooow…" The group watching shouted as they witness the Cragidile get launched high up in the sky.
They then watched as Rath landed right on his feet and roared in victory as he pounded his chest. "YEAH! WHO'S THE MAN?! RATH'S THE MAN!"
Everypony couldn't help but chuckle at the scene as Twilight spoke up. "Alright, good job Lincoln. Know why don't you change back and we can keep moving forward."
However, Rath simply glared at Twilight and pointed at her while walking up to the ponies and dragon. "Let me tell you something Twilight Sparkle, ex-princess of Equestria, Rath only turns back when he decides to turn back!"
"Hey, I was only suggesting." Twilight said with a nervous smile. She learned from Lincoln that Appoplexians were quick to anger and violence. And after what she saw, she rather not be on the receiving end of Rath's anger.
"Yeah! Lay off pussy cat!" Rainbow Dash said as she got right into Rath's face.
"Let me tell ya something Rainbow Dash, self-proclaimed fastest flyer in Equestria, no one calls Rath a pussy cat and gets away with it!" Rath said as he aimed his wrist claw right at the blue Pegasus.
And it was at this moment that Fluttershy broke out of her fear and glared at Rath as he pointed his claw at the rainbow maned Pegasus. Before anypony knew it Fluttershy suddenly appeared right in front of Rath and looked him right in the eye. "Now you stop right their mister! You need to calm down and change back to human right this instant!" Fluttershy yelled to the tiger alien.
Rath growled at the yellow Pegasus as he shouted. "Let me tell ya something Flutter-"
BONK!
Interrupting Rath was bonking Rath right on the head with her hoof. "No! Bad Rath!" Fluttershy scolded the Appoplexian.
Rath growled again as he rubbed his head. "Let me-"
BONK!
"No! None of that!" Fluttershy said firmly as she bonked Rath again. Rath rubbed his head again as he growled at the pink maned Pegasus. "Sit!" Fluttershy ordered as she pointed a hoof towards the ground.
Rath growled again was about to tell but received another bonk on the head. "I said sit!" Fluttershy said sternly as she pointed her hoof at the ground again.
Rath lightly growled, but reluctantly sat down on his butt. Fluttershy gave an approving nod before saying. "Now lower your arms and claws."
Rath growled again, but he saw Fluttershy narrow her eyes at him and raised her hoof to bonk him again and lowered his arms as well. "Good." Fluttershy said as a small smile came to her her face when she suddenly started scratching Rath's chin.
"Hey! What are you...oh...oh that feels good." Rath said as he suddenly started thumping his foot up and down as Fluttershy kept scratching his chin.
"There, there. You just need to calm down is all." Fluttershy said in a sweet down as she moved her hoofs down and started scratching Rath's belly and making the Appoplexian fall to his back. "Who's a good kitty? Who's a good kitty?"
"Rath's a good kitty!" Rath responded as everypony watched struggled immensely to not burst out into laughter.
"That's right. Yes you are. Yes you are." Fluttershy said in a puppy dog voice before she looked at the Ultimatrix symbol on Rath's chest. "Now let's get you back to normal."
Fluttershy then reached her hoof out and tapped the Ultimatrix symbol light and engulfing Rath in an emerald light. When the light died down it showed Lincoln laying on the ground with a frozen expression with widened eyes. "...What just happened?"
Everypony present put a hoof, in Spike case hand over their mouth to hold in their giggles and laughter as Fluttershy smiled sweetly at Lincoln. "You were just a little grumpy is all."
Lincoln's expressions quickly changed to unamused as he narrowed his eyes at Fluttershy and said. "We never talk about this. Ever!" Lincoln then stood up and dusted off his clothes and turned around.
But the second he turned her heard everypony behind him giggling and quickly turned around to glare at them with the ponies and dragon averting their gaze from Lincoln with puffed up cheeks and barely contained laughter as Fluttershy spoke up again. "You were a very sweet tiger Lincoln."
Lincoln huffed a bit before slumping down and turning around and slowly walking away. "Let's just keep moving." Lincoln said in a low tone as everypony behind started giggling and following the Loud boy.
"Any sight of the tree up their Rainbow Dash?" Luna asked as she looked up at the Pegasus as Rainbow looked around the area with a higher view.
"Nothing so far." Rainbow Dash answered as she kept her eyes peeled.
"Ok, how many places does this forest have that a tree like that can find?" Spike asked with a confused expression as they've been looking for who knows how long and so far there was still nothing.
"I don't know." Rarity groaned out as her hooves were starting to ache with how much walking they've been doing. "After this, I'm treating myself to a long spa day."
As Applejack walked behind her marefriend as she looked around for the tree, but when she looked forward, her eyes widened as she shouted. "Rarity look out!" Applejack shouted as she suddenly reached her mouth out and bite down on Rarity's tail.
"What was that dar-WOAH!" Rarity shouted as she was pulled back by Applejack and saw that in front of her was a large chasm with more vines inside that Rarity would have fallen into if she had taken a single step forward. "Oh my goodness! Thank you so much darling!"
Applejack quickly pulled Rarity in closely and held her marefriend tightly as everypony else walked up and looked down the chasm. Lincoln let out a whistle as he looked down. "That quite the drop." The Loud boy commented.
Twilight looked down the chasm, but her eye caught the hint of a faint glow and she looked towards it and narrowed her eyes to try and see further. "Is that...a cave?" The purple Alicorn asked.
Luna looked to where Twilight was looking and saw a save with a faint glow coming out of her. When Luna laid her eyes upon it, she suddenly let out a loud gasp as she pointed to the cave. "That's it! That's where the tree is!"
Everypony gasped in response as Applejack spoke up. "Well then what are we waiting for? Let's go!"
"But, um, how are we gonna get down there?" Fluttershy asked timidly as the height down the chasm really frightened her.
"You know you can fly right?" Lincoln asked with a deadpan expression but didn't get a response.
Just then they heard the sound of Pinkie Pie grunting and looked to see that the pink mare was following down a flight of stairs they somehow all missed. "Take the stairs, silly!" Pinkie Pie told all of them after she landed at the bottom.
Everypony looked to each other and simply shrugged before they started going down the stairs themselves. Just not falling down like Pinkie did.
Once they were at the bottom, the group made their way inside the cave where a bunch of large vines led. Once inside the cave everypony gasped at that they saw. Inside they saw a big tree that was almost completely wrapped by the vines they have seen all day and looked like it was almost completely lifeless.
And the tree had three marks on it. Celestia's Cutie Mark, Luna's Cutie Mark, and-
"My Cutie Mark." Twilight quietly said as the center of the tree had what appeared to be the star that made the center of her Cutie Mark.
"This is it." Luna said as she stepped forward and looked at the dying tree with a serious expression. "The Tree of Harmony."
"It's dying." Fluttershy said quietly as she covered her mouth with her hooves at seeing the state the tree was in.
"Well let's save it then!" Applejack said with a determined look. Right before gaining a confused look and looking towards Princess Luna. "Uh, how do we save it anyway?"
Luna hummed a bit as she looked over the tree. It was a dripping a green liquid and the vines were holding a tight grip around it. It looked completely drained of magic. "Hmmm, the tree's magic has been drained. That means we need to give the source of its magic back to it."
"So, what your saying is," Lincoln begun saying as he had the Ultimatrix set to Heatblast just in case he would have to burn more of those vines. "We gotta put the Elements of Harmony back on the tree."
"Yes." Luna said seriously with a nod.
The Mane 6 all looked to each other the the 5 wearing their elements looked to them before looking back at each other. "Well...we already gave em up once." Rainbow Dash said while scratching the back of his head.
"At least this time we'll be saving a tree by doing it." Applejack said with a small smile as she looked to the tree.
Lincoln then reached into his pocket and pulled out the Element of Magic he was holding onto and whistled to get the ponies attention. He then threw the Elements towards Twilight who caught it with her magic. "Thanks Lincoln." Twilight thanked, getting a thumbs up in response.
Twilight then flew up to the tree while taking the rest of her friends Elements off the necklaces with her magic. Once she had them, she started rotating them as well as her own element around herself and faced the tree again.
But just then as Twilight was facing the tree some vines came in and wrapped themselves around Twilight. Everypony gasped in worry, but just then a stream of fire came in and burnt the vines away. Once she was freed, Twilight looked to see Heatblast giving her a thumbs up. "I got your back." The pyronite reassured her.
Twilight gave Lincoln a grateful smile as she levitated the elements over to the branches on the tree where they used to be when they looked differently. Once the elements were in place, the middle of the tree suddenly opened up. Twilight then levitated the element of magic into the open space and once it was in place, the tree closed again with the Element fitting perfectly into place.
Just then the other branches where she put the elements closed up and letting the new shape of the elements fit perfectly in the tree as they all started glowing. Just then the entire tree started glowing and as it glowed, the vines covering it and invading Equestria started to disappear quickly. And in a matter of seconds all of the out of control vines completely disappeared. And just then the glowing stopped to reveal the tree completely restored. It was a glorious blue color and looked like it was made of crystal.
"Woooow!" Heatblast said before transforming back to Lincoln.
"It's as beautiful as I remember it." Luna said with a smile as she looked over the tree's now restored state.
"Wait, what's it doing?" Twilight asked with a raised brow as suddenly energy started flowing from the elements and through the tree and down to one of its roots. A pink flower then sprouted from the root and when it bloomed it revealed a strange hexagonal chest with six keyholes.
Everypony walked up to the strange chest with Luna and Twilight giving it a thorough. "What's inside?" Twilight asked the Princess of the Night.
"I'm afraid I don't know." Luna answered with the shack of her head. "And I'm afraid I don't know where the keys are either."
Just then the cracking of knuckles got everypony's attention as they watched Lincoln approaching the chest and activating the Ultimatrix. "Alright stand back. There's more than one way to open a box."
"Uh, Lincoln, I really don't think that's a good id-" But interrupting Luna was Lincoln transforming anyway. When the flash died down it showed a 12-foot-tall extremely muscular four-armed alien with red skin. He had four green eyes and wore gold wrist and ankle bands as well as two golden sashes across his chest that connected to the Ultimatrix symbol on his chest and a gold waistband over black shorts. He also had a small black ponytail.
"Four-Arms!" The transformed Loud Boy called out while flexing his Four-Arms. Everypony then watched as Four-Arms picked up the chest from the flower with his upper left arm and started to use his upper arms to try and pry the chest open.
Despite the Tetromand's efforts and grunting, the best didn't seem to budge even a bit. "Alright, let's try this!" Four-Arms yelled as he started to use all four of his arms to try and force the chest open. But despite the might of all four of his arms, the chest still wasn't any closer to budging.
"Alright, no more mister nice guy!" Four-Arms yelled as he slapped the Ultimatrix symbol and transformed again. Now standing in Four-Arms place was a 14-foot-tall dinosaur-like alien with his outer scales being a brown color and his inner scales being a beige color.
"Humungousaur!" The Vaxasaurian called out in a mighty voice. Humungasaur then tried to forcibly open the chest again but just like before, it didn't seem close to budging at all. Humungousaur growled in frustration as he started bagging the chest against the ground a few times, but still nothing.
Humungousaur sighed in defeat as he placed the chest back on the flower and admitted to everypony sheepishly. "Uh, I think we're gonna need the keys."
Everypony gave him an amused grin as Applejack said. "Ya think?" Before Humungousaur changed back to Lincoln.
"Well gang, it looks like we got another mystery on our hands." Lincoln quoted with a humorous grin.
"Ruh-roh!" Pinkie said with a giggle followed by everypony else giggling in response.
A little while later, the Mane 6, Spike, Lincoln, and Luna were walking out of the Everfree Forest with their mission complete. Just then, banners with the Mane 6's face drawn in crayon suddenly dropped down from...somewhere along with confetti blast and number 1 signs.
Just then Discord appeared wearing a foam finger and holding a flag that had the color of all the Mane 6's fur on it. "Bravo, ladies! Bravo!" Discord as he as they all stopped and looked at him. "How ever did you save the day this time? Blast the beastie with your magic necklaces, I presume?"
Just then Discord appeared shrunken down on Applejack's back wearing a cowboy outfit and noticed a lack of necklace around her. "Where are those little trinkets of yours?" Discord asked as everypony started giving him annoyed looks. "You know, the ones you use to send me back to my extremely uncomfortable stone prison?"
Applejack sighed as she gave a simple and honest answer. "Gone."
"Gone? Haha." Discord asked as he reappeared at full size while putting his hands together as a grin came to his face. "Gone?"
Just then Fluttershy flew up to him with her hooves crossed. "Yes, gone. But their absence doesn't affect our friendship one bit." Fluttershy said firmly before she got right into Discords face and looked him in the eye. "And if you want to remain friends, you'll stop thinking whatever it is you're thinking and help us clean up."
With every word Fluttershy said Discord shrunk before he snapped his fingers and went back to full size...only now wearing a maid's outfit. "Fine. But I don't do windows." Discord said as he started walking away with everypony following him.
"There is one thing I don't understand however." Luna said as she put a hoof to her chin.
"What's that?" Lincoln asked as he put his hands in his pockets.
"Why did this all suddenly happen now?" Luna asked with a raised brow and confused tone.
"I have no idea." Discord answered as everypony looked to him. "Those seeds I planted should've sprouted up ages ago."
Everypony quickly glared at Discord when he said that with Twilight saying. "What did you say?" Twilight asked with a demanding tone.
"Oh, did I forget to mention that?" Discord said with an amused grin. "Guess I must have forgotten."
"Discord…" Luna growled while glaring daggers at the spirit of chaos.
"Oh fine, but why tell you when I can show you." Discord said as he snapped his fingers and made a filing cabinet, projector, and a screen appear. Discord then opened the middle of the cabinet and stuck his entire head inside as everypony heard the sound of crashing coming from inside. "No, where did I put that-AH-HAH here it is!"
They then watched as Discord pulled a film wheel from inside the cabinet and put it inside the projector. "Watch and learn shall we." Discord said as he flipped a switch on the projector and turning it on.
Everypony then looked to the screen and saw a video of when Discord covered Equestria in chaos 1000 years ago. Celestia and Luna, who had scrapes and bruises over their body and wearing their saddlebags, stooped forward while glaring at Discord. "Playtime is over for you, Discord." Celestia yelled as Discord sat on his throne eating what appeared to be black popcorn kernels
"Oh, I doubt that." Discord said with the roll of his eyes as he shoveled more kernels into his mouth. "Hungry?" Discord offered as he tossed a single kernel at Celestia and Luna each which simply bounced off their face and onto the ground.
"Well, obviously things didn't go according to my original plan." Present Discord said as everypony watched as the 'kernels' that were thrown at the princesses suddenly buried themselves under the ground. "My plunderseeds should have stolen the magic from the Tree of Harmony and captured Princess Celestia and Princess Luna thousands of moons ago."
"Alas, it seems the tree had enough magic to keep the seeds from growing up big and strong. Until now that is." Everypony's jaw dropped as the film showed the seeds trying to reach out towards the Tree of Harmony, only for the trees magical energy to keep them at bay.
The film then finished playing with Discord snapping all the equipment away. Everypony then looked at Discord with even fiercer glares. "YOU MEAN YOU COULD HAVE FIXED THIS THE WHOLE TIME?!" Luna yelled with her Royal Cantorlot voice.
"And rob you of a grand adventure?" Discord said with a grin. "I mean you got to see how your sister was affected by the events of Sunset Shimmer as well as returning the elements to the tree and finding that strange chest. What kind of a friend would I be if I prevented all of that from happening?"
Luna was not amused. The Night Princess narrowed harshly at the spirit of chaos as she said. "Lincoln…"
"Don't even have to say it." Lincoln said as he walked up to Discord while activating the Ultimatrix. "Hey Discord, Rath would like to have a word with you!"
Lincoln then slammed down the core and transformed to his Appoplexian form and glared hard at Discord. "Let me tell ya something Discord!"
"...Please don't."
ONE BEATING LATER
Later in Equestria, after Rath had gotten done with Discord, the moon was no up and the Mane 6 were at Cantorlot behind the stage were Luna would go up. While they weren't truly celebrating the event, they all agreed to come to give Luna support since she would be doing this by herself.
Just then, everypony that was celebrating watch in excitement and anticipation as guards pony came up and started playing fanfare on the trumpets. And then, they watched as Princess Luna stepped up to the stage...but not Princess Celestia.
Everypony's eyes widened as they started muttering about the absence of the Princess of the Sun. Luna then cleared her throat to get everypony's attention. "Citizens of Equestria, before the start of the Summer Sun Celebration I...I have an announcement to make." Luna said after taking a deep breath as everypony looked to her. "I'm...I'm afraid that my older sister, Princess Celestia...will not be participating in this year's celebration."
Everypony in audience all gasped as their eyes widened at the information. Before they could start asking why, Luna quickly spoke up again. "I know you're all wondering about recent events such as Twilight Sparkle giving up her recent title as the fourth princess of Equestria, and the sudden disappearance of my sister...I'm afraid I cannot go into detail as to why they happened being as they are of personal matters, but the aftermath of the events of left my sister...broken."
Everypony gave worried looks as they heard about the condition of the Sun Princess, vague as it might be, as Luna kept talking. "She just needs time to herself. I apologize for all of those who had any sort of meeting with her or have one coming up. I'm afraid I don't know when or even if she'll be able to face everypony again. I know it won't be the same without my sister...but I hope you'll accept me taking her place and raising the sun."
Everypony was silent as they watch Moon fly up in between the two statues of the sun and moon and her horn started glowing as she started working her magic. Everypony present watched as the moon started to lower with the sun quickly raising up and filling the land of Equestria with light.
Despite the absence of their Solar Princess, the warmth of light of the summer light couldn't help but bring a small smile to Everypony's face as they watched the Alicorn of the Night bring the sun up for them all to see.
Once the deed was done, the ponies in front of Luna all cheered as she lowered to the ground with the light of the summer sun shining down on them all. Luna couldn't but give a small smile as the ponies in front of her and look and cheer for here.
Luna then gave all the ponies a bow before turning around and walking off the stage. Behind the stage, she saw the Mane 6, Lincoln, and Spike before her as she gave them a smile. "I thank you all for coming. I know the celebration probably means nothing to you now but...its still nice to have your support."
"Anytime Luna." Twilight said as she took a step forward.
"We may not enjoy the celebration anymore, but why ruin it for other ponies." Applejack stated getting a nod of agreement from everypony else.
"And now that that's done I believe we have our own party to get to!" Pinkie Pie said happily while giving her friends a giant smile.
"Oh right, our friendiversery party." Spike said as he put a hand to his head and gave a sheepish smile. "After everything that's happened, I completely forgot about it."
"It'll be nice to have our own little celebration." Fluttershy said quietly with her own small smile.
Just then Rainbow Dash wrapped a hoof around Fluttershy making the yellow Pegasus freeze and her face to go red. "Yeah! Let's get to partying ponies!" Rainbow Dash cheered as the rest of the Mane 6 cheered along with her.
Twilight then looked to Lincoln and said. "You can come to ya know." The purple Alicorn told the white-haired human. "We may not have known each other for so long, but your still our friend and we'd love to have you there."
Lincoln chuckled in response and scratched the back of his head. "Well, I guess I got nothing else better to do." The human said in a joking tone that made Twilight giggle.
Twilight then turned to Luna and told the Princess of the Night. "Would you like to come as well?"
Luna was a bit taken back by this and asked in a quiet and surprised tone. "Really? You want me to come?"
"Well yeah." Twilight reassured the Night Princess as she walked up to the Alicorn of the Night. "This day is special for you to, it's the day you finally came back. I thought it might be nice for you to spend it with us."
Luna hummed in thought as she put a hoof to her chin. "Well, I was supposed to spend the time with the other noble ponies…" Luna began saying making the Mane 6 slump down a bit. But then Luna grinned at them and said. "But your idea sounds a lot more fun!"
Everypony immediately perked up and smiled at the Princess of the Night as Pinkie Pie started bouncing up and down happily. "Oh boy! Oh boy! Oh boy! Oh boy!"
Luna giggled at the party pony's reaction before she frowned a bit and told everypony. "But…before I do, there is one thing I need to take care of." The Night Alicorn told all of them.
"What's that Princess?" Applejack asked with a raised brow.
"…It's…just something I need to do." Luna didn't want to tell them. At the very least not yet. It was just something she had to do. "But I promise I'll meet you there. Where might this celebration of yours be located?"
"Oh, it's at a field just a little bit away from Ponyville." Rarity answered with a smile. We've set up quite a few things over there so it shouldn't be hard to miss."
"Very well then. I shall see you all there." Luna said before she took off into the air, not giving anypony a chance to ask her anymore question.
Luna could now be seen walking down a familiar long flight of stairs. The stairs that led down to the secret study room where her sister as locked herself away from the rest of the world. Luna found herself at the door to the room again and took a deep breath before knocking on the door.
"Sister…are you alright?" Luna asked in concerned tone.
…
Luna was expecting not to receive a response. The Princess of the Night sighed sadly before she put her head to the door and started talking. "I know your hurting sister. And I won't lie, I am angry at you…but don't think for a second that means I hate you or that I don't love you. Because I do. So, so much. I won't come in, and I won't force you to come out. But…I hope that one day, when you do come out, we can go back to being sisters. Remember all the fun we used to have chasing each other around in our old castle and using all the trap doors. I miss that. I hate that all this ruling has strained our relationship. I want us to go back to how things used to be. Sisters."
…
Luna moved away from the door and said one last thing. "I won't give up on you Tia. That's a promise." Luna then turned around and prepared to go back up the stairs. And then-
"Lulu…" Luna's eyes widened and turned around when she heard her sisters voice coming through the door. "How…how after everything I've done…how can you not hate me?"
Luna gave the door a sad smile and said. "Because we're family. Because we're sisters." And with that, Luna went back up the stairs with a single tear going down her face.
Inside the secret study room Celestia was seen with her back against the door and breathing heavily. Her mane covering her face as she shakily got up. She then started to walk towards the other end the room, stumbling a few times, before she was in front of the desk that was next to the chair she spent most of her time on recently.
She looked to one of the drawers and tried using her magic to open it, but the only response she got from her horn was it flickering like a bad light bulb and a few sparks coming out if it. Celestia sighed sadly as she instead used her mouth to open up the drawer and inside found a brown book with gold edges.
And the books title was…
THE BEST TEACHER IN THE WORLD.
Celestia looked at the book sadly before she used a hoof to gently pick it up and place it on the floor. And when she opened it, it was revealed to be scrapbook…
A scrapbook full of photo's of Celestia and Sunset Shimmer. Celestia looked at each single photo with a heavy heart. She remembered Sunset giving her this as a gift one day before she got her Cutie Mark.
Celestia turned the page to see even more photo's before sniffling and…
Celestia:
I remember when you were still little.
My Little One.
I was the giant who picked you up when you feel down.
And life was just one funny riddle.
My Little One.
We laughed every day as the world went around.
Celestia then found herself looking at a photo she took off herself and Sunset reading a magic book together.
Celestia:
I was the hero, who gave you a home.
I was the hero, that gave you some hope.
The Solar Princess then found tears coming out of her eyes as she struggled to keep singing.
Celestia:
And now everything I gave…I took away.
My Little One.
And when you needed me most…all I did…was push away.
Celestia then found herself nearing the end of the scrap book as she used her mane to catch any falling tears so they wouldn't stain the scrap book.
Celestia:
And now I'm no longer a hero…
My Little One.
Being your mom is far too good for me…
Celestia then reached the very last page of the scrap book that had a message written on it by Sunset.
For the mare that has given me everything I have.
For the mare that made me feel like I had worth.
For the mare that gave me the ability to smile.
For my hero.
Thank you so much Princess Celestia.
-Sunset Shimmer
Even more tears flowed out of the Sun Princess's eyes after she read that. But it was one thing she had noticed for the first time that completely broke her. In the corner of the last page of the book was the date Sunset had given her the book.
May 10th.
Mother's Day.
The scrap book was a Mother's Day gift.
After seeing this, Celestia completely broke down as she hugged the book tightly and kept it close to her chest and holding it like it was her lifeline and sobbed loudly.
"SUNSET!" Celestia cried out loudly. "I'M SO SORRY!"
Luna could now be seen flying across a field near Ponyville looking for the area where the Mane 6 had set up the party for their Friendiversery. Just then the Princess of the Night spotted an area that had tables filled with food and drinks as well as balloons and streamers being set up around the area.
"That must be it." Luna said as she changed her flight path to head towards the party area.
The Mane 6, Lincoln, and Spike were enjoying themselves at the party they all sat up and were currently just either dancing around her simply enjoying each other's company. Just then they heard the sound of wing flapping and with Rainbow Dash currently dancing around, they looked up and smiled to see Princess Luna approaching them.
"Hey Luna!" Everypony said in unison as they Night Princess landed in front of them.
"Hello everypony. I hope I'm not late." Luna said as she approached everypony with Lincoln walking up to her and holding two cups of punch.
"You're right on time." Lincoln said as he handed a cup to Luna who took it with her magic and happily took a drink from it.
"Alright! Let's get this party kicking!" Pinkie cheered as she suddenly pulled her party canon out of her mane and used it to fire a blast of confetti into the air.
Everypony laughed happily in response as Twilight sighed happily and said. "This is nice. I'm really glad we did this." Twilight said while looking to all her friends.
"Here! Here!" Everypony cheered in agreement.
"Ya know, I know I haven't been here that long, but so far, I've enjoyed being here with ya guys." Lincoln told everypony as they all smiled at him. Lincoln then raised up his cup and cheered. "No even more adventures!" Everypony cheered in agreement…when suddenly everything shook.
Everypony stomped and stood silent for a moment after that happened. It was a small shake, but it was noticeable. "You guys felt that to, right?" Rainbow Dash asked everypony with a confused expression.
RUMBLE!
"Ok, ah definitely felt that one." Applejack said as the earth shook more violently that time.
RUMBLE!
"What going on?" Fluttershy asked in a fearful tone.
As everypony started wondering what was going on, suddenly a bright blue light started shining in the sky. And then…
BOOM!
Suddenly, with a burst of energy…a portal opened up in the sky.
Everypony watched in amazement as a portal exactly the same as the one Twilight opened the day Lincoln came to Equestria opened up in the sky.
"Woah! Is-Is that?" Spike asked with confusion.
"A portal." Lincoln finished for him as he recognized the thing that brought him to this world.
"But…how did it open?" Luan asked with completely confusion in her voice.
Before anypony could answer, they watched as suddenly a blur came out of the portal and crash just a few yards away from them. And the second whatever the blur was came out, the portal quickly closed up.
Nopony brought any attention to the portal closing as they ran to what came out of it. "What was that?!" Twilight yelled as they approached the cloud of dust that appeared when the blur landed.
"Not sure…better stay back. There's no telling what it could be." Luna said with seriousness as she and Lincoln stepped up with the former readying her magic and the latter going for his wrist.
But just then, Lincoln's eyes widened when he heard a familiar voice coughing from inside the dust cloud. Just then his face turned to one of pure surprise as he saw an outline of someone through the dust. "Hold on…is that…"
Just then the dust completely cleared to reveal someone that made Lincoln silently gasp and for everypony else's eyes to widened and look up in surprise.
Standing before them was another human! And she was extremely tall standing at 7 feet and 6 inches. She had free flowing silver hair that went past her butt and she wore pink pearl earrings and had ocean blue eyes. She wore a short-sleeved azure blue tank top that showed off her belly and skintight short jeans. She had sparkly silver kitten heel shoes and long bronze colored socks that went halfway to her knees.
The girl coughed a few times before looking forward and gasping when she saw Lincoln. A giant smile came to her face as she loudly spoke up with her voice having a light Japanese accent.
"LINCOLN!"
"WENDY! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!"
Know how's that for a end chapter surprise :D. I've discussed this idea a lot with my friend Petrus and now I'm putting it into motion. So look forward to another character from Loud 10 coming into the pony-verse! So look forward to the next chapter...
"Wendy Yoroi"
