Pokémon and Ponies

#12-Stop the Grand Design

Underneath the ground below a tree, Malamar's plans are a go. By using its dark psychic powers, it merged the unicorn mane, the dragon fang, piece of Darkrai and Element of Magic together. By mixing them all, birthed something new to both worlds and existence.

It had the base of a crown, obviously from the element of magic, and a dark aura that surrounded it, being Darkrai's DNA. It was hard as the dragon fang that was apart of it and it had magic infused in it due to the mane. Malamar placed this new ominous crown on its head. Now that it had a unicorn apart of it, magic is now in its hands. And with the books that it stole from Twilight's library, who knows where it'll start.

But the best place to start, to Malamar anyways, is minions. If he's going to take over the world, he can't do it alone despite his newfound power. Malamar flew upwards, now gaining the ability to go through walls, grounds etc thanks to the piece of Darkrai. It looked around as it spotted some bug type pokemon. Normally, bug types aren't the strongest breed of Pokemon, but with this crown, they could be. Malamar sunk back into his base, using psychic on the books to hide them deep behind a cluster of rocks. No evidence must be visible to others. He went back up to the surface, flying towards the bug types and using hypnosis on all of them.

At Ponyville, things were quiet and going well. Pokemon, people and ponies are just genuinely having a good time. However, Twilight, Ash and the gang were still looking for Malamar. But no luck.

"This is taking forever! How are we ever gonna find this Mallet Mall?" Pinkie said.

"Malamar." Applejack corrected her.

"Malamar's sometimes go for secret bases. They don't usually hang out wide in the open." Ash said. All of a sudden, constant buzzing noises could be heard. Not only that but large shadows were looming over Ponyville. Multiple of them. Everypony, human and pokemon turned to where this buzzing was all coming from.. and that's when they saw something overwhelming.

A swarm of bugs upon bugs had emerged, countless of them. Each of different pokemon species. From Parasect, Kricketot, Burmy, Beedrill and Nincada. So many of them were here. And they were seemingly forming a dome shape.

"What's up with all those bug types?!" A woman said, being shocked by the overwhelming amount of them. The bugs had covered all of Ponyville by forming a dome, sealing it.

"They've domed us all in shut?" Rainbow Dash said.

"What's going on? Why are the bugs doing this all of a sudden?" Twilight rejoined. As they were all panicking by being domed in, Malamar phased through the bugs, revealing himself. And not only that, speaking to them via telepathy. Much more heightened telepathy than it usually had.

"Hello there, lesser beings." Malamar started.

"Malamar! Of course, you'd be behind this..."

"Correct you are. I the prominent Malamar had gained a power greater than your feeble little minds can comprehend. Which makes my plan for world domination much, much more undisturbed."

"By using bugs? Pretty lame if you ask me!" Scootaloo yelled out.

"Hush now, child. I don't expect a farm animal to know the true embryonic potential of bug types.

"Farm animal?!" Scootaloo and everypony did not take kindly to what Malar just said.

"Who do you think you are Scoundrel?!" Rarity yelled at him.

"I am the soon to be overlord.. of not just this world.. but both worlds. Not even that harrowing rift can stop my predetermined rule."

"GAH! You're just using big words!" Pinkie Pie said, not understanding some of the fancier words he was spouting out.

"Worry not my little peasants. I will let you all live as servants to my quintessential empire. But if any of you cretins dare try and contravene.." Malamar had called upon the poison dark pokemon Drapion and a Scizor. Two of some of the most intimidating and powerful bug types out there. "Then these two will gladly take pleasure in either embitter your bodies or just macerate you with hard steel. Drapion pointed its deadly tail at a little filly as Scizor intimidated everypony else with its scissor-like hands.

"Now then. You will all stay here whilst I conquer everything else. If they try anything foolish, then you can dispatch them of their existences." Malamar floated away as the bug types kept watch.

"What do we do..?" Applejack said quietly, while still having Drapion and Scizor eye everyone of them down.

"Well, first we have to get past those two." Twilight silently responded. Drapion and Scizor were not going to move a bit, so getting past them would be a struggle. A distraction was needed. Twilight looked at Pinkie, nodding at her. Pinkie Pie knew what she had to do.

"Hey, you two!" She called out both of them. They both turned to her, ready to attack. "Are you sure you wanna just stand here, watching everypony awkwardly? Why not pass the time with some fun!" Pinkie Pie got out a cupcake, smoothing it onto Drapion's eyes. "This is cherry-flavoured! You'll love it!"

"DRAAPION!" Drapion screamed due to all that cake in his eyes. Scizor reacted to this, going for a slam on Pinkie, however, the pink pony moved out of the way as Scizor slammed Drapion on the head instead. Drapion screamed in pain as it moved around in a frenzy, having frantic movements. Scizor flew back as he was wide open.

"Pikachu! Thunderbolt!" Ash told Pikachu to let out a quick thunderbolt as it struck the Scizor. Scizor recovered from this, flying down and using fury cutter to take out the electric mouse.

"Iron Tail!" Pikachu countered with its iron tail, clashing with the hard steel pincers that Scizor had. "Now you all can make a path!"

"Just what we like to hear! Applejack and every other pony attempted to run through the bug types but were stopped suddenly as they felt like they hit a hard metal wall. "OW! What in tarnation..?!"

"We can't get through! Why not?" A pony asked. A male human looked at the bug type closely, putting his hands on them as he felt that metal texture.

"Its harden! All these Pokemon are using harden!" He said. "They'll barely budge if there's not enough force."

"We'll make force then!" Applejack said, getting ready to kick all the bugs away with all her strength.

"Wait! We don't wanna hurt the little guys do we?" Fluttershy asked, pleading they don't hurt the bug pokemon.

"Yes!" Applejack replied instantly as she let out a strong buck to the bug wall. Her hooves hit the hardened bugs as a clanging sound was made. Applejack felt her body shake from this, but in return, she managed to slightly budge one of them. Even if it was just a group of Metapod. "Gah! It ain't enough!"

"If all of them are as hard as metal, it'll take forever for us to even most past 10 of them," Twilight said. With these immovable bugs, it seemed like they would be trapped for ages. Pikachu and Scizor were still going at it as Scizor caught Pikachu's tail.

"Pikachu!" Ash cried out. Scizor tossed Pikachu upwards! Flying up to deliver a finishing blow. "Pikachu! Block it with Iron Tail!" Pikachu put its tail up, as Scizor slammed both its hard pincers down on Pikachu's tail. Pikachu felt the impact of it as he was sent rocketing back down to the ground. Pikachu got back up as the Scizor was looking down on it.

In the meanwhile, the others were still trying to find a way to break through the bug dome.

"There has to be something!" Twilight said. Applejack kept kicking and kicking and kicking but was making extremely slow progress. All of a sudden some humans stepped up help.

"We can help you. We can help break through this dome with our Pokemon."

"Oh thank Celestia. Please!" Twilight was relieved.

"Herdier! Giga Impact!"

"Poliwhirl! Bubble Beam!"

"Leafeon! Magic leaf."

Each human commanded their own pokemon to help break through the bug wall. Everyone was putting in a team effort as some unicorns joined, assisting to help break out of this dome. Twilight saw all of this and could now see that humans, pokemon and people can work together in the tightest spots as well.

"You all.."

"No time to get all sappy and sentimental Twilight! Help!" Applejack said, snapping her out of it.

"Oh right!" Twilight had pitched in, using as much as magic as she could to help everypony. Outside of the dome, the only thing that hasn't been caged in by bugs was Zecora's hut. And she and Team Rocket were overlooking this. "Is that a dome of bugs I see? They've caged in Ponyville, we must set them free." She said.

"Look at those bug types! That's a buffet of em!" Meowth pointed at the immense number of them.

"There have to be at least one billion bugs in one side of it," James replied.

"Getting close.. to all those bugs... EEEK!" Jessie couldn't handle the fact of all those bugs in one spot. Who knows how many of them there are.

"Team Rocket your help is required if you don't mind. To save Ponyville from this bug bind."

"Don't you worry your striped sides. We've got the perfect way to break through that bunch of bounded bug beasties." Meowth said as he got out a controller, pressing the nice round red button on it. Out of the ground, near Zecora's hut emerged a giant mecha that was modelled after a Garbordor. "Introducing the Giga Garbordor! This baby can pull in anything in its line of sight. Acting as the perfect pokemon picker. All those bugs will be in there, no sweat."

"Wow," Zecora said. Not even rhyming. The three of them jumped into the mecha, ready to set out." Meowth said to the two of them, making sure that Zecora wouldn't hear.

"With a bonus, we'll have billions upon billions of bug types in our disposal. And by chance, we might snag some pokemon in there. They won't notice, since there are too many bugs. With an even bigger bonus of ponies! We'll be pocketing pokemon and ponies in no time."

"I think the boss won't be a fan of bugs," James replied.

"But any Pokemon is better than no Pokemon," Jessie said.

"You're right!" The mecha walked onwards, heading towards the dome. Pikachu had luckily backed Scizor into a corner overwhelming it. Fluttershy who was helping to try and budge the bug dome saw this and knew that she couldn't resist helping the Scizor realise its mistakes. Fluttershy flew in, stopping the two of them from fighting.

"Wait!"

"Fluttershy?" Ash said.

"Pika-chu?"

"This is just like what happened with Darkrai and the Weaviles remember? These poor Pokemon are just being taken advantage of and being controlled by horrible folks."

"Yeah, that's true. And Malamar's are masters of mind control. But we still have to find a way out of here. They're pretty aggressive ya know." Ash said. Scizor didn't look like it wanted to stop at all. The mind control that was put on it and the other bug types by Malamar was strong. It would take more than just reasoning to stop them.

"Fine.. just.. please don't hurt them too much okay?" Fluttershy pleaded.

"You got it. Alright, Pikachu! We're gonna have to go wild on this one!"

"Pika!" As the two were ready to amp it up, the Drapion who still had cupcakes in its eyes was still moving about screaming.

"Pikachu! 1000 Thunderbolts!" Pikachu charged up more electricity this time, letting out he force of 1000 volts, that not only struck Scizor but also Drapion. The two of them were knocked out by the thunderbolt, leaving the big threat out of the way. As everypony and pokemon were helping to break free, they could hear some sort of metallic sound closing in. Footsteps actually.

"What is that?" Rarity said. Giga Garbodor had arrived.

"Activating Super Swallow!" Meowth pushed a lever, making the mech open up a huge hole. A strong suction had begun pulling in the bug type pokemon. They were all separated as the dome they formed had fallen apart due to a huge amount of missing members. They were entering the mech, however, due to their now hardened bodies and the amount of them, it was getting tough for the mech to even sustain them.

"Holy Moly! What's with all this weight! I thought bugs were supposed to be light and frail!" Meowth yelled.

"No wonder they were able to keep up that dome!" Jessie replied. The mech was getting overflown as it couldn't stop pulling them in, along with ponies and pokemon.

"Meowth turn it off!" James cried out.

"Too much! Can't turn it off!" Meowth was pushing the lever as much as he could but it was too late. All of that weight inside had caused the mech to blow up. The bugs were fine due to their hard bodies and the ponies and pokemon as well because the bugs went first. So they were shielded. As the mech was destroyed, Team Rocket was sent flying upwards.

"Talk about a bust. And it looked promising too." Jessie sulked.

"Look on the bright side. This is the first in this new world of horses." Meowth responded.

"Very true. This beats being launched in a new region. So you know what to say.." James said.

"We're blasting off again!"

"Wobbuffet!" They all said, flying off into the skies as all that was left was a twinkle. However, all that suction from Team Rocket had come in handy. Everypony was free from the dome.

"I have no idea what just happened. But I'll take it." Rainbow Dash said.

"No time for celebration. We have to find Malamar quick. Where could he be this time?" Twilight pondered.

"He said he's gonna dominate the world.. then the first place he'd go to would be.." Rarity said, hoping Twilight would know the answer.

"Canterlot!"

And Malamar had arrived at Canterlot Arriving before the guards who had prepared themselves against Malamar.

"Oh put your pathetic toys away." Malamar used psychically to lift their weapons off their hooves, sending them away. "I would make you my minions but you're too much of cannon fodder. I need a bigger force." Malamar had knocked out all the guards with a powerful Psywave that spread across the entire castle and even Cantertown, sending all the ponies there into a knocked out state. Malamar flew upwards, heading towards the big pony herself.

He arrived, entering the throne room of Celestia. She already knew Malamar was coming, so she was prepared.

"Hello, Princess."

"You are the one they call Malamar."

"Correct. But the soon to be term is Overlord Malamar. And that throne you're sitting on. That will be mine among many others."

"You would dare come here and claim yourself to be the ruler."

"Is it not discernible? A being of my calibre, stature and intellect is more fit to rule against a mere barn animal with wings and a silly horn."

Celestia didn't take kindly to this. Malamar's attitude was getting to her. Not only that but Luna was here as well, ready to help her sister.

"Oh, I see you have your sister with you. How pathetic that you would easily forgive her after what she did. I know of the story."

"She was only taken over by a dark force. It was not her fault."

"Oh, that's what siblings say to protect their other half's gruelling past. Who knows. I may be able to bring out that same destructive force that lies deep within her.. and make it much more potent."

"How dare thou threaten us like this?" Luna retorted. The three stared down with each other as it was about to get a bit destructive.

Malamar facing off against the two sisters in their throne room. With its heightened power thanks to its newfound crown, it was more than confident that it could win.

Malamar made the first move with a straight Psybeam, however, it was promptly countered by a beam of magic from Celestia's horn. Both beams were in a struggle, as Celestia was pushing Malamar's back. Malamar was surprised by how she was winning this.

"Impossible! I have the combined power of various things including magic! How am I losing this?!"

"You can't handle magic, can you? It's all new to you. What you don't understand, you fear!" Celestia overpowered him, knocking Malamar away as he fell to the ground. "What was that about being Overlord? Want us to put you back in the ocean, squid?" That was Celestia's rebuttal to Malamar calling her a barn animal earlier. Malamar was aggravated. He thought he'd easily wipe the floor with her. But it was clear that his newfound power was not as grand as he thought. Or at least, it wasn't yet.

"This is not over yet, Princess. I have more than just this crown." Malamar smirked as he used Topsy-Turvy to swap the angle of the entire throne room. This gave him time to act as he used Psychic to lift the two of them. This didn't last as both Celestia and Luna broke out of the psychic with ease. Malamar was shocked as it then released another Psybeam. Luna pushed it back herself this time, knocking him down again. Malamar was obviously being overpowered. The sisters were on another level compared to him.

"If I were you, I'd just give up now," Celestia said.

"Curse you princesses! In fact.." Malamar flew up, tapping into Darkrai's DNA as it unleashed a dark void towards the two. They both moved away from the void as it sunk through the floor like acid. Celestia and Luna both fired magic rays at Malamar who had then put up a light screen. The rays hit the light screen, reflecting from it as they bounced around the throne room. Malamar then used Darkrai's phasing ability to sink through the floor.

"Where did he go?" Celestia wondered. Malamar had a shadow on the floor as it snuck up behind the two sisters. Malamar rose from the ground, preparing to unleash a night slash, however, Luna noticed this, putting up a shield to stop the night slash.

"How annoying!" Malamar was not making any progress as he flew back a bit. "It is clear that I am outmatched. You two live up to your names as Princesses of Equestria. However.. this won't stop me. All I have to do is get you two out of the way and I have no threats left."

"Funny since you can't even make us budge." Celestia mocked him.

"I don't need to make you budge to win!" Malamar had a mad look in his eyes as he had used the bit of the dragon fang in the crow, unleashing a dragon pulse from his mouth. The devastating pulse of draconic energy hit the floor beneath them, causing a shockwave of draconic energy to emerge as the entire throne room floor was annihilated. Celestia and Luna were both blown out of the castle as Malamar watched them fall out.

"Hm-hm yes! The power of a dragon never fails!" This didn't stop the two of them as the sisters had both recovered flying in the air. "Such persistence. Not many can withstand a dragon pulse in my world. But I suppose this isn't my world."

"Luna. Hold him there." Celestia said to her sister. Luna cast a magic bubble around Malamar, trapping him in it. Malamar attempted to break free by using its sharp-edged fins to hit the bubble. Before Celestia could do anything, Malamar took advantage of the phasing ability moving out of it.

"Thank you, Darkrai for having such a useful ability only ghost types usually have." Malamar had to think. The sisters would not let their guard down and if he was to get a good clean hit in.. he'd need a distraction. How fitting of a pokemon who would do whatever it takes to gain victory. So out of nowhere, Malamar fired a huge dragon pulse downwards onto Cantertown, where the ponies there were still unconscious from the Psywave. Luna and Celestia gasped, rushing down to save them all from getting blown to bits by the dragon pulse. All according to Malamar's plan. Now they were wide open due to their love for the ponies.

"Kind-hearted fools." As the dragon pulse was being released from his mouth, from his fins, he tossed out two dark voids, courtesy of Darkrai's DNA. Celestia and Luna had saved them all by combining their magic beams to push the dragon pulse away, however, the dark voids came from above, hitting them from the back and entrapping them into a deep sleep.

"Haha! Now that the princesses are out of the way and in a deep sleep of an eternal nightmare.. my plans for world domination and role as a leader are still intact." Malamar floated upwards to the now destroyed throne room. As the two sisters were out in a deep sleep, Luna was able to barely move despite being hit by the dark void. Her time fighting nightmares gave her resistance to this.

"Now then. Let us begin by having a change of place. But first. I'll need some minions. And of course, who better than the princesses. Malamar looked down on them. Its hypnosis is mostly useful when it comes to mind control but considering how powerful those two are. He'll need much greater hypnosis than he has now.

With the Mane 6, Ash and Pikachu they were waiting for a train to Canterlot to hope that everything is okay.

"Come on come on. What's taking the train so long?!" Pinkie Pie yelled, losing patience.

"This is wasting too much time! I'd better go on ahead." Rainbow Dash insisted that she fly to Canterlot. But she didn't want to leave her friends behind though.

"You go on ahead Rainbow Dash. We'll catch up to you." Twilight was okay with this as long as somepony could check up on Canterlot. Rainbow Dash nodded in response as she immediately took off. Ash thought for a minute, gaining an idea that would hopefully help.

"I got it.. I'll be back! You guys get there as fast as you can!"

"Ash, darling! Where are you going?!"

"Don't worry! I have a great idea! Pikachu. You stay with them and give them all the help they can get." Ash told his best friend to stay and help the girls.

"Pikachu!" Pikachu nodded, knowing that his buddy would be okay. Ash ran off to set his idea in motion. As the boy ran further, he looked up in the sky where the rift would normally be.

"Rift! Can you hear me?! I wanna talk to you!" This was the first time someone was calling for the rift. Never had it happened to it before? The rift appeared before Ash, obviously curious as to what he wanted to talk about.

"What is it, boy?"

"You already know about the whole Malamar situation that's kinda going on right now, don't you?"

"Of course. Its got me riled up. I wonder how it'll turn out.."

"Well, I need a favour. I want you to send me back home to Pallet Town. Connect it to here if you can." He asked.

"Hmm.. alright. I want to see how this all turns out." The rift granted Ash's request, creating a gateway from Pallet Town to right near the train station.

"Okay. Thanks!" Ash walked through the gateway as the rift had then left, back to its realm where it dwells.

Rainbow Dash was zooming along with the skies, heading towards Canterlot as she could see the castle nearby.

"Awesome! Hold on every pony! Hope I'm not too late!" Rainbow Dash kicked up speed as she was closing in, however in the distance, she could see Celestia and Luna floating there. With their eyes and pupils being hollow. "Princesses! Boy am I gl-" She was promptly stopped as the two of them froze her in place by holding her with magic. Rainbow Dash was confused. She didn't know what was going on.

And that's when Malamar showed up, looking at her.

"Hello there. We have a multicoloured menace here."

"You slimy little.."

"Oh hush now. As you can see your princesses look a bit odd don't they? That is because they and soon everyone else will be under my control. Of course... I only intend to keep these two under my control, since they are the most powerful. The rest are just fodder to me. That includes you. Dump her in the work chambers. Celestia and Luna, under Malamar's orders, had carried Rainbow Dash down to Cantertown where Malamar had set up a work chamber in a few minutes thanks to psychic. Down there, ponies would be forced to work, however, due to them being unconscious at the moment still, they have yet to realise what is about to happen. Rainbow Dash looked at this in disgust.

"Oh my.."

Pallet Town... Day.

Delia was inside her home, relaxing and watching the news on how ponies are now apart of this world. Ash had entered the house, surprised to see him back. Usually, when he's gone off, it takes a long time for him to come back.

"Oh, Ash. You're back. Guess you didn't go missing after all."

"Hey, mom! I gotta talk to Professor Oak quickly!"

"Alright." She didn't mind as it was normal for Ash to be apart of frantic situations even if she didn't know what he was doing, it was not normal that's for sure. Ash had got on his pc, left by his father. Turning it on he got in contact with the great Samuel Oak himself.

"Morning Ash. How have you been?"

"Hey, professor. I've been great! Look, I'm kinda in a hurry so..can I have some of my Pokemon back. I need to help some friends as fast as I can."

"Well sure. Who would you like to bring?"

"I need someone with speed. So I'll take Staraptor! And Sceptile for good measure!"

"Okay then. I'll send them over to you. Oh and Ash. If you wouldn't mind I'd like to see a pony for myself soon. If you know any." Oak wanted to really see the ponies face to face for himself but he was kinda busy with a few things.

"I will! I'll bring my friends over here once everything's done." The pokeballs had come through the pc, landing on Ash's lap. "Thanks, professor!" He picked them up, shutting off the PC and he was ready to help his friends.

"Bye, mom!"

"Bye Ash." She replied as her son rushed out, entering the other side.

"Alright. Staraptor! Come on out!" Ash tossed his Pokeball, sending out Staraptor. Possibly his 3rd fastest pokemon ever.

"Staraptor!" The Predator Pokemon was here.

"Staraptor. I need your help. I'll tell you where to fly to.

"Star!" Staraptor nodded as his partner jumped on his back, flying off to help his new friends.

The train was also on the move. With Twilight pacing back and forth, in a bit of a panic.

"Twilight calm down. We'll make it there." Fluttershy said trying to calm her friend down.

"Calm down?! I can't! Who knows what's happening at Canterlot right now. The worst possible scenario could be going on! And we don't know what Pokemon are capable of since they can do everything from breathing fire, fly, teleport, mind control, release lightning sorts of things! How can I stay calm?!"

"She has a point ya know. These things aren't from our world to remember. Why does little Applins on my farm breathe out some blue fire out of a barrel-like it was nothing." Applejack agreed with her.

"Darling. don't worry. We're all in this together. We've faced dangerous foes before. We can handle this as well." Rarity reassured her fellow unicorn.

"You're right. Thanks, girls." As the train kept moving on Malamar had already done some redecorating. Banners were put up with his face on them. Everything from the colour of the kingdom was changed to his liking. Matching his colour scheme that is. Celestia and Luna standing beside him as well as his right hands.

"Excellent. I want this.. colourful place to look more fetching. And oh... what's this?" Malamar could sense other ponies headed towards Canterlot with his psychic prowess. "It seems that they actually decided to come here and stop me. From that distance as well. Ponies sure are persistent. But like I will let those mares get in my way." Malamar grinned with a devious smile on his face. He knew they were coming. So he had time to prepare.

Staraptor and Ash weren't too far away from Canterlot, only behind the train by 7 minutes. As the train had finally come to a stop, the mane 6, Spike and Pikachu hopped off, ready to head inside Canterlot, until they noticed that something was different. A statue of Malamar could be seen from high up due to how tall it was. His immense psychic power helped him to build that statue in no time.

"What the..? When did THIS happen?" Twilight said, confused.

"Not only that. Look!" Applejack pointed at how the streets of Cantertown were barren. Nopony insight. That's when the sound of Malamar had reached their head, via telepathy even if he was a certain distance away from them.

"Well hello, there my little ponies."

"Malamar! What have you done?! Where is everypony?!"

"Oh fret not Twilight Sparkle. Everypony is currently going under a sort of change as of now. These streets and buildings will be full of all those ponies once more.. obviously underneath my rule. Do not worry. All of you will not be excluded from my empire. Once I reach Ponyville next. And then, I'll conquer every other part of your world."

"You barbarian! You think you're capable of doing all of that?!"

"Oh but I can Rarity. A being of my prominence can. And only me. To give you all some company, the princesses will lead you to the rest of the equines." Celestia and Luna appeared above them still under the might hypnosis.

"Princess Celestia. Princess Luna.." Twilight looked up at the now controlled Princesses' as they had lifted them all from the ground with magic.

"Take them to everypony else. In the meantime, I have more rearranging to do."

"What do we do?! We can't retaliate against the princesses! Its madness!" Pinkie yelled out.

"I don't know! I can't break free from both their magic either!" Twilight replied. Pikachu knew what he had to do. It wasn't going to be pretty and he didn't want to do it but there was no other choice.

"PIka..chuuu!" He let out a jolt of the thunderbolt that had struck both sisters, breaking their magic concentration. They had stopped carrying them all, however, they started to fall. They were screaming as Fluttershy managed to recover, but she wasn't fast enough to chase down after her friends. That is until Rainbow Dash came, swooping in and saving them as fast as she could, sending them all down on the ground.

"Rainbow Dash!" They all said in unison.

"That's me!" She replied.

"Thank goodness. We're so glad you're okay." Fluttershy said.

"It was nothing. I managed to sneak out of that chamber. But you should see what's going on down there. Its messed up."

It wasn't over yet though. Celestia and Luna were still here. Despite Pikachu's thunderbolt dealing a good hit on them to slow the two of them down for a bit, it wasn't enough to put them down.

"Malamar's got the princesses totally under his control. And he's making everypony work in a chamber." Rainbow explained.

"So he kept only the sisters since they're the highest of them all and kept the lower ones underneath the chamber," Twilight said.

"How can he be so cruel?" Fluttershy replied. All of a sudden, a combination of both sisters magic beams were sent towards the group. Pikachu jumped in, using his thunderbolt to push them back.

"We need to go now! Everypony to the chambers!" Twilight commanded as they all took off. Pikachu did the holding back, by repeatedly pushing back beams with his thunderbolts. They chased the group through buildings and such, tearing them down as they would not stop. Celestia had closed in going to strike her horn down on them. Pikachu had countered by using his iron tail to clash with hers.

As Pikachu was holding her back, Luna had zoomed past him, heading for the rest.

"Pika?!" Pikachu turned around and lost focus as Celestia knocked him away with her horn.

"Pikachu!" Fluttershy turned around seeing her fellow yellow buddy getting hurt.

"Fluttershy! We have to keep moving!" Rarity pulled Fluttershy, just in time as Luna almost got a clean hit on her. Pikachu stood up as Celestia looked down on the electric mouse. She was ready to blast him, however, the little guy was nimble enough to run underneath her. She turned around, firing a magic beam that Pikachu barely managed to dodge.

Celestia's head was hurting as it was clear that she was fighting back the hypnosis. It was difficult but a piece of her was still in there trying. Pikachu saw her guard down as she took this opportunity to let an electroweb out, trapping her in it. Pikachu ran ahead as Celestia was trying to break free from the web.

Meanwhile, in the skies, Staraptor and Ash had arrived. They were high enough to see where Malamar was since the throne room hadn't been remade yet and he was out in the open.

"There! Malamar!"

"Oh. Look who it is. A boy who doesn't know any better."

Ash jumped off Staraptor, landing down on the floor of the now destroyed throne room.

"Come to save your friends? Really you should just kneel before me. Like how every being else shall."

"Pssh. You wish. Like I'd knee to some guy like you."

"Hoho. Typically for someone like you to be so stubborn. Once your little pony friends.. every single of them are enslaved.. then you and every other human and pokemon back in our world will be under my control. And perhaps... if I can go further... I can harness the power of the rift.. and conquer other worlds!"

"Is that all you care about? World domination?"

"No Ashy boy. I've come to a realisation... With all this potential power at my side... it shall be universal domination! Even space will not be safe from my reign."

"That's why I'm going to stop you here and now. No one in the world wants someone like you to rule over them! Staraptor! Aerial Ace!" Staraptor came flying down towards Malamar who had used Psychic to send the bird pokemon back.

"Useless. How can you beat someone like me? When I have all the psychic power in the world now!" Malamar lifted both of them, launching them out of the throne room.

"Aaaah!" Ash screamed as his trusty flying pokemon saved him. "Thanks, Staraptor! Get in close! I have an idea!" Staraptor headed towards the overturning pokemon once more as Malamar just smirked all the way through. Ash jumped off Staraptor, lunging himself at Malamar.

"What a little kid." Malamar was prepared to use psychically to catch him once more, however in came Staraptor, using close combat on Malamar with its talons. Pushing him back gave Ash the chance to run past him. "Staraptor! Keep him busy for me!"

"Star!" Staraptor flew around Malamar to make sure he couldn't catch him. All Malamar needed was one good psychic to seal the deal.

With Malamar being distracted, Ash ran around the castle, seeing nopony insight.

"Man, this place is deserted. What happened?" As Ash was running he saw a shadow of pony nearby. He stopped to get a good look to see who it was.

Reunited. His friends had made it up here as they were looking for the chamber.

"Guys!" Ash called out.

"Ash!"

"Pika-Pi!"

"Oh, man. Am I glad to see you? This place was starting to creep me out." Pikachu ran back to Ash hugging his partner.

"It shouldn't creep you out. That jerk Malamar totally changed things up to make himself look cool." Pinkie said.

"And the princesses are under his control. Along with every other pony working underneath a chamber. That's where we're headed. But wait.. how did you get past Malamar?" Twilight asked.

"My other pokemon pal Staraptor has it covered. In the meantime, where is this chamber?"

"Rainbow's trying to lead us there. But she only came out through a hole instead of the main entrance." Fluttershy explained.

"Don't worry. Once we find it, we'll round up every pony and-" Before Applejack could finish her sentence, Staraptor was sent flying, crashing into the walls of the castle as he fell.

"Staraptor!" Ash yelled, seeing his friend hurt. Malamar appeared with purple psychic energy just surrounding him with such destructive and malicious force.

"That settles that with the bird. Now then.." Luna had appeared beside Malamar still under his control along with Celestia who had just broken free from the Electroweb. "Do you still believe you can defeat me?"

Malamar had such a large advantage. With the princesses on his side and everpony else in the chambers, even the number difference didn't matter.

"Well I'd say the odds are stacked against you. In terms of power anyways. Your ragtag group of ponies is no match for the combined might of alicorns and my wonderful psychic draconic powers."

"Oh for goodness sakes, do you always have to boast about yourself?" Rarity was getting tired of all his ego being blurted out of him.

"We've got both strength and numbers on our side, Malamar." Ash said as he got out a pokeball with Sceptile in it.

"Hm. Sure boy. Celestia. Luna. Chain them up. They wont be working under me due to how.. irritating they are proving themselves to be." Celestia and Luna followed his orders as they began tearing the floor apart by moving it with magic. The entire floor was ripped apart as they all started falling.

"Sceptile! Help!" Ash tossed his Pokeball as Sceptile had emerged.

"Sceptile!" The forest pokemon said. Rainbow and Fluttershy caught Rarity and Applejack while Sceptile used vines to grab onto Ash, Twilight, Pikachu, Staraptor and Pinkie Pie. The huge debris from the floor fell down to the lower levels of the castle as there were chunks everywhere. All of them had safely landed down as the two controlled sisters looked down on the group.

They came further down as Twilight and Luna's heads were twitching.

"T-Twilight.." Celestia said suddenly.

"Princess Celestia!"

"Listen. Me and Luna are close to breaking free of this mind control.. but I don't know how much longer its going to take. If you can, do your best to avoid us until we break free."

"Right Princess! You can count on us!"

"Good.." Celestia's short time of gaining consiousness was gone as she instantly released a magic beam at the group, grazing Rarity's hair.

"Sceptile! Don't hurt the princesses too much! Use Leaf Blade!" Luna and Celestia both struck their horns forward as Sceptile used leaf blade to block them. "Twilight! Everyone! I can keep the princesses busy until they snap out of it. You all go and find everypony else. Oh so that's what it feels like to say it."

"Alright. Come on girls!"

"Be careful Ash!" Fluttershy said.

"I got this! Alright Sceptile! Keep holding them back if you can!" Sceptile was doing its best to hold them back. He was putting up a good fight, but he was starting to get overwhelmed a bit. "Pikachu! Use thunderbolt on Malamar!"

Pikachu released a thunderbolt upwards as Malamar easily avoided it. The overturning Pokemon teleported to Ash, grabbing him with his fins.

"Nice try. But if y-" Malamar was interrupted by Pikachu who knocked him back with an iron tail to the head. "Oof!"

"You talk too much! Electroweb!" Pikachu let out his electroweb as it encased Malamar in, shocking him in the process. Malamar broke free from this by using Darkrai's phasing ability. He then charged up a dragon pulse, ready to blast the two.

"Thunderbolt!" Both the pulse and bolt met as they cancelled each other out. Smoke was in Malamar's way, blocking his sight of them. Sceptile had managed to push Luna back but was struggling against Celestia. Celestia's attacks were starting to wittle down. The hypnosis was losing its strength.

"Where are you, boy?" Malamar said looking for Ash in the smoke.

"Right here!" Ash revealed himself as he was holding Sceptile's Pokeball, making Malamar think he was going to catch him and that it was just unused pokeball. Malamar had used psychic to stop Ash from apparently capturing him.

"Hah. Capture me? Like I'd let you."

"Heh. I'm just the diversion."

"Hm?" Malamar turned around as was met with a devastating thunderbolt. This time Pikachu didn't stop firing it as it was left to shock Malamar. Malamar screamed as Ash was dropped. Luna had broken free of the hypnosis first, regaining her consiousness.

"Where are we?" She said, holding her head in confusion.

Celestia was next as she also managed to break free from the hypnosis, giving Sceptile time to breathe.

"Finally. We broke free. Thank you Ash."

"No problem, Celestia!"

"We can take Malamar from here."

"But what if he controls you two again?"

"He only managed to control us because he put us in a deep sleep and then had some sort of hypnosis to control us. We won't let that happen again." Malamar had recovered from the thunderbolt, still feeling the jolts from it though.

"How frustrating!" With his anger building up, he whacked Pikachu away with his sharp fins as Sceptile caught Pikachu. "You are all botching my plans! Get lost!" Malamar began firing a frantic dragon pulse as it was going all over the place with no sense of direction. The castle was falling apart due to all of this. The paitings on the walls were being destroyed as well. Malamar had lost his cool.

"Sister! To the Elements!" Celestia pushed Malamar back as the two sisters flew off to find and retrieve the Elements of Harmony.

Twilight and the gang had kept moving on as they had finally found the main entrace to the chamber. Deep below the castle.

"Everypony's in there for sure." Rainbow Dash said.

"Stand back ya'll." Applejack turned around as she bucked the door down with ease. Once that door was kicked down, the first thing they saw were ponies who were under Malamar's control as well. They were mindlessly walking out of the chamber, obviously off to do Malamar's bidding.

"What is this?!" Rarity screamed.

"Malamar's got them ALL under his control!" Rainbow replied. The swarm of ponies had budged past the girls and spike like they weren't even there, pushing them aside in the process.

"Their minds are completely devoid of thought. I don't think they're strong enough to fight it off like Celestia and Luna." Twilight explained to them.

"Well then how are we gonna get them out of that hypnosis stuff?" Spike asked. The ponies all walked up the stairs in unison with no signs of stopping at all costs. However, surprising to not just them but the mane 6 as well, they could feel everything falling apart. Malamar's rage was tearing the castle into pieces one by one.

"It sounds like insanity up there." Rarity said as small debris were falling from above.

"We can't stay around here for too long! We'll have to carry everypony out in the meanwhile!" Twilight said, preparing to user her magic. However even she couldn't teleport that many ponies out.

"No way Twilight! Thats one too many to teleport! We gotta find another way!" Rainbow Dash stopped here. Just then, from above, a huge hole was created by the dragon pulse above them everypony. And from above, fell Sceptile who managed to save himself by using a vine to grab onto the edge.

All the way at the top, the frustrated Malamar was still letting loose.

"This dragon pulse is gonna bring the entire place down! And that means Twilight and everypony else will be crushed!"

"As they deserve to be! It won't be too much of a loss. I'll just find another population of ponies to ensalve. The ones here are just dust in the wind! Along with you and troublesome pokemon!"

Celestia and Luna opened the chest that contained the elements of harmony... however one was missing. The element of magic. The one that Malamar had stolen and had made the base for his crown.

"The Element of Magic.. Its gone!" Luna said as both her and her sister were shocked to find out that there were only 5.

"Then the 6th one is.." Celestia turned around, noticing that the crown that Malamar had was similar to the Element of Magic's crown. Only difference being is that the base of the crown has dragon scales all over it. "So that explains a few things. Luna. We have to get that crown of off him. Before he realises just how powerful it can really be with the other elements." Her sister nodded in response. The new plan was to remove the corrupt crown.

Malamar spun around as his sharp fins were cutting apart the walls itself. Ash had protected Pikachu and the still injured Staraptor from getting hit by the debris as Malamar saw this as an oppurtunity to strike. However, that was promptly stopped by Celestia and Luna restraining the dark psychic pokemon.

"Accursed Princesses!" He yelled out in anger, trying to break free from the magic.

"Ash! Help us get that crown off of him!" Luna yelled.

"The crown.." Ash looked at the crown on Malamar's head. Knowing what he must do. "Pikachu! Iron Tail!" Pikachu jumped up, swinging its iron tail towards the crown. It landed however it wasn't enough to get it off. However, the iron tail managed to leave a crack in the crown, which actually helped a lot. The mind control on the ponies on the lower ground was dwindling due to the crown being damaged and Malamar's hypnosis wearing off due to how much he's being weakened during the battle.

"No good! Sceptile! Leaf Blade! Pikachu! Iron Tail!" Sceptile jumped back up from the hole as both him and Pikachu struck their two up close and personal attacks onto the crown. Celestia and Luna kept holding Malamar there, not letting for one second. Malamar couldn't phase through it with Darkrai's dna since the magic wasn't physical. Pikachu and Sceptile kept attacking the crown, breakign it apart. The hard scales of the dragon fang made it a durable thing, but thanks to Iron Tail it could dent it.

"This can't be happening! I won't allow it!" Malamar began focusing as hard as he could, sending a pulse of darkness around the magic field he was contained in. It pushed the two alicorns back a bit but not by much, but it did push Pikachu and Sceptile back more.

Twilight and the gang saw the battle from the hole upstairs, seeing how much they were all struggling to stop Malamar.

"We don't have much time! Everypony still won't move fast enough!" Twilight was beginning to panic. She didn't want the ponies of Canterlot to be crushed underneath all the rubble, but the hypnosis made them as slow as a turtle. But what they didn't know was that the crown being damaged meant that the hypnosis was wearing off. And like that.. a few ponies actually managed to be freed of the hypnosis.

"Oh my.. what was I doing?" A unicorn said.

"I don't remember a thing... are we in the castle right now?" Another unicorn retorted.

"They're breaking free of the hypnosis.. Its wearing off!" Fluttershy said with a smile on her face. They could all feel the shaking and rumbling of the conflict upstairs as they took a minute to realise where they really are.

"Everything is falling apart! Run!" The ponies who were free of hypnosis ran off, aiming to get out of here as fast as they can. And with one final hit from Iron Tail and Leaf Blade, the crown had not only been knocked off, but it was split in half too.

"NO!" Malamar yelled in anger as the crown dropped the ground. Celestia quickly picked up the crown as she saw the damage done to it.

"Its been damaged. But the gem inside is still intact. That's all that matters." Luna let Malamar down as the 6 elements surrounded the two sisters. Malamar turned around to see the circling elements obviously saying that his doom was upon him.

"I won't go down like this!" Malamar used the rest of his own strength by using psychic on the element of kindness, sending it aside.

"You dirty little-" Luna's eyes twitched on how cheap Malamar played.

"I don't play fair, missy! Dark types never play fair!" And with a mighty dark pulse he dealt the finishing blow to the castle as it finally all came crashing down. Luckily most ponies who had broken free of the mind control had escaped out into the city, so no one underneath was hurt. Celestia and Luna flew up, avoiding the tumbling castle as Ash held onto Pikachu and Staraptor and Sceptile holding them close. Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Applejack and Spike had escaped but Twilight was the last one behind.

"Hurry Twilight!" Rainbow cried out. Where Twilight was standing had been demolished, as the purple pony fell from atop. She began screaming as Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy attempted to fly in and save her. But there was too much in their way. All the huge debris falling from above was blocking them from their friend.

"TWILIGHT!" Ash saw this as he jumped down to risk his own life just to save a friend. All the ponies gasped at this as Pikachu's eyes widened. Ash caught Twilight luckily but they were still falling down.

"ASH YOU IDIOT!" Twilight yelled at him.

"I can't let a friend go down like this!" He replied. To save both their friends, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy gave it more than just 100%. Everypony moved away from the huge falling debris that crashed on the ground as Rainbow charged through the rubble just to reach them. Staraptor had recovered to a good enough state to fly downwards to save his trainer. Sceptile held Pikachu close with his vines as Malamar just watched this ensue. He began laughing, knowing that two potential threats would be gone from this world forever.

"Haha! Serves you right!"

What he didn't know was that Celestia and Luna had already retrieved the element of kindness back and had fully charged up all the magic. And with one single shot, they fired the signature rainbow beam towards Malamar. Malamar turned around, noticing the light, however he couldn't react fast enough. And with that, the elements struck him.

"NOOOOOOOO! Ma-MALAMAR!" Malamar screamed in defeat. The only thing he could say was his pokemon name since the leftover power of the crown had faded away. His entire body turned to stone completely. He fell into a lake, with his stone body sinking deep down. That was Malamar's defeat.

As Ash held Twilight close, Rainbow and Fluttershy managed to save them both along with Staraptor who knocked away any debris from hitting them with close combat.

"Staraptor!"

"Fluttershy! Rainbow!" Saved. They landed down safely on the ground with no harm being done. And with that.. Disaster Averted.

"Everypony began cheering in joy as all that chaos was finally over. Ash let out a sigh of relief along with Twilight. Pikachu ran towards his trainer, giving him a hug as he was so glad he was okay and not smushed on the ground.

"That was risky Ash!" Twilight yelled at Ash, giving him mouth for that crazy stunt he did.

"Heh. I've done worse. Besides. I couldn't let you fall ya know."

"Oh you.."

"I'm just glad its all over!" Rarity hugged Twilight along with Spike and the rest of the girls. Staraptor joined in on the friendly hug as Sceptile just stood back and watched. Celestia and Luna decided to come down and congratulate them all for helping save Canterlot. Even if most of the castle has been absolutely obliterated. Everypony bowed down to them, respecting their presence.

"Ash Ketchum. Twilight Sparkle. All of you. Against all odds you helped prevent the mad conquering of not just our world but other worlds by stopping Malamar. Not only that, but Ash. You showed a selfless act by putting your own life on the line just to save a friend."

"Ah geez. Thanks. But ya know you helped too. Defeating Malamar and all." Ash retorted.

"Hehh. Yeah we did." Celestia and Luna got a bit cocky since they were proud that they dealt the finishing blow on Malamar. But they had every right to be.

"I'm just glad everypony's safe and sound from all of this." Fluttershy said.

"And I'm sorry if my world has guys like that around, Celestia and Luna."

"You don't have to apologise for anything Ash. There will always be darkness around every corner. No world is perfect and pure. But isn't that why we're here to help and save others?" Celestia said to brighten his and everypony's spirits up. Everypony nodded in response to this.

"Now then. A celebration is needed don't you think Pinkie Pie?" Luna said to Pinkie.

"Of course! We'll make it huge! But uh..one problem." Pinkie pointed at the now destroyed Canterlot Castle.

"Oh right." Luna replied.

"No need to worry! We still have Ponyville don't we?"

"Pikachu!" Pikachu agreed with his partner.

"Of course. A celebration in Ponyville it is then!" Everypony cheered on as it all finally came to an end.

Hours passed as the party in Ponyville was going well. Celestia looked over the gateway from this world and the pokemon. Curious. Ash and Pikachu walked out to see her looking in the distance.

"Ash. Pikachu."

"Yeah Celestia?"

"If I may.. hope I'm not being a bother. I want to see your world."

"Really?!"

"Yes. A whole new world is just waiting across that rift. I may be a princess.. but I love to have fun too."

"Well of course! You can visit our world any time! You'll love it!"

"PIka-Pikachu!"

"Thank you Ash. And thank you for helping save everypony else."

"No problem. To be honest, compared to the other things I've saved, this is just as dangerous as saving my universe. Well almost as dangerous."

"Universe?" Celestia said, confused. And from above, came Arceus.

"That is correct. Ash here has saved the world countless of times. He and his friends have gone through so much to protect and save the world they love. Including helping save me.. which save all of our existence from being wiped out." Arceus explained.

"Oh so we have a real veteran on world saving now do we?" Celestia nudged Ash. "You know I've done my fair share of world saving here and there. I should tell you about the time me and Luna stopped Discord."

"I can see you are all fine. I just came here to tell you that Palkia senses when the rift's next actions will take place."

"Palika? The alicorn asked.

"Palkia's the creator and guardian of space. It's his job to know stuff like this." Ash explained to her.

"Palkia senses that the rift will cause trouble in 8 days. Be careful all of you."

"We shall. Thank you Arceus." Celestia, Ash and Pikachu bid farewell to Arceus who left via wormhole to his realm. "Now then Ash. Mind telling me about this certain Pokemon called Milotic? I've been hearing a lot about it from ponies who apparently saw it."

"Oh Milotic? Well lets see.." As they went back to the party, talking away the Malamar event comes to an end.

On the other side.. the Pokemon World.

There sits the Swords of Justice, looking for a certain Pokemon who had just gone missing.

"Where is he..? He just up and left." Virizion said. The pokemon in particular was Keldeo. Who had ventured off. Apparently sensing a familiar presence nearby. An old friend.