My Little Pony: Friendship is a Bizarre Adventure

Part 3: ~Stardust Coachriders~

Prologue: Old Friends and New Enemies, The Cycle of Tragedy

In the year eight thousand B.C., before human history had even developed, during the evolution process were a race of superior beings. Beings with minds far ahead of their time, yet weakened by the Sun, living mostly underground and in nightfall. However by absorbing the life around them, flora and fauna, they were able to live for centuries, thousands of years, with powerful bodies. They did not reproduce and thus were few in number, thus being recognized as gods or demons by the other tribes, as seen by the Aztecan's of years past. In truth, they lived without conflict, keeping to themselves and consuming the bare minimum needed to allow the balance of nature and the growth of the planet to flourish. Until, a genius even among them, was born. Kars, an already gifted being among superior beings, wanted more power. He created an instrument that would further the evolution process in mere moments, a tool that would lead to a whole series of unfortunate events, the Stone Mask.

What granted humans vampirism, these beings became something more, the Sun remaining their weakness would no longer destroy them. Only a stony shell restricting movement. The power to control their bodies in unreal and ungodly ways. Even a longer life span, Kars had become nearly invincible. Yet, the price for such gifts was even more energy, more blood. It was this alone that had the clan turn against him, save for one friend and two children. Kars had slain them all. His friends, his family, casted aside and thrown into the wind. As they traveled the world, learning and growing, they had come across the Hamon, otherwise known as the Ripple of the Sun. A power meant specifically to end them. It didn't work. Little by little each clan was destroyed, each town ravaged. Soon they had come across a strange case. A Hamon village that did not attack but welcome them. Treating them like gods. Not caring, planning on ending them anyways, they played along with the game for the most part. Then came an offering. Rather than give their strongest warriors to protect them, or to give their fairest maiden, they offered three children.

Three unwanted, down trodden, girls clearly uncared for.

Not particularly abused, not physically, but clearly looked down upon for some unknown reason. Had it been a normal village or tribe, Kars, Wham, ACDC, and Santana at the time, would not have cared and finished them all off. But Wham had noticed a trend among the Hamon clan, something they had shared up to this point, a strange inhuman-like character of putting others before themselves. Something was off in this town. At that moment one of the girls warned them of their true intentions, a trap sprung, but the soon to be named Pillar Men, destroyed it. Amidst the destruction of the village Wham alone had found the three children fighting with them, being beaten by a Hamon warrior, intent on killing them. Despite their young age, one child alone was holding their own, but even so Wham was enraged. Not for the wounds inflicted on the children but the act alone was insult in his eyes.

He killed them right there, and the children begged him, not spare them but join them. He was confused and conflicted. Kars, as usual, wanted their deaths to be sure of no future issues. ACDC was indifferent, yet interested in their decision. Santana could careless. Wham was the final notion of their fate. Impressed by the one's skill he had convinced Kars to spare them, on the condition of rejecting their humanity. They had no hesitation, and only disdain for those around them. Reborn anew, they were given new names, gifted with angelic voices, they were known as the Sirens. They grew with their masters, surpassing even Santana, and being fully adopted under the wings of the Pillar Men...

Tezla sighed as she ate another cupcake from the plate Pinkie handed her as she looked at the moon outside through a window. Pinkie carelessly swung kick the air as she laid on her bed and gave her full attention to her secret guest of Air Saplena. A whole week and a half passed since the beginning of her Hamon training with Caesar and JoJo.

"That is how we became who we are today. Satisfied?"

"That is so sad and so sweet at the same time!"

"That is called bittersweet."

"I know what I said. How's that one by the way, I added a little something something, just for you."

"You added a strawberry and caramel filling with cobalt blue icing? Where and how did you find this kind of desert?"

"Good question, better one is why? You never cared where I got these or how I made these before. In fact-"

She hopped off her bed and would have finished her sentence had Tezla not flashed a kick to Pinkie's head. The blow stopping right at skin contact. Pinkie didn't block or counter, but was surprised at first before looking at the ground, and noticed she had stepped in her shadow.

"Huh! Thanks for not, y'know, taking my head off."

Tezla glowered at her growling.

"You did that on purpose."

"What~? No! Of course, maybe!"

"Why? I could have killed you right then and there, you are not this careless."

"Maybe I knew you'd stop in time."

"And how would you know that?"

"Because, I, noticed this! Every time you look at the moon is when you're opening up little by little. You're thinking on something, and I'd bet my own Party Cannon it's on what you'll do after all this is done and over with, right?"

The Pillar Woman's eyes widen at such an observation. She relents readjusting herself to a proper standing position.

"... You're a special kind of person."

"I think I'm finally breaking that cold exterior!"

"Keep dreaming."

Tezla began to make her exit before dawn but Pinkie Pie had one last thing to say.

"I like dreams! Especially soft ones! But before you go, remember that you cut Kars when he stepped in your shadow."

Tezla stopped for a single moment, that moment was enough for Pinkie snicker in victory. She leapt back into her bed and went fast asleep. She woke up in a familiar room with JoJo grunting loudly next to her. Sitting up from the bed, her leg in a cast and her hand wrapped in gauze, she could move with only slight aches. Then she found the reason for the noise and laughed loudly. JoJo with his remaining arm casted reaching with his neck outstretched for food just barely out of his reach. Suzy Q giggling as she kept it hovering in front of him.

"Oh My God! Woman, just-! Gimmie the food!"

She raised it out of his reach yet again smugly.

"Ah, ah, ah you've got to ask nicely first."

"Are you serious, I'm starving here, and wounded, is this how you handle your patients!?"

"Only you! Aren't you glad to get all this special attention?"

"Goddammit just, gimmie, the fuckin- Argh!"

She laughs looking over to Pinkie and grinning brightly.

"Hehee! Oh, Pinkie you're awake?"

"D-D-Do-Don't mind me! Pfft!"

JoJo gasped at his partners glee at his expense.

"Oh No! How could you think this was funny?!"

"Well I'm sorry JoJo, but it is! I mean, if it helps, I never did thank you for giving me a hand."

Pinkie Pie raised her bandaged hand which only has JoJo sulk.

"You did not-"

He is abruptly cut off from Suzy shoving food into his mouth.

"Don't worry about her JoJo, Ms. Lisa Lisa always said she was a hand full."

Suzy winked at them as JoJo sunk into the pillow, groaning as both of the girls laughed. Then, JoJo himself started to laugh.

"You guys can make all the hand puns you want, but Pinkie Pie was really something else that day. I've heard of breaking a leg, but that was pretty extreme!"

Pinkie feigns pain as she took hold of her injured leg.

"Ouch! That one hurt!"

"It's tough love in a tough world."

"It cost an arm and a leg I guess."

Laughter was in the air. It really was over, the long battle of natural selection, evolution, and the balance between good and evil had finished. The Pillar Men were no more as far as they knew. For Pinkie there was one last thing she had to do.

It was a clear sunny day in the Naples, a small local festival was being held among the people, multiple cuisines were being displayed and judged by several people to decide who was the best chef within the Naples. However Pinkie only came to a single restaurant alone, ordered a single slice of pepperoni pizza, and placed a torn piece of Caesar's headband on the table.

"Told ya we'd make it, I never go back on my promises..."

That was the last thing that came to mind before Pinkie Pie opened her eyes back to Equestria. Twilight and Spike landing in front of her.

"Pinkie Pie! You're alright, thank goodness!"

"Anything broken? You look alright."

She beams at them both brimming with pride as she shows off her rewards.

"Do I have a story for you! I got the Element and this nice little souvenir!"

She held up the Red Stone for a moment then put it right back down.

"Gotta be careful with it though, one glimmer of sunlight might blow up a whole wall!"

Twilight's eyes zero in on the Red Stone.

"Where'd you get something like that?"

"Oh you know, people who fought weird vampire singers from a long time ago in a world far, far, away with strange powers from the Sun."

"... Was it called the Ripple?"

Pinkie Pie blinked at that about to ask, but her attention is taken by another detail instead.

"Actually we called it Hamon instead. Oh! Nice ring by the way."

A sudden crashing sound echoed from the portal, catching everyone's attention. A rainbow haired colored girl was thrown through a stone wall. She was beaten horribly and bleeding profusely. She looked up feigning anger, but as her assailant came into view, the fear was clear. Even her voice was shaky.

"I won't lose! I'll beat you down, JUST WATCH ME!"

All that was heard after that was a low chuckle before the image faded. The three looked at each other clearly worried, it was obvious who that was.

"We've gotta go back in there and help Rainbow Dash!"

"I agree but we've got to make sure Princess Celesita and Princess Luna know about this!"

Spike shook Twilight's tail thumbing to the side.

"Uh, I think she does you two."

Spike pulled on Twilight's tail as both of the ponies noticed the ivory alicorn standing over them.

"It looks like we have much to do. Pinkie Pie, I am glad to see you well, but it seems we can't rest just yet."

Pinkie Pie sneered shaking in anticipation.

"That's fine with me! I was ready to jump in there anyways!"

Twilight lowers her head with her eyes closed. Her resolve strong even now.

"This is going to take awhile..."

They all entered, and immediately met the strange pair of eyes.

"M-Mi-Miss Sunny! It's bad, really, really bad!"

"Calm down, we saw, we're here to-"

"No, no! Your sister! The-They sent her away! I can't see where, they won't let me!"

Celestia snapped her head to them.

"What?! What do you mean sent away?"

"S-She got mad, and began to fight with them, it was kinda funny since she hurt them. But uh, then they hurt her and sent her somewhere! You've really got to get to them quick, they're really mad!"

"This is worse than I thought. Twilight Sparkle, Pinkie Pie, Spike, this one has been helping me and Luna get you all back to Equestria."

Pinkie Pie hops up jumping between the two eyes.

"Oh wow, are you only eyes or is it just that dark in here?"

Twilight pulls her back with her magic.

"Thanks so much for your help."

Spike narrows his own eyes raising a brow of suspicion.

"He doesn't sound like much."

"Whatever, whatever, ju-just hurry up and get over to them! Do something, ANYTHING, to calm them down!"

Celestia nodded ahead.

"Lead the way, we can't tell anything apart from here."

They followed the eyes, looking at the flashing images being paused and rewind, fast-forward and skipping. Soon they came to the large chessboard with large figure silently watching. Only four pieces on the board. Two being a young man with a strange hat and stiff collared coat and another being the human they recognized as Rainbow Dash. They both were fine for now. One was of an elder man with a familiar air about him. Those three pieces were on their side, on the opposite, a shadowed figure.

"We've returned. We can start-"

"W. A. I. T."

They pointed as Pinkie and Twilight began to glow faintly as did the old man and shadowed piece.

"Y. O. U. C. A. N. G. O. B. A. C. K. I. T. S. E. E. M. S. Y. O. U. R. C. H. A. N. C. E. S. O. F. W. I. N. N. I. N. G. M. A. Y. I. N. C. R. E. A. S. E."

Looking at each other surprised Twilight was the first to ask.

"But how? I thought we were linked to this world by the Elements of Harmony!"

"W. R. O. N. G."

"Then how?"

Pinkie Pie perked up looking to their pieces.

"Maybe it's not through the Elements, but, the people on the other side?"

"Pinkie how cou-"

"C. O. R. R. E. C. T."

"Huh!?"

Twilight snaps her head between them awaiting an answer.

"T. H. I. N. K. H. O. W. S. I. M. I. L. A. R. Y. O. U. A. N. D. J. O. J. O. W. E. R. E?"

"Now that you mention it-" "That was weird how we could finish each other's sentences."

"D. I. D. Y. O. U. E. V. E. R. N. O. T. I. C. E. H. O. W. T. H. O. S. E. I. T. E. M. S. R. E. S. O. N. A. T. E. S. W. I. T. H. T. H. E. I. R. T. O. U. C. H?"

Celestia herself is taken aback by this revelation.

"What you're hinting at is, that in this universe, these people are the Mane Six of their own world?"

Twilight looks to the ring adorned on her horn, then to the pieces on the board.

"That's ridiculous, but... It's just so fantastical it may be. Princess Celestia, what do you think we should do?"

"Perhaps it would be best, if you did go there, and provide back up with your experience. And you, while your on a roll with all this useful information, mind telling me where my sister is?"

The figure chuckled, rumbling the dimension, its threatening hissing cadence straining their ears.

"I. N. F. A. C. T. I. W. I. L. L. I. T. W. I. L. L. B. E. M. Y. P. L. E. A. S. U. R. E."

A simple wave as the board showed her on the balcony in the night, Luna in the embrace of a man with a Joestar build, he wore no shirt and his face was hidden behind the darkness. They were lip locked, kissing passionately, the balcony trimmed with radiantly glowing roses as the moon hung low. All look on slightly aghast and embarrassed as Twilight attempted to discern this new scene.

"Who... Is that?"

"I doubt you can tell if they're trying to eat each other faces."

"Spike!"

Celestia shakes her head looking up to the figure.

"We'll find her in time, it looks like she's in, decent hands? If they're in the same time line then our concern is getting her and Rainbow Dash back."

Pinkie Pie chirps winking at the quiet pair of worried eyes.

"If we can go back and help out, we will."

"G. L. A. D. T. O. H. E. A. R. I. T. . ."

Another wave of his hand and in a flash, Twilight, Pinkie, and Spike all vanished and became pieces once more on the board. Princess Celestia sighed and shook her head as she wondered what twist there was to this story. She kept in mind what she learned of earlier, whoever this man was with her sister couldn't mean well, could they? It didn't matter as the scene changed to a rather older Pinkie appearing in airport. However, Twilight and Spike arrived elsewhere. They found themselves in a dark castle like manor. The halls were grand and the furniture high class, it was almost contrasting to the atmosphere.

"I'm getting déjà vu, Twi. Not the good kind either."

"I know Spik- Whoa!"

"What?"

"Y-You grew!"

He looked in her direction alarmed until he looked down.

"I did? Hey, I'm almost taller than you!"

"Wow, maybe this is because how much time has passed?"

"Who knows, but I'm not complaining, not anymore at least."

He grins smugly. She takes in her surroundings already feeling a dreadful sensation deep in her core.

"Hm... This place looks huge, maybe we should split up?"

"Alright, I'll check these side rooms, you see what's at the end of the hallway?"

"Sounds like a plan. Don't wander too far off now."

"I'm a big boy now, I can watch out for myself!"

As they split up she began to notice some familiar items. Strange chalices, odd paintings, and at the end of the hallway was something she couldn't believe. All the remaining Elements of Harmony in a display case. She turned to call out for Spike but a hand covered her mouth and lifted her up only to smash her into the ground. Another hand squeezing her throat tightly cutting off her breathing. Still she punch, kicked, and scratched at her attacker until she was thrown into a wall. Breaking and sticking inside the wall, dazed and injured she barely heard the sound of fire before passing out. She woke up back in the dark realm with Princess Celesita calling her name.

"...ight! Twilight! Wake up!"

"Uhn... W-What happened?"

"You were attacked by something, before reappearing back here."

The figure groaned.

"A. F. T. E. R. S. H. E. B. E. G. G. E. D. Y. O. U. R. W. E. L. C. O. M. E."

Twilight tried to catch her breath until she realized something horrible.

"I came back? What about Spike?"

"I too wonder about him. Well?!"

"I. S. T. A. T. E. D. T. H. A. T. S. H. E. A. N. D. T. H. E. P. I. N. K. O. N. E. T. H. E. Y. W. E. R. E. C. O. N. N. E. C. T. E. D. I. S. A. I. D. N. O. T. H. I. N. G. A. B. O. U. T. T. H. E. D. R. A. G. O. N."

Twilight's horn flares up in violet rage. Her magical aura threatening a most potent attack.

"What!? You mean Spike's still back there!? I have to go back, I can't leave him alone-"

"But you can't go back! You'll be destroyed, no matter what I do, there's something there stranger than what we're used to..."

Celestia gestures to the faded images surrounding them. The many scenes, alternate endings, yet at the moment all end with Twilight falling at the hands of this mysterious threat. Just as Jonathan was destined to die with Dio.

"I. S. H. E. A. L. I. V. E. O. R. W. A. S. H. E. S. A. C. R. I. F. I. C. E. D. I. N. V. A. I. N?"

Twilight growled but was stopped by Princess Celestia.

"We've got to remain calm. If they're teasing us like this, then Spike is most likely still around. That's something I've come to understand about them. The game is on, now I'll make the first move..."

Pinkie wandered around the airport aimlessly in her new fashion. It was much more formal than she'd like and kept an eye out for anyone she would recognized. Then she saw him. Even after who knows how many years, she could still remember his face and voice, Joseph Joestar hugging a young woman tightly laughing. She ran over waving and yelling, looking like a madwoman.

"HEY! HEY JOJO!"

"Huh? Who the Hell is... Oh My God! Pinkamena Diane Pie, is that you!?"

"You've really let yourself go grandpa!"

"You're not looking so good yourself you geezer! It's been forty nine years, where the devil have you even been?"

"Helping friends, looks like I'm back to help out some more."

"I'm not sure you can help with this one, but you were always full of surprises. Oh, how could I forget, Holy this is my good friend."

The woman smiled and offered a hand but Pinkie went wide eyed upon a revelation.

"This is your daughter, isn't it! She looks just like Suzy Q, what a relief!"

"O-Oh so you know Mama too?"

Joseph proudly adjusts his coat thinking of a job well done with how his greatest achievement came out.

"Well she is my- H-Hey don't think I didn't catch that!

He snaps as Pinkie Pie winks at him. Holy giggles at their antics, seeing the history between them unfold as if they had never been apart.

"Well, the more the merrier, here Daddy I'll get your bags."

"Holy, before we move on I just have to make sure, are you sure Jotaro said evil spirit?"

She stopped before breaking down into a sob into Joseph's arms.

"He won't leave the cell and no one can get him out! Please, he's still my little boy, you can do something about this, can't you!?"

"Hey, hey, I came prepared and unprepared with two great friends."

"Two?"

"Yeah, he's right here."

With a snap of his fingers a tall dark skinned man wearing robes and a large gold necklace with an ankh design and strange dreads approached them.

"Mr. Joestar, is it time?"

"Yep. Pinkie, Holy, this is Mohammed Avdol. We'll be taking care of Jotaro. Pinkie, if you'd do me a favor and keep Holy company?"

Pinkie eyed Avdol and he silently inspected her. For her, she can see suspicion and doubt, but herself knows that this man can be trusted. He was like a proud lion with bizarre dreads as opposed to a lush flowing mane. Still, she should at least give them a warning.

"I'unno I feel like I should go with you."

"Your Pinkie Sense telling you we're gonna die if you don't?"

She rolled her arms grunting as she steadies her breathing, actively becoming younger as she harnesses her Hamon.

"Nah, just be really sore."

Avdol watched on in marvel at such a simple display of power. It is something he himself had only heard of in passing until he met Joesph, and seeing this new stranger reveal that exact power gave way to any doubt. He could trust this one.

"We can handle it then. Mr. Joestar."

They both left with Pinkie Pie lifting the bags with ease and Holy still sniffling.

"Hey, I've known JoJo for a long time, he hasn't failed at anything yet!"

"Oh, I know he's a great man with strange powers, but I'm so worried for my baby boy..."

"Well how about after we get these bags, we follow them anyways? I mean, he usually had my help for a lot of things anyways."

"He did?"

"Oh yeah, in fact it started a long time ago..."