Hello Pony fans. And for those of you wondering, don't worry I'm still hard at work on the 2nd part of the Halloween special. Don't worry the next 2 parts will be up before the end of the month. But anyway, I want to make one thing clear, I've stated that I'm not doing every episode, but just because I don't do it doesn't mean the episode never happens, it just happens off screen, once again except for episodes that wouldn't make sense to happen given the things shown in this story such as Simple Ways. Like I said, I'm mainly gonna be doing episodes that either are important to the overall story, or that I really like along with the occasional OC chapter. And of course theirs the Equestria Girls arcs which I will be doing all the movies, specials (aside from Forgotten Friendship due to Wallflower befriending the group in the first EG arc) and even more. So with all that explained, I hope you enjoy the chapter


It's been two days since Wendy came to Equestria and to Ponyville and so far, things have been great. Wendy's incredibly positive attitude fit so well in with all the other ponies, and thanks to Lincoln, the ponies in town got used to her fast. However, they were still baffled by the silver haired girl's height.

And Wendy was possibly rivaling Pinkie Pie in pure happiness in positivity from being here. The entire Mane 6 and Lincoln had to restrain her from hugging every single pony she saw. And it didn't help that nearly everypony in town came to her welcome party Pinkie threw her to which Wendy saying Wendy enjoyed herself would be the understatement of the millennium.

And of course, she got along with Mane 6 really well. She was easily able to help with AJ's farm work due to her immense strength…although Applejack has to keep her from apple-bucking due to Wendy accidently uprooting a tree with a single kick.

While Fluttershy was still intimidated by her size, Wendy shown herself to be more of a gentle giant that sometimes doesn't know her own strength. So, the shy Pegasus was getting used to her.

Rarity, similar to Lincoln, quickly went to making cloths for the girl. Rarity found making cloths for humans to be a new and interesting challenging and Wendy proved no different. Especially due to the girl's height.

Rainbow Dash had plenty fun teasing Wendy and Lincoln about their relationship, but it was all in good fun. Plus, whenever Rainbow Dash tried to pull any jokes on them like zapping them with a small lighting cloud, Wendy's reflexes always won out in the end.

And with Twilight, Wendy wasn't kidding when she said she would discuss anime with Twilight. Thanks to Discord magic, who was there at Wendy's party doing…Discordy things, he made the devices Wendy brought her work with his magic similar to what he did with Lincolns phone.

And when Wendy showed Twilight…well…Lincoln found them the next morning having binged anime all night with no sleep. So needless to say, Wendy had gotten Twilight hooked on Japanese entertainment.

But that was then, this is now. And currently, Twilight was at her desk in her room of the Golden Oak Library with books surrounding her. Normally that would be a pretty basic Twilight thing to do, but Twilight had a clear thing she wanted to learn about in her books and so far, she wasn't finding any information about it in any of the books in her library.

Twilight had just finished going through another book and let out a frustrated growl as she picked up the book with her magic and tossed it across the room. And right on time for Spike to walk in with a feather duster and for the book to the hit the duster and causing all the feathers to fall off.

"What's wrong Twilight?" Spike asked as he fully came into the room.

Just then Lincoln poked his head inside and asked. "Still no leads huh?" The white-haired boy asked as he stepped fully inside the room.

Twilight sighed in irritation as she threw her hooves up in the air. "I've gone through every book in Ponyville guys, and there isn't a single mention of the mysterious chest that came from the Tree of Harmony, or anything about keys to unlock it. But something tells me that opening it is pretty important."

"Well mysterious chest coming from giant destiny tree would equal something at least a little bit important." Lincoln said with a smirk as he tried to calm Twilight down with some humor.

Twilight didn't response and flew up to a big wobbly stake of books and looked to Lincoln and Spike. "I just hope Princess Luna has some ideas. If the library in Canterlot doesn't have anything, I don't know where to look." Twilight said as she levitated the book from the top shelf up and took a brief look inside before putting it down.

However, this caused the already wobbly book tower to fall over. While Lincoln was able to step back in time, Spike wasn't so lucky and ended up being buried in books.

"Timber." Lincoln said with a chuckle.

Spike then poked his head out of the books he was buried in with Twilight levitating the book right on top of Spikes head. But when Twilight did this, Spikes cheeks suddenly puffed up as the young dragon let out a belch of green fire which turned into a scroll.

Twilight smiled and grabbed the scroll with her magic and opened it up and gave it a read. "Dear Twilight Sparkle, I have given some thought into the subject and I believe there is another place you will be more likely to find answers, and its much closer to Ponyville. As you know, that ancient castle that I once shared with my older sister lies mostly in the ruins deep in the Everfree Forest. But if you look carefully, you may find a book that could prove helpful in your research hidden somewhere in that left of the castle library."

"Well then its settled." Twilight said with an excited grin as she rolled up the scroll. She was more then excited to check out the library in the old castle, but Spike…not so much…

"Y-Y-You m-mean we're g-g-g-going to t-t-the o-old castle d-deep in the E-Everfree Forest." Spike asked with shaking and stuttering fearfully.

"Relax Spike, its just an old castle." Twilight said with reassurance as she walked out of her room with Spike and Lincoln following close behind.

"Yeah, and besides, thanks to living with my sister Lucy stuff like that doesn't really spook me anymore." Lincoln said as so far, the only thing that still manages to scare him to this day, and probably will forever, is his sister Lucy popping out of nowhere. Even after all these years and hero work, nothing gets him to scream more then Lucy's sudden appearance.

Spike gulped in fear as he asked. "H-Hey, w-where's Wendy?"

"With Rarity and Fluttershy." Lincoln answered as the three of them walked outside. "Rarity said she need their help for something."

"Enough chit chat boys." Twilight said as she looked back at them. "We got an ancient library to check out."

"Yes ma'am." Lincoln and Spike said in unison as they followed Twilight into the Everfree forest.

Much later, the three of them were now inside the old castle of the two sisters and Twilight let out a loud excited gasp as they found themselves in the castle's library. "Wow! Look at all these ancient books." Twilight said as she started flying around the room and looking at all the books. "It's veritable gold mine of information! I can't believe it! Woo-hoo!"

Lincoln and Spike stepped further into the room as they looked around the room with Lincoln noticing all the cracked stone, holes in the walls and ceiling, and of course the dust and cobwebs. "Sheesh, father of time went nuts on this place." The Loud boy commented with Twilight not hearing and simply continued to fanmare over the books.

Meanwhile Spike ended up walking through a spider web and tripping and found himself under a large broken statue of an Alicorn causing him to scream in fright. "Heh, heh. So, Twilight. Uh, ready to head home?" Spike asked as the old castle had already given him more then enough scares for the next year.

"Are you kidding? This place is perfect!" Twilight said as she already set up a pile of books with one of them open in front of her.

"Spike relax. Its just an old castle. It can't hurt you." Lincoln said as he looked to his arm and saw a spider crawling up it. "Just watch out for the spiders." Lincoln then swatted the spider off his arm.


A little bit away from the castle, none other than Rarity, Wendy, and Fluttershy walking through the Everfree forest and towards the castle of the two sisters. Fluttershy had also brought Angle Bunny with her and was currently perched on top of Wendy's head with Wendy holding Fluttershy in her arms like a stuffed animal. And give their location and where they were heading, Fluttershy didn't mind as being held by Wendy made the shy Pegasus feel a little safer.

Still, that didn't completely stop Fluttershy's worries. "Uh, Rarity, don't you think it's a little late in the day to be walking through the forest? It is Star Spider season, after all."

"Aaaw, don't worry Shy." Wendy reassured the Pegasus in her arms with her usual smile. "Everything will be fine. Although I am curious as to why you asked us out here with you Rarity. I figured you'd ask Applejack first."

"Well I actually did ask my darling Apple first, I'm afraid she was busy today with Rainbow Dash in some daring competition." Rarity said as she remembered Applejack telling her that she and Rainbow were competing to be the most Daring Pony today. "But I do have a good reason for bringing you two out here and it is simply thee most important reason I've ever had in my entire life."

"Oh! Well then we're happy to help!" Fluttershy said as she perked up a bit. "What is it?"

The three of them then walked out of the forest area and came across a bridge that led to a path leading to the Castle of the Two Sisters. "I've heard rumors that the Castle of the Two Sisters is filled with the most gorgeous of ancient tapestries in all of pony history." Rarity said as she started to walk across the bridge. "It pains me to think of those magnificent creations rotting away in those told ruins, totally unappreciated."

Fluttershy, Angel, and Wendy all looked to each other before giving Rarity a deadpanned look. "I see." Fluttershy said as the three of them followed Rarity.

"I require your two's help in borrowing one or two to bring back to the boutique where I can restore them. Maybe I'll even use the patterns as the inspiration for a new line." Rarity finished explained as she crossed the bridge and looked back at the three behind her with a big excited smile.

"I guess…that's important." Wendy slowly said as she, Fluttershy, and Angel gave Rarity an indifferent look.

"Yes, well, maybe not thee most important thing in my entire life, but the retro-ancient classical will be all the rage next season so its nothing to sneeze at." Rarity told them and as if on cue Angle hopped past Rarity with his ears tickling Rarity's nose making the Unicorn sneeze.

The three of them approached the castle causing Fluttershy to flinch as she back into Wendy as much as she could as the Japanese girl held her close. "Um, are you sure you need those tapestries?" Fluttershy asked in a fearful tone.

"But of course." Rarity insisted as she stepped forward. "Although, I must admit these ruins are a fright." However, Rarity's concern was less of the creepy appearance of the ruins and more of, "There's dirt everywhere." The dirt on her hooves.

Just then Angel Bunny hopped forwards inside the castle causing Fluttershy to gasp as she called out to her bunny. "Angel!" Fluttershy then freed herself when Wendy's arms as she ran after the bunny.

"Fluttershy! Wait!" Wendy yelled as she ran after the yellow Pegasus. Wendy had a bit of a…fear of old and creepy places such as this and having Fluttershy in her arms helped ease her a bit.

When the three were inside, Rarity gasped and looked up as two large tapestries depicting Luna and Celestia were right in front of them. "It's practically an artistic treasure trove of ancient taste!" Rarity said excitedly.

"H-Hehe, y-yeah. Really." Wendy said quietly as she took a look around the ruins of the castle causing a chill to go up her spine. It didn't help that the sun was starting to set.

Just then the three of them heard the sound of thumbing and looks to see Angel at one of the doorways in the room looking at the group and stomping his foot up and down impatiently. "Angel!" Fluttershy happily let out as she quickly ran to Angel and got to eye level with him. "You shouldn't run off like that. Ancient ruins are filled with all sorts of things that can hurt you."

Angel simply rolled his eyes as he gestured for Rarity to follow him to which the Unicorn did as Fluttershy listed off the potential dangers. "You could stub on your toe or trip on a loose stone. You have to be careful." Fluttershy was too busy talking that she failed to notice Wendy picking her back up and following Rarity and Angel.

Fluttershy then noticed what was going on and said. "O-Oh, we're going." But right as they left the room, they failed to notice Twilight, Spike, and Lincoln walking across the upper hallway with Twilight holding a candle opera.

"I don't think I'll need all these candles, Twilight." Spike said as he thought Twilight had the source of light to keep Spike from being afraid of the dark. "I was really only scared for a second."

"Plus, I can always turn into Heatblast if we need a light source." Lincoln said with his hands in his pockets.

"Oh, these aren't for you, Spike. We're going to be studying late into the night." Twilight explained before looking to Lincoln with a stern look. "And I don't want Heatblast anywhere near those books."

"Ok, ok, point taken." Lincoln surrendered with his hands up. "Although maybe you shouldn't do another all nighter. You and Wendy already spent her first night here staying up and binge watching Cowboy Bebop."

"It was worth it." Twilight said seriously. That was the first anime Wendy showed her and Twilight would gladly say she was already a huge fan.

"Well? Here we are!" A familiar country accent spoke as suddenly Applejack and Rainbow Dash entered the castle right as Twilight, Spike, and Lincoln left the main room.

The reason the two mares were there was because today Rainbow Dash and Applejack were having a contest of who is the most daring pony. The original tie breaker there were doing had to abruptly stopped and once Pinkie Pie, who was the score keeper of the events, left to go ring the school bell AJ thought of a different dare.

Whoever could stay the longest in the old castle would be crowned the most daring pony.

"What's so daring about this place?" Rainbow Dash asked with a confused tone. Rainbow Dash was expecting a little bit…more then just a dusty crumbling castle. "This is where we got the Elements of Harmony."

"When I was just a filly, Grannie Smith told me of an ancient legend." Applejack said as she walked up the stairs in front of them and looked down at Rainbow Dash. "When Nightmare Moon was banished, not every last bit of her dark magic went with her. Grannie used to say when night falls on the Castle, that magic takes the form of…THE PONY OF SHADOWS!"

"You mean like a…ghost?" Rainbow Dash asked in an uneasy tone.

"Nopony knows." Applejack said with a ghostly voice while waving her hooves around.

"Ugh." Rainbow Dash said with an eyeroll. The two of them then started walking forward as Rainbow stated. "I don't even believe in ghost."

But just then Applejack turned around and flinched in fright as she pointed a shaking hoof at the way. "You might wanna re-think your position on that."

Rainbow looked to where Applejack was pointing, and her eyes widened in fear as they saw a large tapestry of Princess Luna on the wall moving around with a strange lump in the middle of it. AJ and RB screamed in fright as they started running away, but just then lightning struck with Thunder being heard causing a shadow of a frightening figure to appear.

The two screamed again as the shadow disappeared. Applejack then turned to Rainbow and asked. "You saw that, right?"

"RUN!" Rainbow instantly replied as the two bolted out of the main room. But as the two left, they failed to see the wall with the tapestry suddenly turning around.


With Rarity, Wendy, and Angel, they watched the wall once again turned around with Fluttershy coming down from behind the tapestry and falling on her butt. "Ow, I think I hurt my wing." Fluttershy said as she looked at her right wing which was slightly bent.

Angel hopped up to Fluttershy and gently stroked the hurt wing and Wendy crouched down to Fluttershy and petting the Pegasus's back. She couldn't help it. These ponies are so soft and fluffy!

"Oh dear, I'm so sorry!" Rarity apologized to the Pegasus before looking up at the large tapestry. "That tapestry is far too heavy. We'll just have to find a smaller one."

"Oh, of course." Fluttershy said as she let Wendy pick her up.

"I could probably carry it, put it would be hard to take it down without damaging it more." Wendy said as she looked up at the tapestry before following Rarity.

Rarity then looked back at Fluttershy in Wendy's arms and asked. "By the way, where did you disappear to darling?"

"What do you mean?" Fluttershy asked with genuine confusion.

"You know, when the wall spun around when you went behind the tapestry." Wendy said as she pointed behind her and at the wall. "It must be some sort of secret door."

"Oh, I'm sorry." Fluttershy apologized.

"I bet these ruins are chocked full of them." Rarity stated while looking around the hallway.

"Yeah, if Indiana Jones has taught me anything, it's that ancient places are always filled with booby traps." Wendy said in a frightened tone while holding Fluttershy a little tighter and making the Pegasus squeak. "We just need to watch out ste-"

"AAAAAAAAAHHH!" All the girls screamed as suddenly a trap door went off under them and making them fall.

The one who activating the trap was Angel who accidently hopped onto a tile that activated the door. Angel took his foot off the tile making the door on the floor close with Angel putting on a nervous look and hopping away.


Back with Twilight, Spike, and Lincoln, the former two were sitting at the long table going through the old book while the latter was randomly pulling on books on the shelf. Twilight finally pulled her muzzle away from the book and gave Lincoln a confused look and asked. "What are you doing?"

"Look for a secret passageway or something." Lincoln said as he pulled out a random book. "Places like these always have some sort of secret entrance or something like that."

"KInda cliché don't you think?" Spike asked as he set the book he was reading down. "And couldn't you just turn into one of your aliens with intangibility?"

"Where's the fun in that?" Lincoln asked as he pulled out another book.

Spike rolled his eyes, but then watched as half opened book suddenly moved in front of him. Spike screamed in fright and backed up against his chair causing it to lean back and a clicking sound to be heard.

Just then Angle Bunny hopped onto the table from under book with Twilight giving the rabbit a confused look. "Angel, what are you doing here?"

"Uh guys, you might wanna look at this." Lincoln said as he backed away from the bookshelf as it started shaking. Twilight, Spike, and Angel looked to see the two-bookshelf split apart from each other, extinguishing the candles and revealing a secret room behind them.

The three equestrians mouth gaped a bit at the site as Lincoln looked to Spike with a smirk and said. "Cliché huh?"

Spike rolled his eyes as he and Twilight got up from their chairs. "That doesn't make me wrong." The young dragon grumbled as Twilight gasped.

The secret room appeared to be some sort of bedroom with a glass panel of the sun and one of the moon at the back of it. Some pillows scattered around and a single bookshelf and a bed. And in the very middle of the room was a small wooden pedestal with a book on it.

Twilight quickly walked up to it and read the title. "The Journal of the Two Sisters." Twilight gave an excited gasp as she grabbed the book with her magic and laid down on one of the pillows in the room and opened the book and set it in front of her with Angel hopping onto Twilight back. "Maybe this is the book Princess Luna was talking about!"

Spike was still a little frightened as he walked into the room while Lincoln shrugged and reached into his pocket. "Well, have fun with that. I'm gonna go look around the castle." Lincoln said as Twilight, Spike, and Angel watch the white-haired human take a folded up lap sack out of his pocket.

"Uuuuh, what's with the sack?" Spike asked while scratching his head.

"It's my lootin sack. I'm gonna go lootin." Lincoln explained as he threw the empty sack over his shoulder.

"Ok, but…why?" Twilight asked with a confused tone.

"Come on, this is an ancient castle. There's gotta be a bunch of cool artifacts right before the taking!" Lincoln said as he rubbed his hands together. "Might find some good souvenirs for my family."

"Alright." Twilight said with a shrug. "Have fun."

"Peace!" Lincoln said as walked away while making a peace sign.


Currently, Applejack and Rainbow Dash were heading down a spiral staircase, well Applejack was heading down while Rainbow was floating down, and both giving challenging claims to each other about not being afraid of anything in the castle. But they quickly shut up when they reached the bottom and saw the hallway that was in front of them.

"H-Hey, what's the matter?" Rainbow Dash said as she struggled to keep her composure. "It's just a dark hallway full of disembodied pony legs." Sure enough, the walls in the hallway were aligned with torch holders that took the shape of pony legs and creating a rather unsettling sight.

"Yeah…" Applejack said with a shiver as she pressed her hat down on her head with Rainbow Dash covering her face with her wings as they started walking forward. "Nothing creepy about that."

As the two were going down the hallway, suddenly Rainbow Dash felt something touch her. At first Rainbow flinched, but then the Pegasus smirked and looked to the side. "Applejack, if you're scared, you can just admit it. If you put your hoof around me like that Rarity's gonna start getting jealous."

"Uh…I'm over here." Applejack said from a couple yards away from Rainbow Dash while waving to the Pegasus. Rainbow Dash's eyes widened as she looked to the wall next to her and saw a hole in it with a white hoof sticking out of it and wrapping itself around the blue Pegasus.

Rainbow Dash and Applejack screeched in fright as they quickly ran away as fast as they could. As they left, the hoof quickly retreated back into the hall. And then…

Crack…

Suddenly the part of the wall with the hole in it cracked.

Crack!

Suddenly the cracks got bigger as the wall started shaking.

CRACK!

The whole section of the wall was cracked now.

SMASH!

Finally the wall coming falling apart with the parts of the wall flying apart and scattering everywhere. When the dust from the wall smashing cleared, it showed Rarity, Fluttershy, and Rarity in a secret room behind the wall with Wendy having been the one who broke down the wall.

"Thank you, Wendy." Fluttershy thanked as she stepped out of the room and quickly started to look for Angel.

"No problem. It was getting stuffy in there." Wendy said as the room they were in was rather on the small side. Especially for someone like Wendy.

"Well, I don't know about you two, but I think I've had enough trap doors, and secret rooms from the this unappreciative castle." Rarity said as she brushed some dust out of her mane and started walking away.

"But we can't leave yet!" Fluttershy said as she ran in front of Rarity. "Not with Angel lost somewhere in this dangerous old castle. He could be trapped under a crumbling statue or stuck high in a tower without food or water or any friends at all!"

Once she was finished, Fluttershy started sobbing with her eyes filling up with tears. Wendy was quick to wrap the Pegasus up in a hug and comfort her. "Don't worry Fluttershy. Everything will be ok. We'll help you find Angel." Wendy then looked to Rarity with a stern expression. "Right?"

Rarity sighed quietly in response and nodded her head. "Yes, darling. We'd be happy to help." Rarity said as suddenly Fluttershy wrapped her up in a hug.

"Oh, thank you!" Fluttershy quickly said before running down the hallway. "Don't worry Angel! We'll rescue you!"


"I'm insane but on my toes. I could keep the world balanced on my nose. I had had a slumber party wit all my foes. Now I wear 'em like a badge of honor all my cloths." Lincoln sung as he twirled around his lootin sack. The Loud boy currently had his headphones in and was listening to music as he was looking around for anything in the old castle with taking.

Just then Lincoln's eyes widened as he found himself in a hall filled with suits of pony armor. "Woah, creepy." Lincoln commented as he slowly walked through the halls and inspected each suit of armor. They were dust and some parts had a few cracks in them, but other then that they were perfectly salvageable.

Just then Lincoln found himself in front of a suit of armor meant for a Unicorn that was completely pitch black in color. "Woah, Lucy would love this." Lincoln said as he reached out and grabbed the helmet of the armor and put it in the sack. Lincoln then looked at the remaining armor and how it was now headless.

The white-haired boy chuckled to himself as he said. "Hey, it's the headless horse-man!"

'Congratulations Lincoln. The cleverest thing you've said all day and no one was around to hear it.'

"D'oh!" Lincoln grunted to himself in response to what his mind told him. Lincoln then simply sighed and shrugged and went down the hallway and went down the stairs at the end.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!"

Lincoln stopped as he swore, he heard some faint screams in the backround. He took out his left headphone and listened around for a moment before shrugging and putting it back in. "Probably just my imagination." Lincoln told himself.


"HEADLESS PONY!" Rainbow Dash yelled as she and Applejack saw the shadow of a headless pony when they went into the armor room. Not just that, but suddenly the sound of an organ went off and before the Pegasus knew it, the orange farm pony disappeared.

Rainbow Dash quickly balled up in the corner and started shaking. "A-A-A-Applejack, i-i-i-if y-you w-w-went b-back to P-Ponyville th-that m-means I-I win r-r-r-right?" Rainbow Dash asked with a heavy stutter.


"Rarity? Rarity?" Fluttershy and Wendy asked in unison as suddenly, as they were looking for Angel Bunny, Rarity found some small sun and moon tapestry's she just had to restore and when neither of them was looking, the Unicorn disappeared.

"I know hiding isn't really your sense of humor, but please let his be a joke!" Fluttershy fearfully begged as she and Wendy stuck close together. Just then Wendy slowly reached a finger out to the moon throne where they last saw Rarity and when she poked it…

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!" Both girls shrieked as they held onto each other tightly as the second Wendy tapped the throne an organ blast echoed throughout the room.


"Courage will GIMME GIMMER POWER! POWER UP! POWER! POWER! Sparkling with a brilliant glow! Cause when you run ahead, you look like a HERO!" Lincoln sung as he continued looking around the castle for cool stuff.

So far he's found a few more thing along with the helmet. He found an old shield, an old painting of a field, and an intact jar with no cracks. And if anything got damaged while inside the bag, he could always go clockwork and fix it.

Lincoln stopped walking for a second and looked inside the sack and smiled at what he had. "Hmmm, maybe I should get a few more things before I go ba-AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!" Suddenly a trap door opened up under Lincoln and before he knew it, the white-haired human was on a slide going down into a deeper part of the castle.

Luckily Lincoln kept hold onto his lootin sack and didn't lose a single item. Lincoln soon found himself on the bottom of the slide and got up and rubbed his butt and winced a bit. "Ok…trapdoor in an ancient castle…probably should have been expecting that."

Lincoln then looked back up and saw the door that opened up beneath him close. The Loud boy putting his hand to his chin in though and said. "I could just go Big Chill and get back up there…or I could look around and see what this room has to offer."

Lincoln decided to go with the latter option but then quickly realized that he couldn't see a dang thing right now. The room he was in was completely pitch black. So, Lincoln simply set down his sack, activated the Ultimatrix and transformed into…

"Heatblast!" The pyronite called out as his entire body provided light to the room. Heatblast then looked around and saw a torch on the wall. The transformed alien aimed his finger at the torch and fired a small fireball at the torch and lit it.

Once the torch was lit, Heatblast turned back into Lincoln and picked up the torch and his sack. "Let there be light." Lincoln said as he went forward down the hall.

As he went down, Lincoln was able to tell that this must have been the castle dungeon. There were rusty bars everywhere he turned, old moldy beds and buckets which were probably used for…business matters.

Just then Lincoln flinched as he stepped on something that made a crunching sound and hesitantly looked down to see what he stepped on. Lincoln quickly stepped back and let out a short scream when he saw that what he stepped on was a pony skull. "Uh…sorry…whoever you were." Lincoln said as he carefully stepped around the already smashed skull.

Lincoln was starting to regret checking this place out. There was nothing note worthy in here and it was just plain disturbing with unsettling quietness, rats and bugs crawling around, foul smells and a few bones here and there

And right as Lincoln was about to simply head back up, he suddenly ran into a wall. He backed up and put a hand to the wall…and felt something on it. "What the?" Lincoln questioned as he felt around and touched what felt like words on the wall. Lincoln looked around and found more torches on the wall where the words were and quickly started spreading the fire from the torch in his hand to the torches on the walls. Once they were all lit, Lincoln backed up and saw that the text was all over the wall. However, it seemed to be some sort of ancient pony language, so he had no idea what it said.

But he had something that could translate it.

"Ultimatrix." Lincoln said as he brought the device up to his face. "Activate universal translator."

"Universal translator activated." The Ultimatrix said in response to Lincoln's command.

"See if you can translate the text on the wall here." Lincoln said as the core popped up from the Ultimatrix.

"Affirmative. Beginning scan." A green beam that came out of the Ultimatrix's core and started scanning the ancient text from the very top to the bottom. Once down, the core of the Ultimatrix went back down. "Scan complete." A green hologram text box then appeared from the core of the alien device.

Now Lincoln could read it. "The tension between the three tribes was calming down thanks to the treaty. The unicorn's chief daughter was to marry the son of the chief of Pegasus as well as the son to the Earth Pony leader."

"Good old fashion polyamory." Lincoln said with an eyeroll before going back to reading. "But the daughter was not happy for her heart belonged to a common Pegasus. In secret, the two would meet and would share their love for each other. But on the day the Unicorn was to marry the two sons of the other tribes' leaders, she had a dance with each of her suitors and felt nothing but follow emptiness from being with them."

"But the Pegasus the unicorn was in love with was able to make it to the celebration and got to dance with his true love. When the two danced, it was completely magical for both of them. Despite everyone looking and the Unicorns father demanding his daughter stop, they did no such thing."

"There dancing was perfectly in sync, that something unseen by pony kind happened right there and then. Suddenly before the three tribes very eyes did they see the two souls become one. Outraged, the leaders of the three tribes demanded they cease this. But true love won this battle as the Unicorn and Pegasus left while truly together, never to be seen again.

"The tension between the three tribes rose higher than it ever had before…and then…winter came."

Once Lincoln was finished reading, the text box disappeared, and Lincoln put on a confused look. "Well that was very…strange. Guess I know why the three tribes weren't exactly best buds now." Lincoln said as he remembered Twilight telling him during a pony history session about how the three different types of ponies used to be in conflict before the founding of Equestria.

Although there was one line in there that had Lincoln really confused. "Two souls became one?" The white-haired human quoted as he put his hand to his chin in thought. "Wonder what that means?"

Just then Lincoln's eye twitched as a shimmer of light hit it. But it was a light from the fire. Lincoln looked to the side and saw a crack in the wall to the left that had a golden light shining from inside. "Now what do we have here?" Lincoln asked himself as he stepped closer to the wall with the crack.

Lincoln tried to peak through the crack but couldn't see a thing. The crack was so thin that only light could go peak through. "Alright, plan B." Lincoln said with a smirk. "Bust through!"

Lincoln then set down his lootin sack and activated the Ultimatrix. Once he found the alien he wanted, Lincoln slammed down the core and was covered in an emerald flash. In Lincolns place was an alien that resembled a rooster and a hawk. He had sharp black claws on his toes and talons on his hands as well as two larger talons protruding from his arms. He also had a short yellow beak and had brown feathers all over his and a white-brown mohawk and belly. He wore an orange mask, belt, and white striped and black shorts. He also had an orange strap vert with the Ultimatrix on the vest hooker.

"Kickin Hawk!" The transform Loud-Boy announced followed by an eagle cry. Kickin Hawk cracked his neck as he looked at the crack on the wall and cracked his neck and smirked. "Alright wall, this is gonna hurt you a lot more than me."

Kickin Hawk then got into a fighting position and reared his right leg back as far as he could in a roundhouse position and-

SMASH!

With a single kick, Kickin Hawk completely broke down the wall. A secret room was revealed and, "Wooooooah!" Kickin Hawk said in amazement as he just found a room filled with gold, gems, paintings, and a whole bunch of other valuable items.

"Secret treasure room in the dungeon. Very clever." Kicikn Hawk said as he grabbed his lootin sack and walked inside the treasure room.


Things were currently not going well for Applejack, Rainbow, Rarity, Fluttershy and Wendy. They had all ended up back into each other in the main room without even knowing it was each other and due to this, they all ended getting quite the fright.

Rainbow started flying around and bumping into walls which caused a large tapestry to fall on top of Rarity. Applejack ended up running into a colume causing it to fall down on a pile of rocks Fluttershy thought was angle due to a lightning flash making a shadow of what looked like Angel coming from the rocks, and Wendy also ran into a wall causing a pile of rubble to fall onto her.

"Woah. What got into them?"

If they weren't busy freaking out, they could see that looking down at them from the upperpart of the main room was Twilight, Spike, and Angel Bunny. Twilight watched as Applejack and Rainbow ran and flew around respectively while freaking out with Rarity and Fluttershy sobbing and Wendy screaming under the pile of rocks she was under.

"All right. Everypony stop!" Twilight yelled as she used her magic to grab the four ponies in front of her and making them freeze in place. Meanwhile Wendy just poked up head out of the rubble she was under and easily freed herself once Twilight's voice calmed her down.

"Twilight?" Applejack asked in confusion to why the purple Alicorn was here.

"Must. Save. Ange-" Fluttershy was saying, but when she looked to Twilight she saw none other then her beloved Angel Bunny hope up to the stone fence above and wave an ear at her. "Oh."

"Fluttershy? Wendy?" Rainbow asked with confusion as she looked down at the two. "What are you two doing here?"

"They're with me!" Rarity said in response.

"Rarity!" Applejack said at hearing the voice of her marefriends.

"Applejack! Oh I've never been happier to hear you darling!" Rarity said with joy. She'd be even happier if she could see Applejack but the tapestry was still over her.

Twilight then released everypony from her magic while lifting the tapestry off Rarity with Spike and Angel coming down. Fluttershy quickly went over to Angel as Rarity and Applejack quickly clung into each other. "Have you all been here all night running around scaring each other?" Twilight asked as everypony looked to her.

"Well, that depends." Applejack answered, unsure of the answer herself.

"On what?" Twilight asked.

"Hey Twilight, I'm back!" Everyone heard a familiar voice said with Wendy in particular shoot up from the rubble completely and looking at where the voice came from.

Everypony looked to see Lincoln coming into the room and dragging his lootin sack behind him which was stuffed full of stuff. Lincoln then looked around at everypony in the room and asked. "Hey what are you guys doing here?"

"LINCOLN!" Wendy yelled as she suddenly jumped on top of her boyfriend and wrapped him up into a tight hug and refused to let go.

"O-Ok! Wendy! I'm here!" Lincoln quickly reassured his girlfriend as she hugged him tighter. "ACK! TO TIGHT!"

Just then they all heard an organ go off causing Wendy to hold Lincoln even tighter and for the 5 of the Mane 6 and Spike to huddle around Twilight in fright. "It's the Pony of Shadows!" Rainbow Dash screamed in fright.

"T-T-T-The P-Pony of Sh-Shadows?" Spike stuttered out in fear.

"Come on, let's see if that's really true." Twilight said as she started walking towards the source of the organ with the other refusing to let go of her. Plus Wendy was following behind while holding Lincoln close to her.

Soon, everypony found a room with a giant pipe organ in hit…and somepony playing it. They couldn't be seen due to the cloak they had on, but it gave them a ghastly appearance. Everypony gasped as Twilight whispered. "The Pony of Shadows."

"Come on, let's go show we ain't afraid of no ghost." Lincoln said as he and Twilight started stepping towards the cloaked figured with everypony else watching from behind the doorway. Lincoln got ready to use the Ultimatrix as Twilight approached the figure and used her magic to remove the cloak and-

"PINKIE PIE!" Everypony yelled in unison as it turned out to be none other then everyone's favorite 4th wall breaking pony playing the organ.

"Oh hey guys!" Pinkie greeted as she turned to her friends. "Did you know I can play the organ? Because I didn't."

Everypony's eyes twitched as Pinkie started playing a baseball stadium theme on the organ. "You're the Pony of Shadows?!" Rainbow Dash yelled as she flew up to her pink friend.

"The pony of what?" Pinkie asked with a completely naivety.

"Well, that was anti-climactic." Lincoln said with a blank tone and face as Wendy came up behind him.

"But ah thought you had to ring the school bell all week." Applejack asked as the reason Pinkie had to leave her position as score keeper for her and Rainbow's competition was because Pinkie volunteered to be the pony to ring the school bell.

"Oh yeah, I only had to ring for like 5 minutes." Pinkie explained as she kept playing the organ. "They said that was good enough. Don't know why though."

"I can take a guess." Wendy said with a smirk as an image of Pinkie repeating ringing the bell from the inside with her head came into her mind.

Rainbow Dash and Twilight rolled their eyes as Pinkie kept talking. "And so I decided to throw a Finished Ringing the School Bell party, but I didn't have any bluebells and you can't throw a Finished Ringer the School Bell party without bluebells so I went to Everfree forest to pick some, but it started to get so chilly I had to wrap myself up in the tarp I was going to use to carry the flowers. And then I saw Fluttershy, Wendy, and Rarity, but they went into the castle before I could invite them to my party. Luckily, I followed them inside so I could help you all with your party."

"Uuuuuh, what party?" Lincoln said as his mind was currently spinning a bit from Pinkie's lengthy explanation.

"Uh, the Everypony Come to the Scary Old Castle and Hide From Each Other While I play the Organ Party." Pinkie said like it was obvious before hitting a key on the organ. The result was a springboard going of under Spike and launching the Dragon to the back of the room.

"Duh!" Pinkie said before she started bouncing away.


Later, everypony was now in the secret room where Twilight found the journal. Twilight was sitting in a chair reading the journal with Spike reading a different book next to her. Applejack was cuddling next to the Rarity as the Unicorn was sewing a small tapestry of Luna back together with Rainbow Dash flying beside them and smirking at Applejack. Fluttershy was nuzzling Angel Bunny with Lincoln showing Wendy the stuff he found in the castle that he put in his lootin sake. And Pinkie was just bouncing around happily.

"I swear this is going right back where I found it as soon as I've returned it to its former glory." Rarity stated as she focused on sewing.

Applejack gave her marefriend a smirk and said. "Uh-huh. Sure ya will. Isn't that what you said when I asked you to fix ma old foal-blanket?"

Rarity's froze as her cheeks slowly turned red. "Hehehe…w-well, um, it helps me fall asleep." Rarity quietly admitted as Applejack rolled her eyes and gave Rarity a loving nuzzle.

"Now don't go running off again." Fluttershy told Angel. "Ooh. I can't believe I was so frightened. I guess I let my imagination get the best of me."

"Eh, places like this do that to ya." Lincoln explained while sitting on Wendy's lap. "Fear is easy to take control of your brain and make you see and hear things that aren't there. Trust me, my sister Lucy has learned to weaponize that."

"I…don't even wanna ask." Rainbow Dash stated as Lincoln gave her a gesture that said 'good call.'

"I always let my imagination run away from me." Pinkie Pie said as she stopped bouncing. "Then it comes back with cake."

"And anything else made of sugar." Wendy joked as Pinkie licked her lips in response.

"Well, it's good to know that whenever your imagination is getting away from you, a good friend can help you rein it in." Twilight said with everypony nodding agreement.

"I completely agree." Wendy said as she rubbed her cheek against Lincoln's making the Loud boy chuckle and blush.

"And you know, even if I didn't find anything about the mysterious chest, I'm glad I was here to help all of you." Twilight finished off after Wendy's reply.

"You certainly did that, Twilight." Rarity said with her and Applejack nodding.

"Except me." Lincoln said as he patted his lootin sack. "I just went lootin."

"By the way, how come you weren't scared Twilight?" Rainbow Dash asked while pointing a hoof towards the Alicorn.

"Reading the diary made it hard to be afraid." Twilight stated as she closed the journal. "Because I learned what it was like when the two sisters lived here. Knowing something about the past made it easier to deal with my problems in the present, even the scary ones."

Everypony muttered in agreement with the exception of Lincoln and Wendy who simply sighed and looked down. "And yet, we never seem to get used to Lucy's antics." Wendy muttered with Lincoln nodded in response.

Just then Twilight's eyes lit up as something came to her. "I just thought of a great idea!" Twilight said as she stood up with everypony looking to her. "Why don't we keep a journal? Just like the Royal Pony Sisters?"

"Sounds interesting." Lincoln said as the idea did intrigue him a bit.

"All of us?" Fluttershy questioned.

"Sure! That way can learn from each other." Twilight explained as she walked towards her friends. "And maybe someday other ponies will read it and learn something too."

"What a splendid idea!" Rarity quickly agreed.

"Yeah!" Wendy said with sparkles in her eyes. "That sounds like a lot of fun."

"I know what mah first entry will be." Applejack said with a small smile. "Dear Diary, I'm glad Grannie Smith's legend wasn't true."

"Me too." Rainbow agreed while raising up a hoof.

"Me three!" Pinkie said as she bounced up high. "Because that means you two are still tied for Most Daring Pony!" The response Pinkie got was Applejack and Rainbow sending each other challenging looks right into the other ponies' eyes.

As this happened, Lincoln snickered to himself, but he got lost in his thoughts again. 'Still…what did that writing downstairs mean?' As Lincoln thought this, lightning and thunder was seen and heard from outside as the group simply decided to spend the night in the old castle, enjoying each other's company.


I had a lot of fun with this. This episode was one of my favorites from season 4. I just love those episodes in shows where the characters are all in the same place but they have no idea each other are there. It leads to a lot of funny scenario's. Well, remember to follow, fav, and review and stay tuned for the next chapter which is gonna have some interesting changes from canon...

"Flight to the Finish"